#baxtale

O.O

Graffonti: O—O

Bax/Baxxie: *celebrating* EEEEYYYYYY I’m COMING TO VISIT CHA, BOO.

Graffonti: I will end you.

Author-Chan:

I GOT 2 THINGS TA WRITE NOW~~

Graffonti: I hate both of you! *yells*

Author-Chan and Bax/Baxxie:

@justanotherhalfmonster

BaxTale… Reading through it, I liked what I put together back then…well almost all of it. It used to be driven by my dreams of wanting to be a good fanfiction writer.

But it was written during a time I was still being…well, abused. Unfortunately, 2019 me seemed to still struggle with the fact they deal with their internalized fatphobia from constantly being bullied and teased and jabbed about it how their own body is. God forbid they eat properly their body adjusts healthily but it’s too big for everyone.

Anyway, there’s a few body shaming comments directed at Bax. But thankfully 2019 me did have characters address the fact it was fucked. At least attempt to.

…*sighs* Fortunately, I know better now. As I’ve processed a lot of that, my body dysmorphia is a mix of gender dysphoria, unspecified ED, genetics and well… trauma.

Baxtale has potential. Bax is due for a touch up. I like her design, past me did the best they could learning digital art with what they had at the time. But I have learned since. So I’ve taken her off the ko-fi shop.

Maybe that’s why so many of my Ko-Fi shop stuff never sold, including Graffonti and Bax. Because I’d find myself picking up at least a few of them again.

Ah well. Yknow what? Poll. 1 day would try 3 days but don’t hit the option for that. Reblog for sample size.

I’ll be surprised if anyone was interested.

Also I’ve never used AO3. I’ve used Wattpad (but would rather not revive the corpse of my old Wattpad account on that). It will stay in the grave where it belongs.

So I met end up writing it on AO3. Try to make something there. Or…something.

Shade in and full color Done by Artist-Chan

Bax ran through the storm, speeding through the town of Snowdin, covering monsters alike in waves of snow as she passes. She’s frantic and in a hurry to leave before more disruption occurs. She noticed monsters all around the town she observed, either recovering from what they witnessed, unconscious, or something of both. This was her fault, allowing her guard to fall right in front of a portal, knowing the dangers of doing so.

“I have t get back to the void. I caused enough disruption.” Bax panted as she ran, stripping herself free of her clothes, that she didn’t remember being on her body in the first place. She knows Stretch, the Papyrus in this world, more than likely put it on her. Knowing her, she had come right after the 6th human was killed. Or maybe that was the illusion of the true reset?

Once she escaped outside of Snowdin, she stopped to catch her breath. Despite the speed she runs, for her size, it was difficult to maintain. She thought her many different battles and experiences would have prepared her for this kind of physical activity. Who was she fooling but herself? She looked up, sweat beading on her forehead and freezing due to the cold air, her eyes scanning wildly for the portal she came through.

It was no longer there. “Just my luck.” She said as she watched a faint rift in the trees disappear. The winter wind gusted trough the forest, passing her, causing her to shiver violently. “Crap!” She hid in the trees until the panic in town and within her had ceased. Bax clutched her stomach, trying to huddle closer to the tree trunk to keep warm from the strong blizzard winds. It must be that time of year, she guessed under her breath. She looked up into the higher shelter of branches and started to climb the trees. Luckily she picked up that skill in the world of Horrortale. Running for your life in a world filled with hunger for humans, literally, climbing can have its usefulness. At least no one had been able to touch her, so they won’t remember her later, she hoped.

Once she had climbed into a nest of branches, she nestled herself in the warmth of the branches, trying to keep warm from the storm. Despite it’s appearance, the branches were not enough to keep the winds at bay, and occasionally, a branch or two would blow away. She shivered violently, it wasn’t any use. The longer she stayed there, the colder she got. ‘It was warmer in the void!” She though with exasperation.

She couldn’t escape. She couldn’t stay either. Butt she was trapped. She didn’t have a choice. She HAD to find a way to escape the world. While she figured out a way to do this, she processed what had just occurred. As she had tried to escape, Stretch, seemed to try to stop her from leaving back into the blizzard. But as soon as he grabbed her—once the realization hit her, her stomach plummetted. She had to keep from gagging from nervousness. All the tings she witnessed, experienced, knows...the other worlds, AUs, the void, everything; This entire world got a “copy and paste” of her mind. Everyone just literally got a knowledge boost from Stretch merely touching her for as long as he did.

She started to hyperventilate, she spat onto the snow, trying to get rid of the sour taste in her mouth. She covered her mouth. Her place, her entire existence here has been compromised. {Everyone knows she exists and has been observing them. All of them. There isn’t a secret that she can keep here. That meant she couldn’t stay here for very long for fear of being hunted down.

“Kid! Kid, Where are you?!” a familiar voice called. It was Stretch. He was looking for her, the first of many. She had to move fast. SHe got to her feet and as soon as he looked away, Bax dashed out of the branches and jumped branch after branch.

“I’m not dying today. NOT YET.” SHe thought as she dashed away, just as Stretch managed to notice her.

...

Stretch was shaking the unconscious skeleton in his arms, hoping and praying his HP hasn’t hit zero. He cannot lose Blueberry, not again. Not like this. Tears started to fall down his face. “Sans...please wake up!” Stretch begged his brother, he checked Blueberry’s vitals, he sighed with relief once to had stopped draining. Eventually, Stretch felt his brother stiffen and stir, his eyelights appearing in his eyesockets again.

“Papy...?” Blueberry said hoarsely, causing him to be tightly hugged by Stretch with a choked sob. “Thank God...I thought you were gone for sure...!” Stretch sobbed shakily. “Papyrus...” Blueberry felt his brother’s tears on his shoulder. Blueberry softly smiled as his own eyesockets filled with tears. He was scared too. He hugged back tightly. He knew and remembered everything. He finally knows what his brother has been keeping from him for years. Not only does he know, he can finally figure out how to help him. Blueberry smiled softly and rubbed Stretch’s back as Stretch continued to cry in his arms.

They stayed like that for awhile. Until they finally separated and helped each other up, Stretch healing Blueberry, and helping him to clean up the mess in the kitchen. Stretch opened his mouth to say something but Blueberry interrupted him, a little ticked, saying, “WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME ABOUT THIS? YOU WERE GOING THROUGH SO MUCH AND YOU CARRIED IT ON YOUR OWN. EVEN WHEN I TOLD YOU, YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO! I WAS HERE THE ENTIRE TIME, WORRYING ABOUT YOU TRYING TO GET YOU TO TALK ABOUT IT!” Blueberry continued to chastise his older brother, “NEVER KEEP THIS FROM ME AGAIN!”

Stretch blinked a few times and smiled a little in understanding. “I won’t, brother.”

“YOU CAN MAKE IT UP TO ME BY QUITTING THAT HABIT.”

“Heh...okay brother. I will.” Stretch grinned before then realizing, “Oh crap, I lost the kid.” Simultaneously, they both realized the front door has been open for ages. They both heard the cries and shouts.

“I’ll be back, better catch the kid before your boss catches them.” Stretch had o find the kid and fast. before another monster...anymonster got to them, first Particularly Captain Alphys, who was a human-killing fanatic.

Stretch ran out of the house, closing the door behind him. He saw the damage outside. He noticed everyone covered in snow, unconscious, or crying. A harsh blizzard wind blew against his hoodie. “Whoa....kid.” He saw footprints leading outside of town. Stretch decided to take his chances and follow them. Hoping to find the kid alive and not dead.

Stretch ended up where they first found the girl. He saw the clothes that they had dressed the girl in strewn all over the snow. Once the footprints stopped, he called out, “Kid! Kid, where are you?”

...

A few seconds later, Bax and Stretch were in a chase, not too far behind or ahead of the other. Bax was in the trees, branches rustling and cracking under her weight. Stretch chased after her, snow crunching under his boots.

“Got to keep running until the rift opens again! I can’t be caught!” Bax continued running.

“Stop! Kid! It’s not a good idea to run across the branches!” Stretch called. He was getting tired, running is not his sport. This big girl, made running seem easy for someone her size, and he was scrawny was bones! “Where is this Gil going?” He looked past her and noticed they were coming up to the ruins. A dead end for her and an opportunity for him.

He grinned and aimed a Gaster Blaster at the branches in her path to the higher walls of the ruins. Bax managed to look behind her and her eyes widened. “Aw poop!” The Gaster Blaster fired and she barely was able to slow down and stop before she ran into the blast. She tried to keep herself steady on the rocking branches.

Once the smoke had cleared, the branches that lead to the rift were completely gone, her mouth went agape. “Such accuracy...” She thought in her mind. She looked down and saw Stretch with a cheeky grin. For some reason, a slight annoyance entered her expression. “Flipping...”

“You can’t just leave without giving us answers, kid. nice attempt at escaping though. I’d I’ve you an 8 out of 10 due to you not making it before I vaporized the path in front of you,” He said chuckling a bit. Ba continued to stand on her end of the branches, looking back and forth between Stretch and the other side of the gap. A rift was starting to form on the other side. Her hopes at escaping just beyond reach...

“You know, you can relax. I’m not going to hurt you. Just...come down and we can talk. Just a nice long detailed chat,” Another wind blew through the trees, the branch she’s on, cracking audibly, “That branch won’t hold your weight forever since I blasted the front of it. Might want to move before it falls and you get hurt.”

Bax bared her tusks at him, hating the fact that he was absolutely right. But she refused to bow to his will. SHe was stubborn and she wasn’t coming down until she knew Stretch could be trusted. Nonetheless, the branch was starting to break beneath her feet. If only he’d just let her go, she won’t be a bother...But of course he did something that she knew he was capable of doing but thought he was tooo lazy to do so.

“Okay...either you’re really dumb or partially smart. You seem to be looking for something. A way out maybe? Sorry to disappoint you but the ruins are a dead end.” Stretch sighed as he continued to watch the blushing girl from below. Stretch hoped insulting her intelligence literally would get her to try to get down from there. It was pretty high up from where she was.

Bax refused to give in, though she felt like she should be offended by Stretch’s judgement of her intelligence. Well she knew him too well from observing him, hat he usually didn’t mean that, so of course she stayed where she was. Continuing to watch the rift grow bigger. “Come on, a few more seconds.” Bax egged on the rift with every fiber of her being.

The skeleton soon asked, starting to get impatient, “Well since you’re not comin down, can I at least have your name?”

She chuckled in her mind, giving out her name to anyone in any of the worlds was more than likely a arctic to get her name written in the world’s history so she would have to stay...er at least visit once in awhile. Advancing this monsters abilities each time she visited. She moved back absentmindedly just as the branch she was standing on fell, crashing into the snow below. Stretch flinched a bit before regaining his cool.

This was crucial. She could disrupt the timeline more, or she could leave without saying a word. She never had been caught before, the damage was done, and she knew it. Not only that, the choice Bax makes now could change things in the universe. No one in this world was supposed to have noticed, let alone seen anything outside of their own world. Tears fell down, Bax’s face as she whimpered indecisively, not knowing what she should do under so little time.

A few teardrops fell down of of her face on onto Stretch’s face. He felt her emotions momentarily. He sighs and says, “hey. Don’t you know how to greet a new pal?” Bax looked down at him before looking at the now open portal. Knowing her choice could change everything in the multiverse and his world as he knows it.

“Come down and shake my hand.” He offered his hand up, just as the branch cracked, too weak to no longer keep Bax up there. ax realized that she so badly wants to belong somewhere. She would love it here. It’s nice...quiet...with occasional excitement. She gave one last look at the portal, before looking down just as the branch broke, causing her stomach to plummet and her to fall. She felt fearful, she closed her eyes and...everything went black.

Spoiler Art:

https://bax-the-hooman.tumblr.com/post/186659204705/a-little-look-into-the-third-part-of-chapter-2

https://bax-the-hooman.tumblr.com/post/186641507185/baxtale-chapter-2part-1