#spirittake

I’m probably going to change their design 50 more times before I’m happy with them but here’s the ones I’ve made so far!

Eyes/Flowey is the only character that’s outwardly insane. The other monsters will try to hide the worst of it, but most know it’s obvious enough not to lie about. Regardless, Flowey judges them for their manipulation. “Your best and only real friend down here”, he’d say, because he’s the only one true to you.

A little dialogue Flowey would probably say is along the lines of,

“After a certain point of it always being something new, it stops being interesting and starts getting concerning. When there’s no way to tell time, it feels like infinity, and the effects of infinity begin happening. Anything and everything possibly, with no exceptions. And let’s just say, everyone down here has a pretty fucked mind when push comes to shove.”

Papyrus is still the light of the underground and remains very loved. Mainly, he is more nervous. Still extremely outgoing and extroverted, but more unsure of himself and shuts himself in a lot. Has a hard time maintaining friendships. While his shadow didn’t fully take over, unlike everyone else (except for Flowey, due to him not having a soul), he is not all there. Hallucinates (is it really a hallucination?) Sans sometimes, he is in strong denial and still cooks for Sans. He makes him a plate out of a habit that he doesn’t want to break. He spends a lot of days with Undyne and Alphys, who try to be there for him despite their growing psychosis.

Alphys has a round glasses with one broken lens and a long, fluffy lab coat that’s probably either electric heated or lined with hot hands hand warmers. I haven’t thought of designs for Papyrus and Undyne yet, but I’m thinking longer, lined gloves for Papyrus, and he dorns his brothers hoodie around his neck.

Alphys’ intention is only to find a way to manage the core again without fully shutting it down. Instead of a shy stutter, she is in a near constant state of cold. She’s not freezing, but definitely shivering most of the time. All of her experiments go towards stabilising the core.

“If o-only that lava was safe enough to use for warmth. It’s s-so concentrated in p-power, it’s more d-dangerous than the core itself at f-full capacity, and that’s precisely w-why any human s-soul to fall down here will be used to p-power the core, before we can even t-think about getting to the surface.”

I’m going to write a semi-proper introduction to my undertale AU, Spirittake, since I’ll be posting my watercolor concept art later.

Lumins soul color is cyan. Lumin was a pure integrity mage whose moral compass leaned towards kindness-based integrity; so when she fell, the kindness souls spirit of my universe decided to stick with her. They didn’t fuse, but she did evolve with the added power. With it, Lumins pure soul trait overflowed and shifted slightly with the added kindness, the blue and green creating a cyan and leading to her tenacity. Tenacity could be described as determination through hardships, but for Lumin, it’s her integrity strong enough not to give up on holding on to her morals closely, despite difficulty.

As for evolved souls; Think of it how LOVE can power determination, its kind of like that; but certain branches of other souls (like tenacity) powers that soul trait. Lumin is the last in their own AU to be an evolved mage, so she’s last to hold the Tenacity trait as well.

When Frisk fell into the underground, everything was as it once was in Undertale. They grew to love the monsters, they grew old with the monsters, but over and over again, they missed seeing their overjoyed faces at the sight of the stars for the first time. At the sight of the sun for the first time. So, over and over again did Frisk reset. Over and over again, until Sans started remembering every little bit from each reset.

Flowey managed to break from the loophole and completely isolate from this, refusing to interact with Frisk after the 50th true pacifist reset and seemingly disappearing completely. Sans, on the other hand, wasn’t as lucky, trapped in his usual dialogue and interactions for the sake of his brother.

At least, that’s until Sans is unable to hide his growing paranoia and insanity after him and his brother are torn from the surface one last time. Instead of Papyrus being the one to try stopping Frisk from leaving Snowdin, Sans takes his place, not allowing Frisk mercy and fighting in hopes he can hopefully make them give up. Fighting so that he can take their soul and free monsters, and fighting to stay free.

Except he doesn’t have enough determination. Frisk, still wanting to do a pacifist run, realizes they don’t have a choice in killing him, and eventually, Sans dusts. Flowey, surprisingly, still doesn’t appear. Frisk is unable to achieve their perfect happy ending, attempting to reset but no matter how many times they try, whichever saves they load, Sans is gone, and Papyrus remembers what they’ve done. Frisk takes Sans’ soul and attempts to use it to cross the barrier, making it past just before Sans uses the last of his souls magic and determination to kill them. I’d have to say this would’ve went wrong regardless because Sans wasn’t a boss monster. They’re unable to come back, as is Sans.

Sans doesn’t truly “die”, though. He ends up as a spirit, just not as lucky as Napstablook. Since he wasn’t born a ghost, only Papyrus can see him, but everyone remembers him. Regardless, Sans’ death didn’t lack other repressions. His influx of magic leaving the underground impacts the core directly enough for it to malfunction; not severely, but enough for it to have impacts that I’ll go into detail of in later posts. These impacts, along with the loss of the 6 human souls, and fluctuating magic levels, end up being what drive monsters to insanity (as well as a drop of temperature in the underground). Due to it having external causes, the monsters insanity is something I may end up having taking a form inside of them that we will call shadow, and Papyrus and Flowey are the only ones who’s shadow hasn’t taken over. Papyrus wears his brothers hoodie tied his neck.