oh yeah, its all coming together.

Stuff I collected from this past week

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Another art batch! Finally drew their current designs, plus more big shot era stuff. Might change the pants color on the wedding outfit tbh.

I originally thought about giving puppet Spamton visible light roots instead of the gray streaks, since his hair is dyed, but idk, maybe the Dark Worlds have magic hair dye that permanently changes your hair color and then it can gray. A big part of why I went for the streaks is that I just don't know how to draw the roots properly; I tried a couple times and then gave up.

I draw current Tenna with stitches and headcanon him as having lasting issues with his arms. Spamtenna chronic pain couple ftw.

The top right drawing in the third image exists just for the "spamming his 'tenna" joke. And the pipis drawing is there as an easy way to fill space.

Bonus edits:

Spamton and Tenna + text posts.

Bonus:

I saw a couple posts with this AU concept, where Tenna is a Dreemurr relative, and I believe in both cases he was Asgore's relative- Since the TV he personifies in canon stays in the house with Toriel after the divorce, I'd argue he has more of a connection to her, so I'd personally have him be her relative instead. Being a firm believer in trans guy Tenna, I have the idea that maybe he and Toriel were born as twin sisters (maybe even identical twins), but he transitioned later in life, so now Toriel has a brother.

I've seen this AU concept having Spamton as a human, and I can see that; he's pretty humanoid already, so it wouldn't be too much of a leap. And since there probably wouldn't be interference from The Horrors in this version, he and Tenna can just be happily married. Without the severe trauma he has in canon, he'd also be more outwardly affectionate/be more open about his attachment to people, especially family members. (He would also have a different, more normal name.)

Tenna is normally away working, with Spamton working alongside him, but they visit Hometown from time to time, and Spamton helps Kris feel less alone as a human, since they're no longer the only one in Hometown. Kris also gets to spend time with Spamtenna's monster-human hybrid daughter.

(How do Spamton and Tenna have a bio daughter in this version if both are trans? If there's no weird magic biology and it works like it does in the real world, then a relative donated genetic material).

Tenna and Toriel, as siblings do, have some rivalry going on, and one way it probably shows up is that they're criticizing/nitpicking each other's parenting, though in truth both are taking good care of their kids, and their kids love them.

I like the idea that, even if this is a happy AU where the tragic stuff doesn't happen, Toriel still ultimately divorces Asgore (I saw an Undertale AU like this once). While she moves on, Asgore still tries to get her back.

In the Bonus Zone, before the pipis room, Tenna said "Because I've got something you guys will never have! Something big! Something very secret!" to some Pippinses, and then when finding the pipis lying on the floor, he said "how did this get out here!?". In Spamton's absence, he was using language that framed the pipis more as an object/thing.

But after Spamton showed up, he actually switched to using language that more obviously frames the pipis as a person. He started using she/her pronouns and directly speaking to her, asking if she's okay and reassuring her by saying "Don't worry! You're gonna go someplace safe!!!", and he even used affectionate terminology, calling her "my little darling".

There's a sort of reflexive contrarianism some people have about legalized gay marriage, as though it exists just so that queer people can follow hetero social norms, or like it's something that's purely symbolic and only exists for greater public acceptance. However, while it did help with shifting public opinion to be more favorable to queer relationships, the reason legal gay marriage, rather than symbolic weddings, is so important, is because there are certain legal rights you get by signing that paperwork, regardless of what the specifics of your relationship are (here's a lengthy post about it). I'll mention the most relevant stuff here.

By legally marrying someone, you're telling the government that this is a person you actively want as part of your family, and the fact that you chose them gives them priority over your biological relatives for things like inheritance.

In the absence of a legal marriage, if something bad happens to one of the partners and they end up hospitalized, the other partner doesn't have the legal right to visit them, let alone make any decisions on their behalf if they're unable to do it themself. A person's close biological relatives will be given the right to make decisions on their behalf in case of an emergency; if the person dies, their relatives will be prioritized for things like inheritance, as well as custody of the person's biological children.

The thing with biological relatives is that you didn't choose them, and you may not have a good relationship with them. In the context of queer people's relatives, there's the worry of them being queerphobic; for older queer couples, this would've been even more likely. There are plenty of stories in which one partner in a queer couple died, and then the dead partner's relatives took away the couple's child from the surviving partner forever, since that child was only biologically related to the dead partner. Even if the dead person wrote a will where they expressed the wish for their partner to be the child's legal guardian, that will is only a strong suggestion in the eyes of the law, and a judge can ignore it and rule in favor of the relatives anyway, or even give the child to someone unrelated, but simply not queer/deemed more "appropriate".

Yeah, every time I realize something new about these two it's like, ough my heart...

If the player does the Weird Route, but saves Tenna and keeps him in Castle Town, I wonder if we'll get a cutscene where he finds out what the Puppet Scarf is and his heart gets irreparably shattered...