Skye Draws Things

Confessions by the Lakeside (or cbtls for short) is a post chapter 5 weird route au comic. After Kris and Noelle cross the lake and reach the other side, Kris tries desperately to convince Noelle to come back to Hometown with them. After her refusal, Kris believes the only one who can really convince her to return is Susie. They return to the lake, and, alongside help from Susie and Ralsei, they prepare to bring Noelle back to Hometown.

This post will serve as both the Masterpost and the Introduction to the comic itself. As of writing this, the entire script is finished and the first few pages are being worked on. Once the pages go up, I’ll edit this post with links to them, as well as editing the format of this post to make more sense in context.

I’ve never done a project like this before, but I’m really exited to share it with everyone. I hope everyone enjoys it!

Have a soggy Susie teaser.

Susie at the lake, you can’t see her eyes.

This goes on for multiple pages when describing the different panels I’m supposed to draw.

Eventually my notes devolve into just. Still no eyes.

Here’s a sneak peak of Susie with no eyes lmao, it sounds a lot more threatening than it is.

Like, obviously they know we exist, to a certain extent. I doubt they know they are literally a player character in a video game (mainly bc that might be a little cliche).

But like. Do they know how the menu works in both the light and dark world? Is that how they keep their knife hidden from us? Do they know we only can see what they directly allow us to see?

I’m fine with either, I want to know what the general consensus is on this tho. Currently I have 2 pages fully sketched I need to line and color, and 2 pages roughly sketched out that need the final sketch, line, and color.

Here’s a quick teaser of one of the fully sketched panels (I’ll still work on it a bit more to refine it but it’s mostly done)

Very low effort shitpost. Anyways go play frlg.ips. It’s like the weird route but pokemon.

I found a couple i really like, I might start using them more often. Have a Kris with them.

The ch5 weird route really has a lot of allusions to speedrunning.

We all know how Kris and Noelle and crossing the lake in the weird route right. And many people, myself included, think that means they’re clipping out of bounds or something similar to that. People have even said they’re wrong warping out of hometown.

And before this sequence, we have to go get bread from sans. Bread which leaves a lot of crumbs, calling back to the glitch from mother 1.

Basically, there’s a glitch in mother 1 where under specific circumstances, using the breadcrumbs glitched you to a greyed out version of the town. This is a skip used in glitched runs of the game, because it lets you skip a portion of the game (iirc)

But you know what sans gives us right before that?

A punch card. Not a piece of paper, specifically a punch card.

Why am I bringing this up? Well, if you know anything about undertale glitched speedruns, you’ll know that the punch card is the staple speedrun skip.

The punch card glitch basically works by allowing you to gain movement in situations where your movement is normally taken away. This involves quickly menuing to open the punch card and close it at the same time as a cutscene trigger, allowing you to move while the cutscene is active.

However, the punch card also allows you to wrong warp by doing the same trick over and over room transition instead of a cutscene trigger.

The weird route lake requires you to quickly menu in order to go move and go somewhere you’re not supposed to, in a similar manner to the punch card glitch (tho not nearly as tight timing wise lol). The breadcrumbs are a direct reference to a mother 1 speedrunning glitch.

You know. Which could mean nothing.

(I’m still really proud of the one in the middle)

Characters in order belong to

CybrArtist

XxBl1xerxX

CoatlCuddles

cheesymakaroni

Woobat

As you may have seen, I’ve been writing out a comic script for a post Ch 5 weird route scenario. Essentially an au, but framed more in a sense of “well this could technically happen” rather than something like the 50 million sans AUs lol.

I finished writing and editing the script last night. I’ve had a friend read over it, and they gave their stamp of approval that it didn’t need any major rewrites.