#even if i'm disagreeing with someone! it's more aimed at uh. my own opinions XD

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angellongtail said: People don't usually make aus to be in character, otherwise it'd just be sans with an outfit change. New thing have to happen sometimes. *spins around*

Also pretty sure people ran out of cool ideas for the original cast at some point.

uhhhhhh..... no??? i don’t think any of that is true.

It is 100% possible to write the most OOC takes while still technically being set in canon, and you can make an AU that’s pretty removed from canon while remaining true to its themes and characters. You can absolutely keep Sans’ base personality intact, but explore how a different setting might emphasize or downplay certain aspects of it. An Underfell!Sans might be more aloof and guarded, might tell meaner jokes; an Outertale!Sans might not like space as much because he’s trapped in it, but there’s some other field of science he’s into because he likes the process of understanding something. There’s plenty of ways to spin it without making sans a completely different person who happens to have the same name. But if you completely change a character’s personality, values, history, world--then how are they the same character anymore? Why should someone care about them if it’s only using “sans” or “undertale” for name recognition, and otherwise has nothing to do with the original game? in a lot of cases...? that’s not exploring the character in a new way, it’s just flat-out a different character.

and if it were true that people have run out of cool ideas for canon, then where is all the content exploring it? where are all the neutral ending fics, where are the fics exploring flowey’s runs and possible shenanigans, where are the stories that don’t focus on sans and/or gaster? There are some out there of course, but they’re few and far between compared to the AUs that only involve some version of Sans--that’s why i’ve been complaining! XD And I certainly haven’t run out! Do you wanna know how many ideas and projects i’m sitting on that are still things i want to explore? I have:

15(@_@) more papyrus bingo prompts to do/finish

an AU based on “The Thought” comic, focused on papyrus

a cracky sans-centered oneshot

more fusion AU stuff

a fic exploring the timelines getting Borked

Goner!Papyrus

The Integrity. comic

a real angsty reason for papyrus being able to go without sleep

the immediate aftermath of the bros surviving the collapse of their original world

more babybones content

And these are still based in canon and largely centered on the skelebros, who have been decidedly well-covered by plenty of other folks--and this is just my stuff. there are surely dozens more creators who have all kinds of awesome ideas for all the characters, but for one reason or another--they don’t have time to work on it, it doesn’t get enough exposure to become known, they’re too afraid to share it--it just isn’t widespread. But saying that there are no more cool ideas to do just feels... dismissive, of both my efforts as well as all the other people who are trying to make their way in the fandom.

so uh... don’t rule it out preemptively, y’know? you never know when the next cool story will come out, even after all this time ^^