I would gladly hear about that AU
fbdskba alrighty so
You know how like, when you throw something into Google translate a lot back and forth between a language or few that when you translate it back into the original language, it’s not exactly the same as it was originally, but still kinda has the same ideas floating around mixed up?
That’s kinda the idea of the au
it’s like
undertale -> underswap -> reverse the swap -> reverse THAT swap -> this au
If you’ve lost me here’s a quick like. What I have in my mind for Sans and Papyrus:
Sans is back to a “lazier” personality, but he works as a Royal Guard doing the abosolute minimum amount of work possible. His color motif is orange, but he has a cyan scarf. Instead of a condiment, he has a plethora of lollipops he has on hands at all times, curtosy of Grillby’s candy shop... but he definitely owes Grillby a hefty fee because of them. He’s almost always in a chipper mood. He does not remember anything from resets, not even like the regular “Hey doesn’t this seem familiar?” the characters experience in NG+
Papyrus is hardworking, but he’s a lot more vain and grumpy. He usually wears far more formal winter attire and is constantly working to take his brother’s job, since he feels far more deserving of it than Sans is. His color motif is blue, but he has a few little pieces of his outfit here and there that are orange. He hates his brother’s jokes only because he thinks Sans is a horribly uneducated comedian. Additionally, and this part deals w a lot of fandom theory for original Undertale, Papyrus was the one to care more for Sans despite being the younger brother, since Sans was handicapped at his 1 HP. Papyrus also recalls resets, and it makes him more motivated to finally capture a human and put an end to them by altering the timeloop.
The appearances are shuffled a bit too. For example, Papyrus will be the first one to find the human outside of the Ruins, and Sans will show up shortly after as Papyrus gloats to Sans how much better he is... to which the human will leave based on Sans’s silent guidance. Papyrus’s fight will still take place in the same spot, as he is still trying to capture you, and he refuses to kill you still purely because he wants Asgore to take your SOUL. The date with Papyrus is swapped with the “date” with Sans; After the fight with Papyrus, he’ll talk to you at his home about similar topics to UT!Sans’s Grillby’s “date,” including his talking to Flowey. Then, heading to Waterfall, you’d meet up with Sans, which this would be counted as the actual date needed to access the True Pacifist ending as UT!Papyrus’s would be, although this would still be in Grillby’s.
