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/hj, your arts adorable and a big inspiration

such power at my fingertips... the fate of humanity rests solely upon me continuing to draw a goat and a skeleton being cute......

fortunately, with this offering humanity lives to see another day 💜

Happy Valentine's Day!

if I have to pick just one... I'll say toriel, sans, papyrus and frisk (and a reluctant flowey) all living together on the surface. it's basic, but it's the entire foundation for how I view their lives post-pacifist :'>

firstly it's potentially canon - if frisk chooses to stay with toriel - as both the 1st anniversary Q&A and the 5th anniversary alarm clock winter dialogue imply that toriel either lives with sans and papyrus or very close to them, and evidently flowey joins the surface at some point. given that sans moves in with toriel in 2 neutral endings (plus papyrus in the version he's alive for), there's no reason they couldn't do so in the pacifist ending too.

and to explain why it's my favourite: please enjoy several smaller headcanons and thoughts that result from it :D

obviously I don't think sans and toriel moving in together is immediately romantic, I imagine they have their own rooms when they first move in and it takes at least a couple years of slow burn before they become a couple. but as time passes and they grow closer, sans spends less and less time in his room until toriel's room just naturally becomes their room

the bros' tradition of sans reading papyrus bedtime stories continues on the surface, often joined by frisk and a lovingly-eavesdropping toriel

think about all the new books toriel gets to read by the fireplace, now with a small round skeleton asleep on her lap like a cat

on clear nights sometimes sans stays up late to look at the real stars, and toriel joins him and points out the constellations she remembers from a lifetime ago ✨

since papyrus implies sans tried baking a butterscotch pie, sans getting to try toriel's recipe for real and her helping improve his baking would be cute 🥧

speaking of cooking: hey remember toby's on-the-spot fanfiction from the 10th anniversary stream about how toriel could teach papyrus to actually cook

I love the idea of toriel and papyrus becoming close friends!! besides that sans and toriel need someone to yell at them when their jokes get out of control, having sans and papyrus around would be great for toriel. getting to raise frisk clearly brings her joy, but even though life is better on the surface, her protective instincts and grief from losing 8 children aren't going to disappear overnight. with the bros around, she can trust them both to look out for frisk and they can help ease her overprotective tendencies and loneliness ❤️‍🩹 (of course frisk does get into Various Shenanigans under the bros' watch, but that's par for the course where they're involved and toriel is hardly a stranger to shenanigans herself)

dunkle sans is a fandom classic for a reason, frisk dragging sans into caring again and him becoming their lesser dad is too sweet and destroys me forever ❤️

further on the topic of dad sans: sans being flowey's unwanted unofficial stepdad is hilarious and nothing will convince me otherwise. the soulless flower kid who tried to play god now having to live a peaceful domestic life with the 8 year old who pulled him kicking and screaming out of said playing god, his mother who doesn't know he's her long-dead son, the creator of his fanclub in several timelines, and worst of all that smiley trashbag who's now dating his mother is simply incredible. the catastrophic awkwardness of it all is The Point. the potential is unlimited. chef's kiss

look at these sprites from the first newsletter and tell me they aren't the perfect goofy lil family

(These are the only completed ones so far, once I finish the rest I'll share them too. As long as I'm not bothering you)

aaaa the rabbit guards!! some very good bunnies right there ✨🐇

The muffin look-alike is entirely pink because she’s supposed to be related to muffet as well as Eight from Numberblocks, as the fact they appear in is a crossover called Octoblock’s in Love!

I can't lie I did have to look up ersatz in the fear that this is some 67-esque new meme I'm too old for, so the realisation of "oh it's just german" was a relief jhfgkjdfh

anyway I don't mind my art/fankids being used like this if it's just for fun rather than like, actual character designs you intend to use for something. but these are cute, I really like muffin's colours and that pink on glitter is pretty!

nah, evil ralsei always seemed like a wild misinterpretation to me. it's clear that his behaviour was meant to be questionable but like, I remember when chapter 2 released people saw his post-spamton neo dialogue and went "ralsei trying to distract kris when they're upset is so suspicious!!" and that always bugged me. I can see how some of his lines from that scene can read as him knowing more than he lets on, but you don't help someone through a panic attack by telling them "yeah that thing you're freaking out about is exactly as bad as you think, let's keep focusing on that". trying to help his friend take their mind off something actively distressing is not malicious!!

(I do think given all the plot lines going on it's possible that he could end up not on our side at some point, but that's entirely different to him just Actually Being Evil)

ANYWAY ralsei's character development in chapter 4 was fascinating. his completely empty room, his response to susie snapping at him, the way he talks about susie's kindness and how he's still learning what friendship really means... he's a good kid :']

also love that holds his pinky finger out while pouring/sipping tea. very polite!!

yep! caught it in one of my thousands of screenshots :]