#maxramble

[maxladcomics]

I feel like this fandom associated the fear of forgetting with Gaster so much, that many kind of forgot how the whole game is touching upon that. Not the fear per se, but the concept of forgetting/leaving behind, either willingly or forcefully. The Monsters entirely forgot how Humans look like (except one-two), some of them acted like Toriel just didn't exist after she left for the Ruins, Flowey tells you to leave the best ending, asks to not erase it and then says that if we do erase it, then we have to make him forget too. Like, I know the fandom focuses on RESETs a lot, especially when it comes to Chara/Sans about how they deal with either still remembering or them realising they don't remember, but come on, Asriel is right there with one of the most genuine fears a child can have throughout growing up. Anyways, this is my little rant, my apologies - pentoll

THIS IS A GREAT RANT

I think it's interesting because the first few characters I associate with the fear of forgetting or being forgotten would be Goner Kid, Papyrus and maybe Alphys for some reason. I think Flowey and Asriel need more attention! Which I will try to give, in my AU's and comics whenigettodrawingthem.

But that is a good point! I can't remember if it was mentioned in the game but I think they're prone to forgetting about other monsters and bad things to prevent them losing hope, they're all in a very fragile state. They have been underground for so long that most monsters (except Gerson, Asgore and Toriel) don't know what the surface is like, and only have a vague promise that one more human can get them out.

Most monsters haven't lived long enough to know that Toriel existed, and considering Gerson is the only one that speaks of her- it's very likely the only ones that were aware of her are either already gone, or they avoid the subject because it causes them grief. Asgore does this as well, his diary saying "Good day today!" on every page says a lot.

I went kinda off topic I guess, BUT! I do agree that Asriel and Flowey have a lot to them, and a lot of potential to explore their fears and what they've been through.

I do plan on having Flowey in a future comic so this gives me some things to think on.. He was just going to hang out and make some jokes and sneer at a few things but maybe he should get some time to vent or show his feelings on things.. HMHM.

[puppett33th]

careless whisperer, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing

[girlwolf]

Trying to do a backflip from flat in skate 3 is making me want to die.

[wentzdayz]

I want cuddles, stargazing cuddles, movie marathons, easy and relaxed breakfast mornings, pizza nights, sleep in each other's arms, end up talking about life when it's 3 AM when neither of us can sleep, knowing smiles, loving looks, confessions in the middle of kisses, hold your hand while walking, kiss your nose, taking care of you when you push yourself too hard, tell you everything I love about you when you're doubting yourself, and seeing you blush when I tell you you're cute. We used to be like that. I want to brush your hair with my fingers while you're asleep, get lost in your eyes when you talk about something you love. Maybe we can be like that again someday.

[babylonianspice]

I'm in the process of making D&D style Grumps and I'm rEAL excited

[maxladcomics]

I mentioned it ages ago, and I don’t know if I can explain it properly but LET ME TRY

So I believe that time flows differently on the outside of the underground, compared to inside the barrier.

This is because, Flowey has been causing resets for potentially years, reverting to the same day he suddenly existed. He doesn’t have direct access or ability to use a save location like you, the player. He explains this himself, he only has the one save point he can load from.

He mentions wasting weeks with Asgore, trying to make himself feel something. 

He reset over and over a few times, then did a pacifist run, he implies doing this more than once. Then he goes on a murder run. He doesn’t mention if he’s done this more than once, but considering his excessive checking of every option on pacifist runs, it’s very likely.

Flowey doesn’t mention anything different from what we know. He doesn’t mention Papyrus and his brother moving into snowdin, he doesn’t mention MTT becoming big which happened recently (implied by the water fountain).

There is an obvious huge gap between his previous life, and his current one. But he didn’t show confusion at discovering Toriel in the ruins, so that’s kinda weird lol. ANYWAY.

Flowey doesn’t talk about anything being different to what you experience. It’s very likely that the monsters he murdered on his routes were the same ones you can choose to. The ones you can spare, befriend, is the same.

The question is, of course, is how long he’s been doing this.

His save point is at the exact same time and place, and it’s unknown what he’s done before you came in. But obviously- my main guess is that he’s only been in the underground for around a week, more accurately, 8 days.

This is my main reason to assume that time is different inside the barrier. Flowey mentions being with Asgore for WEEKS, but if time was the same inside and out, then you would have come through around his first run.

This guess builds off of a few things- things that Flowey says to you, things that other monsters say, and the things Flowey has already done on his current run.

Flowey has already befriended Papyrus on this route, he doesn’t mention that Papyrus lived anywhere else, or anything about him moving to Snowdin. The shopkeeper mentions that the skeletons just appeared one day- so it’s still new enough to mention.. or maybe it was odd enough to mention.

The flowers are still in the lab, and Alphys makes the instant connection between Flowey and the “tiny flower” that Papyrus mentions. She doesn’t question it- she obviously knows who it is, even if she’s never? met Flowey in this route. But she has cameras, so she’s most likely seen him, she knows where he’s from.

Papyrus implies that things have changed within the last 8 days, by telling Sans he hasn’t calibrated his puzzles for this long. So it’s very likely that Sans only recently became ‘aware’ of resets. Obviously he’s always been a comedian (that might actually hate puns or just conveniently ignores them when he’s not the one telling them idk) but he’s always been lazy and messy so maybe he hasn’t really changed that much.

Anyway I’m basically saying that time reset over and over inside the barrier, while time went on outside, to eventually allow Frisk to fall down.

[maxladcomics]

I'm dying to know what you mean by that

I have this theory that Sans doesn't know who Papyrus really is. Papyrus puts on a distinct act around him, sure, they joke around like brothers, but Sans obviously thinks Papyrus is an idiot, or at least believes he can't handle knowing about the anomaly/resets when he obviously already does.

..to clarify, Sans doesn't directly know about resets, but he knows they exist. He doesn't even know that Flowey was the main cause of all the resets up until the human fell. (He implies it in the murder run)

Papyrus tries to get information out of Sans during a murder run if you close the game and reopen (maybe die? idk I don't die that early on lol) but Sans just plays dumb with him on it. Papyrus directly experienced déjà vu, and Sans plays off his his enquiring about it as a joke.

In the neutral run, Sans asks you about the talking flower, he doesn't know it by name. But he doesn't bring it up with Papyrus during all the shenanigans earlier, does he doubt his information? They're both liars, are they both aware of that fact? Or is one lying so excessively that the truth is impossible to find?

...I'm implying that Papyrus is lying so much that no one actually knows who he is. He gives hints, and we get some details thanks to Undyne's shenanigans, but you never see anything of the real Papyrus around Sans.

AND THAT IS VERY INTERESTING.

To add to that:

Papyrus points out recognizing the dog food bag in Alphys' lab, then mentions he saw it in sans' room. BUT.

You can check his room and there is no dog food there.. The dog food bowl is in the lab. Papyrus has dog food in the shed for you when you lose his battle. PAPYRUS IS LYING TO YOU.

Papyrus manipulates Undyne into befriending the human, and people think he folds on liking Grillbys' greasy food because she shows favour towards it..

BUT- in the motel, Undyne talks about going on a vacation, and they both get excited for it, before Papyrus simply mentions he was being sarcastic, and "WOULD NEVER GO ON A HOLIDAY FOR ANY REASON."

Papyrus LIED. He's also a workaholic.

He is way too suspicious.

[maxladcomics]

Re: your post about Sans not actually knowing Papyrus. I'm a fan of the 'Papyrus is Gaster, but because everyone has forgotten Gaster, Papyrus has also forgotten himself' theory. And I had Thoughts of along similar lines to 'no one really knows Papyrus because he always lies', albeit from a slightly. Different source?

That is, Papyrus DOES lie a lot. But the people who seem to care about him most and actively seek his company, and the characters who are the most affected by him are all characters with high amounts of Determination.

Like, sure, yeah. if you kill Papyrus, Sans vanishes and then asks you about how you should be wielding power, and he may threaten you at the end of a phone call. But overall, his role in the game doesn't change much at all, and his attitude in the endings seems more representative of the Underground's attitude.

But as we know, Flowey is the previous holder of reset. We know he's probably the person who actually knows the most about Papyrus(only one to REALLY know his favorite food), and he's also confessed Papyrus is the person he finds the most interesting.

But! There's also Undyne! Now, she may not know as much about Papyrus as Flowey does, and I think she projects her own view of him onto him. But she's probably the character who talks about Papyrus as a friend the most. From Sans' dialogue about Papyrus, he views him as someone naive in need of protection. And to basically everyone else, Papyrus is not Papyrus, but who he is in connection to those around him. A skeleton who informs Undyne of problems, Sans loud and tall brother, etc.

But Undyne... Papyrus still lies to her, and she still thinks Papyrus is too nice, but she acknowledges his strength. She doesn't want to upset him, she wants to see him succeed and tries to help him do so in her own way, by giving him something to be passionate about. And when you kill him, it enrages her. I'm sure it enrages Sans, too, but she doesn't just judge you for it, confronts you much earlier and demands to know what you did to Papyrus.

So I wonder if there's. Something like a not-my-problem field around Papyrus, or spacetime distortion, that causes only people with Determination to really see him? Not that his lies make it any easier. it could also just be the lying, that's a lot simpler and more likely, but I do agree that Sans definitely does not know Papyrus anywhere near as much as he thinks he does, and is just running on a number of assumptions. Which is simultaneously weird and sad, that Papyrus has so few friends and not even his brother can really be counted among them.

...At any rate! Hope you enjoyed my rambling and found it interesting!

I DO FIND THAT INTERESTING.

Actually that brings up a good point, how forgettable or even ignore-able Papyrus is. Maybe he's yelling because no one pays attention to him pfff, I mean he tells so many jokes just for them to go over peoples heads, he shows excessive consideration towards others, just for the fandom to assume he's an asshole because he 'reacts badly' to puns.

//For those that don't know, they are doing a bit/playing with you. Sans' puns wouldn't be anywhere near as funny if Papyrus didn't react to them the way he does. Which makes it weirder to why Sans doesn't react to his at all. Why would he ignore them when it obviously makes him happy that Papyrus reacts? It's not just sans, tho, Undyne doesn't seem to notice or react to his puns either, but he responds to hers.//

The entire underground- or at least I know the entirety of Snowdin is affected when he's dusted. They all feel unsafe and unsettled suddenly, Papyrus has a huge effect on them. I do really love Undyne's response to him being dusted, the fact she knows he answers after two rings of his phone, means they talk a lot, and I love that.

Sans's reaction gives me the impression of "ok we're doing this run, byyyyeee" He only calls you a dirty brother killer, nothing else. He seems to care more about murdering you on a pacifist run than any other... I'm not hating on Sans for this, I'm just pointing it out- his vague awareness has put him in a mood of "Nothing REALLY matters" so it's because of that he doesn't really seem to care about Papyrus dying. He'll just call you a dirty brother killer and move into Toriel's house. Probably because he doesn't wanna deal with anyone asking about Papyrus, she doesn't know he exists, after all.

[maxladcomics]

How long did you need to draw one page

Depends on the length of the page and all kinds of things!

But from sketch to fully shaded I'd say roughly 6-11 hours

Logically, if I was drawing all the time, I could finish 2-3 pages a week, but I'm extra slow because of my FOOLISH ACTIONS pfffff

Since a lot of the comics I'm drawing now rely heavily on stuff I've already foreshadowed/shown, I have to plan the characters/scenes very carefully to avoid either spoilers, or breaking the consistency of the story. This usually consists of having excess notes of everything I've drawn previously about some characters (I have at least 6 note files for "That Child" comic).

I have notes that define what I'm supposed to draw, and it looks easy in that.. but my notes don't have full scripts, so I also have to take bare minimum notes and turn that into full pages pfff PAST ME IS A MENACE (and I haven't changed).

So yeah, these days I spend roughly 2-3 days simply scripting and planning a page (I script, sleep on it, and if it doesn't feel right I adjust it and sleep on it again lol, it usually works unless I get extra stuck)

Then the rest of the week sketching, lining and shading.

I might take longer on my next post, since it's 2 pages WITH a fight scene, I have 1 page scripted and sketched right now and the fight scene half-done, so who knows! It might be done by the end of this week if things go well!

[maxladcomics]

How am I supposed to read all your stuff if I'm on mobile?! 😭 I always seem to get lost in the sauce- I mean- never ending comic hoops, and yet I'm certain that some comics are out of the chain, so I can never see them. Is there an order to the madness? I've tried to find one on my own, but it never ends! Everything is a scrambled mess in my brain and most of the characters I see make no sense to me (other than, hey, this skeleton looks really cool! So on the basic level) because I have no backstory for them. So... What should I do? I'm starting to lose hope here... Jk, but still, it's best to say that my brain is mush.

How do I see ~everything~ ever, in the most efficient manner possible?

Also, I just to be certain that you know I'm not flaming you- I love your art, even if most of it doesn't make much sense to me- but even still! I love it anyway- i just want to be in the know lol. I've been seeing your comics on and off for years I'd say- but not in any particular order, or with any logic. I feel like I'm trying to craft multiple intricate puzzles, but all of them are in the same box- but at the same time some random (great) person shows up and starts taking some of the pieces and putting them in other boxes, then adds more, also all great intricate pieces, then adds some sick bonus art to the pile- and I'm also at the same time, really, really bad a puzzles. That's the sort of sheitsuation I'm in. I have no idea how to properly use tumbler (I thought that people could post stuff to a blogs wall- I know now- sorta- that that's not how it works, but the remnants of my stupidity still remain up to this very day), and I also didn't know how to post links- so, you could probably assume why that might be a problem- just an endless supply of wack that really serves to throw my tiny pea brain for a loop.

So, I guess I'm trying to ask this, the tldr if you will: I want to read all of your stuff, but don't really know how. How do I do the do?

(Also, I've been awake for like 26 ish hours, so please forgive me for this- my brain is very frazzled)

I checked tumblr to see 99+ notes AND IM SO SORRY YOU'VE BEEN LOST FOR SO LONG- pfff

Also thank you, I 'secretly' hope that when you say about pieces and boxes and more boxes and intricate pieces that you've managed to spot some 'super secret' foreshadowing I've thrown here and there and just need some extra pages to figure it out.

I'm not sure if it works on mobile anymore because I haven't checked in around a year or two?

but this link to my comics list should work?

I also post my comics on deviantart but I doubt that's any better lol.

ANYWAY. That link is for my main storyline comics. As far as I know, most of the comics are based in the same multiverse storyline (except hungerswap, Don't come back, and maybe Science)

The other comics I do are also linked in there but I'll link them here as well

Shenanigans (as far as I remember) have no foreshadowing and is generally dumb stuff for fun. It's in order of when I posted them. So the oldest is at the top, and newest is on the bottom. YOU CAN SEE MY ART GROW ALONG THE WAY lol.

Random comics are here

Random comics, are comics that can make you either laugh or cry, or feel like there's someone standing right behind you in a dark room. A lot of my favourite comics are in this one lol and I think there's some foreshadowing, too!

...I'm lying. There's a good chance there's foreshadowing crawling everywhere through both random comics AND shenanigans. I just don't remember all of them.

There might be some comics missing or deleted, but if a "Next" or "Previous" on a comic page sends you on a loop, let me know and I can fix it!

Edit: Forgot to also link my AU blogs for Undercurrent and Fellswap

[maxladcomics]

Are you sure? I thought it was

Swapfell ==> swap fell over

Fellswap ==> swap who fell over

Isnt that obvious??? /j

(Haha im so original, i bet noooo one thought of this /s)

I read and reread in confusion, then laughed when I got it, and now I'm wondering if I misunderstood the joke, but the thought of swap characters just falling over and becoming edgy is hilarious to me.

BUT YES.

The whole Swapfell = Swap into Fell

and Fellswap = Fell that was Swapped

was the first part made to force the change, as I said, the Swapfell I draw was always called Swapfell when I started:

This was back in 2016, fellswap gold didn't exist until around page 20 of my drinking comic. NOW IF YOU LOOK AT THE DESIGNS- then yeah, it technically would count as a 'fellswap' according to that Fell swapped thing, but it wasn't a thing back then. There was only Swapfell. Just take the two AU's and combine the way you want, change the story how you want, etc etc.

Like I said, back then, everyone just made their own versions, which USUALLY had Papyrus with a fluffy hoodie, and Sans wearing black + whatever. BUT NO ONE CARED. You could change ANYTHING about it, there wasn't any REAL rules.

I really miss those days...

(Also sorry for turning your joke into a ramble lmao)

[maxladcomics]

Hey there! :D I just wanted to check up on you and see how you're doing! I hope that you have a good day!!

HALLO

I'M DOING WELL, still trying to draw in my free time but it's not happening lmao. I'm trying to draw just a bit every day to get myself back into my previous schedule, I'm hoping to get there eventually.

I found out through this time that I kinda burnt out, but I got to think things over and figure out where I wanted to go with my art and what I wanted to do.

I still want to finish my stories, and the jokes I have prepared still make me laugh, and I wanna share that. I think the hardest part is that I'd love to draw a few random comics, but all the jokes I have set aside are for my longer series..

...OH WELL, THAT MEANS I NEED TO GET TO THEM FASTER.

[maxladcomics]

Hey just binge-read through you comics and really enjoy your art and humor. This is probably because I haven't gone through your entire blog yet, but I do have a question about your underfell. Did you say before in another comic what actually happened between the brothers that made them have a falling out? Why does Papyrus die without Sans? Are Undyne, Papyrus, and Sans all aware of loads and resets? Why did Gaster want to save Sans in Lost? What are the brothers' relationship w/each other?

HEY THANKS! It wasn't said directlyyy I thiiink- but Fell discovered Red doesn't care about him and anything they had gradually collapsed from then on, since then, Red had become excessively hostile. Fell's been trying to keep things together as much as he can, but Red actively ruins it, at the point of the Lost comic, Fell is always on the defense and tends to overreact, which causes that storyline to start- and things change. It calms down a lot after the Lost comic, but it's still tense between them.

All the characters in Underfell are connected in some way- but Fell's and Red's connection is more obvious than others (and an aspect of one hasn't been shown at all, only vaguely hinted). Fell's soul produces an unnatural amount of DT, and Red acts as a sort of filter for it. Unfortunately, due to Gaster's interference, their balance was destroyed- which caused their current issue where Red can't handle it, and will break down over time, which makes him try to kill Fell. So they reset, and it loops all over again.

Undyne is vaguely aware of resets, she knows they happen, but she's not quite sure what they are. If someone explains it to her- she'd get it. But currently she assumes she's the only one that sees it cuz Underfell monsters don't talk to each other about ANYTHING. Fell has an intense awareness of resets, he's known all the ones that's happened up to now. Red has no idea of these ones, and only knows 2 possible futures. He probably knows resets happen, but doesn't care about them because he wants what he sees as the good ending. He has the least awareness of resets. Asgore is aware of the resets too, and of course the modifications to his citizens, but he doesn't know what it means yet. He has his theories, though.

Gaster wanted to save Sans because he's the favourite child lol, he hates Papyrus with a passion, and believes it's his fault that everything went wrong. He believes that without Papyrus, things would have been perfect. So he simple uses Papyrus as a tool to save Sans, and doesn't see him as any more than that. JOKES ON HIM LMAO

I think I explained the relationship up there already, but to clarify: Fell cares about Red and wants to protect him cuz he's weak(and doesn't want to keep going through resets), Red wont let him. Red doesn't care about Fell at all, but he would be more bearable/calm if Fell wasn't.. well, himself. Obviously in Underfell that's not an option.

[maxladcomics]

Do you have any advice/links to resources about making fight scenes? I'm really struggling right now and you're really good at them!

HECK YEAHHH

Also thank you lmao, I only started drawing fight scenes when I joined the Undertale fandom so it’s still really new to me, but it is REALLY cool being able to look back and see how much you can improve if you keep trying!

Okay so I linked this in my last reference ramble, this artist is one of my favourites for references, which was mostly because of the dynamic poses and the variety of them, SO AWESOME. I could’ve sworn there was more, but here’s the folder with the other battle/fight poses stuff

ANYWAY, I STILL REMEMBER THIS SO CLEARLY, but when I first drew Undyne and Papyrus fighting, I had NO idea how fighting with swords(technically bones) vs spears was supposed to work, and obviously searching for that turned up no good results. So I searched for “Spear fighting” and found some references and while I was vaguely aware of how sword fighting worked, I got some references on that (far easier to find) and had to sketch out several versions of the fight before I was happy with what I got.

So NOW, I searched for fighting with spears and magically came across this video (skip to 50 seconds) obviously it doesn’t have the fighting style that I’d like to see Undyne use but it still helps to understand how it can work. There’s also this one and I might bookmark this cuz I like how this guy talks lmao

Searching up images of sword fighting does come up with a lot of photos of people, I think I added “drawing” to my search back then, but these results are cool- I’d still recommend trying to find a video of a fight because it does help in visualizing how your characters would move during a fight scene.

This research ages ago has made it a lot easier to draw other fight scenes as well with different weapons, it’s really fun! 

OH RIGHT I FORGOT AN IMPORTANT PART-

Try and plan out your entire fight scene on paper or whatever, could be sticky notes, it doesn’t have to look great, it could be vague stick figures holding stick weapons. BUT the point to sketching it out first, is that you can figure out how the characters are posed and moving, and you can change the perspective when you draw it out properly! 

I normally plan out all my fight scenes in a 2D type setting, and change the POV depending on the feeling or action in the scene to make it seem more real??? I guess?? I’m still practicing a lot with this because dynamic poses are difficult BUT YOU CAN’T IMPROVE IF YOU DON’T TRY AAAHH

[maxladcomics]

(Unless it contains spoilers) can I hear about your worldbuilding? I'm very interested-

OH MAN- Well I’m gonna start off with: I love worlds with certain restrictions, from resources, areas, whatever- the less that’s available, the more fun it is to work around everything else.

So obviously this is why I love the Undertale world, characters and concept so much- it’s heavily restricted in what the world is capable of doing/having because the barrier is normally a constant part of any AU. 

But I always start with a few base ideas, the first one is always: 

Food. (Of course). The original game already shows that there’s problems with food and resources, other than the fruit that Undyne pummels, and the eggs and milk MTT has, there doesn’t seem to be any form of fresh food available and some of the monsters are literally selling garbage as food. Most of the decent food are made from a long-life resource like flour.. while I don’t know where all this flour comes from, we’ll just pretend it magically comes from the dump and doesn’t somehow get soaked through and go bad. Let’s just ignore that monsters turn into dust when they die

I try to plan out how much of the layout of the underground changes depending on the world, I’ll use my version of Underswap as an example in this.

So for Underswap, the snow area would be later, towards the end. I haven’t completely planned the layout except that an area similar to waterfall would be directly outside of the ruins door, which is overgrown with vines/various plants. I haven’t named any of the areas because I’m emotionally attached to the old ones can’t come up with new ones. 

So any outside resource comes from the dump- I like to have it as a consistent in the underground across AU’s although maybe I should plan one without it.. it might be interesting. 

So the distribution of supplies/food will effect other parts of the layout, IF the castle can get some form of access to sunlight (I’ve always found that weird, IS IT SUNLIGHT, IS IT JUST FIRE- WHY ARE THERE BIRDS SINGING) then it should logically stay at the end but if there’s no sunlight available it’d logically be closer to the dump but would that risk blocking where it comes in- would the royal family give up being close to the barrier where they can see it for exclusive control of supplies? HMMMM

Obviously I haven’t completely planned that part out lmao. It’s something that can be changed at any point because it doesn’t effect the other characters or story that much unless I plan to draw it out. So I guess I’ll just pick what I like when I get to it.

Story-wise, regardless of the layout- the king will be at the end. I always like ending it with that, it never matters how much I change lol, the only AU I’ve made that doesn’t follow this specific route is Swapfell. (And technically Fellswap, but I haven’t planned much of that at all)

Obviously I’ve changed some parts where we expect certain monsters to live, so I get to throw them in. While I would like to cut hotland out completely (for layout/lore) I know that Alphys probably lives there because she’s a lizard, so there would HAVE to be some kind of warm area, not lava again though, I like the looks of hotland but it wouldn’t make sense in between waterfall and snowdin. On the upside, she’d definitely live close to Undyne so they could be dorks a lot.

Anyway- We know that Asgore and Toriel rule over the monsters, and depending where things are modified, or how, then that can usually change a lot from the start. In my Underswap (SPOILERS) Asriel wasn’t dusted by the human, and grew up, taking over the throne from Asgore and Toriel, I haven’t decided if they’re still alive or not, or how much they effect the story, it could be a lot or, none at all. 

Since I still have a lot to plan out lol, this is usually when I grab all my current ideas/concepts and yell at someone until I’m happy with what comes out lol. All this background stuff about the food would only be lightly implied with the characters, with how they act or appear. 

So I’ve got- Food, sources, layout and leaders/rulers.

I like to go over those world building questions lists if I feel like I’m missing something (Which I’ll have to when I want to work on Underswap more) but yeah, thankfully, with all the variety of the characters, I don’t need to worry too much about modifying them since they already have really good base characteristics!

After all that oddly vague rambling, I have one thing to add:

My favourite part of developing anything at all, is adding weird jokes or scenes: 

The vague area I mentioned before should be all foggy from the water that's used to cool the coreImagine Undyne describing it:"It's a slide""for water""a water slide""NO YOU CANNOT GO ON IT, IT'S FOR SCIENCE"

[maxladcomics]

How do you tell if a plot is actually good? Do you ever worry about that?

YES. I worry a lot about whether a plot is good, or the characters are behaving the way that their personality would suit, or if I’m missing something.

If your characters feel real enough, if they have passions and a goal to push themselves towards, then they can make anything into a good story. 

At least that’s how I feel about it.

I remember reading a book about this stuff, it had all sorts of information about building your characters and worlds and what can make a story go- apart from that, I have also observed what works in things I watch. It’s really easy to find an awesome concept- but the characters are annoying or flat and it’s hard to enjoy the story with them in it. 

Honestly- other than Undertale related stuff, I’m not that great at writing plots, I’m more of a world-builder. The fact that Undertale has a wide variety of characters with different personalities and things that make them push forward- makes it really fun to plot around! 

So posts like this one and this one are my favourite kinds of things- and it helps me grow the world I need and also gives me ideas when I’m stuck.

Tbh this one just confuse me. This one is decent, but STILL CONFUSED

Anyway because I clearly don’t say it enough: WRITE EVERY IDEA YOU HAVE DOWN. Even if it sucks- even if you don’t like it-. You might not like it now, but if you get better and look back, you might be able to change it into a good idea!