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What is UNDERTALE Alter Ego?

UNDERTALE Alter Ego is an UTYDR au that seeks to take characters, concepts and places and lay them out in a formula similar to the last three games of the Persona series!

What's a Persona Series?

The Persona Series is a set of games made by Atlus, starring high school students happening upon shadow worlds that reflect society and awakening to the special power of persona- a physical manifestation of their inner self, to defeat an oncoming threat.

Who's in it?

The story follows Frisk- a sixteen year old, moving in with their foster family: The Dreemurrs (Toriel, Asriel and Chara). Frisk's party consists of new friends, Susie and Noelle, their foster siblings as well as Clover and Kanako from UNDERTALE Yellow and interpretations of the other 5 human SOULs; Assisting the party there's Flowey: The group's guide through Mt. Ebott. Outside of the shadow world there are the characters Frisk will meet and befriend- A multitude of characters from UNDERTALE, UNDERTALE YELLOW and DELTARUNE! Assisting Frisk will be an enigmatic man who resides over The Dark Room: W.D Gaster and his assistant, a strange humanoid figure, known only as The Vessel. Other UTYDR characters will of course feature outside of social links, party members or shopkeepers :).

Hold on- Ebott? Like the mountain?

Yep! Mt. Ebott is no longer the prison for the monsters who lost the war so long ago- It is now the epicentre of many dangerous beings- Shadows; They are a tangible, dangerous, yet alluring threat. The Human and Monster war did not end in their banishment- it instead ended peacefully with a treaty formed. Monsters have lived on the surface peacefully since.

Will Persona characters cameo?

They may appear in the background- Though all of the shadows/personas frisk obtains are from the series (bar their starting ones.)

What will you use from UT and Persona?

The characters will all pretty much be from UNDERTALE, Yellow or DELTARUNE with any original ones seeking to fit into that. As well as that, the locations and dynamics between characters will be very reminiscent of UNDERTALE's- All of the floors of Ebott will very very very closely resemble the locales from UNDERTALE! The battle style, plot structure, social links and- of course, the ability to use a Persona will be adapted from the series. The AU will take plenty from Persona 3, 4 and 5- Though tonally we're looking more at a Persona 4 here.

So what is this? Will it be a game? an animated series? a complicated board game your family won't play with you?

No, No and... Not yet. The AU will be presented in the form of a... Webcomic! There'll be the main comic with all the plot and junk as well as side Social Link comics where Frisk befriends various other people mentioned prior! We're also considering opening in-character asks during breaks :D If all goes to pot, we'll make it into a visual novel, though-

Who joins when? What happens?! Cocoapowder real?! Who's the ___ arcana?!?

We'll be releasing plenty of supplementary art and details about the AU as we work on everything so pay attention to those! We've already posted about the arcanas and everything ^-^

HOLD ON!? What's with all the changes!? I thought DELTARUNE stuff wasn't being included?!

So- If you've been with the blog for a while- First off, thanks! Second off, we had a little bit of a break from working on the AU and in that time... We've sort of realised we wanted to rearrange things, take things out, put them in and sort things out so that the story and AU as a whole is better- and more importantly- A story we want to tell with confidence in it. The main changes are the party members, Frisk's design and merging with some aspects of Kris, the social link characters, the dark room attendant and Sunny being the navigator. I do understand people have a great attachment to the previous era but... I think what we've got on the way is better :)

When's it coming out? I crave a date!

Well, I'm flattered but we're taken. Secondly, it'll be released in arcs, we can't put a solid deadline or time frame on it but we're working pretty hard to get as much done as possible- again, patience :D

Will Jack Frost be in the Comic?

... yes.

Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

Here's Susie! Mean girl of the Jester Arcana!

Bonus: The axe one was meant to match this so- Aurafarmers.

I can do that, sure! Stuff's changing a little with the AU and that goes with Clover and Chara's dynamic. We want less of the generic snooty smarmy sarcastic SmartKid and more of the 'smile and laugh through the pain' thing that UT has throughout the dreemurr family. So essentually Chara's the fakest IDGAFer and it makes Clover uncomfortable since they wear their heart on their sleeve.

Okay, serious post time. This has no ounce of malice in it. I am not mad or berating anyone. I'm stating my stance on how I'm gonna do things with The Other Script and how I view it.

I left many warnings beforehand that this new story will be a lot darker in nature than Twin Runes. There are also warnings on the pages with additional trigger warnings in the tags.

If the serious moments in Twin Runes were hard for you to stomach, then PLEASE... The Other Script won't be for you.

At some point you gotta know that if you willingly put your hand on the stove top despite the warnings then it really isn't anyone else's fault but your own if you get burnt.