#carningtale sans

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.

If you’re having a bad day or a tough time. The skeletons love you very much.

Cross would definitely hug you and rock you against his chest.

Blue would kiss your head and whisper sweet words

Killer would try to kill what’s upsetting you

Horror would make you comfort food

Nightmare would quietly ask if you need him to drain the negativity

Red would bring you to the gym with him to either punch it out or show off for you

Booker would use his illusions to make a show for you

And sans would just hug you and say what they all say.

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.

With red, it actually comes across as being very angry or to somebody who isn’t used to him. It might even sound like he doesn’t believe you at all. Because when he receives words of affirmation, love or care, he responds with anger, sarcasm, and somewhat downright rude responses. Because when you say, “I love you,” he will just laugh and say he “ain’t made for that.” Or if you say “I missed you today.” He will roll his eyes at you and tell you to “make up a better lie.” Because love and care is not something that he experience is very often and before you never had really. Due to his upbringing, his trials and his own self hatred at his inability to have been a better brother to raise his brother better kind of false into some very nasty trauma that he has a difficult time overcoming. 

Another one who suffers with disbelieving you, is you know, Sans himself. I mean, we could go for hours talking about the trauma on the skeleton. Consistent resets. Consistently being told somebody won’t do something again and they do. Being forced into making a promise that he did not realize the repercussions of later down the road. Of seeing his friends and everybody die so many times he can’t even remember them all anymore. I was seeing his brother die. I mean it’s no wonder that the guy can’t really accept when he’s being told somebody cares about him. I’m sure he was told that many times before genocide routes. He’s gonna question it every single time. If it’s not him thinking, he’s just not good enough to be with you then it’s him thinking that you’re lying to him. Or it’s him thinking that you are just trying to get his hopes up and then somebody else will crushed them later. Sometimes he doesn’t even blame you at all, sometimes he just really has a hard time believing the situation. And after years of being with him, he won’t actually honestly think that it’s not all going to come to an end until you reach almost 10 years with the guy.

Horror is an entirely different can of worms. Because his trust issues don’t actually stem from the starvation or the suffering. It’s because he was told yeah I’ll step through to the other side and you’ll be free. And it was a big fat lie. So yeah, he does have some trauma from the cannibalism in the suffering, but that’s not really what drags him down. It’s the fear that there’s gonna be a lie in there somewhere. That’s why you can’t even do jokes or certain white lies with him because if you do in April fools joke that could be considered a white lie, and he believes you it could absolutely shatter his trust in you. He really wants to believe that you’re not like that and he wants to be able to relax and trust you implicitly. But it’s hard for him because he doesn’t know when the next time he’s gonna blink and be back stuck in that hell hole because of another white lie.

Dust will also initially not believe you. He just straight up will not. The demons say you’re lying he thinks you’re lying. He thinks you’re not even real half the time. He can’t help but need physical affirmations to the point where you almost have to touch him or hug him or hold him in some way every single day just for him to believe that you’re actually there let alone to believe that when you say you love him it’s not just the whisperings of demons in his ears trying to convince him for a moment that he is going to be saved just so they can drag him down again.

Haha! I was HOPING for this!

Red smacks that ass to see the jiggle

Black smacks it because he likes to spank you

Sans smacks it and then feels bad after

Horror is way too scared to

Killer spanks you so much that if he doesn’t then you assume something is wrong

Dust rarely does.

Nightmare will but only in bed during

Cross is far too flustered to do it unless you goad him and wiggle it for him

cooking? slapped

reading? smacked

trying to do anything serious? spanked

Sans: he is semi-flustered and also kinda ok with it? But it’s going to depend on who is there to see. If you’re the only one there and maybe blue or sci the he is fine. But red will probably give him hell for it so he won’t be so thrilled if you give him ammo.

Red: he likes it. Plain and simple. He will properly even wiggle his butt at you to do it again. It won’t matter who sees or who is there because it’s an invitation to him and he ain’t one to ignore it

Blue: he will giggle and blush and tell you not to do that where people can see. But really he likes it. It makes him want to take you over his knee and spank you too and see if you make little noises. But outwardly he acts cute and shy

Killer: when you spank him he is going to give the loudest and most exaggerated moan you have ever heard in your life. He will probably even whine and say he will be a good boy or say he won’t if it gets you to spank him again.

Dust: outwardly there isn’t much of a reaction except maybe him shooing your hand if he is doing something dangerous. But if you peak inside that hood of his and squint, you’ll see he is blushing a little

Horror: spanking horror is like spanking a boulder. He doesn’t move. And it feels like your hand has his the wall. He will look down at you curiously when you do it. And find it cute. Everytime you do it after that he just grins. It’s like a kitten playing with a bulldog

Nightmare: he rarely lets you spank him. He self aware nature and his tentacles make him a very very hard target. Especially with his ability to grab you at any distance. But if he lets you? Then he is already in a very fun mood and you won’t be walking out of the room for the next week.

Cross: he is a yelping and blushing mess whenever you do it. He will jump and cover his butt and try to run away. Every time you find him he will make a whine or another yelp and keep running to protect his butt. But he loves it really. Especially that you see him out because he likes to at you want him