#not realising that was THE TEMMIE.

[storm-driver]

realising i hosted a baldesion arsenal run in final fantasy xiv, for the same artist who drew temmie from undertale, is perhaps the wildest thing ive been told i did this year.

[kipkitt]

i was !! drawing temmie !! ! and thne . i had a . Realisation .. .

yippe e !! :3

[acerikus]

Ah, yeah that makes more sense actually! I can't reply to your reply because yours are restricted but I did edit my tags since you clarified.

No worries! Yeah, at first I genuinely thought he WAS just regular flowey bc I totally forgot that the OG underswap swapped Asriel and monster kid and was celebrating how perfectly in character flowey felt, and I was immediately filled w fear when I realised Asriel was his own person here. Really hope they're cooking something interesting up w flowey's deal that makes sense (especially bc the devs are seemingly using he/him for Flowey, so unless that's a slipup bc of canon flowey it makes.. less sense to be frisk or mk). Honestly I think it'd be really funny if it turns out flowey IS just a shape shifting Asriel and frisk is just lurking within Chara doing all the 'forward' stuff while mk is the main temmie or something lol)

[beantothemax]

“After all...Doubt is what I do.”

No. Not doubt.

Distrust.

Hatred.

“What’s this? The hound finally expressing guilt for allowing his darling little lamb to wander right into the welcoming arms of the wolves~?”

Cubaryi’s shadow tormented him, following him around and bringing to light everything he hated about himself and others.

A different apparition scattered her darkness like dust in the wind, her scarlet eyes lingering before dissipating- like the afterimage of a blinding light.

Temenos knew not the identity of the ghost who hovered behind him, but he knew whoever it was must have been powerful to scare the crow into flight. Strong arms wrapped around his waist gently, a chin rested on his head, and he gasped quietly. That narrowed the identity down to two. A soft voice murmured to him and whittled the possibilities to one. He nearly started crying when he heard the voice.

“It was not your fault, Temenos. I swear to you,” Crick promised, and a sob escaped his lips.

“I’m so sorry, Crick... I should not have left you by yourself, I should have accompanied you, I sh-”

Crick cut him off by gently placing a finger against his mouth. “It was my fault. I thought the place would go unprotected. I was a fool, and I should have heeded your words better.”

“Which words would that be?” He couldn’t even find it in himself to tease Crick.

“‘Perhaps you ought to doubt more, my little lamb.’”

Temenos hung his head, trembling. “...No. No, please- do not say that...” He pleaded, and turned around in Crick’s arms. Crick looked at him gently, a way he never thought himself worthy of being looked at.

“Temenos... Would it soothe you to know the truth?”

Cubaryi’s voice hissed menacingly. “The truth lies in the embers of the dying Flame, Inquisitor. You will find no hints there.”

Crick glared at her, piercing blue eyes making her falter. “Stay your beak, crow, and leave us. Fly back to the bitch hound Kaldena and tell her of your own pitiful death at the hands of the man you detested so!”

Cubaryi frowned underneath her beaked mask- the only true hint at her smoke-and-mirrors act- and vanished to a place Temenos knew not of.

Crick gently held Temenos, who relaxed into his hold. He had tried to convince himself he didn’t trust Crick, that they were mere assistants in the murder case of the Pontiff. But the truth was much more, and burnt brighter than the Sacred Flame itself, yet was its own thing entirely.

Miracles of all miracles, Inquisitor Temenos had fallen in love with Crick Wellsley.

And it hurt. It was the most painful thing he’d felt since he lost the man he loved. It settled into his bones, his muscles, his heart and his brain and made it hurt.

A new voice emerged, gentle and joking in a way that only one person’s could be.

“About time you realised, Temmy. Poor Crick’s been-”

“With all respect, now is not the time, Roi.”

Temenos couldn’t help the sharp intake of breath as he whirled around, and nearly started sobbing anew.

There, in all his pale, transparent glory, stood Roi. He had a dark, oozing chest wound, not unlike Crick’s, but other than that, he looked exactly as he had when he left to destroy the Darkblood Bow.

Roi glanced at Crick, who nodded and slowly dropped his arms from Temenos. He found himself missing the warmth, but it was made up when he all but launched himself into the arms of his best friend, his brother, his dubious friend.

They were both laughing, one of them slipped and sent them both tumbling down, and they laughed some more. Temenos heard Crick chuckle at their antics, and his beating heart seemed to beat that much faster. Roi cupped Temenos’s cheeks, and regarded him gently. “I missed you, Temmy. Did you know that? By the Sacred Flame, I missed you.”

Temenos just smiled.

“Well, I certainly hope the Sacred Flame didn’t have any influence on if you missed me or not.”

NOOOO AAAAUHH….. WAAAAAUGH ;;;;;;; i am going to SOB.

ADSJGDNDHDHDJ cubaryi trying to be all mysterious and foreboding and crick just goes ‘fuck off’ and sHE DOES SHDBBDHD

AND ROI!!! ROI SAYING ‘yeah about time you realized’ OH MY GODS

HE GETS TO SEE HIS FRIEND AGAIN….. WAAAH.

fungang this is your best work yet. I came in expecting angst (and I received!) but I also got the most heartwarming piece of knightlight writing I’ve ever seen. This is beautiful.

[commander-gloryforge]

(@commanderhorncleaver) Number 15 for everybody uwu

EVERYBODY??? zthats like 50 people. more i think. okay. get ready. some of these characters im gonna name tumblr hasnt even seen yet.

How Gay Are They?

im going by age of the character btw. lets fucking go.

Azura: gay :) so gay that she gave her lover her only weapon so that she could protect herself

Dio: hey thats me!! it's a lesbian :) super gay

Sophia: lesbian in the magical girl way

Mina: normal (aroace) but their best friend is gay :)

Carry: heterosexual

Léa: PROBLEMATIC BISEXUAL

Brum: gay for every gender :)

Jue: also a problematic bisexual but with more glitter

Lysania: unproblematic bisexual :) gay as in happy :)

Violett: WOMEN WANT XEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Naymarin: GAY FROM BEFORE THEY WERE BORN. so gay. met his gf in the dream. lesbianism in her veins.

Aurora: she doenst have much time to be gay but if she gets her hands on the gay feelings then thousands of people will die :)

Raja: normal amount of gay. pretty regular.

Mirella: SOOOOOOOOO GAY. gets hit in the face with the lesbianism.

Dergroße Winschenzo: there is no word that could hold the power of dergroße winschenzos love. he is all.

Temmie: hardcore femme lesbian. full of GAY!!! and also evil sometimes

Lilly: i dont know :)

Rosalind: bisexual lighting when she was born.

Dean: gay and likes it when men are very mean to him

Corra: very gay but forgets it sometimes because the love she has for the eternal alchemy is stronger than any attraction.

Lucius: 11/10 on the gay scale and it should scare you

Vita: if gay means happy then she is the gayest :) if gay means liking women then thats also correct

Ophelia: she has no time being gay shes too busy being scared

Tora: i think a pretty normal amount of gay. i think rather regular. i think normal.

Rebekka: gay but in a very secretive evil but halfway through redemption kind of way

Eryn: the only thing they attract is unstable fractals :) theres no gay

Narcissa: i am too scared to ask but that old evil face sure looks gay

Jisoo: lesbiab :)

Iira: gay and would commit warcrimes for its lover. (has no lover but wants one so she can commit warcrimes for them)

Ninyann: what is a gay :) doesnt know anything sorry

Indigo: gay and embarassingly so. hey stop looking at jisoo there is a bear mauling you. hey. he

Alastor: proper amount of gay. may not have realised it yet.

Frost: frost is the representation of (one of) my genders so i think they should be the same amount of gay as me. i think theyre gay in the way being a pretty guy in a wedding dress with frost bite is gay. gay in the way finding you best friend dead in a field of pansies covered with purple blood and vines piercing their heart is gay. i th

Dazii: makes bombs. i think thats pretty gay

Astrid: god created bisexuality for her

Yoonsu: fighting his demons (homosexuality)

Thyrynn: gay in a sitting in a library and reading about forgotten legends way

Izzy: OUGHHHHHHHHHH CRITICAL HIT!!!! GAY!!!!!

Nadira: you wabt to know if shes gay? you want to know? when shes wearing the clothing of her gf at all times? when she has made an effort to learn everything about her gfs culture and history that she can find? you want to know if nadira is gay??? how gay she is???? take a guess. go on take a guess. how gay is she, hm?? how gay

Hilda: she was made to be my gfs characters gf. she exists only to be a lesbian. its her one destiny.

Rhea: *writes love songs about her crush* *cries after concert because girl in the audience was too pretty* *talks to ghosts about being too in love to function*

Junko: not only are they lesbian but they also have two gay people in their HEAD which adds up.

Darryean: cowboy

Rian: studies astrology. he looks at the stars and goes "oh youre a libra :/" thats gay

Kyandri: hey shes just a little shroomie :) she doesnt know how gay she is :) a lot probably

Ambrose: VAMPIRE!!!! BITES MEN!!!!! IN THE NECK!!!!!!!!!

Kaari: average bisexual

Daeonna: i dont know if shes gay but judging by how mean she is.... probably

Aryel: do you want an essay do you want a fucking ewsay on how gay he is. do you want that. do you want me to describe in detail how gay he is. how he felt when he met his lover for the first time. his emotions. his admiration. his pure beatiful love. do you want to read into every last bit of aryel lore and figure out how fucking gay he is. do you think you can handle that??? i dont think so. oh let me show you how fucking gay aryel is alright lket me show yo

Soleil: canach liker (gay)

Prima: the word lesbian was created for her HEY!!!!!!!!!!!! gay girl. get a grip.

[plugnuts]

I have realised that I,, amd dumb,,

[firedupnumbskulls]

*Venom peeks from behind grillby to see what's happening*...?

*MURDER IS BAD, SPITFIRE.

*Okay!

*least that stops us from eating it

[crispinrice]

Day 7

[javascryptid]

comfort characters because i only just saw that i was tagged in this

giovanni potage (epithet erased)

spooky (spooky's jumpscare mansion)

harmony (splatoon)

bonbon (five nights at freddy's)

temmie (undertale)

(in no particular order because i've never really ranked them)

i just finished writing this and have realised that i have no one to tag because the only people i would tag were tagged already in the post i was tagged in. so i guess it's just anyone who sees this (/lh)

Comfort Character Tag

Tagged by @crosshairlovebot. Thanks, friend! 🤍

Cobb Vanth

Bilbo Baggins

Ahsoka Tano

Dr. Otto Octavius/Doc Ock

John Silver (Treasure Planet)

My list of honorable mentions would be hilariously long because there's so many more I'd put on this list in a heartbeat. 🥰

No pressure tagging: @red-winters @dantes-devil-huntress @kyber-hearts @sageislostinspring @iceman-kazansky @pineapple-wonderland @pcrushinnerd @daincrediblegg @cealyy

[inkblotsonmyhands]

I JUST REALISED

At the end of Chapter 1 of Deltarune, you get to explore the entire town, including the Librarby, where you see Berdly, Jockington, Temmie, and a Gaster follower.

If you go interact with the door to the computer lab, it doesn't let you go in, saying that you can see a dog through the window.

Toby is in the library making the next chapter of the game, and it seems like you shouldn't interrupt him, because...

You just have to trust the dog.

[missholoska]

If Papyrus adores the Floweys in Flowey Village, does Sans like them too? Also does Papyrus like Temmie?

Papyrus is literally the only person in the Underground who likes the Floweys, so nope. similar to his UT self Sans thinks it's weird that Papyrus likes talking to flowers and he's vaguely uncomfortable whenever he goes there (which is only when Papyrus can't be found anywhere else, as phone calls don't work there), but since these Floweys don't whisper ominous predictions or anything it's just a case of him being like "BRO THAT'S WEIRD BUT OKAY"

as for Papyrus and Temmie... man that's a hard one to answer? Temmie's definitely meddled with every monster in at least one timeline, but they find Sans both more annoying and more fun to mess with, so I feel like they're not as bothered with Papyrus and therefore he doesn't really know much about them either.

but I have been considering an idea that Temmie retains UT Monster Kid's opinions of Undyne and Papyrus, i.e. how they start out idolising Undyne but later change their mind about her and decide Papyrus is cooler instead. like maybe they originally respect Undyne for literally bringing them back to life, but as they become more jaded by resetting their appreciation for her lessens, and by post-pacifist when they have to deal with Knowing What They've Done™ they realise they never really paid enough attention to Papyrus and find his belief in everyone's ability to be a better person inspiring?

I realise this is more Temmie's opinion of Papyrus than the other way around but I dunno, I'm still working on that one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[takadon]

✨deltarune chapter 2 is out and i am screaming im so excited so here are the haikyuu boys and undertale/deltarune✨

✨warnings: mentions of killing video game characters, undertale spoilers, minor deltarune spoilers, once again this is very self-indulgent✨

terushima

has played undertale

thinks its hilarious and quotes it every now and again

watched a lets play of deltarune

spent a lot of time in temmie village

played the first run blind and didnt realise he could spare enemies until he talked to sans at the end, was shook

played true pacificst route second

attempted genocide route many times, has not completed it once

sometimes when he cant sleep he puts on jacksepticeye's lets play of undertale and it knocks him right out

kuroo

only played it because kenma said it was good

enjoyed it but only played through it once

knows a lot about it bc of kenma and he read up about a lot of it so he could talk to kenma about it

played true pacifist because he already knew a lot about it before playing

listens to the undertale 5th anniversary concert when hes studying

hasnt played deltarune but knows a lot about it

kenma

loves undertale and delta rune

has played them both several times, undertale much more tho

likes to invest in finding easter eggs and is always really excited to talk about it with anyone and everyone who mentions it

loves sans

papyrus reminds him of kuroo

owns a toby fox dog plushie and several pins

has played every version of the game multiple times and still replays it to find new easter eggs or secret dialogue

stared at a clock counting the minutes until deltarune chapter 2 dropped

played undertale and chapter one while he was waiting so he could refresh his memory before playing

hinata

kenma recommended it to him

accidentally played true pacifist route his first go at playing even tho he went in blind

kenma asked him how he did it and hinata doesnt even know

spent a lot of time at grillbys because he loved the dogs

pet lesser dog for a lot longer than necessary

basically was wholesome the entire time

until he heard about the genocide route

played through as soon as he first found out about it and murdered everybody without hesitation

literally said "im not sorry toriel" before killing her and laughed when papyrus died

kenma has been mildly terrified of him ever since

doesnt know about deltarune, kenma doesnt want to tell him about it

tsukishima

has only played the genocide route

finds comfort in playing god and will replay it over and over again

is a bastard in deltarune

so mean to susie

doesnt care about anything other than being an absolute menace

[haveyouseenthisskeleton]

Rus and flowey

Well, that's pretty easy.

The second Rus realised that Flowey is like his Temmie, he tried to kill him.

Contrary to classic Sans or Papyrus, Nox and Rus had REALLY bad experiences with resets, and he doesn't want to deal with that ever again. So yeah, Flowey better run, cause now he knows there's one Temmie-looking-flower around, both Rus and Nox are going to hunt him down.

[beantothemax]

im sick so you get temmy being sick and crick putting up with his bullshit

“Just let me die, Crick.”

“Temenos, I need to check your temperature.”

“It is futile, my little lamb. I am decaying slowly, my body is crumbling to ash and dust, my flesh burning away.”

Crick sighed, and managed to pry Temenos’s arm away from his face to check his temperature. He placed the back of his hand against Temenos’s forehead, and winced slightly. “Well, it’s gone down a little bit. What did Castti say you had?”

“Influenza.” Temenos spoke as though having the flu was akin to being on his deathbed. Crick pinched the bridge of his nose, and looked at Temenos once again. “I’m going to fetch a cool cloth. It will be fine, Temmy, I promise you.”

He strode off towards the washroom, and found a cloth, which he ran under the water. He wrung out the excess, and returned to Temenos, who was now burrowed under several layers of blankets. “Temenos, I need you to come out,” Crick coaxed, and realised his mistake as soon as he said it. “Come out? My dear little lamb, we have been together for almost 3 months now. Is that not enough proof for you?” Temenos’s muffled voice lilted, and Crick whispered a quick prayer to Aelfric to not lose his mind.

“Temenos Mistral, come out from underneath the blankets now,” he ordered, and Temenos’s head popped out from one end of the blankets? propped against the pillow. “Never say my full name again, Crick. I beg of you.” Temenos sounded truly horrible- stuffed up and likely had a sore throat from all the coughing he’d been doing. Crick draped the cloth over Temenos’s forehead, and he relaxed immediately, comforted by the relief the cloth provided. “Rest now, Temenos. I’ll return with some tea and soup in a bit.” Crick promised, and Temenos gave him a grateful look as he turned to leave.

“I love you, Crick.”

“Yes, yes, I know. And you’re damned lucky I love you too, you know that?”

“I am reminded of it every day, my dear.”

“... I love you too, Temenos.”

I never knew I needed overly dramatic sick temenos until right now. thank you

sdndbgsbedbdtdh the ‘coming out’ joke??????? temy would absolutely say something like that this is canon.

auh the ending…. this is so extraordinary sweet

[hermitcraft-au-time]

I shall be info dumping you with my hermittale au, oh also have some fun facts, (oh God, this is gonna bite me in the butt one day) I'm sorry mod.

Most of the the monsters in the underground are either hybrids or full monsters. There's no in between.

All of the hermits (minus the humans) have met each other at one point, so they aren't complete strangers to each other.

Decided that Temmie Village is gonna be full of the hermits's (and maybe some other MCYTs) pets.

I think the hermittale au have at least 8 chapters? So yeah, this is gonna be a long ride lmao

Since Undertale has a lot of side characters, I decided to throw in some other MCYTs as well, cause apparently I like hurting myself this way

A tiny bit of the things that happen in the au that changed from canon Undertale (like, the B. Cin pie will be chanaged to cinnamon rolls and conversations) is just me throwing refrences about some of my irl needs or things that happened to me irl,

The true lab chapter and the waterfall chapter are what I'm excited for the most. I have big ideas for those chapters.

Okay maybe I lied to you a little bit in the first part I guess, okay maybe some of the monster hermits are dead. I mean, who knows. I could be lying right now.

Tiny bits of the au I've actually planned out (since the idea came to me in like February 2020) but most of the ideas I made up out of the blue, which could mess up lmao

The au is interactive! It's not 100% dependent on with the interactions of xB (or anyone) with the askers, but I really really like idea of the askers predicting something that's gonna happen in the future or send in asks about Undertale itself. So I made it an interactive story :]

Some of the hermits are gonna be like guides in a specific chapter! Like, an example that might not be 100% is Etho being the guide for snowdin!

Half of the conversation xB has with the monsters is him being a gen Z kid and the monsters (+ past fallen humans) not having any fucking idea on what he's talking about

Echo flowers are gonna be the main backstory for the 'dead' monster hermits and human hermits

I'm still undecided if team ZIT + 3/4 of NHO are gonna know each other or not

Each human soul has some sort of power they can use example: a human that posses the kindness soul can heal people. And of course, monsters have their own magic as well.

Each fallen human has a reason why they went too MT. Ebott

Some of the monster hermits are nice, and they don't attack the human. On the other hand some are not nice.

Iskall, Cub, and TFC can and will break the fourth wall.

The past fallen human were supposed to be xB's guide on the underground but they gave up doing that because they keep on arguing (Hypno is the only one that helps lmao)

Fun fact! I'm struggling on finding on what magic should each hermit would have

Fun fact! I still have no idea on what TFC should be! Thank God he appears in the later on!

Fun fact! I realied after posting the first few pages that I have to draw photoshop omega EX! No joke I cried when I realised it.

Fun fact! I have a 17 pages google doc full of ideas and conversations I want to put in the au!

Fun fact! At first Bdubs was supposed to be Flowey and Xisuma was supposed to be Chara, of course the roles were switched.

Fun fact! Biffa was supposed to be Mettaton.

yeah okay that's all I got for now-

Damn you good?/Lh

Hmm I have some ideas of some magic traits the hermits should have:

Etho: I think he should have snow forming and push powers. As it would be useful for the sort of climate he lives in. He could help with the snowball soul game (I forgot the name).

Bdubs: I feel like he should have healing and rest powers that can change your soul and weaken you, maybe something to do with patience, dignity or kindness, im pretty sure some monsters have abillities linked to souls like papyrus has dignity based powers (I think?? Its been a while)

Doc: definitly something similar to undynes powers (obviously). For example maybe shooting trydants at you.

Tango: slowing and speeding up things with those orange and cyan soul traits. Kinda like what mettaton did.

[a-small-batch-of-dragons]

More Than Allies

Prompt: If you ever consider writing for the Sweetheart AU again (it's completely ok if not) I'd love love love to see a time where Frisk was the one to comfort Sans by being their pure, adorable self; there's just something lovely to me about the thought of Frisk realising Sans is sad and knowing exactly how to help him - anon

DISCLAIMER: This is part of a Flowerfell!AU I've got on my Ao3. I'm not posting the rest of them on here because that would take too much time and I ain't about to clog up y'all's dashes with that shit. SO imma link to this work AND the series on Ao3 so y'all know where this fits

Read THIS on Ao3

Sweetheart series

Warnings: this is a flowerfell!au, where Frisk has flowers growing out of them, so slight warning for body horror but nothing graphic

Pairings: all gen

Word Count: 1650

Patching up wounds is one thing. So is keeping someone alive.

But making them happy?

Whoever invented the concept of snow seriously needed their head dunked in a bucket of the stuff. For at least a day. When they could deal with having cold shit shoved into places it shouldn’t be shoved for hours on end, then they could say that they made a good decision.

Sans continues to grumble to himself as he trudges back through Snowdin. Grillby’s place isn’t inconspicuous enough right now, seeing as he just spent most of the night there looking after the child.

“…you better be keeping ‘em alive in there,” Sans mutters, turning the corner to make it to the edge of the town, “or else i swear, grillbz…”

He doesn’t bother finishing the threat. He knows the fire monster would burn the entire fucking town to the ground before letting harm come to someone under his protection. Hell, Sans has seen that explosive rage once or twice. He’s not very keen on seeing it again, especially not if he’s on the wrong side of it.

As he walks, his hand finds its way into his pocket, absentmindedly fiddling with one of the bandaid wrappers.

Shit.

He swerves around one of the icebergs—flipping off the wolf as he did so, he received a threatening snarl for his troubles—and hustles down the path in the bottom of Waterfall. The mushrooms blink innocently as he tromps down the path, finally making it to Temmie Village.

One of the Temmies looks up at him and snarls.

“yeah, yeah,” Sans grumbles, “i just got business with the shop. keep your temmie flakes in order.”

Luckily the Temmies still seem to hate the red glow of his eye. The rest of them part easily as he strides into the shop. The cardboard box hiding the real shop front is still soggy and mold-eaten, much like the Temmie behind it. It glowers at him as he pulls out the payment.

“wouldn’t kill you to keep it a little less decrepit.” He glances around at the artfully arranged trophies on the walls. “though it might make it harder to excuse not cleaning your shit.”

The Temmie just glares at him. Sans shrugs, the absence of the child cold at his side.

“just sayin’.”

The Temmie grumbles something Sans doesn’t understand as it puts the package on the counter. Sans nods and turns to go, thanks forgone. He’d paid. And the Temmies tended to get word after dark anyway, so he’s better off just hurrying back to the child.

‘Child.’ Yeesh, he sounds so fucking formal.

Well, Sans thinks as he scrambles into the cave and restocks the first-aid kit, death does have a way of making things sound really fucking formal.

The kid could’ve died.

Yeah, yeah, he fucking knows, they’ve died too many fucking times already. The flowers aren’t going away any time soon and they’re hurting. But that’s different. It’s different watching them die.

Sans growls as he forces one of the long gauze strips into the plastic box. The hinges wheeze and groan in protest as he finally jams the thing shut again and stuffs it under his coat. He’s been away too long. He’s out of practice.

Not at killing motherfuckers, no, he’s got that down pat. But caring.

Shit, is he even doing this right? The kid’s practically glued to his side day in and day out, partially at his bidding but mostly because the kid just decided his hoodie is perfect to cling to. It’s no different than that damn stick they won’t fucking leave behind. It’s like another limb or something.

…and he would be lying if he said the kid didn’t feel like another limb too.

Sans grits his teeth as he makes it to the shortcut chamber. He pulls his phone out of his pocket and taps out a quick message.

me: package in tow

hothead: Too many customers wait for 22h00

Sans sighs and slumps back down. There are just not enough hours in the goddamn day, apparently. He’s got a bone to pick with whoever invented time keeping the way it is too. Seriously. Sometimes it really got under his non-existent skin.

“time is fake,” he grumbles to himself, hand going to his pocket again, “so fake.”

He has to stifle a wince when the expected tug on his sleeve doesn’t come.

When did he get so fucking attached?

…okay, listen, when a kid growing fucking flowers out of them decides they’re your friend now, they’re your friend now. Sans doesn’t make the fucking rules, he just follows them.

That doesn’t mean he knows what he’s doing.

The kid seems to remember what happens when they die. They always come back looking a little different—more flowers—but they seem to know what’s going on. Of course, that doesn’t mean Sans always knows what’s going on, but he knows enough to recognize the way they seem a little more sure of themselves. Which is good; that means they won’t be walking defenseless into any big shit storm, but that also means that if he fucks up, they’ll remember.

That’s the part he’s worried about.

He’s been doing okay…hasn’t he? He remembers they like Echo Flowers, they like the quiet burble of Waterfall, he always keeps an extra blanket at his Sentry stations, he keeps them the fuck away from his brother, and they…they like his voice.

He talks to them when he can. They seem to like being able to hold onto him—which, okay, he gets. He can’t imagine not being able to see anything, much less be a kid and have to rely completely on someone who might just kill you.

Unbidden, a bone forms in his hand. He growls and puts it away.

No. Never.

A buzz from his pocket startles him out of his thoughts. Grillby informs him he’s good to come over and he doesn’t waste another second before teleporting straight to the fire monster’s backdoor.

“Good,” Grillby mutters, already striding upstairs, “they’re almost awake.”

“any changes in their condition?”

“They’re almost healed. They’ll make a full recovery. Well…” Grillby trails off as he sits back down in the chair. “Except for…”

Grillby doesn’t need to finish. Sans’s SOUL clenches as he looks at the kid lying on the couch. They look so…so…

…fragile.

The flowers haven’t grown anymore, at least not that he can see. As he watches, a few of the petals catch the very edge of Grillby’s flames and the purple light makes them look almost white.

“how long’ve they been asleep now,” he mutters, “twelve hours?”

“Nearly.”

Sans mutters a curse and scratches the back of his skull. If they don’t wake up soon…

No sooner does the thought cross his mind—and get swatted away with the force of a blaster—the kid starts to shift on the couch.

“easy, sweetheart,” he says, worry growing in the pit of his chest as he watches them shift, “hey, kid. kid.”

“They’re having a nightmare?”

Sans bites back another curse and rushes forward. “hey, hey, sweetheart, it’s alright, i’m here.”

As soon as he gets closer, his chest starts to glow a soft white. Grillby stifles a noise of surprise as the kid reaches up for him, wrapping their hands around the lapels of his hoodie and pulling. Sans eases himself down onto the floor next to the couch and lets them bury their face in the fluffy lining of the hood.

“Shh, shh, sweetheart,” he rumbles, his hand coming up to steady them, “it’s okay, nothing’s gonna hurt you, ’s just me and grillbz here, we ain’t going anywhere.”

There’s a soft sigh against his clavicle and then clumsy signs appear in front of his sockets.

“you want me to talk to you, sweetheart?” A little nod. “uh, okay. there’s a, uh, a new cave in waterfall we should check out.”

Their little hands settle in his hoodie as he murmurs to them, their head starting to loll against his shoulder. He hears Grillby stand up and come over as well, hushing the kid’s confusion with a quick explanation that it’s okay, they won’t be hurt, Grillby just needs to check their wound.

The kid just tugs on their sleeve. They butt their head lightly against Sans’s and slowly reach out.

“what, you wanna hold my hand, kid?” Fingers twine with his. “okay, then.”

Grillby chuckles over his shoulder only for it to choke off when the kid grabs for his hand too.

Sans laughs. “guess you’re stuck now too.”

“…worse fates I can imagine.”

There’s another little tug on his SOUL. He frowns, looking back at the kid’s face, only to see their head aimed at the spot on his chest where his SOUL would appear. Then they lean forward and—

“Wow,” Grillby chuckles again, “you’re in this bad.”

Sans, cheeks still warm and bright red from the kiss pressed to his forehead, just stares. The kid seems to be satisfied with the light mortification they’ve just caused. Nodding proudly to themselves, they settle back on the couch. One hand firmly in Sans’s, one hand in Grillby’s. Without being prompted, Sans cards his free hand through their hair, smiling as they let out a hushed sigh, head flopping back onto the pillow.

“They trust you,” Grillby says, something like awe in his voice, “they really trust you.”

“…seems so.”

And yet, even though Sans will readily admit he has no idea what he’s doing still, he wouldn’t give it up for all the hot dogs in the multiverse.