#royalswap

my deltarune au idea because i decided to be cringey YAY!! The premise is a personality swap, but specifically for the royalty of deltarune. The rest of the characters retain their regular personalities, but ofc the story and character relationships change as a result of these few personality swaps.

more info if ur at all interested:

Another undertale AU! RoyalSwap (or, ThemeSwap, I thought that might be a more appropriate name)

feat. Gaster being Sans & Papyrus' sci-fi nerd crazy dad who the kingdom doesn't trust to lead. Alphys, the enigma who discovered DT and the power of souls before mysteriously going missing

Papyrus and Undyne the Ren-faire Cosplay connoisseurs

King Sans (who just hired the first people he thought of for the high rank positions in the kingdom, his family) and won the one and only election in the underground by default. (Everyone knew who he was, just didn't know the other contestants). And Asgore, the divorced repeat lost child adopter. Just keeps accidentally taking care of orphaned troubled kids.

May

-citizen of Charm

-orphan

-running away from her stepmother

-has literally never touched anything close to a sword in her life, unlike canon Jack

-has a bright blue hair ribbon reminiscent of her dyed hair from the og book

-has a small locket with a painting of her mother

-probably bi

Jack

-his dad got kidnapped by weird goblins and he nearly was kidnapped too and now he's in a strange fairy tale world

-has slightly more fairy tale knowledge than canon May

-smashed his phone up on day 1 while falling out of the portal

-his hair is dyed red at the tips

-his shirt is black and says "punk prince" in blue

-wearing knee high converse

-his surname is Ong (king in chinese) because i thought it was funny

Jillian

-protagonist (deuteragonist?) of the "trioswap" version

-also an orphan??

-as the books go on the others start calling her Jill

-really determined to end the royal bloodline of Charm, to the chagrin of the rest of her family

-literally just ran off the day before one of those Cinderella-esque balls

-carries around a big sword (her mom's), and her grandfather's infinite bag

-May's conflict with her is about the idea that "blood is thicker than water" rather than romantic tension (May does not believe that Jack would rather stay with a nobody with an evil sword over one of his only living relatives who's also royalty)

-aro

Penelope

-protagonist (deuteragonist?) in the "royalswap" version

-still engaged to Phillip

-it's unclear if she's wearing really loose pants or a skirt (canonically royals all wear skintight clothes but that looks really boring so i'm ignoring that)

-her parents are related to the rumpelstilskin and the six swans stories (might have stolen this idea from the land of stories series)

Normal days at the castle. (RoyalSwap)

i feel like May would be illiterate. education probably wouldn't be a priority in her stepmother's eyes. it would also be cool if she came up with a phonetic cipher or something to leave notes for herself

and here's how well her friends are gonna be able to teach her to read/write

regardless how horrible they are at teaching she's going to get there. for plot reasons

anyway next

it's just kind of funny

this one's specific to the Penelope-Phillip swap (royalswap) one. in the Jill-Penelope-Phillip (trioswap) one, Phillip is just inexplicably cursed instead but in this idea Penelope is still cursed. not-Lian takes her into the castle and triggers the curse like in canon, and then Penelope disappears for almost a full book

maybe Phillip joins the squad. imagine pirate Phillip. i'm now picturing him swearing like a sailor

this one's pretty evil. it twists the mirror's prophecy (i think?? i kind of forgot. it's the one that says one boy betrays May and the other dies) in the opposite way of canon!

pros: yay more twists

cons: idk if i want someone to die. also i already put this here so it's not gonna be a surprise

huh let's not end on a downer. here's some random stuff

Penelope doesn't really feel like a swords person to me. so after a lot of thinking I've decided to give eye Penelope throwing stars/knives and prince Penelope a pistol. her neutral special is a GUN. the pistol bit's inspired by this song that gives me similar vibes to the Phillip and Jack climax fight in book 3

~Kickdrops him out of existence~ ✨

While Prince Stretch doesn't usually enjoy his time in the castle, he always has a blast spending time with his big bro.

Blue and Stretch are originally from @bonelyheartsclub.

In the game, Blue is voiced by @mramazingva e Stretch is voiced by @kyzer-aqueron.

Bonus: original draft + sketches.