This Is Absolutely Amazing.

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Undertale (Video Game) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Sans/Sans (Undertale), Papyrus/Papyrus (Undertale) Characters: Sans Ensemble (Undertale), Sans (Undertale), Papyrus (Undertale), Papyrus Ensemble (Undertale) Additional Tags: Dreamtale Nightmare Sans (Undertale), Dreamtale Sans | Dream (Undertale), Shattered Dreamtale Sans (Undertale), _____tale Sans | Ink (Undertale), Xtale Sans | Cross (Undertale), Killer Sans (Undertale) - Freeform, Horrortale Sans (Undertale), Underswap Sans (Undertale), Underlust Sans (Undertale), Underfell Sans (Undertale), Underswap Papyrus (Undertale), Underfell Papyrus (Undertale), Underfell Papyrus/Underswap Papyrus (Undertale), Bad Sanses | Nightmare's Gang (Undertale), bad sanses poly - Freeform, Forced God of Creation _____tale Sans | Ink (Undertale), Forced God of Destruction Error Sans (Undertale), undertale sans oc, Blood, Gore, mentions of cannibalism, Violence, Death, Manipulation, Polyamory, manipulative Nightmare, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide mentions, manipulative Shattered, Shattered deserves his own warning, Ink needs a nap, They're All Gay, no dream/nightmare relationship, the creators are gods, the creators are you, the creators suck

  Summary:

"I'm... you're still my baby brother. I have to protect you." His voice is firm, now, the smile is gone. The apple in his hands beckon. "From yourself too, if I have to." His hand raises- and he bites the apple. Not once, like Nightmare had, not twice- three full bites, before his beloved sibling could even react.

 When Dream Shatters, Nightmare is thrown into a spiral of events orchestrated by the creators. Why is it his job to save a multiverse that hates him? Bitter- he gets to work, collecting strays along the way, before the creators (or his brother) get a chance to steal his new-found comfort from him.

Meanwhile, things go from bad to worse for Ink, who's best friend has suddenly changed personalities, and everything he knows about the multiverse collapses when he meets the envoys of the gods.

holy shit that's an amazing take.

also I love the textures in your art.

Hm, technically not TAU related but I'm just kinda curious. Where did the uh eye thing (my mind is blanking on the word rn) is indicative of gender thing come from? I just think the idea is neat is all.

partly from my ass, partly from fandom tropes, partly from canon!

unfortunately i can't really provide examples of fanon because it's been a while since i've seen this floating around, but i know there at least USED to be a pretty big trope towards genderbending all the skeleton AU characters (or even just making original skeleton OCs that were female). the biggest way people chose to portray these characters was usually presentation - their bodies would be exactly the same as the OG sanses, just with maybe ecto and/or eye makeup.

all i did was take that further, because in my mind, it made sense!

the majority of canonically female monsters in the game are flat as washing boards, not a single titty in sight - maybe except the slightest of pec-bumps if you really squint - with only 2 notable exceptions that i could find, that being catty and the snowdin shopkeeper:

in fact, if you want to be pedantic...

king fluffybuns has more titty than his fucking wife xD

to me, the presence of boobage on catty, the snowdin shopkeeper and asgore proves that toby and temmie WERE VERY CAPABLE of drawing tits if they wanted to - which means that the lack of tits on the other characters was not an error, it was simply a design choice.

additionally, i believe that it's mostly just anthropomorphic monsters that are revealed to be women in the first place - "lesser" monsters all have completely identical sprites and, if memory serves, most of them are only ever really referred to as "it" or "they". (admittedly, i don't have the patience to go through every profile in the wiki to make sure, so take that with a little salt.) and while that could be just unreliable narration, i'm not here to beat the meta horse to death; i'm taking the information that i see at face value and running with it. and the information that i see is that there isn't a huge amount of sexual dimorphism in the vast majority of monsters, especially when you count non-anthropomorphic ones, which - again, focusing on what we actually see in-game - far outnumber their humanoid counterparts.

instead, you mainly tell what gender the characters are by the way they dress and their eyes - which usually have longer lashes, even if they're not wearing makeup like the shopkeep is. if nothing else, you might be forced to tell by their name or just by the game's narration. so in that case, we - or i, at least - know that most monsters in the underground go by "they" or "it", and not only is strongly gendered presentation already pretty fucking rare, when you get it, it's mostly in people just... dressing the way they want to be called. that's it.

to me, that fits in perfectly with the trope of female skeletons just having makeup or some ecto. they're telling people that they're female because that's how they want to be called; if they didn't put that effort in, other monsters would probably default to "it". like so:

and then when you introduce AU tomfoolery, of course, you can also get situations like this, where more nuance needs to be considered:

I was trying to draw something entirely different, but here goes- a small vent about [Shame]. It must be a feeling, to be one of the most hated Sanses in Undertale. Underlust was never a great AU, but that's not Sans's fault, is it?

[Look at me. How could anyone see this and find beauty?]

I'd print it and put it on my irl fridge

“May I please draw your OC?”

Reblog this message if you encourage anyone that wants to draw your OC to do so.  No need to ask for permission in advance.

Go for it.  Draw my OC.  If you want, I’ll even give you reference posts.  Go to town on it.

You are welcome to draw my OC and surprise me with the result.  Seriously.  In fact, I encourage it.  I will proudly display whatever it is you submit to me regarding my OC.  There is a chance that I will squeal about it for several days.

Even if you feel you aren’t good at whatever artistic adventure it is you do, please feel free to submit it to me.  I want to see what you have done.

i like this brush

quick sketch that took me 44 minutes. it's because of the colouring

ink belongs to comyet

nightmare belongs to jokublog

I ever post this guy here? no? here you go

For shits and giggles your honor!!

(Dusk belongs to me, Mix belongs to @3mko obviously enough

Ship in 5 min, yall

This could be them but u playin....

Ship in 5 min, yall

accurate

Which Sans is most likely to rizz you up with their sigma skibidi gyatt - Quiz | Quotev

please

please take it

please tell me your results

please

disclaimer: speciesism and specism isn't the same thing as racism.

Undertale doesn't exactly touch on those ideas of specism, the monsters are accepted outside, the humans are beloved on the inside.

Though, when you have "there was a war, people A and people B are majorly upset at each other, people A lock people B in a giant cave to die", I mean....there's really uh. That context to take in. I think if it's done well and in an AU that deviates HEAVILY from the original take, then sure, fine, go ahead.

The problem is that often it's not well done, because simply- the people making content aren't professional writers and artists, they're just (mostly) regular peeps who often bite off more than they can chew, and it leaves everyone with a bitter taste in their mouths.

When you have Sans go through a genocide, be fought against relentlessly by a murderous child, and then do a pacifist, escape to the surface, then Sans will quite naturally be just a smidge anxious around that same child, won't he? trauma and whatnot. however I don't think making Sans have a bias against humans forever and ever is stupid :')

Transcript: As a black person in the utdr fandom it really weirds out me when people claim the monsters in undertale are "racist". Honestly just typing this gives me a really uneasy feeling thinking about it all. White people who don't have any proper knowledge to be talking on situations like this and entirely missing the point of what's going on, to the point where it feels almost intentional. Saying this on here rather than my own blog because I don't know how people would react if I said stuff like this, I rb posts like this but I don't really have experience talking about them myself

Idk I might send another ask in again another time going more in depth but I don't even know how to explain how it makes me feel but I can try if anyone really wants