Aphotictale - characters
Welcome Welcome one and all to the character list for the main character of Aphotictale, in this I’ll be covering the backstories and personalities of the...well...main characters. If you don’t want read all of this the last paragraph has basic information on everyone. Also, the second to last paragraph has the backstory of everything in this timeline, yes, this is an alternate timeline, not universe, and you can ask “what’s the difference?”, and the difference is that an alternate universe is on the same plane of existence, while an alternate timeline (what is about to be said is not scientifically true in any way so don’t come to me saying I’m a liar if you go telling people it’s true and then finding out it’s not) exist in the fourth dimension, where everything in the timeline exists in the third, but all the timelines live in the fourth together. Also, in this timeline monsters live an average lifespan of 5000 years, don’t speak English but rather speak “soul speak”, and they reproduce by taking a part of each partners soul and putting them together, which grows into a new soul. Their food is more air and liquid then solid, and they can even eat plasma. They don’t exactly sleep but rather have like a battery that lasts five days and needs to be charged for one with rest, but like a phone battery they can be chared whenever. Finally, they can live without their body, they do feel pain when they get hurt (except the undead) but even if their body dies, as long as their soul lives they can make a new body. Anyways, let’s begin.
We will start off with everyones favorite, sans. In this AT, sans is the son of Gaster, an abusive mad scientist who lost his mind at the death of his wife and beats sans and experiments on him. Lucida, who died in the great war is Sans's mother. He is a heavy alcolic who usually drinks 10 bottles of 75% Vodka before getting buzzed. He is also an apprentice to Gaster and a scientist himself, although no one ever gives him credit for his works. He has a human soul (which will be explained at the end) of Justice, and when killed, will turn into his...de"termination" mode, which was made accidently when Gaster was experimenting on him. He doesn't really love anyone but cares deeply about his brother Papyrus, technical son Napstablook, and Toriel. Sans looks the way he does due to his father, Gaster, injecting his magical dna into child sans in hope that he will become as smart as Gaster quickly, although while it did give him his wits, it also gave him some of his problems like addiction and carelessness. In general Sans is a careless hero. (Echotale sans is made by Yoralim on tumblr and gastertale sans is made by borurou on tumblr) Next we have Papyrus, sans's older brother and Gasters and Lucidas child. He is the golden child everyone loves and respects. He seems very unloving and rude to many, only thinking in equations and strategies. He is the royal strategist of the royal knights, planning attacks and giving orders. He secretly cares about Sans in a brotherly way, his father Gaster in a fatherly way (unless all you fontcest shippers want more, in which I can't stop ya) and he is in love with Mettaton. Him and Mettaton are lovers who secretly had a child named napstablook, but when the child was found they said the child was sans's. He has a soul of perseverance (again, will be explained at the end) and never gives up on his goals, doing anything to achieve them. (Gastertale papyrus is made by borurou on tumblr). In all Papyrus may seem cold and soulless, but deep down cares about many. Moving on we have Mettaton, star of the underground, mother of napstablook (yes in this Mettaton is a female) and Papyrus's lover. She publicly hates Sans for "rape" but in private is very sorry for pushing it onto him, telling Sans all the time of how sorry she is for having to lie, he eventually forgave her and accepted the role of being napstablooks father. She is very compassionate and caring, always willing to help everyone she meets and just wants to make the underground a better place. She has a soul of compassion (a pink soul is a soul of compassion) and in Omega form her soul is cracked. She was originally a ghost monster, but then Papyrus came along and made her a body to her liking, which is part of the reason she loves Papyrus. All in all she is a compassionate soul (pun intended) and cares for the whole underground like family. Now to the son of Papyrus and Mettaton, Napstablook. Napstablook is very shy but yet kind, putting others before himself. He admires who calls his father Sans and tries to live above Sans's expectations and do whatever it takes to make him happy. He goes to a high school with other monsters and tries to help them with there problems, but is usually bothered a lot and constantly has anxiety attacks due to him being the son of Mettaton. Mettaton tries to help him as much as possible, but usually has Sans or one of her employees babysit him. He feels alone and unloved a lot, but acts happy and cheerful, hoping to be like his mother when he grows up. He loves music and makes many songs of his own, usually romance and techno, the romance songs being about his crush Alphys. He has a soul of patience Alphys is a highschooler who is very intelligent and has a crush on Napstablook (sorry everyone but the Undyne x Alphys ship isn't cannon in this). She is short and chubby, usually wearing a t-shirt and skirt with round glasses. She is kind and helping with a sharp mind and straight A+'s, always being called the monster calculator (like someone calling someone else a human calculator for humans). She is very shy and has anxiety problems coming from years of bullying, one of her only friends being Napstablook, which is part of the reason why she loves him, another reason being that she has heard some of his romance songs secretly. She has a soul of integrity and thinks of Undyne as and older sister or mother since she is an orphan that lives with Undyne. The royal knight herself, Undyne. Undyne is a tough soul who isn't afraid of anything except herself and Gaster. She fights for the betterment of her kingdom and will stop anyone in her path. She loves action movies and her trusty katana termination. She has a small crush on asgore and thinks of alphys like a little sister, helping her be strong and teaching her how to fight when Alphys wants to learn. While she may teach Alphys, Alphys teaches her too about science and math, helping Undyne finally get her education. Undyne works for King Asgore and Gaster, although she doesn't trust Gaster due to his closed off nature and how his sons look so much like him and not their mother. She has a soul of determination. Asgore is the older brother of Toriel (yes they are siblings in this not married, when i first played undertale i thought they were siblings due to their resembling looks) and King of his side of the underground. He is a rough and evil person in battle but can be kind sometimes. He is tall and muscular with black hair and a black "goat T" (puns are awesome), a red stripe going through his sleek, pulled back oily hair. He has huge horns that circle around and point up and foward, wearing heavy armor and a red cape. His sister Toriel and him grew up fighting each other and lost their parents in the great war, they ended up growing up to hate each other and even splitting the kingdom in two. Asgore cares for Sans and Papyrus like they were his brothers and cares about Undyne like the sister he never had and always wanted. Asgore has a soul of Bravery, afraid of much but always standing up to his fears and laughing at them. He asked Gaster once to make a son for him so Gaster injected a bit of every soul type into an echo flower and Asgore named the flower asriel. Toriel is the queen of her kingdom and rules with a soul of Kindness. She always helps everyone she meets and always allows people into her kingdom, giving them hospitality and friendship. She is in love with Sans and has told him many times, although sans doesn't know whether he loves her or just thinks of her as a sister. She cares the most about her nephew Asriel, who is a flower made by Gaster and is Asgores son, she tries to help him with confidence although it's hard for him since he is so weak. She does not have her own army but has a peace treaty with Asgores kingdom. All in all she just wants to make the underground a better place for everyone. Asriel is a kind echo flower with a small soul consisting of every soul type and has the only white soul and because of it called a soul of life, made by Gaster because Asgore wanted a prince to his throne. Asriel tries to be normal and goes to school but gets made fun of a lot for being a flower and called a traitor. One of his only friends is napstablook, who he looks up to and tries to hang out with as much as possible. He tries to help everyone he meets but has a tendancy to lose control when people attack him or make fun of his family. He hates politics and violence and either fights or hides when anyone bring it up to him. Gaster is a malicious being with a soul pure black, discomfort. He is cunning and smart, easily manipulating people and hiding many dark secrets. He is the father of Sans and Papyrus and husband of Lucida. Before Lucidas death he was a nice man with a blue soul, but when his wife died his soul turned black and he began to hate everything, beating Sans day after day as he grew up. He soon became the royal scientist due to his amazing schematics for the new kingdom, and ever since has been helping the underground be a better place while secretly experimenting on people for science and his own sadistic pleasure. He hides his black soul in his skull and shows an artificial blue soul, making everyone think he has a blue soul. Now for the backstory. *cue undertale intro music* long ago many tribes and colonies lived in harmony, such as the dead (ex. Sans, mettaton), the atlantians (ex. Undyne), the goats (ex. Asgore) and many, many more. One day a new tribe was discovered called the humans. These colonies treated the humans with kindness and hospitaliaty but the humans were afraid of them so they started a war. The humans won and cast a spell using millions of human souls (because in this monsters and humans has the same soul types) that made it so nothing could ever leave the underground. Present day: 2772. Those who fall underground are said to never return, being eaten by the horrid monsters that ruled 2772 years ago. But you, a human wandered to the hole, whether it was stupidity, hate for humans, or who wanted only for death to come and take you, and fall into the underground...APHOTICTALE. Okay so now we got what happened before the great war and how you, the human protagonist, have fallen underground, let's talk about what happened to the monsters. The monsters first freaked out, war raging against themselves as all hell broke loose. But one day, the undead colony and the goat colony signed and peace treaty and ended the great war that strarted with the humans attacking. Soon a goverment and civilization was built and most of the "first generation" (ex. Gaster, lucida) had died off, leaving the prince Asgore and princess Toriel in power, at the same time Sans, Papyrus, Undyne, and Mettaton had become adults, these were know as the "second generation". Soon a battle broke out between toriel and Asgore, causing the kingdom to be split in two and a peace treaty being made. After that mettaton had gotten a body and had napstaton, while alphys was born and then abandoned, Undyne finding her and taking her in. Alphys, Asriel, and Napstablook are known as the "third generation" and the ones who are in school right now. Sans: son of gaster and Lucida, brother of Papyrus, accused father of napstablook and alcoholicic scientist, soul of justice, 2nd generation Papyrus: son of Gaster and Lucida, brother of sans, royal stratigist, mettatons lover and real father of napstablook, soul of perserverence, 2nd generation Mettaton: mother of Napstablook, star of underground, soul of compassion, 2nd generation Napstablook: son of Mettaton and Papyrus, goes to highschool, musical sensation, has crush on Alphys, friends with Alphys and Asriel, soul of patience 3rd generation Alphys: adopted daughter/sister of Undyne, has crush on napstablook, anxiety problems, smart, soul of integrity, 3rd generation Undyne: royal knight, step mother/step sister of alphys, has minor crush on asgore, doesn't trust Gaster, super tough, soul of determination, 2nd generation Asgore: king of his kingdom, brother of Toriel, hard and tough on outside but is a bit of a softy, asriels father, soul of bravery, 2nd generation Toriel: queen of her kingdom, sweet, kind, helpful, Asgores sister, asriels aunt, soul of kindness, 2nd generation Asriel: son of Asgore, echo flower injected with a bit of every soul type, nephew of Toriel, friends with alphys and Napstablook, prince to kingdom, soul of life, 3rd generation Gaster: royal scientist, father of Sans and Papyrus, crazy, seems sane on outside, has artificial soul of integrity, wife died, soul of discomfort, 1st generation. Thank you so much to everyone who has read this far, this took me a couple of hours to write nonstop and I am very excited for this AT and I hope others are too, so please, tell your friends about this, write about this, even draw fan art about it! Just please credit me if you do, I've been working on this for a while and I want it to work out. Thank you so much for reading and I hope you have a great day, thank you for reading about Aphotictale.
