#Undertale AU (Iniquitale)

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Fungyyyne

when she becomes slightly less feral and expansionist

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Until I lose interest I'm slowly writing drabbles about my idiots and their AU ☝

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Still messing around with what my haphazard AU's 'Fungyne' would look like + more things to mess with digitally next time I'm feelin' it.

Inspos: Elizabeth Greene + Resident Evil mold

Explanation: Apprx. five years post-Surface Era, Shel(phys) creates a new fungi-based magibio-engineered prosthetic eye for her fishwife. Its purpose is to be implanted into the patient and hooked into their magic so it can be nourished by their body like any other body part. She tests it in a lab for a year on a very clean and consistent form of magic and deems it safe for implantation.

The magic of a monster isn't as clean-cut as an artificial source, however, and "life finds a way." The fungi begins to spread, stealthily, inside of her, and as anyone who pays attention to the science knows: fungi is smart. It can communicate with other fungi. On some level it has a consciousness, and the consciousness present in the prosthetic evolved whilst being nourished by the messy, fluctuating magic of a monster--Undyne.

Or "Fungyne," as she prefers to be called once she takes over. Her number one priority is absorbing people into her fungal hivemind by infecting them with spores produced when the glowing growths pop.

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Other Junk

She has read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It's her favorite human book, and she eventually builds her own "Frankenstein" out of fungi (Mettaton's body).

During Bunny's Era, she has an unrequited crush on Undyne that Bunny uses in a few timelines to fuck with her. She never really gets to know Undyne as she has no reason to visit the Ruins Orphanage--Bunny is the one whom delivers the Old King's medications.

After that guy is erased, she has many more opportunities to meet with Undyne. Shelphys woos that fishwoman and they ultimately get hitched.

She provided Fuse with the poison he used to kill the Orphanage humans.

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Other Junk

The cat-croc sandwich in question is BP, Catty, and Bratty. They in a polycule that is always open for more (and also it makes the rent cheaper).

He's besties-with-benefits with Fuse who, in the Underground, sometimes did dark humor-flavored comedy shows at the Resort every other Friday. On the Surface they just get up to shit together. They've shared a holding cell more than once.

Pretty much everything else is on the card.

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Besties sharing a moment both before and after committing multiple murders (for the greater good, swearsies).

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Blugh

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coughs sneezes

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Other Junk

The music genre this derivative was based off of is Twee-Pop ("The definition of twee is something "excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental," supposedly born from a childish mispronunciation of the word sweet.[4] With the twee movement's embrace of innocence and femininity, the genre has strong associations with feminism." -Wikipedia).

She's a combination of sweet and feisty. While more mellow than the original Undyne, she'll still totally kick your ass.

Those stats are when she isn't wearing her armor. Her armor, of course, buffs her defense by Quite A Lot (+30).

She is besties with Papyrus.

Due to Waterfall having long since (before her time) become a fungus-infested mess, she was born in and lives in the Ruins.

She's the one who deals with Bunny whenever he comes by to drop off the Old King's medicine. Her opinion on the Royal Scientist is 'neutral, but standoffish.' She doesn't really understand why Papyrus avoids the guy as diligently as he does, but she trusts his intuition.

Her magic and attack patterns are the same as vanilla Undyne's.

During Bunny's Era she doesn't see Shelphys very often, but she does have a bit of a crush on her. Unfortunately she is under the impression that it's one-sided when it isn't.

During Fuse's Era, she sees Shelphys much more often, and they eventually get together. Shortly after the Barrier is destroyed, they get married.

She's one, single inch away from being six feet tall.

A feral force of nature--at least at first.

Undyne isn't there anymore, it's just the fungus.

When the fungus takes root in someone, she is able to slowly absorb their memories as well as take control of them. Fortunately she can't control the order or priority of the memories she absorbs; unfortunately in some alternative timelines she manages to absorb Fuse's memories of stories about other AUs.

While she is perfectly able to control the body she inhabits, the external bodies she controls don't move quite right. They move akin to marionettes controlled by someone with shaky, jerky hands.

There is no extricating the fungus from Undyne; unlike those she infests, she "is" Undyne now - the fungus infested her soul. Removing the fungus would shatter her soul and, therefore, kill the body.

However, the fungus can be removed from the infected without much damage to them provided it is removed in a timely manner.

Her mature fungal growths don't need to be inside of a monster for her to see or hear from them. They can just be growing on a building, or from the ground, or anywhere, really.

She can only infect monsters. Turns out human bodies don't really continue to function well if a foreign body grows inside of, and out of, them...

In the original, unaltered timeline, she's eventually 'domesticated' by Shelphys.

In timelines wherein she learns about the multiverse, however, she becomes an expansionist scourge and she uses a hiveminded Fuse as her avatar to invade other AUs. Sanses seem popular for some reason, so she thinks he might be a more accepted face - but also, why would she put herself in questionable and potentially dangerous situations? That's just dumb.

Shel seems uneasy about getting close to her even after she's 'domesticated,' but Fungyne doesn't really seem to care about her discomfort and ends up getting really clingy.

She acts sort of like a cat.

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Other Junk

Fuse before he became Fuse. He was still going by just Comic Sans Serif at this point.

His magic color is more of a bright magenta at this early point in his life. The ability ("he can keep them from going up. For example, this can keep those able to fly grounded, and those on the ground from getting back up. It's a situational / support ability for the most part") is the same, however.

That's pretty much it; everything else is on the card.

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End stage unaltered timeline fungal hivemind infection / Fungyne expansionist avatar formally known as Fuse for those times the crazy fungal growth discovers there's whole wide worlds out there just waiting to be infested ✌️🤤

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Five years post-barrier, unaltered timeline: this idiot gets himself infected by Fungyne after confronting her to make sure Shel and his bro have time to get out of the facility.

But that's okay because he gets better after she's more-or-less domesticated, it's a simple matter of removing the fungus.

Granted that only counts for those timelines where Fungyne doesn't learn about the multiverse, in which case she becomes an unhinged expansionist who uses him as her avatar to infect monsters from other AUs 👌

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More rats

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Using this increasingly ratty man as a guinea pig.

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Some rats