#eistale

I've finally had to admit to myself that I'm not going to complete my Snowflower fic... But guess what, @then00breturns is! They just showed me what they're working on for the next chapter and I'M SO EXCITED, it's really cool : D

The plan is that they'll take my general ideas for plot and do the actual writing themself. I'm really excited to see what they come up with!

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. 

This one deserves an AU overview too. 

Link: AO3

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Basics: 

-Grillster-centric wartime fic. 

-Set near the end of the War between Humans and Monsters, which has basically replaced WWII in an alternate universe. Everything takes place on the surface, but in a mountainous region where the humans are steadily seizing control of the “high ground.” 

-Grillby and Sans are spy partners. 

-Dr. W. D. Gaster is a genius multi-specialist scientist who has studied the SOUL, modern energy production, and the relativity theories of an interesting human called Dr. Einstein. He’s currently working for the humans under house arrest. 

-Grillby, under the alias of Kip, a Snowflower spy working for the humans, attempts to learn what Gaster is up to. 

-Eventual intrusive flashbacks

-Intrusive Sans

-Stealthy stealthiness of stealth 

-Various states and stages of psychological distress

-And menacing bad science that probably should not have been left turned on. 

Possible-spoiler basics: 

-Kip’s alias is a Companion, Gaster’s personal consort. Gaster is less than interested in sexual intimacy, which is kind of a relief to Kip, or in any intimacy, which is frankly annoying considering the nature of his mission. New mission: force Gaster to accept my frickin’ friendship by any means necessary

-Gaster is an infuriating blend of antisocial socially anxious lonely asexual terrified of everything angry derp. Good news: he’ll probably be easy to manipulate--once Kip can get his confusing little mind figured out.

-The main joke of this fic is that it looks like there’s going to be sex and there is not. There will be fake friendship. At least, I think it’s fake. Is it fake? Can I tell? What even makes sense anymore? What is friendship?

-Gaster has a deep hatred of specific random things such as silky fabrics, bright colors, the number eight, and spoons. ...He’s gotten used to spoons seeing how the things keep turning up on his breakfast table.  He loves sweaters. 

Some thoughts I entertained myself with at lunch

Snowflower: Describe your personality.  Kip: ... Kip: ...whats a personality Kip: can you touch it Kip: can you eat it Kip: can you kill it Kip: ...are you a personality  Snowflower: You’re hired! 

ALT: 

......I.