#log ink

Despite everything, it’s you.

Catalogue Ink by yours truly

Vigil Stars Ink by @tymamomimi

Cross by Jakei

Killer by rahafwabas

And Color by superyounma

His name is Catalog and he’s my favorite villainous bb rn. While he may not look like it at this very moment, this was what happened when I started to think ‘What if Ink was actually evil in a way that wasn’t just a dramatic change/alteration to his personality as a whole?’

So I started with a backstory idea first. This idea that instead of shattering his own soul, Ink lashed out and attacked the other sketches in his empty and hollow world. He gained no LV or EXP, for the world was too unfinished for even the basic game mechanics of the original UnderTale. Once the world was empty, however, Ink was unaware of how much time had passes. Unaware if time even passes at all. He grew haunted by what he’d done. He kept seeing shadows and distant images of the sketches he’d erased, and sobbed to himself as he cried out desperately for escape.

And one day he did. Time had passed for so long that Nightmare himself had sensed Ink’s copious amounts of negativity, and appeared in his empty, unfinished realm. After taking in the lost little sketch, Ink finds himself overwhelmed with joy at all the colors of Nightmare’s domain. Albeit, most of them are dark, but he finds it so much better than the everlasting white of his dead world. But when he’s sent out on his first mission, ordered to kill and torture the inhabitants.. he finds he can’t. He’s so invested in the world. In its colors, in its characters. Everything is so wonderful, and he can’t help but turn against Nightmare, threatening him to stop. Ink lashes out at any present gang members, forcing them to retreat. Meanwhile, Ink comes to the slow realization that world travelers and outcodes are *dangerous.* They don’t belong anywhere, they don’t fit into the system, and so they take out their feelings on the innocent, beautiful worlds.

And Ink simply can’t have that.