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thegreatpm1 · 4 months ago

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Amalgamtale Concepts

Hi, so it's been a while. I know that it has been a while but the thing that i've been drawing is taking a while so I decided to make this post instead. This post will contain more concepts that I have for the AU and my plans with the characters because as of right now, I can't draw them yet.

If you haven't seen the previous Amalgamtale post, I recommend you do before reading this post because you'll just be confused over everything: https://www.tumblr.com/thegreatpm1/775920896677494785/my-first-ever-undertale-au?source=share

As you'll know, I only completed 6 characters and while I do technically have a 7th, not everything is done with him for me to say he's complete. The reason why those characters are the ones who are complete and not the iconic important ones that everyone knows for previous AUs is simply because those characters are your party members as I plan for there to be 4 main party members (including Frisk) and if you read the post, you'll know why I chose those characters as well as me doing Flowey and Sans because their concepts are simple and Iike working on them even now but also because I love those characters a lot. For those who don't know, those characters that I showed sketches for are some of my favorite characters, I would say the most notable one would be MK as he isn't usually a pretty important character but I don't like that personally, this isn't really a spoiler per say but all of my AUs feature him (or her in one of them) as an important role in the story. Of course I won't just focus on him, Napstablook and Asriel would of course get a ton of focus as well so don't worry about that and while i'm very sick and tired of Sans being the main focus like all of the time, I still love him as a character so that's why I made my own concept of him with the whole hands thing being a concept that I love. And before you ask, I do know what I wanna do with some of the other characters as we'll see later but the execution part, i'm still figuring out.

I also wanna explain Determination a bit, I have 2 main AUs as of right now with this one being one of the main ones and in all of my AUs, you'll noticed that Determination as a concept is nerfed compared to the original. This isn't a coincidence, this is intentional because I simply don't like how overpowered it is and how it always is the main focus for Frisk/Chara's personalities, like not everything has to do with Determination you know? That's why I nerfed it, in this AU specifically, she has a set limit on how much she can reset and after that, she no longer can reset. I was originally going to make it to where after that set amount of times (maybe 5, this is the one that makes sense but i'm still deciding on that) the game would be over but that would make this AU so difficult and annoying to deal with if Frisk does die 5 times and you'd had to watch everything again (I mean damn, I don't wanna be like Inverted Fate where the pacing is horrendous and drags on for god who knows how long (no offense to Dorked or anyone who's a fan of Inverted Fate btw)) so I changed it to where i'm keeping that concept but after the 5 times, her power and memories worsen and as a result, someone else will be saving for her and she won't remember anything from here on out. Basically being like everyone else in the timeline and only maybe getting some deja vu moments, also she won't have some magical powers to where she can hold on for so long and refuse and such (I won't even have an Asriel fight like the one in canon), basically she's just a human in this AU and that's something I like a lot

Now let's get onto the characters, i'll either explain in further detail on who the character is or talk about the concept of the characters. I'll also only talk about main characters because if I talk about side characters then we'll be here forever.

Frisk: In this AU, Frisk isn't the same usual character who's just silent and has a -_- face all of the time, because in this AU, she's fearful for her life. I would describe her personality as very paranoid, introverted, fearful and a little emotional. When she eventually meets her monster allies, she clings onto them because she doesn't have anyone else in her life and she's never cared for them as much as she does for them. Thankfully even in the Genocide Route, she'll still have them as allies but even in this AU, she doesn't want to do Genocide because she's just a kid and mentally, it's too hard for her to kill anyone. Who knows when she'll get another break from the world but because of that mindset, she always tries to enjoy the moment as much as she could.

Flowey: You know how psychotic Flowey is in canon? Think of that amplified to a 100 because Flowey is genuinely batshit insane and no one wants to go interact or even see him at all in this AU. Flowey and Asriel are two different characters in this AU and he is the more negative and evil side of Asriel, having no feelings of love or compassion, he doesn't hesitate to do some horrendous actions just to get his own way. Instead of dust, blood (yes monsters bleed in this AU but they still do dust away when they die) drips onto a flower and creates Flowey. He normally likes to torment and scare everyone but because of the close connection he has with Flowey, he especially focuses on him when he can. Because of the massive changes in the story, he never got Determination but acts like he has the power to change the world in a major way because of his egotism and his belief that he is a god amongst everyone in the Underground. Flowey plays the role as one of the main antagonists in the AU and he especially will pose a threat when you least expect it.

Napstablook: Here's one of the party members of the AU, Napstablook is one of the few monsters who hasn't lost their own sanity due to special cases with the disease and while he's corrupted pretty badly, it's not that fatal compared to the other cases. Napstablook is a very traumatized and emotionally sad person, he is shy like in canon but his grief overtakes it and you can only really see his shyness if you get close to him. After losing his cousin to one of the monsters, Napstablook has lost faith in monsterkind. He either hides in the Ruins or in his own home because of his quiet it is, everywhere else he has to be fearful for his own life but in the Ruins, he occasionally sees Toriel but it's fine with him because there are other spots he can be in without getting spotted. He hasn't made a new song in a long time after he lost Mettaton but he still listens to his old music from time to time. His main goal is to find his lost cousin and whatever happens to him, he doesn't wanna know but all he wants is to be brave and try to find him.

Sans: Oh look, it's everyone's favorite lazy skeleton. Sans can either be a very dangerous monster or a very friendly monster and the reason why he's like this is because of the purpose he serves. He believes in judgement and the consequences on your actions, however that does not mean he isn't insane at all because I would argue he's more insane than normal. If you don't kill any monster, Sans just stares at you, doesn't engage and maybe would offer a treat for you, however if you kill a good amount of monsters then he starts to get aggressive and when you do a Genocide, he actively tries to hunt you down and kill you himself. His strength is also multiplied, having him be way tankier and also being a lot more fast making him harder to hit. He is definitely someone that you do not wanna mess with but thankfully, he gets into some battles with Flowey so there's him being distracted from time to time.

Monster Kid (MK): Here's an unexpected one for many people, Monster Kid is very important character in this AU and is one of the party members. Being one of the only characters that doesn't lose his own sanity, he loses himself and becomes very paranoid from everyone and everything, he isn't like himself. MK wants to be more like himself but can't especially after seeing his own family and idols have transformed into something horrifying and has transformed himself into something that's painful. Eventually however, he has got close with Frisk and joins her party, maybe at some points, they even spend time together and acts more like a kid. He also learned some magic just to defend himself, it's mainly inspired by Undyne's attacks, in fact at a certain route, he gets an eyepatch to wear.

Asriel: The one who technically caused the entire Underground to go into chaos, Asriel thinks that and sincerely regrets his own choices. Asriel didn't meet Chara in this AU because instead, he sees a dead corpse that was once Chara and touching it caused him to get infected, and this his family, and then the entire Underground. Because of that and him staying as a child forever, he regretted his own existence and is hiding away never to be seen again. One day, he does find Frisk and eventually joins her team and the journey he goes through is to find a purpose of his own life. His magic is not as strong but there's a ton of similarities that can be seen with his canon boss fight and because of his life being paused after his family getting infected, he gets really close to everyone in the team as he isn't really a social person. He also for some reason has a liking to chocolate.

Mettaton: Mettaton got taken away from Alphys as one day comes in and captures him but before that, he was staying with Napstablook when there was an alert to protect the entire Underground from the disease. Because of that, Napstablook and Mettaton stayed with each other for a long time and because of staying in their homes, he wasn't able to become a star and started to style himself as his dream body and try to do some fun activities with Napstablook. One day, Alphys comes in and captures him, because of the disease, it made the ghosts a little physical and he got beaten up and when they both got back into the lab, he forcefully got shoved into a robot body by Alphys and in that body, he has no control over himself and he is forced to murder so many people. When Frisk's team fights him, they need to free him so that he can be saved because if not, then he will fuse with his robotic body and he will be lost forever. I don't know what will happen after that but at least Napstablook will be way happier and maybe he can help the others fight.

Toriel: My idea for her is that she is some kind of giant multilation that overtook the Ruins and the form that we see of her in the beginning could be one of her mini temporary forms. Idk, i'll probably will change this but all i'll say is that she's inspired by Underworld.

Papyrus: Papyrus' kindness has been pushed to it's limits and because of that, he will do everything he can to "help" you even if he ends up trying to kill you instead. He wants to have fun with his puzzles but if that gets interrupted then he will get aggressive. Not sure on the design as of right now

Undyne: With how big Undyne is in the story, I want her to be a big threat in Waterfall. She constantly follows you, gets way stronger when you try to kill her and she always wears her full armor because underneath it, it's nothing but bone and flesh.

Alphys: She's an amalgamation and she is crazy to experiment on other people. Also inspired by Underworld.

Asgore: A fallen kind that seems like he's dead but the souls that are stuck to his body makes him feel familiar with the scent of a human soul and when he feels it, he gets up.

The other fallen humans: Obviously they're dead but I wanna focus on three of them. I actually do have a design for them but I will show that soon

Chara: She's dead, just confirming that

Gaster: I don't have much, all i'll say is that he's very mysterious and very horrifying, like he's not from this world

The one who caused all of this: You'll see soon

And that's all for everything, hope you guys enjoy this update and I hope to see you soon.

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myosotlsart · 1 year ago

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Any headcanons for characters you wanna share?

Aha. The time has come for me to answer this question.

The thing is, I *don't* have any headcanons for the main "canon" pokémon characters. I let them be. So technically, nothing for them is canon in my head. Not even the fact that Green Oak has a crush on Red. I respect the canon for what it is, and leave it at that.

But if we're talking about slightly *altered* versions of them, such as what I write for them... ahaha. Yes. That's when I allow myself to become a little creative. (The only issue is, there are different alternate timelines. I'll give you a basic rundown of what goes on in my head.)

more under the cut

Pokespe Inspired (Universe 1)

This is the first story I attempted to write, and as all things written by a child, the contents are a little wild. I'll say what I plan to carry through, however:

Green Oak has a crush on Red. Duh. It was clear the moment he doubled around. No, he wasn't "waiting" on you. PFfft. He just wants to prove he's the best. *Ensue depression after Red's disappearance*. Red, however, is on the aroace spectrum, which means they have to learn and navigate what an intimate/romantic relationship means to them, if they even have one.

Green feels a lot of emotions, which leads him to act irrationally at times. Red is overall a lot more introverted (not to say more calm, but appears to be) which can be hard for Green to read. Like a hot/cold dynamic

Professor Oak, at one point, became the Pokémon Champion due to a mixture of interest in pokémon and perserverence. He never, however, understood the bonds between pokémon, and ultimately dropped the job to pursue studying them. His lack of knowledge considering the bonds between pokémon is what makes him unable to gauge how much Green's pokémon like him, and ties into the fact he also bad at connecting to his very human family

Green's mother is the spoiled daughter of Professor Oak who was also very type A- and so dominant only her last name transferred to her children. Aspects of his personality, such as his cleanliness, and at times deep desire for perfection and insecurity, is a result of her high demands for overachievement

Blue (F) has experienced with traumatized children (Silver) and taking care of Yellow is natural for her because of it. After the events of the main story, she goes back to seek for Yellow, and emotionally and physically helps her grow into her own.

Kanto is generally misogynistic when it comes to female trainers in power and Blue does her damnest, resorting sometimes even to radio broadcast, to slowly shift public opinion on the matter.

Red's primary goal is to befriend pokémon, understand them, and change the region's attitude towards pokémon training (such as with whips, etc.) He doesn't take the championship seriously by the end, which infuriates Green, and only beats Green to bring some finality. Red initially partakes in media to discourage whipping and abusive practices, and stays for a little bit, before ultimately receeding to the mountains due to how overwhelming and impossible it is for one kid to change the world. Red is the one who makes the stairs in the mountain as a subconscious plea for someone to come up and find him, even if he won't go back down himself

There is way more on the second gen I could talk about, but I haven't even drawn any of them yet, so that's for the future I presume

FRLG Inspired (Universe 2)

Unfortunately, in the first universe, Blue (F) ultimately cannot surpass Red and Green, has to deal with the disappointment, and shift priorities. It seems that if only the female trainer exists, she can be the Champion. However, if she were to exist alongside Red, Red always has to win. This AU is an exploration of that notion.

Red and Leaf have the same mother, they look similar, therefore they are twins. However, in the games, they are never seen together. Thus, while Red is raised by his mother (if player chooses Red), this story has Leaf travelling with her father for the majority of their lives, making them estranged siblings. But no hard feelings. (Mostly).

By the time Leaf goes to pick up the pokéballs, only Bulbasaur is left.

Blue Oak is a lot ruder in this AU than he is in the other stories I'm writing, where his and Red's relationship is the core focus. Which is to say, he acts exactly as he does in the game, always trying to prove he's better and one-ups Red.

Leaf is never mentioned beyond FRLG, such as in HGSS. Yet, she must have existed. I imagine her to take a much more relaxed (thus hidden/less flashy) approach to the journey than Red and Blue do. While the boys take the spotlight, she takes unconventional paths around the region, focusing on befriending pokémon. Does she fail at waking Snorlax because she doesn't have the pokéflute? Well, fine, despite not knowing fly, she'll tell Pidgeot to fly over the dang thing, take a running start, and alley-oop over that giant monster.

Due to her more mischevious, shadowed nature (and harkening to her name) Leaf usually favors pokémon such as Butterfree, Crobat, Parasect, Venonat, Golduck, Victreebel, Cloyster, Hypno, Tangela, and Mewtwo. Her more mysterious nature sets her apart from the usual peppy female protagonists. There is something unsettling and amusing/curious about her. If you get decieved by her innocent smile, well...

The test as to whether any of this matters, if she can surpass the popularity of the stars of Kanto, comes to a head at the end of the story.

During HGSS, while Red is on the mountain and Blue handling the gym, she goes to Hoenn (referencing a 2005 postcard of her with a combusken), where she meets May. Traveling with May (who is a climate change activist, thanks to RSE's theme of, well, climate change) is a welcome break from the box she was forced into during her time in Kanto. An experienced, lightly jaded adventurist and an inspiring adventurer with a heart of gold make for an extremely heartwarming journey

Wow! I didn't think I'd have so much to say when I saw this, I was genuinely scrambling for headcanons until I laid out some of the stories I have swirling around my head. Apparently there was a lot in there! The more you know.

#mailreading #my fic #this got… so long. omg #now they know I’m a nerd… oh no! the horror :D

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the-everqueen · 2 years ago

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fic author self-rec

@mehoymalloy tagged me to pick five of my own fics to recommend, pero i've only finished one for my current fandom, which is what most recent followers would be looking for. so! since the gf, who is much more prolific and better with words than me, has written so much for mansand, i thought i'd pick five of hers that i like the most and want other people to scream about. she's not on tumblr, but she's user stellersong on ao3.

shuddered at what they found when they stripped away the grace Dream, after the Wake. body horror, not in the usual viscera and gore sense, but the horror of being the newly (re)embodied anthropomorphic personification of the collective unconscious, when part of you had been a human child. this is required reading for everyone who wants Daniel!Dream coping with his new existence. also Delirium is a good big/little sister. (gen)

y me muero por volver, volver post-Wake Dream and Death get lunch in SF. both of them navigating around the shadow of Morpheus and who they've become. some of my favorite characterization of Death - you really get a sense of her as a person, her grief and kindness. also very good background worldbuilding for the Endless. (gen)

for just to suffer that hurt Desire's got wind of the developing relationship between their brother and his librarian. it's technically part of their function, after all. there's some fun timey-wimey things happening here with the alternate timelines presented in Overture. also frankly i think the gf is doing the only interesting things in this fandom with intertextual references: so many people are fixated on medieval studies, and meanwhile the Dreaming has every work that has ever existed or could have ever existed in the whole world, which is bigger than England. (*cough cough* Anglocentrism *cough*) this is part of the "endless revisions" series but imho you don't need to have read the previous fics to understand this one. (m/f, Dream/Lucienne, semi-background)

a pillar i am, upright this one is for all you horny Dream/Luce people. basically Lucienne has fun mentally tormenting Dream while they're both trapped in a work function. this fic also contains one quick reference to my guy, which frankly just makes me warm because i know the gf did that for me. (m/f, Dream/Lucienne)

unauthorized disclosure this is kind of cheating because i'm listed as a co-author (solo fic in progress, got heavily delayed by me finishing a phd and then hyperfixating on CocoRose). BUT it's not a swan fic-list without a monster au and werewolves are my soft spot. this one's the first in the "red moon" series: basically Lucienne gets hired as Dream's RA for a secret project to cure lycanthropy and things go sideways fast. i'm obsessed with how the gf describes so-called monstrous bodies - there's a brandon taylor essay about how no one in fiction occupies physical space anymore, and the gf is so good at bodies as devices/communicative structures/things that take up physical space. if you've ever gotten tired of fics where the characters seem to move for no reason besides as a dialogue tag (a thing i'm so guilty of in my own writing), you should read swan's fic to study how she uses movement.

this was insanely fun; thanks, Malloy! i always feel weird tagging people but if you follow me and want to talk about your fic, feel free to consider yourself tagged (and tag me so i can read it if i haven't!)

#fic recs #tag games #sandman #sandman fanfiction #lucid dreaming #dream/lucienne #dream of the endless #daniel hall #lucienne

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tysukis · 5 years ago

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Okay hello I am back to get way too into this au! Also I do technically write, in that I love to outline the hell out of something and then never put real stories together. This is my favorite part, and the compliments from you and @zukkau have made my day. :)

I think it was @procrastinatingqueen who mentioned Sokka dating Suki in a Zuko-Left timeline and it got me thinking about the band situation. Let's say the band is three members at first - Sokka, Suki, and Jet. (He's a shit but he deserved better....) Sokka lands them the gig, Suki is adrift and immediately on board to bounce. I like the fanon that the modern Kyoshi Warriors are a roller derby team, but regardless they're not quite an anchor for her and might even push her to take the opportunity. Sokka is the same. I imagine he and Katara are navy brats, they're used to moving and his sister just demands tickets and facetime calls, "No I don't care how tired you'll be."

Jet, though. He's not the primary caretaker on paper for Smellerbee and Longshot but he's the de facto caretaker. He can't just *do* that. So they replace him - Haru? Teo? Jin? I'm not picky, a handful of canon folks would work. So newly single Sokka goes off with Suki and their new bandmate, and Zuko is simmering on the fact that he's touring with his ex and probably always wanted her anyway. (Probably not, I imagine Suki has at least one supportive partner in their hometown, but maybe also yes for drama?) And Jet, who understands commitment to passionate goals and hard-won family, who now also understands the anger of being abandoned by Sokka in some way, is just so conveniently there. Like, they're not healthy together for sure. But Jet would be chill with Zuko keeping his emotional distance (whether real or just perceived) because Jet also does that?

I promised myself I wasn't going to send you a novel and here we are. But I haven't nailed down why they come back - end of tour? Do they piggyback onto another tour immediately or is this a relatively short separation and the aftermath is still messy?

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Hello! Okay, yes, let’s run with this.

(I like that we now definitively have both a Zuko-Leaves Timeline and a Sokka-Leaves Timeline lmao)

I am proposing: front man and lead guitar Sokka, punk drummer Suki, Haru on bass. (If you wanna make it 4 - Teo on keys.) Of course Zuko would assume the worst, what with Sokka and Suki touring together (and probably misjudged Suki’s reasons for how eager and down she was to just up and leave) but we, the audience, know that she has a covert thing going on with fellow-roller-derby-skater Ty Lee; it’s probably pretty low key for the professional sake of the team.

Sokka and Katara growing up being moved from place to place, and therefore Sokka going on a new adventure with minimal reservations makes sense, I approve. Also Katara and Aang would definitely tag along for at least one leg of it for fun until they have to return to whatever careers/education they persue in their own lives.

I LOVE the idea of Jet and Zuko being brought together by scorn (and I love the way you phrased it - seriously dude I know you said you rarely go further in writing than an outline but that’s a tragedy) it slots in nicely with the canon. I’m a big believer that Jet was a traumatised child in the show and I think translating that into him being A Massive Shithead in fics can be a bit of a played out trope. It’s high time for Complex Character But Not Terrible Person Jet™️. I think they’d bond nicely and, in addition, I think because Zuko never got that whole older/younger sibling dynamic growing up he would adapt and be really good with the freedom fighters.

Whilst we’re looking into how the other characters slot in; Toph? Mai? Azula? What are our thoughts for them? I like to think Toph would be the one to set Zuko straight in the end with his constant moping and pining (I think their friendship was and is chronically under-utilised in both canon and fanon) but I can really see it being any of them.

Dw about not sending a novel, I’m happy to talk about this au all day frankly. I can see them being gone for a while, long enough for Sokka to assume Zuko has moved on etc. I’ve had multiple suggestions for why they come back but a common one is the good ol’ visiting the family excuse. Galaxy brain rachel @zukkababey immediately suggested tis the damn season by taylor swift as a fitting song and I think that works really well - idk if they’d celebrate Christmas per se but I can deffo see them coming back for at least some holiday or celebration. (perhaps an important birthday or graduation?)

#musician au #for anyone who missed it last night I am Still Thinking About This #thank u anon u know ur welcome any time #answered

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