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spaceoutdreamer · 6 months

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Something so poetic about reflections in video games. It's you. It was you. It's still you. It's you, but you've grown. It's everything you were. It's everything you will be. It's you, but not really. It's you, but so much more. It's you, and it's everything you've been. It's you, you've changed. It's you, you've grown. It's you.

#story time #Interacting with mirrors in video games truly is wonderful #This post is NOT about undertale #But it can be #It's about Slay the princess #It's about every game that uses mirrors to communicate your character's growth and perception

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xshinina · 1 year

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*Married life playing in the background

This idea was probably funnier in my head

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hrokkall · 5 months

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"Sad Cat Poem" by Spencer Madsen

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agentravensong · 2 months

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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

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starryaike · 9 months

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Song - Feel Better by Penelope Scott

#Been thinking about this for a while and I finally did it!#Look at it!#Tbf this song also fits Flowey a LOT #But Chara lives in my brain. so #this is the first time ive done something like this i hope it's good #also if there's any better way to format posts like these tell me cause god knows i do Not know how to use this site #anyways i think about them a lot #im gonna go cry bye #undertale #chara #chara dreemurr #asriel #asriel dreemurr #lyric comic #my art

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zarla-s · 10 months

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This isn’t saying you shouldn’t write bad or sad stories or anything, but from Gaster’s perspective as a character in those stories of course he’d want “happy” endings, haha.

But anyway, I kept telling you guys that when Handplates was over I would tell you. Well... here we are. After seven long years, here we are.

When I started I never thought I’d make it. To be honest, it doesn’t feel real to me at all. My brain still expects to do another page in about two weeks as it always does. I assume it’ll take a while to sink in. There’s a lot to say but this post is already incredibly long (sorry), so it’s probably suited to its own post.

But for all of you out there who read this story, whether you were there from the beginning or just came in now, thank you so much. And for all of you that were inspired by this comic, who created things for it, who blessed me with so many amazing gifts of art and fic and music and dubs and videos and so much more... I don’t know how to thank you enough. I never dreamed that an idle idea could have come this far or had such an impact on my life and so many people, but it did.

I kind of feel at a loss for words... again it’s very surreal. But I will say that Gaster wondering whether the kid is an actual human or not has an unintended level to it since my avatar is a fox but it’s TOO LATE NOW I GUESS lol.

( About how it’s a long, long, long journey that we’ve been on And it’s a long long long story that shall be told And it’s a long long day, and we’ve come a long long way But there’s still a long way to go

It’s a long long long way It’s a long long strong way It’s a long long long way Forward - [x] )

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#undertale #handplates #z art #z comic #gaster #the human #long post #asgore seeing gaster standing out in the rain and running out to bring him an umbrella #gaster getting to spend the finale looking really irritated about everything lol #it's what he would have wanted #i left my gardening book in the rain and now i'll never have that book again #oh noooooo #the rain is my tears

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giggleme-green · 9 months

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Totally forgot I made this one- whoops

#undertale #undertale au #underswap #doodle #sans au #sans #us sans #underswap sans #this was probably initially gonna be my first post #and i completely forgot about it #subtle signs of swap sans aggression

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jason-gold-falcon · 10 months

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Next on the Chopping block was Undyne, Asgore, then Toriel. Since my Style is meant to have more proportionate looks, this means that these 3 are as they should be. Tall, and Imposing. Special Mention to Undyne’s Armor, which I think translated really well to my style.

#old art #undertale #undyne #asgore #toriel #sketch #Why am I even posting about this?

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byrdblood · 11 months

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i cannot fucking BELIEVE i never posted these. i did these for an oc on my toyhouse ages ago

anyway guess which one's my favorite

#utmv #utmv fanart #nightmare sans #killer sans #horror sans #dust sans #cross sans #error sans #ill post about the oc later maybe #when it's not nearly 6 am (of the not-yet-slept variety)#undertale #undertale au

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zu-is-here · 5 months

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Dream do you still like getting kisses from your husband cross?

He still likes getting everything he wants ♪

#zu art #comic #post dark cream #cross!sans #dream!sans #shattered dream #undertale #undertale au #utmv #this one has been waiting since last winter and finally it is time— xp #(Dream is the most sensitive to temperature and Cross is overly worried about it ówò)#happy first day of winter!╰(*´︶`*)╯♡

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ghirahimbo · 6 months

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evil time loop escape conditions where you can't get out until you've fuucked up your life in the most spectacular way possible, confident that the next night will reset the slate as usual.

instead, the next day comes.

#that's the first chapter btw #the rest of the story is about coming back from the fallout #trying to make amends #something something the hubris of believing you were above consequences #coming to terms with the pain you were willing to cause in the moment because you never thought it would last (but it did)#actually maybe this is just undertale geno route #post cancelled undertale did it already #lol mostly i was trying to figure out if i could get to new york in a daily reset time loop #i probably could if i fucked up my life #and of COURSE that would be the day it didn't reset

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swiftmitsu · 2 months

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