#frisk is literally in the first sentence

[silverstormsxx]

Friends With A Spider - An Underfell Fic

UNDERFELL: MAY WE PERSEVERE

AU premise:

So i was thinking about how in Underfell, everyone good becomes bad and everyone bad becomes good

And y'know how in Undertale, Muffet is infamously known as being well.. a very bad person?

Well I thought: why not have muffet swapped as well?

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Growing up, Muffet knew something was wrong with the world.

The people around her were bloodthirsty. Needlessly violent. Killing everything they could get their hands on to support their twisted view of the world.

Even her parents seemed to buy into the mindset held by most of the monsters in the Underground.

It was kill or be killed. No question about it.

They always scolded her whenever she tried to argue against it. If she was particularly good that day, she would be sent off to bed with an empty stomach and only three fresh wounds the maids would take care of in the morning.

The only friends she ever had were the spiders.

Her happiest memories were having a tea party with Cocoa, or licking frosting fresh from the whip after baking cupcakes with Sugar or hearing stories from other parts of the Underground by Miss Vanilla, the oldest and wisest spider alive.

As such, when her parents had disappeared under "mysterious circumstances" (which she suspected had something to do with those shady businessmen they had made deals with in order to further their business' influence,) she of course dedicated her reign as Queen of the Spider Clans to ensuring that the spiders of the Underground were taken care of and happy.

No longer would they be purposefully stepped on and abused and killed and even stepped on by some especially sick fucks (She had heard many a horror story about a short skeleton who went out of his way to make the few spiders who could tolerate Snowdin's intense climate lives hell.)

In a way, she saw it as returning the favor for being the only reason she hadn't decided to end it all a long time ago.

She started up a bake sale. She needed to find a way to raise money to safely transport all of the spiders trapped in the Ruins through Snowdin, after all! And what better way to do that than through an activity she had always loved?

Business was.. slow, at first, but little by little, it picked up speed. Any day now, the bake sale would garner enough money to finally but that heated limo she had been dreaming about for years.

It had seemed like a fever dream for the longest time, but now she could finally see it in arms' reach!

Any day now. She just knew it!

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A child in a black sweater, striped in shades of red, holding a flower pot with a buttercup in it faced off against a monster closely resembling a volcano. A cloud hovered above them, spewing out strikes of lightning ominously.

The child attempted to hug the monster, only to get knocked back by yet another bolt of lightning, sending them and the buttercup they held flying.

As the child winced and tried to look over their wounds, the flower that lay beside them yelled out: "FRISK! WATCH OUT-"

But before they could even process that sentence, they were met face to face with a terribly sharp lightning bolt.

They braced themselves for the pain that would surely soon follow, already imagining the feeling of their heart getting fried and toasted from the inside out, their very SOUL being lit aflame and burning in a blaze of glory before fracturing into a million pieces.

But it never came.

Opening their eyes, Frisk looked at the monster that had been attacking them, only to see that it had been restrained by purple webs.

The Vulkin was pushed aside, tossed somewhere unknown as a spider-like monster descended from above, with purplish gray skin and five beady, black eyes.

Frisk and Flowey tensed up in fear as they saw the monster that had dispatched the Vulkin they were having trouble with so effortlessly. They prepared themselves for anything - getting eaten by a bulking behemoth of a spider, being drowned in liters upon liters of tea, getting stuck in one of her insidious cobwebs..

Anything but the sound of a quiet, meek voice that made both of their heads turn up.

"Are.. are you two okay?"

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[tristarnova]

Worst Undertale theories:

Frisk is canonically female because Sans says "sorry old lady" before his fight

Papyrus survived the genocide because he replaced himself with cardboard. I'm not kidding

Sans is Gojo 😭

Every lowercase sentence in the game is written by Sans.

Listen me here: Sans hacked Alphys(When she sent the ALPHYS updated status. just realized i didn't watch undyne fight the human v.c), the evidence is that it’s lowercase and also that Sans created everything that exist so he must be in every theory

Toriel is homophobic.

The theory I heard was that she was afraid HUMANITY was homophobic, thus why she said "not in front of the human" instead of "the child"

That frisk is male in genocide but female in pacifist. 🤨

Sans = Steven Universe After Not Surviving (

steven

after

not

surviving)

This probably isn't the worst theory but its one that bugs me, this old one I spotted that the reason Undyne has determination is because Alphys puts it in ice cream she eats

Any theory that goes "Gaster because Gaster" despite there being no need to include Gaster, and no evidence supporting his involvement.

That includes the theory of Gaster being involved in the Determination Experiments, despite Alphys directly saying all of it was her.

Sans can remember resets

Frisk is a monster 💀

, Genocide is justified 💀

Sans, Papyrus, Mettaton, Napstablook, Mad Dummy and Gaster were the 6 fallen humans. . . 💀

Chara controls Frisk in Genocide Route

Sans is the strongest ut character

River person = Ralsei because idk what it was but I think it was because like they share the same like cloak

ICE is Gaster (He’ll no! I don’t care if his suitcase resembles the suitcase of the true big shot Swatch, I will accept Rolux Kaard is Gaster first, their faces lineup at the very least)

Sans and Papyrus are revived humans that became monsters from Determination experiments (either by gaster??? or alphys). This would explain them "showing up out of nowhere" and how Papyrus remembers "Green Grass and flowers" before snowdin, where he remembers human life.

The Toriel's Dark Past theory

Sans bleeding Determination

 the pile of asriels dust theory

Ralsei is a girl because Susie was surprised after he took off his hat.

Monsters are weaker because they are not exposed to sun and lack vitamin D 💀

Chara committed genocide on the humans before they fell underground. If I remember correctly their reasoning was that they said it was the only explanation as to why Chara was able to achieve as high a damage number as we see when they erase the world.

Soulless Pacifist is just Chara pranking you and that everyone's actually okay anyway since they're just reminding you that you did the genocides!!!!. Might as well just remove everything from the game but the Undyne the Undying and Sans fights without dialogue since there's literally no stakes in the story whatsoever if that's the case, just do the two challenging fights then be done.

Top 10:

sans remembering saves cause, imagine this, right? You do a SECOND genocide run right, reload your save file that is in the ruins, walk out of the ruins. What happens? Sans is there, sees you, and proceeds to obliterate you. And imagine how awkward it'd be to do a pacifist run AFTER a genocide run.

Flowey messed with the corpses of the kids Asgore and the others killed to gather what determination they had left.

Dr. Gaster is part wingdings and part aster because wingdings are silly like papyrus, and aster is serious like Sans. Not even Toby Fox would make sense of that, but at least the rest of the left brain - right brain theory has some evidence, if matpat's knowledge of brains is even credible i never did well enough at biology maybe i should

Chara is a villain

toriel is frisk

Sans is chara

That Sans doesn’t care about Papyrus or anyone

Um did we play the same Genocide route? Cuz he clearly does care…

Gas pipe theory

Both sans and flowey knows about the resets but flowey doesn't know it's a videogame, but sans knows it's a videogame

This is all just wrong, expect for the reset ones are backwards, the reset ones are mostly correct, the last one is just backwards, yes both remember about resets, but it’s flowey how knows it’s a game, while sans doesn’t know it is a game, it technically depends on the route, how is the strongest, but usually its flowey how’s the strongest, and besides that, all of them are wrong.

[liliallowed]

Sorry but just another thought with Abandoned Family/Route

I imagine, if/when Frisk learns the concept of being upset or distressed in a way, they just start repeating a random sentence or word they heard like the bunny from Guardians of The Galaxy V3(in that uh.. One scene)

Like Crimson is just trying to kill them and they just start repeating the last thing Y/N ever said to them or something off the walls that has no real meaning but they're saying it because they're "upset/distressed", they need to say SOMETHING, right?

Or if they're just sad in general they'd go up to Dust and say something Y/N would say when they were upset, or the first thing Y/N said to them, or even on the rare occasion, repeat back something Dust himself said

as someone who personally has a similar problem like this when I am under extreme stress (repeating random words like I'm a computer with a semantic error) I kinda felt that one ngl.

content warning... psychological melt down?

frisk pov

you WANT to say something else you don't exactly hear yourself saying the word or completely understand the meaning of it but you're repeating it out of distress or because youre in shock or stressed. the word subconsciously MEANS something to you so you say it without even thinking.

it's not a statement. it's a desperate attempt to convey emotions but you studder.

your arms and legs malfunction like a robot that's been electricuted. a fish out of sea a puppet with no strings a statue frozen in place and time.

you can't move you studder again.

you can't speak. only make small sounds that cut off by the lump in your throat.

that's how you learned to cry when you were born isn't it?

you felt so weak.

so powerless and small.

you were scared. though not self aware enough to know so...

you felt something you didn't understand.

you never understood.

why?

...

why?

this... has happened to you before. a broken music box still continues to play beside the umbrella in place of the empty statue.

it's has rusted. it cannot sing.

some notes are worn off. it's malfunctioning.

you wonder if it feels pain when it tries to speak aswell... or if the notes of the words just don't come to mind.

you hate that silence you feel SO SMALL.

you're self aware enough to know: "holy shit I'm going fucking crazy I can't stop repeating this phrase! "

it's scary. you'd scare YOURSELF. you want to say something but "I'm sorry" is all that comes out.

your thoughts are in a loop. you literally can't think of any other phrase.

you're sorry.

you ARE sorry but that's also another form of saying "I'm scared, please don't hurt me."

or "I regret my actions"

you're sorry.

is any of this your fault?

you're sorry.

what are you sorry about?

you don't know. probably for simply existing.

you want the pain to stop but all you can say is "I'm sorry"

"I'm sorry... "

you're sorry.

you're sorry. the word echos in your mind as it seems to provide comfort to you.

it's so overwhelming.

the simplicity if the word keeps your broken mind at ease.

you're saah ree.

sorry ...

the word's meaning starts to fade as you continue muttering it to yourself.

you're sorry.

you don't know what it means but it brings you comfort. it's familiar. and it's kept you safe.

all you can focus on is the pronunciation.

am s-ah ree ... ree sah. ree sah... hehe reesah.

you mutter, completely disassociating from the present. you think it's a funny word.

ree sah ree sah. reesah reesah.

you're sorry.

[undertalehuman]

my undertale au

so i may be Catholic Christian but i have always been interested in myths and the gods of polytheistic religions, primarily the greek and roman gods. so a while back, (like 3-4 years ago) i started making an au based on mythological stuff, and i just thought i’d share it. it’s mostly based off of the greek/roman gods, but not entirely.

sans: king of the gods. god of the stars, the sky, the planets, etc. married to Toriel.

Toriel: queen of the gods. goddess of life and marriage. created the humans. married to sans.

Undyne: goddess of war and judgement. and anime, despite that literally nobody else acknowledges that part of her. married to alphys.

Alphys: goddess of science and technology. married to undyne.

Mettaton: (in this au, he was not really “created” by Alphys or anything) god of dancers, performers, singers, entertainers, etc. entertainer of the gods.

Napstablook: goes by DJ Napstablook. god of music, musicians, and DJs. musician of the gods. always wearing headphones. when mortals offer up a single sandwich with a very specific unknown recipe to him he will come down and perform for them.

Chara: (female in this au) goddess of chocolate and death. basically the main character (first character i actually made in this au). capable of interdimensional travel. all the other gods are so obsessed with chocolate that they grant her access to their powers as long as they have access to her magic factories of chocolate. always wears a green hoodie that contains a pocket dimension in the pocket. she is self-aware and can hack into the universe itself. daughter of sans and toriel. (my au’s chara was very much based on storyshift chara but evolved a bit from the original)

Frisk: (also female in this au): goddess of vitality, youth, and peace. literally the only being preventing all of the violent gods from attacking each other. daughter of sans and toriel. younger than chara by a few centuries (because of the fact that gods don’t age much compared to humans, they’re basically the same age)

Asgore: god of the underworld, former king of the gods. after he became corrupt he got dethroned and sentenced to 1x10^208 years of watching over the underworld. literally cannot leave, and the only person who’s nice to him is Frisk. no longer corrupt but still has to serve his sentence.

Papyrus: god of friendship, spaghetti, and the sun. brother of sans.

NOTE: it’s not entirely finished and stuff, and some of the roles have been changed from the o.g. since it’s been a few years. there’s no official au name (if there was i forgor) feel free to ask me questions or make suggestions through the ask box or somethin?? idk, i’m new to tumblr. ALSO: should i include UTY characters?

[yon-shi]

Undertale headcanon: How many monsters are in Underground?

In the game, we can see and talk with many different NPC and read a lot of information about monsters' race, but for some of the questions, we still haven't answers because they're not that important for gameplay. (But it doesn't mean we haven't any interest in it.)

Now it's time for something simple (unlike question about monsters' age where we mostly haven't any information) - how many monsters actually are?

And the answer is between 320 and 1500.

But why?

First of all, let's start with two possible counterarguments:

During Mettaton's battle, we can have a ratings of the show to above 12000 (if he still has legs).

We, as players, can explore only a small part of the Underground; the cities that we can see in the background are pretty big, and the capital, for example, look like it can accommodate a lot of monsters.

But they have a good explaining.

1. Mettaton's rating is not the number of viewers.

In the game, it's never mentioned as the number of people; moreover, Mettaton has not so many fans:

4000 monsters on the start of the final show are definitely too much. (Do you remember how many of them watched one of the previous show?)

More likely, rating is a viewers reaction - the number of likes and/or positive and negative commentaries on Undernet (monsters can use phones for watching show):

And it's normal to write an average 10-50 comments during the pretty long live-show with "killing, drama, bloodshed" and the real human - first for the long time.

(Some monsters could just spam stickers or the same sentences like iloveuMTT, notice me sempai Mettaton, etc).

The number of 320-1500 monsters fit here.

2. In cities lives less monsters that it seems.

It has a more complex explanation.

Firstly, we should mention that monsters were trapped after the war, so their number was greatly reduced (They were probably less than now - all monsters had enough place in Ruins). They came to Ruins from the Barrier through the New Home, Hotland, Waterfall, and Snowdin (of course, these places had no names at this time), and it was hard for the weakest monsters).

Monsters built Home and lived only in this city before Chara came; some time Chara also lived there (it proves drawing of gold flower in Asriel room), and then people decided to move closer to surface.

Part of monsters, which were hadn't enough stamina to move again (Snowdin is cold, after all), didn't want or were still scared of humans, decided to stay in Home; some of others monsters stayed as well in other cities. It's mean, less than half of the monsters move to New Home.

And, of course, they should have by themselves built a new houses. For everyone. When some of the monsters obviously are not strong enough or can't do it physically (how did Rocks' family or Moldsmals do it? They literally haven't arms). And some people had others jobs - making food, babysitting, ets. It means the number of people who can work for construction is... not that big. And part of them even were busy because of creating a Core!

House of royal family probably was built first as the main barricade (after all, Toriel and Asgore are the strongest monsters and in any accidents can protect others) and even then, it needed around a whole year for being finished. For one house, not even that big.

Of course, on Snowdin, Waterfall, and Hotland, all work with houses are finished... at least to the moment, when Frisk fell.

But what if the capital is overcrowded just because some of the buildings are just not ready yet? The number of monsters (slowly?) increased, and a lot of them wanted to live in capital - Onionsan cannot join his friends because the aquarium is full! And it's probably the only aquarium for the whole city - workers haven't enough time for building new ones, working instead on repairing / installing memorials / public works / with Mettaton for his show.

So we can say that a lot of buildings in New Home are just unfinished and empty, because each monsters' family builds its houses by yourself or waiting for other workers will do it.

And now we can go to the last question: why is the number of monsters between 320 and 1500?

Well, we have a few hints.

And the most important one is Sans' call after Leaderless Ending.

If twenty or more non-boss monsters were killed, Sans remarks on how the Underground is less crowded before telling the protagonist to "go to hell." If fewer than that number of non-boss monsters were killed, Sans simply says "see ya" instead.

Twenty. Only twenty monsters - and it's already noticeable that the number of people in Underground has decreased. It only means that the monster's population is really, really small. Just like a small village, where everyone knows each other.

And now we can talk about other things:

The souls counting when Asriel released them, give to us at least 320 - he could release more, but we haven't able to see them because of the white flash (but not too many - flash was only a few seconds long).

Underground is not that big - all Pacifist route needs less than one day; Genocide route - a few hours.

Also, I made an experiment and backtracked all Underground, walking through as many rooms as I could (without Riverperson helps, rarely used lifts and walk some way to the room with statue after bird carried me) and way from the first save to the last took me... 21 minutes and 20 seconds

In Genocide we can kill 57 monsters (including Undyne) before Alphys started monsters evacuation in True Lab. But this place will also be too small for more than 300 monsters (and it already has residents - Amalgamates).

(they definitely had to make a room.)

Alphys propably wasn't able to evacuate monsters from New Home. But she for sure was in MTT hotel (we can read it in Bratty and Catty note) and probably came back with L1 lift before we went there (you can use it again after fighting with Muffet). She could only make a warning for the rest. So we can assume that the number of people that can fit in True Lab is probably the amount of Hotland people (41 monsters decided to stay for any reasons, but Amalgamates anyway take their places).

(Spiders' family probably evacuated too after Muffet death.)

It is important because the number of residents for all cities should be mostly the same (except capital that probably has more monsters and Ruins that has less, but together they offset the difference), so the number of monsters in Hotland/True Lab is close to average value.

And even though this is a rough estimate, since I not sure how Amalgamates should be counted, we get an average 300 people (if we take the possible maximum of people (including Amalgamates) that can fit in True Lab) in 5 cities - average maximum 1500 monsters.

So, any number between 320 and 1500 should be accurate and fine.

[computercreature]

ehmmmmm. papyrus undertale for character ask game?

you didn’t specify a question. so i’m answering all 30 of them >:D nyeheheheh!!

first impression: super silly skeleton! love him!

when i started to like him: it’s hard to remember but probably from the very beginning. specifically? umm probably the lamp scene haha he’s so <3

song that reminds me of him: this is such a copout answer i know but i always think of papyrus makes a mixtape. such a formative song to my childhood

how many people i ship him with: 0! i hc him as aro!

my fav ship: again probably none… i’m not a huge fan but i feel like the most ok in my book is papyton

least fav ship: literally anything else all of his friends are either children or his brother or a lesbian

a quote i remember: if you see a shop, you should stop… drop, and roll… into some great deals!! because we’re having a fire sale!! at my imaginary store, which sells flames.

fav outfit: AHHH i love the battle body for the comfort fit swag but. my heart belongs to the cool dude fit <3

least fav outfit: NEITHER they both fit him so well!!!

describe him in one sentence: he’s funny and silly BUT i swear he’s so much more mysterious than people realize!

first thing i think of when i think of him: the papyrus knight theory, and how excited i am for him to be in deltarune >:3

sexuality hc: mm i think gay aro

fav friendship: FLOWEY!!!!! they are besties ok i’m so glad more people are realizing this

best storyline: ahhh hmm. again i think his friendship with flowey! they’re characters that are perfect for each other and their dynamic has a lot of crazy implications. without the post-canon content and some of the harder to find dialog it’s easy to assume flowey’s messing with him but they really are friends!

worst storyline: i’ll be honest the date 💔 i do like it from the perspective of an aro guy forcing attraction but i still prefer the hangout way more for. obvious reasons

childhood hc: i think he’ll be a child/teen deltarune! and i think he was a lonely (bonely) kid, which is why he wants to be popular so much

what i think his first word was: sans :]

what i think he was like as a child: i already kinda answered this but also. i’m an otherworld sans truther and i really have no idea what ut papyrus’s deal is. if the skeletons just showed up one day i really don’t know what that means for papyrus

most random ship i’ve seen: well other than the obvious. i would say papyton is pretty random since they’ve never met? but he does canonically have a celebrity crush on mettaton so i guess i get it haha

weird hc: cat person (or at least says he is) because of the annoying dog lol

when he was at his happiest: obviously post pacifist when he can feel the sun on his skin and wind in his hair 🩵

when he was at his lowest: tbh before meeting frisk he was really lonely. in deltarune it’s probably worse since he doesn’t have undyne or. any other friends

future hc: i love the hc that he designs escape rooms on the surface!!!!! i think he (and a lot of other monsters) start taking anthropology classes

a secret he’s never told anyone: he actually loves the annoying dog 🩵

when he acted most ooc: ohh i don’t know. hrm. i don’t think there is one off the top of my head!

when he was himself the most: before and after saving him in the asriel fight! copout answer for all the characters but i stand by it!

most fun character for him to meet: ohhh i have to think about this. maybe tome of mob psycho fame. monster obsessed with humans + human obsessed with the occult would be the perfect autism duo

most unnecessary thing he did: when he turned the puzzle into his face and couldn’t figure out the solution. when he summoned a billion bones for his attack and let you fly right over them. when he kept asking about your outfit and kept giving the wrong answers to undyne. when he jumped out undyne’s window. he’s so <3

how would he be as a parent: carlyraejepsans has a great post about this but i think he’d be the fun uncle who loves kids!! also all the monsters are communally raising frisk anyway <3

funniest scene: OH THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CHOOSE. umm i love the lamp scene, when he first sees frisk, the mettaton tile maze, umm a lot of his phonecalls especially the fire one, and the winter newsletter. he’s just so!

[hoidn]

tl;dr spanish has formal pronouns and english doesn’t and this is what FOMO looks like for me, a nerd.

one of the downsides to engaging with media in languages you don’t know is that you're locked out of a lot of the experience because things like cultural/social references and contexts don’t necessarily register or have meaning when they’re not in your frame of reference (and while this happens at times to everyone generally, because even within one’s own culture it’s impossible to be aware of ALL the things, it’s much more pronounced when coming entirely from outside of it). 

of course for me it’s primarily about language itself and shades of meaning and aughghg it’s so frustrating to know that there are linguistic nuances failing to have an impact either because the translation is (of necessity) filtered through the interpretation of the translator and they can only convey so much, or because their presence is simply not readily apparent to me. but i want to knooooooow. LCDP is the first non-english language show i’ve ever been fannish about and it’s certainly been an education in how much i actually remember from four years of high school spanish classes lo these many years later. it’s more than i thought, but it’s mostly just isolated words and short phrases, and it’s largely recognition rather than immediate understanding. it’s like i’m on a two-second delay, so that by the time my brain has (a) picked out the word/phrase from amongst all the unfamiliar sounds, and (b) found its meaning, i’m two sentences behind what the characters are saying. mostly it’s been more distracting than useful.

however!

my bits and pieces of spanish sort-of-understanding have allowed me to solve the mystery of something that had been sitting in the back of my mind with a question mark since i first watched THAT SCENE in 1x12. (well, once i got over the initial “omg they’re making out!!!” reaction, anyway.) according to the english subtitles, raquel says “about you” then stops and repeats “about you” again. i couldn’t figure out the significance of the repetition or how her next line “i think it’s time we stop being so formal” followed on from that. it was only on a rewatch, when i already knew the meaning of the dialogue and didn’t have to focus on the subtitles, that i actually listened to what she says. and i realised they’re still using the formal pronoun ‘usted’ with each other. so the first time she’s saying “de usted”, but the subsequent times she’s saying “de ti”. hence less formal! and since modern standard english doesn’t have formal pronouns, in a literal translation both ‘usted’ and ‘ti’ are the same word: you. achievement unlocked! VICTORY!

for confirmation i switched my subtitles to ‘european spanish’ and, first of all, how cool is it that they get different colours for different speakers?! that makes it so much easier to read! stupid english subtitles all being in white. then, because i am A Nerd, i transcribed the spanish to compare to the english translation, and i put the important bits into google translate to see what it came up with (bolded in brackets).

english:

R: I want you to know I'll never pull my gun out again. Yeah? S: Okay. R: Or frisk you or have any doubts about you. S: Good. R: About you.... About you. I think it's time we stop being so formal, isn't it? S: I couldn't agree more. R: Yeah. S: I agree. R: Me too.

spanish:

R: Quiero que sepa que no voy a volver a sacar la pistola nunca más. Sí. S: Ya. (ed: i definitely hear him say “bien” but w/e) R: Ni a cachearle ni a duda más de usted.  S: (ed: i hear him say “bien, bien” but there’s no dialogue at all in the captions here) R: De... De ti. De ti, de ti, de ti. Ya va siendo hora de dejar da tratarnos de usted, ¿no crees? [“It's about time we stopped talking about you, don't you think?” <- yeah, see, the literal english translation of that sentence means something quite different to what the spanish sentence means, which is sort of how we ended up here] S: Yo creo que es momento de tutearnos, sí.  [I think it's time to call each other, yes. <- i feel like we’re missing a word, there, google] R: Sí, sí. S: Yo creo que sí. [I think so] R: Sí.

from my perspective, even with this rough translation, there’s a lot of nuance left out of the english subtitles, and that’s really disappointing. it’s... i don’t want to say it’s cuter or more adorable in spanish because that sounds like i’m being condescending about the language itself, when it’s actually that the english translation leaves out elements of the original that convey a level of meaning. the kind of babbling repetition they’re doing in spanish, which is what makes it adorable, isn’t even hinted at in the english translation. basically, the adorableness of the moment is baked into the language of the original; it’s supposed to exist as part of the emotional landscape. but if you rely solely on the translation, you don’t really get that, or the way it kind of builds momentum. (maybe it comes across better in the dubbed version? idk i can’t stand dubbing.) 

anyway, while i don’t understand the translator’s choices here wrt to that, obviously they did the best they could with the usted vs ti issue. (this is one reason written media is better for translation: you can have footnotes!) still, i have to wonder whether someone who’s not familiar with spanish would really get the underlining meaning of the “stop being so formal” line.

and i genuinely mean no disrespect whatsoever to the translators of this show or translators in general everywhere because i am incredibly grateful to them for making the world so much richer and there are so many wonderful media i’d never be able to watch or read without their work. but this single exercise in explication has just emphasised for me how very much i’m missing out on and it makes me sad that short of thoroughly learning every language on earth there’s no way for me to fix the problem to my own satisfaction.

i really hate that.

(also i have so many more questions about the whole translation process for visual media now. for starters, i have the suspicion these people were translating without a net (i.e. a script) and had to go on what they heard. if that’s the case, it’s a ridiculous way to go about things and infuriates me as someone who used to do court audio transcription. because i can attest that transcription of multiple speakers is hard enough even when you can isolate individual mics and you only have to work with one language. the idea of having to translate from a single sound file on top of that? fucking hell. i hope they got paid very well. (lol of course they didn’t.))

[jubilantwriter]

“the au in which snas is allerigc to catchup”

@paper-mario-wiki here’s a shitty shitpost fanfic based off that one-off shitpost au idea you had that one time

So here was the plan.

The human was supposed to take the ketchup, the lid situated very loosely on top of the bottle, in of which all of its contents would spill out onto their burger.

What he didn’t anticipate was the fact that the kid would decline the condiment, preferring their burger to be as bland and greasy as possible.

Which of course, left Sans with a bottle of unscrewed ketchup in his gloved hand.  The rational part of his cranium suggested that he put the bottle down and move on from that failed prank.  The comedian part of his empty skull said no, no he cannot let a prank go to waste like that, and that he could not let such an opportunity to leave an everlasting impression on this young youth escape his gloved-but-bony grasp.

Of course, he couldn’t pour the ketchup all over his burger.  That’ll just make him look stupid, falling for his own prank.  So his literally empty headspace quickly suggests to go for absolute surprise.  And what’s the most spur of the moment thing he can possibly think of?

“Welp, more for me.”  He flicks off the lid and chugs down every drop of the condiment.  The kid’s mouth drops open.  Grillby drops a plate in surprise, looking almost worried had it not been for the fact that his face is literally just a huge, singular flame.  The slight movement of his glasses gives it away.  The ketchup is sweet and tomato-y, and he wipes the remnants of it off his mouth, staining his already dirty white gloves with red.  Something in his magical body system begins to lurch and jerk around, and his supposed stomach does a little flip in surprise.  Yup, he’s just surprising everyone today.

Because, before his rational side could kick in, he conveniently forgot that there was a little detail to his dietary needs.

He was allergic to fucking ketchup.  

Like, of all things.  

Ketchup.  

Not even tomatoes, just specifically, ketchup.  Luckily, Grillby and Papyrus knew that he absolutely must NOT ingest ketchup less he wreak havoc in the Underground with explosive, smelly magic.  Right now, his entire being is rejecting the presence of this condiment, and he can feel the magic bubbling up to dangerously, legendary proportions, so he quickly stops time briefly, gives the rap to the human, and casually tells Grillby to put the food on his tab.

Once he’s out the door, he teleports straight to his house.  Papyrus is in the kitchen, working on his latest spaghetti experiment when he hears Sans pop into existence.  He smiles and turns to his brother, apron proudly proclaiming, “THE CHEF”.  The word “awesome” is scribbled in above “CHEF” in red marker.

“SANS!  YOU’RE JUST IN TIME-”

“sorry, nope, can’t, i gotta- i gotta go bro.”

“...GO WHERE?”

“my room.”  Papyrus squints at him suspiciously.

“DID SOMETHING HAPPEN?”

“nah.  i just totally pulled the greatest prank outta my ass and now my ass is gonna pay for it.”

“SANS, LANGUAGE!  AND WE DON’T HAVE BUTTS- WAIT.”

“mm.”

“SAAAANS…”

“yah, i can see where that line of thought is going, and lemme tell ya, i’m gonna do ya a favor and stop it right there.”

“YOU DID NOT DO WHAT I THINK YOU JUST DID.”

“only one person can have the title of legendary fart master bro.  and it’s gotta be me.”

“SANS!  YOU FFFFFOOLISH FOOL, YOU KNOW THAT YOU’RE ALLERGIC TO KETCHUP, AND YET, LIKE A WEAK CHUMP WITH NO SELF-RESTRAINT, YOU HAVE REVERTED BACK TO YOUR OLD, IMPULSIVE WAYS AND THREATEN TO BECOME A STINKY MAGIC BOMB OF BAD CHOICES!”

“aw, thanks bro.”

“THAT WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A COMPLIMENT!”  Sans waves him off, door to his room opening with a wave of his gloved hand.  Evidence of the red condiment continues to stain its pure white grimy visage, a testament to Sans’ ongoing list of dietary regrets, and Papyrus’ nonexistent eyes bulge from his sockets.

“don’t worry, i’ll probably only make one minor explosion this time.”

“SANS-!”  The door shuts behind Sans, and the room remains eerily quiet.  Softly, a rumble shakes the house gently as a display of colors shines from the door’s crack.  Papyrus groans, rubbing a gloved hand down his face.

Damn, the stench was going to remain forever.  Hopefully, the lights will be gone by the time the human comes around for their date with him.

...Hopefully.

[inbarfink]

So Spamton...

Shares the same last three letters in his name as Mettaton

Used to be an important public in Cyber World, including TV appearances. While Mettaton was a currently popular TV personality in Undertale’s Underground

Wants to become ‘free’ by taking Kris’ SOUL. Much like Mettaton wanted to pass through the barrier with Frisk’ SOUL.

Equates his freedom with sucess and becoming a [[Big Shot]], like Mettaton wanted to be free so he could be a Star.

First encounter in his ‘default’ form, but later gets a NEO and an (unseen) EX form

The NEO form is also associated with the Evil Bad Kill Route

His default form speaks in ALL CAPS, while his newer forms can speak in regular caps (Although this is hard to notice because he’s very hammy).

(And it is implied that his original ORIGINAL form also spoke in normal caps)

Fought using the Yellow SOUL Mode

Uses smaller version of himself as part of his attacks

Uses a Heart\SOUL as an attack

But also...

First encountered in a trash-filled area and is associated with a “Trash Zone”, much like the Trash Zone where the Mad Dummy is first fought.

The start of the Bonus Boss Fight also resembles the Mad Dummy fight, with Kris being able to ‘beat up’ the unresponsive body - which only awakens when they try and walk away

Sometimes he repeat his sentences three times and get increasingly louder every time! Which is the Mad Dummy’s speaking quirk.

Literally designed after a dummy, a venquilitrist dummy, that is.

Does Spamton share any traits with Napstablook so he can have the complete Ghost Cousins Trifecta?

[friskibitz]

SUSIE!

THE SUSIE.

favorite thing about them - susie is the best utdr character ever and if you disagree you are WRONG ok no but seriously though. she's my second favorite, and given the fact that my first fav is FRISK, that's high praise. anyway uhhh to pick one thing rn, something so adorable and well-written about her is her dialogue. good, distinct dialogue is necessary for any well-written character, but i just looove how many details there are in the way she talks... she has these little tics like saying "arright" and "didja", using contractions a lot, or omitting the first word in a sentence (like, "the hell did you let that happen?", omitting the "why" at the beginning), it's very neat

least favorite thing about them - HONESTLY? RN? NOTHING SHE'S LIKE PERFECT

favorite line - can i say everything please i just fucking love the way susie speaks. ch2 has given me SO much. to pick a sappy line, i love "... me too." in response to noelle saying that she got comfortable, or "that got them smiling. let's go." irt kris, because man she is literally so sweet

brOTP - SUSIE AND KRIS!!!!!!!

OTP - suselle REAL and WONDERFUL. it's honestly odd when people say that susie is oblivious and/or doesn't return noelle's feelings because she definitely does, she's just going through them and handling noelle in a quieter way, which i think is really neat

nOTP - basically any susie ship other than straight up suselle or suselle + krusie (ONLY if done right)

random headcanon - i looove to think that she becomes a baker when she grows up, it's so smart. she gets to work with her hands, be creative, and put her energy into making things, it's very great

unpopular opinion - i think "susie has two hands" can work out and could be cute if done well/if things are going to go down that route. if not, totally chill. at the same time, like i said susie definitely reciprocates noelle's feelings, and they really Have to get together, it would be shitty if they lost focus

song i associate with them - i think Threshold by Go! Child is very susie.

[kaissauce]

okay, phucker, do it

ok let's do this @rolli-zolli @ninikins

Horrortale: technically an alternate timeline instead of au. after a neutral run where undyne's queen the core malfunctions and food becomes scarce and people resort to eating humans because sans suggested it. Aliza is the protag. latest thing that happened in the ongoing comic was Aliza agreeing to go with Papyrus to solve his last puzzle. as for the appearance of sans he has a HUGE hole on his head and a red eye. he got the hole from undyne when she got his magic eye which was going to be used to power the core. sans didnt die tho and killed the guards holding him down and just took whatever eye was on the ground and used it as a replacement for his magic eye that's powering the core. i quote first words he said after putting the eye in his socket "who the fuck took my phone?". then the magic eye went apeshit and broke the core again. oh and also he made alphys braindead by quite literally scrambling her brain. yeah this au is rough sans hasn't really eaten anything since the core was destroyed since he decided not to eat any humans.

Dusttale: i think this was originally a korean au? basic rundown: too many genocide runs sans goes apeshit and tries to get his Lv up by killing monsters himself man went fuckin insane kills his brother blah blah blah edgy angsty au the ghost of papyrus haunts him n stuff. sans literally just looks the same except he has his hood on and sometimes artists draw him with papyrus's scarf. the cool artists draw him with his hood on and has the hood completely cover his face so u can only see his glowing pupils. although people call him dust sans he's actually named murder sans

Killer: so frickin similar to dusttale except sans goes apeshit because of the human being like "join me lmao". three different outcomes come from this. i think it was 1 sans joins human 2 sans joins human kills human later on 3 kills human or something. friends with color sans who is basically his impulse control. pretty sure his soul's fucked up and Color sans tries to make his soul un-fucked but Nightmare comes in and fucks up the progress. he has white shorts, his eye sockets are constantly pitch black and leaking tar or something also has a weird target thingy on his chest. OH YEAH ALSO HE HAS BEEF WITH UNDERSWAP SANS ALMOST FORGOT. basically swap sans tried to make killer good and then they had a fight, swap sans lost and was on the verge of dying thankfully swap papyrus was able to save him in time i think

Dreamtale: Dream isn't in the drawing but his brother, Nightmare is. Sooo he used to not look all goooy and have tentacles n stuff but then he ate a couple hundred apples and yeah. he's six years old apparently. Nightmare and Dream are supposed to be guardians of a tree that has 500 golden apples and 500 black n goopy apples. the golden aples are positive and the goop ones are negative. you're not supposed to eat either of them cus bad shit happens. Dream and Nightmare live in a village and for whatever reason they're all dicks to Nightmare because ooughh he's the guardian of negativity that's not baller. he also goes apeshit (do u see a pattern here) and eats a goopy apple n then becomes the goop man he is today. he fuckin eats 999 apples jesus christ. and the last one is eaten by Dream because if u eat all 1000 apples u become unstoppable and immortal. so that would be a bad thing if nightmare got the last one. wop wop wop these dude aren't sanses they only have the body of one if that makes sanse.

Error: manlet. he's literally an error and that's why he's like that. also he's technically not a sans now, the redesign for him was so that he could be in the creator's webcomic named Lucidia. Error sans, aka the destroyer of aus, finds aus to be mistakes so he tries to get rid of them. his process of doing this is simple: get the human soul to the void so that they can't reset, destroy the au. he primarily attacks using his strings which can wrap around one's soul and control them. he like some aus like outertale because of how open and empty it is. he likes to be alone and has haphephobia. if u touch him he'll glitch out and possibly crash. he crashes whenever gets overwhelmed. said crashing causes him to shut down and reboot and he's powerless while doing so. he's actually pretty easy to beat if you know how to push his buttons the right way. in the og ask error blog made by his creator Loverofpiggies he kidnaps Swap sans who tries to help Error become a better person. this ends horribly as error leaves Swap sans in the void who then becomes an error aswell due to being alone in the void too long. Error actually regrets doing that to swap sans

Aftertale: OK FUN FACT THE SANS OF THIS AU, WHO'S NICKNAMED "Geno" IS ERROR. aftertale is a comic made by LoverofPiggies it's been SOOOO long since i last read it so i cant really give a good summary. but anyways Geno is trapped in the loading screen with the human and will die if he leaves the loading screen. eventually from being in the loading screen for too long after the events of aftertale he becomes Error.

OOF WOWIE THERE'S SO MUCH TO GO

Underfresh: he's not even a sans either. "Fresh" is a parasite inhabiting a skeleton. his birthday is on 4/20 which is ironic cus he doesn't like drugs. he censors swears. he speaks 90's lingo and dresses like a neon sign. for some reason he has eyebrows and a gold tooth. the glasses he has can change text but normally defaults to "YOLO". he can't feel anything since he has no soul of his own and just latches onto the host's. instead he learns how to act from the people around him. not being able to feel actually bothers him a LOT

Echotale: Aka Gaster sans. uhhh this one was also a comic if i remember correctly. basically Frisk and G!Sans are the only ones in the au and they're trying to find the core to fix the fucked up timeline that they're in but the core keeps changing positions so that sucks.

Swapfell: originally made by Khhoppang who left social media. Started out as an Alphys x Undyne au so only those two were designed but Kh was planning to design more of the characters. before they could people had a field day with the idea of mashing two aus together and SO many people came up with their own designs for sans and papyrus. Khhoppang left social media because they got overwhelmed with all the art reposters and stuff, pretty sad. the appearance of the sans in that au is the purple one with a scythe (i dont think he has a scythe in the og design).

Swapfell Red: so basically this is the swapfell made by people that isn't Khhoppang. community made per se. Sans's appearance changes constantly because as said before many people made many different designs. typically he just looks like Swap sans but with red high heel boots and his color scheme fits underfell

Fellswap (gold): Au made by blackggggum. so swapfell is underswap turned fell, fell swap is underfell swapped it takes a bit to understand that. his appearance is somewhat similar to Swapfell red. He's kind to his friends but if ur his enemy he'll fucking deck you. he's blind in his left eye, the leader of the royal guard, and secretly into dressmaking. fun fact in this au Papyrus has autism

Xtale: uuuuhhhh so Cross is a complicated one. he's part of the royal guard along with papyrus. has beef with xgaster. responsible for the downfall of his au and then Underverse happens and Ink is all "oh cool someone to mess with" and they became friends for a bit then shit hit the fan

Underfell: OOOOO YES UNIRONICALLY ONE OF MY FAVORITES. So Underfell sans is actually a very powerful mf and constantly has his magic eye activated because he has so much magic. This au is also technically an alternate timeline where monsters "lost their humanity" as the creator put it. so basically trust in the underground is scarce. Sans and papyrus, contrary to many interpretations i fucking hate, are actually on good terms (and no sans doesn't call papyrus "boss" the creator said if he does he'd do it ironically and papyrus would hate it). Fun facts he pays Grillby in socks (grillby accepts the socks as payment and wears them), if u make grillby laugh he gives u a jacket that looks like his and it's heavily implied that sans made him laugh because their jackets are similar

Underswap: ah yes another classic that i love as well. originally made by PopcornPr1nce who fled social media because they hated how the majority fandom treated Underswap (Blueberry and Carrot were popular names for the fanon swap papyrus and sans). Swap sans is constantly infantilized by the community which sucks and i hate it so i draw my own very super cool version of him whom i kin because i am also very super cool.

Outertale: mainly an aesthetic au pretty sure there's no comic of it. basically, instead of underground they in space. outer sans dies in underverse after like minutes of screentime lmao

Epictale: a comic made by Yugogeer. the og comic was retconned and the creator loathes the original version and made a reboot that's much better. Sans actually dies very early in it because Yugo hates how Sans is almost always focused on in aus. also the creator hates how meme-y their sans has become (like him saying bruh every single sentence, using a rubber chicken as a weapon, cookies, etc.) he's friends with Cross but not in canon. He has a purple magic eye that makes him immortal and i think only epic gaster could remove it which is how sans was able to be killed when he fought gaster.

Temmietale: it's undertale but everyone is temmie, don't question it

Trainertale: it's undertale but it's Pokemon, don't question it

Dancetale: it's undertale but you dance instead of fight, don't

Mobtale/Mafiatale: im unsure if mobtale and mafiatale are separate or not but they are very similar. basically undertale but mafia it's self explanatory

Undertale: no clue which au is this one, nope not at all/j

Bittytale or whatever idk: so take sans, make him small. boom. never understood this au

THAT BASTARD INK: HOOO BOY SAVED THE WORST FOR LAST. FUCK THIS GUY/j. THIS DUDE. IS THE REASON IM STILL INTO UNDERTALE AUS. I LOVE EM SO MUCH. also technically not a sans. He comes from an unfinished au and ripped his own soul to escape said au and became an outcode. for so long he was just a soulless husk until someone drew him and he got splashed with paint which let him feel. soon he learned to keep the paint in vials so that he can be able to feel 24/7. And then he learned how to create things with a paintbrush and the paint and spent time alone drawing up his own world until a portal appeared and took him to the multiverse. now he encourages artists to keep creating aus. he's the protector of aus in the sense that he keeps other outcodes from disrupting the script of the au, so if it's pacifist and an outcode tries to kill people he'd stop them, if it's genocide and an outcode tried to help them he'd stop them. no matter what he wants the au to stay on script. fun fact the creator of ink and the creator of error never had them interact with each other in canon, that was all the fandom's doing. Contrary to popular belief he's not really considered "good" his alignment is officially "Chaotic neutral". I personally interpret him a lot more chaotic than in canon because it's fun but he's a pretty chill guy actually. he can just be a bit of an ass sometimes. According to the creator of Ink (who is Comyet) his interpretation in Underverse is not canon compliant. one of the biggest canon things that underverse contradicts is Ink deliberately not taking his vials. if he were to do that in canon he'd become a husk again which is the equivalent of him "dying". he was described as a walking corpse by Comyet, without the vials he can't function anymore. Like Error he's pretty easy to beat if you know his weaknesses. also he has fears of empty spaces and being alone

off topic kinda but i very much love how Error and Ink are opposites yet parallel even though they were completely written without the other in mind. Error believes getting rid of aus is getting rid of anomalies. Ink believes people interfering with aus are anomalies. Error loves emptiness, Ink hates emptiness. list goes on it's funky fresh.

also uhhh sanses missing from that drawing that i can name from the top of my head

Seraphim sans, Insans, Dusttrust, He who shall not be named because he's from an 18+ au, Swapswap (yes. that exists), Storyshift, Inverted Fate (very good au i suggest checking it out), Negatale, Oceantale, Template, Pale, Mafiafell, Farmtale

my phone is at 9% y'all are spared from me going on

[oneirocartographer]

You know that ut/dr haunted coffeeshop au you made a while back? I love it a lot and I have some Questions, if that's alright! What prompted asriel to embrace his more mischievous side after his death? Can ghosts see each other? How long until Chara realizes asriel is at the coffeeshop? How does Chara and frisk's first conversation go? Does Kris ever interact with Chara or asriel? Does jevil exist in this au? Does napstablook ever like translate for asriel to the other coffeeshop inhabitants? What do the two of them tend to talk about amongst themselves?

- i think asriel was always pretty mischievous, but he definitely got more so as a ghost in large part out of frustration about no one being able to see him. at least knocking things off shelves gets him acknowledged, even if no one actually knows he's there. also he just has fun messing harmlessly with people and being a ghost makes it way easier

- ghosts can indeed see each other! in fact chara and asriel saw each other the moment chara entered the coffeeshop and proceeded to avoid each other for weeks.

- chara going "hey why are you asleep on my grave? have some respect for the dead!" and frisk making incoherent waking-up grumbles

- i haven't thought about this au's kris much yet... i don't think they can see ghosts clearly like frisk or the blooks can, but they can definitely catch impressions – a figure in the corner of their eye or a fragment of a sentence. they definitely find out about chara at some point (and probably asriel too), but i haven't really thought about it

- yes but i haven't thought about him yet

- sometimes, but mostly just things like "okay he said he hid the straws up in this cabinet". asriel doesn't really want to talk to most of the coffeeshop staff, mostly 'cause he doesn't want to tell toriel that her dead child's ghost is literally haunting her

- assuming you mean napstablook and asriel, i think they talk about music a fair bit once they've warmed up to each other enough for conversation. gardening too, maybe

[humankk]

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#5

Oh hey whoever following me, I just have something to ask, since I'm mostly Undertale guy what do you think you'll do if somehow your child self got teleport to the underground? Like idk, 7-10 y o or something and by that I mean first route, random minor choice, I think

assumed that you somehow understand then if english isn't your first language because if not I think I'll just gonna partly understand the tutoriel part then just run around confused about what the heck everyone is saying and how does english sentence work how do I answer them aaaaaa

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Yes yes yes, this is the first thing I do after the semester ended

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oh hey how did I manage to actually draw? and there’s color? (sorry from the non-white background btw I’m sorta too lazy to put effort into finding a way to change it, or even add color to the bones lol)  honestly seriously I never expected myself to draw full color and things like this, just like, planned to just… make it black and white or something, you know, just line and I… shade slime and nothing else for some reason…

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*(Text to speech is on.) Undertale 6th anniversary art! (I think it is? I sorta just make the dog’s computer new sprite for the changed perspective and get the piano dog from last year in.) and yes, the computer is on, look at the dog room in-game, the screen’s like this but the text to speech is on and there’re some post Frisk saw so maybe it’s telepathic computer, or just magic. (actually I just have no idea what to add in there lol.) (btw the bottom one is sprite version aka. literally pixel per pixel)

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Heh, out of all thing to be the first, not really surprising actually

Wow cool 2k reblog lol

That Papyrus say fuck day post is here too lol

[septic-skele]

UT - Growing Pains

Summary: Even if they don't fully understand it, the monsters try to offer Frisk comfort and support when she gets her first period.

With a thundering heart, a lump in her throat and tears pricking her wide eyes, Frisk stared down at the wet, warm fabric twisted around her ankles.

Something was wrong with her. Her HP hadn’t changed and yet she was bleeding.

She had woken up, achy, hot and needing the bathroom just a few minutes ago. She should have known the dull, deep stomachache wasn’t normal, but seeing the dark, sticky seat of her pajamas only compounded the growing panic. Blood, she’d seen before. Blood that appeared for no reason? How could that happen?

A choked noise escaped as her first thought was of resets—something she’d done, a fight, an injury from another timeline, quite literally bleeding into this one, but how could that happen without any HP evidence? She had checked and doubled-checked it, finding no damage, which meant healing items wouldn’t do anything to help.

Was she sick? The tremors running through her and the feverish heat clinging to her might confirm it. Alphys might figure it out, but if it scared her as much as it was scaring Frisk, what if she couldn’t focus on finding a way to fix it?

Don’t cry. You…You’ve had worse than this. A lot worse. Just…stay determined.

Sucking in a ragged breath and biting her lip to hold it, Frisk kicked off the stained pants and, after a moment’s thought, hesitantly shuffled for one of the bathroom towels to wrap herself. Legs weak underneath her, stomach throbbing and jittery with nerves, she shuffle-limped tearfully out of the bathroom and down the hall.

Mom will know. She knows a lot, she has to know. She can make it okay.

________________________________________

As it turned out, though she had no firsthand experience with it, Toriel did know. She now had Frisk bundled up against her on the couch, head resting on her knee as she ran a paw over her hair and warm forehead. With a low, quivery sigh the child relaxed, soothed by the ministrations.

It had taken some doing to get there; the early morning had been fraught with panic. Papyrus’ scream when he found bloody trousers in the bathroom had woken everyone in the house and forced Toriel to fight for some semblance of control. She had given the shortest explanation possible for the sake of time and then sent Papyrus to the store with a list of some basic supplies. Speaking of which, Toriel could hear his scrambling strides long before he kicked open the door.

“The great Papyrus returns! I bring all of the necessary provisions for your ultimate care and comfort, human!” he hollered breathlessly, grocery bags brimming in his arms. “You will be pleased to hear that after clearing the so-called ‘Feminine Care’ aisle, I took the liberty of sweeping the ‘Health and Wellness’ aisle for disinfectant, bandages and gauze!”

“As much as we appreciate your thoughtfulness, Papyrus, my child isn’t injured,” Toriel reminded him patiently.

“How can that be?” he scoffed as he shuffled his burdens onto the nearby table. At least a dozen packs of pads in varying sizes spilled out and onto the floor. “I was told before I left that she was bleeding and in pain! Is that not still true, human?”

Tired, halfhearted signs from Frisk assured him that it was very much the truth and he huffed, folding his arms and giving the Queen an expectant stare that spoke volumes of “You see?”

“U-Um, I’ve been doing a lot of research on h-human biology,” Alphys piped up. “T-Tori—Queen Toriel asked me to find out whatever I could s-since Frisk is staying with her f-for the foreseeable future…So anyway…No, she’s not injured, Papyrus. Approximately half of the human p-population experiences bleeding like this every month, once they c-come of age.”

“Wh—Seriously? Frisk is going to get laid up like this every single month? As in every month, every year, forever?!” Undyne sputtered. “That’s just a big hassle! Humans come with so many botched parts! Never mind bleeding out; if I were the one dealing with it, I’d probably just get bored to death!”

“Good heavens, Frisk is not going to bleed to death!” Toriel exclaimed, paw tightening against Frisk’s head as she shuddered. “It is only a small portion of blood to lose. She ought to be well again in a week or so. Correct, Alphys?”

“Yeah, that’s right! She should be j-just fine,” Alphys promised hastily, wringing her claws as she mustered the courage to rush on. “And, Undyne, I think that if humans like her do have to deal with this every month, it…it must make them p-pretty tough. Right? So Frisk shouldn’t, um…be made to feel bad about it. You know?”

She must have noticed how the flush in Frisk’s face had deepened, leading her to curl deeper into her throw blanket. After everything Frisk had done to influence their kind, it was easy to forget sometimes that she could still be a scared, uncertain kid. For a moment Undyne looked stricken at the realization, throwing her hands up in surrender.

“Oh! I wasn’t implying she should feel bad about it! She probably already feels bad enough; it’s gotta suck! It’s not her fault her body’s turning traitor. Uhh…” Hoping to compensate, she forced a toothy grin. “Hey! Maybe it’ll make for some sick scars!”

Rather unlikely, Toriel thought with some amusement, though she didn’t correct her. Undyne seemed to have the same trouble that Papyrus did, understanding blood without a wound.

“Hey, kid. I got a bag of rice warmed up,” Sans greeted as he strolled out of the kitchen toward the couch. “Should be nice for your side, right? Down but hot out.”

“Brother! You actually cooked something?” Papyrus gasped, belatedly forced to fight his instinctive smile in exchange for a distasteful sniff. “Of course, I would feel some modicum of pride for you if it weren’t for that infuriating pun!”

“Well, that’s not very rice of you,” Sans retorted, laying an affected hand over his soul. “That heat me too close to home! If you’re going to insult some rare, special edition cooking, at least give me some advance warming.”

He glanced to the couch, where the lump under the blanket was shaking in silent laughter. Toriel chuckled too and it spurred him on. “I put in a hot of effort to do this, y’know. It was no easy heat. Maybe it’ll leave a hot to be desired—or for all I know, this is as good as it sweats! I had to rice to the challenge and give it my best hot, for the kid’s sake. Don’t grain on my parade.”

“Alright, alright! By the time you finish, it’s sure to go cold!” Papyrus groaned, shoving Sans toward the couch so he could hand the rice bag off to its owner. “How did you successfully use the same ‘hot’ wordplay more than once in four sentences?!”

“I’m just that good.” At Toriel’s nod of approval, Sans poked a couple of fingers under the blanket, pulling its corner back to reveal Frisk wearing a watery smile. He returned it. “There, see? That’s the brave kid we know. You’ve got this.”

She accepted the hot bag with a signed thank-you, wincing faintly as she draped it over her sore stomach. It would stay toasty for a good, long while, warmth trapped under the blanket’s folds.

“And, uh, don’t tell your mom or anything,” Sans added with a quick wink to counter Toriel’s raised eyebrow. “But I might have snagged some chocolate I can sneak to you later. If you’re gonna be lazing around with me for a week, I gotta show you how to get cavities properly.”

“I must applaud your model example, my friend,” Toriel huffed, though it didn’t hold too much reproach. Her mind was already wandering. If Chara were still…That chocolate would have been long gone before Sans could come across it.

This bleeding was just another reminder of how quickly Frisk was growing up. How would Chara have treated this coming of age, had it come to pass? How comforted would Frisk be to have a sibling who understood?

With wistful fondness, she would always be left to wonder.

[iamdorka]

I Couldn't Be More In Love

Colson and the reader have been friends since high school. ��Friends”. Maybe they were more than that but before they never really spoke about it… and everything was okay until Colson started to act quite strange because the reader started to spend more and more time with his co-worker Harry Styles.

This is a piece of writing I already have finished in Hungarian… so my only work is to translate it for you and make it enjoyable for you too. Hope you like it. (The inspo behind the title was the song from the band the1975 and if you don’t know this song you should definitely check it out.)

- Colson Baker… if you touch that… I’m gonna cut you in half. – I threatened him at the moment when I saw that he was trying to taste the almost perfectly done cake on which I was working on the last couple of hours. He was tap dancing on my last nerve and he was enjoying it you just could simply see in his eyes that he was really enjoying it.

- On a scale from 1 to 10… how much do you want to kill me? – he asked when his finger was almost touching the cream on the cake. We were staring at each other in a way that it looked like we just could kill each other any moment.

I felt I could not breathe; I could not blink because if I would have done that then everything would have been ruined. I wasn’t the best cook neither the best baker so when I decided that I would make an eatable cake which somehow would not look like just a piece of shit it was a real challenge for me, a challenge I gladly accepted from myself. To be honest it didn’t really help me when Colson was nonstop by my side trying to sabotage all of my hard work.

- I just don’t understand why are you doing this. – he stated referring to the fact that I spent most of my free afternoon in the kitchen preparing this birthday cake for Harry.

I didn’t want to order a cake (which would have been so much easier) I wanted to do it myself. I spent quite lot of time with Harry, with who I became really good friend lately, so I think it was quite a nice thing to do.

- Because his birthday is tomorrow? – I asked not that he didn’t know the answer. He was acting clueless which was so not him.

- And? – he asked back and then all of the sudden he picked up the cake from the table. That was the time when I thought that my heart gonna sink or break into pieces.

- Put that cake down… for God’s sake… Colson… put that motherfucking cake back to its place because…. – as I started to get closer to him, he started to go backward with the cake in his hand but the moment he almost lost his balance I thought that I’m gonna drop dead… like I saw in my mind that he just lets that cake out from his fingers and everything turns into dust mostly my hard work.

- You are so beautiful when you are angry. – he smiled at me holding my treasure firmly in his hands. It was still safe, but Colson couldn’t say this about himself because I was planning to murder him soon.

- Then prepare yourself because I’m gonna be so damn gorgeous because I’m gonna kill you now… - I smiled awkwardly. - I’m being serious… I’m gonna die if you continue this… its not funny. – I painted him the situation in my head, but he was just still smiling. – But you have to know… If I die… I’m gonna haunt you forever, it will be my number one priority to mess your life up…. really, really bad. – I was really thinking that and by this moment there were only centimeters between us. The cake was safe and I could carefully put my hands below it but not really touching it yet.

- I would really enjoy your company… you can trust me. – he just didn’t give up.

My hand was now below his and he could have thought that I was going to grab the cake now…. but in reality, I really grabbed something else below that cake. Something that had more power over him.

- PUT THAT CAKE DOWN. – I said it again, the last time, I think. This time I think he could not misunderstand me.

- Because… what you gon… - he couldn’t finish his sentence because my fingers just got tighter on his… favorite body part.

- PUT IT DOWN. – now that the control of this situation was literally in my hands it started to get funny for me too.

Why? Because the surprise on his face was the best gift for me. Like I felt so damn powerful that I could surprise him this way that it made me incredibly happy. He could not move… he could not say a word. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed that this game backfired on him. Finally I could put a honest smile on me too.

- Okay… I will give up. – he finally put that cake back where it belonged. – You know… you can let me go too… - he leaned closer to me with a rogue smile on his lips because he was right…. somehow I did not let him go.

- Go fuck yourself. – I stated, staring in his eyes then grabbed the cake and went straight to the pantry just to put that gift in a safe place… and just to cool myself down too.

I swear to God for some minutes I literally blacked out there because I don’t know how but after a few minutes I just realized that my forehead is against the cold wall and my fingers still feeling that they are holding something. I got goosebumps all over my body, my body started to ache intensely, and I don’t even want to mention my heart race.

- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. – I started to frisk, jump and scream just like a little girl having a tantrum kinda melt down but before I really lost my mind I stormed out of that place.

- Cheers to that! – he said with a mischievous smile sitting on the counter with a spoon in his mouth because he was just eating my ice cream enjoying everything around him… mostly my suffering, my unexplainable behaving. Only if I could read his mind sometimes… only if…

- I want some of that for me… - I pointed at the ice cream… which was right between his thighs which after my surprising act wasn’t the best place for me to point at... I just could not take it no more so before I started to embarrass myself more and more… I started heading to my room.

- Okay boss, okay… - he nodded, and I was glad that he didn’t commented on the fact that I was starting to sound and behave like a total mess.

I just needed a good damn ice cold shower and not just because the cake cream was all over me because yeah I was that good damn talented in the kitchen that on my back was cream too but because my body started to act up in a way in which it should have not. It was like it started to realize it had some kind of new deadly virus which was released just a few minutes ago.

It was really nice from Colson that when he knew that I was gonna spend some time in Los Angeles he offered me to stay at his place. I was spending some time here because I was in the studio with Harry and had some appearances in the region. First, I wanted to stay at a hotel, but he convinced me that his place has way much rooms and I could easily spend my LA time there. I can thank him a lot. He teached me a lot of the industry, of this whole crazy world we are currently living in and honestly, he was the only one I had connection with from the old times, from our high school Cleveland days. Our passion for music was a bond between us that could not be broken like ever.

- Move your ass a bit… - I said this when I was back in the living room where he was laying on the couch occupying the whole place just for himself. - I was talking to you… lazy ass. – When I was in front him, he still didn’t move a bit like he was pretending to be deaf or something.

- Okay, okay… bossy. – he laughed and satting up he made place for me too so I finally could sit down beside him.

- As I can see your ugly face needs some help too… so le me see if we can do some miracles with what I got here… - I said with a box full of face masks and creams on my lap.

- That was harsh… you hurt me girl. – he whined just like a little boy.

- Dear God… I did not say that you are not handsome… I just said that you have an ugly face. – I rolled my eyes smiling.

- What a logic we have here. – he mocked me. - So… you think I’m handsome? – he asked while I choose some cream or his skin and started to work on him a little bit.

- Just like the devil himself…. – I put out my tongue just a little bit.

- You have to be careful girl… because that devil will come for that tongue… - he said and this was the time when I decided to make him shut up, so I put some mask on his lips too.

His face mask really looked like some kind of swamp kinda thing but maybe he still looked kinda cool this way too. How could he pull this off too? Meanwhile I looked like a monster myself who could scare people away instantly.

We decided to stay in and watch some movies because we both had a long day and it was some long time ago that we could spend some quality time together so hours ago we already knew that we gonna end up here just chilling.

The thing I didn’t know was that I just would not find my comfortable place there like something inside me just could not let me be. First, I just sat there… but then I wanted to lay down, but I could not do that because I had my mask on. I didn’t even know what we were watching because if I was honest with myself my mind was on some kinda trip that it didn’t wanna share with me, so I was there in my body not really being there actually.

- Okay, please stop this because you are making me dizzy and you will fall of this couch soon… come here instead. – he put a towel on his lap and asked me to lay there instead of moving constantly like an idiot which could been annoying for him too.

- Thank you. – I murmured as if I did something wrong then laid there. There where I finally found my peace like literally. As I put my face down my body started to calm down instantly.

- Do you know until when you gonna stay in the city? – he asked, and he started to stroke my arm gently.

- It all depends how much time we gonna need in the studio… but if we see the current situation… I won’t leave the city soon. – I admitted thinking that we were already behind with the recording sessions. You can plan things out but then l comes and ruins everything.

- I wouldn’t mind if you were closer to us… - he said, and I moved a bit so now as I looked up and opened my eyes his face was right above of mine.

- You are saying this if you weren’t constantly touring yourself… - I said knowing that his schedule is hectic too. – The only thing I know that on Monday we gonna travel somewhere with Harry because we are gonna shoot our first video together… also we need to record our second song too which by the way… is a bomb. – I was really excited about working with Harry he was an inspiring soul to work and to be with too.

- I don’t know what is so special about that boy… - he shook his head not understanding a thing.

- If I think about it… he is less a jackass than you are right now. – I said it quietly than decided to close my eyes as if I were gonna mediate or something. This movie night was kind of a dead idea by now but at least we had some background noise.

- Do you like him? – he asked. I knew this is coming I felt this in my bones because the last couple of days when he knew that I would meet with him he started to act quite strange, like he was another person, not really himself.

- Like him how? – I knew exactly what he was referring to… but I just had to ask him this. He knew I liked him, that’s why we were working together… but this question had more meaning than just pure words.

- I’m just asking… you two spend so much time together… I wouldn’t be surprised if your wo were together… if you were in love with him. – Colson really lived in an alternative universe where he could really think that this is the way things are between me and Harry. If I spoke about Harry, I always referred to him as a friend… if something would be between us Colson would have knew that.

- You are right… totally right Colson. – this was the last drop I could take. I just could not lay in his lap anymore, so close to him. – I was always like that… if I started to talk with a boy the next minute, I was in his bed… it’s so typical from me. It’s so nice from you that you really think this of me… - not even thinking I was already whipping the mask off from my face.

- I didn’t say this… - he stood up too trying to reach out for my fingers, but I didn’t let him touch me.

- But it came out this way…. I don’t know what’s your problem with Harry and why is such a big problem that I’m spending more and more time with him and not always because of diversion but because we are fucking working together… which as it seems is a new information for you. – I already had everything packed in the box and I was heading back to my room, but he could easily keep track with me because his long legs helped him a lot.

- Y/N… - he tried to reach out for my hands again, but I still didn’t let him close to me.

- Just tell me one fucking good reason why you are acting like this…. why all of you are saying isn’t straight up bullshit…. – we were already in the door of my room, but he was dead silence. He could not say a word, he just didn’t move… he was just staring in my eyes as if he was debating with himself. if we wanted, we could have cut the tension between us. A sparkle and all of us would have burnt down. Just a sparkle would have ended all. – I thought the exact same thing. – he just kept his silence, but I didn’t really want to be there no more. – Good night Colson. – I nodded and stepped inside my room and headed immediately to the bathroom from where I could clearly hear that after I closed the door… his fists also met with the door… quite strongly.

[undertalethingies]

Self Indulgent Self Insert Fic, Part 2

Part one here

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“Why’d you shoot fire at him?” I ask, partially to fuck with her and partially out of genuine curiosity. He hadn’t been attacking me, after all, so it was odd that she’d intervene. What did he do to get her to set him on fire just for being near a human?

Toriel purses her lips, and I note that her hands are clenched tightly. Must’ve been bad, then.

“He hides a wicked nature behind a congenial facade. Please, my child, keep your trust out of his reach,”

Oh, she’s just as formal in person! That’s honestly kinda cool. I’m pretty sure I’m the only one I know who’s ever used ‘congenial’ in a sentence, but for her it just seems natural.

“I definitely have more questions about that, but first, can you not call me your child, please? We literally just met,” Seriously, it’s weird. I know she’s grieving, but spontaneously adopting every child that falls without their approval or consent is kinda messed up. 

If I manage to free the monsters, the first thing I’m doing on the surface is sticking them all in therapy. Seriously, these guys are worse than me, and I really don’t say that lightly.

Toriel’s face falls slightly, though she makes a valiant effort to hide it. (Seriously, what were you expecting me to say?)

“A-Ah, I suppose that is reasonable. May I ask your name, then?” Ok, people who are definitely reading this because I am 100% egotistical enough to assume y’all want to hear about my life. Listen up, because I’m going to say this as many times as the author wants me to. I know this is normally the part where I’d say ‘y/n’ but I want to make it clear that y/n is for reader inserts.

I am a self insert, which I know because no reader insert would ever have this much personality, those boring fucks. As a self insert, I am free to call myself Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and dye my hair black with purple streaks if I so desire.

(I don’t, I really don’t, My Immortal is a fun read if you want something to laugh at but no way in hell am I emulating that MC in any respect other than our shared enjoyment of MCR.)

ANYWAY, back to my conversation with goat mom! I’m not saying my real name because I’ve resolved that if I ever end up getting isekai’d I’ll go by my middle name, due to its general awesomeness. (My first name is also awesome, but it has a different vibe and aesthetics are everything in fantasy worlds)

“My name is Solena,” I say, responding after a reasonable pause in actual time and a weirdly long one in mental time. Now, my name looks like it would be pronounced ‘sol-een-a’ but it’s actually ‘sol-ain-uh’ which I’m stating because again, I’m fully confident that these thoughts are being written down somewhere by some enterprising author who is also very likely me from another timeline because no one else in existence is fully capable of conveying the Wonder that is Me.

“Thank you for telling me, Solena. My name is Toriel, and I will be your caretaker while you are in these ruins,” Toriel says, conveniently leaving out the fact that she’d prefer to keep me in these ruins forever, probably because I’ve already demonstrated some leeriness towards her.

Now, I could bring up Flowey again, seeing as her explanation for fireballing him was more than a little lackluster and I’m still pretending not to know this world inside and out, but I already know stuff about Flowey and there are things I’m significantly more curious about.

“Cool! Toriel, got it. Hey, if you live in a cave underground, how did you get such a nice dress? Do you have farms down here? Livestock? Do you harvest fibers from animal monsters?” 

Haha, you thought I’d ask more about the magic? Hell no! I’m way more curious about how society functions down here!

Toriel does a double take, her expression implying that she’s revising all of her expectations towards me. (Again)

“There are small plant farms in some areas of the underground. We have no livestock down here, as we were delivered to this cave system in a bit of a rush, but we do harvest some fibers from willing monsters, yes. How did you guess it?”

Let me tell you, the high I’m getting right now from those theories being correct? Very similar to what happened recently in the BNHA comic with Dabi’s true identity. I am living for this, just absolutely vibing with this new knowledge.

“Well, I don’t see how else you’d do it. How do you get the dyes?” Because I don’t see them having access to chemical dye, and it’s not like humans trash a lot of the stuff unless this is one of those illegal dumping spots, so what gives?

“Excellent question, Solena! There are professional tailors who transfer dye from clothes that fall from the surface! Many also simply wear clothes acquired from the trash, though mine are hand-crafted as befits-” She cuts herself off before she can let slip her (former?) royal status. I let it slide because I really don’t see a need to step on trauma landmines here.

“As befits someone who’s! Affluent! Anyway, we’ve entered the Ruins proper! There are many dangerous puzzles here, an old monster tradition, so I’ll need to focus more on guiding you!” Damn it, we’re at the first puzzle already? I completely missed the staircase room, which sucks because not only did I miss out on seeing one of my favorite rooms, I didn’t notice whether there was a save point!

Fuck!

I walk to the sign by the door. “Brave ones, foolish ones, both walk not the middle road. What’s that mean? I obviously get it in the proverbial sense, but it’s near this puzzle, so is it supposed to be a clue?” 

It straight up took me until my second playthrough to understand that sign, man. 

Toriel’s face just lights up. She looks absolutely delighted, and I remember that she’s always wanted to be a teacher.

“It is a misdirection! The sign tricks the reader into thinking about it metaphorically, when the answer is actually quite literal!” She demonstrates by stepping on all the buttons but the center two, before turning to smile at me.

“Oh, that’s genius! Because you’re supposed to ignore the tiles in the middle! It works as a puzzle while also having an easily remembered solution if you’re in a hurry!” It’s honestly my favorite puzzle in the game for that, even if you’re never given the opportunity to solve it yourself.

“That is exactly what I was thinking when I created it! It is wonderful to hear that the message came across to someone, even if my- my, ah, my friends had consistent difficulty with it!”

We continue chatting about puzzles as we walk into the next room.

Toriel explains the spike puzzle here and how you’re supposed to memorize the layout of the first room to safely traverse the spikes. She also explains that she locked the ‘incorrect’ spikes permanently in the ‘up’ position so that no one would get hurt, stating that puzzles should be fun, not dangerous.

Honestly, she’s giving way more exposition than she ever did in the game, probably because I’m a slut for knowledge. I only really half hear her explanation, though, because what comes next is going to be very important to knowing the kind of experience I’m going to have down here.

See, we haven’t gone down the hallway to the spike room yet, and I know full well there’s a Froggit waiting there to ambush me.

I have a few questions that this pseudo fight will hopefully answer.

One, are there options like there are in the game? Because if the battle system is the same, it could severely limit my choices when it comes to conflict resolution, especially if I have the same options as Frisk.

Two, do I have a narrator and is that narrator Chara? TwoA, do they have control over me in fights, as in some fics, or am I fully autonomous? TwoB, if they are here, are they evil or are they a person, because that’s also something the fandom intensely and frequently disagrees about. TwoC, can they hear my thoughts? I’m going with ‘probably not’ because I’ve made zero effort to exclude spoilers, but there's still a possibility and I need it confirmed. TwoD, can they hear thoughts deliberately directed at them? I hope so, it would be a huge pain to only be able to talk to them when no one’s around.

Three, are Froggits secretly cats because there’s a meme comic about that and I need it in my life.

With these thoughts in mind, Toriel and I turn down the hall, and the world goes black and white.