#flowerdust

Dusttale by Ask-Dusttale

FlowerFell by Siviosanei

AUpril by @undertale-aupril

mmm my FlowerDust guy. I was listening to JubyPhonic’s cover of YELLOW while drawing part of this. It was in my mind the whole time even when not actively listening to the song. This doesn’t really look like the song MV at all, but the vibes were in mind while drawing this. Title is also from that cover’s lyrics

Dusttale by Ask-Dusttale

FlowerFell by Siviosanei

Have my Fiend(this guy). I guess this Frisk is also a Player. Like, well, the Player basically assimilated into the Frisk avatar. I’ll tag them as a Frisk ig, but they are definitely still a Player. They’re roleplaying as a Frisk. They never were one.

DONT USE SHE/HER ON THEM BTW!! IM pretty sure the original FlowerFell!Frisk also used they/them, but don’t quote me on that.

Some very rambling Lore time(I’m tired), and it has a some mentions of abuse. Warning there.

Also no Frans but a one sided Plans from this Player(or I guess one-sided Frans if want. You’re wrong but whatever). They’re unhealthy obsessed with Flo. Flo needs to get out of this AU for his own mental health asap ngl, but he does think he can convince Fiend to become good again. They have been before, and they can reset everything easily!

And Fiend does play into that a little. They’re kinda evil ngl. I mean, they’re a Dusttale (FlowerDust) Player, it would be weirder if they weren’t just a little evil, you know? They’re not incapable of change, they just don’t want to. They’re kinda want to torment Flo cause like. They think it’s kinda hot how he’s killing people to get stronger to kill them. And also they just like getting better at the game(killing everybody).

So yeah they are a bad person and is forcing Flo into an abusive “relationship” and hasn’t even fully realized just how bad of a person they are. They had just hard reseted the entire game(timeline) before to make it so Flo will forget everything again, so it’ll be like everything never happened! …except that didn’t work because now it’s not exactly just a “game” anymore, not for Fiend, anyways. And the moment Fiend discovered this, they immediately doubled down and got far, far worse.

Because you can’t spell Dusttale without tragedy.

…But also I am an utter WUSS and I want EVERYONE TO BE HAPPY so uh. Flo escapes(gets kidnapped) the AU and Fiend is left all alone in a dust coated world they can’t Reset(cause Sans isn’t there), all alone with just their thoughts. They’ll change alright, just so Flo would love them again(he never has, only platonically ig but Fiend has something deeply wrong with them). Just so he’ll come back.

I don’t think Flo would ever be comfortable around Fiend due to the Everything. But maybe their AU can be happy. Or, they can be happy away from each other. Fiend will learn that their actions have consequences, whether they like it or not.

That’s all the Lore I got.

no background and no mercy(heh) version

They took Flo’s jacket by the way. The flowers just kinda…popped on there. I guess. Don’t ask idk man

Dusttale by Ask-Dusttale

FlowerFell by Siviosanei

trying out a new coloring thing, where I shade the lineart the same as the regular colors, and then shift the saturation and lighting so you can actually see the lineart. I did the same filter for all of the colors, which…kinda worked, I guess. Oh! And I found a new lineart brush to test out! Using it for tomorrow’s art(but probs not the coloring stuff I did lol)

I think doing a True Pacifist run might reset the flowers, but you do need to die a few times in order to gain FF!Sans favor…probably, listen, FlowerFell was not meant to be a game, it a Frans comic, alright, it works perfectly as a comic, where they’re all happy in the end or whatever. So it’s a bit harder to put all this junk into Video Game logic. (And I don’t ship Frans myself and personally take it out when I write FF stuff, but the original FF IS a Frans comic, the internet lied to you, okay)

So the Player would honestly have to be REALLY Good at dodging. Actually, let’s just think of FlowerFell as Underfell’s Hard Mode. The hardness doesn’t just come from the monsters becoming stronger, but from making each death harder for you to come back from. And when you die too much, you have too many flowers on you, and your run just ends before it can begin. You have to manually delete and reinstall the whole game—like you’re trying to get around erasing the world in the original UT.

Actually that’s just a good standalone idea, I’m keeping that lol.

So for FF!Dust to happen, the Player would have to do a No Mercy run over and over and over again, while not dying more than like, I dunno, let’s be generous and say ~100 times. Of course, for this to happen, you have to be extremely, extremely good at the game. Only a speedrunner/someone who hates themselves maybe, would go through this.

Okay, so we’ve got the Player side of things thought through. What about Sans?

Well, regular Dusttale has an ambiguous “glitch” that happens to make Sans remember the Resets. So that happens too.

But👆 I’m going to making things interesting, and having it so that one can only unlock UnderFell Hard Mode: FlowerFell after a True Pacifist run. Because I feel like it’s fitting for both Underfell AND FlowerFell’s stories.

Not to say that FF!D!Sans(okay, bad acronym, it’s FlowerDust now) would remember that run…under normal conditions, but since it was a prerequisite to unlock FlowerFell, if he was glitched to remember the resets, he should remember that run simply because someone wanted him too. He’s important to the FlowerFell True Pacifist run, “Closure(the run name in UF),” so of course someone would want him of all people to remember the resets.

The No Mercy run in Underfell is called “Betrayal,” and I feel like that encapsulates what Sans would feel like perfectly—betrayal. You had to free everyone already to do this, to get this far. And you took it all back, and for what? You own selfish self-satisfaction? Your own morbid curiosity? Why? How could you?

Sans would remember that original run first, and confront the Player about it the first time they meet. And the next times they meet. And in the Last Corridor, the fight would play the same as normally, but with Sans trying to get you to go back. To be kind, just like you were so, so long ago. But you don’t.

And Sans remembers that you didn’t. And then he starts to try things.

Killing still isn’t the first thing he does. He remembers the kindness you showed, way back then, it’s what he remembers most about you. He tries it himself. It works, to some extent, but it’s not enough. At most, he can make the monster Trust each other, but there’s no Closure. It’s not enough to stop the Human.

Killing does come easier to Sans, though. It’s what his world brought him up with—Kill or Be Killed. Killing others to get stronger is normal. So no one really blinks an eye the first few times he kills. His brother’s concerned, but Sans able to brush it off. But not for long.

There are moments, could be moments, where the player slows down, and doesn’t kill anyone, or doesn’t want to kill anyone for the rest of the run. And Sans would be relieved. The human they remembered had returned…and for a while, things are great.

But just like the original Dusttale, one of them breaks, in the end. It’s too late for either of them, now, the rule of this world has its chains on them both. It’s Kill or Be Killed. You proved that—no, it didn’t have to be that way and you know that. But now, it’s too late.

The only things that remain, are petals and dust.