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spotaus · 2 months
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A few references! (A wip because I got distracted lmao--)
I snatched a few of these from a magma with @oodlesndoodles (I took out Kale if only because I *was* planning on rendering before my distraction) but this doodle features Pretender!Sans, Paps, Gaster, Alphys, and Grillby in their monster forms!
(More rambles under the cut)
Design Choices!:
Sans: He's been underground for a long time but used to live on the surface. I imagine he *does* have the iconic Sans outfit somewhere, but right now he wears robes like the King and Queen used to. (He recieved them when he was appointed Judge by Asgore, but no one really knows their significance because only the Guard and Asgore know of his work.)
Paps: Chose his outfit mostly to match Pretender amd the Guard. His shoulder-pads are like old crystal ball props, and his cape had the same sparke affect as Pretender's hood/robes. Around his waist he wears one of the old lab coats Sans leaves around the house. (<- It belonged to one of Sans' favorite people, the one Paps tries to mimic, so he wears it now instead.) Paps has the markings on his face same as Gaster because Sans has a lot of photos from over the years hung on the walls in his room, and Paps used to see them a lot.
Gaster: He's deceased, so the current plot doesn't see him (he can't interact with K, unfortunately. I think they would've been friends if they'd met in Gaster's prime) but I still wanted to doodle him. This was how he looked towards the end of his life, when most of the lab team had passed and he was starting to fall down. He wore cardigans and sweaters, focusing mostly on comfort rather than safety (he was always cold, but especially so towards the end).
Alphys: Went a bit crazy after Gaster passed. She hadn't been eating for a long time, and she couldn't bring herself to leave the lab, even after Sans retired his studies and moved to Snowdin. She still wears her old lab coat, stained and ripped, and she's worse-off for it. Most who see her think she's a rabid animal that has taken a spot in the labs, cameras abandoned and traps scattered in the lab waiting for prey to fall into them. It's an unsafe zone. Any humans who manage to pass Undyne *always* fall to Alphys.
Grillby: Back to fun times!!! He's a short king (at least coming in at around 5'6" which is small compared to other boss monsters, but big compared to merchants) and still runs his restaurant in Snowdin. Though, it's usually empty these days since he doesn't exactly have much food to serve. And water? He doesn't touch the stuff. Sans goes there often just to keep Grillby company. Most monsters, even if they do see a human enter, won't bother attacking because they know Grillby gets first dibs. Grillby would rather not get blood on his nice counters, though. He wears a vest and button-up with symbols like Pretender's, but otherwise is fairly unchanged from canon.
Extra Notes:
-Alphys and Sans aren't on speaking terms any longer. After Sans gave up the project, Alphys became manic and fell into despair, deciding that she'd do everything herself. Sans tried to see her a few times after that before be realized she'd gone off the deep-end and he only dared to be nearby when Asgore needed him.
-I now believe that MTT would be a positive force for humans. A ghost-monster who wanted to look human, to see if they could pass the barrier. Alphys was in charge of the project before Gaster passed, and constructed a surprisingly sturdy human-like body. It was never tested against the barrier. Now MTT tries to stay by Alphys, even in her madness. He tries to help people by reminding them how humans look, act, and talk, with his show. He helps people who get caught by Alphys' traps. (Gotta talk to Ood, but I'm thinking that Pretender wasn't fast enough to help K on her first time through the lab. It was actually MTT who moved her out of immediate danger before stalling Alphys? Unsure.)
-Grillby likes the taste of human, but there are certain unspoken rules he works by, like other shopkeeps. For him, as long as you pay your bill and follow his one rule (no water (tears do not count as water)) then you're free from his harvest. If a human came in looking for shelter, he'd leave them be.
-Gaster was a brilliant mind, and Pretender took a lot of influences from him over the years. Despite his death, his image and memory lives on in the mannerisms and knowledge of those who knew him. In the grief left in his shadow. In the young skeleton who imitates him partially every day because he made his brother happy a long time ago.
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oodlesndoodles · 2 months
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*it’s you!
She’s recalling when she first fell down (I think I drew what I imagine Kale E would look like at the end of the story. Not too many spoilers for y’all though.
she’s a little cry baby guys, she needs a good cry (again.)
anyway yes! Before she realized toriel was a threat or anything, she was a happy little child :-)
then a few months later she left to snowdin, met pretender. That’s where she stayed for however long it takes to teach an entire human-eating culture to act with compassion while trying not to get killed.
Anyway here she is! I might draw something less adorable/angst later… or just more angst.. I don’t know yet!
Dopple!Tale by @spotaus
Kindness designs by ME!
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Date night <3
Ozzy and tender meet up for a date! It’s always nice to make up with a “good friend”. @spotaus
warnings: chicken tender being awkward, talk of murder and eating humans, an author who doesn't know how to write dancing Edit: not prof read
Ozzy walked through Waterfall, umbrella in hand. The cave walls glowed gleefully. It felt lively as he traversed the cave system. He had made many encounters with new monsters. Although they were less of “encounters” but rather a fight. They were hungry, that Ozzy knew. However, he didn’t plan for his journey to end yet. Not like last time. He followed a new path covered in echo flowers. Ozzy smiled to think of how lucky he was to know of the underground. He’s glad he listened to Sans rant for now he knows where to go, and hot to get there.
ACT - pick up an echo flower?
“Yes.”
ACT- you picked up an echo flower. It whispered it secrets to you.
Ozzy placed the echo flower in his pocket. He’d move a few good meters before his phone began to ring. He dug through his bag and answer.
“Hello, Sans”
Sans takes a moment to answer. His voice is laid back and almost a lack of emotion.
“Hey, Ozzy. I need a favor.”
Ozzy ran across the rickety bridge to not start and “encounter” the water fall strangle didn’t seem to bother his ability to hear sans.
“mmm, depends. What kind of favor?”
Sans shifts from the other side of the call.
“I just- look-“
“I want to see you again.”
Ozzy froze and held umbrella tightly. His chest felt tingly and his face heated up.
Oh.
“I want to make up for last time.”
“meet me in the city, alright?”
“Yeah, okay.”
Click! Ozzy hung up and just stared blankly. Wow. That’s a lot to unpack. Ozzy couldn’t unpack however cause he just matched forward towards the city. Along the way he swayed with pride and excitement. This sway turned in to full on dancing. He twirled and twisted. He went low and high. He danced to his own rhythm; how own beat. He stop with fatigue. He was full of joy and all nerves let him. Then a cough came from behind him.
“…You were taking a bit I wanted to make sure you were okay.”
Ozzy blushed and nodded.
“Sorry I-“
“We should get going.”
“Yeah.”
The two walked together. Ozzy stayed close to Sans in hopes that Sans would scare of encounters.
“Sans can we talk abou-“
“Not here. There’s a lot of prying ears. Wait till we to the restaurant.” Ozzy let out a small “okay” before walking in gruesome silence.
a 7 minute walk later.*
Ozzy entered the restaurant with sans. It was empty besides for the owner; It was a cat monster. The owner egarely seated Ozzy and Sans. Sans smiled hesitantly to Ozzy. The shadow of his hood covered his face. “Sorry the view wasn't quite what ya expected." He trails off, "Glad you agreed to meet with me... I didn't mention it, but the Underground's a lot more dangerous outside Snowdin... you alright?" Ozzy scoffed. “No, Sans, I’m doing this for the bit.” Sans smiled to Ozzy.
“Sans. I need you to be honest, like, completely honest. No more white lies, no more disguises.” Ozzy takes a moment to think, “I want to meet you. The real you, there’s no consequences. I want run off I promise.” Sans sighed and pulled his hood down. “You sure do know how to make a monster talk, huh?” Sans smiled “Okay, well. I’m Sans, Sans the skeleton. Though, some folks call me Pretender. You figured this one out already, but I'm not human. Usually I'm uhh, bones, and uh….i’ve killed and eaten humans.” He looks down to his plate. “Most monster have, actually. I... stopped. Obviously. Promised myself I'd not kill any other humans." A scoff, and he pauses so his voice doesn't tremble. He clasps his hands, like he's folding in on himself. "And I don't really do much these days. I watch out for Paps, walk patrols, go to Grillby's. Now I'm watching out for you. Or- I was, before you figured out I was pretending.” Ozzy smiles. “That’s a it?” Sans’s eye lights shrink. “Uhm, yeah I haven’t done a lot of living down here..sorry?” Ozzy shook his head. “Oh no! Don’t worry tender! We could just leave together and do something living together.” Ozzy paused. “Not like live together but like- we could go on adventures…I mean I’m sure you’re great to live with but-“ Sans nods and smiles. “I understand don’t worry!” Ozzy nodded and dinner was filled with laughter and tale of adventure and the surface. Sans told of his lab days and Ozzy shared his alley dancing story’s. Hours had pasted by the time they left.
“hey, tender?”
“mmm?”
“would you like to dance?”
“no.”
Ozzy’s smiles disappear.
“oh.”
“sorry, but I promise to dance some other time!”
Ozzy nodded.
“alright, Sans. <3”
@oodlesndoodles wish that were you lol >;)
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spotaus · 2 months
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just a little flower:-)
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Seems like Pretender's too attached to throw it away :3
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spotaus · 1 month
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Doing Doppletale designs, so here's Asriel and Chara!
There's not a lot going on with them, but I gave Asriel a tail, and he's got a cute lil human disguise too!
I like to think that Chara's a bit lanky (Kris-style) but never quite grew into their limbs. In fact, that and their naturally red eyes drew a lot of people on their hometown to believe that they were a Monster (<- y'know, doppelganger moment) which was how they ended up underground in the first place. They felt a lot more at home with the monsters than they ever had humans, and thoroughly enjoyed the time they spent underground.
(Side Note: "Flowey" takes on Chara's human shape rather than Asriel's own shape, because he misses Chara a lot. Chara was his older sibling, he wanted to be just like them, and so in some twisted way, he was.)
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spotaus · 2 months
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HOW DARE YOU SHOW ME SUCH A BEAUTIFUL ART PIECE (pretender) GASPING FOR AIR
how dare
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Ehehehe~
Using this ask as an excuse to post Pretender :D
AND a lil doodle of him w/ Ood's design for the Kindness soul for Doppletale!
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^This human is Not having a Good Time. She's giving him that big ol eye of Terror treatment rn and boy is it working 🙏🙏🙏
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spotaus · 28 days
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Happy Easter, guys! And April Fools!
Here's a doodle of Pretender hearing the rumors of the "Easter Bunny" and hiding eggs around the house for K. (He's a hare, and also K doesn't like the Eggs. They tried tho 🙏)
Oh, and Kale is from @oodlesndoodles !
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spotaus · 1 month
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Hi Hi folks! I was hit by a sudden bought of inspiration to draw Pretender (and N breaking the fourth-wall on this poor guy.)
And I'm @ing @oodlesndoodles and @mylackofgrammaristerrifying because you two are the honest target audience lol! (I twas inspired by your enthusiasm and wanted to do a silly lil comic! If u wanna be un-tagged or removed from the comic lemme know!)
I think Pretender responds very awkwardly to affection because he's used to scaring ppl off but like, monster-lovers pop off, because he's very open to giving/recieving affection if he gets the chance! (<- Moment where my headcanon of him being Genderfluid and Pan comes into play if I do say so myself 🙏) So like. He's honored, but got so flustered he couldn't hold up his disguise and went back to the hood lmao---
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oodlesndoodles · 2 months
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DoppleTale Art
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Trying a new style!!
DOPPLE!TALE and Pretender!sans was created by -> @spotaus and @spotlightstudios
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spotaus · 1 month
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Actor AU of Eternal Ashes where the kids are all teen YouTubers doing a personal series for Stereo's thesis project that blows up online. (Reset teases Kane on the regular for dying the first episode.)
Actor AU of Doppletale where it's a horror/thriller series. (K is absolutely great at crying on command, and the crew is really friendly outside the set.)
Actor AU of Ec-4o.Verse that's like The Walking Dead so it's super long, but it also functions like a sit-com at the same time. (The cast doesn't really talk to eachother outside the set, but they love being on the show.)
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oodlesndoodles · 1 month
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doodles & comics
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Yerppppp anyway here are some drawings, and my dearest @spotaus feel free to analyze and give your total feedback
I don’t wanna talk about the sans drawings.. I’m so bad at them bro
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Sorry they’re side ways😭😭
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spotaus · 1 month
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*It seems you managed to stumble across a unique trio...
Decided to do a silly lil doodle of my favorite Dopple-trio! :D on the surface I feel like this'd be a daily occurrence. Kale is the most normal of the 3 of them, but I wanted to draw her and Paps having a cute lil conversation. (More ideas below the cut!!!)
Pretender regularly interacts with humans (his disguise slowly recovers, and he continues to mostly abstain from his old habits) and usually appears as "human" as long as he's out. Sometimes in public I feel like ppl would be willing to talk to him, and he's always quick to make it clear that to get to his family people would have to get past him. (Also I think in their neighborhood/town everyone gets increasingly confused because he regularly goes, "Yeah, that's my Kid" some days abd other days he's like, "That's my little sibling" and it's just that he's her guardian and the terms are kinda interchangeable because it's easier to use them than explain the whole situation lol)
Pretender also has no sense of fashion. He's always so close to a neat outfit then takes the wrong turn before he exits his closet lol.
Paps stays in skeleton form (at least for the first few years) even tho it's dangerous, because his human disguise is awful and makes K uncomfortable. Instead he trains genuinely with Undyne and Tender to properly figure out a human shape over about 4 years. Eventually he does have a human disguise, but he's contented in his monster form too.
K I can't say a lot for (beloved @oodlesndoodles is who designed/owns her!) But I'm pretty certain that she'd probably still wear her one monster-style outfit sometimes if only to show her solidarity with her family, or just to mess with people on the streets 🙏
Also:
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I love the idea that someone talking to them would take in this info and be like ???????
Last Notes: Human!Pretender is one of my favorite blorbos ever to doodle! His hair texture is probably the most satisfying thing ever! Paps keeps miraculously looking good for this AU??? I've never been able to draw Papyrus before??? Idk what changed, but I love him! And KALE! K my beloved I have struggled so hard to doodle her well and usually fail but I think I did it!!! I love her sm...
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spotaus · 20 days
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TW: FLASHING IMAGERY, UNREALITY, SCHOPOPHOBIA, MILD BODY HORROR
Hi guys, so, Pretender on the surface doesn't take kindly to people bothering his family. So, here's a silly little thing I did today! ♡
(@oodlesndoodles and @mylackofgrammaristerrifying thanks for the encouragement and inspo lol! Also, "Family" is a stand-in for specific names because he Would do this for both Kale and Ozzy-)
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spotaus · 2 months
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Typing this out and putting it in the Doppletale tag before it leaves my brain:
(Lots of Doppletale!Sans lore beneath the cut! Also, it is a Horror au so please check the tags for the trigger warnings before reading too far!!!)
Pretender(Sans) used to work in the lab.
He was alive on the surface, and worked as a merchant of sorts. He hardly remembers it now due to the pain of the memories (trauma response) and all he's got is the memories of the Stars and the Sun and maybe soft green grass. Mostly, though, he remembers those foggy nights when a traveler would happen upon him and his little traveling cart of a shop. When he'd invite them in, sell them some supplies, judge them. Some left. Some didn't. Dinner was always ready for him, hunting was never a struggle.
Of course, when the attacks started, people didn't know he was one of them. Such a friendly face, how could he be one of those things? The things that killed and maimed and tricked? He surely couldn't be... but he was. He picked up shop and retreated into the mountain with a hesitant mob guiding him. One of the few monsters who was sent off with an uneasy farewell rather than screams and destruction.
He'd been one of the ones who had supplies when they were locked away. Asgore and Toriel asked him for help, and Sans wasn't about to deny anyone that help. He let his supplies be divided amongst the people, he turned his attention to a new passion with his shop decidedly out of business. Making this place livable.
Eventually he started helping a team of folks. They were trying to construct something. The CORE. The head scientist (as the team deemed him) was W.D. Gaster. Sans had heard of him, a doctor who would take the bodies of dead human patients to sell, but never had they met before now. They meshed well, as did the other monsters on the team. They were efficient, and skilled, and made the place livable. More monsters moved out, and started building. Some sense of normalcy was nice.
And Sans kept working. Gaster kept working. Even through the first fallen human. Through their death. Through a monster named Alphys joining the team. Through the many, many fallen humans that followed. Through the days when monsters started to starve and their worked turned from how to free their kind, to how to feed them.
Sans still remembers the days when Gaster would put his head in his hands and slump tiredly over his papers. When they'd have just the barest slivers of soul to study so that their people could eat. The nights when the hunger got too much for some and... accidents... started happening at the lab. He remembers when everyone agreed that Gaster needed rations the most, as their most brilliant mind, and how he took that as almost an insult. How the Lab grew more and more quiet, until one day it was just him and Alphys.
It was just the two of them for... a long time.
Long enough that Sans watched the other scientist's confidence slip. After each mistake or failed attempt she'd started to give up. Sans couldn't exactly do anything to stop her. He just stayed by her side until the hunger took over, and he had to abandon his work at the lab too because, well... the supplies had run dry. The tests were all negative. And even though they'd found an alternative to the starvation, one that Asgore had put into motion, it wasn't pretty. (<- Cannibalizing other monsters to make Monster Candy and other magic food.)
When he left the lab he moved into Snowdin. He gave up on his human disguise almost entirely. The only thing that kept him going was that, well, one day a monster came to his door on the verge of dusting. They knew that Sans was well-off somehow. That he'd been strong back in the day. And they dusted there, not even explaining why they'd left their little bundle of a young monster with him.
Sans had likely only not fallen down because of that kid. Papyrus was a baby with no name, and no one seemed to remember his parents in Snowdin. So, sans had named him. Raised him. He was no father, so Brother did just fine. Paps decided that he wanted to look like the man that Sans had pictures with around the house (Gaster) and so he did. His proportions were a bit too long, and he was a skeleton like Sans, but he was Papyrus. That was perfect.
And so Sans (Pretender) provided for them. He taught Paps. He talked to his mysterious friend through the door. He tried, and failed, to save the little human boy that reminded him so much of his old boss. He nearly gave up. And then another human soul came along. The very last who would move through the underground, at least if they had anything to say about it.
This Final Human met Pretender (Sans) with so much fear, but still met him. Through the power of a promise, a sheer stubborn will, and a judgement proven right, he watched this human traverse the underground. He harbored her for many months (years? It was easy to lose track of time) and it felt like treason. At first. A betrayal of his role as Judge. And yet each day grew easier. He stopped watching with rigid focus, trying not to let himself lash out, and instead started watching her with apprehension, fearing that every monster she passed might hurt her.
Sometimes, more often than he'd admit, an intrusive thought would slip through. A moment of weakness where his mind would conjure her gruesome death before his eyes, and a ripping pain of guilt in his chest. But he'd blink, and shake it off, and remember to breathe because she was still alive and okay. And every single day he'd be amazed at her audacity. Her commitment. And once he noticed, he'd again be afraid for her. Her soul forcing her to react, a thing he'd only ever seen years ago on the surface, a thing he'd forgotten about and had never cared to study.
To him, once upon a time, humans were nothing more than livestock. Clever livestock, sure, but to him sparing some had been little less than a farmer sparing his favorite cow from slaughter another day. This was different. Being so long without a soul who failed his judgement, he couldn't imagine thinking about things the way he once had. Which was bad. His people were starving. And yet the human's death wouldn't feed them all, and somehow she just kept convincing more and more people that she could help. That they didn't need to eat her. She was insane, and wonderful, and had changed his mind more easily than a hot knife through butter.
Whether that was his nature or her conviction, he didn't care to debate.
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oodlesndoodles · 2 months
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The comic itself
anyway sorry if posts are slow! I’ve had a very… very bad week
I think I cried harder than our dear friend Dopple!Kindess!!
Pretender!Sans and Dopple!Tale is by @spotaus or @spotlightstudios
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oodlesndoodles · 1 month
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KALE DRAWINGS!!
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When feeling strong emotions you can probably see all her little pearly-whites. Not going to lie guys, she’s like a scared dog. A small scared dog so it’s bad LMAO
anyway tagging a always:
Dopple!tale belongs to : @spotaus or their main is @spotlightstudios
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