#Bit of Soriel

[missholoska]

soriel week 2024 day 4: holiday 🎄

[olegianote]

[weia-yo]

doodled sans and also some soriel tonight, love when sans is a little round man

[chariix-creates]

More whiteboard things!! ^_^

[carlyraejepsans]

Domestic 1 and/or 2 *bats eyelashes*

hiii jackie

iv.1 When they move in together, who gets the most say in decorations? What do they each have to have in the house?

trick question, papyrus does it instead.

honestly i feel like the bros just manifest their house on the surface and have toriel move in, so pretty much nothing changes. maybe the decor gets progressively more weird the more they live and explore the surface and they accumulate dozens of souvenirs and tourist trinkets while traveling.

iv.2 If they get married, who proposes, and how do they do it? Would they change their surnames?

well as per my magnum opus, it's "know any puns about proposing?", but i am also quite fond of the way my dad went about it, which was waking up at 5am in the morning, turning to my mother in bed and going "hey, you wanna get married" and my mom being like "yeah." and then they got married. except if this was soriel it would go something like

"hey. wanna get married?"

"Oh. Do we have to?"

".....naaaah."

and then they don't! piss and love🙏

[cjhern1109]

You know I still find it hilariously funny that my introduction to Frans was actually through a Soriel Undertale compilation on YouTube.

Like, I still remember two comics from that video, one of them being the AU, Aftertale, and the other one being a child Sans having a crush on Queen Toriel and meeting again, older by the Ruin’s closed gates…

It’s so strange to me that my curiosity of who are they and what was their relationship led me to a more Frans centric compilation. Then, BOOM, it was love at first sight.

Idk why I wanted to share that, but I guess, that’s why I’m mindful of Soriel and their shippers. Internally grateful that I discovered Frans because of them, even if it was accidental 😅

[somegrumpynerd]

I was gonna save this for the last day of soriel week but I have too many ideas for it already lol

You Always Make Me Smile feels like a really nice soriel song to me c:

[thestrangestwatermelonofall]

So I was literally just telling my friends about how excited I was for this newsletter that I assumed was going to drop tomorrow morning, and when I got home an hour later and refreshed my email I saw the newsletter and I got to hyped. OMG. the world is wonderful

[renrink]

@sorielweek Day 1: Joke

A bit late to the week but I’m here!! And since I’ve had RT on the brain lately, it’s gonna be an RT heavy Soriel week from me B) Hope you enjoy the ride! Here’s some angst first up 🖤

[albasnotebook]

The undertale community has a deeply rooted problem of not being able to just not interact with things you dont like

Its been like this forever, since i was a kid and got into the fandom. People hating on papyton and soriel, for absolutely NO REASON, just bcs they didnt like the shipps and decided to create problems that dont exist at ALL.

The victim of the moment is cocoapowder, a super harmless shipp that gets hate for solely existing, none of the "problems" with it are actual problems. All the "problems" have more to do with personal interpretations of ache character.

- No there is no confirmation of Chara "aging". Theyre said to be a child and look like one, so they might as well still have the mentality of one. You can interpret them as having a older mentality but thats fully on you, not everyone is gonna think the same.

- No its not off character for none of them because they bearly have any personality to begin with. All we know is that Chara was a bit of a prankster and that Clover is a very sweet child.

- "Chara does not deserve happiness" you realize thats your interpretation of them? Right??? There is no confirmation theyre actually that irredimable demon you talk about. Theres actually more evidence towords of the complete oposite, with them williningly sacrificing themself because they wanted to be part of the monster kind spcapade.

Basically, all of the "problems" are problems that simply dont exist at all. Theyre all related to personal headcannons, to personal interpretation of the characters and not what actually is confirmed. Even the "theyre siblings" thing does not make that much sense since clover does not remember what happened in the timelines they stayed with Toriel therefore their closest parental figures are Starlo and Martlet, not Toriel.

Cocoapowder is complelty harmless. If you dont like it bcs of your hcs its fine, you can, you have the freedom to not like smth, but be awere your interpretation of the things is not the only one, people have diferent points of view.

[kamari333]

A 2025 Recap of Kam's Fanfics

This took me all day to put together, for some reason XD But now I've got it and I can share it!

I hope if you read through all this, and click into a fic, you find something you like! Let me know with a comment (or two) if you do!

The very first fic I every posted on AO3 was "Resonance".

I had never actually played Undertale before, but I had watched someone else play it. I stumbled into the UTMV on complete accident, and was greatly inspired by the fanon at the time (early 2017). I decided to just.... go for it. Try writing a story where all the AUs I liked and thought were cool got to come together. I got to experiment with characterization, motivations (and the logic behind them), prose, dialogue, and of course narrative. From May 3rd 2017 (i only posted on May 5th because that's when my account activation was approved -- this was back when you needed an invitation and there was a waiting list) to June 30th, 2018, I wrote this story with no plan and (if i remember correctly) no betas.

"Resonance" is an action-adventure story. It's initial premise is to compare and contrast various AUs by pulling them all together in one place. If you've ever seen "Into the Spiderverse", it is a lot like that, but with Sans Undertale, and written before "Into the Spiderverse" was even a thing. It takes the '6 Skeletons' trope that was pioneered in the xReader subgenre of UTMV and puts it in the context of Fontcest and Sanscest (as well as other ships like Soriel, Papyrus/Chara, Frans, and Papdyne). It gives some passing exploration to heavy narrative tropes like incest, self-harm, major character death, rape, torture, the yandere, drug and alcohol abuse, and sacrifice for the greater good, making it a Dead Dove if I've ever written one.

"Resonance"'s greatest strength, I think, is its character depth. I think I put a lot of good work into fleshing out the 6 main characters throughout the story, justifying the choices I made for their deviance from canon and their purpose in the narrative. It's other strength is its emotional impact: I think, for a first try, I did fairly well with the big emotional setups.

Where "Resonance" falls a little weak, admittedly, is its narrative drive. This is the most obvious in the ending, which drags on a bit without really giving a solid conclusion. While the story serves the purpose I intended for it, the open ending lacks a concrete satisfaction that i cannot articulate. Even so, it is an ending that leaves no room for doubt about what the status quo going forward will be, and at the time of writing it, that was enough for me.

I consider "Resonance" to be my Magnum Opus, proof that I can finish what I start.

💙❤️💜💛🩵🧡

The next big work (skipping over a few smaller things) is my "Ebott is a Multiverse" series.

"Ebott is a Multiverse", or "EMV" is a series of fics which lend focus to various ships, all taking place in the same continuity (and tristate area).

The first installment in EMV is "The Last Laugh".

"The Last Laugh" is a 5 chapter story detailing key events for its focal relationship that take place over 9 months. From February to November of the 4th year since Monsters came to the Surface, we follow a Classic Sans and an Underswap Sans as they figure out how much they're in love.

This first fic was originally intended to be a sort of 'revenge', inspired by both a fic and a prompt left by another rather talented writer in the Fandom (if you're still around, hi again CrushingOnRazz!) I worked hard to build up to the climax of the fic, so that everything would fall into place for the most emotional impact. I think the ending ended up being one of the most impactful of any ending I've ever written.

That being said, I ended up feeling like it still needed more to the story, a continuation as it were, so I planned out the 'skeleton' and rough path for the direct sequel "Happily Ever Laughter".

"Happily Ever Laughter" is still ongoing, however, because before I could even start it properly, I had already been sucked into another fic in EMV.

The true monster of EMV is "Burlesque". For certain reasons, "Burlesque" has both a "Censored" and an "Uncensored" version. The Censored version has all onscreen erotica removed, with fade-to-black cuts and some references changed. At the current chapter count of 57 (still unfinished), the wordcount difference between Censored:Uncensored is 224,949:254,502 words (so ~30k).

"Burlesque" is a another ship fic, this time following the relationship events of an Underfell Sans, Dancetale Sans, and Underlust Sans, all navigating their polyamory, personal issues, trauma, and the subtle pressures of late stage capitalism in fantasy U.S.A.. Together, they overcome their self deprecation, the price of rent, invasive honey badgers, sexual harassment, and the strength of their own horny, all so they can say "I love you." The story begins in February of the 4th year of Monsters coming to the Surface, and extends into December as of Chapter 57 (a work in progress).

EMV also features two other ships as focus ships (with at least two more planned). One of those ships is Outertale Papyrus/Underfell Papyrus/Underpatch Sans, which has enough content in "The EMV Anthology" that I am already planning to transplant it into its own sidefic. The other ship is Dancetale Papyrus/Fellswap Sans, which has comparatively less screentime but is no less delightful for it.

Having had so much fun writing erotica, I ended up participating in Kinktober 2017 in October 2017. This was the beginning of an annual holiday (of sorts) for me, as I have participated in Kinktober every year since (2017-2024).

My complete Kinktober Archive is currently in a series. In it, I get to explore different relationship dynamics, ships, kinks, and possible story elements. I alpha-test a lot of stuff that sometimes gets refined and filtered into more serious fics. Included in (but certainly not limited to) my experiments are: Doggo/Burgerpants, Vegetoid/Reader, RottenCherryBerry (which has become a Kinktober tradition), Mafiafell/Outertale Sanscest, the closest thing to Bad Sans Poly I will ever tag, and Stretch/Nightmare (which will be mentioned again later). The series currently has over 500,000 words of kinkplay in it, with a Table of Contents at the beginning of every fic so you can find the exact tags for every chapter quickly.

I also began an xReader in November of 2017. "Welcome To The Underground" started as an experiment to see if I could write 50,000 words in a month (in an event known as NaNoWriMo). I ended up meeting the 50k goal by the end of the month, but the story was still not completed to my satisfaction. I would continue to chip at this fic until 2020, when I finished it at just over 102,000 words.

"Welcome To The Underground" is an Isekai xReader Songfic where you, the Reader character, are a young adult (in your 20s) who is dropped into Undertale's Underground. In it, you resign yourself to the fate of every other fallen human who isn't Frisk (re: to die), and only make the effort necessary to make your remaining time as worthwhile and comfortable as possible. Throughout the story, you make friends, sing songs, get hurt, get back up again, and discover that you can do things you didn't think you could do, even if it sucks to do them.

I think this story was something I needed, a sort of symbolic rite of passage into adulthood for me (since at the time of writing, I was strugging with my identity as an adult, and lacked the confidence I needed to take control of many aspects of my life that I should have already). It certainly wasn't a solution to all my problems, but I think writing this story was the start of some kind of personal growth which I have worked hard to cultivate since. Whether it has any similar meaning to my readers, I don't think I'll ever know, but hopefully a little bit of that 'just-keep-going' vibe gets rubbed off on you guys if you come on this journey with me.

One of my favorite parts of writing this story was picking the songs. About halfway through I also started writing Parody lyrics to some of them, adjusting words here and there to fit better with what the Reader character needed. The most satisfying of all parodies, however, was the true, complete parody I wrote of a Weird Al song. I am still very proud of "Sans Pick Up Your Fucking Sock" (the song).

I became a big fan of Nilchance's "ain't this the life" series, which is about the relationship between a classic Sans and the incestuous Underfell skelebros. It's a fantastic read if you're a fan of Kustard and Kedgeup and Fellcest. I mention this, because I ended up starting not one, but two fanworks that spin off from ATTL.

The first ATTL spinoff I wrote is "Ain't this a Lamia". In it, the Undefell bros find a lamia in their livingroom, and gay shit ensues.

I dunno why, i just thought that the poly would be even cuter if they had a horny snake with trauma and sass. I adore Slinky very much and hope he gets everything he wants <3

The second ATTL spinoff I wrote is "Ain't this more than Lust" In it, Red and Sans discover an Underlust Sans confidently selling himself for lunchmoney in a back alley, and gay shit tries to ensue but gets tripped up by trauma and sincerity (as of now -- I hope to add another installment to increase the percentage of gay).

I'm actually really excited to develop this story more, because i love the way these characters foil each other. ATTL Red just FITS next to an Underlust guy and it fills my heart with fluffies.

Both of these are the start of a series of the same names. The fics in them have an accumulated wordcount of ~30k each.

Kinktober 2019, Day 12, (Oct 12th 2019) is the inciting moment of my "Dr33mtal3" AU. (which is loosely, loosely inspired by, but is decidedly not Dreamtale). It's the first bit of writing where I tried to take my own idea and give it some life. Although technically i wouldn't start work in earnest until April 2020, when the first designs were made. That's why I consider April 7th to be Dr33mtal3's Birthday.

[Post 1] [Post 2] [Post 3] (These are all very ugly art compared to what I can do now lol)

After getting the designs started, i went into the fics!

The "Dr33mtal3" fic series on AO3 has substantially more multiverse content than content focusing on the isolated AU at this time, but isolated AU content is being worked on.

To delve into more of the isolated AU, I started taking Character Asks on the "Dr33mtal3" AU Blog in April 2022. Doing these asks really helps with improving my art. I have so much fun with them! I especially love when I get asks for other characters, like MadMewMew and Burgerpants !! But I do still also love the asks for the skelebros!

As for the Multiverse content, you will find plenty, both on the blog and on AO3!

Some of my finest work can actually be found in the 'Anthology' fics, specifically "An Anthology of Nightmares", which turned out to be of the gothic horror genre, and "An Anthology of Dreams", which was written with the intention of cerebral horror. They're both a little lovecraftian too, if you squint, although I was aiming for something else.

In An Anthology of Nightmares, you see what it's like to get picked up by Nightmare from many different peoples' point of view. You also see some of Nightmare's Castle, and what living there is like.

In An Anthology of Dreams, you follow along viewing Dream's life from the point of view of those around him. You start with the PoV of a Science!Sans (Sci), and eventually see Dream from several thoughtful angles!

You can also find my 3-Longpost long super-essay about Dream's house in these fics here on tumblr!

[Dream's House Post 1] [Dream's House Post 2] [Dream's House Post 3]

These desolate and unsettling anthologies are, however, only backstory for the Romance I am cultivating in what I plan as the main fic of this series: "Poignance". Although this story is only 14 chapters and 30k words in at this time (clearly unfinished), you can still follow an Underswap Papyrus into what will eventually be the slow burn epic romance he doesn't see coming.

This list is not comprehensive: there are numerous oneshots as well as unfinished works which have been pushed down my list of priorities. A few I want to make brief mention of because I like them:

"The Body Snatchers" Where an Underlust Sans starts a queerplatonic relationship with Fresh.

"A Night of Guns and Feathers" A thinkpiece about a relationship between a Mafiatale Sans (specifically the one detailed by my friend Catsitta, whom is called 'Karma') and D3!Nightmare.

"My Best Wingman" An Underlust fic I wrote for the To The Bone zine. Focuses on the brotherly relationship between Sans and Papyrus.

"Site Skin Ideas for UTMV Readers" A meta-fic to help make AU Disambiguating Freeform Tags easier to read and identify in the UTMV fandom.

"Bitty Magnitism" On of the fics I wrote when I was on a Bittybones kick, writing for the EMV spinoff series "EMV Bittybones Event" . Its about a Fellswap Sans going to a Bittybones adoption center, and the consequences that ensue.

Thanks for reading this far! I hope you found something you like!

[acnologiaheart]

Greetings! 🖖 uh, may i humbly ask for a caretaker! chara and sans au? 👉👈💦

— sincerely, miss-chans ❤️💙

"For Asgore sake, I think I’m too old for this... What a shame. I totally forgot how strong humans can be—guess it’s been such a long time... At least they’re not going to pass by." "Chara! Open the door, Chara! Please!"

Two years later, but here it is!

Honestly, I don't know much about the Caretaker Chara AU, and it reminds me of that time when Soriel was super popular (I didn't really follow it, but it felt like it was everywhere). So, it was a bit tricky for me to draw it.

(Also, I remember thinking about your comment for Chansweek last year, but I wasn’t too confident with handling comments yet, so it just stayed in the mailbox :p)

Thanks so much for asking! And I'm really sorry for the delay!

[pigeonwbraces]

FUCK SANS AND SANSCEST

Okay that was a bit excessive but now that I got your attention.

Can the Undertale and Undertale multiverse fandoms please please PLEASEEEEE chill with the sans and the sanscest

Like I get it it’s liked and I like it too to some degree but come on it’s like 90% of the first fandom and 100% of the second. When I first found out about the under multiverse fandom thingy idk what it’s really called, I went in Hoping to see aus of characters I liked characters like Toriel Alphys and Asgore but all I ended up with was sans SO MUCH SANS LIKE ONLY SANS!?

And just while I love undertale to death and I adore sans and love many of his aus andsanscestshipstoo, I’d kill to see other characters and ideas explored.

Sure there’s SOME but it’s wildly less popular and completely overshadowed by all the other sans related stuff

And the ships OH THE SHIPS

I am a massive shipper and while I do love sanscest and have some ships with it I’d KILL for multiverse crossover ships between sans aus and fricking toriel aus alphys aus grillby Mettaton Muffet

Bro sans was shipped with so many other ut characters back in the day (minus THOSE ones 💀) and I never understood why those ships never translated into the multiverse aspect of the fandom

Like what about Outertale toriel x Error sans instead of Outertale sans x error sans or Haventale Toriel x Nightmare sans instead of Ccino sans or Fell sans x Alter toriel

And let’s not forget the Actual only multiverse soriel ship I’ve ever seen, Reapertale Sans x Reapertale toriel from what was literally a SORIEL AU with toriel ending up completely overshadowed by Geno sans and Afterdeath

Like don’t get me wrong I like afterdeath but why the heck did it have to outshadow toriel like that, she’s got such a cool design and their ship has so much potential too.

And I just love Soriel

Soriel Salphys and Suffet are like my three favorite sans ships and I’d kill to see more au variants of them. Among many other sans ships and just aus of other characters in general

And let’s not forget the aus of characters that already exist and have designs but usually end up much more underdeveloped and underused due to the sans of the au always ending up the most popular and used (outertale underfell underswap the list goes on)

Okay I’m done

Not really expecting to change anyone’s minds about anything just wanted to share my thoughts cuz it’s been on my mind for actual years.

[carlyraejepsans]

I was like. 14 so i could be misremembering but I also distinctly remember people disliking soriel for an age gap because Toriels old and Sans is 'in his 20s'

Like. That is a middle aged/near-middle aged uncle okay

yeah, don't you know it's "more wholesome to ship him with frisk who is a grown woman"?

lol. lmao even.

[buubonita]

what what your top five (or so) favorite undertale/utmv fanfics?

It's a bit hard to answer because my tastes change a lot and my favorites too.

Add to that the fact that I've read quite a bit over the years but I think I can highlight some fanfics.

I'll name a few but they're in no specific order.

* (UTMV) A Brother's Duty by Wingless_Hummingbird is focused on (drum roll) the dreamtale twins! in those moments where Nightmare shows mercy to Dream and acts like a brother should.

There's a bit of bsp but honestly the best focus is on the twins.

* (UTMV) How To Remove A Splinter also written by Wingless_Hummingbird is a little one shot where Nightmare saves a girl (Fuku Fire) from some bullies. It's the only work I've seen on it and I found it at least interesting! Killer is also in there,,, but it's not relevant. Again there's implied bsp.

* (UTMV) Who are we to each other? by bluedovee

This is a pretty cool horrordust fanfic because (hold on to your pants) it's focused on Horrortale! It takes place after Dust and Horror land in an alternate version of Horrortale where the monsters are cannibals.

* (UTMV) Kindling for the fire by vicen_non

another work focused on the dreamtale twins, this time, in times before the accident. It's a disturbing read but with a happy ending.

* (UNDERTALE) Love in a shell by Anonimous

A one shot. Soriel, sweet and lovely soriel AND related to stardew valley. If you guys like these dorks, you gonna love this one.

* (UNDERTALE) And We Begin by Blaiddsumu its a one shot focused on how Alphys met Gaster and Sans <3 i wont say more, is AMAZING.

* (UNDERTALE) Standing By Your Side Whether You Like It or Not!!! By the amazing Darkhymns

Another one shot, i love reading one shots more than multiple chapters fanfics. This one is focused on Undyne and Papyrus after Frisk killed Asgore. I love the characterization so much.

And thats it. I havent read too much lately, i may will add more stuff another day.

If anyone wants to recommend me fanfics or writes UTMV, feel free to leave me your works at my reach!! I'm dying to find new content.

[somegrumpynerd]

I like imagining the group noticing one by one that there might be something else between these two