#Undertale: Reality Mirage

[realitymirage]

The World Crafters!

Behold! Them!

This is what Reality Mirage Chara, Gaster, and Frisk look like.

Chara is a ghost of sorts, being tied to Frisk's SOUL and only being visible to them. No one knows why, but it does cause some Cheshire-Cat-style shenanigans at times! They aged with Frisk, so now they're both 11 years old!

Gaster is also a ghost; that's why he's outlined, too! After some trial and error and not being in the void any longer, he can maintain a physical shape for long enough to do work! That's how he built the World Builder, after all. Frisk, as said before, is now 11 years old. They’ve developed some fashion sense… Mostly with their family and friend’s assistance (cough Mettaton cough). They also wear Chara’s Heart Locket at all times.

As the title says, together the three form The World Crafters! Or, at least, that's what Gaster calls them. He names everything, after all! Frisk is okay with the name, but Chara isn't.

While you won't see the front-facing versions of their sprites as much, I still wanted to create these sprites in case anyone was curious!

Expect non-sprite art of them, with more information about them, soon!

#undertale #undertale au #gaster #wd gaster #Undertale: Reality Mirage #chara #frisk #sprite art #info #lore stuff #The World Crafters #art #sprites

[cicada-wisp]

Greetings!

Feel like actually trying 'social media' right now!

So that's why theres a sudden spike in me doing things recently.

Cool, huh?

...

What a difference talking during the day and during the night is!

Anyways! Somethings about me right now!

Currently obsessing over:

Anon from Blush Blush (or Blush Blush in general!)

Alice in Wonderland (the books and the Disney animated version, that's it!)

UNDERTALE / AUs

My current projects:

Alice in Undertale ('What a Curious Sort of Wonderland...')

UNDERTALE: Reality Mirage

UNDERSWAP: A New Dawn

Something Anon based... But that's mainly secret...

What my ask box is open for:

Anon from Blush Blush head canons.

Alice in Wonderland stuff. Head canons, lore, my own theories... Anything!

Rules for Ask Box:

No NSFW or 18+ material... I'm a minor!!

For romantic head canons... I have the right to decline if I think it pushes the boundaries of the previous rule!

I'm single and have always been single... But I think I know how to write romance! Maybe! Possibly! So if it's not what you thought you'd get... Sorry!

Anyways that's it... This'll probably get updated over time, or maybe not... Who knows?

I sure don't.

Anyways...

#cicadawisp-speaks! #social media is something I do now I guess #young me would be SO disappointed #anon blush blush #blush blush #blush blush anon #alice in wonderland #alice in undertale #undertale #What a Curious sort of Wonderland... #UNDERTALE: Reality Mirage #ask box rules #fanfiction #theres probably a lot of spelling errors #is this how tumblr works? #too many tags

[snugglyporos]

[[Personally, I hardly care about AI art discourse, despite being an artist. In fact, I find it helpful at times, when I want to prototype several ideas - it's much faster than drawing tons of thumbnails and then I still draw my own thing in the end. And LLMs are helpful in a ton of ways as well. My only problem is people looking at AI generated content as a complete product, which it is not.]] @poisonflowrs

// Oh, 100%. I do not understand why people are trying to implement this stuff like it's ready for rollout when we're like, 5 years from being at the adoption stage. Like just using it, you can know this immediately. It is very much not ready for prime time.

But I think what bugs me is how people don't care when you don't call it 'ai' because at this point, that term is meaningless.

Oh, Photoshop has a 'generative fill tool?' Artists love it! Guess what that is?

Oh, Google Pixel comes out with a 'magic eraser?' People love it? Guess what that is?

I get the worry that it will replace things, but that is the way of the world. Demanding Kodak not make digital cameras doesn't mean people won't use digital cameras, it just means your business goes bankrupt.

And I get the idea that there's a lot more garbage. When we invented the printing press, the downside was that anyone could print books, and that meant you didn't have scribes doing it. That meant you got a lot of bad books.

A more recent example is steam; ask yourself this. Would you rather have 1 Undertale if it meant having 50 Bad Rats? Or would you rather lose Undertale if it meant not having the 50 Bad Rats? Would you like 1 Shovel Knight or Pentiment or Dwarf Fortress or whatever your favorite game is, if it means having 50 Hunt Down the Freemans?

Because the downside of making things accessible is that more people are going to use them. You have to ask if you're okay with getting the good if it means the bad.

And the thing about 'stolen content' is a mirage; you can train a model entirely with public domain work. Google, for example, could train one and is with all their streetview photos. Adobe? Training with all their stock photos, which they own. The same is true of Shutterstock. Because by using those services, they own your work.

Reality is that the question is not 'will AI modes exist' but 'who will own the models?'

And that means you can either move towards a more corporate internet, where companies own all the content, or you can move towards a more open internet, at the expense of people being better able to use your work how they want. Because things like fair use don't just apply to Disney, they apply to you as well.

But more to the point, we've been here before. We were here when authors sued fanfic writers for writing. We were here when companies sued fanart creators. Hell, we've been here with animated gifs, where people have claimed, rightly, that it's basically just stolen content, because it is, and yet we all accept it, because we say 'oh, it's those companies, not us!'

At the end of the day, there's only two ways to go. We either create the open internet people talk a lot about but don't seem to want, where ownership is not particularly concrete, or we move to a corporate internet filled with nfts where jpegs have records of ownership and screenshotting things is a crime akin to burning a cd.

The world, sadly, is not a place where the best can be had for everyone. There are always trade offs. There will always be scarcity, and there will always be someone who suffers and foots the bill. We just have to ask what tradeoffs we're willing to accept.

#ooc

[ao3feed-undertale1]

Mirage

read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/52344508 by homchkrow There's someone waiting on the surface. Words: 1044, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Undertale (Video Game) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Asgore Dreemurr, W. D. Gaster, Undertale Monster(s) Additional Tags: Post-Undertale Pacifist Route, except it's not a beautiful happy ending, War, not graphic, dashed hopes, Reality, when it doesn't meet your expectations read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/52344508

#ao3feed #ao3undertalefeed #fanfic #undertale #undertale-fanfic

[brightlotusmoon]

It might be after leaving the Gargoyles/Homestuck/Undertale fandoms but it's not really weird to want to fuck Monsters/aliens/what have you? (My last fandom was Gargoyles, and I will never look at old statues the same!)

Between Gargoyles and a bunch of 1990s monster themed animated shows (The Mighty Ducks anyone?), two generations of monsterfuckers would agree with you.

In the 90s and 2000s, we made a lot of aged up Ninja Turtles fanfic because it was literally canon that the characters stopped being teenaged. Most current new fans don't seem to know how much of a parody the characters always were, especially the teenage part.

And fanfic is supposed to specifically be from the fans by the fans, I think people forget that. Yes, you can still be thirtysomething years old and imagine the turtles as gray or demi asexual (which they actually were in Mirage, that was the point behind Sons Of The Silent Age) or utterly sexual toward your OC and self insert.

Up until a couple years ago before Tumblr lowered the joining age, before anti-shippers arrived, nobody actually cared what others wrote, and if they did they took it up in private or in a quiet forum to vent, but they also knew it had no impact on reality, because mutant turtles still don't exist. Don't Like Don't Read was a respected rule.

Anyway. When the 2003 show and then the 2007 film came out, a lot of fans sat up and went "Well, hello, Ninja Turtles! Aren't you pretty!" Thus a new flood of romance fics were born.

See, I've learned something about the anti-ship cult. They will move into fandoms where the main characters are teens, and they'll attack older fans who have been writing aged-up fanfic since the beginning of the franchise, as if they can freeze or stagnate the fictional fantasy characters at a random age and then find ways to make excuses for predatory criminal behavior when they, the antis, are already engaging in predatory, illegal and morally questionable behavior (there are a lot of predatory anti's hiding behind purity culture). This is particularly notable in fandoms with nonhuman characters that aren't bound by human rules. I've never seen a bunch of people so riled up and ready to make death threats over fans having romantic and sexy headcanons over aliens, mutants, and otherwise anthropomorphic humanoids. Guillermo del Toro would be appalled.

#let people have their headcanons #shared headcanons #fandom history #i don't understand fandom purity nonsense #i don't understand bullying in fandoms with nonhuman characters as none of it is real #tmnt history

[kimtanathegeek]

Two Brothers, Many Paths - Ch 9

Oh, this chapter! Oh, my heart!

Have I mentioned how much I love these two darling skeletons?

—

Undertale copyright Toby Fox

Story and original characters by me, Kimtana

Please do not use without both permission and credit.  

Read below, or read it on AO3 here.

First

Previous

Next

The winds blustered through the valley, carrying waves of snowflakes through their currents. In the midst of the unnatural storm trudged the lone skeleton.

Sans had been searching the valley for Papyrus for hours. He was exhausted, but refused to stop and rest. He couldn’t, not with his little brother out there, somewhere, helpless and alone. He held his hood over his skull as the harsh winds tried to whip it off his head. He shivered, frozen to the very core, and couldn’t bear the thought of what the bitter cold was doing to his brother.

He had called out to Papyrus so loudly and so often that he no longer had his voice. All he could do was listen for his brother while searching the whitened valley for any trace of footprints or silhouettes.

His eyes were so blurred from eyestrain that he thought he spotted Papyrus several times in the distance. As soon as he got closer, he realized it was just a boulder or a stone formation.

Sans stumbled again. He landed on his stomach in the snow, grunting painfully. He struggled to rise, his body fighting to stay down. But the resoluteness burning deep inside his soul overpowered his body’s desires to rest. He narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth as he painfully rose to his feet. He pulled his hood back over his head and kept going.

As he slogged on, eyes darting back and forth shakily, he berated himself.

This is all my fault. I never, ever should have left him alone like that. I should have held it together for him. I never should have gone off to be by myself. He’s too young to be left alone. Now he’s somewhere in this nothingness, and I can’t find him anywhere. I was supposed to protect him....

Sans’ thoughts jolted. He shut his eyes tight and sighed sadly.

I thought I was protecting him, though.... I didn’t want him to see me that upset.... I left him behind so he wouldn’t see his big brother break down.... Who am I kidding? I’m a worthless older brother.... I failed to take care of him, I failed to protect him, and now, I can’t even find him....

A gust blew a bevy of snowflakes into Sans’ face. He shut his eyes to shield them, then his eyes shot wide open and a chill not caused by the weather ran up his spine.

Wh-what if...I can’t find him...because he’s already dusted...?

Hot tears fell down his frozen face. He shook his head fiercely.

No! No, I will find him! He’s here somewhere, I just need to keep looking! I won’t let anything like that happen to him! Ever!

A dark thought popped into his mind. Even though you let him wander off alone.

He yelled back at the thought in his mind. I didn’t mean to! I thought he’d stay! I didn’t want him to see me like that! I didn’t want him to see his brother being weak! I’m supposed be his big, strong brother, not the useless, weak skeleton that I really am! He looks up to me all the time, and all I ever do is let him down....

Sans shut his eyes tight and gnashed his teeth in frustration at himself. Then he opened his eyes, narrowing them, and pushed himself forward, determined that he wouldn’t fail Papyrus this time.

 -

 Sans’ eyes were burning from eyestrain, exhaustion, and the wind. His body ached immensely from pushing himself so hard. Still, he refused to give up.

He passed yet another snow-encrusted stone formation and panned the area, as he’d done a million times. Something caught his eye, and he froze.

Off in the distance, Sans saw a figure. It was his mother. She was far away, but he was positive it was her. She was still in her Royal Guard armor.

“M-Mommy...?” he whispered hoarsely.

Even at that distance, Sans could see her smiling at him. Then she turned, her red cape blowing in the wind, and she disappeared.

Sans rubbed his sore eyes, then blinked back the tears that started to fall. He shut his eyes tight, livid at the exhaustion for playing such a cruel trick on his eyes. Of course that wasn’t her, Sans had watched her die. Sans had watched her dust off....

The mirage had angered and saddened him. He rubbed his eyes again in an effort to get them to focus back on reality. He opened them, looked out at where he had seen her, and groaned. He rubbed his eyes harder because he was still seeing the hallucination. He was clearly losing his sanity at this point.

He opened his eyes once more, blinking away the blurriness. He could still see her red cape in the distance. He stared, watching it flap in the wind.

Then it hit him. That wasn’t his mother’s red cape.

“Papyrus...!” he gasped.

With newfound energy, he rushed as fast as he could through the thick snow and his physical exhaustion. He kept the red cloth squarely in his sights.

As he neared his brother, he saw that Papyrus was lying on his side, unconscious and almost entirely covered by snow. The only movement came from the end of his scarf, caught in the wind.

Sans reached him, skidding in the snow on his knees. “Papyrus...!”

He rolled his little brother over, brushing the snow off him urgently. His cheekbones were blue.

Sans held his brother’s tiny head up as he wiped snow off his face and tried to rouse him, his voice still hoarse. “Papyrus.... Papyrus, wake up....”

He was unresponsive.

“Please, Pap...,” his brother begged, tears falling. “Please wake up....”

His little brother remained motionless.

Sans tearfully lowered his ear to Papyrus’ mouth. His breathing was weak and shallow.

Sans put his hand on his brother’s chest and watched the glow of his soul under his hand, whimpering when he saw that the glow was faint.

31 HP/100 HP.

Sans stifled a sob at the sight of how much HP his brother had lost. He still had his hand on his brother’s tiny chest and was about to remove it when he sensed it.

30 HP/100 HP.

Sans’ eyes grew wide in fear. Papyrus was still losing HP. If he didn’t get him back to the shelter soon, he would die.

Fighting down his panic, he lay Papyrus’ head down gently on the snow and practically tore his own jacket off. He laid it down and picked up Papyrus’ pitiful, frozen body and put him on the jacket and wrapped him in it. He picked his brother up, cradling him in his arms, and turned around to make his way back to the shelter.

Sans looked around frantically. The panic he had been fighting started to seep in quickly. He had no idea what direction the shelter was in. There was no sign of the cavern with its purple and violet walls to guide him. He had been searching aimlessly for so long, he wasn’t even sure which direction he was facing.

He looked at the unconscious form of his brother in his arms and was gripped with anxiety. Papyrus was going to die soon. Sans wasn’t going to make it to the shelter in time.

Sans shut his eyes tight, then opened and narrowed them, fighting off the fear. He decided to walk back the way he had just come and hoped the cavern would come into view to guide him back. He had no idea if he was headed in the right direction or not, but he needed to move.

With each aching step, he felt more and more worried that he was too far away and Papyrus was too badly injured. He shut his eyes tight, trying to motivate himself to keep going, knowing that he had to try to get his brother back to the shelter as soon as possible.

He tried to remember the way back, wishing desperately that they were there now and not so far away. He pictured where the shelter was located, trying to recall any other landmarks he could look for, when he heard a sudden, strange fwoosh-ing sound accompanied by a sharp blast of wind. His eyes snapped open and he gasped, afraid that something bad was happening.

He froze, paralyzed. His eyes grew wide and his mouth fell open.

The shelter was right in front of them. He blinked, then looked around. Off in the distance was the cavern, the grouping of boulders was around them, and the shelter was where it had stood since the day he and his brother made it.

Had he travelled in circles so many times that he ended up back here? But there was no way the shelter had been in front of him when he turned around after picking up Papyrus. He remembered looking out into nothingness. He had even searched for the cavern that was so clearly in view now.

He looked down at Papyrus, still motionless, wrapped up pitifully in his jacket. How they had gotten there didn’t matter right now. Papyrus needed help immediately.

Sans ran to the opening, realizing that he hadn’t even sealed it in his panic to find his brother. He awkwardly crawled in the opening, holding his limp brother with one arm as he pulled himself through on his knees and free elbow.

The moment he got into the shelter, he rushed to the bed. He tossed the foraged items onto the floor and pushed the scraps of fabric away. He gently laid his unconscious brother on the bed, unwrapped him from his jacket, and took off his frozen clothes, putting them on the floor by the bedside. He wrapped his brother tightly in scraps of fabric until only his face was exposed.

Sans leaned over Papyrus, putting his ear to his brother’s mouth again. His breathing was feeble and barely audible. He checked his brother’s HP again, the glow from his soul dimmer than before.

27 HP/100 HP.

Sans grabbed his frozen jacket, his brother’s frigid clothes, and pieces of fabric he hadn’t wrapped his brother in, and rushed to the fire room. He created a few bones out of the boulders and quickly hung the clothes and fabric to warm them by the fire.

He then went to the pile of wood he had sorted earlier that morning. He hadn’t moved them from the middle of the floor yet since he abandoned the task suddenly to search for their father. He grabbed several pieces of the wood that were only good for burning and returned to the fire room. He shoved the wood in the fire basin to fuel the dwindling magical flame.

When he saw the fire perk up, he went back to the main room and quickly crawled through the opening to the entrance, sealing it up to keep the cold out and the heat in. He crawled back in and picked up the haversack he had tossed on the floor earlier. He quickly stuffed it with the foraged items to fill it, and once everything from the floor was placed in the bag, he gently lifted Papyrus’ head and slid the haversack under.

Sans knelt down on the snow at the side of the bed. He stroked Papyrus’ head gently as he rested his head on his other arm. He needed to wait a few minutes for the fabric to warm, so he spent the time just being near his brother. His tiny skull was still so cold to the touch. Tears of concern trickled down Sans’ face.

After a while, Sans went back into the fire room. The flame was burning strongly now, spreading to the bits of wood around it. He checked the clothes, but they hadn’t warmed up enough, although the scraps of fabric were warm enough to remove.

He brought them in the other room and knelt against the bed. Carefully, he removed the fabric from his brother and wrapped him in the warmed scraps. He folded up one of the smaller pieces and put it to the side. He gently laid Papyrus back on the haversack, tucking in a warm bit of fabric behind his head. Then Sans took the folded-up fabric and put it on his brother’s forehead.

Sans got up, his bones still aching horribly, and went to the fire room to put the fabric he had removed from Papyrus on the bones to warm. He needed to keep applying warmth to Papyrus, so he had to create a rotation of warming fabric. He double checked the clothes, wanting to get him dressed back into his shirt and pants desperately, but they were still too cold and wet.

Sans entered the main room and nearly stumbled when his knees buckled. He caught himself before he fell and checked his own HP briefly.

34 HP/1 HP.

The elements and exhaustion had cost him some health, but he stifled a sob when he realized that he now had more HP than his brother did, despite his new, lower HP max.

Sans couldn’t do anything to increase his HP until he slept, but he had no intentions of sleeping anytime soon. He needed to stop the pain in his body, however, so he could take care of Papyrus. Sans went over to the pantry shelf, tore off a piece from a stale half-loaf of bread, and shoved it in his mouth. He didn’t even taste the food before swallowing it, but he felt the pain subsiding.

He returned to Papyrus’ side, kneeling beside the bed, and took the warm cloth from his brother’s forehead and pressed it gently on each frozen, blue cheek.

Soon the fabric had cooled down, so Sans got up and went to the warming racks. The clothes were now sufficiently warm, so he grabbed them and the fabric. He carefully unwrapped Papyrus, then dressed his limp form into his clothes. He wrapped him again in warm fabric and gently laid him back down. He folded up the red cloth to make an extra warm pillow, then lifted his brother’s head to place the cloth under it. Sans then put his warmed jacket over him like a blanket.

When he went to put fabric in the fire room, he looked through the broken pottery pieces on the shelf. He chose the most rounded, bowl-like piece and took it with him. After hanging the fabric, he took a handful of snow and placed it in the broken pottery. It was extremely shallow, but at least it would hold some liquid. He sat it on the edge of the fire basin to melt and heat up, then returned to Papyrus’ side to continue watching and waiting.

 -

 Sans caught himself nodding off several times. He slapped himself in the face to wake himself up. He refused to sleep, but his body was severely protesting.

He looked at his brother sadly. He still hadn’t moved, but his HP was dropping at a slower rate. Sans checked it once again.

22 HP/100 HP.

Papyrus had lost nearly a fifth of his health, and it was all Sans’ fault. His brother was dying because he hadn’t been watching him.

Sans wiped his eyes on his sleeves and sat on the floor by his brother’s side, his back against the bone bed, feeling completely defeated. His brother might not survive the night.

Sans shut his eyes and sighed heavily, tears falling onto his lap.

I should take him to the monsters in the cavern. They can heal him, take better care of him than I can.

He gripped the sides of his legs and gnashed his teeth.

I know they will take him from me, and I will never see him again.... but at least he will live....

Sans buried his face in his hands and wept bitterly, unable to hold back anymore. The idea of being separated from his brother crushed his soul worse than the barrier had done, but he was willing to do anything to save Papyrus. His loud cries filled the shelter.

“...Sas....”

Sans jerked his head up immediately, silencing himself with a gasp. He rose to his knees and quickly turned around, leaning towards Papyrus urgently.

It was subtle, but the tiny skeleton was stirring. He moved his head weakly, side to side, as if caught in a nightmare.

“...Sas....”

His voice was extremely weak and barely audible.

Sans stroked his brother’s head gently, putting his other arm around him in a half-embrace. He leaned his face close to his brother’s ear, his forehead resting against the side of Papyrus’ skull.

“I’m here, Pap,” Sans whispered back softly, his voice cracking with emotion. “I’m here....”

Hearing his brother’s soothing voice, Papyrus settled down, a soft sigh emitting from his tiny lungs. Then he was motionless again.

Sans nuzzled against the side of his brother’s face as tears fell from his eyes. He continued whispering in his brother’s ear softly.

“I’m here, Papyrus.... I’m right here with you.... I’m not going anywhere....”

 -

 Sans wrapped Papyrus in warmed fabrics several more times, checking the progress of the melting snow in the broken pottery each time. At last it had fully melted and was warmed up enough to give to Papyrus.

He switched the cooled fabrics with the warm ones, hung them on the racks, then carefully picked up the semi-hot water and—making sure to walk slowly enough to not spill a drop—brought it to his brother. He set it on the bed, then knelt down.

Sans tipped Papyrus’ head back, gently opened his mouth, and poured a few drops of water in. Papyrus instinctually swallowed in his unconscious state, then Sans gave him more. The water was only slightly hot, safe enough for the little skeleton.

“There you go,” he whispered. “That will warm your insides.”

Sans helped him drink the remainder of the water slowly, a few drops at a time. Then he took the empty pottery, filled it with more snow, and set it on the fire basin again.

He returned to his brother’s side and checked his HP again. The white glow sputtered slightly, making Sans wince with concern.

20 HP/100 HP.

If there was any good news, it was that the rate his HP was dropping had slowed even more. But it was still too low, still falling, and without being able to feed him any food, there was no way to raise Papyrus’ HP. Sans hoped with all his soul that his little brother would wake up soon, before it was too late.

 -

 Sans returned with more warmed up fabrics and knelt down to change Papyrus’ coverings. He leaned in to start unwrapping and froze.

Papyrus was shivering terribly. His tiny little body tremored, his teeth chattered, and soft whimpers emitted from his throat. Sans checked his forehead for a fever, but his skull was still cold. His cheekbones were no longer blue, however.

Sans quickly started unwrapping the cooled-off fabrics and wrapped him in the warm ones. He rushed to put the fabrics on the warming rack, then returned to Papyrus. He checked his HP fearfully.

17 HP/100 HP.

The warmed fabrics seemed to have no effect on his shivering. Sans could only kneel by his side, stroking his brother’s skull gently.

“Pap...,” he whispered pleadingly. “Pap, please wake up.... Don’t leave me, Pap, please don’t leave me.... Fight it, Pap, I know you can fight this....”

For a moment, Sans thought he felt his brother stirring again, but it must have been the shivering throughout his tiny body. He heard his brother whimper louder.

“It’s ok, Papyrus.... I’m here.... Shh, shh, shh.... I’m here, with you....”

As Sans continued stroking his brother’s forehead, he definitely felt him move. Then Papyrus’ eyes opened slightly.

“...Sas....”

His little voice came out in a weakened whisper.

“Papyrus...?” Sans gasped, holding Papyrus’ face in his hands.

Papyrus blinked slowly, opening his mouth feebly. “...Sas....”

Sans embraced his brother, tears of joy spilling down his eyes. He leaned back to face him.

“I’m going to get you something to eat,” he whispered, his voice quavering. “You need to get your health back.”

Sans nearly jumped across the room to get to the pantry. He scanned the food for something soft, and grabbed one of the bananas. He went into the fire room and grabbed the heated water, desperately trying not to spill it with his trembling hand.

He returned to the bedside, Papyrus laying there, shivering, but still conscious. His tiny eyes were barely open.

Sans lifted the water to Papyrus’ mouth and tilted it slightly. The little skeleton’s teeth chattered against the broken pottery as he gratefully sipped the warm water. After a few small gulps, Sans put the water down and started peeling the banana.

“This will help your pain, Pap,” Sans explained, breaking a tiny bit off urgently. “You’ll feel so much better after you eat.”

And so will I, he thought to himself.

He held the bit of banana to his brother’s mouth. Papyrus opened his mouth feebly, and Sans put the piece in. He chewed slowly while Sans broke off another piece. As Papyrus ate through half the banana, his shivering decreased. He was still extremely weak, but at least he was finally awake. His eyes opened a bit more and he looked up pitifully at Sans, who helped him wash down the banana with more warm water.

Sans then checked his HP. He grinned when he saw that the glow from Papyrus’ soul was brighter.

32 HP/100 HP.

Sans sighed deeply with relief. He would give Papyrus the rest of the banana soon, but he was no longer in danger. He still had a ways to go before he was fully healed, but Papyrus was going to be ok.

Sans put more snow on the fire basin to heat up, then brought the warmed fabrics to switch out his wrappings. After he changed the fabrics over, Papyrus snuggled into the warmth weakly.

Sans hung the fabrics up to warm, then knelt at Papyrus’ side. He stroked his head gently, as he had done throughout the night, and stifled a grateful sob when he felt Papyrus lean into the strokes after being unresponsive for so long.

“Papyrus,” Sans whispered pleadingly. “Please don’t ever leave me like that again. I was so, so worried about you. Why did you go off without me?”

Papyrus’s eyes were sad as he answered weakly, his breathing still feeble. “...Pa...fin...Dada....”

Sans froze, stunned. “Y-you went to find Daddy? By yourself? Wh-why?!”

“...Make...Sas...happy....”

A chill ran up Sans’ spine and he felt sick to his stomach. Papyrus had seen him upset all day after all. He was there when his mood worsened after breakfast. He was next to him in the tunnel when he hit the walls in anger and frustration. Sans had tried to distance himself from his brother so he didn’t see his suffering, but Papyrus had seen it anyway. And he almost lost his life trying to help ease his older brother’s pain.

His brother suffered horrifically and nearly died because of him.

Tears of guilt and sorrow fell from Sans’ eyes. “Pap...I-I’m so sorry....”

He got up, sat on the bed, and picked up his brother, the fabric pieces falling off. He embraced Papyrus, rocking back and forth as he wept, repeating that he was sorry over and over.

Papyrus clutched his older brother weakly, his own tears from having failed his mission to help Sans feel better tumbling down his face.

Sans sat Papyrus in his lap and looked him in the eyes, tearfully.

“Papyrus, I’m sorry you saw me sad, angry, and hurt today.... I didn’t mean to make you upset or feel like you had to fix it.... I never meant for you to see me like that....”

The little skeleton’s lip quivered as his tears continued to fall.

“But nothing hurt me worse than when I couldn’t find you....”

Papyrus’ eyes grew wide. He wanted to help his brother, not hurt him.

“I thought I’d never find you out there. And when I did find you, I th—” he stifled a sob. “I th-thought you were going to die. I thought I was going to lose you forever.”

Papyrus’ face fell, tears spilling. He felt terrible about worrying his brother.

“But do you know what made me happy tonight?”

Papyrus looked up suddenly, shaking his head slowly in answer.

Sans smiled at his little brother through his tears. “When you wouldn’t wake up, and when your HP was falling fast, you kept hanging on. You kept fighting it. And you woke up and came back to me. You came back to me, Papyrus. And I was so very happy.”

Sans leaned his head down, resting his forehead against Papyrus’ as he looked him in the eyes.

“You don’t need to find Daddy to make me happy. You, Papyrus...you always make me happy. As long as you’re with me, I will always be happy. I might not always show it like I did today...but, Papyrus, please believe me. I am so much happier because you are with me.”

Papyrus smiled sadly, then hugged his brother with what little strength he had.

Sans picked him up and embraced him tightly again, nuzzling the side of his face.

“I love you so, so much, Papyrus.”

The little skeleton whispered weakly into his brother’s ear. “...Pa love Sas, too....”

#undertale #undertale fanfic #undertale fanfiction #sans #papyrus #sans and papyrus #babybones #skelebros #TBMP #TwoBrothersManyPaths

[latin-dr-robotnik]

What about the best game soundtracks of the 2010s?

So, I’ve been on and off thinking about and drafting this post for most of the year, and it’s finally time for me to unveil it to the world: we are now very close to the end of the year and the end of the 2010s, and while Sonic soundtracks have mostly kept their god-like status, I for sure played and listened to a lot more games than just Sonic. Because of that, I’m kinda in the mood to remember and revisit some of the games with the best soundtracks out there. 

Disclaimer: remember this is merely a personal list, where I take into consideration the game soundtracks that influenced me the most due to overall quality or hype surrounding them. I’m aware of the limitations of the giant task of listing 10 years of VGM, so this post is also an open invitation to all sorts of discussions for the myriad of games I’m surely gonna miss, and maybe even a door into other fandoms I used to take part or still am. If you have a game or a particular track you think it deserves the spotlight, then keep the discussion going!

Also: I’m only listing games with fully original soundtracks, but at the same making an exception for commercial songs created with a particular game in mind, released and then featured in said game (for example, A7X’s stuff for the Black Ops series).

I’m going to include Sonic games just for the sake of highlighting specific tracks. So, what are your favorite soundtracks of the 2010s? Here are some of the best for me:

Non Sonic games (in no particular order):

PAYDAY 2 (2013) - Highlights:

Hot Pursuit;

Backstab;

Break the Rules.

Mega Man 11 (2018) - Highlights:

Fuse Man;

Block Man;

Dr. Wily’s Gear Fortress.

Sunset Overdrive (2014) - Highlights: 

Total Annihilation;

I’m On The Run; 

I Don’t Want Your Company.

Ryu Ga Gotoku Zero (Yakuza 0) (2015) - Highlights: 

Judgement; 

Heart Break Mermaid; 

Pledge of Demon; 

Queen of the Passion; 

I’m Gonna Make Her Mine; 

Koi No Disco Queen. (sorry i got carried away for a while ‘cause this game and its ost are both so great)

Furi (2016) - Highlights: 

My Only Chance; 

6:24; 

Wisdom of Rage.

Super Mario Odyssey (2017) - Highlights: 

Steam Gardens; 

Jump Up, Super Star!; 

Break Free (Lead the Way). (I mean, Mario finally has not one but TWO proper vocal tracks, one of them being Sonic-esque as fuck, and in a mainline game no less? WHAT TIMELINE ARE WE EVEN LIVING IN?)

Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) - Highlights: 

115; 

Abracadavre (Ascension DLC 1 was such a biiig hyyype back in 2011, I clearly remember those days); 

Not Ready to Die. (featured in DLC 2, Call of the Dead, using the classic ‘Damned’ Zombies menu melody)

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (2013) - Highlights: 

I’m My Own Master Now; 

It Has To Be This Way; 

The Stains Of Time. (also the first two tracks were featured in LakeFeperd’s fangame Sonic Chrono Adventure, lol)

Undertale (2015) - Highlights: 

This game needs no highlights, we all know it. But if you insist... 

Well, here’s where I put the most influential song of the entire decade; 

Ruins; 

It’s Raining Somewhere Else.

Freedom Planet (2014) - Highlights:

Main Theme;

Relic Maze 2;

Thermal Base 1;

Final Boss 2.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) - Highlights: 

Hyrule Castle (I’d say both versions, but the marching steps playing outside are badasssss); 

Breath of the Wild (greatest main theme of all decade, no doubts); 

Kass’ Theme (man, I hate that Nintendo blocked the full version of that song on YouTube).

Shovel Knight (2014) - Highlights: 

In the Halls of the Usurper (Pridemoor Keep); 

Tango of the Troupple King (what a fun highlight from Plague of Shadows); 

A Cargo of Fineries (Flying Machine); 

Hitting Close to Home.

Celeste (2018) - Highlights: 

Resurrections; 

Confronting Myself; 

Mirror Temple (Mirror Magic Mix); 

Golden Ridge (Golden Feather Mix); 

Farewell.

Katana ZERO (2019) - Highlights: 

You Will Never Know; 

Sneaky Driver; 

Monster.

Cuphead (2017) - Highlights: 

Floral Fury; 

Dramatic Fanatic; 

Railroad Wrath; 

High Sea Hi-Jinx.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015) - Highlights: 

The Wolven Storm; 

Hunt or be Hunted; 

Land of a Thousand Fables.

Spark the Electric Jester (2017) - Highlights: 

Lunar Bass (Stage 10); 

Flower Mountain Canyon (Stage 2); 

Sunset Heights (Stage 6) (no, not the one from Sonic Forces); 

Megaraph Fortress (Stage 16); 

Special Boss (a.k.a. the obvious Crush 40-esque song for a Sonic-esque game)

The Messenger (2018) - Highlights: 

A Melody To Break the Curse; 

Civilization in the Sky; 

Hills of Destiny.

Spark the Electric Jester 2 (2019) - Highlights: 

Floresta Blanca; 

Castela Blanca (a.k.a. Sunset Hang Castle); 

Technoria City; 

Titanic Tower. (no, not the one from Sonic BTS, same composer tho)

Sonic games (in chronological order):

Sonic Colors (2010) - Highlights: 

Planet Wisp Act 2; 

Aquarium Park Act 1; 

Vs. Orcan & Skullian; 

Nega Wisp Armor (Phase 2); 

Speak With Your Heart.

Sonic Generations (2011) - Highlights: 

Crisis City (Modern); 

Stardust Speedway Bad Future US; 

Mission (3D Blast Saturn Theme); 

City Escape (Classic).

Sonic 4: Episode 2 (2012) - Highlights: 

Metal Sonic Theme; 

Sylvania Castle Act 3; 

Sky Fortress Act 2.

Sonic Lost World (2013) - Highlights: 

Midnight Owl; 

Snowball Waltz; 

Dragon Dance; 

Juice Archipelago. (a.k.a. Delfino Plaza 2013)

Sonic Runners (2015) - Highlights: 

The entire game OST---I mean, 

Fly Away; 

Magical Snow Day (perfect timing, huh?); 

End of the Summer.

Sonic Mania (2017) - Highlights: 

Stardust Speedway Act 1; 

Egg Reverie; 

Mirage Saloon Act 2; 

Press Garden Act 2.

Sonic Forces (2017) - Highlights: 

Infinite; 

Moonlight Battlefield (Aqua Road); 

Red Gate Bridge; 

Network Terminal (Interior); 

Virtual Reality (Supporting Me Remix); 

Fading World (Imperial Tower).

Team Sonic Racing (2019) - Highlights: 

Ice Mountain; 

Green Light Ride (Tyler Smyth Remix); 

Bingo Party; 

Haunted Castle; 

Sky Road.

Honorable mentions:

Sonic Before the Sequel (2011/12) - Highlights: 

Hilltop Heights Act 1; 

Titanic Tower Act 2; 

Metro Madness Act 1; 

Butt Funk (Rocky Ride Act 2).

Sonic After the Sequel (2013) - Highlights: 

The Adventure Continues (Horizon Heights Act 1); 

Smokey Bear Says (Foliage Furnace Act 2); 

Stellar Lights (Technology Tree Act 2); 

Wolf Rayet (Technology Tree Boss); 

Ghosts With Guitars (Moon Mansion Act 2); 

Serious Influence (Redhot Ride Act 1); 

Neon Paradise (ATS Version) (Parhelion Peak Act 2); 

Red Moon (Storm Station Act 3); 

Mach Σ (Dream Dance Act 1).

#gaming #sonic the hedgehog #video game music #sonic music #to be honest if i had to choose one non sonic game to be ost of the decade... #uhhh i don't know it would be pretty hard #payday 2 is a strong contender #had banger after banger between 2013 and 2016 #then i stopped playing it so i don't know current affairs #sunset overdrive could be another contender #that game blew my socks off ever since 2014 i believe #love me some good punk rock fun times #it's such an underrated game #recent games like katana celeste and messenger all have amazing osts #but i think they're still a little fresh on my mind to pass them up as games of the decade #another game from this decade that i didn't mention but i'm playing is mafia 3 #it's a meh game but fuck me it has some great blues tracks #well time to wrap this post up

[bukbot]

Demons I Hope I Never See An Oatmeal Raisin Cookie For -5 Dollars, Thats Right, Ill Pay You 5 Dollars

STOP THIS STOP HOLY GREAT EG NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO NO WAY OK NO NOOO NO NO NOOOOOOO NO WAY I LIKE IT AND I HIT THE FLOOR NEXT THING YOU KNOW ANY OTHER KIND OF FEELIN', A TOUCH OF GEORGIA SLIDE, A SONG OF PURE REVIVAL AND A PRICE ONE THING I'VE LEARNED AFTER 21 YEARS YOU NEVER KNOW IF YOU DON’T GLOW River and captain rogers. Cats, satyrs, frogs, offspring, and support cease when the mirage in stark, objective, and ineluctable reality. Undertale… >:3c.

[realitymirage]

Everyone ready...?

...Smile for the camera!

The ruins replacement cast for UNDERSWAP!

Here we have Chara the human, TemTem the apathetic plushie, Asgore the caretaker, and Happstablook, the spectral entertainer!

#undertale #undertale au #undertale: reality mirage #sneak peak #underswap chara #underswap asgore #underswap temmie #underswap mettaton #underswap happstablook

[realitymirage]

Testing comic (Test-Tale) is completed!!!

Great news everyone!!! My first sprite comic, correctly named Test-Tale, is finally done!!

I created it so I could show my skills, so that people would be interested and have trust in me!

While it's rather short, it has some very important information about UNDERTALE: Reality Mirage, along with UNDERSWAP, such as the new name of UNDERSWAP, which is...

UNDERSWAP: A NEW DAWN!

Yup, that's right! I finally came up with a title for UNDERSWAP! Took me long enough, haha!

Anyways, the reasoning behind the name is that UNDERSWAP is a 'new dawn' in Reality Mirage Chara, Frisk, and Gaster's lives, along with the characters living within the UNDERSWAP universe. Plus, it sounds peaceful!

Anyways, next section!

TEST-TALE

With Test-Tale being completed, that means the production of UNDERSWAP: A NEW DAWN's sprite comic can finally happen! All I need to do is get sprite work done for the Ruins cast, start actually getting the rooms all made, then production can be on it's way!

As for Test-Tale itself, the only real roles I had set up are;

The Unused Human as Frisk.

Ruins Dummy Ghost as Chara.

Mad Dummy as Flowey + Asriel.

Undyne as Toriel.

Alphys as Asgore.

There's no lore set up either, sadly. It was just a test WORLD, after all!

Also there are a few formatting errors and spelling errors... Text it REALLY hard to use in Paint.Net, but I hope the quality is still good despite this!

Closing Remarks

Well... That's it! I have nothing more to say, other than thank you all so much!!! I can't wait for you all to see what I'm going to make, and I hope you guys are excited as well!!

Now I hate to sound like I'm begging and all here, but... Please be sure to reblog my posts and follow this blog! It helps to get more people to see UNDERTALE: Reality Mirage and helps with my motivation as well!

And now, without further ado...

Fair warning, the links in the Imgur folder are a little messed up. Sadly, there is nothing I can do about that.

I hope you all have an amazing rest of your day, afternoon, or night! and, don't forget...

STAY DETERMINED!

#undertale #undertale au #undertale: reality mirage #underswap #info #progress update #update #announcement #UNDERSWAP: A NEW DAWN #ruins dummy #mad mew mew #Unused Human #undyne #frisk #chara #wd gaster #gaster #undertale sprite comic #sprite comic #Test-Tale #wow thats a lot of tags

[realitymirage]

Introducing... TemTem!

y0I ther3, HooMan!!!1!1!! i'M... TemTem!!!!!!11!!!

Non-gibberish translation;

Yoi there, hooman!!!!!! I'm... TemTem!!!!!!!!!

TemTem, the Flowey replacement for UNDERSWAP! They're a little plushy with a mysterious origin... But they're cute, so who cares, right?

#undertale #undertale au #undertale: reality mirage #underswap #underswap flowey replacement #underswap temmie #underswap temtem #ruins cast

[realitymirage]

Heya there!

Hello and welcome to Undertale: Reality Mirage! I'm happy you found this place... And I sure hope you enjoy your stay!

Now, I'm sure you're veeeeery confused... But not to worry! Your good friend Cicada will help you!

Let's start with the basics...

What is Undertale: Reality Mirage?

Undertale: Reality Mirage is a silly little AU of mine that follows one basic rule...

Every single Undertale AU is created by Frisk writing fanfiction!

Yup, you read that right! Our favorite little ambassador is now a pre-teen and does what most pre-teens do, writing fanfiction of their favorite people, of course! And since their favorite people are the monsters they saved… That becomes the subject of their writing!

And, with the assistance of their beta reader Chara and account manager Gaster, the three enjoy watching Frisk’s fanfiction play out through the use of Gaster’s newest creation, the ‘World Builder’! It takes the plot of Frisk’s stories and turns them into movies, so to speak.

Jokes aside, Undertale: Reality Mirage is a silly idea I came up with one day, the idea in mind is that Frisk writes fanfiction with Chara and Gaster, and they watch it like a movie. 

There would be multiple ‘worlds’ for them to ‘watch’, each being my own take on a popular Undertale AU, such as Underswap, Storyshift, etc.

I plan on each ‘world’ to be a sprite comic, with the events leading up to and ending being in standard writing form.

What is the first ‘world’?

The first ‘world’ that I am working on is my take on Underswap. I do not have a name for it yet other than Underswap, sadly, but I do plan on updating the name soon!

So far, I’m still in the process of outlining the lore and characters and trust me, that is a lot of work to be done. However, I’m not giving up yet! I like to think I’m making good progress!

I will not be releasing anything relating to Underswap yet, as that is where most of the spoilers relating to this AU are. After all, you’re gonna find out everything about Undertale: Reality Mirage really quickly when it releases! I have no issues with sharing stuff like that.

Who is working on this?

So far, just me!

I’m Cicadawing! But you can call me just Cicada or Wispy, I don’t really mind!

I haven’t been in the Undertale fandom for long, but that doesn’t mean I’m not used to writing or making Undertale AUs! I’ve always been fascinated by the thought of taking characters people know and love and changing them around… Making them different in either easy-to-notice or hard-to-see changes.

My favorite Undertale AU is probably either Fellswap or Swapfell and the main AUs they’re from, like Underswap and Underfell! The vibes of them are just perfect…

My art skills are alright too, not the worst, but I wouldn’t call myself the best, you know? When I get enough art done, I’ll be sure to post previews! Anything to keep you all interested, haha!

My pronouns are he/him and I'm a minor, so please be wary of that!

I want to help!

Really? Already…? You haven’t seen anything… I haven’t even posted anything other than this so far!

Once again, jokes aside… I appreciate it, but as said before, not much is set in stone yet. I only have the basic concept of Underswap done… only Asgore’s character reference is fully complete!

In short, thank you for your enthusiasm, but I’m not accepting members of a team yet! Use that excitement you have to share this AU, that’ll help motivate me to keep going!

Oh, and… Sorry if this seems like I’m assuming people want to join. That’s not it, I just want to get all my question bases covered, so to speak!

Wait… Gaster?! Sans?! Papyrus?! Genocide AU?!?!?!?111

Haha… No. This isn’t a genocide AU at all.

In this AU, Gaster is a ghost that only Frisk and Chara can see. Frisk didn’t kill anyone during their journey since they did the pacifist route to achieve this ending.

And Sans, Papyrus, and all the other characters in Undertale aren’t really going to be present at all. After all, Undertale: Reality Mirage focuses on the friendship of Chara, Frisk, and Gaster, not anyone else.

That doesn’t mean you won’t be able to see your favorite characters, though. They might show up sometimes, but they aren’t going to be the main focus or anything.

But that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to see your favorite characters! After all, this is all about seeing the differences in characterization depending on what AU they’re from! 

I’m confused… What’s a ‘world’? Is Reality Mirage your take on Underswap…?

Apologies for the confusion! Allow me to clear some things up.

Reality Mirage is not my take on Underswap. However, they are related. 

Reality Mirage can be thought of as a folder of sorts. Inside the ‘folder’ are the ‘worlds’. My take on Underswap is one of them. It can be thought of as an AU within an AU.

I have a question that wasn’t answered here! What should I do?

I will leave the ask box open for questions! I will respond as soon as I can unless I consider those questions to be spoilers! Otherwise, count on your questions being answered!

#undertale #undertale au #chara #frisk #gaster #wd gaster #Undertale: Reality Mirage #info #faq #fanfic #...kinda

[realitymirage]

Howdy, everyone!

Greetings! It is I, Cicada, and I am here to share with you all a progress report, along with very important news...

UNDERSWAP: A NEW DAWN's first chapter is in development!!

Yes, that's right, UNDERSWAP: A NEW DAWN's first chapter is in the works, along with REALITY MIRAGE Chapter 1 as well!!

While I have no set release date, I have a break from school for a while, so I'm sure it won't be far away!

And, you know what this means...

We are looking for team members!!

That's right! After working and working, I have finally decided that now would be a good time to form a team! The link to the application form will be at the end.

We are currently looking for:

Pixel Artists.

General Artists.

Writers.

That's all, really! Since the project will be in write-up format, there really isn't much that we need... Plus, music will probably only be introduced if REALITY MIRAGE gets popular enough.

Art created:

Frisk, Chara, and Gaster's dialogue portraits!

Gaster looks a little silly, I know, haha...

NEW-DAWN!Chara and Frisk's portraits as well!

Frisk won't walk much, obviously, but I thought it would be nice to make their sprite as well!

Well, that's all!

I hope you all have an amazing rest of your day, afternoon, or night! and, don't forget...

STAY DETERMINED!

Application Form: https://forms.gle/5RJCuBNoyUj2HvFv9

#undertale #undertale au #undertale: reality mirage #underswap #info #progress update #team application #application form #write-up #frisk #chara #gaster #underswap: a new dawn

[realitymirage]

Update on progress - Shifting my focus

Hello everyone! Just wanted to make a brief update on my work on this AU.

First off, as said by the title, I am now shifting my focus from Undertale: Reality Mirage to UNDERSWAP!

To elaborate, work for this AU will now be about UNDERSWAP specifically, as I want to lower the chances of me abandoning this project as much as possible.

Despite this, I know there may be some questions about Undertale: Reality Mirage specifically. If so I will answer them at all times, so ask away if you have any!

Now for information about UNDERSWAP...

It's going great! Asgore's character sheet is done fully, the history of the story if going well and I'm working on it frequently, and I have the first few characters and areas sketched out!

However, I only have front-facing sprites for Chara, the Flowey replacement, and Asgore done, not as much as I hoped I would have done but still good progress!

Each important character in the story has a few basic pieces of information about them listed, along with the areas present in this new UNDERGROUND. For characters thing like key personality traits and for areas the general aesthetic.

You know... I could just ask you to have faith in me, but you know what they say... 'Seeing is believing!'

Blacked-out text are spoilers. Have fun guessing!

Well, that's all I can share for now! Have an amazing rest of your day/afternoon/night!!

#undertale #undertale au #underswap chara #underswap frisk #underswap asgore #Undertale: Reality Mirage #info #sneak peak #have fun guessing! #underswap #progress update #includes some headcanons about frisk and chara #as in not exactly canon #lots of tags sorry