#glitchedswap

My AUs

Vesselfell - A Papyrus-centric Underfell AU revolving around the curious case of W.D. Gaster’s most successful experiment - The Vessel. Papyrus becomes a vessel for a doorway into the void, which gradually begins causing problems for not just their timeline, but the multiverse as a whole.

There are currently three primary iterations of the main story; Canon, The Good Ending, and The Variable.

Heartfell - A lovecore inspired Underfell AU where the world may not be as lovely as it seems. Exploring many facets of love and it’s perception and how sometimes what we believe is love is actually just trauma.

Orangefell - A semi-skeleton brothers-centric Underfell AU that revolves around how different things may be if the brothers had taken a different path.

Invertedfell - An Underfell AU where the characters personalities (and primary color schemes) are inverted. This is not a swapped AU as the changes are personal to each individual character.

Neonfell - An Underfell AU with slight cyberpunk stylings. After the fallen human and Alphys mysteriously disappear before the human had completed their journey to King Asgore, the underground falls into a state of chaos, eventually breaking apart into two sides - the loyalists and the rebellion. Will they ever learn the truth? Will they ever be free? Or will they drive themselves to extinction before they get the chance?

Demonfell - An Underfell AU where the monsters are all different types of demons. There isn’t much of a plot so much as a world to explore with honestly, I just liked the concept and ran with it, though I may develop a more solid story one day…

Glitchedswap - An Underswap AU that takes place in a “glitched game”. The monsters are mostly unknowingly permanently trapped Underground, and try to make the best of their abysmal circumstances.

Sweetswap - An Underswap AU similar to Heartfell in that it’s aesthetics are shifted, only to more cute, soft, and sweet stylings (cutecore, if you will), while exploring the many pros and cons of a sometimes perhaps too optimistic outlook on life.

Psychictale(fell?) - A Psychonauts inspired AU where Frisk must help the monsters address their inner demons to reach the truth of not just the underground, but the very monsters themselves.

Undersell - Underfell, but with a comedic twist. The underground is a grungy city type place, and everyone’s got an angle. It’s up to Frisk and Flowey to guide them back to a better way of life. (generally more lighthearted in tone)

AUs I have my own interpretation of

Swapfell (Metal) • Fellswap (Glass) • Swapfell (Red) • Mafiafell • Mafiaswap • Horrorfell • Horrorswap • Lovefell (previously Lustfell ) • MafiaLoveFell (previously MafiaLustFell)

AUs I need to work more on

Mafiatale • Horrortale • Outertale • Outerfell • Outerswap

Stories and Ideas

Glasses - Papyrus needs glasses. It really shouldn’t be this complicated.

7S - A monster and a human with good intentions form a plan that leads them on an unexpectedly difficult journey in an attempt to save monsterkind before losing themselves (and each other).

Tales of Divergence - A choose your own adventure type story about a collision within the multiverse that brings four neighboring timelines…together?

My Mother’s Eyes - An Underfell story about a strange accident that leads to Toriel raising Papyrus in the Ruins for most of his life.

Everything Stays - When a malfunction happens at the labs, Sans disappears without a trace. Alphys has to take the news to his family, only to find all that’s left is his kid brother. She doesn’t have much of a choice but to look after this increasingly strange child herself, with the eventual help of Undyne. They become quite the odd little family…but Papyrus never gives up hope of seeing his brother again. He knows it’s just a matter of time…

Asymmetrical - Accidents happen. But how could Gaster have anticipated this..?

You know, I don’t know if I’ve ever…actually properly talked about GS before! In the VF note I’d mentioned GS originating from an idea with Void so I suppose I’ll start there.

I often get lots of imagery involving Void and many others whenever listening to music, all varying a lot in tone and intensity. In one idea, he’d needed to take refuge in a safe verse he was familiar with, where he heads to the house in Snowdin and the door in answered by a young Chara who’s very happy to see him again. Then he’s fondly greeted by brothers Sky and Uno (Sans and Papyrus respectively). I’d seen them all so clearly and was surprised by there sudden existence, especially considering they even came with the nicknames which is unusual for me, as I tend to struggle with those haha

But I quickly became attached to them and started piecing together more of their world. This resulted in a Swap AU that had experienced a massive coding issue, preventing Chara from being able to complete their run or reset. Or rather, it’s too dangerous to reset, as it started affecting the monsters negatively whenever they did, worsening the glitches caused by the initial malfunction.

While most monsters still don’t remember the resets, they’ve all started to develop a sense of deja vu, or feeling like some big change is coming soon, and things will change for the better. They don’t, not really, and the brothers as well as Toriel and Asgore have a better awareness of this, Alphys and Undyne, too, to a lesser degree.

That was how they’d met Void. One of the many facets of his job entails fixing coding issues, but one so large scale is tricky. If you do things in the wrong order or don’t finish something completely before moving on to the next, it can have grave consequences. So it’s a very slow going process of working away at it over a period of time, with rest periods in between so as not to destabilize the AU either, but even with all that, there’s no guarantee he and his allies won’t eventually hit a dead end. There’s no guarantee they’ll ever be able to free the monsters of that underground. And without resets, and time flowing normally, the monsters are still aging, still losing hope.

As a stand alone AU without MV interference, I haven’t honestly decided if I’ve wanted to give them a happy or tragic ending, and having mostly just thought a lot about the monsters’ glitches and what their underground is like (still relatively normal seeming, aside from a few things that make it stick out as a little broken).