So this animation by @asepriterico was so absolutely delightful that it inspired me to make an entire Deltarune/Undertale AU centered around Jevil despite having no knowledge or liking towards Jevil previously and I am very happy with the result so far 👌👌👌
(Also if there are any trigger warnings I should add regarding Spamton's appearance please lmk and I will add them!😅)
I realized we know the least about the river person in ya au.
Care to remedy that?
Well to be honest.. not a whole lot has changed about her. I keep forgetting she exists and I don't have a lot of ideas for how she could interact with the group..
Though speaking of her, recently I tried to dig into her character a little more and I started by making a redesign for her. Although its only the first pass and Isn't official yet-
And despite my attempts, for now her story and character is still relatively the same..
She was just a lonely boat keeper. She would come home from her shifts to a gloomy house where no one was waiting for her. No family, no friends.. no pets or hobbies.. she didn't really have anything going on except for running the boat. And to be honest.. she was kind'a okay with that in a way. She just accepted that this was her life, and this is how she lives. And its not like she had no joy in her life. Her joy came from running the boat.
She would take all kinds of people down the river, and they would talk to her. They would tell her wonderful things. The children would talk about their hopes and dreams. What they wanted to be when they grew up.. what their favorite food was. They'd tell her about that crazy looking frog they saw on the way here.
The elderly would tell her stories of all the places they'd been and all the things they'd seen. And even if they didn't talk to her directly.. she still overheard some interesting conversations. The young couples would talk about what they were planning on naming their first child. They would talk about what they wanted their house to look like and how many pets they wanted to have.
And sometimes the people on the boat didn't talk at all. Sometimes they looked sad and wouldn't look up from their feet.. So she would sing to them. And when they got off she would tell them "I hope you're day gets better. I enjoyed your company." And the few times she got a smile back made it all worth it.
She put her value of herself and her life on the people around her. Transporting people from point A to point B and occasionally cheering people up.. was all the worth she really felt she had..
But then Jevil and his group came along for a boat ride. Half way down the river Jevil breaks out in a cold sweat and starts to shake. Somethings wrong.
"This world is about to end." The group perks up "What?"
Grabbing Seams sleeve beside him he says louder and frantically "THIS WORLD IS ENDING"
Jevil jumps up and makes a mirror below the water large enough to swallow the boat whole.
As they fall through the mirror, horrible soul breaking sounds can be heard as that timeline collapses in on itself.
The boat probably landed in a snowdin somewhere.. or maybe another waterfall? Or maybe in a dark world.. where ever it landed, Jevil was looking the group over when he saw River Person..
"Where.. am I?"
He had done it again. Ripped someone out of its AU just as it was dying...
I intended for River person to have some kind of survivors guilt. Thinking her life had no real value and that anyone else in her AU deserved to have been saved in her place. Almost the opposite of Grillby.
Grillby hates Jevil becuase he valued his life and lost everything he held dear.. River Person doesn't hate Jevil for saving her at all. She's not sad about losing her life becuase she never really had one.. She's just grieving for all those people who died and wishes any of them could have been saved in her place.
I MIGHT NEED SOME HELP, WARNING THIS HAS A MENTION OF WEIRD DREAM THAT ARE KINDA FREAKY TO ME AND A SMALL MENTION OF BUGS.
I have this dream sometimes, not all the time kinda like a dream you had a while ago but it's good enough to remember again, and I hate it I always think it's normal until it's not, I'm chilling, playing UnderTale yk talking with sans and papyrus but I always get the feeling someone's watching and when it happens I can't move and I have this thing I see in the corner of my eye, first I thought it was the river person but it had eyes and in the little darkness of it's hood it looked like little maggots were squiggling around, idk it stops from time to time my it freaks me out what do I do 😭😭??
imagine something like this but in a first person pov with the river person in the corner of your eye, that's kinda what it's like. It reminds me of the prunsel situation all over again.
a fictional character could be the most vile, evil, unforgivable, manipulative, horrible person ever and progressively get worse but have a hot voice and personality(/demeanor) and neurodivergent people lacking a stable father figure will still be like “i could fix them they’re so bbg 😍😍”
he’s so cute and pure and innocent he’s never done anything wrong 🥺