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ardenttheories · 6 years ago

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Admittedly that was less “twenty minutes” and more “several hours” but regardless, I am here to provide a Homestuck/Undertale AU!

Also this got kind of long: It includes short character descriptions and powers, goes into a “pre-game” lore, and then picks up as if telling the story the “player” would play through if it were a game. At the end I also included little facts of the plot (specifically about Roxy, who acts a bit like Gaster), and a fun “No-Mercy run” twist of events.

John: A prince of the human realm. He was once great friends with Jane, before his family was struck down, and war ravaged the world. He disappeared soon after, and though it has never been confirmed, it is widely assumed that he was slaughtered alongside his parents.

Jade: The Royal Scientist of the Underground. She is a serious woman, when she wants to be, but tends to flip between tireless workaholic and outright shenanigan-fuelled silliness. She suffers occasional bouts of narcolepsy, but finds visions in her dreams that fuelled her projects, or encourage her to begin new ones. She is a plant-based monster (think Shyren, but with hair of thick vines, moss-based skin, and a long, thick lab coat). Her signature move in a fight is to resize the SOUL, making it harder for the player to escape her thorn-covered vines.

Dave and Davesprite: Twins who appeared under mysterious circumstances in the Underground. Both have a tendency for hiding their fears behind jokes and quick wit, often striking the fear of the other when they are fearful themself. They are skittish, unsure, but cover it well; to most outsiders, they are simply a pair of rambunctious crows, frequently getting themselves in trouble and aiding those they can in between bouts of arguments. Though Dave has the more dominant personality, speaking for both of them and making most of their friends, Davesprite tends to stick in the minds of people more; he is the quieter of the brothers, yet the one who (accidentally) makes the most trouble. They are Crow monsters: Dave’s feathers are white and his eyes are red, whereas almost every part of Davesprite is a fluorescent orange; they have no beaks, but instead bird-like noses and wide eyes, the majority of their bodies covered in feathers besides a small portion of their faces; from their forearms and their knees down, they are covered in the scale-like skin of a bird’s legs, toes and fingers turning into claws; and both sport large, beautiful wings, though Davesprite is missing the right wing. Their special move is to turn the SOUL orange and split it in half; Dave attacks one side, and Davesprite attacks the other. Davesprite’s attacks damage Dave’s half of the SOUL; Dave’s attacks damage Davesprite’s half of the SOUL.

Rose: A reclusive woman, hiding herself away in the furthest portion of the Underground. She has made her home in an oddly magical forest, covered in blue fungi and tar-like trees. She spends her days peering into her reflection in the only crystal-clear pond in the entire forest, searching for answers that play like movies on the bubbling surface of the water. She is a Cat monster (think the Snowdin shopkeeper, but... a cat) on her upperhalf, and a mass of tar-like tendrils on her lowerhalf. Her special move turns the SOUL crystal, requiring them to remember the pattern and order of her attacks that will then appear on screen invisible.

Dirk: An amalgamate. He was made from the dust of several monsters, infused with determination in order to see if they could be revived. Unfortunately, there was not enough dust of each monster to keep individual shape, and the resulting Shambling Limbs melted together instead. As a result, he is incredibly deformed: arms hold his head in place above his body, disconnected from his neck; odd-coloured arms sprout from his body, acting as if they are separate entities, constantly in discord with one another; parts of him waver in and out of existence, turning to dust only to to shift back into place, solid once more; his lower half is a molten goop, legs unable to retain their shape and leaving him with a trail of barely formed dust; and his face is droopy and inconsistent, flickering between the faces of the monsters he is formed of - a Robot (Brobot), a Shadow (Hal), a Fire Elemental (Godtier) and a Mirage (Brain Ghost). His signature move is to make the SOUL fade in and out of existence (turn blue and orange).

Jake: An adventurer, bored of the Underground. He is a boisterous and joyful man, always seeking out anything that can retain his attention for a long period of time. He has scoured every inch of the Underground and uncovered all of its secrets (or so he thinks), and desires to escape into the Overworld simply for the thrill of more. He is a Greater Dog. His signature move is to cycle the SOUL through various colours every turn.

Jane: A lonely princess who remembers the days before the Underground. She once had a brother, a father, and a loving court; now she has dirt, dust, and nothing to show for her title besides a tiara she’s long since forgotten. She locks herself in the Ruins in the hopes to avoid her future, and the masses of monsters out in the Underground expecting her to solve the conundrum of their entrapment. She is a Jackrabbit monster (think the Snowdin shopkeeper mixed with Toriel). Her signature move is to turn the SOUL light green, showering down volleys of white attacks with green attacks interspersed; the player has to collect these green attacks to refill their continuously depleting health.

Roxy: The Royal Scientist prior to Jade. She disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving the lab and the amalgamate inside to her descendant. Very little is known about her, though it is assumed, at this point, that she must be dead. She is a Shadow monster. Her signature move turns the SOUL black, hiding it against the background and only blinking into existence every few seconds.

Plot:

Jane was the heiress to the throne in the Overworld. At that time, there was peace; her and her father kept close relations with the human King and Queen, to the point that she befriended their son, the prince. All was well, until one day, her father announced that he was going to marry. The woman he had found was a wicked Witch. She treated her population awfully, but presented such an image of terror that nobody dared to fight back. In time, she attempted to stretch her influence into the human realm, and initiated a bloody attack; she slaughtered her husband, and murdered the human King and Queen. The young human prince disappeared overnight.

The humans would not bow down to her will, as the monsters had. Instead, a gruesome war took hold of the world; blood ran the rivers red, battles devastated villages and towns, and dust coated what were once well-inhabited homes.

Between the brutality of her mother, and the overwhelming power of the vengeful humans, the monster population dwindled to near extinction. Jane was desperate to save her people.

She opened the way to the Underground as an escape for monsters of all kinds, leaving the Witch to her pointless war with the humans.

Before she descended with them, she fled back into her mother’s territory. It took her years, but she soon found the missing prince, deep in a slumber beneath the castle’s walls; aged years far above his own, he was frail and weak. With tender delicacy, his tender form clutched gently to her chest, she fled into the Underground with her only friend - and used his SOUL to obscure the entrance from ever being found.

In the safety of the Underground, the monster population soon began to rise. New young replaced the dead, raised on the whispers of humans and terror and war. Time passed, and the rumours only gained friction, become more distorted from the truth the more they were repeated. Soon, Jane was only a whisper on the lips of the hopeful; the one who saved them, and the one who would set them free, once the humans and the Witch had slaughtered each other off the face of the Earth.

Only one monster, a Scientist named Roxy, ventured to the supposed living of the princess - the Ruins. It was a well hidden, forgotten place, but Roxy was used to seeking well hidden, forgotten things; when she reached the Ruins, she found that access was forbidden to her - or, more accurately, to anyone. She knew the princess was still inside, and thus, she began to speak.

It took time. A long, long time. But they both had plenty of it.

A friendship bloomed between the two between the door of the Ruins, Jane inside, Roxy outside. Eventually, she was able to befriend Jane to a point that she was told, very quietly, one thing: the rumours were false. The catastrophe was at the hand of the Witch only, not the fault of the humans. Jane did not speak to her for days after that.

When she did speak again, it was a request; for the scientist to look into Determination, the only thing - beyond Jane’s magic - keeping her human friend alive. She wanted to know if it was possible to reverse the effects of the Witch’s powers - because with the prince back, going into the Overworld may be a viable action.

The scientist quickly took the extracted Determination slipped through the door, and the slowing-rotting corpse of Jane’s only friend. With both in hand, she dashed away and holed herself up in her lab, performing experiment after experiment in order to achieve the goal she had been set - in order to make the princess happy once more.

Experimenting with monster dust and Determination led to terrible results. The Amalgamation she created could never disintegrate, but wanted to with all its hearts. She did her best to ensure that it - all of it - was happy, until it eventually accepted its fate, took on the name Dirk, and decided to be he instead. He helped her with her work, far more careful and calculating and risk-taking than she was willing to be, and together, they began to make progress.

But something was missing. No matter what they did, it failed in the end. Frustration led the scientist to drastic measures, and one day, she vanished.

The lab was given to another scientist. Though it took Jade some years to find and understand her predecessor’s notes, she eventually managed to piece together what she had found, believing it to be the only chance of escape from the Underground. She wasn’t sure why or what it all meant until she found a journal detailing the princess’ stories as told through a door in the Ruins, far, far away. Filled with the wonder of the Overworld, of the space and the possibilities and the endlessness, and the fury at the humans and their war, she threw herself into her work, desperate to see if what she had read was true.

The Underground moved on. The monster population began to flourish. Two new monsters appeared out of nowhere, odd Crows that seemed to wreck havoc and give help in turn. Nobody could say for sure where they had come from, but whoever they were, Dave and Davesprite soon settled themselves into the normal world of the Underground until there was barely a seam to show their fit.

Then, one day, a human appeared in the Underground.

With no recollection of who they were or how they’d gotten there, they went into the Ruins, coming across the princess in her isolation. Though shocked, she in equal parts of eagerness and tentativeness gives them a quest; to go through the Underground, reach its furthest point, and uncover the resting-place of her human friend. Only then could the human leave, however they had arrived - with the monsters following in tow.

The human leaves, and quickly comes across an odd, adventurous Greater Dog, whom excitedly shows them the ropes of adventuring (including a battle tutorial). Jake appears several times to encourage the human, sharing his fanciful tales and making a general nuisance of himself. He guides them towards the main town, whereupon they find two strange Crows.

The Crows seem to both like and dislike the human, flipping back and forth about how they each seem to feel. They put up halfhearted attempts to “stop” the human’s progress, but ultimately just let them move on, recognising that they’re absolutely no harm to the anyone in the Town or the Underground as a whole. They follow the human on their journey, attempting to figure out an odd feeling in the back of their heads - a little annoyance that tells them there’s something the human should watch out for, or be wary of.

They only realise what the feeling is when, part way through the journey towards the lab, they are cut off from the human.

Jade, in her isolation, has become staunchly anti-human.

Attempting to survive the lab and its surroundings is the only way for the human to survive. They trudge through dangerous death traps, complex puzzles that seem to hold no answer, tricky pathways that take them far, far out of their way before suddenly diverting back towards the lab. By the time they reach the lab itself, things seem to be getting easier, almost.

Except then they are very much accosted by the Amalgamate.

The only option is the run. The Amalgamate is very fast and very angry; tiring it out in battle, escaping from it, running as far as they can, and repeating is the only way for them to reach deep enough inside the lab that the scientist, in a turn of heart, can save them. She placates the enraged Amalgamate, gently encourages him to go back to his space within the lab, and greets the human.

She apologises for her behaviour - though they may not have seen it, she had set up all of the tricks and traps in order to kill them. She had been quickly surprised, however, by how determined the human was with solving all of her puzzles; rather than turn on tail, or march their way through guns-blazing, they had taken their time and stewed over her creations - and after so long without anyone to talk to besides Dirk, she had eventually found herself hoping the human would overcome her obstacles.

Recognising that they mean no harm, and thoroughly embarrassed with her actions, she questions why they are there. Realising that they have been sent by Jane, she begins to apologise more fervently - before suddenly dashing off to her notes. She comes back and explains that she has been working to complete the work of her predecessor, trying to tie together almost incomprehensible notes into an idea that would help the Underground as a whole. It has been slow going, and she always felt like something was missing - but with the human there, she seems to realise what she has to do.

She gives the human a vial of Determination, the last part she has left, and opens up the other side of the lab, encouraging them to go onward.

Nothing much happens (besides the reappearance of the Crows and the Greater Dog, who argue back and forth until Jake is forced to admit that he maybe isn’t as great of an adventurer as he thought since he’s never been past the lab, resulting in Dave and Davesprite feeling guilty and attempting to make him feel better - only to make it worse) until the human reaches the edge of the Dark Forest. There is a hush there suggesting that nothing living exists beyond the dark, nigh-dead grass, and as the monsters attempt to follow the human, they find that they instead walk into an invisible barrier.

Left alone, the human must traverse the confusing twists and turns of the forest. Blue mushrooms light the way towards the centre of the forest, where they there find a tentacled Cat monster. She informs them that her name is Rose, and that she has been waiting for them for a very, very long time. She then says that it is quite lovely to be able to meet the prince in person - or, at least, his detached SOUL.

She expositions that the previous Royal Scientist had, prior to her disappearance, founded the forest in an attempt to try and keep the prince alive, using the natural magic within it to turn into life force that would keep his body going. She then discovered that he was, in fact, only a body; his SOUL existed elsewhere, lost above in the Overworld when the Witch had snatched him away. Rose theorises that the Witch must have been using his SOUL in order to extend her own life and power, leaving the body to rot and wither away; and that Roxy had known this, and somehow “called” the SOUL to the Underground.

What lies ahead is, essentially, his decaying body. The Determination the prince’s SOUL carries within him should be the factor that binds SOUL and body together once more.

Rose judges him before he moves on. Pleased with how he has been behaving in the Underground, she lets him move onward without much issue, merely informing him that she’ll see him on the other side.

He marches on. As predicted, his SOUL enters his body and the Determination takes effect, bringing him back to life. A rumble shakes through the Underground almost as soon as the prince opens his eyes.

With the aid of his newfound friends, John makes his way back to the Ruins. He has a tearful reunion with Jane, who exclaims gleefully that the barrier she’d used to hide them has been broken, and that ever since it has, she’s heard no sound of fighting. She hopes that peace exists in the Overworld.

Of course, not all is that easy. The Witch is not yet dead, and furious to find that not only was her SOUL snatched back by its true owner, but also that an entire monster population existed outside of her reach. She immediately imprisons the monsters as Lost Souls, and begins a brutal battle with the prince, determined to take his SOUL and kill him once and for all.

John defeats the Witch, who melts away after her furious Determination causes her body to disintegrate. The monsters cautiously step into the light, wary of what might be waiting them outside...

And find a peaceful world, grateful for the Witch’s demise and the return of their ancient prince.

And some fun clarifications:

Roxy realised that she’d never be able to use determination on monsters. She also realised that she’d never be able to get a human into the Underground, being unable to leave to lure them in. Upon realising that John’s body no longer hosts his SOUL, and that the Witch likely still has it, she thrusts herself into her research, attempting to find a way to call out to his soul to return to his body. She eventually does; it’s a complex mixture of science and magic that results in the destruction of her own body, but allows her to pinpoint John’s soul, free it from the Witch, and essentially hook it back through the barrier and into the Underground.

Determination courses through her as she realises that there’s nothing left of her form. Desperate to see it through to the end, and to give John’s SOUL the best chance of survival in the Underground, she manages to split her remnants in two; two parts of a Shadow forming two Crows imbued only with the desire to protect. Dave and Davesprite are the only monsters she’s successfully been able to create. She’s not entirely sure how she was able to do it, but it should be noted that Dave and Davesprite are much more material and much less magical than most other monsters. (It should also be noted that they will live nowhere near as long as Monsters do and are essentially living on borrowed time, but a much more extended borrowed time than, say, Undyne the Undying).

That, of course, is the Pacifist route. It would be perfectly doable to slaughter every monster in the Underground, snatch up the determination, and then reach Jane, who sobs as she attempts to gain vengeance on her people, stating that humans must simply desire warfare and death and despair. In truth, it’s implied that the Witch still retains control over the SOUL. Having realised what Roxy was attempting to do, she destroys her control over the SOUL’s path and ensures that it follows her vicious whims and desires, slaughtering the monsters of the Underground in punishment of their defiance. Roxy still creates Dave and Davesprite from her remnants in his instance, but does so more to protect the Underground than to protect John.

Dave and Davesprite will battle more fervently if they think that John actually poses any sort of harm to the Underground, and battle him twice; once when they first meet him, and once more after he’s regained his body. Once both are defeated, their bodies will fuse together, becoming a broken Amalgamate of Roxy who tries to fix her mistakes. This secondary phase to the battle doesn’t last long; the Crows were already existing on borrowed time, and Roxy had already lost her body once. She fades away with her regrets.

Furthermore, in a No-Mercy run, Rose’s judgement would work much like Sans’ judgement. She will battle John in order to stop him from reaching his body, but doesn’t have anywhere near as much HP as any other monster. After she has exerted herself, John’s first hit will kill her immediately.

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