#deltarune role reversal

[rarespawns]

"deltaswap" concept - Deltarune Role Reversal (name may be temporary)

Deltarune Role Reversal is my concept of a deltaswap au, where instead of swapping roles and personalities, a change in circumstances have occurred, leading to the roleswaps.

LIGHTNER SWAPS (chapters 1 and 2, as more chapters come out more lightner swaps will happen)

Kris - Kris keeps their role as the vessel for the player, nothing much has changed with them. Since Susie is not in the main fun gang in this au kris has her hp values in the dark world.

Noelle - Noelle slept in on the first day of the group projects, leading to her joining Kris in their group project. She takes Susie's role in the dark world, and kris's hp values. Since she no longer is associated with the weird route Iceshock is the main damaging spell that you have, and you gain the ability to cast Blueshock when fighting the final bosses of each chapter.

Susie - Susie made it on time to class this time, and ended up pairing with Berdly. She shows up in the chapter 2 dark world where in the normal route she ends up realizing that violence and threats are not the solution to everything, like she does in chapter 1 of Deltarune. In the weird route, however, she uses Rude buster, which now deals fatal damage. The snowgrave replacement has not been chosen yet, but she casts it on Berdly, and instead of being encased in ice, he is just lying on the ground, with it being unclear if he is alive or not.

Berdly - Berdly keeps his role, but in chapter 1 he is the person you have to talk to to progress since Noelle is not there and Susie does not want Kris joining their group, saying "Hey, I am already IN a group, find your OWN!" Several of the chapter two interactions are different, as Berdly is still scared of Susie.

Asgore - Asgore is still the chief of police, and got the house in the divorce. This is subject to change if or when we find the reason Asgore and Toriel are divorced in Deltarune, but he is trying to repair his relationship with Toriel. He is an avid gardener, which will likely play into the Chapter 3 dark world when Chapter 3 is released (if there are things related to how Toriel bakes it will likely be replaced with flowers and other plants)

Toriel - Toriel is struggling to make ends meet with a teachers salary, so she started a small bakery near the lake, but she tends to give away food to others, she tends to bake Cinnamon-Butterscotch pies for other people in town. In chapter one she gives one to Kris, and you can decide to share it with Noelle right when you get it (who unlike Susie stays in your party when you exit the chapter 1 dark world,) or hoard it, keeping it to yourself, which Toriel is annoyed from, but not shocked. Doing this allows you to give it to Asgore, eat it in the light world (doing so would restore all HP, but it is unclear if you will be able to fight in the light world in the future,) or keep it for the dark world, turning it into an item that will bring all party members to max, since you cannot get the topcake in this (spincake is available however in the bake sale [more info on that in the chapter one darkners section] and in castle town from chapter 2 onward)

Papyrus - He has taken over his brother's store (temporarily) because sans is is "PICKING UP HIS SOCK"

As of now there are no more lightner swaps, but there are likely to be more when more chapters come out.

CHAPTER 1 DARKNER SWAPS

Ralsei - Ralsei keeps his role, but the interactions with him are much different, as Noelle also picks up on the fact he looks very similar to Asriel when he removes his hat.

Rouxls Kaard - Rouxls Kaard takes the place of Lancer, starting out trying to stop you he eventually warms up to you. He also tries to stop Noelle from freeing Kris and Ralsei as he does not want them to be hurt by the darkner who has taken it upon themselves to protect the dark fountain and carry out the will of the Roaring Knight.

Lancer - Lancer takes Seam's role as the chapter one shopkeep. After his dad mysteriously disappeared he started looking for him, instead finding a "cool house" with items inside, that he decided to start selling (so he could buy heart donuts from the bake sale) He is also the one who gives you hints on how to find the chapter 1 secret boss.

the original starwalker - he is pissed off

Malius - Malius is where top chef is in deltarune, but keeps his role, being the one to repair (and fuse) items and heal the party.

Top Chef - Top Chef is where Malius is in deltarune. The topcake is inaccesable as he already delivered it to Clover's birthday party. Talking to him allows you to purchace a SpinCake for 1000 dark dollars, or for free in castle town.

Seam - Seam takes the place of Rouxls Kaard, trying to stop you from reaching the dark fountain, and selling some items to you before the final fight. They are the court wizard, and are still the shopkeeper in castle town, seeming to know something about the dark crystals that you can collect.

Jevil - Jevil takes the place of the spade king, since the spade king was mysteriously missing the knight decided instead to put the jester in control of the dark world, since he was almost as powerful as the king. Since Jevil came into power he has acted differently than he used to, disregarding Rouxls Kaard, who used to be above him, and not being as close to Seam as he used to be. He does not hate lightners as much as King from deltarune does, but he still holds a grudge. After he is defeated Lancer takes over as king. In chapter 2 Jevil gets a room in Ralsei's castle.

King - King is the Jevil replacement. Someone strange contacted him, promising power beyond his wildest dreams. When he found the ShadowCrystal he started going insane, and tried to take over the dark world, but Seam managed to imprison him. His fight is in the red soul mode like Jevi's, and his attacks are just much harder versions of his attacks in the King fight, with his special attack being a barrage of large spades. Defeating him gets you either the ButterflyCloak (lowers the cost of heal prayer and gives more magic power, meant for ralsei) or the ChainWhip (does extra physical damage, increases graze range, and gives another attack to XSlash [which is not mentioned in the description])

Special mentions - The kings and the animals are in the other's cage, just being a purely visual swap. The triple-hathy encounter is three rudins instead, the rudin and hathy stand swap places in the bake sale, and Clover's outer two heads swap interests and personalities.

CHAPTER 2 DARKNER SWAPS

Spamton - Spamton the car salesman has managed to make it big in cyber city, even going as far as taking over the entirety of cyber world, and overthrowing Queen after encountering the Roaring Knight. He has taken an interest in Susie, thinking that she could help him by opening more dark worlds to spread his business to. Since he has not been corrupted by the man on the phone he does not talk the way he does in deltarune, instead being much more similar to the other Addisons. The arcade fighting game is also replaced with a racing game, and the final fight is a Mario Kart-esque experience, where you race against Spamton to gain items to damage his car, and dodge bullets.

Nubert - Everybody loves him.

Sweet Kappn' Cakes - The music trio keep there role as the rebels, not liking what Spamton has done to cyber world.

Maus and Mauswheel - Maus and Mausewheel take the place but not role of Tasque and Tasque manager, maus appearing in the cyber field coming out of the monitors.

Taskque and Tasque Manager - They take the place but not role of Maus and Mausewheel, Tasque showing up when you lovingly caress the cheese, scaring away the Maus. (Also if you manage to encounter a Maus with Susie in the party you can act with her to "upgrade" the Maus into a Tasque still, but as far as I know this is only possible if you get far enough into the Weird Route as all Maus encounters are repalced with Tasque encounters, and vica verca) Tasque Manager is in the kitchen trying to get the Swatchlings to work faster.

Queen - After being overthrown by Spamton she was forced to leave her mantion, but remembering a machine that Swatch made she checked the basement, and a plan started to form, but every time she tried to break back in she failed, eventually getting a call from someone mysterious, leading to her gong crazy. She has some form of malware, and wherever she goes she is followed by a Virovirokun, which seems to annoy her. Like Spamton she comes out of a dumpster and tries to convince Kris to help her. If you go to a shop she has set up in the garbage dump you can buy the KEYGEN, and also get healthpoison (called healthpotion in the shop,) VirusSword (Called AntiVirus in the shop, claims to deal extra damage against virus-type enemies) and the FakeCheck(Called CheckmarkBadge in the shop) (when you buy them and check them in the inventory they "glitch" and turn into the bad versions) When you get the empty disc she then copies her harddrive over to it, and then you put it into the robot. It appears to fail, but then when you turn to leave she ambushes you, trying to claim your soul to be strong enough to not only take back over the dark world, but escape the "strings" that the malware uses to control her. The fight, instead of using the yellow soul mode, uses the purple soul mode, since queen represents the internet (the world wide web,) pressing Z allows you to swap between the two layers (up-down, and left-right) (this will change if/when purple soul mode is used in a secret boss fight to reflect it's secondary gimmick.) Defeating her gives you either the FireWall, which decreases the tp cost for fire-casters, or the AcidGlass(Increases physical damage greatly, but decreases magic, meant to be equipped to Noelle)

No special mentions for chapter two

Please let me know if you would be interested in me making a sideblog for this AU where I would use the undertale text box generator to show how scenes would play out, talk about any other changes I think of, and have the ability to send asks about the au

[deltarune-role-reversal]

(Made with demirramon's undertale text box generator)

(Selecting yes and listening to the legend of the delta rune [which is completely unchanged])

(Selecting We've already heard it)

[deltarunetheatricalrolereversal]

Improvisation

[ne0nwithazero]

Finally redrew Host's Ref!

🎙️ Mike's Ref

[devicecontact]

One day I will draw my gerson gaster old man yaoi crackship but untill then you can just imagine

[hjigachicka]

This is who i Think should swap in deltaswap

[hellspawnmotel]

Thinking about Deltarune and how it plays with gender roles made me think about something; when people insist on assigning binary gender to the protagonists, I’ve noticed people usually treat Frisk and Chara as “girls” and Kris as a “boy”. I’ve seen vanishingly few instances where it’s the reverse. I wonder why that is

I've noticed the same thing! I remember occasionally seeing chara referred to as a boy back in 2015, but otherwise it's extremely consistent. I think it's due to a combination of things- one that frisk somewhat resembles madotsuki from yume nikki, so maybe early reviews or playthroughs that came from indie gamers assumed frisk was also a girl and it caught on. I have no way to verify this but it's what I personally always thought. there's also the fact that treating frisk as a pure self-insert was extremely common even after finishing the true pacifist route, and most of the younger members of the undertale fandom were teen girls (or at least they were girls then. many of them are not girls now lmao). so there was a really large community of portraying frisk not just as a little girl but a young woman, usually to be shipped with sans (cuz y'know sans was a hot commodity back in the day). and finally, and probably the most influential reason- undertale came out just after the rpgmaker boom of the early 2010s. and when you think about classic rpgmaker games that involve a young, vulnerable and often voiceless child exploring a dangerous environment (ib, the witch's house, mad father, and again yume nikki, among others), what do most of them have in common? yup, all the protagonists are girls. so I think for people who didn't have being nonbinary as an option at the front of their minds, it would be far more likely to assume frisk was a girl too and not give it a second thought.

(edit: I'm an idiot the most obvious answer is just that frisk has long hair. like it would be considered long on a boy I mean. and people assume any hair length past the ears = girl, so like of course people would see frisk as a girl. and you could argue that kris has longer hair too but still gets seen as a boy, but kris has kind of that emo teen thing going on which is one of the circumstances you might expect a boy to grow their hair out in. and generally younger kids don't have as much freedom with hairstyles.)

as for kris I think it has much more to do with assumptions of gender roles in a story, which is part of why I harp on it so much. in the light world, kris appears to be a depressed loner in a fashion more commonly associated in media with teenage boys. in addition, in their sprite their upper body appears somewhat wider than their legs and hips. in the dark world, kris is dressed as a knight, a traditionally male role, and is the silent leader commanding a party, also a traditionally male role (in JRPGs). given those things I think it's much more likely this was deliberate on toby's part, since he already knew players would leap to label a genderless protagonist as "one way or the other" and there isn't really a way to design a character that is able to convince a lot of people otherwise. so like, might as well use that as part of the meta. (I THINK, anyway. obviously I don't know for sure. I could be totally overanalyzing all this)

[dvdexe]

more tenna.!> he (any pronouns) serves a similar role as lancer and berdly where he's still an antagonist to the party ,but is not the main boss. maybe you'll even befriend them during the area 2 minigame gauntlet where you film different types of shows together?

the first image is a sort of chart/comparison between the other main antagonists and shows you the reverse rainbow colour scheme i'm going for. the face shadow thing i see in deltarune boss designs is something i'm always thinking about its cool seeing how people tackle it.

hat guy in the last pictures are © @tumourloaf

[lynxgriffin]

I did post it on mine, but it's not getting the kind of traction I'd like for it to. But here it is:

Dr. Gaster didn't fall into the core. He fell into a black hole.

To elaborate, the common theory is that Gaster fell into the CORE and got scattered across space and time. But why would that happen? The CORE's a thermal plant, not some trans-dimensional machine. But see, it's never actually said that he fell into the CORE specifically, all that is said is that he fell into "his creation."

I feel there are two possible machines that this could refer to: the skull-shaped machine in the True Lab, or the machine under the sheet in Sans' basement. I believe it's the one in True Lab. The reason for this is Entry Number 17, the mysterious missing log from the series down in the True Lab. "Dark, darker, yet darker. The darkness keeps growing, the shadows cutting deeper. Photon readings negative. This next experiment will be very, very interesting. What do you two think?" I believe that the "experiment" spoken of is the creation of a black hole. When a black hole exists, everything around it would become darker, as it absorbs all light, right? Additionally, anything that falls into a black hole never returns. Depending on one's interpretation, they may even be scattered across space and time.

Obviously, something went wrong. He fell in, and somehow that machine became damaged so badly that neither of "them" could repair it. This event must have been like a disaster for the rest of the underground, as four others disappeared with him. Or perhaps they are simply reflections of himself onto the people of the world, but I digress. Now, he's fallen beyond the bounds of the game. He's on the outside. He can "see" us, speak to us. Us, these beings who were once so far beyond the realm of his ability to comprehend, are now open for him to communicate with, and the roles are reversed.

Another experiment, Another Him. And this time, we're the variables he's testing on. How

very,

very,

interesting.

☟︎✌︎📪︎ 💣︎✌︎👎︎☜︎ ✡︎⚐︎🕆︎ ☹︎⚐︎⚐︎😐︎

Tl;dr: The True Lab machine is a black hole generator, Gaster fell in during an experiment, and that's how he got scattered across space and time, not falling into the CORE. and now we're his next test subjects.

Very interesting! Although, the reason why people say that he fell into the CORE is because the same NPC that says "he fell into his creation" says "they say he created the CORE" two lines previously. It's not a stretch at all to say that the CORE is the creation that he fell into when those two ideas are pretty much said simultaneously! But, on the other hand, how the CORE is supposed to operate is left a bit vague. It could certainly do more than just be a thermal plant. There doesn't seem to be much reason why he would want to make a black hole in the first place unless he's actually a Nomai

For myself, I'm still uncertain yet on whether Undertale and Deltarune Gaster are actually one and the same person...I feel like right now it could go either way. I do absolutely think that DR Gaster is aware of the player and the "real world," considering the twitter takeovers and how Survey Program itself was rolled out. I don't know if it's to necessarily be test subjects for experiments, though. The language that Gaster uses when talking to the player is more...contractual than scientific. He seems to treat the player as a necessary partner or executor, not a test object!

[aus-from-undertale]

Chara centric aus!

Swapfell- Chara is surviving capitalism (aren't we all)

The caretaker of ruins- Chara is alive and hates humans more than ever!

Underphase- Chara is a smartass

Flavor text chara- Chara's point of view of Frisk's journey

Underline- so... What up with chara? And all ut secrets?

Underswap- Chara has the Frisk role, you know the deal

Underbrushed- Chara is Rapunzel

Drunk!Chara- Chara got some drinking problems

Burstale- Chara doing her 100th genocide run

Chocoblook- Chara is a ghost!

Frisk plus Chara - Chara is alive... How?

Stand in- Chara is taking over Frisk body for 6 years after they went to the surface (Frans warning)

Endertale- Chara wants to finish the genocide run, but frisk won't let them :/

Systematic restore- Frisk fell before the tragedy

Fellswap- Chara is surviving dictatorship

Magustale- Chara is an experiment

Charatale- Chara is everything and everything is chara

Soulwarstale-Chara will do anything to save Frisk

Ragnartale- Chara is a runaway princess

Tantamount (reboot) - Chara is trying to survive a world where everything is shifted and strange

Reversed context- Chara is a meathead

The overseer- Chara has been having some weird dreams

Ask fallen royalty- Chara is alive and things aren't fine

Ghost switch- Chara is flowey

The Chara timeline- Deltarune au where Chara gives a crash course about soul possession to kris

Skele!Chara - Chara is a skeleton

Eepytale- Chara is happy

[magicalcroissantholybaguette]

I had a dream that there was Deltarune today and man I'm so disappointed.

Instead of the retro pixel 8bit style Toby does he opted ro animate it like Dragon's Lair, thay or it was just some really long cutscene like the intro to Link's Awakening IDK.

One of the chapters was gonna take place in some role reversed dystopian universe and for some reason Berdly and Susie ended up together (ew)

The New chapters could be played out of order, and they kept on having different names (idk either it was confusing for me)

And Mike was just a taller Spamton

Lancer was a human

And "Deltarune Today" kept on getting repeated

That's all I remember

I was so sad when I woke up despite the whole thing being so outlandish and the Berdly x Susie.

I'm gonna make a fan game now.....

[deltaswapjevil]

Deltarune Secret Boss Chapter 5

Annoid

Chapter 5 Ice-E's pizza secret boss

Forgotten Concept: Scrapped/Discontinued Mascots

Toy: Windup Toy/Kids Meal Toy (has a Windup mechanism in the back that's only visible in battle)

Undertale Boss: Papyrus/Sans

Mental Disorder: Bipolar

Sin: Gluttony

Light World Object: The last figurine of the old Ice-E mascot that Pizzapants stumbled upon and hopes to sell

Soul Mode: Blue

Items: Pizzarang (Violence, Used for Burgerpants), Heros Emblem (Spare)

Battle Theme: THE FINAL FRONTIER

Circus/Dialtone variant: The Hero in Blue (Plays when encountering Annoid)

Other Themes: Nyuh Nyuh Nyuh! (plays during his puzzle segments)

It's Raining (Post Battle Theme)

Story: Used to be the mascot of Ice-E Pizza. Think the reverse Noid, trying to help people get their pizza on time. After some rebranding he was replaced with Ice-E and all about forgotten. He was then lost for a bit until he met a mysterious man who showed him the future of Ice-E's pizza and how it would fall under its new reign. Determined to stop this fate he tries and keep Ice-E's alive. He takes a Lancer sorta role and appears throughout the chapter but only can be fought by completing all his puzzles (which can all be skipped easily by just walking past them) and collecting all the key pieces and using them to unlock the hero body which he fights you over. Defeating him causes him to realize he can't stop fate and hopes that you will tell his story

[deltarunetheatricalrolereversal]

The world is a big theater

[minunwithacannon]

Deltarune Chapter 3 + 4 Trailer and Reverse Boss Order Theory

Spoilers for Nintendo Direct

We finally have a reveal trailer for Chapter's 3 and 4 and I'm feeling reassured about the validity of Reverse Boss Order Theory.

For Chapter 3, we get a look another look at what appears to be Tenna. TV head design is a go. Perfect to represent Mettaton's box form for his role during Hotland. Locking in that Chapter 3 will represent Hotland as a whole.

But the interesting thing for me is what we see of Chapter 4. We got two images of Chapter 4 in the Direct. I don't know what the color scheme is about. But in the first shot, we see what appears to be stain-glass windows, and in the second shot we see a large number of Delta Runes. Locking in now, Church Dark World with Gerson's Hammer as the Secret Boss, representing Undyne the Undying.

[sbtorms]

Time to make a post "organizing" my Undertale/Deltarune AU ideas!

My technical Underswap take, and my favorite of the bunch, sunsetter! This is the only one of my AUs with a blog of its own: @thesettingsun-utau

My technical Underfell take, RED HAZE!

My reverse-Underfell AU, Rose-Tint! With a cool friend that made designs for Sans and Papyrus in the reblogs.

While not technically a full AU, there's my Tasque-Manager-in-the-role-of-Spamton, Charri. (ft. an undrawn and idealess C. Round in the role of Jevil)

Also a not-technically-full-AU-and-more-of-an-idea-to-be-used-by-others... Dream!Undyne and Nightmare!Alphys! As of now, two cool-ass people have put down their ideas for the concept as reblogs to the linked post.

Another not-technically-full, and also unnamed AU, but it's a roleswap!

And another not-full, unnamed roleswap!

I think I like making ideas more than AUs sometimes lmfao

[stardecahedron]

game concept art 2023 - EARTHSHINE - part 1 - characters

This is part 1 of my campaign design project from my concept art course last year, called EARTHSHINE!

I designed all these concepts for a top down space fantasy alien RPG called EARTHSHINE, inspired by Undertale, Deltarune, and Omori. The aesthetics were based on sci fi and retro futurism, pop art, black light photos and arcades, and a spacey aesthetic in the vein of Super Mario Galaxy and Slime Rancher.

In a reverse Solar System populated with aliens, many are racing to claim the empty planet, Earth. But no one seems to be consulting its moon, Luna, who's people adore it as part of their culture.

Dawa, an alien from Luna, is on a quest to claim Earth for their home, meeting new companions Ferni from Mars and Destiny from Mercury along the way.

kofi // instagram // artfight // bluesky

More info about the characters under the cut!! vv

PLAYER CHARACTERS

DAWA - Dawa is a humble farmer living their life with their mother on her lunar grape farm. They're quiet and have a tendency to throw themself into work and hobbies. Because of this they come off as anti-social. Dawa can be blunt and snarky, but they just say what's on their mind and will act on an idea if they're certain of their goal. It’s why they left home to confront the leaders about the planet they orbit, as they feel their home and the locals should also have a say in claiming it. Dawa is an ambush and heavy hitter, using their strong legs and quick movements to immobilise their enemies.

FERNI - Ferni is the owner of the Aresi Cosmic Curio Shop. She's taken up the role of a historian, and her first job is to learn about Earth from the locals on moons and Mars. Ferni is a fountain of energy and incredibly sweet, but she can be an overwhelming presence. It only takes someone slightly mentioning anything Earth related for her to go into a full information dump. Upon hearing about Dawa's quest, she immediately tags along, eager to learn about the Earth's history. She's a little too excited to fight battles, but at least she has the spirit and the heart! She’s good at targeting faraway targets,and earned the role of wild card.

DESTINY - Destiny is currently one of the only small spaceship drivers on Mercury aboard the Wings of Felestian Spaceship. Destiny takes on an older guide role for the team. She's highly sociable due to the nature of her job, but is very comfortable hanging back in the ship alone. She's resourceful and has a habit of proposing new ideas and upgrades for the ship. She plays support over communications for the team, offering advice and updates when she can. Generally a charming, reliable presence.

NPCS

LEADER ACACIA - Leader Acacia, or just Acacia, is the Leader of the Jovian Colonies, a proud and stubborn alien with a penchant for snapping at others. Despite the slightly arrogant demeanour, they are under a lot of stress due to the arguments they have been having with the Captain of Neptune about Earth. Other Aliens have unfairly painted them as cocky, while Jovians mainly see them as just a stressed, if not a little goofy leader, who enjoys a cup of tea in their spare time.

CAPTAIN BERA - Bera, or Captain Bera, has certainly made a name for herself among the solar system. She commands the raging Seas of Neptune aboard her submarine. One thing that makes her a fierce leader, is her competitiveness, which drives the other planets' leaders insane in her sheer confidence over her right to claim Earth. Bera's actions are as bold as her thoughts, yet despite her reputation, she seems to be well respected by the people and her crew.

KEEPER PLASMA - Keeper Plasma is notoriously mysterious. They were a respected figure amongst the Solar System, but nowadays very few know of them. Those who do engage describe a rather bitter and reclusive person. Plasma has been asked what their opinions are on the Earth space race, and it's always been the same answer, "Petty squabbles are none of my business.". They're a keeper of knowledge and history for the Solar System, so there could be information not even the great leaders know of.