#alphore

About : SlaveTale takes place a lot time ago, in Europe, when humanity haven't started to discover others countries yet and when a big part of the population was working in farms/field, governed by a monarchy. Okay, I have no idea if these kind of times really existed but this is where it takes place. I would say between the end of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance but without the discoveries of the presence of other countries (I guess that's also named the XIV century... I'm such an idiot ). In this AU, humans and monsters had the same war as in-game (which takes place centuries before my AU) but, instead of fighting until the end and loosing, the monsters (well, more Asgore) abandoned the war and the humans decided to make them their slaves. It's more or less what happened with black people (which is why the Europeans haven't discover the others countries yet : I don' t know if they would be jerks or not because of a different skin color if they already have monsters as slaves) : monsters are forced to do jobs for humans, doesn't get pay for it (duh...), can be trade and sell in markets (that were in the streets)  and can be tortured. Also children monsters aren't spared from this (after all, it's humanity we're talking about) and, despite being slaves, monsters could still have children (and some humans might make sure that children were born to keep having slaves). Also, monsters can have a paper/an authorization from their masters to go in town (if we can really call this a town since it's more villages) to buy stuff.

Now for what does it change for the characters:

Chara and Asriel : Chara was a human who lived with both their parents but was misunderstood by them. Asriel was bought by Chara's parents to keep company to them, in a time when humans showed more kindness towards monsters. Chara and Asriel grew up for a year as siblings but, one day, Chara started to think of a way to show humans that monsters needs to be treated as equals. They tried to talk with others humans about it but they just ignored them. Later, they discovered that some monsters had healing magic and decided to fall sick and to ask Asriel to heal them. Asriel was hesitant about it but Chara insisted. However, Asriel didn't have healing magic. As Chara was dying, Asriel absorbed their soul and became an enormous monster. Chara more or less came back in this monster, both of the children controlling the body. When Chara's parents saw them (the two-in-one monster), they were terrified and attacked them. They tried to flee, only to be seen by an entire village. Like in the game, Chara didn't hesitated at the idea of killing them but Asriel refused. Both of them died and, after that, monsters were seen as soulless creature able to kill humans, making their condition worse.

Yeah, I know the idea of making themselves sick is pretty lame but I couldn't find a better excuse. I guess I could change it in the future ?    

Frisk : Frisk is a child who was living happily with their parents. One day, their mother passed away and their father, unable to both work and take care of them, decided to take a monster to take care of Frisk. He bought Toriel who, as time goes, became like a mother for Frisk. Also, Frisk's father always calls them a girl, despite Frisk feeling more comfortable with “them” pronouns, thing that Toriel respects. Like Chara, Frisk started to think of a way to show that monsters are people. For now, I have however no idea how (maybe making friends with others monsters or leaving their house for monsters places, to show that monsters can take care of them, or maybe both ?).

Windings : Probably the longest (for now at least), Windings Gaster was a normal slave that was supposed to be sell by his previous “owner”, skeletons being too weak for manual work and monsters trying to hide their full potential (making Gaster looking useless). As he was waiting, he saw a man quite old looking at everything around, a strange device in his hand. Gaster decided to go ask him about this when the seller wasn't looking and discovered that the man was a scientist who wanted to explain the world better. Gaster started to ask him a lot of questions about this work and, seeing how interested Gaster was, the man decided to take him as an assistant, considering that the last one died a little while ago. Gatser started to learn about the man stuff and so he became his assistant and friend. However, a lot of humans made fun of the man for getting along with a monster, especially considering that he was already called a “crazy old man” for being a scientist (but he didn't care).

Gaster was allowed to go in the town to look for new stuff for the man and one day, he saw a female skeleton about to get sell. He found her quite attractive and tried to hide it to his boss, but became more clumsy at work and so had to tell the truth. The next day, the scientist went to the seller, asking who take the other skeleton and traded a lot of money in exchange for her. He also gave to both of them a house he had in the town (before that, Gaster only had a little room for himself in the scientist's place, work being for the man more important than life quality). To thank the scientist for getting her out of slavery, the female skeleton proposed to help him if he ever needs it. Years passed, the two skeletons started to feel strong love for each other and, one day, Gaster asked the scientist if he could have a child with his new wife (they didn't get married but it was as if for them). The scientist completely agreed, thinking that this kind of things doesn't need to be ask and that, if he doesn't have is own family, that didn't mean that the others couldn't just because they are seen as inferiors.

And so came Sans and then Papyrus, both growing up without having to fear others humans and used to science stuff. Years later and the two were in their twenties. Sans was helping at the lab and Papyrus helped with the stuff his mother did. The man, considered as insane by the rest of the town, started to get really old, letting Sans and Gaster doing most of the stuff, and one day, Gaster found him dead because of how old he was. On the man’s desk, Gaster found the his testament, saying that he wanted the skelefamily to live at his place, far from slavery. However, as humans realized that he was dead, the guards came to the house, claiming the property for their king and that the four monsters had to be slaves. The parents tried to be listened, without success. They told their sons to go hide and tried to fight the guards, but weren't strong enough and got killed by them. Sans and Papyrus got found by the guards and put into slavery, forcing them to be separated.

Yeah, I'm inspired when it comes to stories with bad moments.

Despite what I say in my UT headcannon post, I used the name Gaster here but that's because it's a shorter word.    

Asgore : He was the king of all monsters and the one who asked to stop the war. He lived through a lot of generations of humans and was mainly used for his strength to do manual labor. If his kindness sometimes helped him making humans more merciful with him, it also put him into bad situations with cruel humans. For Asriel's birth, I guess it could be at the time when humans were more merciful and that he got to see his wife again. If I make it like that, I guess it would mean that Toriel started to blame Asgore for everything after Asriel's death ('cause yeah, she blames him). Finally, in the current moment of the story (before Frisk starts to try to act), I would see him being with a cruel human but able to make friends with others humans.  

Toriel : She was the Queen of all monsters before the war. She was first used by humans for the same purposes as Asgore but was also known and used to take care of the houses. She also lived through a lot of generations. For the convenience of Asriel's story, when monsterkind became enslaved, she was really sad for her people and when Asriel died, she was burden with pain to know that the child she barely saw growing up died and started to blame Asgore for this and for the fact that their kind is enslaved. In the current moment of the story, her job is to take care of Frisk (as said before). Also, I headcannon her new master (Frisk's father) to fall in love with her and hating himself for liking someone from an inferior race who is, in addition, supposed to do his dead wife's work. This would make the man more rude with her but also dislike the idea of seeing her close to another monster.

Sans : As said before, he didn't start as a slave. When he became one, he easily became famous for being useless because, not only he was a skeleton, but he also wasn't used to this kind of work (and by “not being used to” I mean “never did before so don't know how to do”), and he got beaten more than once. He was often brought back to be sell and, with time, even started to get along with the seller who was a chill and smart guy (like a mix between Gerson and Sans : can see and know a lot of things but often shrug it off). One day, as Sans was supposed to be sell again, his old master wanting him to be bought by someone more cruel to “make him understand how things works”, the seller suddenly decided to buy Sans himself and to tell the other guy that Sans was chosen by who he wanted. Then, the seller, knowing everyone in town, decided to find Papyrus' owner to make Sans see his brother (yeah Sans told the guy that he has a brother). The day he was help by the seller was also the day when Sans met Toriel by helping her with a human jerking to her as she was buying stuff. This day is also the current moment/situation for Sans' case in the story.  

Papyrus: I honestly don't have much ideas for him but I want him to be with more or less kind people. Also, despite what happened to him, he's still smiling a lot a believing that humanity can change its point of view; and it doesn't bother him to do work for them.

Undyne : Again, I don't have much idea for her. I would see her as being forced to do hard manual work, which doesn't bother her that much, even if her master is a jerk to her. However, I feel like she would hate the humans for hurting so much the other monsters and would be willing to help her kind.

Alphys : I also don't really have ideas... I think that she would work for a kind human and be interested in machines (well, not really machines considering the period it takes place).

Mettaton and Napstablook : Being ghosts, I think that they would be immunized to humans attacks, so I simply see them living far from the town, in their little farm. And yeah, Mettaton wouldn't want a corporeal form considering what would happen to them/him if they/he had one.

I don't know if I will include Flowey in the futur though...

Designs: Ok so basically, I suck at having this kind of ideas. I would see them having Toriel's dress but a brown version and without the sleeves. However, each would have a difference. For the main characters : Toriel's one would be pretty clean, Asgore's a bit torn, Sans' would have holes made by him as pockets and would be very torn, Papyrus' would have a part of the bottom use to make an improvised scarf, Undyne's would be dirty and Alphys' may be torn at the bottom. For the humans designs, I let you imagination do it for you because I have absolutely no idea of how they would look like. However, the humans don’t have names for now...

About shipping: First off, this AU will have Soriel in it. I also think that I will make Undyrus and Alphore. I will accept others ships but just so you now, sadly, it may be a bit awkward for me to see Asgore with Toriel after their son's incident. Also, I DON'T WANT TO SEE ART OR STORIES OF SANS WITH FRISK HAVING A ROMANTING RELATIONSHIP IN THIS AU ! Seriously guys ! This ship can be found in Soriel AUs like ReaperTale and AfterTale ! Why can't you just stay in your AUs ?! So yeah, sorry to say this in such a rude way but if you ship Sans with Frisk, this AU isn't for you. I guess the same goes for Sans with Papyrus.

Also, speaking of shipping, I DON'T WANT TO SEE PORN OF MY AU ! Thank you !

Finally, I'm okay with people drawing or writing about this AU (well, except the three things I just mentioned) but if you use it, please credit me. Thanks and congrats if you read all that stuff !  

EDIT : Coming back to my earliest posts years later and HOLY SHIT YOU CAN TELL THIS WAS WRITTEN BY A WHITE PERSON WHO WAS TAUGHT A WATERED DOWN VERSION OF WHAT SLAVERY ACTUALLY IS ! Like, I’m not going to delete this post because I’d rather own up to the shit I wrote rather than try to erase it but damn this post is white !

And honestly, if I ever get back to writing UT fics, I’m not sure if I’ll ever write anything based on this AU (not that I had much of a story to begin with tbh).

While I’ll admit there are a few concepts in this that I like, most notably the part with Asriel and Chara, such an AU would require a lot of research, not only for how the monsters felt about all this and would try to revolt against the system but also in how to write the human characters and how dehumanizing their views are, and how even the “nice ones” still share some of those bigoted views (like how it’s never mentioned whether or not the man who bought Gaster actually paid him for his work, and I like to think the man didn’t because it just never crossed his mind to pay a slave).

This is also the kind of stuff I’d rather write with the opinion of people who have a lot more knowledge on the subject, or who could direct me to helpful sources to educate myself.

On that note, while saying this post is “white”, I do think potential research for it should be about slavery in general across the globe and throughout history, rather than focus on one specific example. If anything it’d be of very bad taste to just copy-paste the horrors of Western colonization and call it a day (using this example since the post mentions the AU taking place in the 16-17th century).