#guinongtale

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Saejun sighed as he watched Horror tackle the cows, least this time he wasn’t trying to bite ‘em. Trying to herd ‘em into the pen by runnin at ‘em n jumping on ‘em, it didn’t seem like the best idea tho. Saejun couldn’t help but chuckle, Horror was surely somethin’ else huh.

Maybe he should go help ‘em out. Just in case.

It’d been 2 months since horror moved in on the farm, and man had it been hectic. Fir’ starters Horror and his bro Sugar were like wild animals, trynna eat everythin in sight.

They were hungry big things, that wanted nothin more than to consume. Mostly Horrors lil’brotha, but um, he wasn’t so lil, actually he was quite huge, very tall n skinny. His Mama clearly never fed em properly. Horror had more control over ‘emself but only by a little bit.

They didn’t tell us where they were from. Nor the lives they had to live. When Dream showed up askin if we could take the two of ‘em in, we were hesitant at first. Seein those scars on ‘em. And hearin how Horror was enslaved by some Nightmare guy.

They had refused to give us anymore details than that. It’s a shame to. It only made us more worried about ‘em. We didn’t want trouble. But how could ya say no to precious lil dreamy? And a pal in need?

We caved n let ‘em in. It took awhile for ‘em to get accustomed, Horror when he wasn’t in a hunger craved state, was constantly trynna avoid eaten, somethin about not deservin it?, and Sugar He wanted ta use eyeballs in all his food? Kinda gross if ya ask me.

They both refused to meet are friends for a long while. And when they finally caved well. Lets say it didn’t go very well. Horror got inna fight with Dain Yun (Undyne) n Sugar asked if he could cook up Suggu (frisk) inna nice ‘tasty’ stew. Yuck. Safe ta say those two don’t come round the farm no more. We still go n visit them. Horror n Sugar stay at home tho.

Actually they almost never go in’ta town unless they have’ta, they’re kinda loners in a way.

Oh well, there loss.

As Saejun finished reminiscing on how he got to this point in his life, he walked up to Horror, and paused, taking in the sight of the crazed lunatic, who thought he could ride a bull cow to scare it into the pen. He watched as Horror got flung of and landed roughly on the ground.

Yep, These two were crazy alright, but he wouldn’t have it any other way.

Walking up to Horror he asked sincerely.

“Need some help?”

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Part 2 of my bad Sanses fic, this takes place sometime after dusts fight with error, after horror has left nightmares team, thought it be cool to see what horrors been up to! In his nee life in farmtale/Guinongtale_Au got the names from the wiki correct me if I’m wrong!

* Horrorfarm…

* Oh Horrorfarm…

* I drew these losers on white board w/ my friend teheheh!

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Horror Sans belongs to @Sour-Apple-Studios

Farmer Sans belongs to @GuinongTale_AU

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I like to think that Farm still has Sans' feelings of meaninglessness, but co-running a farm with so many tasks and responsibilities has helped him get a bit of a sense of control over his life. Pair that with Reaper, who feels a strong sense of guilt over his position in the universe, his role in the life cycle. I wonder how that would turn out.

Oh! 0/////0 Well, I do like being helpful! I do not specialize in Farmtale lore, nor have I gotten around to compiling my thesis on it. I do not have any proper citations on hand, nor can I definitively say what came first.

but I can give you some basics!

Because I dont have any backdates to offer at this time, I'll tell you about "Farmtale" in the order I became aware of it.

That starts with the Japanese Translation.

During the earlier fandom, when the game was being translated, it came out that Sans used the pronoun "oira". (I do not know if this was a fan-spread rumor, a beta concept, or if it made it into the final game -- all I can be sure of is that "sans uses oira" got traction)

In Japanese, to my understanding, "Oira" is a pronoun that has a lot of rustic connotation. To my understanding, it is used (at least in popular culture) by the japanese equivalent of "country folk", being part of a sort of "country accent". (There is a specific demographic/region it is popularly associated with, but I cannot be confident in naming it at this time: i dont want to give you wrong information)

So when it came out that "sans uses oira", a LOT of memes and fanwork came out of Sans in a straw hat, in various kinds of farming clothes.

This started in the eastern side of the fandom and then found its way to the western side of the fandom, where the aesthetic shifted towards the more american-localized "southern rustic".

To start, this kind of AU was aesthetic in nature, and didnt have a concrete singular creator or agreed upon lore. That being said, it was very common at least at one time for the story to be "Post Pacifist", where the skelebros just became farmers after coming to the surface.

That is the "memetic" "Farmtale" and "Oira Sans". It is an aesthetic AU based around the loose idea of the skelebros settling into a rustic lifestyle, with no real solid design other than Sans wearing a straw hat.

This is very different from GuinongTale.

GuinongTale (known as "farmtale" in the english speaking fandom) is a Korean-made AU. It is a surface-AU (meaning the monsters were never underground to begin with). The story takes place in a rural korean farming town, where the main undertale cast reside (including, but not necessarily limited to, Sans, Papyrus, and Undyne).

The characters all have distinct redesigns, as well as Korean-Localized Names.

Sans is called Saejun. On top of the seemingly universal straw hat iconography, he wears flower-print pants and rubber-palmed farming gloves. His gaster blaster is just a cow's head. Instead of bones, he summons little farming tools (a specific kind used often on korean farms, which has a specific name i cannot recall). He also has one-strap sandals instead of slippers.

Papyrus is called Pilsu. He wears a floral-print neck-scarf and overalls with one patch on the left leg. He has been depicted carrying a rake.

Undyne (her korean name is unknown to me, but i know she has one because they all do) has been depicted with a sweater hanging off her shoulders and dog tags around her neck.

The themes of GuinongTale, to my knowledge, center around Nature vs Modernization. I have been told that the "pacifist" route is where the farming community is preserved through Frisk's actions, and the "genocide" route is where the community is driven off their land by the encroaching urbanism/gentrification. However, I have to clarify that I dont at this time understand Korean, so this is secondary information rather than direct knowledge I have gleaned from the source material.

TL;DR:

In the english-speaking fandom, content tagged as Farmtale is usually a rustic-aesthetic post-pacifist AU which is believed to have been inspired by memes from the japanese Oira Sans era. Western creators will often bring their own flair or spin to the worldbuilding, making it a highly variable AU.

However, the Korean Farmtale GuinongTale (which in the english side of fandom is ALSO tagged "Farmtale") also exists separate from that, with a distinct aesthetic and lore all its own, which has its own unique charm deserving of distinction.

Twitter tag: guinongtale_au

Note: Museum staff does not know Korean.

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