#I dunno comedic misunderstandings are fun I think

[somegrumpynerd]

Okay hear me out

Nightmare asking Killer if there's anything he wants and Killer says he wants to go see Color in the omega timeline. He hasn't seen him in a while and he misses his friend, but Nightmare takes this to mean he wants to leave and stay with Color permanently.

He agrees, because even though it makes him deeply sad to lose one of his men, he needs to let Killer go and live with other mortals and be happy. Killer texts Color and goes to pack a bag and Nightmare opens a portal and takes him to the omega timeline. They meet Color and he's looking very suspicious of Nightmare while Killer runs up all excited and off they go.

And Nightmare goes back to the castle. He spends the rest of the day in a weird daze, feeling kind of empty. When the others inevitably ask where Killer is, he hesitates and tells them he's in the omega timeline and doesn't elaborate further.

Eventually he shuts himself in his office for the night and just sits at his desk, staring into space. He's glad Killer's happy, of course, but it still hurts that he's gone. What is he going to tell the others when they start asking again, after it's been too long to be a simple visit? Will they all want to leave? They probably all have places to be, maybe he should let them go, would that be better for everyone? If Killer, who was always so eager and happy to be here, wanted nothing more than to get out, what does that mean for the rest of them?

This is the beginning of the end, isn't it? He'll have to let them all go, and then he'll be alone. Just like when he and Dream were kids and Dream would go off with his own friends. Except he can talk to Dream now, can't he? Maybe he should ask him about this. If nothing else maybe Dream would agree to visit him, once they're all gone.

But before he can pick up his phone and call his brother, it starts buzzing and it's Killer like "Okay I'm ready to come home now c:"

[antarestyl]

Fanfic Writer Game

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How would you describe your fanfic style? Kinda a mix between “Dialogue and nothing else” and descriptions. I do like to run with metaphors and I like combining very simple sentence structures and complex sentences together. Also most of my fics are meant to make you feel something. Also most of my fanfics have a happy ending. I do have a desire to bring something comedic into serious matters and raw serious elements into fun comedies.

What tropes would you never use? . I hate writing misunderstandings. I have no talent for it and I don’t like the trope much too so I seldom write it. Otherwise... dunno. I don’t like “Healing Cock” much so I won’t write it probably. Otherwise? I dunno, depends a lot on context for me. I just don’t write what I don’t want to write.

What tropes do you ALWAYS use? Hmm... I do like to write characters that struggle with emotions or have emotions that they can’t probably name/sort into a category and I like writing relationships based on that too. Otherwise I do use tons of tropes but not always... I do try to write a happy ending to most of my fics too (and when not it’s the ending I feel like the character deserved to get).

Where do you write? AO3. I used to write on Fanfiction.com back in the day and Fanfiktion.de when I still wrote in german... Oh and then there is Animexx too... awww good times XD Lots of stuff however isn’t anywhere on the internet but in massive text files on my PC waiting to be used at SOME point. XD

How many names do you write under? Just one in the moment. I had another name on Fanfiktion.de but you have to excuse that one, I was like... 16 when I got that one XD

What’s your usual rating level? Teen or Gen.

First fandom you wrote for? I think it was Harry Potter. At least the first fic I threw on the Internet was a Harry Potter Fanfiction. If you wanna get very very technical? The first thing I ever wrote that wasn’t Original Works was either a Star Trek Parody or a Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers novelization (like... tiny teen-me tried to turn the point-and-click-game I loved into a roman because I was weird like that and wanted to use that to “fix” my problems with the story aka fixing the romance and fixing the deaths.. I never got more than Day 1 put to paper and it’s in german and it’s BAD but i still love tiny teen me for being that ballsy.)

Do you usually write chapter fics or one shots? Both. I usually have tons of ideas for long fics and sometimes just write a scene that could be turned into a oneshort. In the moment I write both in a healthy mix.

Your fandoms: Undertale (plus Deltarune), Super Mario Bros (and all of the spin-offs like Luigi’s mansion),  Gravity Falls, Yu-gi-oh, Harry Potter, all kinds of other Nintendo games, Homestuck, Monkey Island, DC Comics (mostly Booster Gold and Blue beetle as well as the flash) and a ton of other, smaller ones. I kinda hop around a lot but Undertale and the Nintendo ones are the most prominent in the moment.

Tagging everybody who wants to do this :)

[tumblunni]

An underrated good part of Maddiman's characterization that makes him both more redeemable and more terrifying is how he genuinely does not seem to know that what he is doing is evil.

Like in yokai watch 3 he sounds genuinely confused that the three turtle yokai wouldnt want to be "improved" by being fused together. He genuinely cared about them and apparantly treated them quite well because they loved him too and didnt want to leave even though they didnt want to fuse together. And all it took to get him to stop was someone simply explaining why this was bad, which he was completely surprised by yet also instantly trusted and believed even though you were someone he'd only just met and had no reason to believe was trustworthy. Like he's just so goddamn nice and friendly like that??

Seriously its so interesting how his personality manages to be so ridiculously ludicrously cute and nice even when he's doing mad science doom! And i think its interesting cos it feels like they had to develop him this way in order to get him to become the complex character they wanted in yw2, when all the evidence seems to point to that not being planned at the time of yw1. Seripusly he acts so OOC when you look at it in retrospect! Justa generic scary doctor minion of mckraken, and clearly didnt have the backstory planned cos why would a human yokai join the anti human group? But this strange personality duality allows them to retroactively make it more in-character to this new character they made for him, without needing to retcon anything.

Like when you look back on it, you could kinda reinterpret his yw1 appearance through that lens? Maddiman is a nice dude but he gets easily obsessed with his experiments and seems to have a blind spot where he forgets that they dont seem so great to everyone else. Everyone would enjoy being my experiment, they could become super powerful and also part of important history in the field of science! Fwahahaha! And while i am doing the totally not evil thing of cutting out a child's heart to shove in my ultimate weapon and turning his discarded corpse into a yokai, i may as well mess around and do some ~ultimate theatrical hamminess~ to make it fun for the lil guy! *big innocent eyes* *"you are the villain of this story" flies right over his head, ignored*

I mean in yw2 he doesnt even seem to be mad at Nate/Katie over what happened last time, even though he does seem to remember them. (Saying "that boy/girl again" when talking about them defeating Hans) Instead he's just frightened that someone broke into his laboratory, and then annoyed that they ended up setting Hans on themselves cos of their own damn fault. Like he was never planning to attack you at all if you hadnt bumbled into that mistake! And in Medal Wars he literally just says "oh hello good morning" when you walk into his lab, and you initiate the fight with him instead of simply explaining 'hey maddiman whoops you accidentally caused a blackout, i see your experiment is over now so maybe you could unplug your machine and fix things?" Srsly like 90% of all maddiman related problems could probably be resolved with 'hey mr orb dad could you please not do the bad?" "Oh wait i was doing a bad? I had no idea, sorry!"

And its also really good how this is a character trait thats generally rather absurd and goofy, but also when you think about it it makes sense with his tragic backstory. "I'll do something extreme and ridiculous rather than the logical conclusion, with seemingly no awareness that this choice is foolish and self destructive, and also this could be resolved if i simply talked about my problems with someone who could set me straight" is played for drama in his past, and it becoming a recurring comedic character trait is a good way of making it sorta like..integrated into his personality, all realistic like.

I dunno i just feel like they put a lot of depth into this random joke/coverup for a retcon. And it makes him pretty unique! And also pretty versatile cos honestly in any future game they could probably put maddiman inthe role of ally or antagonist for any quest ever, and itd always make sense every time. He's left open for a lot of accidental misunderstandings even after he's turned good,just cos thats who he is. He's mr supergenius with absolutely zero common sense!

Also i feel like "dont worry, experimenting on people isnt bad!" is possibly an extension of how reckless and self destructive he was as a human. I mean we're told he worked so hard he lost his family, worked so hard He wore the same clothes for weeks, starved himself, never slept, literally drove himself to death because of this. Feels like "dont worry i can replace sleep with caffeine" was the first step in "dont worry i can replace my no longer beating heart with this supernatural IV drip" and "dont worry i can fix literally everything wrong with everyone whether they want me to or not"...

I dunno maybe im thinking too deep into this, but thats kinda my job as a Certified Grandpa Analyst (note: may or may not be a job that exists)