okay you know what fuck tumblr mobile because i wrote down this lengthy backstory for the new fellswap versions of the stripe family because fellswap is its own thing now apparently and the original fellswap went back to being swapfell (red edition) and as soon as i posted it i get an error and all that writing AND tagging just. fucks off. this is bullshit
but essentially the gist of it was, shade!caffrin (fs!shadow!caff) is more like veronica who is still dead, shredder!caffrin (fs!slayer!caff) has been playing tough for WAY TOO LONG and is just fucking done with just about everything at this point (sort of like swap!fell!ollie, only slightly less nihilistic and slightly more aggressive. just not as violent as she used to be), and fellswap!ollie ALSO tries to be tough and rebellious for the sake of survival but he’s not good at that. although technically, he IS the very definition of rebellious in the sense that the only thing he’s really fighting is the system and its backwards morals by doing things his own way -- being nice. and that actually gets him pretty far, more so than he thinks.