#oh and they both know Alphys

[alastor-simp]

Hazbin Hotel Gang Reacting To Video Games Headcannons Part 1/2🎮

❥Summary: Your are a massive gamer in the Hazbin Hotel. What happens when the residents see you play a game that interests them?

❥Tags: Hazbin Hotel x Reader, Gamer, Video Games, Hazbin Hotel Headcannons, Hazbin Hotel x Video Games, Headcannons

❥Notes: I'm obsessed with videos games, including dating or RPG games, and I wanted to know how the hazbin hotel gang would react to video games. Enjoy:)

❥Credit: Divider from @cafekitsune

Charlie Morningstar🌈 + Undertale❤️

🌈Upon entering your room, Charlie was about to remind you to come down to the lobby for the group exercise, until she noticed you being completely immersed on your computer. Curious, she walked over to you slowly, leaning over a bit to stare at your screen, wondering what you were doing. Noticing the shadow that had outlined in front of you, you looked up to see Charlie, staring with adorable curious eyes at the screen.

🌈"Oh Hey Charlie! I'll be right down, let me just try to find Temmie village first." Her red pupils were gazing at the screen with fascination, "Oooo what is this?" She had sat on the bed, where you were laying, computer still stationed on your legs. "Oh its a game called Undertale, its really cute and fun." Looking back at the screen, you motioned your hand to move the main character, to follow the illuminated mushroom path, searching for the hidden secret. After a couple of tries, you were able to locate the village, that was covered in these adorable dog like creatures, named Temmie. "YOU FOUND IT! OMG THEY ARE SO CUTE!!" Charlie was acting like a sports commentator next to you, she was so astonished by the game, wanting to see more.

🌈Seeing how much Charlie loved the game, you motioned the computer over to her. "Want to play?" Stars were literally in her eyes, once you said that. She nodded her head up and down rapidly, filled with excitement, as she started to play the game on the computer. As the game progressed, Charlie soon learned that the story of the game is about a human, who had fallen into the place called the Underground, where monsters roam. The human ventures throughout, encountering other monsters and either befriends them or attacks them.

🌈Charlie continued to play the game, having completely forgotten about the group exercise. However, Vaggie had managed to find Charlie, reminding her that it was time to come down. Slumping her shoulders, Charlie was so into the game that she didn't want to stop playing, but you told her that you could bring your computer down and both you and her can start playing again after the group exercise, which earned you a bear hug. The group exercise session had ended, and everyone went back to doing their own thing, while both you and Charlie, sat on one of the lounge chairs, continuing the game. The interactions with the human and monster characters always made Charlie smile, especially whenever the character became friends with the human. She loved Undyne cause it reminded her so much of her girlfriend, Vaggie, and she LIVED for the relationship between Undyne and Alphys.

🌈Her number one character, out of all of them, was definitely Toriel. She loved that motherly goat monster so much, wishing she could give her a warm hug. The music was Charlie's biggest compliment about the game, she couldn't get over how catchy some of the songs were. During the other times when you weren't playing the game, since the both of you needed a break, you would hear Charlie hum the "memory" song when the main character gave an umbrella to a statue. PACIFIST was the only route she would choose, the genocide route was a path she never wanted to take in the game, which was sweet since you knew how kind and generous she was, given the fact that she started this hotel. You knew for a fact if these characters were real, she would invite them all to stay, especially Flowey

🌈The day the both of you finished the game, was the day you both cried your eyes out, at the sweet adorable ending. Charlie was so happy that the monsters could finally be free and explore the outside world, as her arms were wrapped around you, tears streaming down her face. "It was so beautiful *sob sob*, but I'm so sad it's over." You placed a reassuring arm around her, trying to provide her some comfort, until an idea came into your head. "There is another game that the creator made. Want to play that?" The tears in Charlies eyes had disappeared, as she glomped you with excitement, happy to play another game with you.

Vaggie🎀 + Legend of Zelda: Breathe of the Wild🛡

🎀Vaggie was, well, she was nice, but she kinda scared you. She always had her spear around with her, ready to strike at anyone if she deemed them a threat. It was hard for you to get close to her, so you decided it was better that way. Charlie knew about your gaming tendencies and she was nice enough to get a video game console set up in the lobby room of the hotel, for you to play with and have other join in as well.

🎀You mostly played by yourself, but sometimes Angel and Husk would join in or either watch you play. Turning on the console, you sat on the couch with the controller in hand, as the game started to load up, as the words Nintendo flashed on the screen. A cut-scene plays with the main character, Link wakes up as a voice speaks to him, urging him to wake up. You progress the story by controlling your character, climbing up certain areas, and defending yourself against monstrous creatures. You were so in tuned with the game that you didn't noticed the shifting on the seat next to you, "Having fun?" Turning your head, you realized Vaggie had sat next to you, giving you a soft smile while her once eye glanced at you and back to the screen.

🎀"Oh..yes I am. I really appreciate Charlie getting this. Tell her again I said thank you." You smiled back at Vaggie, which she responded with a nod. You felt a bit awkward, so you continued playing the game. What surprised you was that Vaggie remained next to you, watching you casually play the game. "Does she like games like this? Should I ask?" Thinking to yourself, you paused the game and turned to look back at Vaggie, asking if she was interested in playing. Not expecting you to say that, Vaggie wasn't sure how to respond. She found the visuals of the game very pleasing and like the adventurousness of it, but she didn't want to intrude on your gameplay. Motioning the controller closer to her, she gave a soft sigh, and grabbed it, giving you a thank you

🎀The gaming continued as the story progressed with Link, traveling to different areas, training hard to learn master skills, upgrade weapons, and defeat the evil creatures that roamed the kingdom. You quickly realized that Vaggie had a bit of a competitive side to her, as she continued playing. She was quick to anger when she lost to the enemies, but would jump and celebrate when she finally beat them. She enjoyed the puzzle concept in the game as well, enjoying how different they were from time to time.

🎀Charlie had checked in on the both of you, happy to see the both of you getting closer, and that Vaggie was making friends, since she knew how heated her girlfriend could get. She gave you a thumbs up and walked away, leaving the two of you to play the game. Vaggie really liked all of the characters, but her favorite was Urbosa. She was the definition of a female warrior, extremely agile and quick. To her enemies, she was feared, but to her friends, she was a kind and motherly women.

🎀Seeing how late it was getting, you both decided to call it a night, as you loaded the save file to save your progress on the game. Letting out a sigh, the both of you leaned back on the couch, feeling exhausted from the long gaming session. "Well that was fun." Vaggie looked at you with a tired smile, while she nodded her head. "Wanna play again tomorrow?" She said to you, stretching her arms up above her head. Smiling back, you said yes, happy that the both of you were coming better friends now.

Angel Dust🕷 + Baldurs Gate 3🗡

🕷Gaming was something you really enjoyed, and it was something you did whenever you had the time since you always attended Charlies exercises at the hotel. Grabbing your non-Vox tech computer, you sat on one of the lounge chairs, and began to start up your game. As your game began to load up, two sets of arms had been placed against your shoulder, causing you to jump. Turning, you saw Angel, leaning against you, smirking, holding a bottle in his other hand-as always

🕷"Whatcha up to toots? Entertaining yourself with some porn huh~" His eyebrows waggled at you - magenta eyes filled with playfulness and somewhat lust. Shaking your head no, you told Angel that you were playing a video game. Angel slumped a bit in disappointment, and turned his head away, mouth guzzling down the beer. The both of you remained in silence as you continued to battle enemies with your team as well as interact with the characters in the game.

🕷You didn't noticed, but Angel eyes were gazing hard at your computer screen. Something about the game intrigued him a bit. He remembered when he was young, him and his sister would often play on the pinball machine, so it's been a while since hes played any type of game. Turning back to look at him, Angel quickly turned his head the other way - pretending he wasn't looking at your screen. Smiling, your poked his shoulder, which made his head to turn back facing you. "Wanna play?" Angel raised his head up in thought, debating it, before he smirked, showing his gold tooth, "Why not?"

🕷The game controls were a bit confusing to him at first, but he was able to get the hang of it. You had to explain to him the concepts of an RPG game, and how you are playing as a certain character, and there is also a storyline in the game as well and your actions/decisions can affect the story and may be good or bad for your party. Angel nodded the whole time you were explaining it, as he started being introduced to each new character in the game. "You can form romantic relationships as well with certain characters too." Angel raised an eyebrow at that, clearly interested.

🕷A few hours into the game, and Angel was groaning in frustration, "Toots, why did you make me play this?! Ya got me simpin for both the sexy vampire and the badass demon!" His comment made you laugh, falling of the couch from how hard you were laughing. "I didn't make you play this, I asked and you volunteered." Angel grabbed your hand, picking you up off the floor, as the both of you continued to play the game. He seemed to sympathize with the character, Astarion, a lot, like his backstory really got to him, but he also enjoyed how flirtatiousQ2w and funny he could be

🕷Seeing how late it has gotten, the both of you decided to call it a night, signing off on the game. Angel stretched his four arms up, letting out a yawn. "This game ain't half bad." You copied him as well, yawning as the both of you got up from the couch, ready to turn in for the night. "Yeah it's a good one, wanna go at it again tomorrow?" Angel smirked, "Hell yes, I need to see more of the horny parts with the vampire." Chuckling, you shook your head at him, as the both of you headed up to your bedrooms, ready to hit the hay.

**TO BE CONTINUED IN PART 2**

Sinners:

@alastorsgoldie @91062854-ka , @delectableworm , @iiotic

@cookiekyo , @demoarah , @danveration , @beebsbea ,

@veethewriter , @forbidden-sunlight , @pinkcrystal44 , @luujjvi ,

@unholycheesesnack , @saturnhas82moons , @jyoongim ,

@aceofcards0-0 , @ghostdoodlen , @yourdoorisunlocked ,

@starshipcookie , @ainsliemac , @aria-tempest , @nobuharashinyao

, @sweet06tart , @blakedbeanss , @ihyperfixatedagain , @ktssstuff ,

@yakultt-art , @mooniee123 , @nightmarenaya , @darischerry ,

@sadnessiscoldtea , @alastorssimp , @imacollasaltitan ,

@dilucragnvindr-my-beloved , @batmanmonstarr , @felice-jaganshi ,

@justchillaine , @crazed-flower , @ohmylovewhereartthou-blog ,

@akiooshizuka , @lokis-imaginary-friend ,

@themysteriousslenderman , @huntlowfan , @futureittomainn ,

@christinaatyourservice92 , , @just-trash-yeah-thats-it ,

@angelinevalentine89 , @yunimimii , @staryosh1 ,

@mihawksdemoness , @crystalreads , @blahblahbruhmeow ,

@madam-strawberryrose , @inkslayer , @azazel-nyx , @lixanjewel ,

@artemisandhunters , @thereeallink , @ask-theradio-demon ,

@lousypotatoes @l4zyb0n35 , @midorichoco

@lillyisfreakyy , @alastorthirsty , @yukiinee ,

, @aconstructofamind @angiiiiiiiiie

@pumppkinlynn @erikaafernns , @silverpaw2 ,

@cosmiccandydreamer , @killer-nightmare0 , @visara-valentina

@thereallsaturnstar , @coffee-or-hot-cocoa ,

@fckedupandbeautiful , @alaskathestereodemoness , @fries11 ,

@toneystank-3000. , @doll-babe-a-tron-queenthousand

, @alastor-the-radio-demons-blog , @twistedvanillacoffee

@morganodaidiot , @boldlyenchantingfox22 , @verona2314

[skeletwinsauaskbox]

Welcome To The Skeletwins AU Ask Box!

Snowdin Adventures With The Skeletwins is a fanfiction AU-ish thing revolving around my two favourite comfort characters, Sans and Papyrus! Why is it an AU? Well, the only significant difference (as of right now) is that they're twins! As of right now, there's just the one main story, but there's also a few side stories you can check out here!

I've been inspired by other ask blogs to create my own based on this series! So here, you can ask the twins pretty much anything! Well... almost anything...

No explicit NSFW, please. Both brothers, as well as myself, are part of the asexual spectrum, but they're more on the sex-repulsed side of things. Dirty jokes that can go over kids' heads, however, are okay! But no advances, please! Let's keep this place lighthearted, yeah?

You are allowed to submit your own art of the brothers or Undertale in general, and the brothers will react to it! But like the rule above, please no NSFW art. That would be very much appreciated.

Submit as many questions as you'd like, but please be patient! You can DM me for a private chat if you want (some of you have already done that lol), but I won't always have time to answer.

I don't do ships unless it's a canon ship like Alphyne. But if you want to mention them, that's okay! Just try to steer clear of the more... problematic ones. You know which ships they are. If anything regarding those ships are submitted, neither me nor the brothers will answer it. Sorry!

To any minors that might come across here, don't worry, I will try to make this blog as safe as possible for you! But if anything involving stuff like references to alcohol or stuff like bad mental health or even the kill kill murder route in Undertale comes up, then those questions will be answered. Just a little warning there for you, that's all.

You're allowed to swear since I'm hoping there's no actual kids on Tumblr and teenagers swear all the time haha. Just please don't use any derogatory or offensive language. Let's keep this place as friendly as possible, ok? Oh, and the characters will be censored when they swear because funny. There are a few exceptions though.

A︎n︎y︎ a︎n︎s︎w︎e︎r︎s︎ i︎n︎v︎o︎l︎v︎i︎n︎g︎ Sans' project and the brothers' past will be deliberately left vague.︎ S︎o︎r︎r︎y︎ i︎f︎ y︎o︎u︎ d︎o︎n︎'︎t︎ l︎i︎ke︎ t︎h︎a︎t︎,︎ b︎u︎t︎ I︎ d︎o︎n︎'︎t︎ w︎a︎n︎t︎ t︎o︎ s︎p︎o︎i︎l︎ a︎n︎y︎t︎h︎i︎n︎g︎ t︎o︎o︎ s︎o︎o︎n︎.︎

Please try not to spam. I assure you, your questions do go through, I'll get to it eventually! I go from bottom to top usually, so please be patient. :)

Please do not try to cause events. An event will happen when I feel like doing one. Truth be told, while they're fun, they can be a little stressful sometimes, especially where there's a plot involved. So please don't try to cause one.

If you want to ask questions as an OC, that's okay! Anything to make you comfortable, after all. But as of right now, I'm not accepting any new roleplays whatsoever. There are some ongoing ones, but once those are finished, absolutely no roleplays. This is an ask blog, after all.

If you want to put the twins in your comics or stories, you can! Fanart is great too! But I would like it if you tag me if you decide to upload it to Tumblr, not only as credit, but so I can see your art too (and subsequently fangirl over them lol). If you want a guide, then you can take a look here!

Please read what characters are available for asks before submitting your questions. Check out the link to the guide in rule 11 to get a grasp of when the AU takes place. I should probably put out an information sheet, honestly. I might do that.

Have fun and be kind! :)

Anyway, now that's done, here are the list of characters you can ask!

Sans and Papyrus (of course!)

Alphys

Undyne

Mettaton

Napstablook

Grillby

Muffet

The K-9 Unit

Asgore

Any Snowdin Resident (yes, including Jerry [and Monster Kid!])

Characters you can leave questions for but they'll be answered later:

Characters you can't ask right now:

Flowey (he doesn't exist yet)

Toriel (Sans hasn't found the door yet)

Frisk (waaaaay too early for them)

Chara and Asriel (...)

If you don't want to read the fic, check here for their current situation!

Also make sure to check out @felletwinsauaskbox if you want to meet their Underfell counterparts (updates every Wednesday and Sunday)!

Anyway, here you go. Ask away!

[mystii-gur0]

Guys it took ten years but I think I finally figured out who Gaster is

So I was talking to my friend in DMs yesterday about Undertale and I was telling him about how we basically know nothing about Gaster besides that he was the Royal Scientist before Alphys, potentially made Sans's blaster, and was shattered across time in space after falling into his own creation, which we assume was probably the Core. And also how we suspect he's a skeleton because his name is W.D. Gaster (being likely a combination of the fonts Wing Dings and Aster) and the so far the only characters that are named after fonts and speak with a font/typing quirk are obviously Sans and Papyrus, who are obviously skeletons.

So then I was like "haha, what if Sans is Gaster cause they're both sciency and skeletons" as like a joke. And then I started to think about it.

My initial theory was that Sans is just straight up Gaster and the "falling into his own creation and being shattered across time and space" thing was just a metaphor for Sans loosing his shit over figuring out the whole other time lines thing, but that theory had well- a lot of holes, to be nice to myself. For one thing, Sans and Alphys are friends. And if Sans was just straight up Gaster, one would think Alphys would recognize him and be like- "Dude didn't you use to be my boss?" Or smth. And not just Alphys, if Sans was Gaster I would think more people would recognize him. And that doesn't solve and of the weird stuff about Papyrus either. Given that he and Sans BOTH just kinda showed up one day, according to the shop keeper in Snowdin.

But I liked this theory, so I kept thinking, and came to what can only be described as an epiphany or my very own eurika moment.

Sans and Papyrus are BOTH Gaster.

CAUSE THINK ABOUT OK

IT ANSWERS EVERYTHING

Gaster was shattered across time and space after falling into what we assume is the Core. Key word, SHATTERED, as in split into peices. Sans and Papyrus randomly show up one day with little to no explanation of who they are or where they came from? ANSWERED BY THEM BEING WHAT'S PHYSICALLY LEFT OF GASTER IN THEIR REALITY. THEY DID NOT EXIST UNTIL GASTER FELL INTO THE CORE. Sans (and probably Papyrus) using Gaster blasters? ANSWERED BY THEM BEING GASTER. OF COURSE THEY WOULD USE GASTER'S ATTACKS IF THEY WERE GASTER. Sans being significantly physically weaker and smaller than Papyrus, all though he's better with people and scientific concepts? ANSWERED BY THEM BEING UNEVENLY SPLIT. Sans and Papyrus having drastically different personalities, typing styles, and character designs that could almost be described as exact complementary opposites? ANSWERED BY THEM BEING PARTS OF A WHOLE PERSON. Sans only having one glowing eye that's conveniently the same eye that what we assume is the Gaster overworld sprite has open? ANSWERED BY HIM BEING A PEICE OF GASTER.

"Oh but Sans and Papyrus are brothers!" What other word would they have to describe what they are? They're like brothers by mitosis or smth 😭

I'm loosing my marbles i need a cork board with string

Edit: actually now that I'm thinking about it, their codepency makes a lot of sense if you look at them this way. They just want to be whole again @_@

[pleasestayawayidonotlikeyou]

Can I have a request were sans it talking to someone else about how much he likes you and you over here and he freaks out.

Thanks darling!

Of course dear traveler! Hope you enjoy! it's shot btw

Featuring: Sans.

Masterlist

It was a beautiful day outside, birds are singing, flowers are blooming.. on days like this, monsters like Sans were standing outside his house chatting with his friend, Alphys who's waiting for both you and Papyrus.

"H-hey sans, tell me something, w-what do you feel about (_____)?"

"Uh.. they're... A great friend.."

"R-Really now?"

She says eyeing him up and down giggling.

"Yeah.."

"S-Sans, I've seen the way you look at them! Tell me the truth."

The skeleton blushes, scratching the back of his neck, looking at the ground while singing and looking back at the lizart woman again.

"Oh well, looks like ya caught me there heh... Can't blame me, can you? they're just so.. perfect.. their eyes, their face, their mouth, their voice, their body, the way they talk... it's all just so... Unique and beautiful.. the way they laugh at my puns... It just makes me feel so... Warm inside you know? They're the one I want in my arms when I wake up and fall asleep.. T-The one I want to get married to! Maybe even have a kid someday...."

"Oh? Is that so Sans?"

He freezes when he hears your voice and slowly turns around, staring at you, his eye sockets go completely black, his face going bluer than a blueberry. He teleports to his room before any other word could come out of your mouth and slams his face on the mattress, grabbing the blanket and wrapping himself on it, screaming into the fluffy pillows.

"... Stupid, stupid, stupid!"

.

..

...

he's never leaving his room again.

[haveyouseenthisskeleton]

Can I have this ask with the UT characters too? During a family dinner, S/O is very uncomfortable, without skeleton knowing why. At some point, their father criticizes their clothes and S/O answers back. He suddenly stands up and slaps them violently. S/O tears up and flees the room.

The link for the first post is here, with the main skeletons.

Undertale Toriel - Toriel goes from warm to icy cold in seconds. Your father is going to learn painfully why she was the Queen when Toriel stands up and starts to confront your father about what happened. Toriel was raised harshly as well, she cut all relationships with her parents as soon as she met Asgore. Is this really what you want? Because that's what's going to happen if you keep going this way. Toriel despises free violence. Once she's done, she leaves the room to check on you and ask what you want to do.

Undertale Asgore - Asgore stands up. Your father immediately starts to argue but is forced to shut up after Asgore says with a booming voice that he doesn't want to hear any of his excuses. Asgore can be extremely impressive when he wants to, and that's one of these moments. He stares your father down for long seconds, then goes after you to be sure you're fine.

Undertale Undyne - Undyne doesn't give him the time to do it. She blocks his hand with her arm, taking most of the hit, and then she grabs your father's arm and twists it around, slamming it back on the table. She immediately screams at your father to defend you. Undyne was a beaten child, she knows all about what it does to people and there's no way she's just going to stay there and do nothing. She's pissed off, and your father gets so angry at her he asks you to both leave. Undyne apologizes in the car, but she is for sure not letting alone with that man ever again. What an asshole.

Undertale Alphys - Alphys immediately runs after you. She feels way too uncomfortable staying alone with your father anyway. Violence makes her nervous, and she doesn't understand what even happened. It felt free and mean for nothing, and she doesn't like it. She just sits with you and pets your arm until you feel comfortable to talk or you say you want to leave. She doesn't want to stay there anyway.

Undertale Frisk - Frisk is tense. Their childhood before Toriel wasn't that great either and that scene is way too familiar. Frisk follows you silently, but then your father says they're a coward like you are, misgendering them in the process. Frisk grabs the water, throws it at his face, signs a middle finger, and runs after you. They're done getting walked on by abusive assholes.

Undertale Chara - Chara watches as you leave, hands shaking. This. This is one of the many reasons why they hate humanity. It's taking all they have right now to not intervene and make things worse. For now, imagining your father with a knife across the neck is helping them to stay calm. They apologize because they have manners, and then they go to check on you. Chara wants to leave and will convince you to do the same. You deserve better than that.

Undertale Gaster - Gaster immediately looks down. He wants to say something, he really wants to... But that would be pretty hypocritical of him after what he did to his children, right? Gaster can't really judge your father for losing his temper. He knows it's sometimes difficult to be a father. But still, there are other ways before that extremity. Gaster doesn't move from his seat and waits for his S/O to return in silence, avoiding your father's eyes.

Undertale Mettaton - Oh, your poor father has a problem with how you dress? As you leave the room, Mettaton does too but doesn't go to see you. He goes in the bathroom, pushes a few buttons on his control panel, and comes back with a bright pink dress and high heels. Your father is speechless. What's wrong, sweetie? Never seen a male wearing a sexy dress? Your loss. By the way, he's the one who picked up your clothes, so if someone lacks taste in the room, it's your father. He is a professional, he knows what he's doing, thank you very much.

Undertale Grillby - Grillby looks at you go, worried, but your father starts talking to him again like nothing happened. Grillby is polite, but the more it lasts, the more he gets angry, and when he gets angry, Grillby loses control over his flames. That's quite a surprise when the tablecloths suddenly catch fire. Grillby takes that opportunity to leave the room and run after you, leaving your parents panicking and screaming about the fire. He doesn't care. He just wants to be sure you're ok.

Undertale Muffet - Muffet is displeased. She stays eyes in eyes with your father as you leave the room. She then flicks her fingers. Thousands of little spiders fall from the sky and immediately start crawling under your father's clothes, biting every piece of skin visible. She keeps drinking her tea, unaffected, as your father is rolling on the floor, screaming for help. Worried, you come back in the room and stare in confusion. Muffet shrugs. Oh no, how did that happen?

Undertale Burgerpants - If he was brave, he would have defend your honor and stood against your father by telling him all about what he thinks of it. But... Uh... He's not really brave and he's just a tiny bit scared your father might attack him if he dares to say something so.... Uh... He continues to eat, sweating so hard the fork is slipping from his fingers, scared to meet your father's eyes. Please come back quickly... He's going to have a panic attack, jeez.

Undertale Flowey - Welp. He tried to be nice all evening, that clearly didn't work. He starts to laugh like a maniac, friendliness pellets flying all around him. That's when you come back to pick up his pot because you need an emotional support flower right now. Oh, come on! Let him injure your father! You're not funny! He wasted magic on this attack you know! Pretty please? JUST ONE BULLET, PLEASE.

Undertale Gerson - Gerson just says he didn't realize that house traveled back in time to the Middle Ages, that he already lived through it once and doesn't want to do it again. He then leaves to check on his S/O and takes them out of here. He hates violent men, they're all the same. On a battlefield or in their family life, they're crying when a woman tells them they're wrong. You should be ashamed. He's five times your age and he's not acting like you do.

[utdrmv-confession-box]

Hot take, I don't like the Xtale Frisk X Muffet ship because it's basically Fran's but less popular. 

So a while back Jakie released a post (https://jakei95.tumblr.com/post/753964540646014976/this-will-be-the-last-update-about-the-accusations) apologizing and explaining a bunch of drama and problems that occurred within the fandom that included her. One of those things she addresed was the Frisk X Muffet ship, and I have to say her explanation of this doesn't cut it. Her reasoning for this is that we don't really know if Muffet is an actual adult in Canon undertale and the relationship between XFrisk and XMuffet are both consenting adults in an AU so it's okay. But… it’s not. After looking into it, I can say is that most likely Muffet is not a child and it’s not okay to ship her Xtale counterpart with Xtale Frisk.

Starting off with what we know about Muffet is that she wasn't a character made by Toby Fox nor Temmy Chang but rather the OC of a person who contributed enough money to undertale kickstarter to have it put into the game as a fight. Muffet runs a full blown business, wearing snazzy clothing with outrageous prices on her food and also hates anyone who she deems doesn't like spiders, going so as to imply that she would have killed alphys for annoying her by warning her to evacuate during the neutral going on genocide run. All in all she's a pretty interesting character and her song’s an absolute banger.

What does this have to do with the Frisk X Muffet ship?  Well what we do know about monster culture is that all children wear striped shirts, a call back to Earthbound (In which undertale was inspired by). In the pacific and some neutral runs you can get a dialogue from monster kid within Snowdin where they talk to Frisk and say that they must be a kid like them because they’re wearing a striped shirt. This supports the idea that in Monster culture, all children wear striped shirts. This is further supported by the fact that all the child characters that we see with the underground are wearing striped shirts. Monster kid and Asriel have striped shirts and Chara who is adopted by monsterkind is wearing a striped shirt, heck they were wearing one when they fell into the underground and so was Frisk so maybe it’s a universal thing.  

Muffet, on the other hand, is never shown wearing a striped shirt. Now, you could chalk this up to Muffet being an OC that wasn't created by Toby so she would be an exception to this, but you'd think that since she’s believed to be a child by some that she would have some sort of dialogue implying that she was a kid. Fox never skips out on details, so I would expect that if Muffet was a child character she would say something like “oh ho ho ho, I use to have a striped shirt like you, but I got rid of it because it blended to well with my spiders and I was afraid they might get squashed because of it.” but instead she acts like Mr Krabs without the two extra legs and is willing to cannibalize monsters & has with her spiders.

Others also try to use the excuse that she's short therefore she must be a child, but there are two other characters that are adults who are also around the same size as Frisk, those being Sans and Alphys. They both, just like Muffet, have jobs like an adult would. Sans has three- doing stand-up comedy at the MTT Hotel, running multiple food stands throughout the underground, and of course being a sentry. Alphys on the other hand is the Royal scientist. It’s obvious both of them are adults despite there short stature. I mean alphy’s is dating undyne for goodness sake and Toriel tells her when she's about to kiss undyne at the end of true pacifist run that there are children present, not that Alphys is a child. It's also implied that Sans & Alphys know each other through being scientists, so neither of them can be children. We know that Papyrus is obvious adult and Sans is his older brother so of course Sans is an adult too ( and it generally freaks me out that some people try and rationalize saying Sans isn't an adult because of his short stature just so they can ship him with Frisk)

Muffet has a job just like these guys (which no other child does) and never in her dialogue does it imply that she’s a child nor does it ever within canon. Just because it’s never outright stated in the game doesn’t mean that it’s not canon. It’s like how people try to rationalize that sans is a child (cuz he's short) despite all the signs saying he isn’t within the game. 

Now, some people like Jakie may say that since Xtale is an Alternate universe that has both Muffet and Frisk the same age, it’s chill to ship them.

They are w r o n g

Take the ship frans (frisk x sans). Some people try to get around its pedophilic nature by aging frisk up (example sooner or later you'll be mine). This is still really really gross because at the core- it’s a pedophilic ship. You are taking a canon child character and matching them with an adult, then aging the child up like it’s a loophole that “doges” how it’s pedophilic. Lemme repeat that. YOU. yes YOU are taking a canon CHILD and making them be ROMANTICALLY INVOLVED with an ADULT which is a PEDOPHILIC RELATIONSHIP, and you trying and remove its roots by aging them up STILL MAKES IT GROSS. If you are so desperate to ship sans or an adult with someone- MAKE AN OC. 

This reminds me of the ship Xvial which is xgaster X ink (ignoring the fact that both are aroace) with people trying to rationalize that since ink doesn’t have a bio dad that’s a gaster and technically Xgaster isn’t cross and XPapyrus’s bio dad it’s okay to ship them. NO NO IT'S NO GUYS PLEASE UNDERSTAND THIS I'M BEGGING YOU. Ink had TWO dads that are gaster’s and although they aren’t bio related to him THEY’RE STILL HIS PARENTS and cross + XPapyrus see XGaster as a parent. That’s not even mentioning the fact that Xgaster was also emotionally and physically (implied) abusive to them so SHIPPING XVIALS IS GROSS. It’s like incest but with extra steps, and why would Ink date someone they know to have been heavily abusive and manipulative to his friend and their family? The people who ship this are waving a major red flag, one filled with the hole of loophole’s they try to exploit to make this ship normal.

Back on topic, It’s the same principle with Xtale Frisk and Muffet. Frisk in canon undertale is a child while Muffet is an Adult. Although their Xtale counterpart’s may not know this nor do they show it, the creator of xtale (Jakei) DOES. 

THAT MAKES IT NASTY.

The only reason why there isn't a big uproar in the fandom about this is because Muffet isn’t as popular as Sans. But if Jakei had shipped sans with frisk when she began writing Xtale/underverse- most people by today would have had absolutely no tolerance for that crap and she’d be shunned by a larger part of the fandom. 

The fact that Jakei tries to defend this leaves a sour taste in my mouth because you'd have to be either blind or doing mental gymnastics in order to defend it. Like dude it is OBVIOUS. I’m not sure if Jakei is aware that Muffet was an OC which might explain why she thought she was a child, but everything about Muffet points towards her being an adult, just being a less popular character. A pedophilic ship is still a pedophilic ship if you have to age up a character so it wouldn’t be called that.

Needless to say- unless toby fox himself descends down from his chair and says that Muffet is a child or some canon info disproves my conclusion- the ship is gross and I don’t want to deal with anyone who ships it (the same goes for xVials).  -Cheesey thoughts anon

Respectfully, this is so much text. I would lose my mind, patience, and marbles trying to effectively copy and paste this all.

[ancha-aus]

RealAgeAU Drabble - Curious Sight

What is this?! Two Drabbles?! @spotaus It is more likely than you think.

Mostly because i was REAL impressed you guys managed to keep it equal. like how? Also because i really wanted to do both so here you go! both!

This one is a lot shorter though hihi

First Drabble Prev Drabble Next Drabble

*--------------------*

Just his luck.

Why did he have to have a favourite pie in a whole other universe?

The Toriel looks very apologetic “I am very sorry. They just sold out very quickly this time. I will have new ones tomorrow morning!”

Blue smiles as he pushes down the disappointment “It is okay! I can always try again later.”

Toriel smiles before motioning towards the other goods she has for sale “Anything else? The cupcakes are amazing today.” she smiles.

Blue shakes his skull “No that is alright. Thank you so much for checking!” he waves and leaves the small bakery.

He sighs as he stands outside.

Damnit.

His luck sucks today. He had hoped he could cheer himself up with some nice pie but it seems like they are out after all. Ugh. Then again, maybe it is his own fault for liking things outside his own universe so much.

Blue looks from side to side. Maybe he can look around a bit? See if there is another bakery. He doubts it because the town, and well this very universe, is very small and he hadn’t seen it when he visited this place with the Stars all that time ago.

But well. He doesn’t really have anything planned today.

He looks left and right and decides to go right for now. He wanders down the street and waves at people along the way.

Okay. So he can’t get the cherry hazelnut pie he wanted. Which is a shame. But he can do something else to cheer him up!

It had just been rough in his underground. Alphys had been very distrusting of the human this time around and it had been exhausting to get her to at least try to get to know them. That is not even the multiverse mess.

At least people don’t demand his help at every turn anymore. Sure he loves helping others but before it got so bad. Back when Dream was still doing the positive guardian thing. People had also demanded help of Blue. And Blue loves to help! But there had been the fear that if he said no it would reflect badly on Dream and Ink.

There is a reason he hardly travelled the multiverse alone before. It was just easier to give himself rest that way.

But now with Dream officially having a new god goal and Ink still being MIA it means people stopped bothering Blue all the time!

Blue tries to ignore the hurt that thinking about Ink brings. He had done so much to help Ink and had thought they had been friends! That Blue meant something to the other! Apparently not. Seeing as Ink hasn’t even shown his face anywhere yet, aside from meetings but Blue doesn’t really count that. They don’t even hang out afterwards. Ink just leaves again.

Blue shakes his skull and keeps walking. It is fine. Ink is also a god and probably busy with god stuff. Reaper was going to talk with Error and Ink about their godhood after all. Ink is probably just busy.

Blue just… he hopes Ink didn’t just… forget him…

Blue shakes his skull and pats his own cheeks twice. Come on Blue! Snap out of it! You got this! No need to dwell on the negatives. Especially if you don’t know what Ink’s reason is! There is no reason to worry or feel sad about things you don’t even know yet!

Blue sighs as he grabs his phone. His phalange hovering over Dream’s icon. No. Dream is dealing with enough. And asking him to track down Ink just so Blue can ask him why he doesn’t want to hang out anymore is just… a lot.

Blue scrolls through his contacts and pauses when he sees Red’s name. Huh. It has been a while since he hang out with Red. Maybe the two of them can go to some motorcross universe and drive a set of bikes around? Just go fast and have fun with a friend? He taps a message and sends it.

Blue grins at his phone as he waits. Oh this is going to be great. Just him and a friend having fun and talking about motorcycles!

A ping and Blue grins before it falls. Red says he can’t at the moment. Bad run going on in his universe and that his brother is very stressed. Apparently the last reset had gone very badly and Red had died and apparently Edge had gotten somekind of memory or dream about it and is hovering a lot more than usual.

Blue sighs but types back that he gets it and if he needs help just to let him know. Red answers with a thumbs up and a thanks.

Blue sighs and just looks up. Huh. He recognises these streets but can’t quite remember where from. Maybe all these areas just look alike? Blue shrugs and looks back at his phone.

Maybe he can ask Sans, or whatever everyone decides to call him. Sans is a bit… strange. No one is quite sure why, Sans least of all. It is just weird how everyone just decided that no nickname really fit him. They tried Comic and Classic. But in the end everyone just ends up referring to him with Sans.

Which is weird as fuck with all of them originally being Sans. Yet Sans is the most Sans.

It is hard to explain.

He finds the number and grins as he is typing a message.

A moment later he answers that he is down to hang out.

Blue grins as he starts typing, not really paying attention to where he is going. He texts his friend about maybe going to Outertale to just hang out at the café. Or even to try and find a new universe.

Sans says he is down and asks if he wants to meet wherever he is now to travel together or to meet at Outertale and search for each other there.

Blue thinks and is about to type for Sans to come to him as he looks up for a reference for Sans to teleport to. Only to freeze.

That is the Cuddly Cat.

More importantly.

That is the back of Killer’s jacket leaving around the side of the building.

Blue doesn’t even answer the text as he runs towards the other road.

He gets there just in time to see the portal melt shut. Blue searches for the right app on his phone and holds it near the slowly fully closing rift. Praying he was fast enough to manage and get there in time.

It takes a moment and the signal the app is picking up disappears. But it is still loading and Blue stares at the program as it slowly slowly loads.

Then it pops up with coordinates to an universe!

Blue stares in shock before seeing another message of Sans appear at the top. He quickly texts him that he is very sorry but that he just spotted the gang out and about.

Sans’s reply is mostly confused. Asking why it matters as Sans thought that was all already solved? So why try and track their movement?

Blue is thorn. Does he share that Dream doesn’t actually know if Nightmare is dead? That Dream is actually looking for Nightmare?

Blue ends up typing that Dream still wants to personally apologise for the gang and Sans says he gets it and just let him know when he got time to hang.

Blue sighs as he opens the right chat window and starts to type. But then removes the message as he tries to type one again.

Over and over as he struggles over what to exactly say before he settles on a message.

“I saw the gang. I know to which universe they went. We got a lead if you want to check it out?”

And he waits.

His phone pings.

“Please.”

Seems like he got plans after all.

*--------------------*

First Drabble Prev Drabble Next Drabble

[badground-noise]

Onion Theory

(Aka Abstraction Theory but that isn't as funny)

So I've been doing a lot of thinking on the Undertale and Deltarune meta now that the game is less than two months from release, and I think I've got a good way of thinking about the world: as a series of layers, not unlike an onion. Well, more like how the Earth has layers, but like I said, Onion Theory is funnier.

Getting to the very bottom of it:

Layer 0: The Code

The code is the deepest foundational layer of the utdr universe, functioning similar to tectonic plates. It's also a literal thing, like saving and loading are actual, in-universe things. There isn't much to elaborate on here, but it comes up later, I promise.

Layer 1: Dark Worlds

So Deltarune is a game, similar to the way Undertale is a game, but dissimilar to how, say, The Last of Us is a game. You all know why: you can play The Last of Us aggressively, passively, die once, die a thousand times, have ten saves or a thousand, and it has no impact on the actual characters, because those occurrences don't actually exist within the world. Unlike Undertale and Deltarune, where those things very much do exist. And it seems pretty clear with the way chapters are going, Dark Worlds are meant to represent escapism. Chapter 1 revolves around old toys and trinkets lost in an old school closet, Chapter 2 about the internet and technology, and it's nearly certain Chapter 3 will have a TV theme.

Given these things, it's reasonable to consider Dark Worlds to be an escape from Light Worlds: more simply, games within games. They take place in several layers of abstraction, but just above the code, which would be considered total abstraction.

Layer 1.5: Undertale

This is when it starts to get convoluted. Undertale, on the abstraction scale, would be between the Dark and Light Worlds within Deltarune.

The Underground doesn't seem to represent escapism. In universe it's a real place, beneath a real mountain, and the freeing of the monsters has real consequences in the world. I'm putting it in between Dark Worlds and Light Worlds because of the differences in mechanics. Save points, and therefore save files exist in both Dark Worlds and Undertale, but not in Light Worlds (in fact, Mr. Fox was resistant to have save points in the Light World, likely for a reason).

Several characters in Undertale seem to be able to recognize that they're in a game. Flowey being a main character guilty of this, but also Sans and Asgore can recognize that you've been in certain situations multiple times. Alphys has an interesting role to play here as well, but I'll elaborate on that in a second post. Several characters remark on how familiar you are upon a second playthrough, implying that they're further abstracted than those within the Light World. They recognize you, because on some level, they're closer to the code-- closer to total abstraction.

Layer 2: Light Worlds

To my knowledge, those who reside in the Light World have no understanding that they're in a game. They would not consider themselves one note NPCs. They have rich inner lives and backstories, that are continuing with or without player input. Different from those in the Dark World, who are based off specific things (decks of cards, chess pieces, internet ads, etc.), and presumably stop existing once we enter the Light World. There's little abstraction, and therefore little "meta" elements for characters to detect.

So, cool. We've got a set of foundations for these worlds, but what's the significance of it? Why make these distinctions at all? Well, there's another piece of the puzzle to consider, one that starts connecting everything:

The In Between: FUN Values

"Oh but BadGround, there's no such thing as FUN Values in Deltaru-" Well if you just GIVE ME a second I'll explain it.

As a quick refresher, FUN Values are something that occurs within the code (most abstracted form) of Undertale, represented as a number between 1 and 100. Depending on the number, various things can happen in a playthrough: The Wrong Number Song, Clam Girl, Sans' Prank Call, and totally not Gaster. Not yet, anyway.

What I'm getting at, is that FUN Values are a way for things to travel between and across layers of the world. In other words, traveling from code, aka total abstraction, to the Undertale world, several layers above abstraction. This could also lend to the theory that things happening in Deltarune can leak into the Undertale world via FUN Value. FUN Values don't function as a roulette wheel, the way we think of them now, but more like some cross between a teleportation + time travel occurrence. It allows things to go between the Deltarune and Undertale worlds, using the code as a connecting point.

But what happens when something gets stuck at this connecting point? Or in between layers? What if that which goes down, fails to come back up? Well, that might just be exactly what happened with

December Holiday

Not a ton is known about Dess at the moment. She's Noelle's older sister, she was in the same friend group as Asriel Deltarune, and she's gone. Straight up. We don't know what happened to her, at least not yet, but there's quite a bit of speculation that Dess is the mystery character trapped within the code. There isn't a ton of proof on this front, but it's a solid putting together of the pieces: Dess is missing, we don't know where she went. There's a mystery person in the code, we don't know where they came from. I don't think it's a stretch at all.

However, while there aren't holes in this theory, exactly, there are still two big questions: How? And why?

Well, if we consider Abstraction Onion Theory, we can get a bit of an idea of both. Dess, somehow, fell between the layers of the world, and ended up stuck within the code. And if we consider Onion Theory even harder, we can say that Dess discovered a Dark World, pushing herself one layer deeper into abstraction. It's possible, somehow, she found another Dark World, a game within a game within a game, and became more and more abstracted, until something broke, and she ended up code-bound.

And what if I told you that this has happened before? To another character we all know and love, another character shrouded in mystery? That character, of course, being

Dr. W. D. Gaster

Not a ton is known about Dr. Gaster at the moment. He was the old Royal Scientist in Undertale, he worked before Dr. Alphys, and he's gone. Straight up. We don't know what happened to him, not yet, but there's quite a bit of speculation that he has significant ties to Deltarune.

Keeping Onion Theory in mind, his disappearance starts to make more sense: He "creation," as one of his followers describes it, could have been something designed for inter-dimensional travel. Him "falling into it" could be literal, he fell into the code, total abstraction.

His and Dess' situations are different, however. Dess was only traveling downward, deeper into Dark World after Dark World, and by the time she reached total abstraction, she couldn't find her way out. Dr. Gaster, however, completely nuked himself throughout dimensions. He's in the code, in every layer, and in every point between layers. Not only that, but even beyond layers as well. Up until the final piece of the puzzle:

Real Life: The Final Layer

You really thought yourself separate from these worlds? You think you're separate from these abstractions, these games within games? Did you really think that being within an abstraction doesn't imply a sense of without?

Let me clarify.

Dr. Gaster, as established, somehow created a way to separate pieces of himself throughout the universe, deep into layers of code, with pieces coming back out, either within Undertale or Deltarune, but also, somehow, Twitter. Rather than using code to travel between two equally abstracted layers, pieces of him found itself even further up than he would have ever thought possible.

It is significant that Undertale, Deltarune, Light Worlds, Dark Worlds, are inside these layers of abstraction. It is, too, significant, that we are outside of it.

Code affects these worlds like an earthquake: hard, solid ground, that depends on stability. Once this ground shifts, worlds are changed permanently. Cracks are formed, things fall in, and things shoot out. Mountains are formed as easily as caverns.

But we, the players, affect these worlds like a tornado. From the top down, we level the landscape as we please, destroying areas without discrimination while leaving other places untouched. We disappear as quickly as we show up, and we can never, ever, be predicted.

...

What if a tornado played favorites? 

What if a tornado had the power to possess?  

[undertale-fic-librarby]

Hello! Are there any Sans x reader fake dating fanfics or something similar involving a certain ship. The fanfic can be set in any UndertaleAu/Mulitverse or Undertale, and I don’t mind if it’s explicit. I’m just looking for well written ones. hopefully that makes sense. Thanks!

Howdy, thanks for asking! Here are some fics that might fit what you're looking for!

Of Spells and Illusions by charamelwrites (General Audiences, Incomplete)

After Frisk freed monsterkind, the monsters were allowed to live on the surface with one rule. They must disguise themselves as humans. You, who found an online spell and got curious, cast it to see beyond people's true colors and found out about the monster's true forms. Looks like your senior year is about to get crazy.

Noir by petrichoricarus (Not Rated, Incomplete)

21st century bookish lab student, meet 1940's hardboiled private detective. When you chase down a kid into a prestigious laboratory’s work-in-progress machine, you trip and fall, harder than you’ve ever fallen, right into a whole new dimension. Here, the world follows two rules. One: know your place. Two: don’t fuck with the Dreemurrs. If only you hadn’t fallen right into the middle of an open crime scene surrounding the recent disappearance of their child. …You might have just broken both rules at once. It’s a good thing you’ve got a certain sardonic, deceptively easygoing, skeleton detective to watch your back! Only, is it? Or is he the last person you can trust in this dangerous world you’ve found yourself in? ═════ ◈ ═════ "you know, for a patience type, you've got an absurdly hot temper," he remarks nonchalantly. "Oh, is that it, Sans?" You deadpan. "Or is it that you're just so, so obnoxious you get on the nerves of even a patience traited soul." Alphys snickers from her desk behind a teetering pile of papers. The detective begrudgingly twists up his mouth into a crooked grin. "cuttin' me to the quick, sugar." You gift him a roll of your eyes. "You'll live."

Reset ex-lover by Chansisen (Mature, Incomplete)

You want to survive another week, renovate your shack and maybe get some respect. Then Sans started acting funny after another human fell down… Is he… Is he slow blinking at you from the other side of the room? The hot topic skeletons are stressing you out! Sans is a violent idiot, Papyrus is a rule abiding ball of stress and you just want some goddamn toilet paper already!

Boyfriend Syndrome by Epic_and_Kitty (Mature, Incomplete)

It should have been a normal shift on a normal day. It should have been. Now you're fake dating a skeleton and you may have a stalker on your hands...

Behind the mask by ReikoNatsume (Mature, Complete)

Prompt fake dating with Razz and Reader

[mrsfrecklesmarauders]

2012

"There's no way this is my mother"

Sirius saw the girl in the picture and didn't recognize her. But there was a sensation that he knew her very well. She seemed familiar but too far away.

They there were, the same gray eyes he saw when he looked into the mirror everyday. The same arrogant eyebrows. The same cheeky smile. The same black hair.

Many members of his family told him that he looked like her. But Sirius didn't believe it until now.

"Oh that's Wally in the flesh" Uncle Alphard said as he lit his cigarette "Back when she was fun anyway"

Fun, she did look. At least in the old picture he was holding. Walburga looked around eighteen. She was truly beautiful, as she glowed in her youth. She was wearing a cool red dress, ripped thighs, boots and a leather jacket that Sirius would definitely fall in love with.

Walburga wasn't smiling at the camera. She was poking her tongue out. And showing rock fingers. Walburga didn't even like rock, did she?

Sirius couldn't have gotten his good taste from his boring mother.

"Your mother changed a lot" Alphard explained, as if he was reading his nephew's mind "I suspect it was your father's doing... But she is not longer the cool girl from the picture"

It hurt even more, Sirius figured. He felt better believing he had nothing to do with his family. That he was different and better than all of them.

"She was a bit of a rebel, alright" Alphard added with a nostalgic smile "Quite like you, I may say"

No! Sirius didn't like it.

A cold hearted Walburga that had always been strict and boring was so easier to hate than this cool version of her. A girl that once was full of life.

It told that Sirius had the possibility of having a cool mother. Or getting along with her at least. If he was like her, she should like him. But she didn't. She didn't even care about him. He was nothing but a burden to her.

Sirius wondered what happened to her to make her so indifferent. So unattached to everything. Full of fancy things and still beautiful but empty inside...

He put the picture away.

****

1995

"Are you done taking the picture, Alphie?" Walburga asked with a smile.

"Mother is going to hate you posing like that, Wally" Alphard said, putting the camera down "You know her..."

"Ladies should behave under God's gaze..."

Both siblings recited at the same time, then laughed.

"The woman is so annoying. She thinks rock n roll is Devil's music" Wally added.

"Not our fault the Devil has good taste, though" Alphard said making his sister laugh.

"I'm going out" Walburga added carefully.

"Now?" Alphard scoffed "It's your birthday"

"My... My friends want to celebrate with me for a bit..."

Walburga blushed. She wondered if Alphard would like Alex. Probably not. They wouldn't have anything in common. If only Alex knew how posh her family was. He would laugh.

"Your Hogwarts friends?"

"Yes" Walburga blinked innocently. She actually didn't have friends. Only Alex.

Alphard sighed "Wally..."

The girl didn't even let him finish "Please... Please, Alphie!" and she made a lost puppy face because she knew how her brother melt with it "You need to cover me, please"

"Cygnus and I are here for your birthday, Wally" Alphard explained "You can't leave. Mother would get annoying and Father..."

Alphard didn't need to finish the sentence. They both knew how their father was. He lost his temper and they all suffered the consequences. The three of them were afraid of him.

"The girls helped the maids decorate the cake" Alphard changed the subject "Bella is gonna ask a lot of questions if you're gone. She's very clever and intuitive for an eight year old"

Walburga gave him a comforting smile "I'll be back in time for the cake. I promise"

Alphard took a deep breath "Promise it"

Walburga smirked triumphantly. She kissed her brother's cheek. Alphard would always be her favorite brother.

"I promise! I promise!" she jumped on her feet "I promise I'll be back..."

Alphard smiled and winked.

"Where are you going, Wally?"

They both turned to look at the new voice. Walburga's smile disappeared from her face.

Orion.

She couldn't believe he was back from Boston. That boy was the reminder of Walburga's darker years at school.

"A skank!" her classmates would whisper "So slutty that she even does it with her own cousin"

"So disgusting! Having incestuous sex doesn't give you like a venereal disease or something?"

"She probably doesn't care"

"I mean I get that Orion is devilishly handsome but he is her cousin!... Who is next? Her two brothers?"

"Eew!! Such a whore!"

Giggles. Giggles and more giggles.

Walburga didn't notice that she was clenching her nails in her palm until she felt pain and she realized it was bleeding.

She didn't like the way Orion looked at her. As if she was a delicious piece of meat.

Walburga was not fourteen anymore. She was not letting that arsehole manipulate her anymore. She was in love. She had Alex now.

"It's none of your business, Orion" she spat.

Then she leaned to kiss Alphard's cheek again.

"Thank you, Alphie" she whispered in his ear "Don't worry. I'll be back"

Then with a nasty look at Orion she turned around and left the room.

Orion walked towards Alphard.

"Are you seriously going to let her go dressed like that?"

Alphard didn't respond. He just pushed Orion against the wall so hard that he groaned in pain.

"I told you to stay away from my sister, didn't I?"

Orion smiled evily.

"She is a freaking adult now" he spat "She doesn't need her stupid faggot brother protecting her"

Alphard put an arm against his throat, choking him.

"Disgusting pig, she is your cousin"

Orion coughed trying to breath "Second... Cousin..." he managed to say.

Alphard pushed him to the floor furiously. He gave him a disgusting look. The walked away.

"Stupid cock sucker" Orion mumbled as he coughed on the floor.

****

2012

"You're late again, Sirius" Walburga said "Where did you go with Alphard this time? You always take too long with him. We were waiting for you to have dinner"

Sirius was very silent and very curious. Walburga conserved her beauty. But she was nothing like the girl from the picture. She dressed elegantly, always. With makeup and jewelry. Always neat.

"I told you, Wally. I don't like Sirius hanging out with the faggot of you brother" Orion commented as he took a sip of his wine.

"Alphard is not a faggot" Walburga answered calmly.

Orion snorted in a mocking way. "Right"

Sirius was too busy staring at his mother, trying to recognize her that he didn't defend his Uncle as always.

"What are you waiting for, boy!" Orion tutted "Sit down!"

Was it really true his father changed her? Alphard didn't want to go into details.

Walburga had noticed she was being stared, though.

"What are you looking at?" She spat "You're late and you are staring at me without respect? Do I have something on my face?"

Shame. Sirius thought.

Sirius wondered how his life would be if Walburga continued to be the girl from the picture. Just like he was now.

What a hypocrite! She used to be a rebel, she used to hate the family and the money as well. She used to lie to sneak out. She used to smoke and drink behind her parents' back. Alphard had told him that.

Wasn't it hilarious that she dared to control her son like that?

The irony of it all and the grieving of the old Walburga made him smile.

"Nothing, Walburga"

Sirius took a seat next to his brother that seemed relieved that he had obeyed.

"Pass me the potatoes, Reg?"

"Yeah" Regulus obeyed looking at his brother curiously.

Sirius was using his mocking expression. Trying not to laugh under his breath. He probably seemed like a crazy person.

"So what did you do at your Uncle's exactly?" Orion asked raising an eyebrow.

Sirius bit his lip not to laugh.

"Just talk" he said "He showed me some funny pictures about you guys in the past" and he looked at his mother in the eye.

Walburga moved on her chair uncomfortably. But she held his gaze.

"What a crazy man" Orion tutted as he continued eating.

Sirius and his mother continued looking at each other defyingly. Regulus looked between them like a tennis match.

He was not giving in. But he figured Walburga wouldn't as well.

Shit, Sirius thought. Maybe there were similar in some ways after all. And Sirius didn't like that.

[howlonomy]

in all the 'trauma siblings' stuff with Clover & Kanako, I keep coming back to thinking about how Flowey engages with this

Like, here's someone who went through an at least similar ordeal of getting a human soul mixed into a monster body, leading to a lethal, traumatic injury, into a rebirth into a new body whose physical and emotional state are all way the fuck out of wack

Except Flowey was shaped a lot by having to go through the traumatic aftermath alone, and lives in the weird space of having experienced unknown years of resets but also is still mentally kind of a child

So I have to think that Flowey sees these kids and that little Asriel part of him is screaming "don't let them wind up like us", but being Flowey he also has no idea how to really comfort anyone.

Leading to sweet moments like Clover collapsing somewhere and before anyone else in their family can even pick up on something being wrong, there's already vines springing up to catch them, because of course Flower would know how to spot weakness in people after years of doing that, but now there's a productive positive use for that instinct and it's nice

But also moments like "Gee how do I cheer up Kanako about that appointment with Alphys... I know! We'll torment her! What a wonderful idea!" Because hey, a little bit of sadism always cheered him up when he was suffering

And he'd probably settle toward a crass & hyperbolic style of comforting people with hit-or-miss moments, like a sort of "Wow clover you ate SHIT just now", trying to get them laughing at the misfortune instead of crying, but obviously sometimes It's Not The Time For That or he reverts a bit back to thinking something really fucked up like "Man, that person was really rude just now, we should kill them and everyone they love" and the kids look back at Flowey like "dude what the fuck"

And everybody's different ways of processing trauma are constantly both helping and clashing with each other as these kids help each other figure this shit out because as much as the adults want to help nobody but these 3 can really come close to understanding how it feels

this has been a big ramble for an ask and not really an ask but I wanted you to have this

THIS IS SOOOO GOOD BECAUSE YOURE 100% RIGHT

flowey struggles with knowing the concept of empathy and compassion but not really. KNOWING it. i imagine he can at least remember how it feels being asriel and during the final boss but. its easy to know what it is and harder to put it into practice when you dont actually feel it

i think youre right in that he would try his best to help but not really know HOW. like it takes him a bit to realize that oh, i can see the weaknesses in people, whatdo i do with this information now that i cant use it to exploit them? what can i do to help instead of harm? what is objectively the GOOD thing to do with this information?

hes still an asshole and a bitch but he cares. hes learning to anyways. even if he missteps a lot the people around him are forgiving and willing to help him on the right path and correct him. i love…. flowey :[

[bygabyii]

Hey there! I wondered if I could ask - what is it about Kralsei that appeals to you so much? For me, it's partially how rich the pairing is in symbolism and meaning, and how much it could potentially represent with regards to Deltarune's themes... and it's partly because I love the boy with every shred of my soul and I want him to be happy :')

Would love to know if you were willing to share!

Oh Hello!! ^u^

I believe our reasons for liking Kralsei are just VERY similar, symbolism, meaning and Ralsei as well!! And that's why I always identified so much with your analysis about them! You basically write everything I would like to say of them in your texts, haha!!

Kralsei, to me, it's about how the narrative is trying to tell implicitly that Kris and Ralsei's relationship will be about a journey of understanding your identity, understanding yourself, belonging...

Kris and Ralsei have very similar problems at the moment: lack of identity. You see that everything Kris and Ralsei do will always be on Asriel's shadow. Everything Kris had before he left was always because of Asriel and how he was a kind of guide for them. Ralsei clearly has references to Asriel, (and Flowey) the kindness, prince thing and etc. But YET, he still doesn't know what it's like to be Ralsei: he doesn't know what it's to be HIM. And honestly, from there you start to think that there is something much deeper to Ralsei than just being an Asriel from a different universe.

This video talked about a little theory: how Ralsei is there to make Kris find their own identity, I highly recommend watching it! And that's where I wanted to start my point about: Ralsei is here to help Kris, to serve his lightner. But on the other hand, Ralsei also needs to be rescued, he also NEEDS his identify, without living in someone else's shadow, if he will help Kris to be themself, will Kris be grateful enough to do the same for the Darkner who helped them?...

I honestly got to think that maybe this is one of the connections of their names? The Undertale Frisk/Kris Ralsei/Asriel connection?? Where Frisk had to save one last person and it was Asriel????/Hj

This idea of Ralsei and Kris being an allusion to "find yourself" or even "self-love"... It's beautiful to me. Not wanting to go into too much detail, but since 2023, I feel like I've been having symptoms similar to identity crises, very focused on who I am, what I should be and how I should act with everything in general, learning that this is an aspect of Ralsei made me find comfort in him, and Kris as well. The supposed meaning of their relationship comforts me and makes me want to see lots of arts, fics, anything good related to them. I hope one day they develop and we have lovely scenes of them doing arts and crafts, hanging out in Hometown and having fun at school!!!!

I can't forget to mention that the thing about light and dark symbolism!! Both need each other.

If we have the few implications of love between the two in the game, I hope Toby will lead this nicely, in a good developed way. In case of becoming an endgame, could be a good one for the end of Deltarune! And then we will have another important canon couple like Undyne and Alphys and the royal guards muahahaha

Shipps where the two individuals help each other, especially in things as profound like in this case: knowing your own identity, just touch me so much! And that's why Kralsei is my favorite ship. Love them forever! <3

[skeletwinsauaskbox]

Hey, it's nighttime here, and I'm getting ready for bed, so here are some sleeping habits!

Presto/Papyrus - What is sleep? Just kidding. He used to sleepwalk a lot when he was younger. You know, back when he actually slept full nights... Sans is pretty much the only thing that can get him to sleep for a little while. He's a moderately heavy sleeper and is prone to thrashing around, but the nightmares do a good job at waking him up. Poor Papyrus...

Lento/Sans - He has an incredibly irregular sleep schedule. Sometimes he sleeps through the night, sometimes he stays up all night, and sometimes it's a mix of both. He can fall asleep standing up and it's kinda creepy. When he's lying down, however, he can actually be quite clingy, hugging the closest people, objects, sometimes even himself... He sleeptalks too. He's chatty, even in his sleep.

Undyne - Snores. Really loudly. She will also kick off the blanket sometimes. She's a pretty deep sleeper. Not much to note since she has a regular sleep schedule.

Alphys - What's a sleep schedule? She definitely stays up all night watching anime and writing fanfiction. Don't tell me she doesn't. She also falls asleep with her phone on her face sometimes.

Asgore - Poor Asgore, man. He loses sleep because of the guilt weighing on his shoulders, the sins crawling on his back... Oh, and his horns get stuck in the pillows. Also a sleep hugger.

Mettaton - Sleeps standing up, kind of. He puts his wheel away and shuts down to recharge. It's quite comfy, actually.

Napstablook - Sleeps on the floor because they feel like garbage 24/7. Also likes sleeping on leaves.

Feel free to ask more about these!

[pleasestayawayidonotlikeyou]

Also how would the younger brother group react if they got caught under the mistletoe with their crush or s/o

I've actually already written Mutt and Coffee under the mistletoe, it's here.

Featuring: Papyrus, Edge, Honey, Cash and Rus.

Masterlist

Papyrus

Oh he's so excited! Something Papyrus loves is traditions, so following one he considers adorable of his partner makes him fuzzy inside.

So why not have his best friend help him follow this tradition? Undyne has 0 idea why she's doing this, yet it's something she wants to do with Alphys too now.

Yes he is grabbing both your cheeks and giving your lips multiple smooches if you're wondering.

Edge

You're blushing, he's wondering if his brother was going to make him wait any longer.

Well, of course he made Red hold the mistletoe, who else better to help him honor human traditions than his own brother? Kidding Red was just owing him a favor.

Edge being the good boyfriend he is, gives you a proper kiss (cough cough, looking at you Cash.) probably followed by some smooches.

Honey

He gets to kiss you and eat for free at practically the same time? Awesome.

Sky is the one holding the mistletoe since he knows Honey would be way too embarrassed to do it.

He's definitely only following the tradition in a private place, totally not because he becomes almost clued to your side after some smooches.

Cash

Oh well, seems like you two have to kiss now, hand over that pretty face darlin'.

Of course Cash is a bastard and won't give you a proper kiss, only a quick smooch on the lips is enough for him.

You can see him laughing while walking away, giving you a wink before turning to eat food on the table, he's not paying for it so who cares?

Rus

Mm great, now he has a reason to kiss you.

Rus was already bent down holding a mistletoe in the air before you knew it.

Did he have a whole plan just for this day? Maybe, you simply never know what to expect when you're with Rus.

[haveyouseenthisskeleton]

The Undertale cast in a Lazy river, Please!!!

Undertale Sans - He tries to resist. He really tries to resist. But man, he's so tired after so much excitement. All everyone can hear are his loud snores as he looks like a dead corpse, just floating. He's not going to move until Toriel comes and picks him up to go home lol.

Undertale Papyrus - He's pouting. Toriel forced him and Undyne to take a ride on the lazy river because they were too excited and apparently doing too much chaos in the place. He's bored as hell because what is even the point of sitting still and doing nothing? He tried to start a race with Undyne, but then Toriel grabbed their rubber rings and gave them a death stare powerful enough to make them both shut up. So now Papyrus is pouting, waiting for Toriel to turn her back to escape with his best friend.

Undertale Toriel - She's the one who had the idea to take everyone to a water park, so she feels responsible for everyone because she promised the director of the park everything would be fine, and not ten minutes later, she found Undyne and Papyrus climbing a slide. But not backward or anything. They were ON the slide, five meters up the floor. So she dragged them to the lazy river to calm them down and lecture them, which worked... Not. But at least she can finally relax for ten minutes, pushing Sans' rubber ring with her foot and holding to Undyne's and Papyrus' ones to prevent them from escaping. She can see them whisper in her back but she is ready to use fire magic to keep their asses in that attraction.

Undertale Asgore - So, uh. He's supposed to float or something, but, uh... He's too heavy. He's too ashamed to tell the nice people at the entrance of the attraction, so he's just... walking in circles lol. It's ten times or something now. He's not relaxed. He's just scared someone will say something and ban him from the lazy river.

Undertale Undyne - That's bullshit! She was having fun, they even almost made it to the top of the GIGANTIC FORBIDDEN slide with Papyrus, but now she's stuck in a stupid rubber ring, not able to escape her fate, and she hates it so much. If Toriel thinks she can stop her, she's wrong. After ten minutes, Undyne suddenly and brutally jumps on Toriel's back, screaming like she's going to war, and she does all she can to make her fall from her rubber ring. Once she's in the water, she grabs a shocked Papyrus like he weighs nothing and runs away, jumping from rubber ring to rubber ring, holding the skeleton above her head like a trophy. They're going back to the forbidden slide and no one will stop them this time!

Undertale Alphys - She's the one who rescues poor Toriel after Undyne's runaway. And she's the one stuck with her to listen to her complain for fifteen minutes. Alphys is nodding at all she says, feeling very awkward, but uh, ok??? Eventually, she goes back to enjoy the lazy river, floating next to Sans. Looking at the skeleton is just *yawn* tiring her. Eventually, she joins Sans for a nap. The skeleton actually wakes up with Alphys holding his leg like a plushie, her tail circled around his ribcage.

Undertale Frisk - They're playing their favorite game: bothering Chara. Chara just wants to relax, but Frisk just pokes their cheek, or makes weird noises with their mouth, and has fun just staring at Chara, jumping at every gesture or sound. Oh, they know they're testing the limit, but they can't help it.

Undertale Chara - They're at their limit, and since Frisk doesn't get it. They suddenly push them into the water and forced their head back into the water five or six times to teach them a lesson. Then they quickly paddle with their hands to take some distance, only stopping once they are sure Frisk can't get them. ... But Frisk is determined...

Undertale Mettaton - He insists he goes into the lazy river even though at least five people including Toriel, Alphys and Napstablook asked him to please not. He did anyway, immediately short-circuited and then had to watch on the edge of the pool for the rest of the day, unable to move, because Alphys told him so and refused to fix him before they got back home. That's going to be a long day.

Undertale Gaster - He's uncomfortable. Mainly because his goop is leaving a big black puddle in the water wherever he's going. He can see the humans directing the park are disapproving, but they can't do anything because that's now an hour he's hiding behind Asgore, hoping the King will dissuade them to say something.

Undertale Grillby - Sans told him they were going to a park. He didn't specify that it was a WATER park. Which changes a lot of things since he can't really jump in the water without literally dying. He can't go either on a rubber ring because his flames made them explode. So he's just sitting next to Mettaton, bored. At least he has a lot of fire monsters to keep him company. It seems no one told them either.

Undertale Muffet - She is in a big rubber ring, and she's holding a rope tied to hundreds of tiny rubber rings full of spiders. Everyone is enjoying the lazy river or no one is enjoying the lazy river. She's glad her spiders are having fun! She's also screaming if everyone comes to close because there's no way any spider will drown in the water.

Undertale Burgerpants - The last thing he remembers is Mettaton jumping in the lazy river. He woke up at the hospital, in shock, and learned he almost died electrocuted. He's not even surprised at this point. This robot is going to kill him one of these days. At least he's alive...

Undertale Flowey - He was fine just sitting on the edge with the fire monsters until Asgore picked him up because he felt lonely walking in the water. Except Asgore is clumsy and made him fall three times already in the water, almost drowning him. Now Flowey is screeching and struggling, begging for someone to save him! Asgore feels bad and puts him on Sans' belly since he's stable and won't notice. Now Flowey is screaming and screeching to go back into Asgore's arms.

Undertale Gerson - He refused the rubber ring and now floats on his shell, enjoying the silence and the calm (mainly because he's half deaf because that lazy river is a lot of things but calm and silent is not one of them). For once, an activity he can do without all these young people bothering him. That's at this precise moment Undyne and Papyrus decide to jump from the top of the slide and into the lazy river, making him literally fly five meters in the air. Uh oh.

[jmbringitonworld]

How I Married Your Father

AO3 link for those who prefer to read fics there

This silly idea came to my friend and I, and we imagined some scenes for it. And when it comes to silly ideas, well... I just can't seem to resist writing them out. I also can't seem to resist injecting fluff into everything I write. How did this get so long?? @a-snowpoff this is all your fault.

Is any of this funny? You tell me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

______________________________

It all started with a ring.

Well, technically it all started when I met Papyrus, but the trouble really began with the ring.

See, Papyrus and I had been good friends for a while - to the point I was comfortable with letting him stay in the spare room at my place, when he moved out to give his brother and sister-in-law some space and privacy. We’d hung out together a few times, and had even gotten to know each other’s friends.

We’d also occasionally gift each other things we’d seen and thought the other would like. Just little things, like oven mitts, a new apron, plates with interesting flame patterns, cool action figures, bones of varying sizes… you know, just knick-knacks and such. Nothing too fancy.

And then one day Papyrus gave me a ring.

It was a sparkly piece of jewellery, very well-made and clearly quite pricey, and I was very reluctant to accept it. But Papyrus looked so excited, so hopeful, and even a little nervous (as he did with anything he gifted me to be honest)… I just didn’t have the heart to refuse. No one with a heart would’ve been able to deny him.

“DO YOU LIKE MY PRESENT??” he asked me, bones vibrating ever so slightly as he looked to be on the verge of bouncing on his feet.

I didn’t need to force the smile that spread so wide across my face that my cheeks started hurting.

“Yes.” I tried the ring on each of my fingers. It fit my ring finger perfectly. “I love it! Thank you Paps.”

The smile he gave me in return was more brilliant than any precious gem.

I had no idea what that ring would come to mean.

And neither did Papyrus, as it turned out.

—

“WHAT???”

Papyrus’s eye sockets widened in shock as he stared at Alphys, his friend, gifted scientist, and expert on humans (probably).

The shorter monster shuffled her feet nervously under his incredulous gaze, and reflexively scooted a little closer to her wife.

“O-oh, you d-didn’t know that humans give their partner a ring to p-propose? Uh, propose marriage that is.”

Papyrus shook his head.

“NO!! I HAD NO IDEA!! MY DATING GUIDEBOOK DIDN’T MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT MARRIAGE!!! IT ONLY SAID THAT GIVING YOUR PARTNER A RING WAS THE NEXT IMPORTANT STEP TO ADVANCE YOUR ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP!!”

He took out a badly chewed up book from… somewhere… and proceeded to riffle through what remained of its pages.

Sans eyed the book with a raised browbone. “uh, paps? it looks like something took a bite or ten outta your book.”

The younger skeleton monster glared at the book in remembered offence.

“IT’S THAT MISCREANT MUTT!!” He stomped his foot, scarf flailing through the air from the force of his agitation. “IT KEEPS CHEWING THROUGH MY THINGS!! NOT CONTENT TO STEAL MY SPECIAL ATTACKS, IT TRIED TO EAT MY DATING GUIDEBOOK!! AND MY HANGOUT GUIDEBOOK!! AND EVEN MY COOKBOOKS!! ALL FIFTY SEVEN OF THEM!!!”

Asgore frowned in concern. “Do you think it has a toothache from eating so many bones?”

Papyrus stomped his foot harder. “WELL I HAVE A SKULLACHE FROM IT VANDALISING MY BELONGINGS!!”

Toriel gave him a pacifying smile. “There, there. Books can be replaced; your health cannot. Do not lose your skull over this!”

The former queen giggled at her own joke and Sans’s grin widened. Papyrus looked to be on the verge of exploding, both figuratively and literally, with the way his bones rattled. Luckily, Undyne interjected before the situation could devolve further.

“Ngahhh!! Forget about nerd books and hungry dogs! What about the proposal?! Did your human say yes?!”

Papyrus paused and considered his friend’s question for a moment.

“HMMM…” He gasped. “SHE DID! SHE DEFINITELY SAID YES!”

Undyne leaned forward eagerly, eyes flitting between Papyrus and Alphys.

“So! Does that mean Papyrus and his human are married?!”

Everyone’s gaze focused on Alphys, awaiting her deduction. The current Royal Scientist shrunk under the weight of their expectation. She looked a little panicked, but with one glance at her wife’s toothy grin and shining eyes, she bolstered her courage and blurted out, “I-I guess so”.

Cheers and whoops rang out, as everyone congratulated Papyrus on his marriage. Only Sans looked hesitant. His murmured “maybe we should ask frisk about this” was lost amongst the jubilation.

—

From then on, Papyrus became even more… affectionate? Attentive? Dare I say, almost doting towards me. Not that he was cold before, quite the opposite. He was always a kind and caring friend; thoughtful, warm-hearted, enthusiastic and ever-supportive, truly the best pal a girl could ask for honestly.

But he was noticeably more intense in his efforts to be the best friend to me he could be.

And, in all honesty, it was getting me increasingly flustered.

Every day, Papyrus would wake me up in the morning with breakfast in bed, and we’d chat about our respective plans for the day as we ate. Afterwards, as I would get ready, Papyrus would pack the elaborate lunch he’d somehow found the time to prepare for me, and then send me off with a hug as big and warm as his heart (his metaphorical heart; I still had no idea whether or not skeleton monsters had literal hearts).

The way he’d rub his nasal bone against my nose as he held me close sent all sorts of butterflies fluttering around inside me. But I’d guessed it was simply a sign of affection between monsters. Papyrus was always very demonstrative with his feelings after all. He never left me in any doubt that I was important to him.

It was one of the many things I loved about him.

And there sure was a lot to love.

It was no surprise that my feelings for Papyrus had turned romantic fairly early on in our relationship.

He was so honest and upfront about himself, so earnest in his efforts and steadfast in his ambitions, and always wearing his heart on his sleeve (so to speak), that you knew very quickly what kind of man- er, monster he was. There was never any hint of artifice with him and he didn’t have a single malicious bone in his skeletal body.

I knew that I could trust him, completely, that I could always rely on him and that he would never let me down.

And he never did. He was my anchor in every storm that came my way.

More than that, he always strived to be his best self in a way that I couldn’t help but admire. He even encouraged me, time and again, to be my best self.

He made me want to do better, want to be better.

He made me believe I could.

“Which is exactly why you should be honest with him about how you feel about him!” Frisk argued, over tea and cakes one afternoon.

I bit my lip and looked away from her determined gaze. “But what if he doesn’t feel the same way about me?”

“But what if he does?” Frisk shot back.

I stared into my cup as if it held the answers I sought. Frisk sighed and reached over to place her hand atop mine, arresting my gaze when I looked up.

“Look, even if Papy doesn’t like you like that - which I doubt, I’m sure that guy is just as crazy about you as you are about him,” she insisted, voice full of conviction.

I blinked, wondering how she could be so confident, as if there wasn’t a doubt in her mind as to the truth of her words. It must’ve been because she was Papyrus’s second ever friend and his sister-in-law.

Frisk continued on, with the kind of determination that could move mountains, or break barriers. “But even if he isn’t, doesn’t he deserve your honesty?”

I wilted, forced to acknowledge her point. “You’re right. Paps is always honest with me, and I owe it to him to be honest with him in return.”

Frisk gave me a pleased smile. She turned the hand she was holding in hers and gave it an encouraging squeeze. I squeezed back, trying not to let my doubts overtake me, even as the fear of possible rejection was making my heart pound in my ears.

“I just-… Everything’s been going so well between us and I’m afraid of messing it all up! What if I ruin our friendship?!”

—

“I LOVE MY WONDERFUL WIFE! WE ARE SO HAPPY TOGETHER! NYEH HEH HEH!!” Papyrus’s cheerful voice boomed throughout the room.

Undyne guffawed and thumped him on the back with enough force to almost send him to his knees. “That’s great, Papyrus! I’m so happy to hear you’ve found your special someone, too! Now everyone’s happy! Man, we oughta celebrate or something.”

Alphys perked up and clapped her hands in delight. “Ooh! That’s a great idea! M-Maybe we can all go on a group holiday together? Like a c-couples’ retreat? It’s n-not like I had one in mind already or anything, eheheh…”

Papyrus’s face lit up, his eye sockets sparkling. “THAT SOUNDS SPECTACULAR!! AND FUN!” He pumped a fist into the air. “I CAN’T WAIT TO SHOW EVERYONE WHAT A GREAT COUPLE THE GREAT PAPYRUS AND HIS GREAT WIFE MAKE!! NYEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!!”

Sans took one look at his brother’s ecstatic grin and his friends’ equally excited faces, and gulped down the rest of his ketchup.

“oh boy, this’ll be… interestin’.”

—

One of the first things I’d learned about Papyrus was that he loved to cook. He hadn’t always been very good at it according to his friends and family, but since coming to the surface, he’d made every effort to improve his skills. And his efforts had eventually paid off, as I could whole-heartedly attest to.

I’m not sure exactly when or how it started - it felt like a lifetime ago - but at some point I’d offered to cook dinner with him and it quickly became a daily routine for us.

It was as I was stirring the tomatoes into the sauce, that I finally mustered up enough courage to broach the topic of my less-than-platonic feelings for him.

I cleared my throat nervously. “Um, Papyrus? There’s, uh, something I wanted to… share with you. Or let you know. Or, ugh.” I rubbed my temple, annoyed at myself and my poor attempts to get the right words out. “I just wanted to tell you something.”

He looked up from the gently simmering pot of spaghetti and tilted his skull my way. His smile was bright and encouraging, and he seemed completely unphased by my fumbled words. “I’M ALL EARS.”

I glanced at the sides of his skull and the complete lack of any ears, and tried to bite back a grin. It was as successful as my attempt at a confession. However, it managed to lift my spirits and calm my nerves enough for my next words to come out more easily.

“Papyrus, I…” I took a deep breath, cleared all thoughts from my head and ploughed on. “I like you!”

Papyrus didn’t even hesitate as he gave me a beaming smile and told me, “I LIKE YOU TOO!”

I couldn’t help but return his smile, as I tried to clarify what I’d meant. “No, I mean romantically. I-, I’m in love with you Papyrus.”

Papyrus’s smile didn’t budge an inch, though his chest did puff out a bit. “WELL I WOULD SURE HOPE MY WIFE WOULD FEEL THAT WAY! ALSO! I AM GLAD TO HEAR THAT YOU DO! ALSO ALSO!! I AM IN LOVE WITH YOU TOO!! NYEH HEH!”

I stared at him. “...What?”

He stared back. “WHAT?”

—

Finding out that Papyrus not only loved me back but was, in fact, fully convinced that he and I were married (which, how? How did he get such an idea?) was not the only shocking news I found out that evening.

I also learned that all of his friends also believed that the two of us were married (how? How??).

And then Papyrus cheerfully informed me that his friends had planned a group holiday for all of us to go on. As couples. Married couples (how did it come to this!? What deity did I accidentally insult to curse me like this??).

The rest of the night passed by in a blur, as my mind reeled from the barrage of bombshells Papyrus had so enthusiastically dropped on me.

The only thought which managed to stick out amongst the jumbled mess of my mind, was that I needed to correct Papyrus. And his friends. Somehow.

—

My first chance came when Alphys caught me as I was heading out the next day.

After her usual polite, if stuttering greeting, she handed me an envelope.

“Here are yours and Papyrus’s tickets for the hotel we’ll be staying in. Don’t worry, I booked a nice room for you two to sh-share.”

I opened my mouth, not sure of what, exactly, I was going to say, but knowing that I needed to say something.

However Alphys kept talking, excitement hurrying her speech. ���I’m really looking forward to getting to know you even better on the trip! I-I hope we can all be really good friends. A-Anyway, I need to go and hand out the rest of the tickets. See you on the day we head out!” She then turned around and proceeded to power walk away, waving to me over her shoulder, as her final words rushed out, “Please don’t be late because this place has a no refunds policy okay bye!”

As I remained rooted to the spot, staring dumbly after her rapidly retreating figure, I realised that my mouth was still open. I closed it with a resounding *clack*.

Well that could’ve gone better.

—

Things continued along the same vein, going decidedly not better.

All Papyrus could talk about was the upcoming group holiday and how excited he was for it.

All I could think about was how in the hell I was supposed to break it to him and everyone else that he and I were not actually married.

“What do I do?!” I’m not ashamed to admit that I was practically whining to Frisk at this point, but who could blame me?

Frisk just shrugged at me. “Dunno,” she mumbled around the straw in her mouth, and took another slurp of her milkshake.

I buried my head in my hands.

Frisk seemed to take pity on me and threw her free arm around my shoulders.

“Hey, c’mon, it’s not that bad.”

I looked up from my hands to shoot her an incredulous look. She winked at me, lips turning up suggestively as she leaned in closer to me.

“You get to share a bed with Papyrus,” she purred, as if the thought hadn’t been stuck in my head since Alphys’s visit. I could feel my cheeks burn at the insinuation in her words and tone. “You love him. And you know that he loves you too. Enough to be happy at the belief that you’re married.” My face felt like it was on fire. “So what’s the problem? Isn’t this something you were hoping for?”

She wiggled her eyebrows at me, ever the flirt-master. I shoved my hand in her face and pushed her away, unable to look her in the eye. Frisk went along with the motion, laughing airily at me.

I didn’t need to say anything. My expression spoke loud and clear to her. She’d clearly picked up her husband’s ability to read people - it was one of the things that made her such an effective ambassador for monsters. That and her unwavering determination (also perhaps her terrifying talent at flirting everyone into submission).

I grumbled, wishing my blush would die down. “M-Maybe... But not now! I’m still getting used to the idea that Paps likes me back!”

“He loves you back, you mean,” Frisk interjected. My blush returned with a vengeance.

“Y-yeah, that.” I exhaled in frustrated embarrassment. “I just don’t know if I’m ready to-... to share a b-bed with him yet.”

Frisk raised an eyebrow at me, crossing her arms.

“This is Papyrus we’re talking about. Has he ever given you any reason to believe he wouldn’t respect your wishes? That he wouldn’t do everything in his power to make sure you’re comfortable?” She didn’t give me any time to reply, but she didn’t need to. The answer was obvious. “You’re the one who told me about how you trust him completely, and that he’d never once let you down. So stop worrying about this. Just have fun on this trip and enjoy yourself. You can think about how to clear up this marriage misunderstanding later.”

Her words made sense. I would be fine. Papyrus would make sure of it, as he always did. I might be a little flustered - or a lot flustered - but we would be together, and in love, and that would be enough. It would be more than enough.

I slowly started to relax, beginning to get excited about the prospect of a holiday with the one I loved and our group of friends.

And then Frisk leaned in close again to whisper into my ear, “Don’t forget to pack some sexy lingerie. You have a ‘husband’ to sweep off his feet now.”

There was no way I would be fine.

—

When the time finally came to leave for the trip our friends had planned, Papyrus was a ball of excitement, practically bouncing off the walls, whereas I was a ball of nerves, bouncing off the walls for very different reasons.

“CAREFUL BELOVED!” Papyrus reached out towards me just in time to stop me from crashing into the doorframe.

I looked up at him, trying to shake away the turbulent thoughts infesting my head.

“Sorry Paps. And thanks. I’m just a little, uh, distracted. Excited for the trip and all, haha…!”

I gave him my best attempt at a reassuring smile.

Papyrus looked unconvinced.

He frowned down at me, concern etched into his features. He gently grasped my hands in his own gloved ones, and gazed deeply into my eyes.

“MY LOVE, I KNOW THAT I HAVE NOT ALWAYS BEEN THE MOST… PERCEPTIVE MONSTER.” He frowned, some distant memory playing in his mind’s eye, before he refocused his gaze on me. “HOWEVER! I COULD NEVER FAIL TO NOTICE THAT YOU - MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE, THE GREATEST JOY IN MY LIFE, MY DEAREST WIFE - ARE NOT AS EXCITED ABOUT THIS SUPER FUN LOVEY-DOVEY COUPLES’ VACATION AS I’D HOPED YOU WOULD BE.”

Guilt started to bubble in the pit of my stomach at the way his expression fell at that.

But before I could try to reassure him, or offer him what would ultimately be empty words of assurance, he cut me off.

“IF SOMETHING IS BOTHERING YOU, THEN PLEASE TELL ME.” He gave my hands a squeeze. The gesture shot straight to my heart like Cupid’s arrow. “I PROMISE THAT I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, AM A GREAT LISTENER!! I AM ALSO VERY PATIENT! AND VERY WISE! AND VERY UNDERSTANDING! AS WELL AS VERY COOL!”

A fierce affection for this amazing monster filled me to my core. I wanted to kiss him at this moment.

“I know, Paps. You are all that and more. So much more.”

Papyrus’s proud expression was so familiar and so dear to me. I really wanted to kiss him.

“NYEH HEH HEH! THANK YOU BELOVED! I AM HAPPY YOU RECOGNISE THAT!” Then his face softened a little, a gentleness entering his voice. “AND I HOPE YOU ALSO RECOGNISE HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU. AND HOW MUCH I WANT YOU TO BE HAPPY, EVEN IF IT MEANS WE DON’T GO ON SUPER FUN LOVEY-DOVEY COUPLES’ VACATIONS WITH OUR FRIENDS.”

He leaned forward and pressed his forehead to mine. I could see tiny glimmers of light deep within his dark eye sockets.

“BEING WITH YOU IS MORE FUN THAN ANYTHING. EVEN MORE THAN COOKING! EVEN MORE THAN CREATING TRAPS AND PUZZLES! BUT IT IS ONLY FUN IF YOU ARE ALSO HAVING FUN.”

That was it. I couldn’t take it anymore.

Before Papyrus could say another word, I tilted my head to finally give him the kiss I’d been longing for.

Papyrus made a small sound of surprise, before leaning into the kiss, reciprocating my affection with all the passion and zeal I’d come to expect from him, and then some. It took my breath away.

As the both of us lost ourselves in our first (but definitely not last!) kiss, I resolved myself to push away all of my concerns. They were pointless and would only get in the way of an enjoyable holiday with the monster I loved and the friends we both cherished.

I just needed to keep up a positive mental attitude, just like Papyrus always maintained.

—

That positive mental attitude managed to see me through the whole of the first day, which, just as Papyrus had promised, was full of fun. I had such a great time that I forgot all of my previous worries.

Which then promptly came crashing back down on me when Papyrus and I entered our shared bedroom that night, and I beheld our one bed.

Papyrus, ever the gentleman (gentlemonster?), offered to let me use the adjoining bathroom first to get ready, which I gladly accepted.

Afterwards, as I sunk into the large and luxuriously comfy sheets of the king-sized bed, I could feel my pulse speed up.

When I heard the bathroom door open, I glanced over to see Papyrus step out, dressed in simple pyjamas with little pasta patterns.

I could feel my face heat up and my ears start to ring as the tall skeleton monster made his way towards the bed I was lying in.

He came to a stop right in front of me.

I held my breath, a mixture of anticipation and nerves flooding my system.

This was it.

Anything could happen.

—

“So? What happened?” Frisk leaned forward, eager and impatient for me to spill the beans on my first night with Papyrus.

“He tucked me into bed and read me a bedtime story.”

“Wait what?”

“You heard me.” I slumped in my seat and fought back a yawn. “He then spent the rest of the night doing prep work for his cooking. I don’t know if he slept at all, ‘cause when I woke up the next morning, he’d moved on to making models of me out of papier mâché. Incredibly detailed and life-like models. He said he wanted to ‘capture his wonderful wife’s incredible cuteness’. If it were anyone else I’d be creeped out, but with Paps I think it’s kinda sweet.”

Frisk visibly deflated. She sat back and crossed her arms, head tilting in consideration.

“That does sound like him. Very… Papyrus. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.” She heaved a big sigh. “Looks like Sansy and I need to tell Papy to up his game.”

That sure woke me up.

“No thank you! I think Papyrus has plenty of game as is!”

“Well then it’s up to you to make the first move,” she said as she poked me on the forehead. “After all, Papy is the one who proposed. Even though it was Alphys who said that it meant you two were married.”

I shot up in my seat, eyes wide. “Wait you knew all about this!?”

Frisk gave a casual nod of her head. “Sans told me.” I threw my hands in the air in frustration. “Why didn’t you say anything?! Tell them the truth?!”

Frisk merely shrugged her shoulders, uncaring in the face of my annoyance. “Not my place to interfere. They didn’t ask me, so I didn’t say anything.”

Which… fair, I guessed. It was technically my problem to fix. Besides, Frisk had always been very hands-off when it came to others’ affairs, only intervening before things got really serious.

I deflated, my brief ire draining out of me.

Frisk patted my head in what would’ve been sympathy, if not for the amused smirk making its way across her face.

“And besides,” her smirk widened, showing her teeth, “it was so funny seeing you all blushy and flustered!”

“Now I see why Sans married you! You’re both trolls!”

Frisk just laughed in my face.

—

Later that day, in an attempt to make it up to me, Frisk gathered the whole group together, so that I could make an announcement and finally clear up the misunderstanding. She’d even whispered to me that Sans had told Papyrus that humans weren’t legally married until they’d had a wedding, to ease that particular burden from my shoulders. And because Sans wanted to let his younger brother down gently. The rest, though, was up to me.

It was a daunting task, but I couldn’t let this situation go on any longer.

I nervously cleared my throat, trying desperately to steel my nerves in the face of so many expectant eyes. Frisk and Sans gave me thumbs up and smiled at me in encouragement. Papyrus stood by my side, and I took comfort from his steady presence.

“So uhhh… I’d like to clear up a little… misunderstanding.” I paused to take a fortifying breath. “See, Papyrus and I… we’re not… married.”

Silence.

Until-

“Wait what?!” Undyne slammed her hands down onto the table. “Don’t tell me you two got a divorce!”

What.

I could feel my jaw drop.

Alphys looked to be on the verge of tears as she wrung her hands. “B-But you two seemed so happy together!”

Papyrus stepped closer to me and threw an arm around my shoulders. “WE ARE HAPPY TOGETHER!!” He drew me close to his side and thumped a fist against his chest. “AND I PROMISE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WILL ALWAYS BE HAPPY TOGETHER!! NYEH!!”

Toriel clapped a hand to her chest and heaved a huge sigh. “Oh that’s such a relief! I’m so glad that you two are happily married.”

Asgore beamed at us. “Yes! And may your marriage be long and full of joy!”

I could only stare dumbfounded at everyone. How did things like this keep happening to me?

I looked towards Frisk and Sans. The couple exchanged glances, before shrugging and giving me thumbs up.

I turned to Papyrus, who seemed almost as confused as I was by this unexpected turn of events. But as always, he had clearly taken it in his stride and was now puffing up under everyone’s unanimous support and offering everyone his thanks.

I looked down at my feet for a moment, before sighing in defeat.

If you can’t beat them, join them.

“...Thanks guys.”

I guess I just had to accept the fact that I was married now.

I glanced towards Papyrus’s big, bright smile, happiness shining in his face. He noticed my gaze and turned his skull towards me, his smile getting impossibly bigger and brighter. I couldn’t help my own smile forming in response.

Maybe this wasn’t such a bad thing after all. At least I was married to someone I truly loved and who loved me in return. And honestly, who could ask for more?

As I leaned into my “husband”’s side, I felt my worries fade away.

Yeah, being married to Papyrus was definitely my happy ending.

—

“And that, kids, is how I married your father,” I ended my story and smiled at my children’s cheers. Even Papyrus cheered along with them.

My eldest then looked at me, head tilted in curiosity. “So… did you and Dad ever get married for real?”

I chuckled. “Yep. Eventually.” I shared a fond look with Papyrus at the memory of our wedding.

My youngest frowned, brows furrowed cutely in thought. I wanted to reach over and smooth away the adorable crease. “But did Dad ever actually propose to you?”

I paused. Now that I thought about it… He never did. I blinked in surprise.

Papyrus seemed to have come to the same realisation.

He leapt to his feat, before dramatically kneeling in front of me. He clasped my hands in both of his and gazed into my eyes with the most serious look I’d ever seen on his face.

“DARLING WIFE! LOVE OF MY LIFE! YOU ARE MORE PRECIOUS TO ME THAN ALL THE STARS IN THE SKY. MY SOUL SHINES ONLY FOR YOU. WILL YOU MARRY ME?”

I could feel warmth spread across my cheeks and blossom in my chest.

“Papyrus, we’re already married,” I reminded him, not bothering to fight back my smile at his loving words.

My husband just grinned at me.

“IS THAT A YES?”

I giggled.

“Yes. Always yes.”