#inspired by that one undertale post I can’t find

[mayowayo]

haha. anyone .else

[aurelim]

Hey do you know any other mermaid/siren whatever of the water merfolk sort IF's? because there aren't a lot

I also loved as the ocean lures, hope to see more of it in the future

thank you so much! I hope to write more of it in the future 😂

As for mermaid/siren/anything water-like creatures, I’ve got a few. Most of them are just intro posts and ones with demos that are pretty short, so I’ll split it up into two categories along with their tumblr blogs. There are some finished ones as well but you’re going to have to pay for the entire game so I don’t know if you’re going to want to pay in order to read the whole thing. I won’t put it but I can add some if you’d like!

I don’t really follow VNs so you’re just going to get text-based games. Sorry about that 😅

There was another demo for a game called Kalopsia but it seems to have been deleted. And there’s another game where you’re found and then saved by a captain. Both were on itch.io but I can’t find either one.

Demos

Abysm’s Veil [thread] by Jacic (inspiration for ATOL, about the rusalki)

The Sea Maiden [thread] by Jacic (they have some other games but they’re short if you really want to check them out!)

Beyond the Waves by @allthatwrites (inspiration for ATOL, related to The Little Mermaid)

Voiceless: A Siren’s Song [thread] by Fare (MC is not a mermaid but they can help one!)

Disenchanted by @disenchantedif (you can choose to be a siren)

Drown With Me by @barbwritesstuff

Siren Call by @darkpetal16 (it’s based on Undertale and while MC is not a siren Sans definitely is)

Intro Posts

…And I Am Undone by @fakeyellow (short story based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid)

When Silence Speaks by @whensilencespeaks (seems to be on hiatus but the idea is really interesting!)

In Deeper Tides by @indeepertidesif (Disenchanted spin-off)

Through the Waves by @throughthewaves-if (this just came out recently and honestly I wouldn’t have known about it if I didn’t look at Zee’s reblog of it!)

I know there’s more, but I just don’t remember them or have yet to see them. If there is, please let me know!

There are some other IFs that are water related like @riptide-if (which is surfer related) but they’re not about mermaids or sirens.

Also, here’s interact-if’s list of mermaid IFs or water-related stuff if you’d like to take a gander. You can also just look up forums and Reddit for any mermaid recs. I’ve seen a few posts for them and people have given some. But I think I’ll cap it off here.

I’m so sorry to all the people I’ve tagged, but it makes it easier for people to just go to your profile and look at the amazing things that are cooking right now. Also because I’ve been making this list for about an hour and a half nonstop and I’d like to give my hands a rest 😅

(although I will tag @elegantunknownphantom as Zee probably has some IFs too that I didn’t list)

[trashisstillhere]

Some Ninja Randy related art I just wanted to post right now. But it’s not just the og, but some different versions of him that I had made long time ago and decided to try drawing again today!

Oh boy, I haven’t thought of these guys in a very long time until now. Some of you who has seen some art from both my old account and the old ones in this account may know of them (expect for Bad Ending!Randy, I never really showed him, I think). And yes, I will kinda explain each one of them since the rest of you probably don’t know about them at all so here we go.

1. Evil! Randy

an evil version of Randy, with all the chaos pearls in his disposal now that the sorcerer is fully gone. And no, not in the way like in the season 2 finale but like…well.. let’s just say, he’s still trapped.

staying in the now abandoned norrisville high school (what happen to everyone in there? No body knows), Evil! Randy is mostly alone by himself, plotting and thinking about what to do next now that everything with him has changed.

If he ever does get a visitor in the school, he seems quite calm and wise towards them, showing them around and even asking them for favours to help him a little around the place, give him company as he haven’t had some in so long…..but don’t be fooled. Remember, those green orbs corrupts whoever has them and this Randy is no different.

Howard’s and the Nomicons whereabouts in this au? currently unknown.

The only new thing about him right now are those few green glowing cracks on his suit and all, I thought those would look cool on him.

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2. Horror! Randy

Now you can easily find this guys story and first drawings of him on my account. Just click on the Rc9gn tag while staying on my account, scroll far down and you’ll find it. Easy peasy. But if you’re too lazy, I’ll give you a short(er) and quick version.

This Randy’s story takes place back in season 1, right after he just became the ninja and a few days passed. He meets some evil spirit who takes a form of a ninja and tricks him into thinking that it’s from the nomicon and that there’s people who are monsters in disguise’s that he has to ‘get rid of’. Because of this along with illusions from the spirit to make it more believable, he ends up killing lots of innocents, even Howard which he immediately feels tons of regret and guilt for.

At the end, Randy becomes a lonely mess, a lost cause, a paranoid psycho ninja who now can’t tell the difference between an actual monster and a human thanks to the manipulation of the fake ninja spirit who is now suddenly gone along with the illusions.

Basically, this is a fucked up Randy who suffers a lot and is very lonely. He does kill though.

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3. Disbelief! Randy

This Randy is kinda based on and inspired by the disbelief Papyrus Undertale Au. But instead of Papyrus with Sans jacket on, it’s the poor ninja boy with Howard’s. Most of this one is just Randy wearing the only thing he has left of his dead friend, trying to avenge him. Who or what got Howard killed? From what I remember (I never wrote any of these guys stories down) it was Mcfist and Viceroy, it was an accident with a robot of theirs. They never meant to have it kill the guy but it just…happen.

Damn, I have two au’s where Howard is dead. Good lord-

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4. Bad Ending! Randy

One I have never shown here before.

This was first a ‘what if’ thing. Like what if at the season 2 finale, in the battle between the sorcerer and Randy, it ended up terribly wrong? With Julian and Howard coming in too late, The sorcerer successfully stabs Randy deeply in the chest, making him be the one to lose and slowly die. The last things he got to see and hear at the end is a concerned Julian, a devastated crying Howard and the laughter of his enemy in the background.

After dying with one last breath, Randy ends up in a void. A blank, white, empty void with no one else but him, who is now mostly black and white, expect for the bleeding wound on his chest, a painful reminder of his defeat. Well, the nomicon is with him. However, he can’t communicate with it anymore.

Why? Because the book, that is also lost of color like the boy, seems to be corrupted. Not like evil corruption but just some kind of corruption that keeps it shut and quiet, no glowing, no beeps, nothing, having this sort of ink all over the cover that never stops dripping and keeps its pages sticky and shut tight.

Randy doesn’t understand this and the place he is stuck in but all he does know is he can’t get help anymore and he can’t even get to see what is going on in his home right now, though he assumes that it’s now slowly turning into a chaotic wasteland thanks to the sorcerer. All he can do now is cry and cry, mumbling to himself and getting mad at himself for losing so easily like that, probably even developing self hatred in the process.

There is actually some continuation i made for this with a good ending, where Randy somehow is able to fix the Nomicon, get out of the endless white void, get revived, reunite with Howard along with many others and finally defeat the sorcerer once and for all. Though that one never got finished and from what I remember, it’s not really canon and not a true ending to this au so….oops.

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But yeah, these are my Randy Au’s. There is kinda a few more but not really.

[zacksplayhouse]

Hello traumatized ones!

I’m excited to take this opportunity to introduce myself and connect with all of you. My name is Zack, and I’m excited to join this interesting side of Tumblr. I will be sharing my thoughts, passions, and experiences in the APH fandom.

A little about me: I’m a minor. I’ve always been a bit nutty and finding Alfreds Playhouse gave me an opportunity to have a few friends dedicated to such chaotic nonsense, and I’m eager to share my own wacky thoughts, whether they’re about Alfreds Playhouse or something completely random.

I’m passionate about Alfred's Playhouse, Undertale, Music, and Art. I look forward to engaging with others who share these interests. I believe that everyone has a unique perspective to offer, and I can’t wait to learn from all of you as well.

Through my posts, I hope to inspire, entertain, and spark meaningful conversations. I encourage you to ask questions and share your thoughts on this subject.

I want to clarify that I do not support the creator of this show, Emily Youcis, as their views contradict my values. I firmly stand against racism and Nazism.

[apocalyptyx]

I’m aware visibility on this platform is rough, but it feels wrong to keep posting stuff about this fic without addressing the Jakei situation.

For the longest of time, Underverse has sustained this entire fandom upon its back. And for a lot of people, including myself, it introduced us to the world of Undertale and the Multiverse. Underverse was my biggest inspiration to begin writing TFOUZ.

Underverse is the catalyst to hundreds of thousands of people’s most influential times in their lives. The UTMV fandom is where I grew into who I am today. Underverse threw me into this delightfully chaotic experience, one I never thought would end. One I hoped would never end.

And now, possibly the largest beacon within this fandom is subject to be knocked down and shattered by yet another group of sad individuals who have nothing else to do with their lives.

Today on the internet, we can’t have anything good. People always find reasons to be nasty, hateful, and ruin every little thing we have. Not only have these people destroyed a beautiful thing, but they’ve dragged down one of the most important people to this fandom. How does it feel to be the reason you made this creator give up? This event is going to shake the entire community, whether Jakei decides to quit or not.

On the topic of her quitting, my heart goes out to her. Mental health will ALWAYS be more important than an animated series. Whatever she needs, I pray the people of this fandom don’t blast her even more. She has done so much for this community, and no matter what happens, we’ll always be on her side.

We can survive, UTMV fandom. We’ve done it for nearly ten years (or longer, not quite sure!), even if 6 of those years we had Underverse. I saw a post earlier that said something along the lines of “Ink wouldn’t want us to quit making art” (def not verbatim), and I can’t express how true that is. This is not how we are supposed to be. We are not supposed to be worrying about the future of our fandom. To all of you out there who are thinking about quitting, who are thinking about giving up, leaving this experience behind them: please don’t. This is our happy place. We can thrive. Supporting eachother is the best thing we can do here.

And to anybody who may have contributed to the harassment, the shitstorm that has been this situation: I give you a big, giant, massive, gleaming FUCK YOU.

You have ruined something so precious. You have torn down a part of internet history that will never be forgotten. You will never be considered a part of this fandom. I hope somewhere along the way, you find happiness. I hope you find a life. I hope you find your place on the internet. Because right now, you have none of those things.

With that aside, I don’t care how many views this post gets- I needed to get this out there. I needed it to be known where I stand, I needed to give my condolences. Honestly, a part of me wanted to ignore everything that’s happening, because the UTMV fandom is my happy place. The first fandom I ever joined. The most chaotic, too. And I would never have changed this for the world. I didn’t want to believe that this could be the end of the best era in my life.

But, we’ll be okay. Stay strong, and keep creating art. Most of all: support Jakei, no matter what she decides to do. We’re on your side.

Remember to give an enormous THANK YOU to this fandom and everybody inside it. It provided for us, and we should continue to provide for it.

[atherflame-theconcubus]

(this is a rework of my original pinned post)

Hello Tumblr, my name is ather and after having come to this app since I’ve kind of always wanted to come here, always hated Twitter, and I was on this app via the website before I made a Twitter account so at the time I made this account I had a vague understanding of Tumblr culture via my brief experiences as a young teenager and OzMedia.

This post will 100% be updated at a later point in time because right now I cannot list all the fandoms I’m in but I will list a few

Fnaf (the first one I joined)

Undertale (& the AUs)

Baldis basics

Glitter force/precure

The DCA fandom

Gacha life (debating on whether I should leave)

Smiling critters

Minecraft

Cult of the lamb

Garten of banban

Sanders sides

Island of the slaughtered

Dandy’s world

As of making this post, I am 19 years old, & I’m an Agender biromantic asexual. I have autism and ADHD.

I like drawing and coming up with alternate universes, so just a heads up there

AUs I have created so far (this will be edited as time goes on to include older ones and new ones when I come up with them):

*if there isn’t any color, you can’t really find them on Tumblr yet

** I should clarify that some of my sun and moon show AU were submitted anonymously to dca prompts.. these were created before I joined the fandom.

Important. Please read!

SAMS:

#Bloodless passion au

#Swap shuffle au

#Dad eclipse au

#actor au (name pending)

#mer reincarnation (mermay au)

#bloodlets au (inspired by potatotato-26’s droplets AU)

#the clipse brothers au

#editor l & e au

#eclipse mystery dungeon au

#Magical boy blood moon

#papa sun & kid bloodmoon au (name pending)

Dca:

#Aquarium au

#harpy au

#siren sun human moon au

#scarlet scales au (Mermay au)

FNAF:

#into the dream plex

#This one doesn’t have a name yet.

DANDY’S WORLD:

Unnamed au

Sanders sides

#dragon witch's daycare

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If any of you want, here’s a link to my old pinned post (practically the first one I made)

I also have an AO3 tumblr account that was made in may.

One of my side, blogs, specifically for sending my mutuals cat pictures

My first ask blog.

[honeyconez]

Me skibidi cave

Last updated 10/30 I go by Conez or Ed idc

I am a minor so you will be blocked if you’re a super duper old person *AND* you creep me out in any way. I know the warning signs. I am not stupid. If you think you’re getting away with something you’re gravely mistaken. I have my own little ways. I’m in your walls. I’m in your crusty little walls. Like a rat.

Any pronouns I’m confused about what I identify as

PLEASE REQUEST STUFF!! I LOVE REQUESTS AND I LITERALLY HAVE ALL THE FREETIME IN THE WORLD! DONT BE SCARED!!! AS LONG AS ITS NOT INCREDIBLY NSFW OR ILLEGAL PLEEEEASE REQUEST STUFF!!!!

I’m pan don’t bring a pan near me give me pans

I like team fortress 2 a lot

I like cursing. I try not to a lot. Also, I have many MANY reasons to believe I may be autistic so just a warning. I am getting a diagnosis soon so I will update accordingly.

I have trouble interpreting the tones of things. You don’t have to use tone indicators though, I don’t really know what all of them mean. I use emojis as indicators I guess

I don’t mean to be an asshole tell me if I’m being rude or something 😭😭

Please don’t be scared to interact with me I don’t bite, I’m a nervous person so I usually can’t hold conversations too well

Other things I like

• SCP Foundation

• HLVRAI

• Guardians Of the Galaxy

• Deadpool

• Mouthwashing

I have art block right now

posting schedule does not exist anymore

I will try and go through all the notes on my posts to block people who fit my DNI list or people who give me bad vibes.

SOMETIMES I ACCIDENTALLY FOLLOW PEOPLE SO IF I UNFOLLOW IN 2 SECONDS SORRY I MISCLICKED PROBABLY 😭 I FEEL BAD ABOUT IT

ALSO TUMBLR MAKES ME UNFOLLOW PEOPLE SOMETIMES

My tags 😩😫😣(if I remember)

•wholetconezcook - drawings

•conedoodledoodle - doodles

•conezdumbideas - shitposts

•conezyappityyap - rambling

•conezeatspencils - pencil drawings

•conezirlskibidis - my irl pookies

•conezsillyvoidcomic - my stupid comic

•conezonthattypicalgrind - typical colors rants

•conezdoesthegmog - gmod

•conezgoofyassocs - my ocs

I’ll add more if I need to, I won’t bother tagging my old stuff and I don’t tag reblogs

Other stuff I like + DNI List

Other general stuff I find neat •Computer viruses(stuxnet……)

•World Wars 1 & 2

•Patterns in math…. My beloved….

•Paradoxes

•Spaceeeeeeeee

•Geology

•Math in general I guess

•Death of the universe(I could go on and on… please ask me…)

•Coding

•Rules of robotics

•History

Games

• Undertale/Deltarune

• Minecraft

• Celeste

• Rayman

• Subnautica

• Cat Quest I & II

• Stardew Valley

•Cuphead

Movies

• Emesis Blue

• Deadpool 1, 2, 3

• Howl’s Moving Castle

• Magnificent Nine

• Steven Universe the Movie

(Will add more I remember)

Cartoons / Shows / Series idk

• Lil Pootis

• Adventure Time

• Fionna & Cake

• Adventure Time Distant Lands

• Steven Universe

• Minecraft Storymode (I watched the Netflix thingy before it was removed)

• Captain Underpants

• Team Neighborhood

• Over the Garden Wall (one of my favs)

Books / Comics

• Curse Of the Werepenguin

• Dogman (huge inspiration)

• Breaking Cat News (huge inspiration)

• Bunnicula

• The Outsiders (could yap forever)

• Midsummer’s Nights Dream

• Adventure Time Comics

•Countdown to Zero Day

Youtube series or Youtubers I like

*(by youtubers I mean their videos if they don’t really have a series) **(if any of these Youtubers are actually bad people please tell me I live under a rock)

• Honorcrocketts

• Rubberfruit

• Kostamonien

• STBlackST / Unusual Troubles

• Kitty0706

• Requiem For A Pizza

• Badwatervideos2009

• HoovyTube

• Team Neighborhood

• Kugawattan

• TheInvertedShadow

• DamashiDX

Musical Artists

• Lemon Demon

• Neutral Milk Hotel

• Penelope Scott

• Weird Al Yankovic!!!!

• ARTHUR

• The Scary Jokes

• Metric

• Beck

DNI LIST

Homophobes, transphobes, racists, pedos, pervs, proshit, pro-Israel, zionists, zoophiles, completely NSFW blogs, TERFs and SWERFs

also specifically people who still draw/use/support dr br*ght. Seriously? Use Dr Shaw or another rewrite. It’s not that hard.

[annaraebananawriter]

Because I Wanted That Brother

Yellow there everyone! It’s your favorite Dreamtale angst author back at it again with another oneshot centered around Dream Sans and his conflicted feelings over Nightmare being happier with his gang that he was with his own brother. 

This is inspired partly by Dreemurr-Skelememer’s Dreamtale tweets/posts and inspired partly by that one TikTok of Ink and Dream with that one Good Place audio that’s like “Why can’t you accept that [Nightmare’s] living a good life? That he’s changed?” “Because I wanted that Brother!”. You know that TikTok? I’m going to assume your do. If you don’t, I think you still get the idea.

I wrote this all in one sitting, so if there’s any spelling mistakes and grammar mistakes, that’ll be why. But I do genuinely like it and I hope you do as well! Be sure to let me know! 

Happy reading!!

Fandom: Undertale/UTMV

Characters:   Dream, Nightmare (Who belong to Joku), Ink (Who belongs to Comyet), and mentioned Bad Sanses and mentioned Blue (Who belongs to P0pcornPr1nce)

Warnings:  Anxiety, light self-hate, implied abuse from villagers, and I think that’s it. Let me know!

Summary: “While hanging out with Ink, Dream notices Nightmare and his gang hanging out one time outside of battle. He watches them for a bit and has a few realizations during a talk with Ink. (UTMV, Dream Sans Centric)”

Word Count: 3159

~oOo~

Ink had wanted to go to an AU and sketch some things. Blue was busy doing things in his AU, so Dream is the one Ink dragged along on this adventure. He isn’t complaining that much, it was rather relaxing. He was just also tired from working for hours yesterday and had originally planned to use this one rare free nothing-to-do-at-all day he had to sleep. But Ink convinced him to come, and he was glad for it.

They spend a couple of hours roaming around the forest for a couple of specific spots Ink had found a few days ago. Of course, because Ink already forgot how to find them, they get lost a few times, but they do manage to find them after some scouring. Dream dozes off a bit at the first location, and almost does at the second one, mostly wavering between zoning out and sleeping. After the third one, though, they got hungry and they teleport to a different AU for some food, a break before they went to the other AU Ink wanted to sketch in.

Once they get their food, Ink stares at Dream for a bit before silently taking out his sketchbook. He tries to ask what he was drawing, but Ink stays tight-lipped about it. It became apparent what he was drawing after the crown was finished, though, and Dream blushes a bit as he realizes Ink was drawing him.

Ink glances up and smirks at him, shooting him a wink. He rolls his eyes and chuckles. Dream sips at his drink and glances up, immediately making eye contact with Nightmare.

He freezes.

Nightmare freezes as well, eye socket widening slightly. He’s on the other side of the street, with a couple members of his gang. He assumes the other two have gone off somewhere. Maybe to get some food? Like what Ink and he did. The other two members of his gang haven’t noticed them. They stay locked in the staring contest for a minute.

He slowly sets his drink down. He fidgets a bit, warring with himself. A big part of him wants to jump up and run across the street, say hi, and start talking. This is a rare moment where they’re not fighting each other, and clearly not planning to any time soon. He wants to take advantage of it and try and talk to Nighty civically, but what would he even say? It’s been years since they’ve had an entire conversation. What does Nighty even like anymore? Does he still like reading? Can he even start a conversation with a question about reading? Or should he be more generic and talk about the weather first?

He doesn’t know.

But he does know this staring contest is getting awkward fast. Should he go over and say something? It really feels like he should. But he can’t bring himself to. What if Nightmare doesn’t want him to come over? What if he gets mad at him for talking to him like they aren’t enemies? He doesn’t want to be the reason Nighty had a bad day. Maybe he should just look away and pretend he didn’t notice him. But what if that makes him upset? What if he thinks he was annoyed to see him and came over here to confront him about it? He really didn’t want to confront anyone right now.

What to do, what to do…

Before he can make a concrete decision, Nightmare seems to break free of whatever he was thinking and his stare sharpens into a harsh glare. His tentacles flick angrily behind him. Dream flinches and finds his mouth open on its own—what it wants to say he has no clue—and he forces it closed, teeth clicking together. His brother rolls his eyes in annoyance and turns his back on him, tuning in on the conversation Dust and Killer were having.

Dream continues his staring, a guilty taste in his mouth, even though he isn’t exactly sure what he did wrong. A bitter voice in his head tells him he did nothing wrong, that this was purely on Nightmare and his childish feelings. He decides to neither agree nor disagree with it.

Dust mentions something that makes Killer laugh. He smirks and nudges Nightmare in pride. He seems to ask a question. Nightmare rolls his eyes again and sighs, answering. Whatever he said makes the two laugh, hard. They lean against each other as they laugh, and his brother watches them with fondness, shaking his head. His tentacles are the most relaxed he’s ever seen them. He finds himself leaning forward, as if trying to soak in everything he’s seeing. It’s the first time he’s ever seen his brother like this outside of battle. It’s…nice.

It's bittersweet.

There’s that feeling again, the one that says he’s intruding on something, even if he was in the AU first and isn’t with his brother’s group. He wishes he was, though. He wishes the gang didn’t exist and it was just him and Nightmare and Nighty actually liked him. He wishes they were the ones hanging out together, laughing and talking and being brothers and…just, all of that. It’s something he wishes about a lot, and he always feels bad, because he likes the gang and the way they’re his brother’s friends, and clearly he trusts them a lot more than he trusts Dream, and it’s good that he trusts someone. He glad. He is.

He’s just also…not.

He pulls his legs onto the chair, hugging his knees. He can’t seem to look away. There’s a knot in his chest that only worsens when he thinks about it, and so he makes himself keep looking. He must stay like that for a long time.

“They look happy.”

Dream jumps a bit, looking over his shoulder. Ink looks away from Nightmare and his gang and faintly smiles at him, lowering his sketchpad. It looks almost complete. How long had he been staring at his brother, thinking about things he couldn’t change?

He swallows, looking away. “They do.” His gaze is drawn back to them as if hypnotized.

Cross and Killer have returned with nice creams, one for everyone that wanted one. Killer gets a bit too excited and one of them drops to the floor. Cross, who had dropped it because of him, stares at it on the floor in despair. It must’ve been Dust’s because now he’s glaring at Killer and lunges for him before he finishes apologizing. The shriek is heard from where they’re sitting. Before Dust can do anything major, though, Nightmare grabs him around the waist with a tentacle and separates the two.

He seems to be scolding them, handing some money to Horror for a replacement nice cream, but a faint spark of amusement wavers in the air around him. It’s so faint that, with all the other positive emotions around, Dream wouldn’t have usually noticed it. But because he’s watching closely, he picks up on it instantly, and the frown on his face twists into a grimace.

Ink shifts beside him. “You don’t look happy.”

It’s a gentle observation.

It feels like a reprimand.

Dream inhales. He lowers his legs off of the chair and sets his hands in his lap, interlocking his fingers and holding them tightly. “I’m glad that Nighty’s happy. I am. I’m really glad about that,” he says, the words carefully picked and formed.

Ink’s quiet.

They both watch as Horror returns with the fresh nice cream and Dust takes it, hunching over it as if to shield it from Killer, who rolls his eyes and says something that makes Dust glare at him. Killer continues and Dust starts ignoring him, talking with Cross, who seems to be fighting down his laughter. He’s not succeeding very well. Nightmare has taken out his phone and is occupied with that while Horror finally starts enjoying his own nice cream with a content smile.

Ink turns to Dream, tilting his head. “…But?”

Dream looks at him for a moment and looks back to his hands. There’re hundreds of small scars and scratches covering the bone. A far cry from how smooth they used to be when he was a little kid. “…But, I…” he starts, and pauses, sighing. He scrubs his face. “Stars, I hate myself for it, but I-I’m…resentful of the fact that he’s happy without me.” It’s a relief to get the words out. There’s a beat of silence before he continues. “It just…hurts. And I know I can’t change that, and I should really just be happy for him, that’s it, nothing else to it, but I can’t. I just can’t.”

There’s some laughter coming from Nightmare’s table. He wants to look but wills himself not to, which is made harder when he hears the low chuckle of his brother joining in, almost drowned out by the others. His hands twitch, loosening for a moment. He tightens his hold and steadies himself with a breath.

This conversation was steadily veering off into a topic he preferred not to think about too much. It made him feel too many complex emotions that he didn’t want to untangle, even though he’d have to eventually.

And Ink knows this. Dream has explained it briefly before and that was the end of it. They haven’t talked about it since. It was just the combination of being so close to Nightmare, neither of them looking for a fight for once, and just existing in the same universe together and having Ink, his friend that seems to know his emotions better than himself—and that was especially ironic, considering he was one of the two guardians of emotions—with him. This combination seemed to be the perfect reason to start untangling that knot and he tried to keep his hands out of the mess, but it was getting futile.

“How come?” Ink asks, looking back at the table. He seems to have abandoned his sketchpad for now, leaving it lying open on the table, Dream’s portrait staring blankly up at nothing. “He looks really happy over there. He’s even laughing at something one of his boys said. He’s smiling. He seems to have some good friends and is one himself. Heck, he might even be a good parent to them. You’ve seen how they act together during fights. He clearly loves them and they love him.”

With each fact Ink lists, the tighter his grip becomes until his fingers start going numb. He forces himself to let go and rubs his hands on his pants, getting the tingling sensation out.

Ink looks back at him, a knowing look in his eyes. “Why can’t you accept that?”

And there it was, the golden question.

Dream inhales again, sharply, and there’s a croak of something that wants to resemble words. He clears his throat and tries again. “Because—” he bites down on the word quickly, realizing it came out too loud. A few people around them glance over in question and he waits until they lose interest to continue, lowering his voice. He forces it to remain steady; at least, he tries to. “Because I wanted that! I-I wanted this version of my brother that freely expresses himself. The version that loves and smiles and laughs and is happy. But he wasn’t like that with me. He used to, but then those smiles and laughs grew rarer and I didn’t even notice until it was too late.”

The truth seems to come out fast now that his wall has cracked. He closes his eyes, shaking his head. His chest is tight. Something in him is reeling from the words coming out of him, as if they were being said by a stranger and revealing something it didn’t want to ever be true and knows is true.

He wants to stop talking and yet he doesn’t. It’s shameful, but it’s relieving to say all of this. And Ink, the bastard he is, seems to know this, as he keeps quiet and listens without judgement. What has Dream ever done to deserve a friend like this? It’s so unfair.

He takes a breath. “And then, hundreds of years later, I can’t go anywhere near my brother without him glaring at me and insulting me and-and it—” He scowls to himself, reworking things. He wants to say all of this before anything else breaks or builds and he finds himself feeling things he shouldn’t be feeling so close to his brother, who would no doubt sense it. “I wanted the brother that cares for me, the one that I care for. And because I never got that, seeing him act this way with pretty much strangers, it just feels…it feels like I was never worth changing for. I was never worth healing for and growing for. I was never…”

Something blurs his vision and he blinks, words dying off. He hastily wipes at his eyes and there’s a screech of a chair being moved roughly, arms wrapping around him without a word. In gratitude, he buries his head in Ink’s shoulder and takes a moment to steady his thoughts, regaining his grip on his soul and any unnecessary feelings.

Dream’s mind seems adamant on taking him back to the first few years out of his stone prison, when he was constantly being overwhelmed by the changes in environment and people and, well, really just everything. He was far more unstable then, confused and frustrated over not understanding anything and having to actively fight his brother without holding back, pressure from everyone around him to adapt fast and learn and just accept things already. It had taken years until he was taught by Ink to not let them see him break down, to hide when he didn’t get something, whether that be the latest piece of technology or meme or whatever, and to go along with everything, regardless of how he felt. He had taken the advice with a grain of salt, knowing it was easier for Ink than it would be for him, but he still found it to be the best advice he’d received because it actually helped.

He was looking back and cringing on a few of his moments of cluelessness, but he was mostly focused on how he observed his brother in battle, the way he grew to learn about how his brother changed while defending himself from tentacles aimed for his soul. It had started with an offhanded comment from Dust, something said in the middle of the casual conversation he usually had with Killer and Horror, and Nightmare immediately honed in and scolded him for it, and the words were almost exactly the same as a moment from their past, except that one had Dream on the receiving end of the scolding, not an observer. Watching that happen, seeing how Dust snorted and waved him off with another remark, something so similar to what he used to do, made him feel like an intruder.

And wasn’t that an odd feeling, to feel like an intruder while watching your brother act like he used to with someone that wasn’t you? It happened more and more and every time he felt like he was being replaced, slowly being written out of Nighty’s memories and turned into a stranger who was nothing but an enemy. He could do nothing about it, either, just hold his bow tighter and shove down the feeling.

In the numerous fights since then, the feeling has only gotten worse. The gang is notorious for joking and conversing while fighting. So many of the conversations and their dynamics with Nighty get too familiar. And it’s even worse when you remember that he can feel how fond his brother is of their antics; the hint of nostalgia mixed in there feels like a slap on the face.

Ink starts to pull away and he lets him, exhaling slowly. He makes the mistake of glancing away and meets Nightmare’s gaze, whose eyelight was fixed on their table, a frown on his face, though Dream knew he was more confused than worried. He quickly looked back at Ink, choosing to ignore it.

He continues.

“If Nightmare had already begun to heal from the villagers in our AU while I was trapped in stone, and if he never thought about me once during that whole time, and if he is in a good place now…it means that I made mistakes that I can never be forgiven for. It means that the mistakes I berate myself for, that everything I shame myself for is true. I’m not a good brother and I need to be more aware of my friends, and catch when something is wrong before they even realize it. Because if I don’t, and if the past repeats itself, then something is fundamentally wrong with me and I can’t change that.”

And if Nightmare is better off with his gang, if that’s truly what was always meant to happen, Dream can’t help but be angry at that. Because why? What has the gang done to deserve his brother? Why do they get to have the loving, content version of Nightmare while he, his own brother, the one he grew up with and survived the village with, gets nothing but hostility? What has he done to condemn himself to this loneliness while they get to frolic and be happy together?

It's not fair. It just wasn’t.

Dream isn’t claiming to be a good person. He’s made mistakes, bad ones, ones he’ll always regret. But doesn’t he deserve to try and make things right with his brother? Doesn’t he deserve the chance to say sorry and not have Nightmare scoff in his face and tell him he’s lying? It wasn’t like Nightmare never hurt him. They’ve both hurt each other. They deserve the chance to heal and grow and continue being brothers, this time with a better understanding of one another.

He misses Nightmare so much that it hurts. He’s only been out of stone for a small fraction of the time that his brother has had to get used to being without him. He understands that Nighty won’t feel this way to the extent that it feels like he’s missing a limb, but Dream does. It’s a shade lighter from how it started, but it’s still obvious in the way he acts and the way he thinks. It’ll probably stay that way for a long, long time, and during then, his brother will only drift further away from him, living his best life without him.

Without Dream.

“If Nightmare has truly changed, that means he was always capable of change. And that means I was just never worth changing for.” Dream swallows, meeting Ink’s gaze. His friend looks sympathetic. He appreciates it, even if it’s for something Ink will never truly understand. “And that hurts, Ink. It just hurts.”

[bibi-likes-to-draw]

Some Undertale Holiday HCs

I made some doodles inspired by this conversation with my friend

So, here they are!

Napstablook being sad to Christmas music :(

Sans and Toriel blacked out on the couch

Celebratory spaghetti!!!

Having wrapping troubles?

I have more that I will post tomorrow - will put a link to that post on this one once I get around to getting them done!

Edit: They are done but I can’t find out how to link the specific post lol!

[5eraphim]

eras of tumblr i could give hour-long Ted Talks about

(only including eras i participated in, not what i’ve lived through second-handedly. these are what i personally remember seeing on my dash, i’m sure there’s plenty i missed. This is an ongoing list/not fixed/subject to future edits.)

2015 gravity falls 

the rise of sexyman bill cipher 

depravity falls and putting 12 yr old characters in violent guro situations 

alex hirsch worship

billdip discourse

the diehard thirst for Gruncle Ford 

“i want to fuck that dorito”

2015/16 Black Butler

SebaCiel discourse

Grelle discourse (like, i don’t even know how to elaborate, but if you were there you would remember how people were fighting over her characterization in all different directions. Which is funny because, love her or hate her, she is barely even in the show lol)

The needlessly intense sjw vs anti-sjw/ fiction doesn’t effect reality/ shipping fighting

can’t quantify this, but i swear 80% of the fans were ex-hetalia fans 

Black butler 2 being either loved or hated, while book of circus was almost unanimously loved

the Scott Freeman incident...

no one giving a fuck about the female characters

Yana/Jay Michael Tatum worship

2016 Undertale

Sans undertale sexyman rise

the most raw video game soundtrack of all time

papyton

no one agrees how to draw undyne, but we all agree that she’s gay as fuck

(This is a personal anecdote, but i actually made a friend in highschool bc i drew undertale fanart on the board at latin class nd she added to it the next day, i added to it the next day and eventually we met up and it was so adorable)

“get dunked on”

2016-17 hamilton, heathers, great comet, dear evan hansen, be more chill musical theater insanity

rip tumblr user galactibun

The Hamilton craze breathing new life into the 1776 musical fandom

Most bizarre fanfic aus seen on tumblr thus far (hamilton)

The great comet Tony snubs

BMC and DEH blowing up, despite most fans only caring about the characters, totally ignoring the plot.

“Miku binder Thomas Jefferson”

No one giving a fuck about “The Hamilton Mixtape”

Gatekeeping fans who didn’t read war and peace or the ron chernow biography (i don’t think anyone ever gave a shit about the BMC orginal book which is SO FUNNY)

lin manuel miranda worship

real people fanfictions of actors/shipping them (especially hamilton!)

Key Figures include: Lin Manuel Miranda, Ron Chernow, Philipa Soo, Daveed Diggs, Ben Platt, George Salazar, Barette Wilbert Weed, and Mike Faist

2016-2017 the yuri on ice, killing stalking, kaikyu yaoi trifecta 

Yaoi take over

The anime fans collective salt over YOI winning anime of the year 2016

Not in this time period, but the Killing Stalking fans despising the ending en mass several years later.

Free! was also huge as the second season concluded not long before, but wasn’t receiving new updated in Realtime like the other three.

honestly? i mostly just remember people drawing some of the most beautiful fan art of the characters and not bothering to follow the plots

2015-2016 steven universe discourse peak craziness 

There are no words, looking back this all feels like a fever dream

Insane fan-theories (as in- even for Tumblr, these theories were very out there)

Pink diamond character derailment

“watching steven universe is the opposite of eating pussy” 

Gemosonas

fusion = sex???

“it’s over isn’t it” single-handedly inspiring some of the most beautiful fan art to come out of the show; "Stronger than you” def inspired much more fan-creations, but they were nowhere near as good imo

That terrible lily peet video that sent a tidal wave of fandom-fighting 

Concrete

Nicki Minaj guest appearance 

the porn avalanche predating the 2018 nsfw ban

My OG account got banned >:( (i never posted porn, tried to email support to no avail, I DID NOT DEVERVE THIS YOU NARCS)

50-50 mix of people posting lewd art and people posting links to find them as they migrated to twitter

“Female presenting nipples”

The return of the citrus scale (orange: PG/G, Lime: PG-13, Lemon: R, Grapefruit: X)

“Too Spicy for Tumblr”

Didn’t even stop the porn bots, mostly just screwed over artists and writers

IMO the peak of user v staff animosity

2020 hannibal

The small but loyal anthony hopkins defenders

Some of the most beautiful creative gore art

The moodboard to web-weaving pipeline

People being surprisingly respectful of fans who only watched the show, or who didn’t read Red Dragon/Silence of the Lambs, or where otherwise not invested in the greater overall Hannibal canon.

Manipulate, mansplain, malewife

Key Figures Include: Madds Mikkelson, Hugh Dancy, Anthony Hopkins

november 5, 2020

You just had to be there man, i don’t know what to tell you.

Key Figures include: Donald Trump, Castiel, Dean Winchester, Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin, Nevada, Georgia, Wisconsin and debatably Sherlock season 5

the 2021 coquette girl blogger era

Lana del rey worship

The ungodly amount of softcore porn

Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss

Glorification of eating disorders, benzos, trailer parks, predatory men, age gap relationships, and so much more!

Teenagers blogging about Russian lit you know they never read

Waifblr

Still not sure to this day how much of this was ironic and how much wasn’t?? Or if any of this was self-aware???

Yes babe you’re so bambi, kate moss, diet coke, wellbutrin, dasha nekrosova, ballet, klonopin, trad cath, fawn, dior, sofia coppela, can you please shut the fuck up now?

key figures include: Lana del Rey, Daisy Randone, Dasha Nekrosova, Nina Sayers, Fiona Apple, Anya Taylor Joy, Sylvia Plath, Kate Moss, Kirsten Dunst (probably so many more, but this is just off the top of my head)

(bonus)

2015/16- My personal earliest memories of really getting into tumblr, and witnessing the tail-end of the Hetalia reign

2016- the end of Homestuck

2016- the epidemic of overwatch porn

2016- Does Jumin Han is gay?

2017- RWBY’s nosedive in quality from season 3 to 4, losing the majority of the fanbase

2018 Boyfriend to Death civil war (Gatobob v ElectricPuke)

2018- Detroit become Human drops and the robot-fucking gatekeeping 

2018- the Game of thrones/Endgame joint disaster ending melt down

2019- Sub-par Omens

2020- the Dead by Daylight community rioting when Pyramid Head’s ass got nerfed

2020- Cyberpunk 2077 is released and is torn apart almost instantly. Looking back by my approximations post were made up of- 10% people who were actually playing the games and enjoying themselves, 20% people who were playing the game and WEREN’T having fun, 55% People who never bought/played the game who were making up crazy glitches for clout, 15% hardcore pornography of characters you’d never seen before. (I’m quite salty about this bc I worked at GameStop at this time and had people constantly talking about glitches in casual conversation and I just know most of these bitches were LYING.)

20??- don’t remember the exact dates, but phase 3 marvel was un-escapable at this time

2020/21- Succession blows up

2022 Ghost bc blows up on tiktok, the fandom already sizable on tumblr only goes up from here

[stargazer-tps]

[Crossposts from Amino] Alternate Ending Thing

Original Post Date: 7-29-2017

My entry for the #AEChallenge... I've been itching to write some moderately-okay fanfiction for Barbie and the Diamond Castle (because it's my favorite and I'm getting back into it, I've dug myself into that hole again), I did my entry on that.

Of course, the movie ends pretty well and in a short, direct manner, so I'm throwing all of that out the window. I guess this is more of a "what if things went badly and they had to find a different, more roundabout way to end the story?" that's inspired in part by the Photoshop Flowey fight in Undertale (because Undertale has completely corrupted my writing style). So... Here ya go:

~*~

Alexa and Liana watched in awe as the Diamond Castle rose from the lake, the sky brightening and the lake vanishing until it was only a ring surrounding the castle. A stone bridge appeared in front of them in a shower of sparkles. A few seconds of stunned silence passed and the two girls stepped onto the bridge, more sparkles cascading around them and transforming their dresses into sparkly ballgowns.

Liana felt Melody’s broken mirror lift from her hand. She let go, and it floated gently to the ground, emanating a soft glow. From the cracked surface stepped the muse apprentice herself,

“Liana!” she cried, opening her arms to receive her friends. “Alexa!”

The three girls embraced each other, then watched Lily and Sparkles imitating their owners as they were covered in glitter. They laughed at the two dogs and Melody led the others towards the castle. She beamed as she led her friends up the staircase towards the music room, where the Muses’ instruments were. It seemed their journey was finally at an end… but something went wrong.

The color drained from Melody’s face when she glanced inside the room. “No…” she whispered.

Lydia stood at the center of the room, flute in hand. Slyder stood behind her and a pile of rubble sat at her feet as she stepped towards the girls.

"It’s over, little apprentice,” Lydia sneered. “The castle’s power is finally mine, and mine alone!”

The other girls looked at each other in despair as Lydia cackled. The evil Muse lifted her flute, prepared to strike the final blow when an idea struck Liana. The girl rushed forward, snatching away the instrument and throwing it through a window that was in front of her and catching Lydia off guard. Lydia growled and turned to her companion.

“Slyder! Go get my flute back!” she commanded.

Liana grabbed her two friends by the wrists and ran back out of the music room, closing the doors before Lydia could catch them.

“Liana…?” Alexa looked at her friend, confused.

“What are you doing?” Melody asked. “Now that she’s destroyed the Muses’ instruments, we can’t stop her…”

“You can’t just give up!” Liana said. “Melody, you were an apprentice, right? Learning to be a Muse yourself?”

“Well, yes, but…”

“Then maybe she hasn’t destroyed all of the Muses’ instruments?” Liana asked hopefully. “Maybe there’s one more left?”

Melody gasped, finally realizing what her friend was getting at. “B-but I can’t… I can’t just break tradition like that!”

“Melody, please,” Alexa tried, “I’m sure the Muses wouldn’t mind this once.”

“I-I… We don’t even know if--”

Liana grabbed Melody by the shoulders, looking her in the eyes. “This is our last chance. You taught us to believe in the impossible… Now it’s time to believe in yourself.”

Melody hesitated for a moment more, then said, “Okay. I think I know where they kept the instrument for when I was to become a Muse…”

“Great,” Liana replied. “You and Alexa go find that. I’ll stay here and distract Lydia.”

Without a moment’s hesitation, the two groups split up. Melody led Alexa back down the staircase towards her and the Muses’ rooms. The two searched frantically but to no avail.

As the girls were searching through Melody’s room, her eye fell onto the instrument on her nightstand—a small whistle much like the one she’d used to hide herself in the mirror. She grabbed it.

“We don’t have much time,” Melody said, eyeing the instrument in her hand. “I don’t know how much I’ll be able to do with this, but I at least know how to play it… I think. It’s been a long time.”

She played a short, simple tune. Alexa turned to look at her and could have sworn she saw a faint glow surrounding her friend.

“I can work with this,” Melody said, already rushing back to the music room.

Inside, Liana had gotten ahold of Lydia’s flute and was running around the room, keeping it just out of the evil Muse’s reach. The moment the other two girls entered the room, Lydia stopped, causing Liana to bump into her. She snatched her flute back and turned to Melody.

“Do you really think you can defeat me with that?” Lydia sneered.

For a moment, Melody doubted herself. After all, she wasn’t even a Muse yet. But then she heard the voices of her friends, urging her on, telling her to stay determined. She blocked out Lydia’s jeers and began to play. She thought about her friends, the reason she was here right now, and the person Lydia used to be, before she had decided she wanted to be the only Muse, and played a song that reached out to the evil Muse’s very soul.

The villain in question began to play her own song, a dark tune that had imprisoned nearly everyone the three other girls had encountered on their journey and one that nearly overpowered the apprentice’s song.

Liana and Alexa joined Melody, their voices raised in unison, but doing next to little against Lydia’s magic. It was hopeless.

And yet the storyline refused to be broken. Two figures flew through the same window Lydia had infiltrated the castle through, landing next to the apprentice and joining the song. Their presences caught both Lydia and Melody off-guard.

“Impossible!” Lydia cried.

“Keep going,” the Muses urged.

Melody picked the song back up, exactly where she had stopped. Lydia played her own song in retaliation, but her guard had already been let down. Melody’s song continued to call out to the evil Muse, who faltered, recalling for only a moment the life she had before she turned.

In her moment of weakness, the others’ song overpowered Lydia’s dark magic, destroying any trace of the ancient magic that had given the Muse her powers, including her serpent companion, who simply vanished into dust, and her own instrument.

But the other girls didn’t stop. Melody continued to reach out to Lydia, who could feel the younger woman’s message in every note.

‘Come back to us. Forget this notion of being the only Muse.’

“No!” Lydia cried, replying to words that didn’t even exist. “I’m not that person anymore! I won’t let you take victory from me like this!”

Melody persisted. Lydia couldn’t understand. She just couldn’t understand.

She fled.

Melody’s song came to an end as her friends embraced her, some for the first time in many years.

“Will she come back?” Liana asked, looking in the direction Lydia had run.

“Perhaps,” Dori replied, “but for now I would not worry.”

“Even if she does,” Alexa added, “she won’t have any power without her flute. And we’ll be there to help you!”

At that moment, Ian and Jeremy burst through the doors.

“What happened?” they asked, seeing the now dust-covered pieces of the Muses’ instruments in the center of the room, as well as the Muses themselves, who they vaguely recognized from the short period of time they’d spent in Lydia’s cave. “I thought they had been turned to stone?”

“That reminds me,” Melody said, turning to her mentors. “How did you get free? I thought that your instruments would be the only things that could have broken her spells…”

“We heard your music calling to us,” Phaedra replied. “Just because your instrument is not that of a full Muse does not mean it isn’t powerful.” She smiled. “That being said, I believe we have much to discuss.”

With that, Liana, Alexa, and Melody began to recount the tale of how they came to find the castle, and the Storyline was restored.

The End.

[katlover14]

Information! Read it!

What’s this blog about?

Fandom stuff (mostly Undertale rn. Even though I am in other fandoms, just not very active in them)

Sometimes my art

A lot of reblogs of artists I do (or don’t) follow

Things I’ve noticed but didn’t think too hard on until now

Pinterest rants

Random 2 a.m thoughts (y’all seem to LOVE those, for some reason…)

I write stuff!… not as often as I used to, but I do it

And uh…. Oh yeah! Cats!

What’s the other blog about? An Undertale Multiverse I’m making! If you want to know more, check out @/cattheskeletonofcreative where I post all things about Re-envisionedverse. I also own @/cattheskeleton-14 where I talk about/draw different ships.

Who are “Kat” “M” and “Cat”, you may be wondering? They’re my OCs! Ask me anything if you have a question! I don’t care if someone else already asked it, I just like being asked questions!

Please, for the love of God, stop asking me to donate to you. I can’t. End of story.

One-shots!

Is this love? (An Ink x Y/N short story told from Ink’s POV)... (Guys, I can't find this one. Help)

Who are you? (DestructiveDeath angst)

Art!

Bunny girl (still has no name)

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

@/lenainris dtiys

Kat and M’s designs

Birthday drawings: 2024

Error!Dream

Eynx: first post

Drawtober 2024: 1

Little guy

The Genin x Reader book is on hold right now (it's on @/cattheskeletonofcreative) since I haven’t been the most inspired to write his story and the other twenty books I’m writing. I might just post it on AO3/Wattpad to make it easier to find and read through since I reblog a lot more than I post.

[undertale-data]

[Image Description: An Undertale chat box that has “WHY FANS LOVE UNDERTALE” at its center. Next to it are a line chart and an Egg from the Dating Hub on its left, and a CRIME measurer (also from the Dating Hub) on its right. End I.D.]

[Image Description: a pie chart titled, “LEVEL OF LOVE FOR UNDERTALE.” The textbox on the top right reads, “On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the least and 10 being the highest, how much do fans enjoy Undertale?” From the top going clockwise, 12 or 0% chose 5 and below; 23 or 1% chose 6; 98, or 4%, chose 7; 325, or 12%, chose 8; 529, or 20%, chose 9; and 1664, or 63%, chose 10. End I.D.]

It’s clear from all of the data analyzed so far that fans who took the time to answer our survey love Undertale. It is unlikely that they would have taken the time to answer so many questions if they had not, and even less likely that they would have come across our survey in the first place. Naturally, it comes as no surprise that 63% of our responders gave their love for Undertale a score of ten out of ten. 95% gave their love for Undertale a score of eight or higher, and only 12 responders responded with five or below, a number so small that their responses had to be lumped together to be visible on the pie chart. Of those, only 3 responders gave their love for Undertale a score of 1, and based on those responders’ other answers, it is likely that they were only intending to troll. We are very fortunate that the vast majority of responders took the survey seriously, enough so that responses like this are barely a blip in the data.

Now, for our final analysis post of the event, we will delve into the reasons that fans love Undertale so dearly.

(Essay and highlights under the cut.)

There have been countless essays on the impact that Undertale has had on people’s lives. I can hardly add more on the subject than what has already been said, but I hope this summary can provide a brief overview of what stood out among the over two thousand answers given in response to this survey. That said, due to the sheer volume of answers, I could not read every single one in depth—however, I did skim all of them, and some that stood out or were representative of several responses have been highlighted below. If you would like to see what every fan who consented to share their response had to say, you may view the full list of responses here. Note that these responses have not been edited in any way. This document may take a long time to load, as it is over 100 pages long.

(Warnings for mentions of suicidal thoughts in the following essay.)

Several responders loved the theme of choices mattering in Undertale. Whether people played the pacifist, merciless, or neutral routes, they enjoyed how the game reacted to their actions. For some, it even made them consider their own morality. One touching response explained the impact that the theme of mercy made on them. “I realized that Mercy isn't something that's given to those who deserve it. Flowey didn't deserve it. I don't deserve it myself. Shoot, we ALL need Mercy in our lives.” Many fans left similar comments about how the themes of Undertale made them better people.

Undertale changed how its fans treat others, and it also changed how fans treat themselves. The theme of staying determined and the messages of hope in the game were a light to a very large portion of fans. I cannot list all of the fans who said that Undertale helped them out of a dark place, or that they would not be alive if not for Undertale. “DETERMINATION became a metaphor for not killing myself at a really rough time in my life and I’ll always cherish that. Undertale isn’t afraid to go to really dark places but at the same time holds on so tight to its hope.”

Undertale brought fans together in unexpected ways. Some said they met friends or significant others through the fandom. “I wouldn't have met my now husband without Undertale,” one fan said. A different fan who is non-native English speaking mentioned that the game and the fan community helped them to learn English.

It would be impossible to discuss Undertale without mentioning the fan community. Whether for good or bad, many responders mentioned the fandom in their responses. Overall the feelings towards the fandom seem positive, though many made references to “toxic” parts of the fandom without specifying which parts they consider toxic. Others rejected the idea of toxicity in fandom. One response said: “[SLAMS FIST ON DESK] I KNOW MOST PEOPLE SAY THE FANDOM IS TOXIC AND CRINGE OR WHATEVER BUT OH MY GOD. The Undertale fandom, both the UTMV and the actual UT fandom, has been so much fun to be a part of. I've met countless friends because of our shared interest in something related to the game! The art people create can be breathtaking and so inspirational, and the fanfics are so so good!! I've seen people write incredible things for this fandom and it's what made me continue writing!”

One thing that makes the Undertale fandom unique is the way it embraces various AUs. Some fans are tired of AU content, but the majority of responses show a love for the creativity behind AUs. “Roll your eyes at the 50th AU Sans all you want, it's encouraging people to step outside the boundaries of fanart and pushing people to make their own ideas! I mean, hell, it was how I gained the confidence to start making my own original content.” The lack of a judgemental atmosphere seems present in the AU community, according to the responses we saw. There is an interesting balance between AU and canon (sometimes referred to as “classic”) content that another responder pointed out: “The fandom helped keep the game alive all these years, with all of its AUs. Although personally, I always enjoyed AUs that kept characters as close to the classic material as possible (dancetale, outertale) I do appreciate the creativity of the fandom. They almost created entirely new stories with new characters of their own! If it weren't for those people, the Undertale fandom would have probably not been as active as it is now. I do feel like we're getting a resurgence of classic content now too! (In 2021)”

Regardless of the many AUs the fandom has created over the years, the original game of Undertale still feels like home for many fans. They wished they could reclaim the feeling of playing the game again for the first time, but even though we can’t reset time in real life, there is still a special feeling for fans each time they play Undertale. One fan said, “Even the best fics I've read can't capture that feeling of nostalgia/almost-"coming home" that comes with hearing the music and talking to the characters.” This feeling is one that can be cherished time and time again. In the words of another responder: “It always feels welcoming like home or like comfort food that I never grow tired of no matter how many times I go to it.” Others pointed out the strength of the found family trope in Undertale, which likely contributes to this feeling of “home” as well.

As mentioned briefly earlier, the music is part of what makes Undertale feel like home for fans. Even when responses focused on other aspects of the game, many would throw in a comment about the soundtrack at the end. One comment focused on the music said “IT'S SO GOOD like I will literally go through the entire thing over and over and not be bored with it. It makes my monkey brain so happy you have no idea.” Like with the game itself, the music has incredible replay value, an amazing feat considering most of the tracks use the same few motifs. “I think what I like the most about Undertale is how the music attaches you to the story,” another responder said. “They're simple melodies that stick with you throughout the whole game, and they can remind you of both good and bad times.”

If the music sticks with fans in their hearts, then the game’s lore sticks with fans in their minds. Even six years after the release of Undertale, fans are still creating new theories and digging up new secrets. The way the game breaks the fourth wall in particular intrigued many fans and has stuck out through all these years. The awareness that the game shows for the RPG genre makes it memorable. The game plays with the player’s expectations and turns them on their heads, all while reminding the player that they’re in a game. There are few other games that do this on such a large scale, so it’s no surprise that fans cite this as one of their favorite things about Undertale.

Lastly, the LGBT+ representation in Undertale has been a huge draw for fans. Especially in 2015, the sheer volume of non-cishet characters was unprecedented, as one fan pointed out: “It's practically unheard of to see so MANY from just one source, especially during its heyday in 2015-16. Hell, you can't even GET the true pacifist ending without helping two gay couples hook up. It's really nice to see all of them being accepted for who they are and not judged for their sexuality or gender, at least in-canon.” The LGBT+ cast including Frisk, Chara, Napstablook, Monster Kid, Mettaton, Alphys, and Undyne each connected with fans in unique ways. It’s clear how important this is from responses such as: “There are canon nonbinary characters 🥺. i have never seen representation of myself before.” “It made me gay and trans so thanks for that.”

Once again I am overwhelmed with just how much there is to say about Undertale. One responder really understood when they compared Undertale to an iceberg, explaining that there are so many layers to the game that there is something for everyone: “everyone can find something to enjoy in the lore/game regardless of what kind of fan they are! Being able to appeal to various types of fans—from simple happy shipper people to deep dive lorediggers—is the mark of the coolest games!” I would have to agree with them.

It’s been six years, and despite everything, it’s still you. Thank you for reading, participating in this survey, and above all, staying determined.

Highlights:

DETERMINATION became a metaphor for not killing myself at a really rough time in my life and I’ll always cherish that. Undertale isn’t afraid to go to really dark places but at the same time holds on so tight to its hope.

I think the coolest thing was having the opportunity to watch the AU community grow from its bare roots. It's nearly insane how big and complex it's gotten, unlike anything I'd ever seen before. Roll your eyes at the 50th AU Sans all you want, it's encouraging people to step outside the boundaries of fanart and pushing people to make their own ideas! I mean, hell, it was how I gained the confidence to start making my own original content.

i love how the lgbt rep is so naturalized... there are just gay people! and its nobodys business!

The music is my go to answer, but what I really really REALLY love is how the minor characters have so much personality to them when you talk to them. They aren't incredibly important to the overall story, but they're all so likeable and diverse that you just can't help but like them immediately!

I think it was the first videogame I have played that broke the fourth wall that much. Of course there has been other videogames that broke it but just for one or two tongue-in-cheek jokes. The guilt of killing mama goat was also something intense as well that I appreciated as an experience and that I didn't think a videogame could cause on someone.

I love how no character can be seen as completely bad! Everyone builds up Asgore as some horrible villain, but he turns out to be a 'fuzzy pushover' who's broken and just wants his family back by the time you meet him. Then you think Flowey's an irredeemable killer who engineered the suffering of the monsters across many timelines, and he is... but he also used to be the kind and beloved Prince Asriel Dreemurr, traumatized by his death and subsequent rebirth, projecting his best friend onto you.

The fact that choices matter in the game. Your first playthrough and getting the golden ending for the first time. I can never replicate those feelings again, wish I could erase my memories and replay the game from the start.

I wouldn't have met my now husband without Undertale.

(Toxic parts of the fandom aside) The community is possibly one of the kindest I've ever met. Cringe culture is completely dead, and I feel like I can be myself. I felt a very close connection to many of the characters, and I loved consuming content about them when I was in a rough patch in my life.

just everything, the whole game has just impacted my life so much. i know it sounds really lame, but when the game first came out, i would purposely put my hands in my pockets and sway slightly, like sans' idle animation. of course i dont do that anymore haha, but undertale still really impacts me to this day, and i wouldnt have it any other way :)

it made me gay and trans so thanks for that

I realized that Mercy isn't something that's given to those who deserve it. Flowey didn't deserve it. I don't deserve it myself. Shoot, we ALL need Mercy in our lives.

The thing I love most about Undertale is no matter how many times I play or watch a playthrough it always makes me genuinely happy. It always feels welcoming like home or like comfort food that I never grow tired of no matter how many times I go to it. Toriel still makes me feel all warm and cozy in her home, the Skelebros always make me laugh, and I still cry on the inside watching Frisk comforting Asriel. And on the flip side the No Mercy run still invokes the negative emotions in me as well. In short Undertale just feels like a second home to me and I always wish I could stay.

The reader inserts are my favorite way to decompress after a hard day

I think Undertale helped me discover my love for 8-bit games, and made me realize how IMPORTANT music is in video games.

the worldbuilding and character design are my favorite parts of the main game apart from the music! I’m also a huge fan of the random AU music- not for like underswap or underfell i like the stuff where someone makes a megalovania for a random au where gru from despicable me replaces sans as the character. i think its funny

Just... the vibe, honestly? Even the best fics I've read can't capture that feeling of nostalgia/almost-"coming home" that comes with hearing the music and talking to the characters.

there are canon nonbinary characters 🥺. i have never seen representation of myself before.

[SLAMS FIST ON DESK] I KNOW MOST PEOPLE SAY THE FANDOM IS TOXIC AND CRINGE OR WHATEVER BUT OH MY GOD. The Undertale fandom, both the UTMV and the actual UT fandom, has been so much fun to be a part of. I've met countless friends because of our shared interest in something related to the game! The art people create can be breathtaking and so inspirational, and the fanfics are so so good!! I've seen people write incredible things for this fandom and it's what made me continue writing!

There's a scene where Frisk (the player) is going towards what is presumably going to be their death. They will fight Asgore and he will use their human soul to break the barrier and free his people. The music, despite the player's impending doom, is... triumphant. You are not the triumphant one here, and yet, the score invites you to experience the monsters' joy and happiness as they tell you the tale of their subjugation. The monsters are going to be free. This is their victory, but they don't hate you or want you to die. They're just... happy. That scene has always struck me very deeply. I feel it represents the best parts of Undertale.

I loved how well thought out the Geno route was. It really made me feel like I was doing something horrible, and the characters were very obviously reacting to dire circumstances.

I dunno? I like Undertale for it's characters, story, music, secrets and many more. I am not good with Headcanons but I also like the neutral endings and how different they can depending on who you spare and kill

I was very bad at english before, i thought i couldn't progress because i was very shy and not confident. But my sibling and i wanted to have the best experience with this game so we wanted to play it in english. It's this game and the fandom which helped me to make huge progress in english !

THE SOUNDTRACK. IT'S SO GOOD like I will literally go through the entire thing over and over and not be bored with it. It makes my monkey brain so happy you have no idea.

to avoid writing an essay i will say one word. Mettaton

It is like Toby specifically made the games to fit the iceberg meme and it's awesome, everyone can find something to enjoy in the lore/game regardless of what kind of fan they are! Being able to appeal to various types of fans - from simple happy shipper people to deep dive lorediggers is the mark of the coolest games!

I love almost everything about Undertale as a game on its own. The music, the art and especially the characters and how they interact. They made me feel at home. Undertale means a huge amount to me. (I even got a tattoo of the castle when you and MK walk together!) The fandom helped keep the game alive all these years, with all of its AUs. Although personally, I always enjoyed AUs that kept characters as close to the classic material as possible (dancetale, outertale) I do appreciate the creativity of the fandom. They almost created entirely new stories with new characters of their own! If it weren't for those people, the Undertake fandom would have probably not been as active as it is now. I do feel like we're getting a resurgence of classic content now too! (In 2021)

the mystery. toby fox refused to give answers to anything and i think thats very sexy of him.

I just feel guilty for liking it so much when I'm in my 30's. But I recently got diagnosed with ASD, so I guess it explains things a bit. Many ppl consider Papyrus to be neurodivergent, and some adult fans are too, so seeing that makes me feel a bit better.

i think about "Despite everything, it's still you" everyday of my life.

I like how it's just as funny as it can be serious. All routes are this way. I laughed as much as I cried when I played the Pacifist route and then once I opened the game again and Flowey was telling me to let them be happy, I immediately turned off the game. I somehow felt bad.

The Found Family Trope

The True Pacifist Ending is just...man. And the fanworks about saving everyone even when the game doesn't let you? MANNNNNN

I think what I like the most about Undertale is how the music attaches you to the story. They're simple melodies that stick with you throughout the whole game, and they can remind you of both good and bad times.

there's honestly a LOT to love about this game, but i think one of my favorite things about it is just how many lgbt+ characters there are??? i can think of alphys, undyne, frisk, chara, mettaton, napstablook, monster kid, asgore, mad mew mew, the dress lion, the royal guards, and arguably even papyrus off of the top of my head, but im sure i'm forgetting a few from just undertale alone (there's even MORE in deltarune)!! it's practically unheard of to see so MANY from just one source, especially during its heyday in 2015-16. hell, you can't even GET the true pacifist ending without helping two gay couples hook up. it's really nice to see all of them being accepted for who they are and not judged for their sexuality or gender, at least in-canon.

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Ok im in a mspfa mood so im gonna post all my ideas for [S] pages with songs that either weren’t used in the comic proper or i want to do something different with the track lol

(Under the cut because this is going to be long)

But first I’m going to start with some non-Homestuck tracks:

Backroom Labryinth (from the ENA OST)- I had an idea for a little walkaround game where you play as Page who is dreaming in the dreambubbles from the Prospitian ship. It’s very much inspired by ENA and the LSD dream emulator, where she encounters alternate dead versions of her friends, and then it ends with her finding Gamzee just creeping around and they have a STAREDOWN until she just asks if he wants to hang out lol.

CORE (from the Undertale OST)- I really want more dreambubble interactions with the Prospit kids ok ;_; this would be a page called [S] Jade: Head to the lab, where Jade (who is dreaming in the dreambubbles) travels through the different instances of labs that we see in homestuck (the ectobiology lab, the meteor lab, the skaianet lab, and finally the lab on her island)

Another Medium (from the Undertale OST)- An [S] page that starts as animation but then turns into a walk around game (like that one animation with Meenah), In the alpha session, Dave and Page go to LOHAC together in order to help complete the Ultimate Alchemy, and they also bond and catch up with each other :-)

OK now for the official music:

Blue Noir (Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead)- I want to make a trumpet cover for a page called [S] Page: Play jaunty tune on the horn, where Page shows off her trumpet skills.

The Ballad of Jack Noir (Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead)/Octoroon Rangoon (Vol. 5)- A fight scene with Jack Noir with an establishing shot with the ballad playing, and then it leads into octoroon rangoon once the fighting starts.

Lunar Eclipse (Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead)- A page where Wyllin is exploring Derse after she gets knocked tf out by one of the garbage MIDI files she made.

Dupliblaze COMAGMA (Vol. 5)- An animation where Page is dealing with the dangerous puzzles and enemies on her planet, but Dave is trying to contact her and she can’t pick up because she’s kind of fighting for her life

Showdown (Alternia)- AN ACTUAL STRIFE (GRIEF) SCENE WITH KARKAT AND HIS LUSUS

Phaze and Blood (Alternia)- Karkat first entering the medium and appearing on his planet Land of Pulse and Haze

Theme (Alternia)- An animation where Karkat walks out of his hive and looks up at the pink and green moons with Hivebent written next to them, mirroring the beginning of Homestuck when John looks up at the sun

The Thirteenth Hour (Alternia)- A bunch of scenes where the trolls are entering the medium, and some of their entries mirror the entries of the beta kids 

Stormspirit (Strife!)- An establishing scene of the area that Page’s Denizen Marsyas lives in (i also wanted to mention that i think its super funny that all the kids have a song for them in the Strife album and then theres already a song called Stormspirit  and Page’s whole deal is thunderstorms and lightning 0_0 it just fits perfectly)

Frogs (Medium)- An animation where Karkat and Kanaya are helping breed the Genesis Frog on Land of Rays and Frogs

Firefly (Vol. 9)- I was thinking of using this for a scene in the aftermath of John completing his planet’s quest or something, with fireflies all around him roxy and dirk

Moonsetter (Vol. 9)- LISTEN i know moonsetter is already in the comic, but i want to feature it in an animation about Dirk instead of Vriska because it is a Dirk song and nothing else. I’d want it to maybe be about him growing up alone in the future and then making Hal and finding all of his friends over the internet, and then it transitions to him in the medium on his planet solving puzzles and fighting enemies up until he prototypes Hal into a sprite

Power Fantasy (Cherubim)- I was thinking of putting this to a scene in the dancestor’s sgrub session where it’s the aftermath of Meenah and Damara’s fight and Meenah goes godtier

Moonsweater (Vol.10)- I really want to use this song for the end credits where everyone is living happily on Earth C :-)

Broom Temperature/Every Single Grievance/Get the Horns (THE GRUBBLES)- I want to use these songs for an easter egg in Openbound where when you play as Karkat, you can find Wyllin in a secret area and see that shes formed a band with Dave, Damara and Aranea and that they named themselves after an “old Alternian band”, which is a reference to Xefros and Dammek’s band in Hiveswap

And those are all the solid ideas I have for [S] pages :-)

[worldviewcast]

The Origin of Worldview

So this is going to be a semi-personal, but also a semi-explanation post about alot of the background info regarding Worldview.  Yes it’ll be a long somewhat boring wall of text for many of you, but to ME it’s words I feel need to be said and it would mean the absolute world to me if people would take the time to hear me out.  Even if its only gonna be the five of you that continue on after this. Anyway...

Worldview technically started forming in my mind when I was probably about fifteen. (For reference, at the time of writing this, I’m about half a year to thirty-one) I was really into doing comics, I had done probably a hundred pages of a really dumb fantasy comic I came up with when I was TWELVE, a Sonic fancomic, and every morning on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I would upload my micron inked and colored pencil story about some DnD characters into the school scanner to post on Drunkduck which is probably all still there today. Adventure’s Guild is missed in my heart, for sure.  But in between looking for my first job, the constant writing and doodling I was doing, and my schoolwork I was tossing another idea around in my head. A really DUMB idea, cuz ya know I was FIFTEEN. And I wanted to call it ‘My Big Brother the Ninja’. At the time I was influence by all the dumb anime I was watching and my best friend at the time who always wore black and stood about two feet over me. I don’t know if he’ll ever read this, but trust me if he knew I was talking about this he would recognize this story right away.  Well. My first job came around, along with my post secondary college work, and then a tech school I paid for, and.....life really started to get in the way of development. I was more focused on drawing Adventures Guild and other doodles for a long time, and soon enough taking care of my daughter took precedence over everything, and then I started sewing, and doing conventions....and the idea of ‘My Big Brother the Ninja’ was just stuck in the back of my head. Sitting. Waiting. Forming slowly as it waited for its existence - its time in the sun.  And at some point I decided I wanted Android/Robotic like characters too...some of my FAVORITE series are Kikaider : The Animation and Chobits (the books, not the infants show they try to pass a a fully written anime) - things like that. So I KNEW long before Worldview had a proper name I would be writing robot characters with a twist. But I couldn’t figure out what that twist was, what would make it work. The whole idea was still....building. It needed a push.  Right around the time My Hero Academia came around everyone with a creative mind seemed to be suddenly struck with a similar idea - what if unique powers WEREN’T so unique in a world?  This is fairly common now, but at the start of MHA I remember finding it weird that suddenly every half the new shows out had a whole population of super powered badasses in a world where living daily life with it was more the norm than the exception.  And I remember finding it REALLY weird this all came out the same time I evolving a similar idea for my own thing.... I wish I could prove I was evolving this ideas before I saw em but I can’t. I have a much deeper theory about the evolution of cultural art and how influences drive creative minds to similar conclusions but that’s a LONG mental dive for another day.  ANYHOW.

So my original idea in ‘My Big Brother the Ninja’ was the Ninja would be the weird super power in the normal world.  NOW I wanted the NINJA to be the ‘normal’ one...and the younger sister would be the WEIRD one because she DIDN’T have some sort of power or ability.  I fell in love with this new dynamic and now things were REALLY starting to come together in my mind, what kind of powers were people gonna have, just HOW mundane was it gonna be, how many fantasy elements did I want to have?  Because I already KNEW another element I really wanted to include was modern day Paladins - and YES I WILL be covering modern-day style Paladins in Worldview proper, but this meant the universe needed a Deity system, a hierarchy or pantheon.  And the world just started to grow....but something was still MISSING, the binding, the elements of what all I wanted to do -  Aaaaaaaaaand then came UNDERTALE.  And yes this ENTIRE long post is just me mini ranting about how WV came to be so people can TRULY understand just HOW much is inside MY universe so we can stop tagging it as part of the UT Multiverse please and thank you - it’s not that I don’t UNDERSTAND the confusion, but here is your ultimate ‘for the record’ post regarding mine and @little-noko ‘s personal frustrations. Undertale was obviously a HUGE part of pop culture, personal experiences, my life, MANY of my readers lives, I GET why the emotional connection is there and why its the first thing that comes to mind - but the ONLY part I truly was fascinated by with Undertale was the way the Souls were.  PHYSICAL Souls - an actual magical entity that represented a person - THIS idea.  This was my missing piece.  To say artists get inspiration from other artists is beyond an understatement - even Sans and Papyrus are references to Helvetica, right? If not references, inspired by, or ‘great minds think alike’, whatever your argument there....its not uncommon.  And Souls being PHYSICAL was the element I wanted to play with - the idea I wanted to expand on, and so much more I want to go into detail about but don’t want to go into spoilers yet so I’m not going to - and the absolute CRUX of my frustrations when dealing with ‘WV is just UT with different characters’.  Worldview has.....humans. Only humans, divided into four race. Mechanoid. Masic. Skeleton. Metazoan. (The last one exclusively because I wanted an excuse to draw cute cat girls, so sue me)  A pantheon of Gods. It’s own world map. Special BIOLOGY that I have developed to work specifically with the races I have built. Ability trees (diagram to come, don’t worry, we’re just still working out the kinks).  It’s own countries, nationalities, and even it’s own tangible form of afterlife which I blame watching WAY too much Supernatural on but HEY Reapers are freaking COOL man.  It’s absolutely gut wrenching painful to have people argue with me over a world that I have nurtured and slowly tended to for a good fifteen years...now that it finally, FINALLY gets a chance to exist and be worked on....I feel like the one binding element I finally found and played with and tried to expand on is the ONLY element that people care about. As if absolutely EVERY other element that I want to show just - doesn’t EXIST. We started with Finch because its a good transition from the old projects to the new and it’s the earliest event in the timeline - nothing more than that. But I’m almost starting to feel like that was a mistake because it’s TOO familiar.  There’s no going back now, and thats fine. But it does make me anxious to move on to the next ‘chapter’ we’ll be delving into.  MAN.  I hope that helps clarify a few things.  I love answering questions (those that I can) about  WV...so my ask box is always open.  For those that made it, thanks for listening. :) 

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c!ranboo theory (dsmp)

alright so ranboo released a ARG today and i think its time for me to start talking about my own theories: that ranboo is a creation/amalgamation of two species and rather than being born he was created by someone, maybe he experimented on himself purposefully or was experimented on. i came to this conclusion by focusing on the music he uses just about every stream like from lemon demon and the undertale OST. also because he mentioned he writes all his lore and that me (also being a writer) knows that people get really inspired about what music they base their work off of or are inspired by.

first, spirit phone album. that album’s whole concept is supernatural things, science experiments and strange phenomenon. he uses ‘ancient aliens’, ‘eighth wonder’ and ‘touch tone telephone’ the most on streams not only because they slap but because i think they’re hinting at lore. ancient aliens is about an otherworldly encounter with alien from the perspective of a prehistoric human (cavemen, neanderthal), eight wonder is about gef the talking mongoose and the hoax surrounding it but focuses on the ghost part of the story, and touch telephone is about a scientific break through with some serious mad scientist vibes thrown in.

when put together, what we see is a story thats been hinted at for a while start to unfold. we know nothing about ranboo’s past and neither does he because he can’t remember, but besides lemon demon absolutely slapping and not being dmca maybe ranboo is using this music to hint at an actual character backstory, origin and possible motivation.

now for the undertale OST. he uses the song ‘amalgam’ every stream. if you don’t know, in the game undertale a scientist named alphys experiments on monsters but the results are terrifying

i just read this undertale wiki entry and i find it very interesting that alphys was trying to bring back monsters after being “fallen down”...and that is the most iconic song used in ranboo lore streams from the undertale OST. it does help to know that ranboo also loves undertale and i know writers are often inspired by other media they love.

the lyrics from all of those songs he plays on stream (mostly the lemon demon ones) deserves its own lore based analysis in a separate post to be honest (and it would also take me a while because procrastination)

until we get more concrete evidence for this theory its mostly speculation, well, until it isn’t. ranboo being a science experiment gone right or wrong (depending on how you look at it) has been at the back of my mind for a few weeks but the release of the arg gave me a excuse to finally post about it. if we find more evidence to support this theory, i’ll add on to this post. if you have any evidence or speculation, please add on to this!