#// bro finished one roleplay and immediately sent an ask

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baaabe.... what do you want for christmas...

@ggavin-ellis

all i want for christmas is you ;)

and a new cd and a pack of reds pls

what do you want?

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Working Title: Forward, Back (21/?)

Summary:  Knowing what’s going to happen doesn’t mean Sans can stop it.  Maybe he could’ve put it off forever.  Sans decides to go.

Rating: T

Part Summary: Undyne comes up with an idea and Sans and Alphys have a talk.

A/N: I’m still debating the robot bit (like i have it separated out in the document i pasted from) so it might not end up in the finished version.  

>>First Part<<

>>Complete Parts on Ao3<<

Undyne tapped her head.  "Hey!  What if Alphys uses her genius to build a robot he can tell all this shit to, and it doesn't record it? Sometimes people just have to practice being honest - train at it! -  before they can do it for real.  He could roleplay that he's talking to his brother.  Alphys could program in all our voices!" She jumped to her feet and set up some more spears to make things brighter.  

"HMMMM..." Papyrus sighed.  "I APPRECIATE THE SUGGESTION, UNDYNE.  IT IS ON THE LIST.  BUT HE WOULD SHOW UP ONE DAY AND HE WOULD SAY, 'my incredibly cool brother papyrus, i have had a breakthrough’ AND THEN HE WOULD SHOW ME HOW INSTEAD OF TALKING TO HIS ROBOT FRIEND HE SPENT HIS TIME REPROGRAMMING IT TO MAKE RUDE NOISES."  

Toriel laughed.  "I think he would reprogram it to just have your voice say how cool he is."  

"THAT IS EVEN WORSE!  IF I TELL HIM HOW COOL HE IS, IT SHOULD BE BECAUSE HE HAS EARNED IT!"

"Ok, so there's a fatal flaw in my plan, and it's Sans himself," Undyne said.  "But there HAS to be some way we can use cool robots to fix this."

"PERHAPS THE DARK LESSON WE WILL ALL HAVE TO LEARN FROM THIS IS THAT WE CANNOT USE COOL AND SEXY ROBOTS TO SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS."  Papyrus frowned.

"I don't buy it!"  Undyne slammed her fist into a rock, breaking it.  "We just have to make it cooler!"

"And sexier, yes," Toriel said, laughing.  They weren't on the right track for a solution, but they had a better idea of the cause, so she found herself optimistic.  

What she wanted, she supposed, was for this to end up having been a warning to all of them.  If things were better later because they had figured something out here, then maybe they would one day be able to look back on the time they almost lost him and think "thank god it happened so we could fix it and make it better."  

Toriel had just been so sure he was dead.  She could not help being optimistic now.  He was still alive, so they would save him.  

--

"Um, so...d-don't take this the wrong way, please?"  Alphys tapped her pen against her chin.  "I g-get that you're, uh, fragile?"

"that's me."  Sans was over by his blueprints.  He sounded more tired than anything.

"No offense!  We all have bad days!  Weeks.  Um, months?"  She sighed and muttered under her breath.  "Dammit, Alphys, if you can't do this at this point, you're in the middle of having a bad life."  She spoke up again.  "Um!  You know what I mean."

"i'm a babybones and i'll break if you say the wrong thing," Sans said, deadpan.  "don't tell me my shirt's ugly or i'll turn to dust right here."  

"Oh...shut up.  I'm being nice.”  It was difficult to coddle someone who didn’t want to be.  She just had to suck it up and be honest.  “But, um, in the nicest way possible, you still really suck at engineering."  She gestured at some of his work. "If you built it just like this, it'd break immediately and fry at least one of the parts we have no way to replace."  She took her pen and slashed at the paper.  The nib was in, so she didn't leave a mark.  "Whoops, goodbye!  Hope you know how to rebuild a temporal stabilizer!  'cause it's fried and half the electrical system's been sent to last Thursday!  Whoops!"

"thanks. heh.  great job not hurting my feelings."

"Your shirt looks nice though.  Eheh."  

"can't go wrong with number one grandma."  Papyrus had brought along a sack of clothes for him.  He'd been badgered into putting on something clean.

Alphys wanted to help him, but she couldn't work with this.  It wouldn't help to build something that would just break, or immediately fail. It might improve his mood short term to just go along with his ideas, but long term it would be much more painful.  She knew what he was like after a project failed.  "We just have to start from square one!"  Alphys swept the blueprints off the table, and then balked.  "Oh, shoot, I didn't mean to do that.  I need it to reference."  She knelt down on the floor and started cleaning up.

"that was pretty cool, though."  Sans looked away for a second.  "uh, you really planning to help out, here.  i thought the plan was to humor me and then drag me back to the surface."

"That was one of the suggestions," Alphys admitted.  "B-but, even if we could?  Papyrus and I talked it over and we think finishing this thing might help more than taking you back.  You could end up down here again.  Uh.  Even if you don't want to, actually. Teleportation has an interesting fail condition, huh."

"it's pretty neat."

She stood back up.  

"look, you can say whatever you want about me, if you're helping out," Sans said.

"On one condition?  It's not even an, um, ultimatum or anything.  It just can't work otherwise."

"i guess you need to know what you're doing."  

"I just...have to know what I'm helping make," she agreed.  

"yeah." He sighed.  "didn't feel like talking about it with the crowd here."

"M-maybe your brother should know, but.."

"probably."

Alphys adjusted her glasses.  "B-but, just tell me for now.  Ok."

"k. uh."  He scrubbed his eyesockets with the flats of his hands. "so.  we're doing pretty good these days, right?"

"Uh, I haven't seen any indication of temporal anomalies myself, but, I guess I usually didn't."

"yeah. i meant broader, though.  with, heh, the broad.  and the rest of your life."  

"Oh!"  She laughed and stood up as straight as she could.  "Yeah!  We're happy?  I hate to say it since that's when everything likes to roll itself into a ball and toss itself in the trash, but...stuff's pretty ok right now!"  

"same here."  Before she could say anything else, he continued.  "i mean, obvious aside."  

"Other than that huge glaring thing!"  She shook her head, laughing. "No, I know exactly what you mean.  Nothing's wrong wrong."

"there's the usual life stuff, but, whatever."  Sans' eyesockets were dark, his voice dull.  She wanted to tell him he didn't have to tell her, but she said nothing.  "there's one bug up my ass i can't deal with."

"Some things c-can't be fixed, Sans."  He had always only told her the bare minimum, but like now, there were things she had to know to actually try and help him.  There were also the things she had just picked up from knowing him, and from guessing.  

"ok." She wasn't sure he had heard her, or that he was listening at all. "when i got stuck down here, i started thinking about it, though, and i got an idea."  He took his hand out of his pocket to gesture at the broken machine.  

"me and grillbz, we've had some fun.  and papyrus got to do so much of the stuff he always wanted to.  i'm ok with that, if something happened.  bro'll be fine, no matter what, and i've talked about it with grillby and he sort of gets it.  just - i know this is dumb, so i don't need to hear it - but those kids of bro's are really bugging me.  like, i like 'em.  i want to see 'em do good for themselves. weird, right?"

"Sans..."

"heh. if something happened, though, i don't know.  they wouldn't get another shot at it, like the rest of us."

"I don't understand why they wouldn't."  

He told her, haltingly, why he had come down there in the first place. "so, sure, they'll still be around, physically, if stuff goes the right way again.  but these kids that are part of my family, the kids my brother raised - they'd just be gone.  worse than dead." He shrugged.  "kind of thing that keeps you up at night."

"G-god. What a horrible way to think about it!"  She didn't want to think about her own children, and how some small change could make it so one or all of them were never born.  What if that had already happened?  She felt sick to her stomach.

"yeah, yeah, it's a real pain," Sans said, dismissive.  "but, i came up with something."  He started sorting through some papers.  These looked older.  "i came up with this idea a while ago, but i gave up on it pretty quick since i would've needed to take apart this piece of garbage.  wouldn't do any good, anyway, not if i wanted to fix what was happening.  might be good for something else, though."

She didn't bother looking at his notes.  At at glance she could tell that it would take an hour to decipher his handwriting.  Instead, she looked over the blueprints.  

"can't stop things from starting over.  but maybe i can, uh...keep those two going when the rest of us move back."  

“Is that actually possible?"  

He shook his old notes.  The pages were yellowing, almost brittle. "yeah."

"Sans, would they even want to...to keep going, when everything else is...different?"  

"i mean, the other option is, uh, sort of like dying, but i guess i'd ask first."

"I hope so!  I don't know if I'd want that, even if...or maybe I would. I d-don't know.”  She rubbed under her glasses.  “Just them?"

"yeah. might be enough for a third person, but, eh.  alph, i dunno.  maybe this means i'm not a great guy, but i don't care that much about everyone else. we're all still going to be around, basically the same.  you and the dogs and everyone will have your kids again, eventually.  if i know those two aren't going to just be gone one day, well, i think i could sleep better at night."  He shrugged.  

She stared down at his plans.  "I don't really like this, Sans."

"it's up to you, if you help out.  i'm easy."

"Of course I'm helping."  She scoffed.  "I'm not letting someone do weird experiments with time in a basement with no one to point out when you're going overboard."  

He set the papers down.  "...thanks."

"And apparently I need keep you from electrocuting yourself."  She sighed.  

"i mean it.  thank you."  He looked up at her.  

Her head was buzzing with the hundreds of ways this could go wrong. "You're welcome, I guess.  I haven't done anything yet. So...uh, let's just get started!"

"got it."  

How was she going to explain this to Undyne?  

>>Next Part<<

[toomuchsauced]

OMG ASLOV I looove interesting villains characters and I adore both of them!!!!! I totally want to hear more pleaseee I love them roleplays turn into some elaborate incredible story lines, it's like the best feeling and I love hearing about it!! Also Thomas taking in all the angry gods is so real of him, 10 out of 10

For my ocs, my friend and I have 3 main aus we talk over and roleplay for this set of ocs, but we have plenty more and also aus for every single oc we have

-The first one is what we call 'BSAPS' but that's the TTRPG game we have with our characters (it stands for something like Bureau of Security And Public Satefy, in not incredibly sure). It's not finished yet, we're in the middle of our first 'season' but I loooove it so far. In this one Neptune (the hero) and Mitchell (the villain) are both actually heroes on the same team, working in a different organization. They're also childhood friends and decided to go into hero-ing together, even though Mitchell is still fed up with the whole government run hero work like in canon, but now he does it for the money and because super heroes are absolutely Neptune's biggest hyperfixation ever. They live together and have another roommate who sleeps on their couch who is some guy from the 1800s (long story) and they are totally in love in the way that's like "ohhh this is my best friend bro, my total pal!!! *makes out with each other in the kitchen* "

-The next one is another au where Neptune isn't sent on the mission, so the betrayal doesn't happen, but she still fights Mitchell's villain persona in regular battles around town. BUT THIS TIME HE DOESNT KNOW THAT MITCHELL AND THE TIMEKEEPER (Mitchell's villain name) ARE THE SAME PERSON. Mitchell works in the day as a barista for a local coffee shop and the first time Neptune goes in, he completely falls head over heels in love with them. Mitchell immediately knows who he is, because Neptune doesn't seperate themselves from their hero persona and is suuuper popular at this point, and plays along to collect more information and also tease her about losing to the Timekeeper so often. Neptune will totally come in and rant about how much they hate the timekeeper and what they next plan is to take them down and Mitchell will just sit there and nod. Eventually Neptune gets a crush on the timekeeper as well as ask Mitchel to consider polyamory (with themself)

-AND THE LAST ONE IS A FANTASY AU!!! Neptune is a royal knight and Mitchell is a prince who was banished from his kingdom and is now practicing magic. Neptune totally breaks into their house, figures out that he's the prince by accident (a secret that Mitchell has been hiding for years) and then swears to protect their secret and is all overly formal now that she knows. We haven't gotten very far in this rp but I love it so much, just the idea!!!!

There is a lot more that happens in them (especially in BSAPS) but I just wanted to get out the main points of them because I love them so much, have I mentioned that yet?

AAA OKAY HI IM HERE TO RAMBLE ABOUT MY OCS TO YOU IF THAT IS OKAY

They've got about like a hundred different aus, but in canon one is a hero (she/he/they) who has the power to manipulate weather and also a complete dumbass golden boy, and a villain (he/they) who can control time after being given their powers by the gods of the world in a freak accident and the hero is sent on a mission to collect information on the villain, living with them for a year (and they fall in love obviously) before she ends up betraying them and both of them are heartbroken and the hero feels so incredibly guilty, but they're being manipulated by the head of the hero organization and become really popular and famous after the mission ends so he's really conflicted the entire time

AND ALSO THERE IS A FANCY GALA WHERE THEY DANCE TOGERHER

that's not even getting into the aus, that's just canon BUT I LOVE THEM SO MUCH AAA !!!!!

Oh no, the angst

I love them!

The first OC sounds a lot like how I play Roman in a Magical Boi AU I have with a friend, so I love them!

One of the OCs I currently am obsessed over is Themis aka Eulises, who was originally an OC I made a year ago as a filler for the Orange Side in my friends role plays. We used him as an antagonist in a Sanders Sides God AU we were role playing

In the original version of the AU, which was made around a year ago and we've role played many versions since, Eulises worked with Janus back when Janus was trying to take Thomas's position as the Leader of the Gods. Janus deemed Eulises's methods as too dangerous and took away his powers, banishing him to Earth and making everyone forget him. On Earth, Eulises regained his power by taking energy from human souls, and after Janus started working with the Gods instead of against them, Eulises came for his revenge.

After being defeated, Eulises was turned into a child since Janus wasn't able to outright kill him. Thomas decided to raise Eulises, now Themis, with the love and care he needs to be a better person.

Many small Gods, and Eulises's cult gathering, tried to bring Eulises back. There was also a lot of other things causing problems for the Gods. As a result, they never had a day of peace in the role play. The role play was constant angst, constant chaos, every day the chat was being spammed with storylines.

So then I created Aslov, the God of Order, and he is the most interesting Villain I ever created, but now over a year of making him a comfort character, I have reduced him to a soft wolf boi. Still, even in the present day version of the story he is a bad ass.

But back to the original version. Aslov came in and attempted to brain wash all the Gods in order to force them to do their jobs, stop making problems for each other, and actually take care of themselves. His intentions were good, but... The other Gods weren't too thrilled about the idea of all their emotions and whims being wiped away from them, and being reduced to just their core purpose.

Then comes in, the child, Themis. Once the God of Anger, Themis comes in and is like: Hey, you're acting kinda like a tyrant. You're getting pretty angry about all the chaos that's been going on, huh? Here, you be the God of Anger, I don't want to anymore.

So Aslov is now turned into the God of Anger and Themis, who takes some of Aslov's orderly powers, becomes the God of Justice

Thomas then takes in Aslov as his son, even though Aslov's an adult, and starts mentoring him to help him understand emotions better. Eventually Aslov starts helping the other Gods find better ways to prevent all the chaos.

Now, their story is much different, but I already infodumped so I'll infodump more if you want me to but it's okay if not! Feel free to infodump more about your characters if you like!