#undertainer

Undertainer~

Think like entertainer lol

Undertainers au begins with a bit of a spin on the war between humans and monsters. The war happened, the humans won, and the monsters were…. Scattered! Not trapped. Instead of creating a barrier, humans simply wrecked the sh*t out of every monster settlement they could find. Monsters were separated into traveling groups reliant on the goodwill of the humans they passed. Afraid of a second war between the species, any human country the survivors entered would only allow the monsters to stay a short while before forcing them to move again.

Of course without enough magic settling in one area due to the monsters travels, magical fauna became extremely scarce. At first to survive, they relied on hunting, feeding on the fleeting souls of animals. Over time monsters adapted becoming able to feed off the ambient magic of the stronger souls around them. The smart ones realized that humans just ooze magic when excited. So naturally this led to the only possible conclusion-

✨✨ENTERTAINMENT✨✨

Generations later, the war is just a myth to monsters and humans alike. Monsters have established themselves instead as beings of delight, drama, excitement~ they still keep themselves in close knit groups, but now as established traveling theaters or carnivals instead of little families. When the crash happened a total of 33 traveling groups crossed over as well.

Because of their “diet”, there’s a few key differences between the circus monsters (as the others call them) and their peers.

Undertainers don’t just enjoy performing, they NEED it to survive. When a crowd gets hyped, their souls feed off the ambient magic wafting from the crowd. Human audiences work best, but a monster audience can do in a pinch. The groups that stayed in ebott stick to the touristy areas because of this. 12 of the groups are permanently in the country while the rest are currently traveling the world.

None of these guys had magical food before the crash. Their bodies are unable to properly process the magic from typical ebott food. They may feel a slight buzz like if they were drinking coffee, but nothing substantial

On the other hand, they can take in their basic nutrients and calories from human food without issue. The circus monsters can eat anything a human can!

This is the most diverse au with the most types of mages of any au, and over 1/3 of the monster population being half breeds.

And now for the boys~

Jester (undertainer sans)

Jester is a skeleton monster standing at 5’8 and aged 81. He has duel magic colors, cherry red and blue raspberry. When his ecto is out he is shockingly muscular. At work he often stuffs his suits to give himself a rounder look.

On the stage jester plays the bumbling fool. He will “clumsily” put himself in danger then do crazy acrobatic tricks to get out of it, only to trip over his own feet lol. He is loud, airheaded and very silly. Off the stage he is relaxed, calm and soft spoken. He’s still a silly guy, just way more low key about it. Jester is a very self assured person, comfortable in his own skin. He is also a great listener and has found himself playing therapist to random strangers before. People just find him easy to talk to.

Jester is officially a harlequin who’s main role is to perform acrobatic tricks in his groups carnival. He usually acts as a bumbling antagonist to his brother’s routine. If another member is sick or occupied, he’s trained to be a juggler, balancing act, dog handler, palm reader and arial dancer.

His special ability is called spontaneous popcorn lol. Jester can summon damageless half formed bullet attacks at will in massive numbers. Due to only halving half a form, they rapidly expand upon leaving his soul then pop in a little cloud of red or blue dust. It appears to onlookers as if he’s shooting a cannon of rapidly popping popcorn.

Things he loves: performing for a crowd, gymnastics, weightlifting, opera and musicals, clown suits, shadow puppets, arts and crafts, paper mache, small dogs, the color gold, pomegranates and cherry soda, cool vintage bells and ribbons, dueling, horror books, haunted houses, comedy acts, red roses

Cane (Undertainer papyrus)

Cane is a half breed skeleton aged 50 with a pink soul for passion. He is 6’2 and has dual magic colors- salmon and lime green. When his ecto is summoned, he’s a real beanpole of a guy so he stuffs his suits to make his shoulders wider and himself appear more muscular lol.

Cane is a PASSIONATE character. He lives for the stage and roar of the crowd. When performing he’s vibrant, loud, eye catching and always dressed with a dazzling smile. Off the stage cane is a tad shy. He’s a gentle sweetheart and has a bit of trouble opening up without the “safety net” his stage persona gives him. He can be really clingy with the few true friends he does have.

Cane is the carnival’s animal act! He works with the dogs in the circus and mixes their tricks to work with his gaster blasters! Dogs will jump on top of the magical attacks, “ride” around the carnival, have “fierce” battles with the blasters- all kinds of cool stunts! He’s a crowd favorite of course! When he’s off the stage, he also helps care for the carnival’s other animals which includes horses, two camels, some sea lions, a fat pack of raccoons, cats, rats, and the bear- miss honey.

Canes special ability is called bone moulding- a normal skeleton monster can only change the size of their bone attacks, and their gaster blasters shape and size is set in stone after the first time they summon it. Can however is able to shape his bone attacks and blasters to give them different looks. So for example, he can make gaster blasters that appear as an animals entire skeleton, or as different types of skulls.

Things he loves: HIS DOGS, animals of all kinds, the color pear green, the color plum, funnel cake and corndogs, punk rock and guitar covers, dancing, morning runs, tongue twisters, vintage brooches, face paint, paint by number kits, carnival rides, roller coasters, screaming at people on Fortnite, white roses

Side characters

Houdini: undertainer gaster, the godfather of jester and cane. After jester and cains father ran off with a sexy human millionaire (at least that’s the story they were told) their godfather took them in. Houdini is easily excitable, extremely talented and a touch bit insane. But he’s also amazing at his job and was a loving father figure to the brothers. He is the carnivals escape artist. Every dangerous situation Houdini puts himself through is 100% genuine too.

Ringmaster: undertainer Asgore- Fantasia’s on and off lover and the face of the dreamers carnival. Ringmaster has a beautiful husky voice and acts as the announcer to every act in the circus as well as a comedic commentator. He has a wonderful sense of humor as long as his bitter drama with his ex doesn’t come up

This but dealer’s choice

lol I think this is like the third time I’ve answered this ask now?

Jester: he fits right in! Like come on? The circus clown can handle these crazies easily. It always shocks SO at how unphased jester is at their family’s antics. If anything his stories of his carnivals travels are just as wild as the family’s stories.

Cane: he definitely will start showing off at family gatherings out of insecurity. Cane isn’t used to having a stage outside of the carnival. Being around all these insanely talented loud people throws him into work mode. He’s always emotionally exhausted after he and SO visit the in-laws lol.

Taffy: whenever she and SO visit the in-laws, taffy spends her time beating SOs billionaire dad off with a stick. The guy wants so bad to get his fingers into taffy’s candy buisness and expand it. But she likes being local. Her chocolate is for her city only!

Pudding: she’s rather intimidated by every one on SOs side so will be attached to their hip at every family gathering. It doesn’t help that they all keep asking questions about her sister’s sweet shop. It takes a long time for pudding to warm up to them.

Pearl: she’s literally royalty. She deals with people like this daily. Pearl handles SOs family with grace. They adore her of course. She isn’t intimidated by them in the least. She is rather peeved by the fact that SOs mother briefly dated a few of her siblings though.

Jester: he’s been smooched on his clown nose by a smily baby once during a performance- that emotionally and physically fed him for like a week. It was cute as hell

Jester: he doesn’t really have a right to judge, so he won’t

Jester: like four different clown uniforms, double the amount of shoes to match, various gag toys, a whistle and breath ‘mints’.

Jester: he can purr on command! Only a small percentage of monsters can do this. It’s like being able to cry on command without any outside stimuli to get it started. Getting him to purr naturally is pretty easy too. He does it when he hugs people hello.

Jester only hisses/growls if he’s being forced into a physical altercation, is drunk or sick

Cane: he will purr whenever one of his dogs are being especially cute, or when his SO is being especially cute. He gets cuteness aggression so will try to pinch their cheek or bum after lol.

Jester: he owns all kinds of clown, harlequin and jester suits for the carnival of course. He usually picks one with colors of that shows theme.

Outside of the carnival, he’s a sweatpants and hoodie guy. He’s a big fan of brightly colored quilted hoodies and will pair them with white grey or blue sweats. He never wears normal shoes and always has on his clown shoes lmao

Cane: in the carnival his uniforms are all brilliantly patterned and decorated. He always pairs them with a large brooch depicting the theme of the week. The dogs showing with him that night also have matching outfits!

Jester: oh it wasn’t an accident. Jester loves spooky stuff and is fully walking in hoping to find a ghost. Any scary thing that happens to him will be retold later to his friends with a lot of exaggeration of course lmao