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[primejourney]

Hey you!! Yes, you!

Now that I've got your attention!: This isn't Sept-Ingo related, but I was wondering if any kind soul(s) out there would be willing to give me some art advice!

Interested? More under the cut

I'm currently working on an animation project starring the lovely smiley choo-choo man himself, Emmet! I don't want to share more since I'd like it to be a surprise, but I'm looking forward to pushing myself to learn After Effects while doing this.

However, still being an art noob of sorts here, I am feeling some indecision about how to do things, lol. Mainly, I am trying to figure out what kind of placement/composition to go for...I'm horribly indecisive, so an outside opinion from more seasoned artists than me would be wonderful!

I have a few options here. You can see my mockups in the Imgur link here (as silly as it sounds, I don't want my cruddy sketches here to clog up my blog feed): https://imgur.com/a/mBRQIr7

I suppose I will have to spill some beans on what I'm planning here: I want to make flowers bloom onto the trees as Emmet's expression changes. I'm stuck on whether I want to put more attention on his face or the trees (i.e., should Emmet be the focus and ergo, bigger...or smaller as we want to focus on the trees?). I also don't know if his placement looks awkward or not (following the rule of thirds or something idk???).

I'm leaning toward making his face the focus, but I would like to hear what others have to say! Thank you!!

[allastoredeer]

I just found some Hazbin Hotel leaks, pre-being pick up by A24 and, do you know we could have had an episode where Charlie meets all the Deadly Sins? We were absolutely robbed of a pretty good filler episodes before the big finale with heaven.

Here's link to the leaks: https://imgur.com/a/nCorcZq

In case the link doesn't work, you can also look at this tumblr post: https://www.tumblr.com/hellaverse-critical-confessions/727383242254204928/hello-the-pre-a24-leaks-anon-again-heres-link?source=share

I really hope they use some of this old concepts on the next season cause they seem quite funny and interesting. Those ideas could help flush the characters out a bit more and the worldbuilding. What do you think?

Me writing notes while reading the leaks:

OOOH HOO WE GOT SOME WONDERFUL CHARACTER INSIGHTS! Especially with Husk!

“Angel and Charlie drag Husk out to a carnival show to show him the not-so-sleazy side of life. This proves difficult with Husk being raised to know nothing but crime and no experience with innocent fun.”

Husk has no experience with innocent fun. He only knows the sleazy side of life T.T Also he has mob connections 👀That is good to know. I find that so, so interesting. It explains it grim outlook on life. Why he's hardly every smiling or having fun. I think one of the first times we actually see him smile is after fighting those shark demons with Angel Dust in "Masquerade."

Now that I'm thinking about it, he smiles a lot more after that. Or, at least from what I remember. I might need to rewatch the show (for the dozenth time, LMAO). But, that kind also goes to show how much this guy needs friends. Good relationships. Connections outside of crime, which is all he's known all his life.

I WANT HUSK TO HAVE PURE, DUMB FUN AND TO LAUGH AND SMILE AND IM SOBBING JUST THINKING ABOUT IT

Also love delving more into Vaggie too. How she's incredible responsible, but controlling. After reading through a few of the episode description about her, my personal headcanon/take is that she still has a bit of that "angels are superior" mindset in the way that when she challenges Maxine, she's quickly reminded of her own limits when she's defeated "very easily." It's like what Carmilla was saying in the show. The angels are arrogant in their fighting. They leave themselves open, they're brash, and uncoordinated because they're not used to fighting demons who can actually fight back.

As far as we've seen, all of their victims are regular demons. None of the Overlords. Well, except Carmilla that one time, and she'd taken down the Exorcists with relative ease because she knows how to fight, and she's powerful. Given that this is the first time an Exorcist has been killed, and the first time we hear about an Overlord being attacked during the Extermination, I assume not a lot of Exorcists come face to face with the Overlords.

So, this kind of brash arrogance still lingering in Vaggie, who see's a demon talking down to her and automatically challenges them to a fight, only to lose immediately. Then her falling back into her insecurities that if she's not able to protect/fight for something/someone, than she's useless (which is ANOTHER thing she's learned from her time as an Exorcist angel--if she's unable to fight for the cause, what use does she have?). It's like this double-edged sword, and I'm rahhhhhh I'm gnawing on it.

ALSO ALSO, getting not only one annual event held in Hell, but TWO! "Hells Weapons Exo," (which I like to think Vox co-hosts with Carmilla, as she is a weapons manufacturer, and Vox is the guy to go to if you're looking to sell/buy something. Also, Vox HAS to have a showmanship side of him. Like, a legitimate showy, entertainer side--which I also like to think is what brought him and Alastor together before their, uh, falling out.)

Their second event being "Challenge Day" where lower tiered demons can challenge higher tiered demons for control over souls? I interpreted this in two ways, 1) challenging a higher tiered demon for the souls they already own, or 2) challenging the person who owns your soul as a way to get it back - both of which I really like. It actually fits really well with some of the world-building I've been doing for the last few days, so I am eating it up.

ALSO THE FACT THAT THERE'S A ROYAL BALL HELD AFTER "CHALLENGE DAY." My RadioApple brain LATCHED onto that so quickly. Imagine Lucifer taking Alastor to the royal ball as his date T.T I wanna see them all dressed up fancy, and I want them to dance, and dsofslknjljblkjbj FUUUUUUCK

Thank you SO Much for sending me this! I am soaking up these lore pieces like a sponge.

It also mentions Angel and Charlie taking Husk to a carnival show, which makes me wonder if there are places like carnivals open in Pentagram City, or if it's similar to the traveling circus thing Blitz grew up in. Like, do hellborn demons who doing travelling circus/carnivals just go through all the rings, one-by-one, including the Pride Ring? That way the Sinners get to get in on it too? AH! I just love thinking about it.

Thank you thank you I am feasting so much right now.

(THIS ALSO MAKES ME SO UPSET ABOUT STUDIOS LIMITING SERIES DOWN TO 8-10 EPISODES A SEASON, WE COULD'VE GOTTEN SO MUCH CONTENT AND WORLD BUILDING IF THEY'D GIVEN VIVZIE AND HER TEAM A PROPER SEASON TO BUILD IT ALL UP AND GRRRRRRRR)

Oh, also, I just realized I didn't answer your original question about the Sins, GOD I wish we got that. I want to see Charlie interacting with all the Sins so badly. Though, I suppose with Amazon not really owning Hazbin Hotel, where all the Sin's have been showing up, I wonder if they'd be able to do an episode like at all.

I don't know. Things to think about.

But to sum up! Thank you so much for this! I know this answer kind of went on long LOL, but you have given me so much brain food and I am eternally grateful 🙏

[the-radio-demon-blog]

Alastor, my last rat just died today while I was holding her. 😢 I thought she would go this weekend, but it's still always a shock somehow. I'm glad I could be with her.

I know hugs are out, but can you tell me a story to distract me? I don't care what it's about.

This is her. Peach.

https://imgur.com/a/X6VszJ5

🐊

My apologies I couldn’t answer this sooner, sweetheart.

I’m not quite sure if I am the best person to look for comfort in but I will try my best. A story you say? I’m terrible at them. Hah. Hmm…

I’m not quite sure if I am the best person to look for comfort in but I will try my best. A story you say? I’m terrible at them. Hah. Hmm…

My father when I was much younger took me to meet my ailing grandfather far too long ago. I remember very little about my grandfather. But the small things I remember. The way his hands would shake. That thick accent of his that I listened to grumble on for hours. His mind was slowly fading when I first met him and it eventually died as most things do.

It was a silly story he told me a few times. A story he repeated over and over again due to his dying mind. His voice would croak out some song that I do not remember. But I do remember one thing: the story that would follow.

It was a gloomy day, soft green grass crunching underneath the children’s feet as they played. The play only stopped when a young boy heard a small sound, a yelp he thought was coming from the school house bridge. Belaying the other children’s warnings of venturing under the bridge the boy followed the sound. His classmates staggered behind him nervously as the sound became louder.

Drowning in the churning river was a small helpless greyhound puppy whining for help. The boy without thinking dove into the water, swimming desperately after the yelping pup. His classmates yelled after him but despite it all the boy took the weak little puppy in his arms and crawled out of the river.

The puppy was weak. Far too weak to survive on its own. The children marched to the small schoolhouse, the shivering dying puppy in the boy’s arms. The teacher refused to let the thing in but the children pushed their way through to the Principal’s office.

The Principal was about to bite into his sandwich as the children burst through the door. Over the hubbub the boy shouted,

“He’s dying.” The little puppy whimpered and the Principal sighed. “Can you…” the boy nodded in the direction of the Principal’s sandwich. The Principal grimaced.

“He’s gonna die anyway…” A nasty child shouted from the back and the children shoved him out of the room. After much pestering, the puppy was curled up in front of the fireplace munching on the sandwich.

And so the puppy was dubbed the name: Master McGrath. Due to a stubborn boy and his classmates a weak runt was allowed to blossom. Little did any of the children know that they had saved a legend. A weak puppy that would grow up to become one of the greatest dogs of hare coursing. Bringing glory and honor to his small country. Despite being an underdog in a very literal term, despite the boy pleading for the adults not to put down the weak dog, Master McGrath prevailed.

Again, it’s not a significant story but it meant something to my grandfather. I’ve found it’s more listening to a story than the story itself that made itself special. And I’m sure my grandfather fibbed the majority of it. That is not what matters.

I am truly sorry for the lost of your pet, Peach. I do hope she is in a better place now. Losing a loved one never gets easier, does it?

[rav3ngirl]

♡ ‧₊˚✧ 𝓢𝓒𝓔𝓝𝓔 !! ✧˚₊‧ ♡

Contents include: What scene is, The history, How to dress scene, scene music and the difference between scene and scenecore :3

Disclaimer: I only did this for fun so some stuff may be incorrect, please feel free to (politely) correct me if need be

"Ԝ𝗁ɑ𝗍 ౿𝗏౿𐓣 𝖨𝖲 ડɕ౿𐓣౿ ɑ𐓣ɣ⍵ɑɣ?"

I’m glad you asked!! Scene is a subculture that gained popularity during the early 2000’s in the USA, later spreading around the world. It was heavily influenced by the “emo” subculture and various different rock subgenres such as alternative and hardcore.

𝖧𝗈⍵ 𝗍𝗈 ᑯ𝗋౿ડડ ડɕ౿𐓣౿

clothes

You can find scene stuff from brands and stores like:

☆ Hot Topic

☆ Spencers

☆ D-tox

☆ Whatever 21

☆ Cupcake Cult

☆ SOSO HAPPY

☆ Drop Dead

☆ Newbreed Girl

You’ll also often find scene kids wearing a few different characters, franchises and fandoms such as:

☆ Sanrio (Hello Kitty And Friends)

☆ Monster High

☆ Gloomy Bear

☆ Skelanimals

☆ Nyan Cat

☆ Tokidoki

☆ My Little Pony

☆ Various “little kid shows”

☆ And most importantly Invader Zim, specifically the character “Gir”.

Now, onto the actual clothing:

☆ Puffy tutus

☆ Zip-up hoodies

☆ Skinny jeans

☆ Knee-high Converse

☆ Leggings

☆ Short jean shorts and skirts

☆ Layered clothes

☆ Graphic shirts

☆ Band t-shirts

☆ Tank tops

☆ Crop tops

Accessories:

☆ Hats

☆ Tiaras

☆ Bows

☆ Tights

☆ Studded belts

☆ Belts in general

☆ Spiked collars

☆ Dog collars (in some cases)

☆ Headbands and other various hair accessories

☆ Knee-high socks

☆ Gloves

☆ Big sunglasses

☆ Lots of necklaces

☆ Kandi bracelets/cuffs

☆ Basically fishnet everything

Makeup:

When it came down to makeup both scene boys and scene girls wear it :P

For girls they wear:

☆ Big black eyeliner

☆ Mascara

☆ False lashes

☆ Foundation

☆ Colourful and/or black eyeshadow

For guys, they keep it pretty simple with:

☆ Black eyeshadow

☆ Black eyeliner

☆ Foundation

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The genre of music scenesters listen to can be classified as many different things but the main ones are:

☆ Screamo

☆ Pop-punk

☆ Hyper-pop

☆ Crunkcore

☆ Deathcore

☆ Rave

☆ Techno

☆ Electropop

Mind you, these are only some of the many genres.

Artists:

☆ 3OH!3

☆ Dot Dot Curve

☆ Panic! At the disco

☆ Avril Lavigne

☆ Fall Out Boy

☆ MCR

☆ Hollywood Undead

☆ Suicide Silence

☆ Paramore

☆ Millionaires

☆ Falling in reverse

☆ Ghost town

☆ Pierce The Veil

☆ S3RL

☆ Set It Off

☆ Brokencyde

𝖲ɕ౿𐓣౿ 𝖵𝖲 𝖲ɕ౿𐓣౿ɕ𝗈𝗋౿

☆ https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=695617

☆ https://aesthetics.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000029083#:~:text=Scene%20is%20more%20a%20music,not%20entirely%20a%20music%20genre.

☆ https://www.tumblr.com/hedphonwolfz30185/639870249496379392/yesso-sick-of-ppl-thinking-scenecore-is-the-same?source=share

☆ https://imgur.com/gallery/scene-vs-scenecore-Pwlw72F

From what I’ve gathered, scenecore is just a more “modern” take on scene?? There’s no clear answer it seems.

[anti3000]

The Player and Narrachara: An in-depth Critique of Undertale

This is an edited version of my two Reddit critique posts of Undertale's Player and Narrachara concepts, now combined into one easy to read megapost for Tumblr.

This post serves as a critique of Undertale's writing under the what-if lens that Player theory and Narrachara theory are canon. On the rare chance that Toby ever directly confirms that the player is meant to be diegetic in Undertale, I've decided to analyze his execution of that concept and how well it works with the most important characters who supposedly know about us. And since Narrachara is the second most popular theory that people believe in, I'll also be considering it canon for these posts. 

Note: To bypass the 30 media limit, some of the images and vids had to be placed in Imgur links. Click on them when you see them for the full context of what I will be discussing.

How a Diegetic Player Affects Undertale

Let's start off with the character that is affected the most by the Player's existence in Undertale.

- Frisk Critique -

When not under the assumption that Frisk is being controlled by the player, the Neutral routes characterizes them as a kindred spirit to Flowey; motivated by curiosity and the desire to alleviate boredom. These traits coupled with the mentality altering Determination & Level of Violence systems, serve as good explanations for the varied good and bad things Frisk is capable of doing in the game. However, the second the player is factored into that, everything else becomes irrelevant. The consistent theme of Frisk's Determination getting stronger and giving them the resolve and power to do what they seek to do becomes invalid, because in reality it's just the player pushing them to do almost everything. https://imgur.com/a/eXNhSk8

While it's fair to say that the constant Determination theme has some underlining motivational message for us players, that doesn't change the fact that in-universe it's a substance and mindset for the characters. And if the player is canon, Frisk's Determination doesn't get them anywhere without us, so it's a waste of time to act like it's what's driving them.

And how about that way of measuring someone's capacity to hurt? It's also largely a waste of time establishing that for Frisk, since their capacity to hurt is non-existent without us in the first place. Even with zero LV gained, the game still allows us to kill enemies through Frisk.

But wait, some of you might be saying. "Frisk isn't just our husk, because they show little snippets of personality with automatic actions and non-visible expressions/statements."

Frisk may not be an empty husk, but the faintest semblance of a personality we occasionally get from them is far too rare, disjointed and contradictory to define. For example, there's been arguments made for Frisk "resisting" against some of our commands, which has been used to characterize them. But if those arguments are true, all they do is show that Frisk's writing is incredibly inconsistent.

Here's some examples of those arguments and their issues.

Frisk stops us from attacking Undyne

Under this argument, Frisk prevents us from doing any real damage to Undyne in the post-date battle.

The issue with this is that if Frisk can resist our attack commands to such a massive degree, it doesn't make sense why this is the ONLY time they do it. Outside of this fight, Frisk lets us hurt and kill as many Monsters as we want.

Even from the perspective of the player being canon, this could just be a scripted moment where we aren't supposed to ever want Undyne to be hurt.

But if the intention was for Frisk to actually stop us from hurting Undyne as a showing of their own character, that would just be one of the many examples of their character being inconsistent when viewed from the diegetic player lens.

Frisk doesn't want to hit the Dummy

If we choose to beat up the Dummy in Waterfall without LV, Frisk only lightly taps it, and then immediately feels bad for even doing that.

In a vacuum, you would be able to use moments like this to characterize Frisk as a very sweet kid that hates any type of violence, no matter how light. But again that's only in a vacuum, since we already established that Frisk consistently lets us use their body to hurt and kill others. What makes this Dummy moment even more ridiculous (if seen as Frisk opposing our act of violence) is the fact that the VERY first opponent we come across is a Dummy, and yet Frisk lets us use them to demolish it without ANY resistance.

If Frisk is a natural pacifist, why didn't their pacifism stop us from destroying the first Dummy? Furthermore if Frisk is so inherently nice, why do they choose to say very hurtful things to Snowdrake without any LV?

Frisk refuses to TALK to Toriel & Asgore

If we select the TALK Act when fighting Toriel, Frisk doesn't say anything to her because they can't think of anything to say. They do the same with Asgore, but only if we've killed someone before trying to talk to him.

This stands in opposition to the previously talked about moments of them resisting us though, since in the other examples Frisk is only able to partially resist our commands. These showings give the impression that Frisk isn't even compelled to do what we want them to do, which not is obviously contradicted by the other moments we've talked about.

Despite the significant issues that stand in the way of Frisk having a consistent and definable personality, they are still usually portrayed as a very loving and innocent kid in fanon. This is somewhat understandable, since the Pacifist ending is basically called the true ending of the game in the files, (also treated that way in outside material) and the only route where Frisk's name is revealed.

The obvious problem with all of this is the fact that the player is STILL a factor on True Pacifist. We are the ones that get Frisk that far. We are the ones who make friends with everyone. We are the ones who give everyone their happily ever after. Even in the pre-credit final stretch of the game, Toby made the decision to have the player dictate where Frisk's life goes on the surface, yet Flowey tells us to "let Frisk live their life." https://imgur.com/a/fPNWiJd

If Toby's intention was to establish that Frisk had the capability to resist/refuse our choices, they shouldn't do what we tell them to do even AFTER we leave their body and "let them live."

Toby would know about the player's control more than anyone else in the fandom, so why is it that most of the route is written in a way where it focuses on Frisk as the only one that is in control? https://imgur.com/IuREwhw

If Toby didn't mean for Frisk to be seen as having full autonomy over their actions, his writing decisions are what allowed player-free interpretations of them to be created and thrive regardless. If Toby intended for the player to be canon, our presence should have been treated as THE most important lore element in Neutrals and Pacifist, and the effort should have been put in to make sure how we operated in the world made consistent sense. But instead of that, the "reveal" of the player being diegetic is treated as some tacked on post-credit scene (that has it's own issues) after all of the misplaced praise for Frisk is said and done.

The Genocide route has even more problems with Frisk and the player, but I'll talk about them in the Chara Critique.

- Frisk Critique Conclusion -

It's clear that Toby wanted Frisk to be an avatar for the player, but he also made the choice to have them be their own entity, and that was where he messed up. He wanted the best of both worlds, but he didn't put in the work to make sure that Frisk was competent in either side.

If Deltarune's player "Connection" intro is any indication, I believe that a current day Toby would have just made Frisk a "Vessel" if he created Undertale with the noticeably higher level of writing experience that he now has. But just in terms of what 2015 Toby gave us, Frisk leaves a lot to be desired on a basic character writing level.

- Chara Critique -

Hoo boy where do I start with this one?

Chara may be a "true character" compared to Frisk from the perspective of having a defined history & personality before we start the game, but they are significantly worse than Frisk beyond that. To give Toby the benefit of the doubt, I'll be using as many popular fan interpretations as possible in an attempt to explain the numerous inconsistencies, plotholes and other issues Chara's character is plagued with. And to ensure this isn't too overwhelming, I'm going to save the narrator Chara issues for last. For now let's just work under the logic that Chara is not the narrator.

- The Player & Chara -

We are supposed to play most of Undertale under the belief that we named Frisk at the start of the game, only for it to be revealed that the "Fallen Human" of the past was the one given the name. However, even after Frisk's true name is revealed to us, our name isn't replaced by Frisk's on our Stat and Save screens.

Going by Toby's Twitter statement and the the last thing Flowey says in the Pacifist ending, the name "Frisk" doesn't show up in our stat & save screens because Chara is actually meant to BE the Player to some degree.

But of course we run into several MAJOR issues with the game's diegetic-player narrative if Chara is the player. The most obvious one is that Chara already existed with their "True Name" and played an integral role in the game's story long before we came around.

The only way to make sense out of Chara being their own entity AND the player is for us to simply be playing as Chara in the game. If this is true, that would mean that our role really isn't diegetic at all, because our decisions are Chara's own decisions in canon. The "player" in this context just means we are Chara's spirit, which woke up and took command of Frisk's body, Soul, and Determination when they fell into the Underground. This also explains why Chara's name is on our Save screens.

This of course means that "naming" Chara is a non-canon action that only exists so players can feel personally attached to the world, just like in other games without a diegetic player. No matter what we type in, the one True Name that is actually being used in-universe is Chara.

The only portion of the game that stands in DIRECT opposition to the player and Chara being one and the same is the Genocide route.

- Player & Chara: Genocide Route -

Killing all the random encounters in the Ruins and checking the mirror in Toriel's house will present the message of "It's me, Chara." As long as we stay on the Genocide route, that same message shows up whenever we check an object that reflects Frisk's face. https://imgur.com/3H06fj1

In a strange reversal of the Pacifist route giving the impression that kind-hearted actions are of Frisk's own will, things like these direct statements from Chara imply that they are the one making Genocide happen. But if Chara is supposed to be puppeteering Frisk on every route, these messages can't be about Chara possessing the body only when Genocide is initiated. And yet, Chara only taking control in Genocide is something that's explicitly pushed in our faces throughout most of the route.

After every monster in the Ruins is killed, Flowey says that we aren't human, recognizes us as Chara, and asserts that our human soul is stolen.

Since Flowey does not say these things to us on any other route, this gives the impression that Chara is an entity that only has a presence on Genocide.

If Flowey was the only one that said we weren't human, perhaps his statement could be written off as just being about him relating to our actions. But Frisk not being human is something that is brought up by various other characters in the route as well.

Despite Asgore knowing that Frisk is a human in the other routes, he is unable to identify what they are on Genocide. This makes it clear that there's some type of visible transformation Frisk undergoes thanks to Chara's spirit possessing their body.

Beyond these statements, the Genocide route has an abundance of cutscenes, dialogue and other moments that consistently reaffirm and remind us that Chara is the one steering the Genocide wheel through their possession of Frisk's body.

Here's just a few examples:

Frisk ripping chunks out of the Snowman on Genocide https://imgur.com/hhNf66k

Frisk doesn't do this on any Neutral where we have higher LV than on the Genocide route. This shows that Chara possessing Frisk's body is the only factor that matters.

Frisk smiling when finding Monsters to kill.

The exclamation point that pops up when we normally get into a Battle is replaced with Frisk smiling once we get to Waterfall.

This also does not happen on any higher LV Neutral runs.

In Frisk's way

On Genocide a fight with Monster Kid is automatically initiated, and we get a first-person message saying that Monster Kid is in the way. Frisk never visibly speaks, so the only one who could have initiated the battle with MK and said this is Chara.

Unlocking the Newhome chain

This is the cementing evidence for the impression that the ONLY entity using Frisk's body and making Genocide happen is Chara. But if Chara is supposed to be the player like Toby's statements and the other routes suggest, the game should always give us these type of explicit showings that they are directly controlling Frisk.

The portion of the Genocide route that we've discussed makes it seem as if Chara is only around when we start and stay on the route, but the ending of the route somehow manages to go against EVERYTHING established about the character up to this point. Let's get into it.

- Genocide/Chara Endings -

After Chara kills Flowey, they greet & thank the real player for awakening them from death. They tell us that they were very confused on why they were brought back to life, but from our guidance they learned that their purpose was to gain power by eliminating the enemy with us.

This already is a slap in the face to what most of the route presented. Genocide consistently pointed the finger at Chara as the killer, yet at the very end it's suddenly revealed that it was us? This is the exact same problem the Pacifist route has: the big reveal that the main character was being controlled by the player is unceremoniously slapped on at the tail end of the route, while leaving no explanations for the stuff that goes against it.

If the player is the one doing most of the work on Genocide, why is there so much focus on Frisk not being human because of Chara's spirit? It's not like there was any meta subtext for all the "you're not human" statements either, because unlike Chara, the real player IS a human.

Why have Chara say "In MY way" if killing all the monsters was a team effort?

Why have them say that they unlocked the chain when the player is the one to unlock it by pushing the button?

There's just so much wrong with the storytelling direction of the Genocide route if the player's direct actions are meant to be separate from Chara's in-universe. To say the writing is misleading is an understatement.

Chara acknowledging our existence makes us "naming" them problematic as well. Whether we use their True Name or our own, Chara doesn't say anything differently.

As I said before, our action of naming Chara isn't something that is treated as canon. This isn't a problem if the player is nondiegetic, but it's immersion and narrative breaking when you're trying to get across that the LITERAL player's actions hold weight in Undertale's world.

Chara tells us that they are the feeling when a stat increases, which is most commonly interpreted to be them saying that they are the concept of RPG player's desire to grind. https://imgur.com/4U1vmzw

If this interpretation is what Toby intended, it really means nothing. Chara couldn't have been this concept when they were a regular human child, and they couldn't have become it after death because we are the ones that have to awaken their spirit. RPG grinding also existed long before Chara did, so whatever Toby was going for with this doesn't work on any level.

Chara says that we reached the absolute, and that there's nothing left for us. They tell us to erase the pointless world and move on to the "next" one with them. If we agree with Chara's desire to erase the world, they say that we are a great partner that will be with them forever, and proceed to erase everything. https://imgur.com/1fz0Mg5

What's weird is that Chara doesn't take us to another world after they erase the timeline. We have to wait in the "abyss" for ten minutes before Chara starts speaking to us again, and when they do they find it "interesting" that we stuck around.

The most popular explanation for what Chara meant by "move on to the next" is that they wanted us players to move on to another game. What's really important about this is that by their own words, Chara would be going WITH us to those other games. This information combined with the "I'm the feeling of stats going up" statement, makes it clear that Chara is meant to be seen as a part of the game player. Even though we can't see Chara in other games.. the intention is for them to always be with us after we finish Undertale.

There's a lot of obvious problems with this, but the biggest one is still all the evidence that points to Chara being the player on Pacifist and every other route. Even the bulk of the Genocide route treats Chara and the player as one, so they can't just inexplicably not be us because the end of the route said so.

Even if we come up with alternate interpretations for everything that supports Chara being the player, Flowey calling us Chara is still the smoking gun. If Toby never intended for Chara to be the player in the other routes, him having Flowey say/believe that we are them is one of the most counterproductive things he could have done for his story.

There's even more issues with Flowey calling us Chara, but I'll save those for the Flowey Critique. For now let's continue breaking down the end of Genocide.

The next things Chara says and does cements them as a complete mess of a character. If we tell Chara that we don't want to erase the world, they say that we misunderstood, and ask us since when were we in control. They then jumpscare us while laughing, and erase the world anyway. https://imgur.com/OwRskMX

In an attempt to make sense out of this, many have interpreted this as Chara saying that they are only in control over us in the ending. While this interpretation is most likely what was intended, "since when" is still VERY poor wording, especially when the previous portion of the route did everything but say: "Chara is responsible for Genocide." What Chara says and how they act is really not a good look for the "YOU did this Player" narrative either way, and it brings the validity down on their claim that they are simply our partner. The super sophisticated and calm way they talk to us at the end of geno doesn't do them any favors either.

Toby making Chara come across as the Genocide mastermind in the same cutscene that establishes they were only guided by us is a big screw up, but at least he didn't choose to use Chara as a soapbox to scold and punish us for doing Genocide right??

..Oh.. yeah.. he did.

After Chara destroys the world they later tell us that WE did it, despite them being the one to come up with the idea and execute it no matter what we say. They say that our desire to return to the world means we think we are "above consequences." https://imgur.com/mdLMpnW

If we tell Chara that we don't think we are above consequences, they ask us what are we waiting for, (instead of playing another game) and make us wait another 10 minutes before speaking to us again.

Chara's wording and behavior makes them come off as a bit vindictive, which doesn't make any sense from the perspective of them being our self-proclaimed "partner" that's thankful for us giving them purpose in gaining power. From their perspective, everything we've done is good, and they WILLINGLY helped us do it without us even asking them to, so why are they giving these weird judgmental vibes now?

But okay maybe this type of conclusion is jumping the gun a bit right? Sure their wording might be a little too accusatory, but maybe that's just the way they talk, and them saying "consequence" has no negative connotations. Let's analyze what Chara says when they return.

When Chara starts speaking again, they say that maybe we can come to a compromise, and they'll bring the world back If we give them our soul. https://imgur.com/ap2XroD

If we refuse to give away our soul, Chara tells us to remain in the abyss for all of eternity. https://imgur.com/YhBlv7U

This establishes that Chara has the ability to bring the world back, but they are gatekeeping it from us as a consequence for our actions. If we want the world back, we have to give up something of ours in exchange. Once again, this is very contradictory to what their previous "partner" dialogue establishes, and it doesn't even make sense for Chara to behave this way after actively HELPING us kill people.

Chara's choice to wipe out the entire timeline/game is also FAR worse than anything we did in the first place. Despite some people thinking otherwise because of Chara's accusatory speech, (and the black backround) there's still Alyph's, the evacuees, and THOUSANDS of other Monsters left in the Underground before Chara destroys everything. Even if we assume that Undertale's world only has one planet, Chara destroying EVERYTHING in that world includes the innumerable humans on the surface as well.

With this in mind, there's absolutely N O reason the demented child should be giving us ANY lip as if they have the moral high ground. Get them out of here.

There's a lot more to be said about Toby's decision to have Chara say these things to us, but that'll have to wait until after we go over all the Chara endings.

- Second Genocide -

After being so judgmental, (and taking our Soul) you'd think that Chara wouldn't allow us to do another Genocide run again. But no, Chara brings the world back and lets us do whatever route we want with zero changes. After going through all the exact same motions, Chara greets us at the end of Geno again, but this time they claim to be a... demon. https://imgur.com/A00dtUf

Most people believe this to be metaphorical, (and for good reason) but Chara describes theirself as if they can be summoned by anyone no matter when or where they are.

Does this come out of nowhere? Yes.

Is Chara being an actual demon completely incompatible with their backstory and what the first Genocide ending established about them? Yes.

Is it impossible that an actual demon is one of the things Toby wanted Chara to be? No.

If there's one thing Toby did when writing Undertale, it's toss a ton of idea darts at the wall, regardless if they stuck. And there's no character that better exemplifies this practice than Chara.

Ironically enough, right after Chara tells us that they are a demon, they double down on shaming us for our actions. This time they say that we have a "perverted sentimentality" emanating from our soul, and they suggest that we do a different route.

Despite Chara being more condescending than ever, they still forcibly end all of existence even when we tell them not to, but not before giving us more unfitting chastisement. https://imgur.com/z6VEQG3

But what really makes Chara's second timeline erasure even worse than the first is how utterly pointless it is. Unlike the first Geno ending, Chara allows us to return to the world immediately after they destroy it the second time. This makes their act nothing but raw carnage that doesn't abide by their initial reasoning.

Of course, Chara still has our soul, so let's get to what they actually do with it.

- Soulless Pacifist -

If we choose to stay with Toriel at the end of a post-Geno Pacifist, Chara seemingly uses the power of our soul to transform Frisk's sleeping body into their own. https://imgur.com/s0GftVD

Chara's demonic laughter combined with the creepy Genocide theme playing in this last scene clearly insinuates that they kill people on the surface as our consequence. The alternative "I have places to be" ending seems to confirm this by showing Chara among our Monster friends with their faces crossed out. https://imgur.com/JGDvznT

The non-violent interpretation for this scene is that Chara canonically edited theirself into the picture with Frisk, and drew X marks on the faces of our friends as a reminder that we killed them all on Genocide. In other words Chara didn't take our Soul to kill anyone, but to scare us and ruin the good feeling of our happily ever after.

One of the problems with this interpretation is that we don't ever kill Alyphs, yet she also has an X mark on her face. Of course, Chara also puts the blame of their own choice of destroying the world onto us in the Genocide endings, so it's not out of the question that they would attempt to gaslight us on Alyphs's death as well.

One can argue that everything Chara does in these endings is meant to characterize them as a manipulative hypocrite, but that would require their hypocrisy to be pointed out and or challenged in the game, which isn't ever done. Because there's no counters to Chara's statements and actions, all their ending scenes come across as just Toby/the game using the worst character to teach us an incredibly flawed lesson. This is especially the case since Toby has even used Flowey to parrot his same publicly stated gripes with players killing enemies in other games.

If Chara in Genocide was meant to be in the wrong to some degree, Toby utterly failed to convey that. And considering Toby has gone on record saying that Chara carried a "message," what they do and tell us in these endings is definitely supposed to be his "moral of the story" lesson.

But if consequences are such an important theme for Undertale, Chara should ALSO be held accountable for the atrocious acts that they support and commit. They explicitly show that they know what they do is wrong after all. Chara getting off scot-free, AND treated like some kind of judge of our actions is a backwards and narrative flop of a writing decision. It seems like two wrongs don't make a right, and mutual accountability are two concepts that completely flew over Toby's head when writing Undertale.

If Toby wanted to teach a lesson to Genocide players so badly, he should have used a different character to get his point across. Why not have the manifestation of consequences just be a faceless entity that talks to us like Chara does after they destroy the world? Someone disapprovingly shaking their finger to us at the end of the Genocide routes isn't even necessary because of the actual judge character Toby created: Sans.

Beyond Sans literally judging us on every route, his ridiculously difficult fight and dialogue in Genocide very effectively gets the message/lesson across to every Genocide player, and unlike with Chara, it works without issues because Sans isn't our "partner" IN the Genocide. Imagine if Sans helped us kill people on Genocide, but randomly became judgmental and went Megalovania Mode on us by the end. The righteous impact of him fighting us just wouldn't be there at all, and yet the equivalent of that is what Chara does to us.

- Chara Critique Conclusion -

And with that, we've gone through most of the issues of Chara's character while excluding the possibility of them being the narrator. Is there a chance that viewing Chara as the narrator can fix the issues we went over?

- Narrator Chara Critique -

In my old Narrachara debunk post, I brought up the problems and nonsensical nature of Chara being the narrator, but that was just from the perspective of the player being nondiegetic. One of the things I failed to notice at the time was that the idea of Chara being the narrator automatically dictates that we are canon and that Chara knows about us. Player theory can exist without Narrachara, but not vice versa because the narrator blatantly acknowledges Undertale's world as a game in the Asriel fight.

When we factor in that Chara knows about us game players, them narrating Frisk's actions, thoughts and feelings makes a lot more sense. Chara knows that we are limited to viewing Undertale's world from our screens, so their narration serves as a way of relaying what Frisk is experiencing to us, as well as a method of guiding us in the game.

However, this still leaves the important question of why would Chara choose to be our video game narrator. There's nothing they gain out of being our narrator, and there's no need for them to take that role when there's already a narrator present at the start of the game.

There's nothing within Chara's backstory that we can link to a desire to be a narrator either, and they don't even bring up their choice to narrate for us when we see them at the end of Genocide. In fact, what Chara tells us face to face actively goes against the idea that they are our narrator. Chara says that they were confused and led by our "guidance," but as the narrator they are the one that confidently guides US without any sign of confusion.

If Chara is meant to be our narrator, their Genocide ending dialogue is unnecessarily misleading and contradictory to their most prominent role in the game.

- Chara's knowledge as the narrator -

There are moments within Undertale that some argue establishes that the narrator is not omniscient, and people have used those moments as evidence for Narrachara.

There are two problems with this line of thinking.

Standard narrators don't HAVE to be omniscient.

There's actually more in support of Chara being all knowing about things in Undertale than anything else.

Here's some examples:

Chara knows that Asriel is the one who calls us before he even speaks

Chara knows that going through the Pacifist exit ends the game

Chara knows exactly how many killable monsters are in the areas we go to

Another example of Chara's knowledge of how many Monsters there are to kill comes at the end of Genocide. As previously mentioned, we don't directly kill every monster in the Underground by the time Chara shows up, yet Chara says "there's nothing left for us here" after Asgore and Flowey are killed. Chara can't be saying that because we gained maximum LV either, since we already hit the cap after killing Sans, yet Chara doesn't show up the the Judgment Hall. Using Narrchara as a precedent, the ONLY reason Chara appears is because they know that Asgore is the last person that the game allows us to find and kill.

All of these examples make it clear that Chara is not only linked with us, but the entire GAME itself.

If Toby's intention wasn't for Chara to know everything about the game, he did an awful job at giving them the limitations that a non-omniscient character would have to abide by.

Another problem of Chara having such vast knowledge of the game is that it botches the story point of them being influenced by our actions. As many have pointed out, Chara's narration changes depending on the kills/LV we've accumulated. But Chara being the narrator effectively makes them an ungrounded deity that shouldn't be affected by the things they already know would/could happen in the game.

To make matters worse, the most significant shift Chara's narration undergoes (Genocide) isn't even consistent or permanent.

- Narrator Chara: Genocide -

Despite supposedly being jaded and darkened because of our Genocide, Chara still gives us a lot of the exact same jokey and easy going narrations that are on the other routes.

These types of narrations completely clash with the much darker "I just wanna kill" narration in the same route.

The lack of consistency is even worse in Monster encounters. Most encounters aren't changed at all on Genocide, which means we get the same quirky and excited narrator personality in most of the route's fights.

I understand that changing every single narration to account for Genocide would have been a big task, but if Toby didn't have the drive to come up with narration to replace all the unfitting ones, all he had to do was have Chara use the "silent" ellipses narration in their places. What's even worse is how as soon as the Genocide route is aborted, ALL the signs of Chara being negatively influenced by it vanishes. This wouldn't be a problem for a regular narrator, but it doesn't make sense for a character's narration to not have any traces of negative growth from our Genocide "guidance."

Even when we complete a Genocide run and do other routes, Chara's "corrupted" narration is nowhere to be seen. Their behavior is completely reset as if they never learned anything from us in the first place. But we know their behavior isn't reset post Genocide, since they show up at the end of a Pacifist run to devilishly dish out our consequences.

It has been argued that Chara's post geno narration isn't any different because the game wants to lure us into a false sense of security. But this still falls into the same problems of Toby not being consistent on what Chara is. Are they the game itself, or are they just a child that's easily influenced? A character that went through major development can't just reset back to their original behavior without any type of change at the drop of a hat.

Something else that doesn't make any sense about Chara's Genocide narration, is why they go back and forth between first person narration and second person narration. When not viewing Chara as the narrator, their first person Geno messages works as the GAME occasionally giving us Chara's thoughts or nondiegetic commentary on things. 

Here's some examples from two other games.

Outside of examples like these, there's no in-world reason for Chara to physically tell the PLAYER "I unlocked the chain," after saying things like "You got the Locket." They don't fit together.

- Chara & Frisk's Relationship -

As we went over, Chara's narration is meant for the real player, not Frisk. But this runs in contrary to one of the main things people enjoy about the Narrachara concept, which is the idea of Frisk and Chara developing a "dynamic"/friendship that's conveyed through Chara's narration. Practically all fanon portrayals of Narrachara have Chara exclusively narrating/talking to Frisk, and even living with them after Frisk leaves the Underground.

In terms of the canon however, Chara doesn't seem to think Frisk is anything more than an extension of us in-world. Chara only uses Frisk's name in one line, and it's meant to be a direct follow up to them narrating for the player.

When not accounting for Chara being the narrator, "Still just you, Frisk" seems like it's the game treating Frisk as if they are player-free. But if we factor in Chara being the narrator, this tells us the exact opposite. Chara seems to (somehow) believe that the real player's name is actually Frisk, and the ending of the Genocide route further proves this.

Chara claims that Frisk's physical SOUL and Determination is the players, and they don't give the faintest acknowledgment to Frisk once in any of their speeches. https://imgur.com/lkH62yV

For all intents and purposes, Frisk is treated like they just don't exist on Genocide; the only factors are the player and Chara. With this in mind, all of Chara's narration that has been interpreted as them developing a bond with Frisk, is really just about the player.

Even the idea that Chara permanently stays with Frisk after they leave the Underground isn't true. By Chara's own words, when all is said and done in the game, they go with the player to other worlds (games) and stay with us "forever."

Another reason why people like Narrachara is because they believe Chara helping us in the Pacifist route gives them a positive character arc and rids them of their hatred for humanity. But the crux of that belief still comes from the misconception that Chara forms a bond with a Human and stays with them.

The best thing you can argue Narrachara does for the overall story is allow Chara to "atone" for getting Asriel killed, by helping us save him in the final battle. But the lack of an apology to Asriel on Chara's end really makes that supposed atonement incomplete. We don't know if Chara is actually sorry since they don't say that they are.

As the narrator, Chara seems to intentionally hide who they are in Neutral and Pacifist routes, but if there was ever a moment where their true identity should have been revealed, it's when Asriel was opening up them.

It's been argued that the silent nature of the narrator in moments like this is supportive evidence that it's Chara, but it's actually the opposite since there's no reason for Chara to have nothing to say when Asriel is pouring his heart out to them. The complete lack of personal things to say on the narrator's end just makes it seem as if they don't have any connection to Asriel, and they only help us save him because it's their job as the narrator.

At the very least Chara should have made it known that they weren't gone like Asriel later believes, but we don't even get that.

Chara not being open on who they are in the entire Pacifist run goes against the idea that they had a character arc, and is one of the many things make it seem as if they aren't the narrator in all routes. All this combined with Chara not even sticking around in their world after the game is over REALLY makes their revival a rather pointless addition that does nothing but drag down the game's writing.

Speaking of the writing being dragged down, Frisk's own writing suffers even more thanks to Narrachara. Let's briefly go over how before we wrap up this critique of Narrachara.

- Narrachara overshadowing Frisk -

The part of the fandom that is defensive of Chara often act as if they are the singular character we control in Undertale.  Jump into any discussion about Chara's morals, and you're bound to see someone saying that we "force" Chara to kill monsters.

From Judgment Boy's "The Truth about Chara" Video. Notice the complete erasure of Frisk

And given everything I've went over in this post, it's really not at all hard to see why people think this way when everything that revolves around Chara (especially Genocide) overshadows Frisk.  And when viewing Chara as the narrator, Frisk even loses what would normally be seen as their "voice."

In any other game, these narrations would just be seen as the narrator relaying the visually silent protagonist's own feelings/thoughts, but the focus wouldn't be on the narrator because the narrator wouldn't be their own character. But for Undertale, this type of thing becomes: "Look at how Chara is feeling. Look at what you're doing to them by feeding them LV," while Frisk is rarely brought up.

Chara feeling what Frisk feels is redundant, and it shifts the focus off of the main character because they aren't the one who is visually speaking.

When you're constantly seeing the narrator as a character, even the simple act of the narrator saying what FRISK does can get taken as a "Chara character moment."

From Nochoco's Chara Analysis

----- Narrachara Critique Conclusion -----

The Narrachara concept has all of the issues that Chara brings to the (already deeply flawed) diegetic player execution, and it adds it's own gigantic layer of problematic elements.

Even when not factoring in Narrachara, Chara is without a doubt the worst character in Undertale.

Toby wanted Chara to represent way too many things that didn't fit together, but he felt that by combining all of them he could pass it off as his character being complex and up to interpretation, when in reality he just made a very poorly written mess. He threw that mess of a character into the final game and expected people to come up with their own headcanons to do his job of filling in the flaws like a puzzle. But the puzzle is so fundamentally broken that no headcanon peices can completely fill/fix it. Toby's subpar writing for Chara is also why the Chara Defense Squad and Chara Offense Squad came about, and why there will always be heated debates about the character.

While Chara's role in the story pre-revival is very much needed, the fandom, Frisk, and Undertale as a whole would have been much better off without the rest of Chara's baggage.

- Flowey Critique -

Now this will be a much shorter one than the others.

Unlike Frisk and Chara, Flowey's character doesn't run into an identity crisis if the Player is diegetic. Flowey's only notable character problems are the inconsistencies in his knowledge of the player's existence and Chara's revival.

The thing most people immediately point to show that Flowey knows about the player is of course, the ending of the Pacifist run. But as we talked about before, going by Flowey's own words, he believes that the "player" is Chara. Even though preponderance of evidence points to Flowey's statement being blatantly incorrect, if he really felt that Chara was the one controlling Frisk and the Save power, the timing of his revelation comes off as character regression. Flowey (as Asriel) had already come to the conclusion that Chara had been "gone for a long time," so it makes no sense for him to randomly think that it was Chara all along after that.

But since most people feel that Flowey knows he's talking to the player, let's use some of their arguments to make sense out of why he says Chara.

The common explanation for why Flowey calls us Chara is because they are supposed to have our own name. But as we all know, "Chara" is established to be the character's "True Name." Their name is not ours in-universe, nor is it treated like that by anyone in the game prior to the Flowey ending.

If Flowey was truly meant to be talking to us, we should have only gotten the ending if we didn't give Chara their original name. Or better yet, Flowey should have just..not used Chara's name at the end of his speech.

The only other argument that can be made is that Toby's intention was for Flowey to sarcastically call us Chara. But even if we assume this is how the ending was meant to be seen, that's still some misleading and convoluted storytelling.

The next issue is the matter of when and how did Flowey discover the player's existence. Going by the super fourth wall breaking Omega Flowey fight, you'd assume that Flowey knew about us by that point at least right?

Well it's very important to note that despite Flowey shattering our save file with Chara's name on it, he doesn't think that Chara is around until the end of a Pacifist run or in a Genocide run.

If Flowey was able to see the name he would have said something

This means that just like most fourth wall breaking moments, the meta stuff Omega Flowey does can't be taken too literally. It also wouldn't make any form of sense for Flowey to be able to manipulate the entire game and sense our presence within Frisk, but not Chara's.

But given the complete lack of polish with everything in the diegetic player execution, it's not impossible that Toby truly felt there was no issue with Flowey being able to sense a higher dimensional being, but not the character that lives in his world. After all, Flowey seemingly references let's-play viewers that may be watching Genocide right?

If Flowey knows about people watching the game, that means he knows his world is a game, which in turn means he must know about the player.

The problem is.. the entire context of Flowey's Geno conversations are about Chara. He believes Chara is the one that took over Frisk soul and decided to kill everyone. If Flowey really knew about the player at this point, he wouldn't tell Chara to stop chasing him (for example) when we are the ones making the movement happen. This means that at most, Flowey referencing viewers is a non-canon fourth wall break.

Okay so how about we just say that Flowey discovered us after he became the God of Hyperdeath. He gained higher dimensional entity level knowledge and perception from his newfound power. Does that work? Nope. Asriel makes it clear that in his delusion he felt Chara was the only one he was fighting against.

This means the only point in time Flowey would have discovered the player is.. off screen. He found out that we were the biggest driver of the story and even how to contact us without any rhyme or reason.. off screen.

Needless to say this is a pretty big plothole, and it's why I prefer the lesser of two evils interpretation that Flowey just regressed and believed Chara was the player. With that interpretation, at the very least you can argue that Asriel transforming back into a flower altered his mindset and made him go back to his old projection habits.

But hey, we're going with the most agreed on diegetic player interpretation, and under that interpretation, Toby just wanted to have one of his characters reveal that we existed in-game on Pacifist, and he chose Flowey for the job. It didn't matter to him if Flowey being the vessel for that revelation made sense.

- Flowey Critique Conclusion -

And just like that, we're done with Flowey. Like I said, the only notable issues of his character revolve around the Player/Narrachara concepts. Outside of them, Flowey is great.

- Sans Critique -

While Sans is theorized to be aware of the player's existence, the consensus is that the evidence pointing to him knowing about us isn't as solid as it is with Flowey and Chara.

Sans even refers to us as "kid" when we fight him, which shows that he doesn't *have* to know about us just because he believes Frisk to be a timeline "anomaly."

As usual, Sans is perfect. This ends his critique. 😎👍

- Fixing Undertale -

I have a ton of notes on how to fix most of Undertale's Player & Narrachara problems, (assuming they are canon) but this post has gone on long enough, so I'll just quickly run through the corrections for the two most important characters, and save the rest for another discussion.

- Fixing Chara -

Right off the bat, the prompt to "name the Fallen Human" needs to be removed, not only because giving Chara a different name is completely irrelevant in canon, but because I'm not including Chara in our journey. Nothing of any real value is lost if Chara isn't revived, and I already have a Chara-free fix for their most popular role in Genocide. What Chara does in the story before we start playing the game is important, but it also works perfectly fine as their only role in the game.

On the opposite end, the present day Chara is too many half-baked things at once, and everything that is established about them barely has any similarities with the past Chara. Aside from them dryly claiming possession over New Home items in Genocide, as the narrator they are treated like a completely separate character with no inherent life values.

Even the two most definable character traits about the past Chara (hating humanity and wanting to free monsterkind) are completely erased/treated as irrelevant to the present Chara. The revived Chara doesn't make a single comment that shows they hate humans, and they don't even raise any objection or discomfort when we MURDER the monsters they supposedly loved and sacrificed their LIFE for in the past.

Now you might be saying: "But Chara being around in the present as our narrator brings a lot of colorful commentary!"

That's Toby's humor/personality actually. A lot of the jokes made by "Chara" in Undertale are also made by Deltarune's narrator.

Aside from the first person Genocide narration, ALL of Undertale's narration can stay exactly the same even without Chara being present. Some of Chara's narration even fits perfectly as Frisk's own "voice," just as it would if the games narrator was a standard one.

On a more subjective note, I believe that Chara should also have a more unique character design. Chara leeching off of Frisk's character moments is bad enough, and their design being a lazy recolor of Frisk's gives many the initial impression that they are just the "evil side" of Frisk. It's not even necessary for Chara to look completely different. They could still have the same color scheme, but just a different hairstyle instead of Frisk's copied and pasted onto them.

Even though Chara would not be directly involved in our adventure, the ripple effects of who they were and their past actions would still be strongly felt in the present with Asriel. Asriel's arc of letting Chara and the past go would also work WAY better when Chara is actually..in the past.

Obviously this means that the "see you later Chara" Flowey ending must be scrapped too. Even if you interpret that ending as what establishes Flowey's awareness of the player, it's too confusing and open to interpretation to keep around. Flowey knowing about us is detrimental to the story anyway.

Overall, Chara being taken out of the main story significantly improves the game on every level. With Chara gone, the focus would be on the person it always should have been on: Frisk the main character.

- Fixing Frisk -

Using the groundwork Toby made, (but didn't finish) Frisk's default nature should be a very kind kid that hates violence. But for their character to work with the player being able to make Frisk do bad things, there needs to be explicit and consistent showings of Frisk resisting against our unfriendly commands from the start. For example, the narrator could point out that Frisk reluctantly attacks the monsters when we make them do it with low or zero LV. But Frisk's resistance and behavior should weaken and get more malicious the more LV we forcibly make them acquire. This works perfectly with what LV is supposed to do in the first place, but this time it actually matters for Frisk. Frisk also shouldn't be able to say cruel and rude things to monsters unless we fill them up on LV.

All of this works to subtly let the player know that they are canon in Undertale's story.

I would prefer for there to be an explanation on why we take control of Frisk, but Toby didn't establish one in-game, and I want this fixing to be as faithful as possible. Games with a diegetic player usually don't provide reasons for why we possess the main character anyway, so I can't criticize Toby too harshly on that front.

Since the Pacifist route fits like a glove with Frisk's inherently kind heart, there should be more things Frisk does without our input on the route. For example, Frisk should automatically hug Asriel and choose to live with Toriel. There shouldn't be an option not to do the most caring things when locked on the Pacifist route, because Frisk's own will/Determination to do good would be reinforced and strengthened. Because of this, the "you are filled with Determination" messages would be exclusively shown to us on the Pacifist route as a way of letting us know Frisk is steadily gaining more control over theirself.

In replacement of Flowey talking to the player after the Pacifist route is finished, the game presents to us a single question:

"Will you let them live their lives?"

- Genocide Fixing -

The higher freedom Frisk gains on the Pacifist route should be more restricted than ever in most of the Genocide run. For example, instead of Frisk's body automatically moving towards Papyrus while he's monologuing, the player is allowed to move in these cutscenes. This would be similar to how Deltarune allows us to interrupt Noelle's last cutscene in Snowgrave by making Kris move towards her.

Flowey believing Frisk to be Chara can stay as is, but all the "you're not human" lines that several of the characters have in the route needs to go.

As for the narrator's lines, the undeniably Chara related ones need to be replaced by standard narration. Standard narration in the Genocide route's case can even still have the same grim nature as a reflection Frisk's mindset, and the overall tone of the route.

Now here are the BIGGEST changes to the route:

Killing Sans will not automatically give us maximum LV.Instead the player must kill Asgore to reach LV 20. The game doesn't give us any option other than to press the  "FIGHT" button to kill him, and after we do, Flowey shows up to get brutally slaughtered by multiple automatic slashes from Frisk.

After Flowey is turned to ash, we transition out of Battle Mode and back to Asgore's Garden. The tint of the area is significantly much darker now though, and Frisk automictically turns around to face the Player.

For the first time, we see a smile on Frisk's face and their eyes.

In another first, we witness Frisk's words as they speak to us. They tell us that they were somehow freed from our control after the power boost their body gained from killing Asgore. This is a result of their body hitting their physical peak, (Max LV) becoming far too powerful for us to manipulate.

They tell us that at first they were terrified when we took control of them, and they suffered from the mental and physical pain we put them through. They tell us that despite their anguish, they eventually understood why we did what we did, which was to make them stronger.

They thank us for guiding them and showing them their true purpose in life, but they also tell us that they have a feeling that they can't get stronger anymore..and that..makes them sad.

They tell us that they know there's only one thing left to do, and that's what we taught and gave them the power to do: Annihilate.

With a deranged grin, Frisk makes a mighty slash, destroying everything in existence, including theirself.

All that's left is a perpetual blackness, and our feelings.

There's no one around to say anything else to us. We forcibly turned a loving child that wouldn't harm a fly into an insane mass murderer and got them killed. And knowing that, is the worst consequence of all.

After ten minutes, the True Reset option is presented to us. We are given the chance to make things right. Will we take it, or will we put Frisk (and the timeline) through that hell all over again? The choice is entirely up to us.

There is no Soulless Pacifist, since there is no character holding a grudge against us after Genocide.

- Post Conclusion -

And that wraps up the most important changes that fixes a lot of Undertale's problems. Given everything discussed in this post, I think it's self-explanatory how these alterations would improve the narrative and enjoyment factor of the game overall.

What do you guys think? Like my ideas? Do my solutions get the job done, or do you think they can be tweaked? I'm open to criticism on this, so let me know know in the comments or ask me questions if more details are needed.

Even though there's a high chance that the player being diegetic is what Toby intended, as of now it's still just a theory. But if Toby ever does reveal that the player was always canon in UT... well I believe I've shown why that is not a good thing at all.

And if Toby also happens to reveal Narrachara as canon, (hopefully not) that would be incredibly detrimental for the game's overall quality.

While far from flawless, (some of my criticisms apply to the game no matter what) I do love Undertale. I love the music, the characters, (Sans is God) the humor, etc. But if the Player and Narrachara theories are canon, they significantly soil what is otherwise, a great game.

[luigraphics]

do you know how to do blur images but with gifs?

Depends on what you need to do? If you just want a very blurry gif for some reason, you can do it in Ezgif in the effects section:

Once you upload your gif, you can go to Gaussian Blur and select how much blurring you want (although be wary, it doesn't play nice with large size gifs in my& experience)

If you want more control/some other effect, you can do it in Photopea by uploading your gif there, selecting every layer in the gif, and applying a Gaussian/other blur to it in Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur...

and... there you have it? However, just in case if you meant something different, I&'ll also show you how I&'d do other effects:

You might want to have a blur transition so it goes from blurry to sharp, you can of course do it in Photopea by slowly changing the amount of gaussian blur for each frame layer until it's sharp, but I& have found that it's easier to do this in a video editing program than in Photopea. I& used CapCut for this example because it's free and comes with this effect pre-installed:

There is also a regular blur effect that you can then just keyframe to your liking!

So it turns out like this after exporting and converting:

Now, if you mean you want to blur the edges of the gif themselves, then you must keep in mind that gif as a format does not support transparency. However, as I& explained in one of my& previous tutorials on apng, it's possible to do this with animated pngs!

Please do keep in mind that apng weighs A LOT. Please only use it for very short gifs! For this reason I&'ll be shortening the gif a lot.

First, apply a blurry clipping mask of your choosing:

Then, go to File -> Export as -> PNG

Then save your APNG! Tumblr does not support those yet, but you can view the result here on Imgur:

Hope that was helpful? Let me& know if you meant something else!

[kakyoinscheryblush]

Those Summer Nights [Jotaro Kujo x reader]

Masterlist << Previous chapter ｜Next chapter

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Chapter two, Rydell High and the greasers

*Monday, 1.st p.o.v, Y/n*

“DARLING! COME DOWNSTAIRS!” Mom screamed from the bottom of the stairs. 

I groaned in my pillow as I got up from my bed, “Good God… I’M COMING IN  MINUTE!” I shouted back and was met with silence.

“Classic.” I muttered under my breath as I got out of bed and put on slippers and walked downstairs. 

“I’m here mom… And… Why did you call me down this early? It’s like 6 a.m and I have to get to school at 7:15 a.m” I said and mom looked at me with a raised eyebrow, “...Y/n, you lived on a farm all your life. Did the Winfield air get into your head already?” she asked and I laughed. 

“Oh, don’t worry, I was only joking.” I said as I tried to defend myself. Mom shook her head and motioned at the front doors.

“Your father is waiting outside for you, and hurry up!” Mom pushed me a little and she furrowed her eyebrows. 

‘What in the hell does dad need me now..?’ I thought as I stepped outside with my fluffy slippers. 

And lo and behold, on the drive in stood my father with a brand new car next to him, the keys of the car dangling from his finger. 

“Close your mouth or you’re going to catch flies.” Dad chuckled as he walked over to me and dangled the car keys in front of my shocked face.

“What? You’re at a loss of words?” dad asked jokingly and I still gaped at the new and polished car. 

“I- How- But why-” I tried to form a sentence but closed my mouth.

Dad laughed as he patted me on her back, “You see… Me and your mom want you to fit in with the kids here, and I don’t think that riding around with our beat up pickup truck will help. Besides, we know you have whined for a car since 7th grade.” he said and I gently took the car keys from him. 

The car looked like it was from that one magazine I’ve read in Daleville.

It was dark blue with two big white stripes going from the front to the back. [Car look reference https://imgur.com/a/eN4tMql ]

“I didn’t know that Ford Mustangs were so wanted on the market, but I got a special deal since I know how happy you would be.” Dad smiled warmly as he adjusted his button up shirt.

“I- Thank you dad-” I whispered as I launched herself into his arms. 

“Alright, kiddo- You’re starting to choke me now-” Dad wheezed out as he pulled away from my strong gripp, “Oops, sorry ‘bout that…” I sheepishly laughed and dad only patted my head.

“I have to get going to my new workplace, and you should start getting ready.” he noted as he pointed to my fluffy slippers. 

“Bye dad!” I  exclaimed in embarrassment as I rushed inside and started to get ready. Once I was done, I ate the breakfast that mom prepared and of course went into the yard and had a decent petting session with Bucky. 

Once I washed my hands and got my bag with books, I bid goodbye to Bucky and mom. I entered my brand new Ford Mustang and grinned, “This machine is so much better that our red tin can…” I laughed as I pulled out of the driveway and started to drive out of the neighborhood. 

I noticed the stares she was getting as she entered the center of town. I passed the restaurants, cinemas and many more until I reached the high and mighty, Rydell High.

My confidence began to deflate as soon as I noticed just how many people were outside and chatting.

“Maybe… If I stay in my car for a few minutes. Hehehe…” I laughed awkwardly as I noticed the stares from the students who began to whisper ‘discreetly’.

I parked the car in a free spot and adjusted my black skirt that reached past my knees and f/c coloured blouse with a bow tied at the collar. 

“Next time I’m not asking mom for fashion tips.” I muttered and took a deep breath, exiting the new car as I locked it.

I gulped and looked around the huge yard, looking for Tommy who was supposed to wait for me at the entrance. 

As I looked one more time I spotted the dirty blonde guy. I tightly grabbed my leather school bag and began to walk towards Tommy. 

I could see the people staring at me, but I  tried to ignore it.

I noticed Tommy being surrounded by a group of six girls and all of them were laughing and giggling while two of them were wrapped around his arms.

‘Should I say something… Or should I wait?’ I thought and just as I was about to stop a few feet away from Tommy and his groupie, he noticed me and tore away from the girls’ grip. 

“Y/n! Nice to see that you’ve made it! By the way, you have an awesome car! I didn’t know you out of all people would have such a beast.” Tommy laughed. 

‘Ouch… This guy never really learned to give a compliment, did he?’ I thought bitterly as I tightly smiled. 

“What can I say, looks can deceive…” I mumbled out and noticed the glares I was receiving from the six girls.

Tommy also noticed this and laughed, “Oh! How rude of me! Girls, this is Y/n L/n, the new student from Daveville-”

“It’s Daleville.” I quickly interrupted Tommy who only cleared up his throat, “Yeah, yeah Davevill, Danville- whatever. But anyway, I want you all to be nice to her, okay?” he asked and all of them smiled at him and said yes. 

Tommy grinned and motioned for me to follow him, “Don’t worry about them, they just don’t like new people…” Tommy said with a reassuring smile. 

‘Reminds me of a certain hissing feline…’ I internally rolled my eyes and nodded. 

His fangirls followed close to the both of us, whispering God knows what. 

As Tommy was showing me around the school, he noticed the absence of his fangirls. “Not this shit again?” Tommy whispered as he looked around the hallway and noticed the six girls walking into the opposite direction. 

“Tommy? What's the matter?” I asked in confusion and Tommy only rolled his eyes, “For the hundredth time, it’s Thomas- And you’ll have to excuse me for a second-” he muttered as he rushed back to his fangirls who were obviously going back to the entrance to look for somebody who had just arrived. 

And now I was left standing alone in the middle of a crowded hallway.

I had my schedule which arrived via mail but I didn’t know where the rest of my classes were since my guide, Tommy, ran away. 

“Good God… I’ll murder him when I see him…” I muttered angrily but I was all of a sudden tapped on the shoulder. I turned around and was met with two girls smiling. 

One had short blonde hair with bangs, green eyes and was wearing brown flared out pants with a pink shirt with flower print on it along with brown leather sandals.

The other one had longer brown hair with a headband, hazel eyes and was wearing a yellow plaid dress with white flats and she had a small yellow hair clip in her hair.

“Hi… We noticed you were lost and we wanted to know if you needed any help?” the blond one began and the brunette girl nodded in agreement.

I sighed in defeat and nodded my head, “Yeah… This guy Tommy- I mean Thomas was supposed to show me the rest of the school but he ran off to chase his fangirls.”

The two girls’ eyes widened at the mention of Tommy’s name as they both looked at each other, “Thomas… As in a rich looking guy with dirty blonde hair and always wears polo shirts?” the brunette girl asked and I nodded. 

“Yeah… that’s him.” I said and they started to laugh hysterically, “OH GOD! THAT DUNCE!” The blond one slapped the other girl's shoulder as they both howled with laughter. 

I just stood there, waiting for them to finish their laughing fit.

They both calmed down and the blond girl offered me her hand with a grin, “Name’s Sheri Hoffman, nice to meet you. And this is Lisa Carter, ``she said with a warm smile.

“Nice to meet you both, I’m Y/n L/n… And let me just get out my schedule and maybe you can help me.” Y/n said as she pulled out her class schedule and gave it to Sheri and Lisa. 

“Well, Y/n, you're in luck because you share all your classes with us… And with that brat Tommy…” Lisa said and Sheri nodded with a frown.

“How do you even know each other?” Sheri asked as she fixed her blond hair. 

“We’re actually new neighbors.” Y/n said and Sheri and Lisa looked at each other with beliverment.

“You know what? I need a chair to sit down because of this… Let’s get going to class.” Sheri said and all three of them headed to their first class. 

‘I can’t believe I already made friends! Bingo!’ I thought in excitement as I followed Sheri and Lisa. 

*time skip, the end of school*

Well, the classes went on fine, nothing new, except that Tommy had to butt into everyone's sentence and finish it for them. Good God, does that guy ever shut up? 

Sheri and Lisa went home through the back entrance, since they had their own rides home. And we exchanged our numbers so we can stay in contact.

As I was walking down the bustling hallway I noticed more eyes looking at me. 

Gee, did these Rydell High kids never learn that it was rude to stare at somebody?

But I ignored it, since I didn’t want to have any conflict happen on my first day of school. 

As I walked out I was met with students laughing at something. As I fought my way through the crowd and started to walk towards my car, I noticed at what everyone as laughing at, 

My new vandalized car.  

I gasped at the horrendous sight as I rushed to my Ford Mustang and observed the damage. It had scratches all over the windows and it was spray painted on the doors. 

I looked around myself and the laughing crowd disappeared.

“Cowards…” I muttered bitterly as I crouched down and tried to wipe some spray paint off the car. I spent 20 minutes doing so but I was slowly starting to lose my nerves. 

Tommy already went home, and so did Sheri and Lisa…. And I certainly couldn’t show up home with my car looking like this. 

I started to wipe down the spray paint more aggressively, but nothing was coming off. As 10 minutes passed, the school's parking lot was almost empty and the school was now closed. 

I sat onto the curb of the sidewalk and put my elbows on my knees and put my chin on my palms, thinking of a way to explain this to my parents. 

All of a sudden a shadow was cast over me and I looked up, only to be met with a guy with black hair. 

“Uh… Hello?” I asked the guy, a bit dejected. He didn’t say anything to me and looked at my vandalized car.

I looked at him with an raised eyebrow as he walked closer to the dark blue Ford Mustang and scoffed. 

“Those bastards really outdid themselves…” he muttered out and I nodded my head, “Yeah, they created a true masterpiece.” I replied sarcastically. I took a closer look at him and noted his appearance. 

He was tall, taller than Tommy, had jet black hair that was greased up but had a bang falling over his forehead, aquamarine colored eyes and was wearing dark blue jeans with a white shirt and a notable black leather jacket. 

A sudden flashback flew over my head as I remember Tommy describing those ‘hooligans’ when I was at his house for dinner with my family. 

‘Was he the one who did this and was just trying to cover it up?’ my mind raced with various options, but should I really trust Tommy’s word after Sheri and Lisa told me everything they knew about him?

Why do I have to choose such things in such stressful situations!?

“Well… Are you going to just look at it or what?” I asked the guy with irritation as I got up and dusted off my skirt.

He glanced at me and raised an eyebrow, “Good grief, you’re that new girl in the school, aren't you?” he asked all of a sudden, completely ignoring my question. 

I nodded my head, not having any energy to argue, “Yeah, I am. Why do you ask?” I asked him.

“Because you apparently smell like chicken food, and- they were partly right. But they didn’t include you having this Ford Mustang.” the guy said as he motioned to my vandalized car. 

“I SMELL LIKE CHICKEN FOOD ? WHO TOLD YOU THAT!?” I raged as my face flushed in embarrassment. How is that even possible? I put on a ton of perfume and what not shit I found in the bathroom. 

The guy looked at me, unfazed by my yelling and shrugged his shoulders, “It was a group of some girls walking by me and thinking I was listening to them or something. You already got yourself a reputation, chicken girl.” the guy said and I fought my urge to kick him and smash his head against the curb.

“Did you just… call me… Chicken girl?” I asked in disbelief. What is with these Rydell High kids? 

“I did.” The guy simply replied. I groaned internally and clenched my fist. “Okay, oil grease, do you know any mechanics near here so I can get my fucking car fixed?” I asked as I crossed my arms. 

The guy rolled his eyes and ran a hand through his greased up hair, “I do… And that’s me.” he said. My expression fell as the words hit my ear. 

Really? Was this some kind of joke? 

“You're joking, right? How much did Tommy pay you?” I asked the guy.

“That fuck face didn’t pay me anthing, and I’m telling the truth. I can fix your car until midnight.” he said and I looked at him, unconvinced. 

Should I trust him? What if he wants to kidnap me? But my thoughts wandered off to my raging parents and I made up my mind.

I’m going to trust this grease oil guy. 

“Fine by me, where is your car repair shop then?” I asked him as I unlocked my car and got in the driver's seat. Thank God they didn’t scratch out this glass.

“Well, what are you waiting for, grease boy? Get in.” I said, motioning for him to get in. 

“No, you get out. You’ll get lost.” he said and I rolled my eyes, “And how do you know that?” I asked him, not moving from my seat.

“Good grief, you’re making this more difficult than it has to be.” He muttered out as he grabbed me by my arms, got me out of the car and sat down. 

I opened my mouth but I stopped myself as I saw him adjust his seat and turn on the car.

“You know what? I’m not even going to argue.” I scoffed as I got into the front passenger's seat next to him and crossed my arms. 

“Well then? Aren’t you going to start to drive?” I asked him, still salty, about what he did a few moments ago. “I will, but drop the attitude, chicken girl.” he said and I gave him a glare.

“For your information, my name’s Y/n L/n and not chicken girl, you kind of mispronounced it.” I replied to him as he began to drive from the school.

“Well, I’m Jotaro Kujo, and not oil grease.” he retorted back with sass. 

‘Jotaro Kujo, you say? Interesting… tomorrow I’m going to ask Sheri and Lisa about him…’ I thought as I noticed the scene change.

From nice buildings, restaurants and many more, we came to what seemed a poorer side of Winfielt. Or ‘the East side’ as Tommy referred to it.

Jotaro noticed me looking around, well as much as I could, because of the scratch out side windows. 

“Yeah, this is the East side. I think that somebody already told you about us?” Jotaro asked with a slight frown.

“What do you mean, ‘us’? I asked him. “By ‘us’ I mean the greasers, the people who live in the East side.” he answered, well more like scoffed. 

“Greasers? Is that because of your greasy hair?” I joked and Jotaro only glanced at me, warning me to shut up. Damn, he doesn’t even joke…

For ten more minutes we spent riding in awkward silence across the East side with my vandalized car until I noticed a car repair shop nearing us. 

“Is that it?” I asked with hope. “It is, now get out.” he motioned for me to get out and I quickly exited my car. 

I opened my mouth to ask him something but a group of four similarly dressed guys excited through open garage doors and greeted Jotaro with smirks.

They even had similar hair styles, but they all had matching light blue vests with their name tags, probably the car repair shop uniform.

“Jotaro! Where were you- HOLLY SHIT! The fuck happened to this beauty?!” One brunette guy fell onto his knees as he touched my car. He still didn’t notice until he looked up and met my gaze. 

He tapped Jotaro on the shoulder and everyone quieted down as they looked at me with judgemental looks.

“... And who’s she? She’s one of your fangirls? You know what we think about that.” the same guy said as he quickly scrambled off the ground and dusted his jeans on. 

“No, she isn’t, and that's her car that got vandalized today. She just came with me to wait for the whole repair to finish and go back home.” Jotaro said briefly and got back into the car and drove it into the garage. 

The four guys looked at me strangely, and all of a sudden the shortest, and probably the youngest, walked in front of me and stretched out his hand.

“I’m Danny. Nice to meet you.” he said as he swept up his dirty blond hair away from his face. 

“Nice to meet you Danny. I’m Y/n.” I said as I shook his hand gently. “This is my older brother Dean-” he motioned to a basically older version of himself and Dean only winked in my direction. 

I politely waved, not saying anything. “Then, the smoke addict Michael, and next to him, the red head, is called Kakyoin.” Danny pointed to the two last guys.

And as of cue, Michael lit up his cigarette and pointed the lighter towards Danny, “Call me that again and I’ll use you as an ashtray, ‘kay?” he threatened and Danny laughed. 

“Whatever you say, chimney man.” Danny replied and Michale scoffed as he swept up his dark brown hair.

Kakyoin rolled his eyes and went to me, “I think you should go inside, you know- to see your car getting repaired.” He made up an excuse as he pulled me inside the car repair shop.

I saw Jotaro wiping down the spray paint with some kind of chemical as its smell spread through the whole workshop.

“This is going to take a while as Jotaro likes to nitpick and shit… And you’re in luck, we have some car glasses for your car.” Kakyoin said as he motioned me to sit down on a plastic chair by a small table. 

“Do you know how to play poker?” Kakyoin asked as he pulled out a pack of cards.

I nodded with a smirk, “Oh, you bet I do. I was the best in Daleville.” I said with pride in my voice. 

“We’ll see about that one.” Kakyoin laughed as we began to play and the others pilled in to watch us play poker while Jotaro worked on my car. 

“Wait wait wait, shouldn’t you be helping him or something?” I asked as I noticed the rest of the crew still watching us play, including Kakyoin. The guys looked at each other and scrambled to help Jotaro. 

I laughed to myself as I looked at them flying around the workshop to get the necessary parts. 

After a few hours passed I dozed off as I was sitting on the plastic chair with cars still in my hands. But I was awakened by the light shaking of my arm and I looked up only to see Kakyoin. 

“Hey, Jotaro finished repairing your Mustang and we were planning on going to a diner now. After you pay him the price, say that we left to go to Frankie’s, he knows where that is.” Kakyoin said and I nodded my head as I got up. 

The guys left and it was now only me and Jotaro in the workshop. 

I walked over to Jotaro only to see my car, repaired and polished. It looked like it didn’t even leave my driveway. 

“I… Thank you, Jotaro. You helped me out a bunch.” I thanked him and Jotaro only nodded.

“... No problem, and that would be… 5,000 $.” Jotaro said and I sweated a bit. My dumb ass forgot to bring any money with me today, not even a ten dollar bill. 

Jotaro turned to look at me with a raised eyebrow, “Good grief… don’t tell me you don’t have the money?” he groaned out and I rubbed the nape of my neck in embarrassment.

“I don’t have it… But I can give it to you tomorrow after school?” I suggested and Jotaro looked at me unconvinced. 

“And how do I know you will do that? I don’t like people who lie.” Jotaro said in a low tone and chills went down my spine. ‘Okay this guy is seriously scary…’ I thought as I gulped.  

“Well, you’ll just have to trust me…” I laughed awkwardly as he put the car keys into my hand and scoffed, leaving a black smear on my palm.

“Alright, I expect to see that five grand by tomorrow after school. Good luck on getting it.” Jotaro said and I nodded my head, “Don’t worry about it! It will be a piece of cake!” I said as I got in my car and started the engine.

I pulled out of the workshop and started to drive in the exact direction I remembered Jotaro driving and once I finally reached my neighborhood I noticed mom and dad standing by the doors. 

I parked my car in the driveway and got out and took out my school bag. 

“Hi mom… Hi dad…” I said as Iwaved at them with an embarrassed expression. Mom rushed to me and started to ask me all sorts of detailed questions.

“Mom- MOM! Calm down! I took two of my new friends for a drive around the town and they were showing me around.” I lied to them and both of them looked at each other and nodded. 

“Oh- Thank goodness that you’re okay… Imagine if those greasers kidnaped you or something!” Dad exclaimed and I laughed with him in agreement.

“Yup! But oh well, I’m kind of tired and I need to go greet Bucky.” I excused myself and ran inside. 

I walked into the backyard and Bucky went rushing to me and whining. “I know Bucky… I missed you too…” I cooed to him and he barked back. I heard distant hissing and looked at the fence, and it showed Princess hissing at Bucky. 

“Good God, really? You know what, Bucky! Go get her!” I exclaimed and Bucky didn’t even get to bark once because Princess jumped inside her yard and hid.

I laughed and gave Bucky his fresh food and water and went inside and ate dinner and told my parents about my whole day. 

Expect the part where my car got vandalized, of course. 

I got ready to sleep after putting all the books I needed for tomorrow and laid down on my bed. The scenes from the car shop still playing in my head.

But most importantly, how in the fuck do I plan on getting those five grand by tomorrow morning!?

I closed my eyes and forced myself to dream of picking up money from a tree. Maybe this will somehow work out… 

But tomorrow, the money she has to pay Jotaro won’t be her biggest worry yet…

[himbolover777]

Sorry for being too shy have a art as compensation https://imgur.com/a/NavnXHw

I have never drawn these goobers before so you will never know who I am based on art style muahahaha (on second thought you might... It's not like my style is completely different from this or something lmao)

THEYRE SO MOTHERFUCKING CUTE AHHHHH explodes, thank you anon you made my morning (and sorry i just love cat gifs)

[debatenarutooocs]

Hi, this is one of Seelen's pal. 

She asked me to submit the allegedly "Naruto x Kushina" Hentai photo because she doesn't have time to provide evidence to refute it due to work. https://imgur.com/7MToDpc

The first picture is a commission Hentai of BraveKingShishio's character Makali and Kushina that Seelen created in 2018 for BraveKingShishio. I censored it of course. https://imgur.com/3PnHq3K

The second image is an edited version that a random person made of the commission and submitted to rule34. 

If you look closely, you can tell that the image has been modified in several different places.

1. Skin tone that is the same to that of the original OC.

2. The logo of Seelenkaetzchen The editor neglected to fill in the white gaps of the original white background of the image in her logo when creating the colorful background.

3. Hair from "Naruto" The shading in particular reveals that the hair's color was altered in several places. You just have to take a closer look.

I didn't predict anything more from Rin/Rin Defender than a last-ditch effort to grasp at anything to cast Seelen in a negative light. But anons statement was once more shown to be untrue. Keep in mind Rin or Rin defender that it was Rins fault and that she deserved to be criticized for what she did to Seelen and all of the other people including a big number of other Gaara x Oc creators, a few artists Rin commissioned, and Rins former closest friend Kora Bani / Koemi Chinoike. In fact Rin was the one to get things going by publishing untruths about Seelen and thenerdscorner publically in her stories and demonized descriptions in her subsequent image uploads. Having the nerve to tag their accounts even. Rin didn't want to and still refuse to apologize to Seelen for calling her out in the stories  she made up about her filled with lies and false accusations and I won't go into detail about anything else she did because it was made public. Additionally, Seelen is aware that Rin continues to misrepresent everything that occured to other people because they approached her to address it.

Now that Kora Bani expressed regret for her actions as an adult and made amends with Seelen, Rin obviously can't get over what happened because she's still bitter we all seen how Rin mistreated a lot of people including her buddy. 

Rin, you're the root of the issues you refuse to address. Leave Seelen alone and carry on with your miserable life.

Wow so someone stole Seelen's cm that she drew for braveking (kushina x male oc) and edited out to try to frame her as "incest" shipper? Yikes.

The truth will always come out! Now we all see the proof that it wasn't her who drew kushina x naruto incest art. Right now it must be embarassing for Rin defenders who litterally slandered Seeleen.

I dont get why Rin hates Seelen so badly, and to be obsessed to ruin Seelen's reputation.... it's not normal.Rin Mori needs to see a therapist to talk it out. She is so deluded to think she must drag and blame seelen who had nothing to do with original situation.

I honestly can't believe Rin won't acknowledge her mistakes and for wrongly accusing random people. It is unfortunately because in my opinion her behavior shows she feels no remorse nor guilt for hurting innocent people. It is concerning. She should learn from her friend korabani at least she took responsability of her actions and apologized to Seelen.

[secretcheesecakecowboy]

Atomix wasn’t a date.

More info on that night and a different selfie from the same night:

https://imgur.com/a/FDi6mJr

Once again, you proof nothing. If I'm not mistaken, wasn't this pic edit? This "proof" came from a jikooker. The lighting is different, one side is yellow light, and the other is white light. You're telling me a fancy restaurant can't afford to have the same lighting throughout their restaurant.

[strangeasexuallegume]

Thoughts on the Rainbooms' "pony up" outfits in Legend of Everfree and the redesign for Forgotten Friendship onward:

https://imgur.com/kowU92Q

https://imgur.com/M14U3TW

Not a fan of really any of the Everfree outfits, AJ’s and Sunset’s kind of work but that’s about it. Rarity’s is alright. Overall the designs feel overwhelming at worst and simply don’t work well at best. The variety in hairstyles is nice though, I love Pinkie Pie’s pigtails. Hate the crystal wings, those look really really weird. Granted these all do feel more like superhero/magical girl outfits which is what I can imagine they were going for.

Looking at the redesigns is… weird. Overall none of them are bad, in fact they’re actually pretty good! I like Pinkie Pie’s cus it reminds me of a jellyfish, though the yellow gloves look strange and kinda make her look like she’s about to start taking a sponge to a stain on the floor. Rarity’s fits her so well, absolutely stunning. Applejack’s looks really pretty and suits her a lot I think. Twilight’s is also pretty cool, so is Sunset’s. Fluttershy’s looks really loose and pretty, she’d be comfy in it. RD’s looks like something she’d made which is to say it looks like shit /pos

However…. None of these really work as a group? Like the first designs at least make it look like they’re in a group, but from AJ’s looking like just a fancy get up, to Rarity’s looking like a glamorous Oscars outfit, to Twilight’s looking like a “magical girl” esc outfit, it all feels out of place.

So yeah, thanks for another ask, anon!

Wait.

[cyarsk52-20]

If my boy told me he stole someone’s dog I'd snap. Steal a TV or a watch you don't with a man's heart.

You never learned anything from John Wick? A whole franchise happened because they harmed his dog

[letstalkoz]

Sooo... We not gon talk about how the Wicked Witch of the West fired shots at the Scarecrow unnecessarily, tho?

(gif from imgur.com, AlexanderCroutonSkitch)

Like okay i get that he was technically in cahoots with the chick who also murdered her sister, but like also... Now we know The Scarecrow got mad hops.

[the-radio-demon-blog]

Good evening, Alastor! We're having a tropical depression here. Can't complain, really. The worst of it went to the Gulf coast, I think.

I'm eating hush puppies right now. You're a good (not literally HAH) southern boy, thought you'd appreciate that.

You are correct! Can confirm, having been a teenage girl myself, their interests are mocked frequently. It doesn't end there. Idk if you are aware of how women are mocked for something as simple as liking pumpkin spice flavored things? Just as a minor example. Don't get me started. It's a Monday and I will go on a tirade about 'the Pink Tax' just for starters. And no one here wants to read all that. Haha. I am small and filled with unending rage.

Yep, the original Indy movies take place in the 30s and the third one is WW2 40s. The second one is...rather unfortunate, yes. You might rather like the parts where they eat brains and eyeballs and such though. And when they remove the still beating hearts from people! Hah.

How was the gator? Did you find the prize inside? Lol. Did you make anything from it or just...devour it?

I think I may try sending a picture whenever we chat...so...

I've started decorating my house for Spooky season. How do you like the wreath I made year before last? I'm not terribly crafty, but I was pleased with how it turned out.

https://imgur.com/a/jutQs2e

After while, crocodile 🐊

Well, I heard the hurricane is moving up the East Coast unfortunately.

Oh my, hush puppies! Why I totally forgot about those tasty little treats. They're rather good, aren't they?

Yes, I'm afraid that is all a part of misogyny. Hating on the things that women and especially what young girls like, romance books about vampires and trivial things of the like. However perhaps it is better I do not start talking all about it since I in retrospect truly know nothing. I'm a man and I can only go by the experiences of the women in my life. And I believe it would be rather inappropriate for me as a man to have a comment on misogyny since I am not the one experiencing it.

Well, that sounds slightly exciting! Most movies of that time do play into racial stereotypes but I've heard that it does especially lean into that stereotypes. And its rather dark story. However I've heard great things about Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Last Crusade. Movie night is tonight so I shall tell you (if you'd like) how it was!

Stanley was disappointed he couldn't eat the alligator which is rather concerning yet understandable! Hah! It seems he's a cannibal like me! I actually feed him the little trinket in there: the arm. Stanley loved it!

You're not terribly crafty? Darling, its a gorgeous wreath! I myself can't wait for the spooky season to arrive! Everyone in the Hotel loves it and its really the only holiday we can celebrate. Christmas and Easter are obviously off the table. However Charlie...well, made her own special version of Christmas.

See you later, my dear, alligator!

[shiedagabe]

Who’s The Fool Now?

GIF Belongs To: Kylierosetypo, Imgur.com

Word Count: 1300

Genre: Smut

Today’s the 1st day of April, and you know what that meant, it was finally time to prank your boyfriend. If you were to be honest, you had this planned for a looooong time, but you never had the opportunity to pull it off because you never felt too comfortable making these kinds of jokes. This one was a serious one and, despite finding it hilarious, you were simultaneously fearful of what he would do to you when he found out. Nevertheless, if you wanted to pull this practical joke off you needed to get some preparations done first.

You started by removing all of your knives from the room because you were fearful he’d stab you instinctively before he could find out what was going on, despite your love for knives. You used them more than you should, in all actuality. Not only did you wield them to torture people who you knew you were going to kill anyway, you used them to pleasure each other, as well. You loved being scarred no matter where, except the face, of course. You still had your own life besides J, so a huge scar on your face would always be a cause for suspicion. Luckily, you have a pet cat, so you could always shift the blame on to it. Luckily they laughed it off and so did you, but as soon as you came home you berated him so he’d never do it again. Although, as always, he didn’t care. Not that he didn’t care for you; he’d admit that himself even if he didn’t show it, he just didn’t care about petty things. He did as he pleased and you liked that in him – the ability to not be controlled by social norms, or legal norms, for that matter, was something you admired and so very wished to achieve. He’s currently trying to help you reach that goal, as well, although things aren’t going as smoothly as you had expected. You have a very hard time being, or pretending to be, unemotional. Your first kill was a horrendous one, you admit that, even though you didn’t have any emotional connection to the deceased man, you still cried for him. He comforted you for a bit, but he quickly told you to get back on your feet, if you spent any more time in that damned placed you would’ve been caught.

You woke yourself up from your daydream and hurried up, you were sure he’d be there in no time, and, surprisingly, you were right. He seldom gets home on time, but I guess today was one of those days. He always says that «business isn’t uh… sunshine and rainbows» and despite knowing that’s true, you wonder what he’s doing there every time. Is he killing the businessmen he’s trying to dissuade? Are they that stubborn? You understood that it might be hard to collaborate with a wanted, unpredictable criminal, but something else has to be going on, maybe you should start investigating him while he wasn’t looking.

You heard his car stop outside; you were growing more and more anxious, thinking if you should really do this, or if you should keep your mouth shut so he wouldn’t literally kill you. He headed on inside while taking his heavy purple suit on the coat hanger, even though that thing almost tumbles over because of its weight. Today was a hot and sunny day but you refused to go outside because you wanted to have some fun first. You welcomed him home, such as it is, and escorted him to the shower, since he must be scolding hot while wearing that darned suit all day. He wanted you to join him while showering but, as much as you wanted to join him, you had the perfect plan in your head.

You mounted a siren behind the curtains and you set your phone up as well so it’d emulate a cop’s siren at full volume. After mounting those and setting those up you pretended to bust down your front door. He furiously came out of the bathroom with nothing more than a towel over his hips and a confused stare on his face. He wasn’t panicking, but he was worried for your safety. Although, the only thing he saw was your sorry ass standing in the bedroom with pleading eyes, apologizing to him and that you had to do this before he could hurt you. He was fuming. You could see and feel his frustration building up quickly inside of him. He threw you against the wall and you were knocked out, you only remember hearing him saying «stay here, I’m not going down without a fight».

You woke up feeling dazed and confused and he was sitting right in front of you with a siren in his hands. You could still feel how angry he was, although he refused to show it to you.

-          You want to explain what this is? – He said while irately looking at you.

-          Uhmmm… April Fools?

As soon as you said that he grabbed you by your shoulders and threw you on to the bed.

-          I’ll uh… show you who the fool is.

There was no foreplay this time; he was too annoyed and angry to give you that kind of pleasure. He ripped your clothes off before you could say anything, giving him the pleasure of admiring it, not that he cared about it now, though. He threw his towel against the wall and he forced his throbbing veiny cock inside of you. He was careful while doing this every other time, but I guess today was different. He wanted to pleasure himself and no-one else; if that came at your expense he didn’t care. Little did he know, however, this is exactly what you wanted from him. To make you his bitch and you finally figured out how to do it. You thought to yourself that you had to do this more often if you wanted to have some genuine fun. Before you had time to breathe he grabbed you by your throat and started pounding even harder, he wanted to hear something from you like a painful grunt or a hurtful moan but you didn’t want him to get that kind of satisfaction either. It was slowly turning into a small war between you two, in good fun, where he tried to hurt you as much as possible while you were trying to remove all satisfaction from him as possible. He tried reaching into the nightstand so he could grab one of those aforementioned knives but they were all missing. He stared into your soul furiously and intensely asked you where they were. You simply smirked and shrugged your shoulders. That did it. He was so mad you could almost see smoke coming out of his nose and ears. He was already grabbing your throat, but while before he was doing it sort of playfully and letting you breathe you couldn’t say the same now. You literally couldn’t breathe and you were slowly losing your consciousness again. Before that could happen, however, you felt him breathing more heavily and his cock starting to throb again, he was cumming inside of you and he knew you hated that. He didn’t care; however, you were going to give back whatever you took from him, which was a peaceful day at home.

After he was done calming down and cleaning up he looked at your miserable body lying on the bed, dripping full of sweat and cum, with a huge red scar on your neck.

-          Maybe you should uh… tell your coworkers that your cat did that.

[gigamesh-mocs]

Hi Bummok,

Hope you have a happy holiday season 🥳

Far be it from me to disturb you however I am still in awe of the beauty of your Mocs and I am writing to ask you a question.

Have you centralized the instructions somewhere?

Could you tell me more about how you built this magnificent Turaga Dume, I would love to add it to my shelf 😍🤩🥰

With best regards,

Laryssa

Thank you for your kind words, i’m honestly very flattered.

I don’t currently have an archive of instructions but I’m willing to whip something up if you’re after something specific.

However I have uploaded Dume’s instructions to this Imgur gallery so hopefully it’s good enough for you :)

https://imgur.com/a/FdnlweS

Happy building!