#flowey origin story

[souldropau]

Welcome, to the SOULDROP AU! Created by @quinnstirrsworld, this is an Undertale AU about a major fuck-up; a timeline broke, a character file was heavily corrupted, and now we have this guy. Say hi!

This is optionally an ask blog: the asks aren’t made just for pushing the story forward, though askers can affect it in ways they choose. If you wanna interact with the characters in the story, just check out the little ask box thingy!

[beryllineart]

You know, I think part of the reason I like making comics is that it gives me an excuse to rant about characters and worldbuilding and stuff like that. I kind of get embarrassed sometimes about how much I tend to ramble about the smallest things in a character's life, and as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

When I make Undertale comics (or any other comics really), I'm putting that character or world analysis in a shorter form that people will actually want to read and perhaps draw their own conclusions. And I get an excuse to ramble, usually under a cut because I think people don't want to hear my character analyses.

But oh my gosh, it feels so good to rant in my head as I draw about Asriel's guilt, Mettaton's jealousy and insecurity, Monster Kid's protective side... getting to express that through art and stories just feels so good! And even though I'm dying to share it immediately (and probably could if I just started ranting on here), there's so much more impact when I show instead of just tell people about these specific aspects of characters and how that influences the events and choices of their lives.

I've got this one comic that I haven't even started drawing yet, but it's about making the reader feel like a terrible person because of the futility of the story. Secondhand guilt, if you will. The problem is, I had to make a backstory for this character... and give him a family... knowing full well I was going to kill him off because that's how the story goes. And then I drew a picture of him right before his death and... he looked so accepting of his fate. He wasn't even resigned, he was accepting, and that made me feel so bad. Which is good, I guess, except I've started feeling so guilty that I've been procrastinating. XD

Anyway, I've got major respect for other comic artists or writers in general who manage to put so much history and nuance in their works and make things feel real. And I love reading people's posts about character/world/magic analyses because I love to do that myself, plus hearing other people's views gives me some really good ideas.

I don't know why I decided to say this, maybe I was just wondering why the serious, more emotional comics were my favorites to make, or maybe I just really needed to ramble because all of my character analysis comics aren't close to being finished. Canon compliant(ish) subversions are so fun to write, but hugs are hard to draw. Sorry that I rambled for so long and don't even have art for this post.

[cvbullshit]

Been thinking about Flowey Toriel a bit, might actually make it into a mini AU thing because like-

In my mind, it isn't Toriel just taking the role of Asriel.

In my mind, she dies AFTER the kids, how I don't know yet- I could say she took her own life but I feel that would make more sense for Flowey Asgore, since he's made out to be more on the suicidal side than Toriel.

But she dies after the kids and Alphys just ends up taking a flower that was covered in her dust. Or a different item entirely but I dunno.

Toriel would definitely either choose a different name for herself, not Flowey, that or just remained nameless and let people call her whatever.

I like to imagine, if we're using the concept of Flowey being self aware, she just lets Frisk/The Player refer to her as "The Tutorial Flower", Tutorial or Flower for short lmao.

But I think she may remain ultimately nameless as a flower if her time joking with Sans behind a door told anything about how she'd introduce herself to others.

So I'll just call her Flower for now- Or Buttercup, since I could also see Toriel pointing out her specific type of flower. Imma say Buttercup because it's interesting and doesn't share a name with my CV Flower.

Buttercup would probably end up being more controlling than Flowey, I think she would still follow the "it's kill or be killed" rule but more of in the sense of "The world will kill what I love so I will kill the world".

She would probably help Frisk at first, since Frisk looks so much like Chara. She would say it's because Frisk is an innocent child who deserves to be protected but she would've already gained a wonky morality and the inability to love so she just said that to play pretend, probably to view Frisk as Chara and pretend they're back and that she can have someone to love again.

Though over time, Toriel would probably grow more frustrated with Frisk until she screws up and lets slip out how the current her actually is. When she goes to reset, she gets confused as she can't do it anymore, putting the pieces together that Frisk has that ability now, there were signs but she brushed them off and ignored them because she thought she was still in control.

The moment she realizes she doesn't have control of the timeline, all bets are off, she NEEDS the control back, she NEEDS to control her life and piece it all back together, it doesn't matter about anyone else's lives, they're all out to kill anything she loves. And she loved Asriel, she loved Chara. She loves Frisk. ...But she doesn't, she can't, and even if she did she doesn't love Frisk because they're Frisk. She would've loved Frisk because they look like who she loved.

And the moment she realizes that... You're just part of the world she'd tear apart.

[tomacat16]

Estaré subiendo las partes del comic ya subidos en tiktok para que puedan leerlo los que no sepan donde encontrar el comic :v

No diré números ya que estaré subiendo partes y la mitad de otras para que no sea tan corto :v

[littleyukki5033]

SacredFell Mini Story/Comic

(Note: This is a concept for the story. Changes are bound to be made)

Filler Title: The Other Human pt.1

Frisk POV

Frisk walked along the town of Snowdin. Admiring the lights and the grey Christmas tree that had presents that seem badly wrapped. They crouched down and noticed one of the presents belong to Papyrus, knowing there some monsters who gift one another filled Frisk with determination.

Frisk stood up straight and noticed Sans standing next to a large house that seem refurbished from the outside with half working Christmas lights, but something else caught there attention. The closer Frisk got, there eyes actually opened. A human. There was a human next to Sans.

Brown hair, tanned skin, she had red eyes. Frisk stared and Sans smiled at Frisk. "You look like you've seen a ghost kid" Sans had that amused tone when he said that. Frisk shut there eyes quickly, patting there face to make sure there not dreaming. No, this woman was there alright. The woman tilited her head to the side and smiled at Frisk.

"Well aren't you interesting" The woman said. Frisk couldn't help but gawk. Flowey grow taller so he can get a better look at the woman, Flowey actually got in her face. "How the hell are you alive" Flowey sneered. Frisk shifted there body to the side so it can create some distance between the woman and Flowey who kept glaring at the woman.

The woman didn't seem bothered by it and just kept looking at Frisk. Frisk glanced at Sans who kept that smile, Frisk looked back and lifted there hand. "I'm..um..Frisk". The woman shook Frisk hand firmly "Yukki" she said before pulling her hand and shoving her hands back in her pockets.

"So uh...I'm sure you have some questions right?" Yukki then added. Frisk gawking expression turned into determine expression. Yukki side eye Sans and Sans smile faded. He lifted both his hands and made a groaning sound of annoyance.

"Alright alright...I'll let you humans talk.." Sans grumbled. Before Sans left, he pointed past the house "Papyrus is outside of town ik that direction once your ready and uh...im sure youll make good choices wont you kid?" Sans said in a serious tone. Frisk felt a struck of fear because Sans had empty eye sockets, his red pupil returned when Yukki nudge his arm with a glare. He smiled "im just messing with them" Sans laughed before dissapearing and leaving a red smoke essence. Frisk flinched all shock. 'So that's what he meant by shortcut...he can teleport!' Frisk thought but they weren't focus on that right now. They looked at Yukki who was looking at her shoes, digging it into the snow.

"How..um...I didn't expect to see another human here...how are you..." Frisk voice trailed off. It was hard to even discuss it. Frisk felt Yukki hand on Frisk shoulder, it was comforting.

"I didn't expect another human to even fall here..but uh...by the looks of it..your from the surface right?" Yukki asked. Frisk didn't understand what she meant, of course there from the surface. Yukki withdrew her hand and leaned her head back.

"I uh...let me be honest with ya...it can be our little secret okay but..obviously I'm not from here...and I ain't from the surface" Yukki looked down at Frisk, she look hopeful that they would understand what she meant. Frisk only had a neutral expression, Yukki just chuckled. "Another...universe???" Frisk mumbled that as if it was unbelievable but for Frisk, at this point Frisk would believe it since they literally come back from the dead. Yukki smiled just grew which made Frisk believe that they had a mutual understanding."anyway uh..thanks for letting off some pressure off my back. I've been here for a year and it been kinda..hard..honestly" Yukki said as her expression sadden. Frisk soon frowned.

Chara POV

Everywhere Frisk went, Chara always saw Frisk be kind...over...and over. Chara was actually happy for this but gosh she was so bored. The only thing entertaining is watching Frisk dodge and the random moments that happen.

Chara floated behind Frisk, who kept talking and talking to Yukki. Laughing and having fun. Chara groaned and floated more above Frisk glancing at Frisk face. Now..when Frisk waved to walk away to go find Papyrus, Chara glanced up, them Chara eyes widen.

Full eye contact with Yukki. Yukki just smiled at Chara, Chara floated backward quickly. She watch Yukki turn her heel and walk the opposite direction, she just..had that smile.

Chara felt a shiver which was weird for her being a ghost and all. Chara broken soul tugged and pulled them towards Frisk since the distance was far apart. Frisk noticed Chara scared expression and asked what was wrong. Chara floated next to Frisk quickly.

"Frisk! That woman-I do not trust her! She saw me. Literally saw me!!!" Chara explained. Frisk frowned and looked ahead, it was getting more foggy.

"She seems nice though...are you sure your not mistaken?" Frisk whispered. Chara made an annoyed expression and floated directly in front of Frisk who stopped walking. "I know what I saw. How about you explain to me how she saw me" Chara said as she crossed her arms. Frisk just look conflicted and it made Chara feel bad for pressuring Frisk. "Ugh...your too nice...we can talk about it later...I know you need to focus on your fight with Papyrus" Chara said with such an annoyed tone but they gave Frisk a reassuring smile.

"Can we please keep going?" Flowey chimed in with a annoyed tone as well. Frisk nodded quickly and walked further into the thick fog.

------- End of Part 1 ---------

Part 2 is here

I honestly think the only part would change is thay whole interaction with Yukki that Frisk had but I like my concept so far! I'll write the rest later but the next POV will be Yukki and Sans

SacredFell AU: Belongs to me

Art: Belongs to me

[aredeemantagonist]

DeathTale: Chapter 2

Frisk's fingers tingled from the sensation of the star. They looked over at Flowey, who had conveniently turned away.

"Hey, hey! Flowey, did you see that?" Frisk jabbered excitedly. "I touched the yellow star thingy, and it glowed!"

"What yellow star thing?"

"That one! Are you blind?" Frisk huffed, stubbornly stamping their foot.

"Human, I see no yellow star." Flowey repeated. He continued dip below the ground to travel on, before coming to a stop

"I can go no further."

"Why?"

"There is no dirt."

Frisk looked around, before picking up a discarded flower pot. They hastily filled it with dirt, and pushed it near Flowey

"A flower pot? What do I look like, some common garden plant?"

"Yes."

Flowey gave Frisk an unimpressed stare

Frisk was trying to prop themselves up on the counter. They were hungry

"It's pathetic what you're trying to do."

"Shut up, Flowery."

"My name is Flowey, thank you very much."

Just then, there was shuffling outside. Frisk dropped the fork that they had gain with a loud clatter.

"You fool! Pick it up, pick it up! You might need it! We have to run, before it comes!"

Frisk picked up Flowey in the pot, and started running, their brown shoes slamming against the wooden floorboards. They clutched the flowerpot tightly, before skidding around the corner. Their chest heaved as their eyes darted around.

"What the hell was that?!" They whispered, bringing Flowey up to their face.

"One of his many puppets."

Frisk puffed out their cheeks. There was that mysterious him again.

"I will ask you for the last time, Flowey. Who is this him?"

Flowey opened his mouth to speak, but soon a fireball narrowly missed Frisk's ear.

"Run! Run you idiot!"

And Frisk did just that. Once again, running for their life. But this time, the monster caught up.

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[thoughtlesssadness]

I thought about Kris meeting Flowey for 0.5 seconds and now I

[thesnowflake18]

I can confidently say I have never hyperanalyzed every area of a fictional world to see if there's any grass, and whether the grass found is in fact green and plentiful. I am still losing my mind

Breaking News: Toby Fox makes fans go insane by mentioning green fucking grass

[carlyraejepsans]

hey! you!

do you love yuri? gorgeous art styles? sick ass action scenes with unbelievably stupid stakes? a solid mostly female main cast of characters that play off of each other really well and are also funny as fuck?

Introducing "Love Bullet", the GL manga about cupids! with GUNS!

The series isn't officially localized in english yet, but luckily fan translators are hard at work on a real-time english translation (I won't share a link here, but you can find it easily enough)

*flowey voice* huh? why am i doing all this? because love bullet is at risk of being cancelled!

the author's said she already has the entire story planned out, but due to bad marketing and a lack of official english translations, the sales for volume one have been pretty low, and the story risks being discontinued

the chapters out so far aren't many, they're a relatively quick read, and really entertaining all the same. i am DYING to see more of these characters, they're loads of fun and there's some genuinely interesting hypotheticals about love, romance (and lack thereof) the series could get into... but only if it stays running!!

so please, give this story a shot (lol) and if you like it, consider supporting the original mangaka. other fans of LB have been resourceful enough to put together a way for you to do that, even as a western fan, so it's the least i can do to spread the word.

do it for yuri... and also insane women and heart grenade launchers

★

[akanemnon]

Hi Akane, Since you recently talked about them, I’d like to ask a couple of questions about the six humans (for convenience, I’ll just call them the Six Gang):

1) In the flashback where Undertale Chara talks about the human souls, Clover appears, canonizing them in Twin Runes (possibly as a nod to those who wanted them to show up in the story). I was wondering, how did you originally imagine “the human with the yellow soul” before adapting them into Clover?

2) Since Twin Runes features a version of Deltarune Chara who goes to university with Asriel, does that mean there are Deltarune versions of the Six Gang? And if so, do they also attend university with him?

3) It seems implied that Undertale Chara knows the Six Gang at least to some extent (in one of the prequel comics, when they see Frisk for the first time, they literally say: "ANOTHER SUCKER, HUH?").

So my question is: what do Undertale Chara think of the Six Gang? (Judging by how they react upon seeing Frisk, it seems like they might not have a high opinion of them...)

I hope these questions aren’t too complicated! I’ve been curious about this for a while and thought now might be a good time to ask.

Thank you so much for your time!

I did have a design for the yellow soul before Undertale Yellow came out. I added Clover instead because people really wanted to see them (I shot myself in the foot there). I do like Clover, but I wish I kept my previous design instead. Unfortunately, I don't have it anymore. And I don't quite remember how it looked. Any recreation wouldn't be the same. If I were to do one now it would probably look something like this

The weird color scheme is to be in line with the previous designs. It's to fit in with Kris and Frisk's unnusual complexion. If this was for The Other Script, I would actually go with normal skin colors.

2. If the other six are at Azzy's college I'll leave open to interpretation. I don't really have any plans for them anyway.

3. Chara saw each of the humans fall into the Ruins, but they did not follow them out of self-preservation. Seeing Toriel try and mother them would have probably hurt them. Much like how Flowey felt like he was getting replaced each and every time. Frisk was the only exception, beacuse they could see and hear Chara. So Chara didn't really develop any particular opinion on any of the other fallen children outside of "another corpse-to-be"

[diamonddeputy]

Okay I put this together for a buddy who couldn’t make it so I may as well put it here too now that I have it all in one place

All the dev commentary I picked up from the UTY anniversary stream

PLEASE REBLOG WITH ANYTHING I MAY HAVE MISSED

• It apparently took them FOREVER to solidify a design for Decibat. One of the early concepts was a literal baseball bat with wings and I enjoy this fact very much

• They originally had an idea that Dalv would accidentally try and move into Martlet’s house after leaving the Ruins LMAO

• They expanded on this piece of concept art that had been floating around: there were never really plans for the Feisty Five to be evil, they just made their own wanted posters to inflate their own egos LOL

• I didn’t really write any of the specifics down, but listening to them talk about the Flowey fight was so interesting because they were all chiming in about who worked on what parts and where the inspirations were from and where they sourced their materials. Some details I remember off the top of my head:

- Flowey’s voice lines were pulled from the same McDonald’s commercial as his canon ones

- The audio for the scene where Martlet melts before Meta Flowey was a combination of a stock laugh and a clip one of the devs just so happened to have, when they used to edit for a YouTube channel, and the file got corrupted and just randomly made that sound

- The heartbeat monitor sound that plays during the Organic speciman is taken from the frequency of an actual human heart. Don’t remember the story about how they acquired that one

- The graphics for the Polygonal speciman were inspired by PS1 horror, Ben Drowned and that meme that went around in the late 2010s of a gif of a bug that made it look like a bug was on your screen (in specific reference to the little Flowey gremlins that crawl down the screen)

- They originally had plans to include a spectrogram in the fight, but decided it would make them seem too tryhardy

• There were plans for an underwater segment that were scrapped extremely early in development, something about a bridge in Waterfall breaking

• The comment Starlo makes in the Wild East about there being a fourth mission that was scrapped from the regimen is a reference to a literal fourth mission that the devs cut because they felt like it killed the pacing, where Virgil would kidnap the Feisty Five and tie them up in places around town and you had to go rescue them and it was a stealth game type thing

• - The designs for the Feisty Five have a lot of funny inspirations

- Ed was originally designed to be a normal monster, but they liked his design so much they used it for something more important

- Initial concepts of Moray’s design had them in a fisherman’s cap or a paper boat hat, to show how unserious they were about this. Also, they weren’t originally designed to be Angie and Gillbert’s child, a playtester just made that assumption and they were like y’know what sure we’ll roll with it

- Mooch’s design originated from a Minecraft RP OC that one of the devs had that she never got to use. Which is iconic tbh

• Mo was inspired by this lil dude, who showed up and had babies in one of the devs’ attic. Additionally, while coding the game, there were little variables they put in for fun like a timer. One of them was a number that just incrementally increased, and was labelled “Crimes that Mo has committed”

• The fact that sparing Dalv doesn’t abort Geno, that everyone chalked up to being a genius narrative decision, was AN OVERSIGHT??????? It was a coding error caused by the fact that they were initially gonna make everything that happens in the Dark Ruins not count towards any route, like Flowey implies in his dialogue, but they went back on that decision and fixed it for everyone except Dalv. They made a comment on stream like “we should really fix that” and everyone in chat was like PLEASE don’t LOL

• There were never really concepts for a Geno Starlo fight. And a lot of it is the reasons the fandom talks about that he’s a coward before his character development and it makes more sense for him to back out in the face of real danger. But also because in terms of power level, it didn’t make sense for him to stand a chance. And also because they were making all the routes at once and designing the boss fights at equal times and this was the first chance they got to make a boss fight for Ceroba LOL. But the plan was already set by that point that it was gonna be her instead of him

• No one truly knows the origins of the super faded silhouette standing in the background of the UG Apartments shop in Geno. Apparently the dude who made the CG just. Put it there

• We got more insight into the Martlet transformation animation. It was made with SO much purpose. If you look closely, she starts to melt and the determination puddles underneath her, but then she gains control of it and the puddle ABSORBS BACK INTO HER, then shoots out in a burst when her first wing transforms. THAT’S SO COOL

• Additionally, they also canonized that Martlet took the determination before Alphys had any of the fallen-down bodies, and that she had no idea what it actually WAS, other than that it had something to do with the human SOULs. Which makes this even MORE impressive because she wasn’t intrinsically prepared to control determination, she just DID it

• Additionally, they also canonized that Martlet took the determination before Alphys had any of the fallen-down bodies, and that she had no idea what it actually WAS, other than that it had something to do with the human SOULs. Which makes this even MORE impressive because she wasn’t intrinsically prepared to control determination, she just DID it

• The dive-bomb attack Martlet does in her first-phase Zenith fight was inspired by Dyna Blade, as a Kirby fan that fact just made me happy lol

• Retribution was the last song made for the game, and was composed in just a couple days, which is WILD to me

• We got confirmation that Flowey is still in control of saves after defeating Axis in Geno, and Clover’s text in the overworld/after dying is just them being so focused on their mission that they’re drowning out everything else

• CANNOT forget The Jincident

[dimeadozencows]

There are a lot of great tags on this post, and a lot of different and unique takes on gaster which i always love to read :DD but i dont think i managed to evoke what i wanted to with this drawing

We know that gasters aware hes in a video game, but so many characters in undertale are aware of that already. One of the things that make gasters situation different is his ability to look at our world directly. He's aware that we've been looking for him and trying to understand what and who he is, he knows these last few years were dogshit for everyone on earth and mentions it in his pre chapter 2 tweets, he knows our life outside of our tempering with these worlds

And unlike other self aware characters in undertale, he doesn't experience time and the resets. He "lives" outside of what we can control. He truly remembers all that we've done while being unaffected by any of it. So while other self aware characters (im mainly thinking of sans and flowey) know that theres a person behind frisk whos controlling time, they're affected by our choices and (for the most part) can't judge it from an outside perspective

Sans is mostly unaffected by our inputs, and he does manage to judge us in a very impactful way, but he can't be a completely uninvolved judge. He will (understandably) react to us killing his brother and on certain neutral endings, as much as hes trying to hold his unfazed facade together, he's struggling with the thought of how much of his happiness you took away, even if he knows a reset will likely happen and everything will go back to the way it was. Understandably! This game is his world. Even if he knows its just a game that gets reset its still his home and the people he loves are its residents. He can't be unfazed by everything. he is nice to us when we're nice to him, and he hates our guts when we give him reason to. And he will always forget us after a reset and react to our actions only on the current run, not being able to know who we were to him before.

And flowey acts as the embodiment of this games message, he is our mirror and, in his words, he is who we will become if we exhaust this game of all it has. He exists to judge us, but he can do so only from his own point of view. He's judging our actions, our choices in this world as if we we're stuck inside it the way he is, which we aren't. That's not to say his judgement isn't impactful, that would just be. incorrect to say lol. But he can't interpret what he sees us do in a fully unbiased way because he's in a very similar, but not identical, situation to us. While we can enter his world and play the kind way, we do get bored and try new things, like picking the other, more rude dialogue option, or killing a character to see what a person who loves them says. even if we don't fully want to. Just like he said! But while we both went through the same process, there's a difference between us. We can leave. We don't have to grow apathetic and detached from these characters. We don't have to start seeing them less as people and more as repetitive lines of dialogue. If we're bored, we can leave. Play a new game. Come back when we miss them and see those familiar lines of dialogue and feel nostalgia, not dread. And he knows that we're a person that has a life outside of this game. At the end of pacifist he desperately tries to make us stay. But he doesn't see what our life is like, he cant see what we do with our days outside of his world, so he can only see us leave and return and leave and return, and judge us through his (flawed) world view and based on our actions within a world we enter for fun.

Thats not to say they're not written well? They're the fucking coolest flowey and sans rule.(i think the info dump proves my stance on them) I'm just saying that even if they know about us they cant fully judge the situation from a neutral point of view because they have a limited world view and they're affected by our choices, which gaster (as of now) isn't

And we don't know a lot about him. But we do know that he knows hes in a video game, that he knows we control his world and its linear time, that he lives outside of that linear time and is unaffected by our inputs, that he used to experience time linearly before shattering, that he had people he cared about in undertale, that he saw everything all of us did when playing undertale, that he is kind to us in the current deltarune chapters, that he knows of our lives and what we go through, and most importantly in my opinion, he knows that we (fans of utdr) use fiction as escapism

We've had characters judge us and berate us for our misdeeds, who are fully justified in doing so since we did hurt them directly. But they also cannot see the situation from an outside perspective. No character in undertale sees us separated from their world, as a person who lives a life outside of tempering with undertale, to them we are just a god who takes control of their reality, all they see is a cruel person who entered a world just to destroy it, or give everyone freedom and then just take it away in a second, they don't see how small their world is in comparison to ours, they'll never be able to understand that our actions in their world are (for the most part) inconsequential to us. they cant see us beyond the red soul.

so imagine with me for a second, a character within the game who is not only aware of the fact that he's in a game and that there's a player who controls time, but who also has the ability to SEE the players' lives through the internet. A character who has the ability to see the horrors of everyday real life and how much people struggle with it, and see that some deal with those struggles using fiction. And not just any fiction, the fiction that the character itself lives in. A character who knows that these great beings, much bigger than him, use the thought of him and his world to get through the trials and tribulations of their lives, hardships that are horrific in completely different ways than his world ever had. A character who knows that they find comfort indulging in his world and finding everything it has to offer, because whatever his world has is much more pleasant than theirs.

He knows that to us his world is just a video game, one that remembers and we're not above consequences in, but still a video game. One of the most common complaints i hear about UT is that it is preachy in its message, and players shouldn't be berated by it for playing certain routes or making certain choices (but one of the points of the game was that there is an alternative way to complete it so why choose violence BUT that is a whole conversation in it of itself and this is long enough already)

So what if the game understood? What if the character who created this game, this world, knew that it is just a game and didn't judge the player? What if the character accepted that he is only fiction and saw the beauty and purpose within it, and how he can use his position in this situation to connect with us and allow us to escape our hurt for just a little while? What if he saw the hardships we've endured and empathised with us? What if he understood that we don't view his world as real like he does and we just use it for our fun, to escape, the way a child happily plays with a toy? What if he felt for us, and encouraged it?

Deltarune (initially) not having a way to really hurt and kill people makes me think that while gaster wanted us in this world for whatever his larger goal is, and wanted us to indulge in it, he didn't want us to hurt anyone. But he saw what we did with the previous world and knows that warnings, consequences and the visible and audible hurt of the characters won't stop us (in fact, it will encourage us), which is something he accepts and understands. it's said that his own curiosity brought him far in his endeavours so perhaps he even understands our curiosity and why we just have to see what would happen, as morbid as it is in universe

But i love that we (without the help of noelle, a game breaking pro) cannot kill anyone. He didn't even give us that option. He isn't completely detached from these worlds since he used to live within them. He still views the fictional characters in the game as real while also knowing us, our lives, and the way we interact with the characters. And he loves and cares for both.

Letting us escape into a nicer world while keeping the residents of it safe from us.

And that is of course assuming he isn't tricking us into a false sense of security to teach us a lesson, and isn't lying to our faces every time he talks to us kindly and thanks us. but i think that after an entire game and a whole cast of characters who taught us lessons and took control away from us and showed us what an asshole we are for playing the game in an unkind way.. i think it'll be a really nice thing and a breath of fresh air to have a character who knows what they and their world are to us on a realistic scale, see why we sometimes act so detached from its ways, and understand that yeah, it is just a game. And we do the things we do as a means to escape. And that it isn't necessarily a bad thing to interact with games in this way (to me that sounds like the most self aware character ever written). But also see the characters within it as real (since he used to be amongst them) and protect them from our worst.

Truly and wholeheartedly loving and caring for both his family and the person who barely hesitates to strip them of all their joy before murdering them too.

Kissing the hands of the man who killed his son

I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before

I put my lips to the hands of the man who killed my son

[tomacat16]

Paranguaricuterininincuaro

[askfallenroyalty]

I want to thank you all for reading. I hope you'll stick around. I'll be sure to post when the Visual Novel is released. You can keep up with development here:

(Comment copied from ComicFury version.)

Hey yeah so now it's official. Fallen Royalty lives on as a Visual Novel named New Royals. I'll still be posting updates here as well.

transcript below:

[id: Frisk, Asriel and Chara rest next to each other on a white background. The page is predominantly white. I've thought long and hard about this... I've decided to discontinue the comic. I want to reboot it as a visual novel. NEW ROYALS will be how this story will be continued, and some day, concluded. There's many reasons to why I've decided to follow this path going forward. I want to see these characters come to life and at their fullest. This comic started as an askblog on Tumblr. This version started as a redraw. But I want to start this story fresh and untied to the 6 year old original. The reboot will tell the same story but will have a stronger foundation and pacing. I want the premise of: “Everybody lives, see how the fallen children grow up” I feel it loses it’s impact with Asriel as a teenager. While I still feel Asriel growing up faster because Of his time as Flowey is a powerful narrative, I feel that story can be told without that metaphor. I would like to give the kids more time to be the same age and have more down time. The original (and redraw by extension) runs too quickly from plot point to plot point. Life changing event to life changing event. Character lose focus and screentime because the plot needs to move forward. It’s a problem that has put chapter 3 in a tough position to write. I feel a fresh start is necessary. And while I could just start the comic again, I would prefer it to be less confusing to explain. I already am making a fangame and know how to code decently. I would like to see what this can be like as a game, And realistically I have to chose one way to tell this story. So I chose the visual novel and the reboot. I hope you all can understand and stick with me as we start this journey over again One last time... text ends, showing the kids happy and drawn in color. id end.]

[ophanstears]

Undertale YELLOW ReImagined!

I wanted to put my own spin on how the cast of UTY would look in my style! :) I'm new to pixel art, and I had a blast trying it out! [Just to clarify, this is NOT an attempt to "fix" UTY's designs; I have immense respect for all the artists and developers working on UTY, and their work is incredible! I LOVE the cast, their animations, art and designs! This is all just for fun!] A ton more thoughts and comparison under the Read More! if you feel like reading a lot.

Flowey the Flower: I gave Flowey flushed, freckled cheeks and a tooth gap to make him look cuter and more approachable! Just a ruse, though - fluster him enough, and he might revert to that typical pale face and frown.

Clover: Clover is the iconic player character of the game so I changed as little as possible. I simply adjusted some colors and added details, including the adorable blush they have in a lot of promo art!

Dalv: I aimed to showcase Dalv's lightning powers through his design, so I gave him glowing horns and some subtle markings, including a pinkish nose. <3 While he’s originally based on Vlad, I added some minotaur elements because they really suit him. I Like in the original story, the minotaur trapped in a maze, unsure of what else is out there.

Martlet: I'll be honest, I saw some art of chubby Martlet and was inspired. To bring her passion for woodworking across, I gave her some tight but comfy overalls! She has some cool goggles that she always forgets to wear when flying - typical Martlet! Since a martlet is said to be a bird that never rests or settles, I gave her some cool glowly ghost legs! They're translucent!

Starlo: I revamped Starlo's cape by changing the patterns and adding tassels! I also removed the piece of wheat sticking to his hat because, honestly, I tend to forget to draw it. ^^* The inner fabric of his cape has a fun star pattern, tying into his previous obsession with space! And of course, big boots!

Ceroba: I made Ceroba a bit furry-like and taller, sort of to mirror Toriel! I wanted to give her a more traditional kimono with beautiful patterns, and I added eyebags to make her look a bit tired. She also has large paws now; I considered giving her sandals but ultimately decided against it.

Axis: To be honest I wanted to push his design even further but!!! Then it wouldn't be Axis anymore! :( I kept most of his original features but added some pink highlights. His antennae now have pointy tips, resembling bunny ears! I couldn’t resist the idea of a fox monster creating a bunny robot to apprehend humans - it’s just too cute! He's also taller now for intimidation factor and in case a larger human comes along.

And that's all! Thank you so much if you made it this far! More is to come soon! :) here is a wip!

I also have an AU in the works! And lots and lots of art!!!

[charafansmile]

Asriel could easily be like the god of familial love, of hopes and dreams, partnerships (friendships, companionship, puppy love if you must) and children/youth and then when he's flowey he could be the god of betrayal and spite, ala nemesis and eris. Still rooted in the ideas of love but twisted into what happens when love turns sour. Still a god of youth but also a god of lost time. Actually making him a minor god of time would also really work to tie into his character. Him being Pandora and the box at the same time would be interesting.

Transcript: ooh are we talking about reapertale? okay time to bring flowey into it because i was actually thinking about him recently—

first off, unrelated tangent, i think they did chara pretty decently? like, they used to be kind, but they were betrayed by monsterkind, etc etc. i like that, it honestly brings up what i think is a tragically unexplored part of their character. they hate monsterkind in some way for being so nice, and i think that’s why we can drive them to support genocide so quickly. i do think they shouldn’t have been evil right off the bat, of course, but hey! they’re a mythological figure. that stuff happens a lot in mythology, and more importantly it works in tangent to undertale.

flowey, though. god. amnesia does not suit him. they stripped him of character and expected him to still be flowey. it’s illogical. really reflects the early fandom’s perception of flowey and asriel as entirely different people. like being a flower makes you want to kill people or something. smh.

sorry i turned the topic to flowey but like. does he have to be the embodiment of despair. him being obsessed with chara is in-character i guess but he does it in such an out-of-character way. honestly that’s a big problem with every au! they make him a sweet little guy without actually addressing the roots of his canon problems. i mean, that or they make him the living embodiment of evil. they gave him the chara treatment, seriously.

he has so many layers though. it’s hard to fit him into one category. personally i’d make him some kind of pandora’s box thing. like an embodiment of the world’s pestilences where he used to be a closed box. helps highlight that he didn’t change, the box was always there, dying just opened it.

that might not make any sense. but man i’m tired of people making flowey chara’s lapdog. when in genocide he clearly sees himself as a partner in crime, at least until the end. (and then he defies them and ruins the whole killing humanity thing. so.) and don’t even get me started on pacifist. he tries to kill you repeatedly because he thinks you’re chara.

flowey is driven by (platonic!!) love. but it’s not the soft love you see on greeting cards or tv. it’s angry love. aggressive love. he’d do anything for the person he loves. even kill them.

honestly, maybe flowey would work better as a god of love. (yes i headcanon him as aroace but still.) “asriel” is soft, caring love. hugs and kisses and warm blankets and all that. “flowey” is the kind of love that slaps you in the face to get you up in the morning. he’s possessive, angry, passionate.

WHOO this got long.