#reset angst

[carlyraejepsans]

hibiscia!!! Sorry if youve explained before but is there something specific about reset-remember fics that you hate? I don't really like them either but for me it's just because I feel like a lot of authors type sans in very ooc ways

They're completely antithetical to Sans' character arc for the sake of cheap and easy angst. The nature of his brand of cosmic horror isn't in reliving his life again and again, that's Flowey's. Sans knows OF the anomaly, knows that it's manipulating time and knows it's a threat to the entire universe, but he doesn't know how or why, because he doesn't remember.

And that's crucial! him being mostly in the dark in spite of the MANY warning signs about us... because it's in that doubt that he remains hopeful. YES we could potentially end the world... but what if we don't? yes we have unimaginable power over everyone else and we can bring back time, but what if we're just.... sad? he needs that gap in his knowledge so he can take a leap of faith across it, it's his entire character arc in the pacifist run. sans THINKS he's given up, he wants to have given up, he chose to do it because there's a comfort in that. in contenting yourself with good food and bad laughs. there's peace. but he hasn't given up, not really. on himself? maybe. but not in us.

there's no way to have that arc if he remembers resets.

#this is also why i don't like post pacifist sans angst where he worries about resets. unless there's like a Reason for frisk to reset #kinda like sam did in UG with the incident with the blasters #because ppl take his lines during the NM fight as a given without considering that... it's the fucking NM run? lol #he's talking about reaching the surface from the point of view of a sans who's only ever been antagonized by the anomaly #ie reaching the surface meant through asgore's plan being successful #pacifist achieves that in a scenario where he actively befriends and loves and cares about the anomaly. he trusts us!! #it would feel unfair to his friend if he were convinced they were going to shit on their happy ending. that's a really shitty thing to thin #it's actually sth i wanted to handle in dv. having a kid REALLY fucks with his paranoia. it's irrational but understandable #that doesn't stop him from feeling guilty towards frisk for worrying about it. or feeling worried at all #undertale #sans #answered asks #metanalysis

[cowboahs]

quotes that broke me starters

feel free to adjust pronouns / names as needed !

quotes taken from random sources or tiktok. i claim no ownership whatsoever.

❛   i’m supposed to be the one who protects you from monsters. i’m not supposed to be one.  ❜  

❛   if i could make a deal with god, and i’d get him to swap our places.  ❜  

❛  no one heard our screams for a long time.  ❜  

❛   i know so many last words. but i’ll never know hers.  ❜  

❛   there is a home for every departed thing.  ❜  

❛   it reminded me that i will never truly know you.  ❜  

❛   i also buried a part of myself alongside them.  ❜  

❛   after you died i could no longer hold a funeral. so my life became the funeral.  ❜  

❛   you don’t have to be awake to cry.  ❜  

❛   forgive me, for all the things i did. but mostly the things i didn’t do.  ❜  

❛   the human eye is the loneliest creation of all.  ❜  

❛   fairness is for happy people.  ❜  

❛   the things we lost will always be heavier than the things that stayed.  ❜  

❛   perhaps it is the greater grief, to remain on the earth when another is gone.  ❜  

❛   you stain the pages with yourself.  ❜  

❛   tears will not wash away the sorrow.  ❜  

❛   beautiful things grow a certain height and then they fall and fade off.  ❜  

❛    who in all these centuries has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?  ❜  

❛   i have scars on my hands from touching certain people  ❜  

❛   despite everything, i believe that people are really good at heart.  ❜  

❛   you tried to change, didn't you?  ❜

❛   you can’t make homes out of people. someone should have taught you that.  ❜  

❛   i hid my deepest feelings so well, i forgot where i placed them.  ❜  

❛   we have no scar to show for happiness. we learn so little from peace.  ❜  

❛   i didn't leave because i stopped loving you. i left because the longer i stayed, the less i loved myself.  ❜  

❛   at every moment in our life, we have one foot in a fairytale & the other in the abyss.  ❜  

❛   there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.  ❜  

❛   it's strange, i felt less lonely when i didn't know you.  ❜  

❛   things change, friends leave. life doesn't stop for anybody.  ❜  

❛   it takes a lifetime to die, and no time at all.  ❜  

❛   i am deathly afraid of almosts. of coming close to what i want and then falling just a little short.  ❜  

❛   i felt your absence.  ❜  

❛   what do we do now, now that we are happy?  ❜  

❛    you honestly thought anybody would love you? purely and truly love you?  ❜  

❛   don't stop looking. he deserves to know someone saw his end, that someone noticed him.  ❜  

❛    i can bear my pain so long as it has meaning.  ❜  

❛   i dont have a single friend - not one.  ❜  

❛   i've had more than enough pain in my life, what's a little more going to do?  ❜  

❛    it would have been you if i met you first.  ❜  

❛    i really thought he was going to be my forever.  ❜  

❛    maybe in the next life it would work.  ❜  

❛   in spite of everything, you're still you.  ❜  

❛   the dead have it easy.  ❜  

❛   there's an ocean of silence between us, and I'm drowning.    ❜  

❛   there have been countless times in my life when i thought i’d be better off dead.  ❜  

❛   what on earth... have i become?  ❜  

❛   don’t look at me! i don’t ... i don’t want you seeing me like this.  ❜  

❛   i wish i could’ve been like you.  ❜  

❛   your fate was sweeping you away, like a flood.  ❜  

❛   the future should know the mistakes we made.  ❜  

❛   of course you have. you feel guilt. you want redemption.  ❜  

❛   i'm here because you can't accept what you've done. it broke you.  ❜  

❛   even now, after all you've done, you can still go home.  lucky you . ❜  

❛   you're all that's left, and we can't live this lie forever.  ❜  

❛    prometheus gave us light, and warmth, and eternal damnation.  ❜  

❛   take a gamble that love exists, and do a loving act.  ❜  

❛    i know i ruined your life. i suffer for it every day.  ❜  

❛   don't let yourself get killed for... for pride. i’ve seen it kill too many folk.  ❜  

❛    you and me, we ain't decent... but those folk... they were.  ❜  

❛   we're more ghosts than people.  ❜  

❛   despite my best efforts to the contrary... it turns out i've won.  ❜  

❛   i gave you all i had ... i did.  ❜  

❛   this whole time, I've blamed myself for that decision.  ❜  

❛   do you think even the worst person can change...? That everybody can be a good person, if they just try? ❜  

❛   i don't want to break their hearts all over again. it's better if they never see me.  ❜  

❛   please leave me alone. i can't come back. i just ... can't, okay?  ❜  

❛   no matter the struggles or hardships you faced... you strived to do the right thing, you refused to hurt anyone. ❜  

❛    people like you don't ever want to be happy.  ❜  

❛   i don’t want to let go. i’m not ready to say goodbye yet.  ❜  

#rp meme #sentence starters #rp sentence starters #angst meme #angst rp meme #angst starters #angst sentence starters #honestly the undertale ones still hit hard even after only one play of the game when it came out #MISS ME with the resetting everything and taking peoples happy ending away from them

[raydfil]

why are there so many time loop au fics on ao3 lol ive never actually read any of them bc im not that interested but it does present some really good angst scene ideas

#heathers #veronica sawyer #heather chandler #chansaw #chansaw ANGST MWAHAHAHA #trapped in a loop with someone you love but always end up destroying only to reset over and over #heathers fanart

[cookkoo]

Drawtober 2023 day 2: Spider (lily)

Day1

#shumako #amamiya ren #niijima makoto #kurusu akira #drawtober #drawtober2023 #inktober #inktober2023 #This is Ren based on my very old au #you probably can find it on twitter if you look up for loopAU under my acct #not the most creative name I know #altho 70% of the actual story is probably in my private acct #long story short it's a loop reset setting but every time he comes back his body decay more #boi pretty much two steps away from death in this loop #did I told you I like angst #just dont ask me how many angsty AUs living rent free in my head #There really is no happy ending for us #is what I wanna add as the caption but I feel like ppl will get the wrong context even with the higanbana #asdfghj

[cyraen-ae]

Random Reset talk again, but I can't help but love the idea that the Dragonfable Timeline is quintessentially wrong. Like it's a functional timeline, and if you ignore the weekly world-ending threat, you can live in it just fine.. But there's always something missing, right below the surface, always this underlying feeling of loss, of something being misplaced, or, inversely, of events feeling familiar. Of meeting people you've already met. It's not strong enough for most people to notice, but it's there. Everyone feels it to a certain extent, at times, when things just... don't match up... but they ignore it, dismiss it as just feelings similar to anxiety or deja-vu.

I love the idea of the timeline being, at its core, wrong. An echo of a forgotten universe that's just functional enough for people to not be able to notice what they lost

#Dragonfable #Mechquest #Reset Talk #Note that I'm talking about the timeline #not the game #I love Dragonfable it's my favorite AE game alongside Mechquest #but I gotta angst

[fireopal-tash]

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#steven universe #steven universe fanart #reset spinel #su spinel #fireopal-tash #fanart #su fanart #su #digital fanart #spinel #digital drawing #spinel angst #past spinel #sad #hurt spinel #arte #art #artwork #illust #illustration #dibujo digital #cartoon network #doodle #artists on tumblr #flowers

[jacks347]

I want to write a romance that feels like the way Escaped talks about his girlfriend

#like have you seen his rants #chloe our queen #you have no idea the man youve bagged #i cannot put into words how much i want that #not for me #just to write #someone so completely and totally in love #i simply dont have the skill for it #i reset my character in high school #switched all my romance points to angst #now i have nothing #sadge #anyway #im shutting up now #escaped audios

[thsc-rockau]

Dead End-

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#thsc rock au #thscrockau #thsc #the henry stickmin collection #thscau #thsc au #the henry stickmin #the henry stickmin collection rock au #the henry stickmin collection au #Leonightwater25 #henry stickmin #henry #angst #rock au #thsc rock #reset #valiant hero #civil warfare #tophat civil warfare #black space

[patchwork-crow-writes]

The Definition of Insanity

You snap wires.

Frantic fingers spindle across the inky blackness, taking hold of taut strings the colour of poison. You retch slightly as they pull apart in your hands, bursting like blood vessels and staining everything they touch with the stench of death.

You snap wires.

And all the while, his voice bores into your skull, wheeling and dealing even as he tries to kill you. Even as you try your very hardest to give him what he wants.

You snap wires.

SOUL burning hot like a phoenix in its final moments, shooting down offer after offer, pleading with this jittering, broken creature to stop, stop, please stop before one of us does something we're both going to regret...

You snap wires.

You can't remember how long you've been doing this for. You don't even know what you're doing, why you ever listened to his words in the first place. What had he promised in the space between his outbursts... and to whom?

And still, you snap wires. It's either that or die.

So you snap, and you snap, and you snap, and you

snap

Then there's only one left, shimmering in the darklight, so gossamer-thin that you cannot comprehend how it can still support the clanking, man-shaped junk it's attached to. He spins around it like a demented ballerina, professing heartfelt thanks to the friends he was trying to murder mere seconds before. Pleading with you to cut the final cord, to make him a real boy.

Your fingers move before you can respond. And the sound of his cold, lifeless body slamming into the ground stays with you for the rest of your life. The shock is so great that you almost collapse yourself, adrenaline finally loosing its death-grip on your body.

You are wracked with a great and terrible sigh, before you--/

/--snap wires.

...strings the colour of poison... bursting like blood vessels... stench of death.

...you've been here before, you realise, as you snap wires.

He wheels and deals, firing everything he has at you in a vain attempt to get you to give him what he wants. You would if you could... if it had ever been in your power to do so.

All you can do now is snap wires. And that is all you do.

Your fingers move on their own, as if compelled by an outside force. Pinch and twist, reminding you of shelling peas with your mom before Sunday dinner.

You can't recall the last time you saw her. You think that perhaps you should apologise to her if you ever make it out of here alive. You were always such a wilful child. Always getting into trouble of some kind or another.

And now here you were, making deals with something you couldn't even begin to fathom.

You cannot hear your friends anymore - they do not respond to you calls. And the salesman seems to become all-encompassing before you, drunk on ill-gotten power - power you helped him acquire. You close your eyes as he makes you an offer that you are unable to refuse.

Pain washes over you, and you--/

/--snap wires.

Poison... Blood... Death... this could be the fifth time; it could be the five-hundredth time. It doesn't matter, because all you can do is snap wires.

The salesman screams at you, and your SOUL screams back, roaring with anger and pain and frustration. Does it want the same thing as you do? Is it... trying to help? Or... or is this just a game to it. Fighting the same battle again and again, trying for a high score?

You ponder this as it makes you snap wires.

Perhaps this was punishment for trying too hard. For trying to help somebody who seemed to be suffering. You never understood what your mother meant when she told you the road to hell was paved with good intentions. To your child's mind, not yet versed in the world's wicked ways, this statement was a nonsense, an affront.

But now you get it, as you snap wires. Oh God, do you understand.

You always knew he was the same as you. Something BIG had seized his heart, just as it has seized yours. Prisoners of a destiny that was not theirs. You saw a caged bird crying for release, but you did not see the venomous spider using its corpse as a suit. In trying to make him more like you, you exposed yourself to the risk of becoming more like him.

Damaged. Deranged. Desperate. Dangerous.

And as your fingers become snared in his wires, and you stare transfixed into each other's eyes, you see the fate set out before you, and scream.

______________________________________________________________

You snap wires.

Sometimes, you live.

Sometimes, you die.

It doesn't matter.

You snap wires.

#writing #fiction #fanfiction #deltarune #drabble #no beta #angst #existential horror cw #blood cw #implied death cw #Kris dreemurr #Spamton G Spamton #fate and destiny #loss of control #game resets #time loops #something to tide people over while I start editing Chapter 7 #I'm not saying it's going to be as bleak as this #but it's definitely in that ballpark #so look forward to that :P

[undertheredhood]

AU where shen yuan is the svsss universe’s equivalent of karen heyer from ‘the crimson lady’ manhwa and has lived his life as shen qingqiu over a hundred times and slowly grows batshit insane with each time reset.

so when he finds himself repeating his life once again he finally snaps and murders everyone in the cang qiong mountain sect.

#the scum villain's self saving system #scum villian self saving system #scumbag system #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #transmigrator shen yuan #svsss au #svsss angst #time loop #time reset #obviously he can’t just kill everyone directly because some of the sect members are strong so he does it in the most methodical way #and he escapes suspicion by making it look like accidents #cang qiong mountain sect #cpm sect #peak lord shen qingqiu #sy is not thinking rationally in this au but tbf in this au everyone in the sect has at lease caused or played a role in his deaths #regressor shen yuan au

[qeyond]

Death Note au where Light is stuck in a time loop and no matter what he does L always dies, he freaks out, and the loop begins again. L's fate is so tangled and twisted around Lights plans from the very start, or perhaps it was simply always written to be this way, but no matter how far back he unravels it all he can't stop L's passing. Light tries again and again and again, relentlessly, to change their futures but it feels eternal. Endless. At a certain point Light realizes he can sacrifice himself to ensure L's survival. But no matter what, it all restarts. After a decent number of resets, L catches on to the time loop and with each reset his memories grow stronger, until he's fully aware of his entanglement with Light. They spend eternity searching for a branch in time that's strong enough to hold them both. They learn to weather the storm and to cherish their time together, seeing it as a blessing despite.

#qeyond sucks #lawlight #death note #l lawliet #light yagami #im sure its been done before but you know i gotta think about lawlight angst at least once a day #light for sure starting to lose his mind and grip on reality after the first 50 resets #and if it wasnt for L also gaining consciousness of the situation he'd be truly lost to the abyss of cruel fate #they die forever for the other #i think theyll find that time line that can contain them both eventually though <3 #if anyone could They would #do yall want me to tag this stuff with something so i dont bombard you with anguish #give your hearts a break

[chaoticfvckingdisaster]

Ok I haven't talked about toa in a while but rott idea

What if the new timeline ends in the same way but reversed (with Jim's death this time) so Toby also uses the chronosphere to reset the timeline and make Jim the trollhunter again, just like in the original timeline, but it still fails (cause it'll be the exact same as the first one) and so its an endless circle of failures because neither of them know they were doomed from the beginning. One must always die, and neither can accept it has to be the other.

doomed by the narrative my beloved

#Ignore that the previous trollhunter remembers the previous timeline #even so they're powerless to stop it and if Jim dies he can't stop Toby from resetting the timeline and vise versa and so on #Toby and Jim have the same ending as the trollhunter because they're so interconnected they make the same choices #They're both so selfless they don't care about themselves dying as long as the other one lives but they cancel each other out #trollhunters #toa #tales of arcadia #rott #rise of the titans #trollhunters tales of arcadia #trollhunters rise of the titans #trollhunters rott #angst #jim lake jr #toby domzalski #chaotic's posts #hoping the toa fandom finds this take me in again guys #the entire toa fandom: rott doesn't exist ; me: what if rott was infinitely more sad

[yin-shimo]

*sighs* i am not vibing rn

#the THOUGHTS!! the THOUGHTS!!! #ermmm what the scallop #i’m blaming all the angst i’ve been writing for this episode #teehee #let’s hope i reset in 2-5 days🫶 #xianrambles

[frog-with-no-therapy]

Someone please write a mad scientist peter parker

I need a fic or even just drabbles or anything, otherwise it won't leave my head and I won't be able to study and I can't afford that

Like, the idea of peter turning evil? And the fact it's not spiderman who is the scary one, but nerdy peter parker with his biochemistry and physics skills and his ability to think fast and outside the box? CAN NO ONE SEE THE APPEAL????

And its just so perfect, cause he is really smart and have a good origin and more than enough reasons to be a villain, and the best part is he doesn't see himself as a villain. He is, in his eyes, a necessary evil.

And with him not going around every night to fight bad guys and get hurt cause he is holding back, he will have plenty of time to make gadgets for himself and his plans will be brutal and deadly (cause, again, the mean justify the end, right?)

Like, I already have many ideas for him, like uncle Ben dying a year before his time Infront of peter and not being able to deliver his "with great power comes great responsibility", cause it wasn't needed (which is a really big factor in making peter parker the spiderman we know. It turned him from a childish brat to a hero)

Aunt may being sick and him leaving school to take care of her, maybe even getting a job (he can do online schooling, and probably just graduate early) him trying to study more and more of chemistry and pharmacy and anything that can help him help her, staying up at night reading Bruce's papers and a bit of Richard's too

Him trying and almost reaching a solution, except it's too late and now he has an empty house full of useless papers that were another mark of his failure, yet falling back into studying and researching anything to keep the illusion that everything's ok, and to distract himself from the loneliness

Him one day just decide to simply not accept what happened, and to find a way to get back his family. A time machine. He just need to make some kind of time machine and get back and boom, his life is good once again and he will make sure it stays that way

Also the whole time machine idea would explain him not having apathy or not being against killing and hurting others, why would he, when he know for sure everything will just go back to how it was? (And it has to go back, he refuses to even think about any other possibility. And maybe him killing few people is a reminder that he can't quit one day, a reminder that now he have more lives to fix and heal)

#just #think about all the possibilities #the angst #the planning #the action #the fluff #him being so delusional in his way of thinking #him knowing he is turning into a worse person day by day but still going on #him giving himself all kind of excuses to do what he does #never hesitating to do what he must #yet his plans alway have almost zero killing envolve #because yes it will reset but people will still suffer now and he would rather not #he is a bag full of contradiction #and he refuse to stop for a minute and adress that #peter parker #spider man #evil peter parker #scientist peter parker

[pluralprompts]

Prompt #527

Write about a system going through a system reset.

#pluralgang #plural system #pluralprompt #plurality #prompt #prompt blog #any tone #angst #system reset

[fratricidee]

HELP! I NEED ASSISTANCE! LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION!!!

Is-

Is there any lore behind Fray that I can read? either writing or doodles or rambles- whatever you want. I searched for a while but I'm not finding any! The boy seems so nice and I'd like to know more about him!

To be honestttt NAW I don’t got nuthin(lies)

Iore wise it’s all in my mind lsvskdbd

I did have another account with more Fray content buuut it’s old stuff ‘n I don’t really use it lol

It’s pretty much how most aftertale/swap AU’s go isvsjbsdec though Fray is stuck in more of a regular void instead of the whole save screen thingamajig

I would explain a little(I don’t rlly have it all planned out) buuut I’m not good with words :P

#afterswap snas art #afterswap sans #undertale au #skeleton oc #sans oc #sans au #I love him sm #he’s basically my first sans oc :] made him back in 2017 #though I’m definitely not the first to make a afterswap sans variant #he’s my baby #he used to be way more energetic in my past versions of him #though now he’s more lethargic and sleeps a lot- got nothing else to do in a pitch black void #him and his papyrus remember resets >:] angst ensues #I’ve drawn his papyrus before- he’s more anxious than the usual lax swap pap #Fray is still the older brother ofc