#neutral run undertale

[ultrabean]

JUDGEMENT

The last corridor is probably a pretty common subject in UT fan art but I decided to attempt it anyway because I wanted to test my lighting and perspective skills~

#undertale #undertale fanart #art #chara dreemurr #utdr #deltarune #undertale frisk #undertale art #undertale sans #sans #safeutdr #no mercy run #undertale genocide #undertale pacifist #pacifist run #neutral run undertale #papyrus ut #frisk dreemurr #sans the skeleton #last corridor #hotland art club

[optimistic-tree]

Opinion

People think Toriel would be like-a lot more torn up about her death, or the deaths of others than it seems like she would be?

I mean, it seems like a pretty reasonable assumption. Even more so if Frisk has completed a Pacifist Route, and shown that they can rise above any challenge, and be nice about it (unless you want to be rude while your sparing everyone, which she won’t hear about for a while anyway).

But if you kill her on a Neutral Route, she tells you that you are strong, to leave, to not let Asgore take your soul, and to be good. None of these seem particularly torn up about her death. She can’t be spared at a certain HP threshold, if you keep hitting her, she dies. She doesn’t surrender.

If you kill her when she’s sparing you, she just says that you are just like everyone else. Presumably a reference to her volutarry exile following her child’s death and the war on humans. Not extremely mad. And if she thinks that of everyone, why would she care for all those civilians, so much. Frisk is a child. Do they not have enough stacked against them, without barring them from killing those who would kill them?

If you spare her, she does not tell you to not kill others. If you kill more than eleven monsters, the only thing it changes, is that you interrupt her. I do not think that if you attack monsters or the dummy in front of her, she will do anything. She tells you not to fight the dummy, with the idea that you will remain there, safe and comfortable. You are going to the wider underground. Six of her children have died there.

She does say that she was protecting the others from you by keeping you there if you kill literally everyone in the underground, but that’s a pretty large amount of evil to deal with. Maybe in another context, she’d be a bit more forgiving.

So-maybe she’d swallow the revelation you killed people better than you think she would. Just a thought

#undertale #second person pronouns #frisk #genocide route #max LV route #no mercy route #death tw #ruins #neutral run undertale #neutral route #pacifist route #war tw #human-monster war #fallen humans #six souls

[agentravensong]

thinking about how the extra area added on to a pacifist run of undertale, the true lab, is about alphys's past mistakes. how it ends with the story reaffirming that, despite the pain she's caused, the thing that matters is that she has now made the choice to do the right thing. she's still worthy of her friends' love.

thinking about how undertale doesn't expect the player to get a pacifist ending for the first time. how it's more likely than not that the player will kill toriel the first time they battle her, how lots of players don't initially figure out how to end undyne's fight without killing her, etc. what it expects — not even expects, really, but hopes — is that the player, if they care enough, will use their canonically acknowledged power over time to make up for those mistakes.

no matter how many neutral runs a player has done before committing to the pacifist run, the thing that matters to the characters, to the story, is that you've chosen, now, to do the right thing.

compared to alphys, the player honestly gets off lightly, in that you're the only one (other than flowey) who really remembers any harm you might have caused. and any direct guilting the game could have done about it is long past at this point. instead, as undertale often does, it makes its point via parallels: alphys caused harm, and she knows it. she has committed to being better. in doing so, she has unlocked for herself a better ending to her story. and she deserves it. she's forgiven.

those structural narrative parallels are all over undertale, if you know where to look. and that's one of the things that makes it so fuckin' good.

#undertale #alphys #true lab #this inspired by a mutual's alphys posting #and a discord convo i had a couple weeks back about ut's stance on ''punishing'' the player vs the monsters for their actions #and thoughts i've had generally post a certain fangame with a color in its name about just how well ut is structured as a narrative #everyone rightfully praises toby fox's character writing but stuff like this i think flies under the radar a bit by comparison #and it deserves to be appreciated #there's obvious Lore reasons why the true lab is only visited in a pacifist run (what's revealed about chara and flowey) #but this is the other half of it: the message of alphys's story hits hardest on a paci route post neutral runs #toby fox is a good writer more often than not

[chocopink]

i played undertale yellow and i rly like starlo 💛

#undertale yellow #starlo #north star #uty #fan art #HELLO AGAIN IM STILL HERE #exams + ggj went well! #still wont be able to post regularly but i got to rest a bit :) #anyway uty was SO GOOD #i love it sm il doing a neutral run atm #wanna do a genocide run later but;;; im a little baby n i dont wanna kill my blorbos

[carlyraejepsans]

you gotta replay undertale. alternatively, you gotta watch a playthrough from time to time if you're in the fandom, and it's GOTTA be a livestream. the sense of scale just gets lost in recollection otherwise.

"sans is a hard boss" yeah no shit he is, he's sans. one thing is saying it. one thing is hearing a twitch streamer go "after beating undyne, i feel like i can deal with anything in this game", 5 hours into his run, 30 kills left in the CORE, and then you go check the time and there's 8 hours of gameplay left

#KICK HIS FUCKING ASSSSSS #undertale #sans #yeah it's pointcrow. i think this is my favourite blind playthrough of undertale of all time. aside from roamer's pacifist run #but that one was VERY spoiled. pcrow got all the naunces of the lore on his own AND played neutral first. whataguy

[wybienova]

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#wybs art #undertale yellow #undertale yellow spoilers #uty #ut yellow #ut yellow spoilers #uty spoilers #undertale yellow clover #uty clover #ut yellow clover #400 tags love that… idk what people use tho #ummmmm. poses cutely #i finished the neutral run and ran to do this bc it just. Got me #REALLY cool ending

[inky125]

Enjoying a nice cup of tea

Credits for the designs below the cut

(the @ are for their twitter accounts)

🩵 @britt_ninja

🧡 @UTBraveheart

💜 @mikerophxne

💙 @millyltn and ^

💚 @clownboo_Art

#I cannot stop thinking of Asgore and the previous humans #undertale #undertale yellow #clover uty #integrity undertale #patience soul undertale #kindness soul undertale #bravery soul undertale #justice soul undertale #asgore #fanart #uty spoilers #i guess?? it is inspired by the neutral run #my art inky125

[datflatpancake]

Tfw you can't cry because you have no eyes

#undertale yellow #undertale yellow clover #undertale yellow flowey #ut yellow #uty spoilers #undertale yellow neutral run #uty clover #uty flowey #eeey it's

[lumioleo]

Undertale yellow neutral run spoilers！

run！

#oh shoot scary flowey #undertale yellow #uty flowey #uty #clover #uty clover #undertale yellow clover #undertale yellow neutral run

[exar547]

was imagining what it must've been like on Chujin's last visit to the steamworks. oblivious last goodbye hugs seem to run in the Ketsukane family huh...

also!! was trying a somewhat different style with this, i simply cannot keep it consistent lmao

the pose in the art is heavily referenced off of this btw

(you might've actually seen a post i made a while ago about this actually. well i finally decided to draw it lol)

#exar artwork #undertale yellow #uty #ut yellow #undertale yellow spoilers #uty spoilers #axis 014 #axis uty #axis #uty axis #chujin ketsukane #chujin uty #chujin #uty chujin #fun fact i actually had the idea to draw them instead hugging as ghosts after axis dies in a neutral run #didn't feel like drawing a background tho soooooo #you can still interpret this as them hugging in the afterlife if you want to

[salty-an-disco]

Cold plays Undertale

#this is his fourth playthrough btw #first he got two neutral endings. then did pacifist. and now a no mercy run #his next order of business: repeatedly get a neutral ending to see all Flowey dialogue he can get #voice of the contrarian #slay the princess #voice of the cold #stp dark comedy #flowey the flower #undertale #stp voices #sal draws #sketches #also: the child’s name was Contra’s suggestion

[fushitism]

we call them

"undertale neutral endings!!! teehee! >_<"

but then they turn out to be arguably worse and far more chilling than the officially designated bad ending

like, ok, dont get me wrong, it's impressive there are so many variations in dialogue and scenarios

the sheer thought and care put into this game is staggering, i dont think anyone can ever discredit that regardless of ur stance on the game as a whole

but Also.

what. the. fuck.

the desolation...

the hoplessness

the utter bleakness of it all..........

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING NEUTRAL ABOUT ANY OF THIS?!?!?

and why do i feel like neutral endings have the rawest lines ever?

im completely floored by this one.

for these words to come out of ALPHYS, of alll people?!!! Absolute Cinema.

and the normal talk sprite being used here made it all the more horrifying and impactful, for me personally. holy shit!!1!1!1?

you should have, alphys, you really should have.

EUWHEUEH?1!2? no the fuck i WILL NOT be seeing ya, sans.

thanks for the offer though

haha! ohh, well ain't that just bone-chilling? [badum tss]......

no, seriously, im abt to shit myself STOP

alarming implications aside, sans just has the best quotes ever. sry abt ur friends but ure soo real, boneman!

and again, you will nawt be seeing me, sans. put down that gaster blaster

......... resetting at speeds surpassing that of Light.

and to see this on ur screen after choosing to kill flowey (neutral run)........

my shivers have been sufficiently timbered, oh my LORDD. dont just CASUALLY say that to me?1!1! THE FUCK U LOOKING SO CRAZY FOR1?1?!

#undertale #flowey undertale #flowey #sans #sans undertale #undertale sans #alphys #alphys undertale #undertale alphys #toby fox #neutral run #not so neutral methinks #i love this game can u tell

[robosuta]

Everytime I draw them I get gender euphoria

#undertale #deltarune #frisk #chara #kris #my art #i seriously love the human creatures #can you tell Kris' design is both chara and frisk's combined? I hope you do #if you had made it this far I'd like to introduce you to my three creatures #*slaps head of chara* this bad boy is morally neutral #end justify means type of people #mostly for good causes (or at least what they believe is good) #they are also the narrator #and by that I mean they float around frisk and give their unwarranted opinion on every single thing #frisk is also morally grey. #their first run wasn't pacifist #or their second (or third...) #they are terrible at fighting so going for the kill or fleeing were the easiest options #didn't spare undyne until their last route (sworn enemies to besties) #they are generally outgoing and flirty but they are too entitled to give monsters a shot #they take getting attacked very personal #it takes them a LOT of resets to change #from doing anything for themselves to doing *anything* for their friends #I think Chara and Frisk at some point agree to kill an asshole and give his soul to Asriel #they have an asriel fan club (Kris is the president) #their face puts people off guard (which ironic since it's covered) #but once you get to know them they are the most charming out of the three #they are a bit troubled (divorce leads children to terrible places) #they also hate how their love life is somehow a prominent topic among three of them #chara ships them with ralsei frisk ships them with berdly

[silverware-is-interesting]

very minor no mercy run spoilers(?) under the cut maybe a little au of sorts?? idk and it's a bit long

honestly, i was happy at the time there wasn't a guardener fight (because i found her fight in the pacifist run kinda difficult) but now that i think about it could be quite... sad? if you know wat i mean?? maybe despite Axis's warning, and, y'know how he looked, she still did what she was programmed to do, which is protect the flowers & stuff like that. plus, she'd probably have much more defense in the geno run, so you'd just LOAD her with bullets, and maybe the backups too, not too sure

anyways, sorry for the block of text, i just think she had a lot of potential (not trying to seem like i don't like uty, of course!)

but basically, Clover would just shoot her with a fuckton of bullets as she slowly died, and some of her systems crash one at a time (idk 'bout that last part though, i'm not really clever when it comes to coding and that kinda stuff)

might make more about this concept, might not, idk

#silverware's art #undertale yellow #undertale yellow guardener #uty guardener #uty #idk if i should tag this as a spoiler or not #i also have a couple headcanons about her in the pacifist ending. and her in general too #not many. but a couple #also also. i really like the lineart on one of the drawings of her on the first image #the top center. in specific #also i kinda think that the one with her slouching could be a spoiler for if you kill her in the neutral run #(or abort pacifist. maybe?) #but whatever. it's alright #also also also. why the fuck is that shitty comic i made blowing up??? it's not even that good?? #damn i say “also” a lot-

[atwas-gaming]

I'm curious... (also, spoilers)

After a character gets eliminated, the rest will have a turn.

#undertale yellow #pacifist run #neutral run #poll #i haven't done geno yet but i believe the bosses are a bit different so they didn't get included

[carlyraejepsans]

Yknow, you’re blog reminded me on how I need to watch a No Mercy playthrough because to this day, I’m not quite sure where [PLAYER NAME] ends and ‘Chara’ begins.

i think that's the point! there's a VERY blurry area where we begin, where our role within the story does, what chara is and what frisk does. an intentionally blurry one, at that. and i think no mercy is the one iteration of undertale's story that acts as the exception that makes the rule, neatly and irreparably dividing "us" from "chara".

it's no coincidence that we achieve it in the route where we stack up as much LV as is physically possible, a mechanic textually described as "distancing [you] from yourself".

#but yes you should watch a nm playthrough. watch a live one though you need to perceive the time Dragging out #i recommend pointcrow's #undertale #his VOD of his neutral + pacifist runs too #answered asks #chara #metanalysis