#chrytale

The Trial is currently in session. 

If you have anything to say, please speak up using the askbox or the comments section on the fic (links on the homepage). 

Argue for: 

*Fight 

(how, and why?) 

*Mercy 

(how, and why?) 

*Talk 

(possible arguments for either option?) 

Oh hello, psychedelic color-and-species-shifting vegetoid companion! Nice to hear from you again! 

That… is a GOOD QUESTION. 

OK. Here’s what confuses me: Toby Fox is American and a lot of Undertale’s just.. I dunno, aesthetic?, seems to me to be rather American, although it could really be anywhere, and there’s really no way to tell a specific place/time period with any certainty from the intro screens with the spear-waving humans. I set the War between Humans and Monsters in AmberTale in a close fantasy parallel to plague-era Middle Ages, ie right at the end and the beginning of the Renaissance (which was starting already and really got into swing once they got all the corpses cleared out of the way and the land reallotted.) So early 1300s by our dates, and presumably in Europe, since this is European history we’re talking about. Thing is. Where does Undertale actually take place? I think it’s hard to say. When I look at the original game I wanna say America, but I can’t with certainty, and personal preference for aesthetics and stuff makes me want to set it in Europe, by our standards. So I’m gonna go with ‘maybe neither’. Camila Cueves said Glitchtale takes place in a Pangaea-like mega-continent. I’m.. not going to be exactly the same, but similarly, I will say that my stories do not take place in a world that is exactly the same as ours. However, a lot of the places and place names are the same, at least in AmberTale/ChryTale (England and Greece and Normandy exist because they’ve been specifically mentioned in various places.) The Barrier exists in a mountain range roughly analogous to the Alps. Crisco, I have no idea, but it’s not our world. Got sort of a chilly wasteland vibe going there, but hopefully that’s just the doings of the dystopian government and not the state of the rest of the world. Snowflower, different world altogether. They are in a cold place with lots of mountains and sea, and good land with an optimum combination of flat-enough-to-build-on, ocean access, accessibility in general and sunlight (some of the dramatically deep lowlands between mountains get very little sunlight) is at a premium. What’s happening with the war is the Monsters are being forced off both the live-on-able mountains and most of the seashore and into the lowlands, which are not great to live in, but you can survive if you’re Determined. (Sorta like the Underground.) And thus Kip’s joy at being able to experience so many hours of sunlight a day. ..I’m getting alternate-universe quasi-Norway vibes from this one, but the topography would be different obviously, it’d be its own small peninsula. 

So I usually feel kinda weird about sharing personal stuff on here but this directly affects my creative output, which is something that, amazingly enough, several of you are invested in so I figured I should give you an update. 

I am a solitary person who asks for help probably less often than I should, who once rolled down a flight of stairs, audibly spraining an ankle in front of several people, and then jumped up and limped quickly away muttering “Nope thanks I’m good” when they asked if I was OK. Despite this, after considering it for about half a year, I finally went to talk to a counselor about stuff. 

Obviously since there’s only been one visit we’re not 100% certain but she thinks I have dysthymia and that sounds about right. It’s a mild, but chronic form of depression and it’s kinda been ramping up for two years and a bit. 

So if it seems like my update speed has been steadily decreasing over the past year or so then yes, I think it has? I am struggling to do normal things and my writing speed, instead of getting faster with experience, is grinding down along with the rest of my life at present. 

Don’t panic, as I’ve said it’s pretty mild. I’m just doing things a lot slower than I’d like. 

@convenientalias and I were having a conversation about @ask-chry and the recent semi-cliffhanger of a murder trial just starting and this happened

I LIKE THIS LITERALLY SO MUCH because with the ‘but preventing other death tho’ it starts out as 110% something Gaster would say and then turns into such intense bromance that it just 

that I just 

I did a weird laugh and then touched my hand to my chest, while still grinning

I do not believe in the multiverse 

It doesn’t exist here 

Lalalalalalala

*Ink!Sans appears like the annoying bastard he is* do u have a moment to speak about our lords and saviors the Creators of AUs

These flowers thrive on dust. 

That must be why there are so many of them here, near the Barrier. 

In another world, this is where ‘New Home’ would stand. 

But that’s irrelevant. 

This is your world. Silent, and filled with flowers. 

-I have never drawn AmberTale Grillbz wearing glasses. 

-ChryTale G does not and will not in the future either for reasons which will eventually become clear. 

-I have never mentioned Grillbz’ glasses in CORE or as far as I am aware any other AU-related canon works. 

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