#flowey the human arc

[golden-explosions-main]

holidaygirl1225 asked:

Can you believe it guys? Christmas! Just a week away! Christmas is in a week! Woohoo! I am so happy about this information. Christmas just a week away! Oh wow! Can you believe it? Christmas! Just in a week! It got here so fast. Christmas.

Frisk: "Yayyyyy! I love Christmas so much, I don't even really mind that my birthday is so close to it, it's so nice seeing everyone be happy, minus the holiday rush stress,"

Asriel: "Or the seasonal depression, but yeah, you're right, Christmas and the other holiday stuff is...actually nice when you overlook all the nonsensical consumerism,"

Frisk: "I'm still so happy you genuinely like it,"

Asriel: "Yeah...I may be horrifically jaded but I'm not a complete Grinch,"

Frisk: "Which is another reason why we're best friends,"

[the-determined-daydream]

*She can't help but giggle at the exchange*

I like you as a friend Asriel, you're really nice. Just like my uncle Asriel.

Also, mom gave Chara her body? That does sound like something she would do. She feels like it's her mission to bring happiness to the Chara's of the multiverse. My other mom is the same way, just with Frisk's.

Frisk: "Yeah, she visited me and was really awesome, and gave me those wonderful wings, she didn't stay long though...probably because I'm already pretty happy,"

Asriel: "Yeah, you're weirdly easy to please, which is hilarious when you think about that dumb stereotype about all teenagers being 'cranky and overemotional',"

Frisk: "Aww well, I can get a little overemotional,"

Asriel: "You're not wrong," he then looks to Sol "Frisk once sobbed for two hours when we found baby birds that fell from their nest, even after they climbed up the tree and put them back in,"

Frisk: "They were so small and soft and helpless, I couldn't not cry about them, and don't forget that you cried too,"

Asriel: "Yeah, but not as much as you,"

Frisk: "Ah, I'm not embarrassed, I've come a long way from being a stoic-faced and quiet little kiddo, but sometimes I just wish these emotions weren't so big,"

Asriel: "I know exactly what you mean," he then sighs happily as he eats his dessert enthusiastically "not now though, this IS DELICIOUS, those Italians are really onto something,"

[invertedfate]

Why did Frisk' soul also shrink when Asriel separated them from Chara's? Correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't Soul Fission only "cure" conditions related to amalgamation? Sorry if i sound rude, i'm just kind of confused as to why Frisk was affected by Asriel's doing if their soul was already whole when they came into the underground.

Flowey was too sloppy. He took the switch soul mode and literally tore it down the middle when Frisk and Chara still shared an HP pool. He didn't take the time to carefully and permanently break the tethers in a way that would maintain 20 HP for both of them. So as a result, both got diminished HP. It's not untreatable, but it's something they'll have to deal with for a while, at least. Undyne stockpiled enough DT over the years that she at least has a good amount to give treatments to help strengthen their SOULs.

[ask-the-determined-river]

Their squinted eye gives you a look over. He seems to be trying to find the right words.

“I truly envy your position, you know. Asriel got an infinite number of opportunities to make up for crossing his points of no return and we don’t even get one, and you…you never took that plunge. You got out of the Underground for good. You broke the cycle, while Asriel’s ‘best friend’ makes sure there is nothing left within a few months at best.”

FRISK huffs, rubbing beneath the hair bang concealing their left eye.

“I deserve nothing less. It’s a hell of my own creation, a fitting punishment for a mass murderer, but that did not mean others had to suffer for eternity for my mistakes.”

Frisk lets out a sad empathetic sigh at their response.

"You do remember that we were only children when we fell down in the mountain, right? Our small brains weren't fully formed...and it's clear that not every timeline is exactly the same, but it seems like it's a similar story every time...,"

"I don't know about you, but my first monster was Flowey, he was quite scary once he pulled down his smiling mask, he told me 'in this world, it's kill or be killed'...he truly believed that nonsense,"

"I listened to his 'warning', but I never felt the urge to hurt anyone, I just wanted...to play,"

"But I can see now how a different Frisk would believe in those words, it didn't help that everyone was literally trying to murder us, they were very frightening, I understand if it led you to believe they were untrustworthy and just as bad as Flowey said they were,"

"Again, we were just children, in a scary and strange place, being led along by a force we didn't truly understand, with power that allowed us to become desensitized to death... ....and well, your guilt is very telling,"

"I apologize...I'm rambling...I've had a long time to myself to think about these painful things,"

"Tra la la...I just hope you someday find your peace,"

[carlyraejepsans]

UTY!Flowey, "lore" and how to criticize a fan prequel without being an insufferable pedantic, a guide by Biscia.

(for my muskless fellows, here's a transcript of my thread on Undertale Yellow that I posted on Twitter. enjoy!)

There's this really frustrating attitude in fan spaces i like to call "lorepilling" where people are substantially more concerned with encyclopedic knowledge of details & minutiae (so called "lore") in place of full-text thematic/narrative analysis as if the two are mutually interchangeable.

It's especially common in large franchises and story heavy videogames, and it's like... Are You Treating This Piece Of Art Like A Trivia Battle Or Are You Treating It Like A Story

This is coming from a person who is also deeply autistic about UTDR trivia btw, I'm just saying that when it comes to transformative *stories*, depending on the impact it has on character, themes, and narrative structure... lore is expendable.

Ultimately this is why most of the UTY criticism i see (on twitter specifically) falls flat. What does it matter if "lore" means Flowey couldn't chronologically be there when the justice human fell, as long as the game narratively justified his presence in the story in a compelling way?

The real criticism, in the end, is that it didn't.

He's a plot central, main cast character from the canon returning in a cast of mostly OCs and what does he have to show for it? An admittedly sick boss battle in 1/3 endings, sure but... not much else. He has no significant "presence" in the story, no tie, interaction, or even just... an opinion on the rest of the cast. Which is a huge miss when Flowey's meta role is to be Thee completionist player mirror. He's the OG lorepilled UT fan! He's an opinionated little shit!

This isn't to say that UTY *didn't* engage w/ his metanarrative. When me and @a-town-called-hometown first started playing the game (we were both skeptical of Flowey's inclusion), he immediately said "It would be really cool if they made it so this has been going on for a while and Clover has no idea". Which is precisely what the game did in the neutral ending, and what I will openly say was the most well written & well executed part of this game's story...

...a part we almost didn't see, because the pacifist ending disappointed us so much we lost all will to replay.

To put it in the words of my friend Mel @clowwwnbytes, there's a deafening hollowness to UTY Flowey's motivations & core principles where his guilt towards Chara—and resulting black and white thinking—should be. You're telling me Mr Kill-or-be-killed, "sacrificing yourself to do the right thing is stupid", would stand there after 1000s of failed attempts to make Clover survive, look on as they make the same mistake Asriel he did, and fondly call them friend? Cue the guitar, roll the credits?

He would lose it. Oh my god he would lose his goddamn mind, he would throw the nastiest temper tantrum in the world. Are you serious? How dare you. How DARE you. All this effort, all my patience, and you just let yourself DIE for a few worthless idiots? I should've let you ROT!

*clears throat* sorry got a bit too into character. as i was saying.

I can understand a UT prequel wanting to distance itself from the canon Chara storyline in order to form its own identity, but then turning around and choosing Insane About Chara The Character™ for a sidekick is... far from optimal. In the end, Flowey comes across as underutilized and inconsistent, with a whole lot of wasted potential.

This is an issue I have with UTY's character writing (original AND returning) and story structure as a whole. Lots of inconsistent character arcs, tonal dissonance, overuse of situational sadness... it's an amateurish work, after all, and you can feel it. There's no shame in that.

(Though, there ARE some issues that i take more seriously with its writing, especially when it comes to its two main female characters—Ceroba's lack of narrative agency and depth borders on misogynistic writing imo. But that's a topic for another day)

Over all, UTY was an incredible piece of collaborative transformative work, with gorgeous art and a genuinely incredible OST, which... would have benefited from more experienced writers. But hey, you can only ever learn by trying!

For all it could've been a better story, it certainly did not fail to entertain: both when my friend was playing it, and after in our many discussions of its writing, its faults and how it could've been improved (royal scientist!ceroba character fix you will always be famous. to ME!)

I'm sure this project served as an incredible source of experience for the developers: as individual creators AND as a team. I look forward to their future projects!

but also if i have to see another person say UTY is better than Undertale i might turn into The Jonker.

end of the essay! really couldn't stand any of the pedantic ""criticism"" I'd seen of this fangame so far, so i had to say my piece as someone more versed in analysis. happy to elaborate on anything in the replies or in my inbox!

[supercrazyangel4]

i think the thing that makes people mischaracterize and completely miss the point of chara is that theyre written to be two very different things concurrently that dont really mesh together.

from what we know concretely about chara as a character, they were a very mentally ill child and complicated person who simultaneously hurt and helped people around them, who held both a lot of love and hate in their heart. they are fairly vague but also have specific character traits such as liking chocolate and filling up water glasses to the brim to maximize efficiency. they take speaking patterns from toriel and an interest in gardening from asgore. if you believe in the narrachara theory, they even have a character arc that changes depending on the route you take. they are inarguably a character who haunts the narrative due to their decisions in life having lead to tragedy that shapes the very plot of the game inextricably; and arguably a character that haunts the narrative and shapes the story much more literally in being a conscious force and companion that accompanies our journey.

at the same time, chara isnt treated as a character at all and is instead a meta-narrative device meant to act as an in-universe player stand-in. in this way chara isnt actually a person with character traits, but a vehicle for toby to provide commentary about the people who play video games. they are a concept that represents the state of thoughtless exp grinding. in the no mercy route their main purpose is to be a reflection of you and your mindset, even more directly than flowey. the reason theyre named after you is because, for a number of aspects in the game, they are supposed to be you; with no notable separation like there is with frisk.

this problem also heavily applies to frisk, for who there is an effort to separate their identity from yours at the end of the pacifist route but who still ends up with no real character traits of their own. people compensate for this by using black-and-white thinking; which results both in assigning frisk and chara a sort of "good-and-evil" dichotomy leading to their early fan interpretations, and in thinking that frisk and chara can only be either fully fleshed out characters or mindless player inserts leading to people favouring option one and basically ignoring the player as a concept except to occasionally use it as a generic big bad.

i think toby prioritized meta-textual implications over actual textual characterization for the human characters in undertale. this left chara as a character feeling unclear, unfocused, and incongruent due to them trying to be several things at once with no real through-line; and frisk as a character feeling practically non-existent outside of being a vessel. there are effectively two different charas in undertale, the character and the plot device, which makes it hard to talk about them as one consistent whole. i think this is why in tobys second game hes been putting such a focus on kris as a character and their separation from the player, as to improve on what he didnt properly touch on in undertale.

[the-afterparty-au]

[✨*ABOUT✨]

The Afterparty AU is briefly summarized as taking place in a party within the void, lasting forever after a genocide route that was never undone. After many months of nothing but wind, our first fallen human realized the world was not going to be reverted by the player, and they stayed true to their word of Erasure. Chara however, simply getting bored decides to play a game framed as a experiment & brings back all the monsters you failed to befriend in a Genocide route back for a encore. Allowing everyone to reside in the void, a space between files & between deltarune and UNDERTALE. The amount of monsters that are happy about this is uncertain, but all of them are certainly questioning literally everything that brought them here.  (Lightly Inspired by these fanworks so, Thanks to @garbagechocolate, @djsmell & @jazze-bee for accidentally inspiring me to make a whole AU)

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Scarring, Blood, Death, themes of unreality trauma & gore is around, Everyone was brought back from the dead. Additional CW for mentions Genocide considering this au is after one. 

potential mentions (& possible depictions) of suicide & Self harm, Fratricide, Mind Control (Possible Manipulation), & Divorce.

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[lilybug-02]

Just realised the CT Wierd Route sets up a kinda depressing but interesting scenario. Chara is dead (by their own volition), and Asriel likely would have to leave QC's with their body (parallels). I can see Asriel getting a *kinda* similar arc to Flowey after this, alongside maybe Kris becoming pretty jaded. After all, the price for their freedom was a human soul. Snowgrave is stopped, but Berdly never gets better, Noelle and Kris are still scared of each other, the class still feels a little emptier each day. And, when they graduate and prepare to move for Uni or apprenticeships, the class photo just seems like someone is missing.

Damn, that is one hell of a hard pill to swallow. THE PARALLELS THOUGH.

Chara was really hoping you'd leave on your own accord, but when you didn't... their soul just couldn't handle it and it shattered :(. And the parallel of Asriel having to carry out Chara- gosh dang thats so sad. He'd probably spiral into himself after having yet another one of his friends die (Dess and Chara), feeling it was his fault again. And Kris would have to live with the guilt of knowing they inadvertently killed Asriel's friend and the one person to know what they were going through.

And Frisk...they got the news the day after.

[koiisure]

WOah pd undertale AU by me?? insanee

Recently got back into undertale and uhmm also i have a lingering PD brainrot so whyyy not combine them!!

some explenations for who is who and why under the cut :3

William - UHm obvious reson? chara and william are my faveourite characters, i AM in fact playing faveourites. LMAO but no they both have themes of resurection and death. PLUS LIKE the whole no mercy run,,uhm william is morally gray enough for that.

Ashe- Originally i was going to draw Dakota as asriel but then i got reminded of Tidalwave Divorce and honestly? Ashe asriel is awesome. like considering also the whole trickster thing like uhmmm flowey thing. yeah uhm yeah guys see the vision.

Vyncent- AS FRISK?? THE HUMAN?? insane. but yeah i thought it woudl be intersting to make the only non human in pd crew a human lmao. Also like vync has morality problems in the whole pd arc, it fits with the no mercy or mercy route like. yeah uhm yeah.

Dakota- he is the Monster Kid because i mean uhmm it fits actually! MK and undyne vs Dakota and Ms G DO YOU SEE IT?? Do you get me?? the personalities also kinda fit so it slike guh guh shakes you.

You can see in the corner but yes i drew Summer and Doug as Pap and Sans,,,,i love them

Tide is Toriel and Mark is Asgore real and true.

Lightspeed Alphys?? real true!! Prof Cross as Gaster.

Le frog as Tem cuz it would be funny

Pary city ghost is mettaton now too btw

uhm forgor big style if there were other ideas-

BIG BIG SMILE AND THANKS TO @ollylotl !!!! thank you for listenign to my brain rot and feeding me ideas yipee yipee!!!!

[cheddarchandelure]

Zenith Martlet might be my favorite video game boss but the fight is still absolutely devastating! Let me explain.

Throughout the pacifist route of Undertale Yellow (and neutral) Clover and Martlet form a very special bond, a bond with some maternal undertones. Hell, undertones is a stretch because at one point Martlet calls Clover her kiddo. So yeah, these bitches are found family and its great, I love them :). And while they may become separated at the end of the game, Martlet still cares very deeply for Clover.

Part of what makes their relationship bittersweet is how Clover is implied to have an unhappy homelife at best, and an abusive one at worst. Even before Flowey puts Clover on the alternative path, Clover wants to stay with Toriel. Its clear that Clover greatly desires a mother figure in their life, even before meeting Martlet. But once they do meet Martlet, she gets to act as their mother figure (and maybe also Ceroba but this ain't about her and even then the mother-child bond is stronger with Martlet and Clover) Even if for only a little bit, Clover finally gets a mother figure in their life.

And then we get to the genocide route. The once sweet Clover becomes corrupted by their twisted sense of """justice""" and seeks to eliminate all in their path. Not even Martlet can see the good in Clover. Her character arc about learning to trust and love a human despite Chujin's advice has gone the complete opposite direction. Now her arc is about Chujin's advice being Validated and seeking to stop the human threat. Clover has become so far gone that they are willing to pull a gun on Martlet, and Martlet's desire for humanity to be good has all but faded, and now she must put aside part of her good-natured self to stop Clover.

And thats whats so devastating, these two people who should have loved eachother, and been what the other needed, now want eachother dead. And to me, that is fucking heartbreaking.

Oh you thought I was done? Nope! I have one more thing about the Zenith fight I wanna point out, because from a story perspective, Martlet should have won.

Think about it, up to this point, the genocide route has been a story about evil prevailing. Clover has gone on an absolutel rampage, murdering innocent monsters left and right. But in the darkest hour the hero of the story, Martlet, gains incredible power to defeat the villian once and for all, to have good triumph over evil! A classic trope.

But thats not what happens, because this isn't a story about good triumphing over evil. The whole point of the genocide route is having Clover finally break free from fate but at the cost of literally everyone else and canon itself. The genocide route is a story of evil triumphing over good and plunging monsterkind into despair. So to have Martlet undergo a heroic transformation, to become the zenith of monsterkind, and still lose after everything all because this is isn't a story about heroes winning fucking devastates me.

I'm not sure if I managed to get my thoughts out in a intelligible manner but I hope you enjoyed my ramblings nonetheless, and who knows, maybe I helped you appreciate Zenith Martlet (and Martlet in general) some more!

[mysteriousbp]

Second Chance AU Masterpost 1

Canon posts

Original posts:

Second Chance AU concept

Kanako life in the true lab

The broken cries of a innocent child

Some mistakes can't be fix...

Kanako Kitsune

Don’t listen to Clover…

MEANWHILE

Kept Alive concept (one of the arcs of the Second Chance AU.)

YOU GOT MAIL

Friends reunited

Extract explanation

Forgotten face...

Holding to the past

Baby Kanako design

Why Chujin didn’t absorb the soul

True Lab dinner

Chujin's ice magic

My hero

Chujin and Kanako winter coat

Undertale Cyan lore (one of the arcs of the Second Chance AU.)

The best of us

Teaching Axis morals

Human souls surface designs

ASKS:

The coffins are empty... Except one...

Chujin and the souls

Chujin and the souls during Omega

Thank you for opening my eyes

Memories and dreams

Those two really need therapy...

Information about the dreams and Lila routes

After Omega

Orphanage picture and human names revealed

Monster families

Alphys DT talk with her children

Kanako's fusion powers

Control over the body

Souls backtracking

Reunited part 1 / part 2

Fallen monsters and save points

Limbo void time explain

Kanako used in political discussions

Kanako is now a BIG SHOT

Kanako updated moves

Lila reunites with Endogeny

Lila and Tom in the void

Undertale Orange (one of the arcs of the Second Chance AU.) QC

Kanako's Cleithrophobia and Trypanophobia. With a side of mom comfort.

Kanako's scar

Melody during Chujin's experiments

Clover and Chara playing cards

Melody kill count and scar explain

Dalv and Melody on the cliff

Frisk memories of the others and just being depresed

Political discussion explain

Frisk after flawed pacifist phone call

Flowey is a jerk

Hope and Sunny's deaths

Gerson and Undyne after Hope and Sunny came back

Hope x Sunny confirm

Water under the bridge

Frisk meets Kanako

Asriel second chance

Parent hangouts and family trees

Clover learning how to be a monster

Friend groups

Where's Clover?

Human souls and the lost souls

Clover with Sadie and GK

Calling mom/dad

Alphys getting the kids into cosplay and Kissy Kissy Mew Mew

Snowdrake's father and Mettaton AU lore

Frisk first death

Clover is back

Kanako school life

Tom reunites with QC

Sunny with her family. Melody apology to Kanako. And reason to climb the mountain

Flawed pacifist dream

Melody with Dalv

The kids with the internet and where is the mountain

Is this what they would have wanted?

Adult Kanako design

Why the humans forgot about the monsters

How Mad Mew Mew's powers affect the fusions

Lila, Frisk and Asriel with Toriel. Also Lila's death

Flawed pacifist Clover vs Asgore

Kanako opinion on save points

Kanako with stress

Afraid of Clover

GK teen desigh and Tom and Hope adult designs

How many runs Frisk did

Gerson apology to Hope

Does Clover mature mentally

How the monster and human relationship is going

Sunny trying Papyrus's spaghetti

Southern Kanako

The souls after Uty geno reset

Frisk in the coffin room

Clover's body

Panic Asriel

[golden-explosions-main]

I've given them a list of things to specifically not use as offerings, but it seems that despite how devoted they are, some people can't follow a damn list!

*She digs through the sack and pulls out many bars of chocolate, and it floats in the air. She also pulls out some other sweets, stones, and gems*

All of this is fine, but I don't want their blood. Lunis does not want their blood, and yet they keep giving me vials of their blood. That's not even the worst thing in here, surprisingly, and trust me, you don't want to know.

*She finishes taking things out of the sack, and the small skull appears. She speaks to the skull, and it takes the sack and disappears with it. She lets out a sigh*

Would you like some gems?

Chara: "Say yes, both of you,"

Asriel: "Relax Chara McGreedyton, we are, we're not dumb,"

Frisk: "Yeah, I'm not super big on jewelry, but I do like a pretty gem, and you know we'll take good care of them if they're expensive,"

The three teenagers politely hold out their hands to take the gems, and Frisk looks at the Queen thoughtfully.

Frisk: "Hey, um, are you able to donate the blood to hospitals? Or...? Is it.. no good?"

[the-determined-daydream]

I hope if you ever meet your birth family, they turn out nice.

*She takes a bite of food*

Oh, I'd love to meet Chara!

Asriel chuckles at her comment.

Asriel: "I can't say how they'll feel about meeting you, but since we like you, it shouldn't be too hard to win them over, they seem just fine with the Queen, but that's probably because she let them borrow her body- and recommended the doctor who gave me this body, so...nevermind, you get the picture,"

He then looks chuckles nervously at the silly way Frisk is grinning at him.

Asriel: "Heh.....what??? Do I have food on my face?"

Frisk: "You already like Sol?" ( ͡• ͜ʖ ͡• )

Asriel: "Yeah, as an acquaintance, she's okay so far, we literally just met, relax weirdo,"

Frisk: "I know, I'm being silly, it's just that she's super cool and super nice, and I think you guys have a lot of friendship potential,"

Asriel: "Well no duh, you and I are friends aren't we? It makes sense that I would have friendship potential with another Frisk,"

Frisk: "Heheheheheheheh, you have a type,"

Asriel laughs, but is embarrassed for whatever reason.

Asriel: "wHY would you word it that way??????"

Frisk: "Whhaat?? That's not weird! Do you think people can't have preferences when it comes to choosing friends?"

Asriel doesn't reply, he only laughs them off and stuffs the last bit of pasta in his mouth.

[stuffyflowers]

Masterpost of everything we learned from the Kissy Cutie AMA with Merengue on ACDS for those wondering

(Merengue is the creator I should probably mention that lol)

The game, particularly its theme of racism, derived from the rise of Trump in 2016, during which hatred towards Mexicans was popular. As a Mexican woman herself, she says this was a very personal source of inspiration and she considers Kissy Cutie a "healing journey."

Similarly, Sona is inspired by her personal experience living with a controlling parent. Her confusing motives and reactions take you off guard. She depicts a complex person who is full of regret but fails to be better.

The endings were were a criticism of dating sims, trying to follow Undertale's ending style and the fandom.

She regrets making the truest ending so hard to obtain. She is tempted to make TikToks showing people how to get all the endings to stop the suffering.

She would love to remake Kissy Cutie, but "ran out of budget on the intro." In all honesty, she would think about it if people are really interested.

The game has so many artstyles as no artist wanted to compromise to draw all the sprites. While the end product worked, she would have preferred a more homogenous artstyle.

If she were to remake the game, she would like to redraw everything herself.

The yellow soul was renamed to Clover as the demo of Undertale Yellow had released during development. There are also references to Flowerfell (such as in Sona's final transformation), which was another fan creation she loved.

Sona's powers had many changes during production. She was going to be a doll-like monster that absorbed human souls (and goes bald at the end?), then she was going to have Flowerfell reset powers, but in the end she was made to be a witch whose powers came from an ancient artifact. She is also able to turn the monsters human through "determination."

She wanted to explain every loose end left in Undertale, hence the focus on Chara's backstory and their upbringing with Sona. She says Chara is the main character, not Sona.

She was nervous about doing a Sans path due to his popularity at the time. So she made him "that way" on purpose.

She handles the Frisk/Chara/Player relationship "like the Catholic Church handles the Holy Trinity."

She has played Danganronpa, but has not read Homestuck or watched Glitchtale.

The characters with no sprites are a result of their artists abandoning the project.

Alphys, Mettaton and Toriel paths were planned, but never got far.

The Alphys route was being written by a friend who she began to distance from. She never got to see any of it.

She has not played Undertale Yellow, only the demo.

The disappearance of the 42 Ayotzinpa students is another source of inspiration (The scene in which you find Mettaton's body likely alludes to this).

She loves and encourages fan content of her game, including using the game's code as a base for projects.

The humanification arc was intended to explore how a racist would 'solve racism' without violence, by turning everyone into "someone like them."

The human designs have slightly pink hair to reflect Sona's influence. Human Papyrus was inspired by his in-game comments about wanting muscles and hair, human Sans was "the typical fandom approach," and everyone else became anime characters.

The music was the last thing worked on. It was rushed and they didn't know what they were doing.

Sona was not intentionally similar to Monika or Makima.

Sona is (supposedly?) wearing a black mourning dress (Likely mourning Chara hence the yellow flowers).

The cover of Waterfall is her favourite track.

The idea of Sona being a skeleton named Arial was tossed around briefly.

The truest ending was created after some staff requested the option to save Flowey and Sona. It also fulfilled her plan for Sans and Papyrus to take over the orphanage.

Sona's final transformation intended for her to be kept human "but not without her sins showing"

The glitchy text character was Flowey. The glitchiness showed the interference and Flowey being manipulated

[brewingcoffi]

I really want to see Alphys's reaction to them. Imagine if one of your previous experiments came back with another soulless creature. And that creature is a human.

anyway, your au is great I'm going insane over it

Sadly no art :^;

REKINDLE JUSTICE AU

ALPHYS IS GOING TO BE SWEATING BULLETS and would probably start freaking out.

Like— A human? Undetected? WHILE BEING SPOTTED AT NEW HOMES??? Yeah… I don't thing the King will like her work on trying to keep away any humans there! Whoopsies! Goodbye job!

Anyway— I don't think that Alphys knows about Clover’s condition until later on when it gets revealed that Clover is straight up living without a soul, IN PERFECT CONDITION. Either way, I have a feeling that Alphys would try to calm down and perhaps try to study more about this.

A human, in perfect condition! Without a soul! Maybe there IS a way to extract Humans away from their souls without killing them! But how though??? I like to imagine this could be one of MAIN problems during some arc of the AU. Since during those weeks/days, Clover and Flowey are being Cryptic entities in the Underground 😭👍

[carlyraejepsans]

I don't know how you can look at sans' pacifist arc which is all about letting himself care about the future again and rekindling that ember of hope he never truly lost in the shape of this tiny, sensational, cosmically terrifying human kid in order to finally move on from his past life and fully live the life he has NOW with his new friends, trusting said kid with his story, letting them know it's okay (sans with a lot of people you don't recognize. you and sans with all of your friends. it doesn't matter, he looks happy)

...and then go "i think post pacifist frisk would hate him".

that adds nothing to the characters and it's so needlessly mean spirited it becomes straight up cheap. hate him for what? not keeping his promise in full? letting them die? this kid fought a god and won, frisk doesn't give a crap about dying! the only times they react to death in any capacity in canon it's:

1) someone else's death (which they caused)

2) a way to make their opponent feel bad and stop fighting

3) after flowey takes their SAVE powers.

this kid gets beaten to death by asgore an uncountable number of times and they still trot over to gerson in the epilogue to be like "is he a goat? is he immortal? okay but what if he adopted me, could he adopt me? i'm very adoptable you know". be real now.