#carningtale

Welcome to Carningtale.

Where the Sans (named Booker) and the papyrus (named props) run a cursed traveling carnival. That cannot settle down into one spot for very long because the longer they stay in one spot the more various curses will befall them, and the people they have hired to run their carnival.

Where the other AU eventually do find them and probably do not help (cannot help) them break their curse, but end up working for them in their free time because they do enjoy the bit of showmanship. 

Booker has the body shape of normal Sans, but he has one blue eye and one red eye and consistently always wears striped shirts and suspenders with a little carney hat on his head. While his brother is about as tall as sweets is so he’s taller than a normal papyrus, but he has one green eye and one orange eye, and he wears the same type of outfit as his brother, but on top of his shirt, he always wears a coat with long coattails that twist up into points with little bells on the ends, giving it a whimsical and jester look. Along with, And instead of just a normal carney hat, he wears something of a top hat, but it’s mixed with a carney hat, so it’s like a straw top hat but not as tall.

Booker‘s personality tends more towards mischievous in nature, more similar to that of a ringmaster who more than enjoys his shows. He may help you he may hinder you. He has a very thick country-ISH Brooklyn-Ish accent and is very very good at persuasion. Because he often persuade people into signing contracts to work with him, but the contracts are never extremely clear and the determination of how long you may end up working for that carnival varies as he interpret it. His magic tends to manifest in the blue and red of his eyes, with something similar to voodoo markings floating around him, depending on the type of contract he is making with you. Usually they are old Wingdings. But none can be sure.

Props is a little over 11 feet tall. He is the main hand in the entertainment. He is not innocent though he wears the face well. He has absolutely no issues with how him and his brother run their carnival and we often use that sweet face and somewhat dulcet, innocent tone, to coax various people into joining their little soirée and carnival for the unforeseeable future. He has the tendency to punish only based on very terrible thing as the workers have done. So overall, he is incredibly warm, welcoming, and kind towards anybody that they hire. Because even though they do trick a few people, they’re not going to be completely heartless with their makeshift little family. But that kindness will not expand to include customers and visitors. In their carnival, the customer is not always right.

Now once the other AU do eventually make their way into my own little place here. They do pick up little jobs that they find enjoyable that set the tone right for their own personalities. And although Booker and props cannot convince them to make formal contractual obligations to come and perform, they do allow it because they like the chaos and they like the profits of them joining as they please. So they have backup plans and make many different accommodations. It frequently Depends on who shows up at the time. But they also have things set aside just for when those other versions of themselves show up.

My own little insert, Murber, tends to show up as a ring leader from time to time and introduce some of the more wild acts.

From there, we have nightmare as the freak show master who does try to steal the main show fairly often.

We have killer who is the clown. But all of his balloon animals and face painting skills tend towards trying to terrify the children that he is working with and it only works a partial percent of the time because he just has way too much fun with what he’s doing.

Dust and coffee work, the pyrotechnics and the lights show. Often summoning their blasters and using them in different acrobatic acts while maintaining beautiful light sequences

Horror and his brother suites work the death defying cannonball acts, which is where he got the crack in his head and how his brother’s teeth get more messed up (in this case how their injuries may get a little worse since they come from their own au) m

From there we have sans as just the head, carney in charge of the different rigged games in the gaming alley. Wearing the traditional carney outfit and enjoying the pun potential of occasional fire breathing.

We have read who works the different food stands and is just the hottest food Kearny that you’ve seen with his striped shirt tied around his waist wearing a black tank top and his striped Kearny pants and probably smoking a cigarette behind the food truck

Edge and papyrus both work the acrobatics. Performing death-defying stunts, tight rope, walking and different thrilling swinging acts. While keeping their bodies um during their performances so they can wear tight spandex and show off just muscle they probably really are.

We have blue as the jester. Who works with the different clowns in the carnival to make you smile, laugh, and perform the most basic and normal clown performances while somehow making them even more than they used to be. Like jumping out of a flaming building into the trampoline, but going through it to be covered in pie just so that he can sweep in at the last moment and sweep their daring little volunteer off their feet.

We have stretch who sometimes works with the lion tamer, but mostly works with mud to make bootleg merch of the carnival itself and sell it for a profit on the side. And even though Booker and props are aware of that, they don’t really mind so long as they get a cut of the money.

I’ll probably add on more to this later and I do have a couple smaller art pieces that I have done to add some ideas towards this little AU of mine, but I do intend to fully keep it as my own and make plenty of things to add onto it to show all of you my idea in this

So once again. Welcome to Carningtale. 

(also I have broken my tablet and my Apple Pencil so I am forced to do traditional drawings until further notice)



Cross is incredibly embarrassed to kiss you in public. He is a little bit more of a gentleman than he likes to let on, but with that being said, he also has quite a few old old-fashioned morals. In the sense that he does not tend to do PDA very much. He prefers intimacy behind closed doors. Which is another reason why you will rarely see him kiss you in front of the other skeletons. He will nuzzle you or hold your hand, but he does not go much farther than that unless it is just the two of you.

Nightmare likes to pretend that he is incredibly unaffected by a lot of things. But most of the time it is quite the opposite. His favorite thing to do is to collect fan art of himself. Because if you make a sketch of himself or if anybody makes one just to tease him or make fun of him a little bit, he actually genuinely enjoys it so he keeps them all in a binder in his room that he hides under his bed.

During the day red does not drink. He pretends he does so that people think that he never changes. But he does not actually drink any hard alcohol in the mornings or any alcohol at all. He drinks apple juice because he knows it looks like whiskey and people tend to think that he’s drinking but he tries to change some of his worst habits just during the daytime for you.

Blue likes to buy mini skeleton figures from Halloween stores and dress them up like the other skeletons in the house. Often times him and error will work together to make tiny little costumes and outfits and paint them to where they look as much like the others in the house as possible.

Killer takes midday naps. Every day. It doesn’t matter if he tries not to or not. If he is not actively on a mission to do something, he’s taking a nap. Typically it’s anywhere between 1 PM and 3 PM but around that time he will start to get tired and he will find a place to curl up and take a nap. Which also means he just naps anywhere. He can nap on the couch in the bed on the chair on the floor or even in just a pile of blankets that somebody left somewhere. He is a napper.

Horror and sans have bonded over the great British baking show. They both like watching it because the people on that show seem very nice and rarely do they get upset and loud and angry. And he likes the subtle jokes because they are not too Gotti or dirty. The two of them occasionally will try out some of the recipes that they see on there, but they enjoy the simplicity of the show.

let's say any of the sanses is married to someone, but they are unhappy, how and would the different sanses approach a divorce?

In an ask I’m going to answer when I have the time for detail, someone asked me something about how they marry. Which is in this case, a soul bond. And when you soul bond with them it’s forever. There is no divorce. It simply doesn’t exist.

Now if they were DATING someone and unhappy it would be a very cold, hard, and fast break up.

Sans will just say it. I’m not happy. You’re not for me. It’s over.

Red will tell them to get the fuck out.

Blue will bluntly say things aren’t working.

Horror will just leave with a note that says bye forever.

Dust simply gathers this things in front of them and leave.

Nightmare laughs. He will tear them apart. Their insecurities. Their fears. He will break them and leave. On the way out saying he never loved them anyway.

Killer will smirk. He will turn and leave and let them know they were nothing more than a passing fling. A mild amusement.

Cross will look at them coldly and just say nothing. Then a small “you will never be good enough” before leaving.

But divorce isn’t possible in my au or my world. Because a soulbond is forever.

In addition:

Booker breaking up with someone would include breaking their contract and laughing at them. Tossing them out of the carnival and into the mud. Then walking away like they ment nothing.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I had to actually take a moment to think about this one because in some cases it would work out fine. In other cases, it would work out explosively.

Sans would love having someone who shared his same interests and had the same relaxed nature that he does, but having somebody who holds grudges like he does may not be the best in that type of situation because there would be very little give-and-take because both sides would want to be stubborn

With blue, it would actually be a good thing I think, except for the fact that they wouldn’t be able to hold himself back from his more hyperactive tendencies and he wouldn’t have anyone to remind him to pull back from his darker thoughts. Because if you have the same personality as him in that moment, he is going to almost egg you on. The same way that you would do to him.

For red, it would be both a good thing and a bad thing. It would be a good thing because you could put up with all of his snarky comments and fire them right back. You can match him drink for a drink. You can throw yourself right into all of his targets and be right at his back. However, he has a very mean temper and having somebody he is dating, who has the same temper as he does means that things are going to explode much more frequently than they are gonna be talked about calmly.

It would just be a bad thing if you were the same as killer. Because assuming that you mean the worst of his tendencies, then you would end up losing yourself to his bad habits, the same way that he does and the two of you would go swathes without really realizing how bad the things are that you’re doing

Horror? If you get him out of the environment of cannibalism, then it’s gonna be fine. Cause he’s mostly just quiet and he likes to cook and he’s protective and he likes this little bit of peace that he has so a reader like that or you in this instance, acting like that wouldn’t hurt anything it would just make things very peaceful and calm. Now, if you were talking about meeting him when he is in the depths of starvation it’s not gonna go well for any party involved.

Dust, well, it would be bad. Again in this situation, it’s gonna depend on if you have the same temperament as he does as well as the same trauma that he does. Because if it’s just a temperament of being mostly quiet, then it’ll probably be fine. You just won’t have very well communication with one another. It would end up being communication through physical touch and actions rather than words. But if you have the same demons that he does, then it’s gonna be bad because you’re going to end up fighting one another thinking that the other is part of your demons.

Nightmare? It would just be bad. Having somebody who can go Toto to to him is always a good thing. However, his negativity is going to increase the more that you are negative towards him. So if you are being hottie and overbearing and bossy and just showing these very negative tendencies that he has most of the time if you’re not somebody that he is trying to explicitly calm himself around then it’s going to make things a lot worse. It’s going to make the corruptions in him get even stronger and it’s going to make it that much harder when you have to calm him down. Because he’s less likely to listen to you in that situation.

Cross would be fine provided he is not in his universe anymore. If he is not in his universe, then it’ll be perfectly fine cause he’s easily flustered he’s calm. He’s happy. He is pretty self-confident except he embarrasses easily, but if you catch him when he is still under the thumb of his universe, then yeah it’s probably gonna be bad. Because at this point, I’m assuming that you as the reader are reflecting the personality of the skeleton that you’re with so if you meet him, and you begin to reflect his personality back at him. It’s just going to end badly. He’s gonna get defensive. He’s gonna be angry and he is going to lash out.

By all means!

lol I don’t have a tablet to draw it at the moment so I do hope this quick sketch I did will suffice. :)

In this world monsters never felt the sting of entrapment under the caves in the mountain. They were never forced to be hidden away from society. Instead, they were allowed to live after coming to a somewhat estranged arraignment with the humans.

And while the war did stop. And these endless fighting finally ceased. It came at a cost. Because while monsters were still deeply good within themselves, the humans were unable to move past the monsters forms that they carried. And we’re unable to accept equality with living alongside monsters.

They were not granted lands. They were not granted holdings. And they were not granted very much of anything. They were treated as second class, citizens and scum by a majority of humans.

With this being said, it was hard for most monsters to make a living. They lived in slums and poverty housing. Even back during the middle ages of the war, they were not given anything more than perhaps a room in a barn or a rickety old put together shed as a home. And even then that was only by the kinder humans who would give them a modicum of pity.

Since they had no rights, they were often overtaxed and felt that they were not worth more than the lands that they actually lived on. Period because even animals were treated with a higher respect than monsters were.

Jobs were exceedingly and are very hard to come by. Even more so the more monstrous that you look. The king and queen had somewhat of a better situation due to their monarch status. But overall no one else was given the same courtesy.

Because of this, the ability to own, any kind of business or marketing was next to impossible or even unheard of for monsters.

For Props and Booker, this made things especially hard when creating their dream of a carnival. Because to them this carnival not only represented a move forward, but it represented a space for monsters to live in safety and the illusion of a freedom.

With that being said, the two of them had to work menial if not disgusting jobs to save up for what they were trying to build. And often times the things that they were buying were up charged or exceedingly overpriced. But they may do. They took the jobs they had to even if it was less than stellar. They saved every single bit of what they could. Often times going without food or fresh clothing for months at a time. Making every single sacrifice that they could make in order to build this almost out of reach fantasy of theirs.

They very, very rarely experienced any kindness from any humans at all. The only reason that they got the big top for their carnival and the magic came at a cost. They made a deal with an outside force. Not much is known about who it was who made the deal or what kind of entity they were. They could’ve been anything from an even older and more powerful monster to something from the void itself. To even something outside of their world altogether. But it offered them a choice. They would get to have the things they needed to start up their carnival, a few tents, a big top and the magical ability to move said carnival whenever they Had the need to move it. But at price.

They wove a curse upon the carnival. Now the curse is not dangerous in nature. It does not harm them in a way that is detrimental to them or any who may work for them. It is more annoying and inopportune than anything else. Because after having the carnival in one spot for 10 days, very minor things would begin to happen. It wasn’t a bunch of things that were dangerous. It was minor things that caused more issues with funds than with health.

It could be something like a cage that housed the beast to become damaged and unusable. It could be the seam of the tense, start to come unsewn in a way that made the tent themselves be unusable. It was things that would cause very costly repairs and create larger issues the longer that they were ignored. As such it meant that they could never settle down in one place ever.

The secondary part of this ability to move the carnival, with the two of them being owners now, came the ability to draw up a contract that the monster or person in general who signed it had to mark with their soul. Now again, they are not evil in nature. And they are not magnanimous either. They do what is best for themselves and their business and the few people that they do welcome into their Carney family.

There are always going to be some clauses written into the contract that are a little bit harder to pick out. Mostly things that they can use to get rid of somebody on short notice if they feel like that person may be a detriment to the carnival or to the amount of money that is being brought in. And there are other clauses that let them keep them for longer than they initially signed on if it is necessary. But even if they do keep somebody for longer, it is never without proper accommodations and with pay.

Because this carnival is meant to be more than just away for them to make money. It is more than just proving that a monster can run a business in a successful fashion. It’s meant to be a safe haven for those who come seeking refuge at the carnival. Because Monsters and humans like have outcasts. Even within a race of people who are subjugated and treated as garbage. Not even they like each other as much as they used to do to the way that they are perpetually treated. Causing a lot of inter fighting and quite frankly unsafe environments for themselves and others.

So while they do do everything that they can to continuously keep this carnival running at all times and to make sure that they have a consistent flow of income for not only themselves, but the people that they hire. They also want to make a safe haven for anyone and everyone that either society has thrown into the dirt and stomped on

And they named it EchoLight Carnival. 

ALSO!!

because of the timeline, I have them set in and because I have them using more unorthodox magic. It will definitely be a little bit more shadowy, and borderline voodoo looking than most magics. Because when Booker uses his magic, it is a swirl of blue and red like each of his eyes. And when he uses it, an aura will appear around him in all blue with red looking monster symbols. They look similar to voodoo symbols with the same kind of curling and curvy shapes, but they’re not. And his face becomes incredibly shadowed and all you can see are the two pin pricks of his eyes while his smile curls up farther onto his cheekbones, then can normally reach. With little vapors of blue and red seeping from between his now elongated and sharp teeth.

While props is much harder to get to the point where he is very thoroughly pissed off. But once he does, it’s gonna be worse than even pissing off Booker. Because the only two things that are assure fire away to piss off props to the point where he will step in is harming a child or harming his brother or harming you in this sense, assuming that you have romance to them by now. But once he steps in, he doesn’t have an aura, the same as his brother, but he has very lively and chaotic tendrils of magic that summon around him like thousands of hands. And what he does is grabs the person with four hands to hold their body and then four hands to pull out their soul and his jaw will unhinge his canines become sharp as the rest of his teeth and he will Drop a few octaves in tone and tell you that you are about to face the monster in the mirror. And he will reflect that person‘s inner darkness back at them and force them to see the demons of their own mind as if they were coursing through their body and taking control away from them forever. While his body actually changes. His bones turned black and he has what looks like runic, tattoos in orange and green circulating up his arms.

they’ve always had the ability to use some of this magic. But once they made the deal with the entity, it warped the magic so instead of just being simple monster magic like they normally have where the different soul colors represent the different amounts of magic that they can use they end up having what amounts to Other worldly magic. The same way as if a cultist were to take on a patron demon and that demon will warp their body into being able to handle the special type of magic that they will use. That’s very similar to what happened to Booker and props. Their magic was warped and the forms of them that you see whenever they use that magic is actually the true form of themselves once they have forever been altered by this pact

Like they always had this unnatural affinity to use higher levels of magic that shouldn’t be able to be accessed without a matter of training and skill. Such as the shadow manipulation that happens on Booker‘s face or the markings that appear on props when he uses his magic. His other magic, both of them it used to appear that way when they would use it, but they never really understood why. And that was also part of the reason that the entity decided to make the pact with them in the first place because they had bodies that wouldn’t necessarily have to be changed as much as somebody who was a lower level monster or just a monster who was already set in their ways. Or even a human that was sympathetic towards monsters.Because they already had not only the nature of it within their veins, but they also had the drive and desire to prove themselves which made their souls even more susceptible to this deal and to making it work.

OTHERS

A lot of the monsters do look different in this AU. If you take. Undyne for example she’s not just that ultramarine blue with red hair anymore. In this world, she would be closer to a navy blue color. Her teeth would not be bright yellow, but would be more of a dull gold color. And they would be a little bit more monstrous a little bit more uneven more jacket longer. And her hair would not be a simple ponytail. It would actually sprout from the dead center of her head, going all the way back like a mohawk and would be a deep crimson blood looking color.That would almost stick to her skin. Because her skin being an aquatic creature in this world makes her a little more sticky. She has to say 10 times more hydrated than she would normally so she has a tendency to carry around a thermos of water at all times. So in general, a lot of the monsters in this world, do you look a little bit more monstrous. Or a little bit bigger than they were in the original or a little bit more firm or mature than they would in the original.

If in the case of other monsters from the different AU coming here to meet them, it would be a lot bigger of a culture shock then it would be for probably any other world except for maybe horrortale? Because they all while some of them are nice, and some of them are mean, are a lot more monstrous than the normal monsters. Even Alphys. Because she looks more like a raptor and an alligator kind of refused together. Her snout a little bit longer. The horns on her head are a lot more uneven and jagged. She still has her teeth at the front but they’re sharp and she has little teeth that kind of stick out all around the edges of her snout. She is a lot bigger than the normal version of herself but the extra weight that she carries, she carries it really well, so she looks very large and intimidating, almost muscle in nature, even though it’s not muscles in the traditional sense it’s the muscles of a predator. Because even though she is a scientist at heart and she still has her brains, they are used for darker purposes, and her thought process is to keep her body in the same shape as her mind in a certain way. So that she can defend herself and find what she needs to be able to go out and find. Even her tail is longer. And it drags the ground behind her. And yes, she is still married to Undyne

After care:

Booker will, Once they have reached their limitation or they feel like they have gotten enough out of their system, and they have left you and themselves satisfied. His aftercare revolves around less physical, getting new things and more touch and comfort. Part of his aftercare being what he craves himself, which is touch. So he will spend a lot of time holding you stroking your arm and just showing you that he cares through his movements . He will give you quite a few nozzles and kiss your temple, and he may not talk very much he might coax you into doing most of the talking, but he will spend an inordinate amount of time. Just focused on you and listening to you and his highlights will dim a little bit but that’s how you know he’s comfortable and that’s how you know he is truly relaxing around you. And as he begins to relax his bones will vibrate in a purring noise That will set you even more at ease. And he is very warm.

Props is going to be a lot more hands-on with his aftercare. He’s gonna take the time to clean you up and give you fresh not dirty clothing and bring you food and drink and water and different things that you might need to gather yourself. He will also make sure to exchange the blankets that you’re using so that you are laying with something nice and warm and clean. And then once he has finished all of his tasks of aftercare, he will slide in behind you. He is absolutely ginormous so obviously this bed is his bed, so it is exceedingly huge and can only fit in the room because of the magics in the caravan itself. Once he is in the bed, he does tend to play big spoon. He will curl up behind you and his brother and throw his arm across the both of you. He will ask you questions. He will get to know you even more than he already has. He enjoys the talking and the softer tones of the aftercare itself. Just finding out mundane facts about you and giving mundane facts about himself. Because he enjoys the simplicity of it and also because he enjoys the intimacy of it.

He loves being the little spoon, though. That’s the funny part. But the only time that he can do it is whenever he asks his brother to shrink him down to a more manageable size. Because he doesn’t have the ability to change sizes in people only Booker has that ability. And 11 feet is his natural height. That is the height. He grew to do to the warped magic that made more monstrous versions of the monsters. In them, it just made them slightly bigger and warped, their magic more than their physical appearance. But they do each have a particular abilities that they can use that no one else can. In this case, Booker can control the size of people. He can make them taller or shorter or bigger or smaller, depending on how he decides to use his magic while propshas more emotional manipulation abilities, though he doesn’t use them very often. What they do is encourage the person under the effect of the magic to feel a certain way. It’s more like a suggestion. But to somebody who is very weak willed, it will work almost instantly while people who have a stronger constitution may require a bit more persuading.

For Props, it’s something he typically uses whenever they are performing a show that’s not going very well. And it doesn’t force the user to feel something. It just gives them a slight feeling of it like a suggestion. Like a tickle in your stomach whenever you’re a little bit giddy and it’s slowly building up. It’s like that. But he would never use it on someone that he loves and cares about without permission.

He can use it over an entire crowd of people, but it’s a lot weaker when he does that. It’s almost like a blanket effect. And when he does it over a large group of people, it tends to manifest more as like an aura. Like an aura of the feeling of happiness surrounding you and making you wanna be happy too. Now, if he can focus on one person and he doesn’t care to hold back, he can force them to feel of myraid of emotions, but it’s very rare that he would do that to somebody. It has taken him years and countless amount of practice between himself and Booker to be able to even have the little bit of control that he has over it now. And even then he does not like to use it on a single person because he is afraid he will put too much into it.

He can push some emotions into them, but only if he really really tries. It’s not something that he can do without a conscious effort. If he is currently using his magic to coax a crowd of people into feeling one way he might be able to pick up on how certain people are feeling. And if he focuses on one person, he can also feel them. But it’s not something that he can do without being connected to them. He can’t just walk near somebody and know how they’re feeling.

part of Booker and props in general being able to read people extremely well. There is a very, very very slim chance that you could look at them and outright lie. And if you do tell them something that is the absolute truth. They will be able to tell that you are telling the truth. But that’s not from magic that’s just from building up their ability to read people over the time that they have been in this carnival

If you choose to romance them:

They will probably end up, cursing people for flirting with you. Even if that person didn’t know you were taking it won’t matter to them. They’ll end up, making sure that that person continuously has a paper cut on their hand every single time they use hand sanitizer or always make sure thatevery time they get out of bed in the morning they stabbed their pinky toe.

Andy if you defended them from being hit on? Yeah, they would definitely enjoy it. The feeling of them being the one to be defended for once is almost a heavy and heady feeling. Because they aren’t used to anybody at all caring about them in that way. They haven’t had anyone besides each other for so long