caretaker-au

[caretaker-au]

rana-fanfic submitted to caretaker-au:

Hello there! I haven’t seen this website for quite a while and omg I never knew the series has been completed! 

I admire all your hard work and dedication. The bittersweet-ish ending is so touching :)

I hope my little drawing of Chara is shown properly, as this is the first time submitting my art.

#caretaker chara #submission #caretaker au #lowercase love #art #rana-fanfic #rana fanfic #mailbox #minty says #not only is it showing properly #this artwork is so good! #warms our heart to see fanart after all this time #thank you so much

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Salutations! I am currently trying to make my own blog about my own story, and I adore just how you set your tumblr layout to be. If you do not mind and it is not a bother, may I know how you all manage to make the layout as it is? (I am relatively new to tumblr, and I do not have experience with HTML and such. Therefore, I am extremely grateful for the help that you could offer :DD)

Hello there! Our tumblr layout is actually a modified version of our other blog, @nochocolate. The layout of nochocolate was commissioned from Tumblr layout designer extraordinaire, @estersand. All credit goes to her for the layout genius.

However, that was a long, LONG time ago and I'm not sure if Estersand is still taking commissions. I'm also not sure if custom themes on tumblr work the way they used to, since tumblr (seems?) to be moving away from custom themes and to a more standardized mobile-friendly format.

All that said, you can still access custom blog designs by going to your own blog's main page, clicking "edit appearance" (it's an icon on the top right that looks like an paint palette) and from there you'll find an option on the left panel that says "browse themes". There are a bunch of premade themes you can use and modify using the controls in that left panel. No HTML savvy required.

Just note that Tumblr HTML is kind of delicate, so save often and try not to make too many changes all at once.

Best of luck with your blog and story!

#mailbox #anonymous #minty says #i believe in you!

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What have y'all been up to lately? :0

we discovered Punishing: Gray Raven and we never stopped talking about it after that. imagine our level of passion for undertale but apply it to PGR. except PGR is infinitely more niche.

#mailbox #eruto says #if you get me started i just wont stop

[caretaker-au]

Caretaker of the Ruins AU : @caretaker-auker-au

redrew my old art again lolololol

#starwillow14402 #minty can you fix the tags later ilu #eruto says #this progression is SO COOL to see!!! #i love this #the pose is so dynamic now #awesome stuff

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you do not need to answer this publicly. but I also forgot to mention that your fallen children designs are so fantastic as well, especially kindness. even if they were brutally murdered and then forced into a giant horrible eldritch god, they’re still in my heart.

thank you!!!!!!! we love designing characters. it means so much to hear people say nice things about our designs!

#mailbox #eruto says #it's been 84 years hello my beloveds

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@roma200802 submitted to caretaker-au:

Small sprite remaster with something new.

#submission #caretaker au #roma200802 #lowercase love #art #awww look at the little frisk #and that asriel looks scary! #nice work with the details #not an easy task with pixel art

[caretaker-au]

Minty here. I’m responding to this veeeery delayed, but I finally watched Death Note for the first time! And I couldn’t help but laugh because Chara and Light share more than a few personality traits (and expressions) than I even realized. Eruto had seen Death Note back in the day, a million years ago, and I had read it (even longer ago) so maybe subconsciously Light had some influence. =)

PS: We incorporated the red eyes because of the red eyes that appear at the end of the soulless pacifist route of Undertale!

PPS: There’s a line in Death Note where Light laments that using the notebook is SO INCONVENIENT TO USE and I laughed and laughed because it’s like the MOST convenient thing to use ever. He’s so out of touch! I could see Chara complaining that the SAVE power is SO INCONVENIENT TO USE despite being a god-like power because they can’t have simultaneous multiple save points.

“ I have read Death Note but I never saw the anime, so I didn’t know that Light gets red eye flashes! “

Posting this because I figure you’d be interested in seeing it. For those not in the know this is in response to something posted on another blog, don’t worry about it. No audio because copyright, obviously. Besides, just the visual itself is all that’s needed.

Might even notice a few similar expressions here too.

#undertale spoilers #caretaker au #Death Note #submission #bootlegbargainbinralsei #minty says #would totally recommend re-watching death note it's still very good

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afanofalltrades submitted to caretaker-au:

“If you really do not have any other place to go… I will do my best to take care of you, for as long as you need.”

Picrew: https://picrew.me/image_maker/58190

#submission #afanofalltrades #lowercase love #picrew #awww what a cute Ribbon Kid #you did a good job finding a picrew that looks like them

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shamrockpediaofficial submitted to caretaker-au:

A picture portraying Chara’ s hypocrisy  between others behavior toward them and  their own behavior toward others discussing the topic of toxic masculinity, another possible reason why Asriel sought for a divorce between him and Chara. (Drake meme format using your gifs, sorry!) [P.S.: If you have a reddit account, you can contact me, there are lot of awesome artworks by you guys (mainly Minty’s) being posted on some subreddits such as r/charaoffensesquad, it would be better if you have an account so we can label it as your artworks (I have posted your Chapter 9~11 of Caretaker AU on r/undertale)][If you feel offended, I will apologize, I am not meant to be toxic to others, thank you ;(]

#submission #caretaker au #memetaker #shamrockpediaofficial #yes well you see it's okay when CHARA does it #(according to chara) #gaslight gatekeep genocide

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@silvr-skreen submitted to caretaker-au:

me, running on 2 hours sleep and a monster energy ultra paradise: what if,,,, gaster and ribbon kid got to hangout in the void and he became dadster, no wait even better just, those are his kids, how? the power of gaster being a cute silly man.

I just,,, I had the idea to write something and since I wasn’t sure if the dadster idea for “he’s just adopted all of them” would work I decided to draw it really fast (yes he is wearing one of those ugly Hawaiian shirts he has to embarrass his kids somehow. i just,,,, i really like this man

#submission #silvr-skreen #caretaker au #okay but hawaiian shirt gaster is hilariou and i love it #I really like how you drew all the kids too they turned out so cute! #lowercase love #art

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@ceejay-doesnt-exist submitted to caretaker-au:

read through this whole comic/story recently, and have been playing back through final fantasy 14 again. while doing the alexander raids, stumbled across this quote, and. it felt sharply appropriate for the comic, and wanted to share.

[IMAGE ID: “For in allowing the past to consume us─and making our every choice, our every action the correct one─would we not cease to live in the present, and in turn lose sight of the future? ‘Tis a path not to redemption but to madness.”]

#submission #ceejay-doesn't-exist #ffxiv #caretaker chara is already so horrible #ohhhh yes SO appropriate! #path to madness indeed #and we love ffxiv in this house

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@silvr-skreen submitted to caretaker-au:

i bet you all thought i was done having brainrot over this skelescientist well. you were wrong. i made this really fast after my 8pm enlightenment and i have a WIP of another piece im gonna work on. 

//i should be making my own webcomic but brain said i worked on it for 2 weeks straight so i deserve a treat :)

(it also wont let me do Ctrl+V to post the WIP i have copied to keyboard so thats nice i guess you’ll just have to wait and see - and yes i did kinda trace him i cant draw blasters and also i am very lazy)

#caretaker au #submission #silvr-skreen #lowercase love #art #ribbon kid #caretaker gaster #ohhh this must be gaster combined with the ribbon kid's soul! #so that's where that soul went hahaha #I like the secret paw pads the best

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sakuchiii submitted to caretaker-au:

got a bit creative (this joke has been stuck in my head for too long xD)

#submission #sakuchiii #lowercase love #art #minty says #it just works! #what a cute chara you made here too #adorable

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shamrockpediaofficial submitted to caretaker-au:

The Caretaker of the Ruins Page 148 Recolor -by shamrockpediaofficial

#submission #caretaker au #lowercase love #art #shamrockpediaofficial #looks great in color!

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username-roulette submitted to caretaker-au:

I also created a Pathfinder second edition stat block for Chara. I couldn’t really balance their SAVE/LOAD thing, so I had to omit that!

#caretaker au #submission #lowercase love #fanfic #dnd #username-roulette #minty says #okay to be fair chara would be WAY too op if SAVE/LOAD was on this #this is still so clever thank you for building this! #I love that if humans try to make an impression on chara it BACKFIRES

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username-roulette submitted to caretaker-au:

I created a stat block for Chara to be used in Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition.

#caretaker au #submission #lowercase love #fanfic #kinda?? not sure where this falls in our category system hahaha #dnd #username-roulette #minty says #as the dnd player of the group can i just say this is GENIUS #you thought of everything #i love that they have low AC bc they don't wear armor #super high charisma saving throw bc of COURSE #those skills are so chara #languages include UNDERCOMMON i see what you did there #and those skills are sooooo perfectly tuned to fighting opponents that are caught unawares #would not want to be hit by that assassinate move

[caretaker-au]

you’re probably offline again, and I don’t know if anyone is gonna see this. but your au is genuinely one of my most favorite Undertale AUs ever. I have been in the Undertale fandom for a LONG time, but I don’t think there will ever be something as well written as the Caretaker AU again. the amount of research and love put into it is so cool. it truly does feel like something that could possibly happen in the actual canon and I LOVE it.

your version of Chara is also one of the most best portrayals of them I’ve EVER seen in the entire history of the fandom. when you began releasing the final chapters for the AU, I remember just sitting at my computer and rereading Chara’s lines over and over again. because their character was just so interesting to see in action. even when it was still a comic, their goddamn expressions and words are just so memorable to me. I still and always will have that little sadistic smile ingrained in my brain. (that also includes literally every character in comic even the background ones.) I love how you handle Chara as well, how you made them a horrible person but not totally unrealistic. like that one asker said, you feel bad for them, but just a LITTLE TINY bit. because they always screw up everything for themself and then go blame a 12 year old for it.

speaking of Frisk, your portrayal of them is definitely so very canon to me. I love their design and personality so much. they are so just relatable too, possibly one of the most realistic 12 year olds I’ve seen in a comic. they remind me a lot of me in a way, especially when I was 12 lol. I’m beyond happy they got a happy ending, they deserve it after, y’know, everything.

I wish you all luck on any other projects you may be working on. and I hope you are proud of what you have accomplished. :) you crafted a truly beautiful story. now if you don’t mind me, I’m just going to go reread everything again.

(take a shot every time I say ever lol, sorry for any spelling mistakes, thank you for reading it all)

Thank you so much for your kind words. Caretaker truly was a huge labor of love. I remember back when Ellipsis came up with the concept how it just gripped me like a bear trap. I couldn't stop thinking about it! Eruto felt the same way and was saying we should make a comic, and I was like, "no no, I don't want to do all that line art" but then she was like, you won't be alone we can draw it TOGETHER and then to demonstrate she took one of my super rough sketches and lined and colored it. And I was like, wow okay maybe this is feasible.

The resulting 3-ish years it felt like we were spending every waking hour working on Caretaker. I carried my sketchbook everywhere and would draw out thumbnails during my breaks at work, I'd be thinking about it on the drive home, and then we'd get on a discord call together to draw, line, and color for hours at a time. I could go on but the bottom line is that I LOVED IT. Each finished page (drawn or written!) fills me with pride and I look back fondly on the time spent creating and maintaining this blog together. It was exciting, compelling, and at many times exhausting, but worth it.

As far as the characterization goes, glad that you appreciate it! We reminded ourselves to never lose sight of the fact that Chara was still a human being--full of contradictions and ego and multiple-facets--but we didn't want to justify their behavior either. We all know people who are selfish, manipulative, and arrogant, but what happens when a person like that gets naïve enablement and never has to face any repercussions for their behavior? Without the correcting force that is LIFE, a cynical, angry, cruel child like Chara didn't have any reason to second-guess their worldview. Of course anything that goes wrong must be the fault of someone else!

This has already gotten kinda long, so all I'll say on Frisk is thank you and glad you agree! Personally, I knew some friends of the family who had kids about that age so I tried to reference their behavior in my mind when it came to writing Frisk. (Though most of Frisk's behaviors boil down to "RUN!!") Through the many discussions and occasional rewrites of this story, we always planned on ensuring Frisk had a happy ending. ♥

Thanks once again for the ask, and I hope you enjoy the reread!

#mailbox #spade-the-space-witch #minty says #you caught me online!