Feathers be ruffling

first little pride month post, just my gender identity ideas of the main guys i usually use(plus some extras i either will or won't use at some point in time)

Sans (undertale): he/him, not sure if i vibe with cis or trans more. He could be either one and I do not know which. Maybe transmasc, to fit the "trans the skeleton meme". idk anymore, its Sans Undertale, what more needs to be said? He's the kind of guy who wouldn't correct a misuse of pronouns, he knows what he is, his brother knows what he is, that's all he cares about.

Red (underfell): he/him, cis male, but somehow even more lax about it that Sans Classic. This is a tumblr au sexyman, he already knows his worth, he ain't proving shit. He'll wear what he wants, do what he wants, this is the peak "happy with himself no matter what" male.

Blue (underswap, my vers.): transmasc he/they. no valid reasoning, just vibes, but at least for my version, transmasc for sure. He's also cool with his image, but will address any misgenders, mostly to capitalize on an opportunity to inform people about kindness and how to be nice to everyone.

Lust (underlust): any/all. Why? No clue. Assume vibes for any of my headcanons, that's what I survive off of. But I feel like Lust is, not genderfluid, but just every gender. Whatever gives him more money, man needs to pay the bills somehow. The funny part is when multiple people that know Lust meet up and everyone uses a different pronoun and then they take ten full minutes to figure out they're all talking about the same person. Lust finds this hilarious.

Outer (outertale): he/they. Every single Outer variant just gives me demigender vibes. Space enby skeles, all of them. Original Outer in particular perfectly embodies it. No further comments.

Nova (my particular outer au, which I've dubbed the Outer Limits AU): He/they/it originally, now just whatever everyone else calls him. Mostly because of the loose sense of self that he now has after five years alone, but he's always seen his identity pretty loosely. After being found, he just went with what the other Stars called him. It was easier than trying to acknowledge himself and figure out everything that kinda...washed away, over the years.

Sci (sciencetale, i think?): he/she. Assuming the concept of Sci being a younger Undertale Sans, and continuing my "trans the skeleton" bit, this is around the era Sans, and by extension, Sci, starts to question himself. Is she a girl? Is he a boy? Fuck if she knows, there are more important things to focus on, like ✨science✨.

as a nice little celebration, i will NOT draw or write anything specific. instead, every once in a while(read: when i remember) i will just make a post with my particular lgbt+ headcanons at this point in time for the two fandoms im in, utmv and loz

hope everyone has a great pride month

im going eep, but once i wake up i will probably eventually make the first post

Horror, crack in his skull, that man has brain damage or the equivalent of some sort, his ass did not get of scot free. Plus the starvation, poor guy. Trauma will destroy your sanity. So will a broken head.

Dust? Fucker went insane a loooong time ago, no amount of healing fixes that. Plus, his whole "hearing his dead brother" thing i imagine him having if it isnt canonical, that bastard is not stable. What's a few failed evil scientist-esque experiments when it comes to that.

Killer? That poor bastard is fuuuuucked. Emotions? Gone. Will to live? Probably gone too. Most sane part of him? His love of cats. That man is simultaneously more and less stable than Dust. Schrodingers mental stability. Mans is teh first to suggest violence or pranks that are either incredibly intelligent and well made, or target Nightmare. He is dum dum.

my little Outertale AU thing, what should I name it? Outer Limits was an idea of mine but turns out thats a show or smth. But I could just brand it as Outer Limits au? idk, I need opinions

So! one of my most common personal headcanons is Blue with a tail. Long, thin, he can use it as a whip or an extra arm to carry stuff. If i combine that with my other common ice magic headcanon, i imagine him using his tail like a deadly nadder from httyd.

But, he's not the focus here.

So, as we all know, Dream and Nightmare's physical forms are based off of underswap sans. Assuming it's this Blue specifically, which i like to believe it is because why not, then they should also have tails. Yet I never seem to imagine that for them.

So! Angst potential! They both have their tails docked. Well, not really. Docked would imply it was done for a reason, and not in an excruciatingly painful way. But this is angst potential, so of course they suffered.

For Nightmare, i imagine it happened early on. Same base idea, the villagers being assholes, pushing him around. Only this time, they decide he isn't allowed to just brush things off, forget they happened, pretend everything is alright. They hold him down. This isn't new, it's happened before. But the knife is different. They grab his tail. You can put two and two together. He's left with barely a stump. It hurts. It's bleeding. They had cut his tail off piece by piece, always cutting into the bone itself, before finally lopping it completely off. It was awful. He couldn't hide this one from his brother, couldn't brush it off. It's one of his last straws.

For Dream though...this all depends on what personal variation of his story I'm going with. So, starting with my most common one. In this version, Dream finds out what the villagers are doing to his brother, and confronts them. But, in typical(to me, at least) Dream fashion, he offers himself up in exchange for Nightmare's safety. They follow it for about three days, then continue to hurt Nightmare without Dream knowing. In this version, Dream's tail would be cut before Nightmare's. The villagers had to see if it would work, if it would be painful. It is. They slice through one of the vertebrae, instead of the space between. It sucks. It hurts like hell. Dream doesn't let Nightmare know. Then he becomes stone and never finds out that it happened to Nightmare too. When he finally sees his brother's tail, or lack thereof, he's in tears. Because that's how he really figures out that he was the practice dummy so they could keep hurting his brother.

For my other version, it follows typical Dreamtale(i think). Dream is kept oblivious, Nightmare is hurt(tail gets cut off), apple incident. The whole shebang. Then he wakes up, five hundred years later. He has his tail, though he hides it now, a habit he developed from Blue, who does the same. Apparently, long-tailed skeletons aren't always appreciated. Why, he doesn't know or understand. But whatever. Now, maybe a villager or two survived the initial purging of Dreamtale. Maybe Core found them and saved them. Idk, i'm not well versed here. But maybe they're in the Omega timeline. Maybe time flows differently there. Maybe they're still alive. Maybe they see Dream, remember his brother, and decide to get revenge the only way they can.

Dream doesn't fight back. Not initially. He's too confused, this person, these people he had thought were his friends so long ago...they admitted to hurting his brother. And now they were hurting him too. He lets it happen. He believes he deserves it. Or maybe he's just too stunned. Point is, he doesn't fight. By the time his tail is getting cut, he's crying. Silent tears, from guilt, from pain. Anger flares up, for his brother, for ever trusting these cruel people. Then his tail is gone and he's left there, in pain, crying quietly. It's half an hour before Ink finds him. Blue was there less than a minute later. Dream could fee his anger, sympathetic pain. And sadness. Tails were hard to grow back, even for an immortal. For one who's vessel isn't even their true body, impossible.

In this one, when the brothers meet outside of battle, Dream is already hugging him. In tears, apologizing for everything, for never knowing, for the pain he couldn't save his brother from. He has a weak smile when he says they match, that he has at least some semblance of an idea of what happened to his brother. Nightmare is floored. The remaining Dreamtale villagers are dead before night's end.

anyway, angst potential from basing them off of Swap specifically :)