#incubux

Niche ship post with a single ref.. definitely gonna flop but also I hope those that see it enjoy !! | Eppa.

Heyyyy gang..... If you've seen my latest yapping you probably heard the term "Paperbux" which wasn't coined by me but by another artist from what I can remember !

Anywho, here's Eppa !

-> They're a Paperjam(ErrorInk) x Incubux(CrossMare) child because I'm crazy about them and if I finish the comic I'm doing with them y'all might get to see why I am !

-> Name is inspired by the fact Incubux was originally almost named Incubo/Nightmare in Italian. Instead, Eppa was named after 'inceppamento della carta' which is Paperjam in italian.

-> They/Them pronouns only !! Agender creechur:3

-> They're very introverted and don't step out of their comfort zone much. Has a good relationship with parents, though.

-> I think the horns were directly inspired by an old OC of mine ? Subconsciously

-> Knows Crane from afar.

( Info end. Feel free to ask for more ! )

CREDITS -

Paperjam belongs to - @/7goodangel

Incubux belongs to - @/Nateeev

It took a long time for me to relearn how to draw and get a design for him (since yknow, I first made the written concept for him on May 1st 2025 cough cough) but he’s finally here!

He was created as a gift from The Atomized to Atrophy, and by that I mean the Atomized threw a bunch of code from the recently atomized XTale at Atrophy’s goop and it turned into a weird, teethy tumor on Atrophy’s body

When it detached, looking like a mound of goo, teeth and moss, Atrophy was terrified of this gross thing in his mansion and tried to kill it

It died,,,and then revived via Determination. And escaped.

This malformed creature proceeded to figure out survival through sheer trial and error starting at the ride-old age of zero days old. If it failed then it simply came back to life and continued.

Slinking through the gaps between aus was not hard, especially with all of the holes in many aus where the void crept in. This was good for gathering supplies.

It learned that by pretending to be a person, occasionally monsters would offer it assistance in its survival. It was taught to read and speak by a blind Underswap Asgore. The other monsters in the ruins avoided it because its bones didn’t quite fit together right, and were held in place by tentacles and moss growths, and its teeth upon teeth upon teeth’s covering its form. It carved itself a wooden mask to remedy this.

It left that au after concluding that it had more to learn elsewhere. And learning helped survival, developing skills helped complete tasks better.

It does tasks, because completing tasks results in survival. Tasks like gathering food, tools, medical textbooks, making crude braces to keep its legs and arms together, mending wounds. Talking to people is a task, it helps develop social skills. Those can be useful, people can be useful.

Drugs can also be useful. They drown out the pain of the goo eating bone and the determination melting bone and eating the goo. And the feeling of malformed organs struggling, forcing warped and weak legs to stand upright. Dulling the pain makes tasks easier, makes finding more painkillers easier. It will stretch out its supply of drugs as far as it can until it is able to find more. Any drugs will do, as long as they distract from the agony of its existence.

When it amassed too many tools to carry on its back, it made a base of operations in the ruins of a severely corrupted BigTale (by @bigtaleundertaleau ). The corruption made it easy to access other aus and caused the au itself to be barren of life. The only “person” endemic to this au was a frozen png of Big the Cat face down in the circular patch of flowers at the very beginning on the game.

I will share the tale of how Atrophy ended up capturing him and dressing him up like a little doll soon, in the meantime feel free to ask about Incubux! He end up settling on he/him pronouns once he starts trying to achieve some semblance of personhood, though that will take a little while.

Also I have been in Thaltro’s DMs and as a STEM bitch I have my own theories about how monster biology works in Nightwatch, which will come in handy for the medical catastrophe that is Bex over here. So feel free to ask about that as well

Incubux!

Sorry for the long wait, I been very busy with trying to catch us from school work I missed when I was sick u-u

Anyways I was gonna add more characters to this but I didn’t know how or what to do, it’s a very hard thing to think haha ^^

Here’s are the children’s creators if you are curious ^^

Noah belongs to @onebizarrekai

Incubux belong to @nateeew

It was early in the castle, very early. The halls basically abandoned aside from a few guards patrolling or kitchen staff waking up to make breakfast. The big heavy curtains in the halls were still draped over the windows, making sure no light or cold could seep in. Most doors were still closed and except for some snoring, it was eerily quiet.

Save for the quiet pitter patter of little feet.

Save for the little wobbling of a certain little inhabitant.

Even though the castle halls were nearly pitch black, the only traces of light being found in the dimly lit blue candles, the little princess wasn’t deterred. In fact she made her way around like she could see everything, which she could thanks to her dadda.

She walked wobbly but very determined to a big heavy door, slowly pushed it open and looked at her first challenge, the stairs.

She didn’t like stairs, they were big and she always had to sit down on her butt and go down that way. And it made her diaper so very itchy!

A big frown appeared on her concentrated face and within a flash she was down 6 floors.

Quickly recovering from the sudden teleport, she slowly resumed her journey.

Passing guards smiled as she passed them and gave her a little bow. So very polite they were, she liked that.

After passing some kitchen staff and rounding a few corners she finally arrived to her first destination, the kitchens.

She slowly pushed the swinging kitchen door open and waddled to where her coveted price was. In a rather clumsy way, she started climbing up the kitchen cabinets, putting her hands and feet on the handles.

When it became clear she’d never get on the counter that way, she flexed her little back muscles and out came her small tentacles that helped her climb the rest of the way.

There she finally saw at least one of her targets. The chocolate bars. Happily she waddled over to it and grabbed a milk chocolate one and a dark chocolate one in her tiny hands.

Granted they were the size of her face, she still held on to them tightly and began looking for her second target.

Luckily she didn’t have to look far as it was on the same counter. With love in her eyes she slowly stumbled over to the glass jar filled with golden brown cookies with little pieces of chocolate in them. So big, so ommy nommy!

She slowly grabbed it, but it was so heavy and it caused her to drop the chocolate bars!

With a big pout she sat down on the counter, crossing her little arms.

A big shadow fell over her and she looked up in curiosity. It was uncle Horror!

“Hello princess, yer looking for treats?” He smiled at her. He was always so nice to her.

She nodded, pointing at the bars and the cookie jar. Horror chuckled softly. “Too big eh? I’ll help ya get em upstairs.”

She gave him a big smile, half of her teeth still missing. They were coming though! Papa said she would grow into a big girl and it made his eyes all shiny and wet.

Horror gently picked her up, along with the bars and cookie jar and began walking back upstairs. On their way there they got a lot of curious stares and smiles, cooing at the little princess. 

She gave them all wide eyed looks back, so curious as well about the big big world around her. Annoyingly her hair kept falling in front of her face, making it so she couldn’t see anything! Luckily uncle Horror adjusted the bow that held her hair back for her.

Once upstairs Horror knocked gently at the door which behind her papa and dadda slept. She excitedly kicked her feet.

Still half asleep, Nightmare opened the door and raised a brown, blank stare melting into a gentle smile when he saw exactly who Horror was holding. “Got a package for ya boss.

“Mhh I can certainly see that. Thank you Horror.” Tentacles longer  than her own picked up the cookie jar and chocolate bars while his big hands gently cradled her.

Horror bowed and started walking back to the kitchens. Nightmare closed the door and walked over to the bed where his currently very pregnant husband was waking up.

“Mhh? Whas happening?”

Nightmare smiled, sitting down with their little starling in his arms. “Seems our princess got something for us.”

When Cross woke up a bit more and noticed the chocolate bars and cookie jar he gave a soft chuckle. “Oh Incubux, pumpkin, you got dadda and papa some chocolate?”

Crawling over to him she gave a big happy nod. “Ommy nommy!”