#mamaito

Oh I can easily see why your representations of Sans and (to use just one expression) the Player and their avatars would be hard to grasp for the majority (also "darker" art isn't everyone's cup of tea – even I engage only partially with it, and like only tasteful stuff), but know that I and surely others like me silently keep those haunting fanarts in our memory, perhaps for years and years.

To me, personally, that series of fanarts is as beautiful as it is eerie and uncomfortable – not in the negative sense, but in the sense of reminding me of the perversity of the bond between Sans as a character and a Player who, let's say, "fell in love" with him during or after his fight. Mine was such a case, and I really gave it a lot of thought as it happened too, as I alluded to in the tag storm I added to this beautiful piece of yours. I could have stayed a normal Mettaton fan lmao but noooo, the angst, the ANGST! Only video games can immerse us in such a way that this kind of narrative and emotional experience is possible. Like acting out your own version of a desperate Yoko Taro romantic plotline where for peak allegorical reasons murdering each other is repeatedly involved, but there is a laughably small yet very real chance a happy ending is possible gfdgdksfjgn

As I searched through my old reblogs, I noticed I didn't add a similar tag storm to the piece that I love equally as much as the one I linked, namely this one. Very fittingly you didn't even tag any of the "avatars" in that one. I simply can't forget it. It is full of meaning, it has subtlety and darkness, uneasiness... and for me, an image of the fatality of this bond, surely "a kind" of love, undeniably profound, and permanent, and deep down, at the core, the origin, rotten. And still, Sans looks so beautiful there, so at peace, just so, so beautiful... How? He's wonderful, he's the only constant. Or is he? And so we arrive at my reblogs from today, and what I personally anticipate most in the next Deltarune chapters (if it will be at all addressed; I know I'll be able to enjoy the new content either way, but if it's addressed that would be like... wow, my reaction would certainly be huge). This is obviously just how I think about these, and no two perceptions can be completely identical, but I'm happy to give this latter fanart the words I always wanted to say since back then when I first saw it. Again, thanks for sharing them back then. Fandoms and interests come and go, but some characters, ideas and impressions stay with us, like in this case. Wishing you best of luck out there~!