#cybershuffle

[netdraws]

dark world rulers (in another time, in another space)

more cybershuffle design stuff ! these are both somewhat abstract so dont take them too literally hehe. note on gaster, the color splash in the corner of his coat isn’t a consistent part of the design- its the colors from putting a magnet against a crt screen! the colors show up when he moves. the idea was all @krispdreemurr ’s thank uuu risk!! ur ideas are so epic

cybershuffle au info

[krispdreemurr]

cackling thinking about how cybershuffle susie is three times the height of both her adoptive parents

ok i need to share the stupidest headcanon to result from cybershuffle: the spamton residence is still normal person sized. there's an oversized doggy door in the front door. they don't own a dog.

[susiespamtonandfriends]

* Huh. You could have sworn this wasn’t working in the Dark World-

* (OH [Fifty-percent off!] YOUR PROJECT!)

[glamoplasm]

* scarletblade

got really inspired by cybershuffle snowgrave route equivalent stuff talked about by @krispdreemurr so.

[netdraws]

y-your helpful desktop assistant, ALPHYS BUDDY!

@deltashuffle (now cybershuffle) alphys, in spamton’s role!

post w/ au details <3

[krispdreemurr]

i would like to hear about deltashuffle 🥺

ok so starter notes: we're loosely calling the ch2-based shuffle Cybershuffle mostly bc like. lancer!kris and ralsei!susie and so on are still good and important. also, like the ch1 shuffle, this is a group project and like friends and i have been working on this together, i did not have all these ideas. but all that said let's go thru the main characters real quick!

Susie Spamton taking the role of Kris: The younger of two adopted kids, Susie's had a tough time of it lately. With her older brother and arguably the most mature person in the household, Asriel, leaving for college, taking care of things and keeping things running when her dads can barely function has fallen on her shoulders. Maybe that's why she's been so quiet lately, so distant, so much more... responsible. Maybe it's for the better if she's gotten past her punk phase and settled down. Right?

Princess Noelle taking the role of Ralsei: It's nice to imagine, sometimes, being needed and wanted for who you are, even if you barely know who that is. It's nice to pretend you could be the hero rescuing the princess, even if most days you feel like the monster. But Noelle isn't quite the fantasy she maybe once might have been, with a quiet, cold bitterness about her role and her loneliness seeping into her. She could grow beyond. She hopes.

Lancer taking the role of Susie: Much the same as original Deltashuffle, Lancer is a young middle school student who seems to be constantly ending up in trouble for restlessly dismantling things and bossing his classmates around. He doesn't talk about his dad much at all.

Krismas Holliday-Kaard taking the role of Noelle: Don't call them by their full name they'll die. Anyways. Quiet and strange, in an ongoing state of rebellion against their overbearing mother but only when she's not actively looking. Has more in common with their dramatic theatre kid dad than maybe they want to admit. Good at school, good at keeping to themselves, good at not being known much at all. Used to be close to Susie, but drew away from everyone after Dess' disappearance. May or may not worry about the middle school kid they keep seeing in the same lurking spots as them and want to adopt him as a little brother a little. Absolutely hates that they turn blue in the dark world bc they look like their dad

Ralsei taking the role of Berdly: Number two in the class and always on his best behavior, Ralsei is a sweetheart who teachers and parents love and other kids loathe. Close to Kris, if only because Kris' mom set up plenty of playdates between them. Very concerned about doing things properly and by the rules, and staying on top of his image. People refuse to talk about his resemblance to Asriel it just weirds them out

Prince Berdly in the role of Lancer: Adopted child of the regent Swatch, Berdly knows his high-class etiquette by heart and will enforce it on you. We're working on this but it's hard because it's Berdly.

And minor characters, trying my best to keep this shorter:

Sweet Cap'n Cakes are in the role of Rouxls. A band of rebels against the unocracy, they keep trying to corrupt the ruler's son by hanging out with him but he's just so lame

Rouxls Kaard is in the role of Rudy. Kris' father and husband of Carol Holliday, he's a bit spineless unfortunately but he does love his child and loves acting out dramatic Shakespeare duels with them. Has been unwell lately.

Rudy is in the role of Jevil. Don't worry about him. He's free from pain now.

Jevil in the role of Asgore. Still the owner of the clown museum slash gift shop. Comes by to harass Spamton regularly despite the fact they're divorced. Has known the grocery store owner for two days and they're also already divorced.

Asgore in the role of Seam. A tired, tired man, wishing for something better, not expecting it to come. In the meantime, he keeps tending his flowers. There's someone he wishes he could give them to...

Seam in the role of Sans. Local grocery shop owner. Is crushing on Spamton and Jevil and hates self for it. Upper floor of grocery store is dedicated entirely to cursed goods.

Sans in the role of Gaster. There's nobody here. Stop looking.

Gaster in the role of Queen. Part of the basis of the operating system who saw there was more beyond, and who wants to let the dark flood out so he can know everything. Fixated on preparing Kris for their role opening fountains by running increasingly dangerous and stupid tests on them.

Queen in the role of Alphys. She drank too much age appropriate battery acid last night kids so she's going to take a break while you all play minecraft, that's probably educational,

Alphys in the role of Spamton. A helpful desktop assistant to guide you on your quest, who can make useful suggestions, find helpful items, and even send e-mails! Wants to help! Let her help! Let her help! Let her help! Let her h

Spamton in the role of Toriel. Who let this man adopt. Anyways. A former big shot ad executive now running a shady used car lot. House is full of weird products from past schemes and scams. Terrible at taking care of himself, relies a lot on Susie.

Toriel in the role of Swatch. Keeps things running! Wears a cute vest! Baked you a pie (wait wasn't she meant to be working for your enemy)

Swatch in the role of King Spades. The head of the dignified and composed Uno Lands, they're an accomplished refined gentleperson. Lately, though, as if preparing for an important guest, they've gotten increasingly controlling and demanding about making sure everything functions.

Nubert as Sweet Cap'n Cakes. My man.

what do you mean there's someone missing. there was never a character there

[krispdreemurr]

what is scarletblade may i ask

scarletblade is cybershuffle's parallel to snowgrave, since kris is in the role of noelle...

in short - if susie pushes and hammers on kris, keeps reminding them that they're human, that they're angry, that they're dangerous, that they restrain themselves, that this is a false world where they don't have to hold back... well. they lash out, more and more. early on they just knock enemies out with their shield (and they stay sprawled there, unconscious). they actually lose their nonviolent act options as the route goes on, just wanting to fight, bc that's what susie has been pushing them to do, right? too late to stop now.

until finally they're up against ralsei, and...

* scarletblade

"blade? what? c'mon, susie. you... you miss the giant shield strapped to me...?"

* scarletblade

"yeah, i carried a knife around when we were kids, but--c'mon. i--i wouldn't..."

* scarletblade

"...so this is how you think of me after all...? the scary violent hu-human just waiting for a chance t-to, to snap. kinda thought that... no, forget it."

* scarletblade

"...fine. whatever. this is a n-nightmare or something, right? none of this is... is... real. if it were, you wouldn't... so. hey. let's. let's make it someone else's nightmare for once. p-prepared to... to see what a human can really do?"

[krispdreemurr]

btw if any of yall have been wondering why the cybershuffle card kingdom is uno cards instead of standard cards, it's honestly really simple

[susiespamtonandfriends]

- for a cybershuffle ask blog about susie (and the main trio), written by ken @glamoplasm !

please read the rules and about before sending asks!

[krispdreemurr]

What if Cybershuffle Susie can't swear because it's always replaced with [Fifty-Percent Off!] and it causes her immense mental pain

As the creator of Cybershuffle you have the ability to make "God fucking dammit Susie where the FUCK are we" canon

love getting these back to back

second anon the issue is that none of the party can say fuck. lancer, who should be the one to say it, is a tiny baby. noelle doesn't know what swears are. and susie, as first anon noted, due to spamton's attempts to avoid swearing around his kids, only knows how to swear in weird advertising euphemisms

[glamoplasm]

sketch page of cybershuffle stuff while i figure out how i think they’d all look !! not set designs yet, just ideas

[krispdreemurr]

as a sidenote i do think before leaving to college asriel like. put his hands on susie's shoulders gently. looked into her eyes. "susie, i love you, you're my sister and i'll always love you, but also if i have to listen to dad talk about [[Three Easy Payments]] one more day i'm going to snap and kill everyone" and susie was like "no yeah i get it"

[krispdreemurr]

I would like to hear the Krismas Lore....

sometimes the good kid, the one who was supposed to do everything, the one who helped you in so many ways, just goes missing overnight. sometimes it's suddenly just you and your mom and dad, and your mom is panicked and your dad is useless and everything comes crumbling down on You.

suddenly you can't spend time playing on the piano for hours, or exploring the woods with susie and asriel (and someone missing), or even just reading and talking with your dad, because you have to study and focus and be everything dess was meant to be instead of whoever you were. and your mom finds you new friends who will be a better influence on you, and for a while maybe you actually connect with them but they're under the same kind of pressure and in the end it becomes another source of reminders that you need to be someone you're not.

so you get quieter and you do your schoolwork and you spend as little time with your mom as you can and once in a while you do something like get piercings or dye a streak of hair red just to assert Something but it never changes anything, not really, just makes your mom get mad at best.

and your dad still comforts you in his way, spends time with you and plays games with you like you're both teens, and you can almost pretend while you're both acting out a duel to the death that things are the same, but he starts coughing more and more in the aftermath and in the end you can't keep pretending.

you don't know who you are, any more. top of the class in your sweatervest and your turtleneck, the red dye already starting to fade, playing occasional songs when your dad's strong enough to make it to the hospital lobby but otherwise studying and working and trying to be good enough to make up for who you're not.

you send another text to a long-deactivated number that says things you'd never say aloud.

you think she's the only one who would listen.

[krispdreemurr]

My take is that Jevil and Spamton are twice divorced, never married

you know how people do like renewals of vows on big wedding anniversaries. once every few years spamton and jevil meet up to do a renewal of divorce

[krispdreemurr]

the idea of asriel at college accidentally slipping into [[Number 1 Rated Salesman1997]] mode in front of his new friends is absolutely murdering me

he tries so hard to get it under control but then he's like "hey you want to get mcdonalds? they have a [[Two For One Specil]]" and like. slaps his hand over his mouth and groans

[krispdreemurr]

fave part of cybershuffle?

listen how do i answer this. clown divorce. krismas holliday-kaard. alphys can send emails. butler wannabe berdly. no king spades. susie and kris being childhood friends. susie trying to cook dinner but all the cookware in the house is weird seen-on-tv gadgets so she has to adapt the Instant Egg Maker to make some goddamn ramen. gaster putting kris in increasingly absurd and unsolveable puzzles to try and prep them in case future dark fountains just happen to include using a speak-n-spell to write the entire text of james joyce's ulysses. kris and lancer getting to go to a dark world theme park and hang out and become siblings. seam seeing the two local divorced manlets and going 'oh god. i'm going to have to date them.' like how do i choose,