#underbound

[masterisabelle]

Me when the voices win

Played earthbound recently it was pretty fun

[notsomania]

Undertale Beginnings/Underbound

does anyone remember this obscure ass undertale prequel toby took down for some reason? you played as like some human that looked a lot like frisk named fucking squeezo and they had to go underground and heal the planet or something. it had the same battle system as undertale except it had a spell option and the spells were all music themed. the craziest part was that the antagonist was a character named face who died at the end and was implied to be the previous incarnation of asriel. im pretty sure not many people remember undertale beginnings atp but i hope it gets more known because the lore was definitely something

[the-unrelated-theorist]

Undertale's first incarnation.

On October 29, 2012, a user on starmen.net by the name of "MrTenda" would create a shitpost thread talking about an Earthbound ROM hack he's creating called "UnderBound"..

Scrolling down a bit, you may see a familiar face! That's right, It's Toby Fox!! This is, as far as I can tell, the first look at Undertale EVER posted on the internet.

It seems Frisk originally had black hair, and there were no hints as to Flowey's evil nature.. Toby also mentions Flowey is a reincarnation of "FACE" which was a character mentioned in the original post, but also draws similarities to the NES Godzilla Creepypasta's "FACE", which inspired some of Flowey's looks.

(A direct comparison of sprites) Toby Fox citing Flowey as a "reincarnation" here is also brilliant (but likely unintentional) foreshadowing!!

[sadsand908]

Underbound

[sally-nirvana-sandor]

UnderBound OwO

[jaxfromthatcircus]

SANDS UNDERBOUND???

"I don't even know what you're talking about blud."

[dawnorsomethingidk]

holy shit is that ness from underbound 2???????

[am-i-sans]

Look its ness from UnderBound!

actually its steven

[masterisabelle]

Underbound stuff

[m0llystars]

hiya molly! i was watching your stream and at the end of it you pulled up that one starmen.net post where toby showed off undertale for the first time? just wanted to make sure you knew it was a joke and there is unfortunately no underbound 1 or step cousin squeezo

afaik toby was just being silly about announcing a new project to a group of friend

oh yeah, i figured out shortly after that it was just Jokes on his part, which doesn't surprise me now tbh but i suppose 5 hours of streaming and the rush of being live in front of a bunch of people made me a lil slow in that regard JKLDGHJKLDHG thanku though for letting me know either way, it does help to have some clarification! though it is tragic that we will never know a reality in which step cousin squeezo exists

[toreodere]

Hey any of yall remember when I said I'd probably make sprites of these designs if I ever could be bothered?

Well I went and did that, and trying to translate my designs to these tiny little sprites was way more difficult than I could have expected if i'll be honest, h.

And as an extra special bonus, one of these AIN'T the humans who fell in the underground, but instead Cousin Squeezo! Frisk's non canonical cousin from the original forum post where Toby Fox talked about Undertale and how it's main character was "the cousin of Squeezo from Underbound 1"

His design was partly based off the FL studio logo also, idk why!

EDIT : Realised I got the two blue souls mixed up, WHHOPS!!

I was feeling really bored while thinking about Undertale and thought it would be fun to make some small designs for how I think the other human characters we don't see might have looked like, alongside their weapons of choice!

Frisk, Chara and Kris are also on this just cus I felt like drawing all of em too, h.

Would have properly coloured these designs too but I got too tired and I didn't want to spend forever working on these gotdang things!

Maybe expect me to do some sprites of these fellas if i'm ever feeling bored again.

[the-hem]

"The Big Snake Hole." From the Varaha Upanishad. The Exploration of the Mysteries of the Wild Boar.

The stanzas before these say we are responsible for the delusions we maintain, their causes and effects. The saddest thing humanity has done is allow fictional things, things it has invented out of thin air to impact reality in a phenomenal way.

There is but one that is allowed and that is the experience of infatuation, where pursuit of the stories we tell ourselves about a person we fancy are the only things that matter.

Otherwise, we must keep the mind glued to the Spirit of God at all times:

39. (The word) ‘Upavasa’ (lit., dwelling near) signifies the dwelling near (or union) of Jivatma and Paramatman and not (the religious observance as accepted by the worldly of) emaciating the body through fasts.

40. To the ignorant, what is the use of the mere drying up of the body ? By beating about the hole of a snake, can we be said to have killed the big snake within?

We kill delusions by starving them to death, not the rest. These- emotions, thoughts, all perceptions are to be sorted through rationally and intelligently, unless the cause of the "disturbance" is due to infatuation.

Just as Krishna said be not over nor underbound to the flesh unless it is to someone else's flesh, then it is okay to be bound.

[ddossed-psp]

UBD-V : Governing and Suffering

In the Underbound, Divison V is the pinnacle of the underground world. This division maybe the most known and populated, but is notorious for its political monopoly over other divisions. The puppet strings were secure on the government for them, continously making the Underbound into the perfect mold of their version of a utopia. However their monopoly over the government was eventually fell.

The leaders were prone to be corrupt, money had more aroma than the most exquisite dish. From the beginning, they brushed off the problems of its people making less than they demanded. There was an outbreak of a fungi infestation. Fungi infestation meant bugs, that looked like praying mantis, that had a disease carried in mushroom spores on their bodies. The leaders were looking at a chance to make money, even though they had so much, they took them and made ornaments of their mushrooms. The leaders didn't do a check on them and they accidentally caused an entire epidemic. The mushrooms emitted the disease called," Spore Puncture," and it would cause a putrid smell that caused people to have bacteria grow inside them in the form of pimple-like spots; the bacteria was inside making people unable to breathe and made them violently cough.The disease had lasted for about fifty years, the people didn't find a cure since barely anyone could come together to find the cause of it for the first ten years.

Divison V suffered through the epidemic. Eventually, they found a cure, and it went away gradually. The Underbound worked like a royal heritage at first, but now they have democracy so no one can have someone in the government for a long time. Soon, every Divison had a democracy as their government. The Divisons have no national leader, no president, no king, no emperor, and no prime minister. They ruled among their own lands, and monopoly can't ensue in the government if there is no group or person running for absolute power of the Underbound.

[gumballfan13]

If I'm going to be honest here, it honestly shocks me how much attention I've gotten on here. Anyway, here's some artwork done by friend. If you are interested in the AU and want to know more, please feel free to ask me.

[kiandjan]

Kiandjan, underbound