I kinda had to ask.
With how (frankly) brutal ways the kids died, how...did the Royal Guard or Asgore get their souls
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I know I'll draw their death scene one day and it's not really a spoiler since I don't know if I could say how exactly they die anywhere else soooo..
Anyway, this is kind of a long one,
Tw deaths (obv)
🩵, was told by Rudy that someone had been spreading rumors about a human living in Snowdin/Snowpeak (where the Holidays live) and while running from some guard with Dess, a magical snow storm was casted and they got separated, there in the storm Noon met Kou (Hachi's father, who's Noon's best friend) a Royal guard. At first they were relieved thinking that they found a friend, but as they realized the gravity of the situation they begin to talk to him trying to convince him otherwise..
They didn't die immediately, it was sloppy, Kou was hesitating
🧡, went to the King with the help and support of their friends. They help them break in etc, etc. Until the Last Corridor where they stay to distract the Judge and let Archie through to Asgore. They both give it their all with it being a literal fight to the death, but then, for only one second, Archie's timing was off and..
Archie was conscious for only a couple of seconds after that, watching Asgore as he leave the throne room to deal with their friends.. (Dw Asgore didn't kill any of their friends, he's too nice to his people)
Astra's death is probably one of the best deaths out of all the kids cuz at least it's a one and done type of deal (the A.X.I.S. project was deemed a partial success in this AU and he wasn't fired immediately, still doesn't stop Chujin from experimenting on himself)
Complete opposite of Astra, Hope's death is absolutely the worst out of all the humans... (If you can guess who the guard that dealt Hope's killing blow then give yourself a cookie, she got a fat promotion after this)
💚, he surrendered after guards surrounded their home and because they weren't fighting back they get to meet the King, who has mellowed out a bit from because of the other humans (let's say seeing those kids who was around Chara's age being mutilated doesn't do well with his psyche, that plus the fact that some monsters have voiced distaste towards this practice) he talked to them and enjoyed some tea
💜, was on the run from the Royal guards when they entered a cave that suppose to take them to Waterfall where he can lay low with Gerson in his shop for sometimes. While fleeing and dodging attacks from the guards the ground shakes and the walls and ceiling caved in (either by the guards to stop Hope, or Hope did it deliberately to get the guards to lose his track) if it's the latter then that plan didn't exactly go as they expected. The cave-in ended up trapping one of their legs and it wouldn't budge, so Hope made a drastic decision to cut off their leg... Using their jacket they wrapped their legs to stop the blood flow and propped themselves up on the still standing wall they hobbled towards the mouth of the cave. When suddenly a guard that managed to climb over all the debris stood tall on top of it, and with Hope clearly in sight she materialized a spear and threw it, javelin style
💙, (based on UTY) Astra had been stalked by something for sometime now (days) and although paranoia had begun to creep in (as well as guilt) they ignored it and mostly continued with their life, up until their performance. Not even a day after Royal guards came into Glowflood and begin searching for them, that is when A.X.I.S. started to chase them, some of their friends tried helping, but they ended up getting hurt. So Astra ran, and ran further and further away so that nobody else could get hurt because of them.. Until they can't anymore
They died not long after they drank the tea, holding on to Asgore as they struggled to breathe, they can hear Asgore muttering " I'm sorry " Over and over...
💛, (quite different from UTY) after the fight with Ceroba, Clover does not immediately give them their soul, no they wanted to spend a bit more time with their friends, tying up lose ends, make sure that they will be (relatively) ok after their passing, since they know they will die not long after this. Long story short, they left Martlet's house after she left for work in the morning leaving only a note with a short explanation of what they're about to do, skip to the Last Corridor where they had a talk with monsterkind's Judge confessing that they have unfinished business on behalf of humanity and so they asked him kindly to leave, which he obliged after sometime...
After time and time again, seeing how much monsters have to endure thanks to humans, from humans falsely accusing monsters and starting the war, to the death of the prince and everything that comes after that, all he wished is for his death to mean something, for monsterkind's freedom and happiness and humanity's sins to be lifted
Slight side tangent, I also just like the thought of the Judge of monsterkind and the Judge of humanity having a talk, both having a duty to uphold but not always sticking to it but still treats it seriously.
