#veratus

Both to draw and describe how mine would react to them.

Was gonna turn this into a comic but I don't have the room for it in my sketchbook. Might still end up doing it digitally later. Anyways here's Veratus (the Flower King secret boss from my Deltarune Take) meeting Lesslo

*Chicago seems to be working on something in his castle room with CK. Some sort of care package for someone?*

Gyah! Right! You guys don't know about the other three og secret bosses!!

Gyeeh I really need to get back on my logs. So much has happened...

*A rat like Darkner bursts into the room, saber in hand*

OI! THAT'S THE GREAT VERATUS TO YOU, SOLIDER!

MIGHTIEST SOLIDER OF THE DARK AND SCOURGE OF THE FLORAL KING! TGE COURAGEOUS WARRIOR OF METAL AND VINE, THE FLORAL KINGDOM'S GREATEST FOE AND DEFENDER OF THE GREAT SPIDER DRUID!

*A small spider boy perks into the room behind Veratus, waving at Chicago and CK*

Hi Chicago, hi CK.

*Chicago and CK wave back before Veratus points his sword towards you, the asker*

NOW KNEEL AND COWER BENEATH MY MIGHT!

How would your secret bosses react to Bitsy, Elymas, and Veratus?

Ooh we got some interesting folks here!

Also i already saw your drawing, and i loved it!!

Let's start with Woostern! Lucky for Bitsy, Woostern doesn't watch Tv at all! (Unexpected, right?) If Woostern knew about the dark twisted stuff she was doing back then she'd be in a pickle. Also, that mantle... Looks familiar to her. About Elymas! Woostern has always been neutral about religion n' stuff so i don't think she'd understand anything Elymas has to say, but her lil' FRIEND may do! And as for Veratus... Shouldn't have brought a sword to a GUN FIGHT... Wait, she doesn't have a gun.

Bonslick! Well, as usual he flirts and tries to look cool in front of evrey pretty woman he sees so yeah, Bitsy. He doesn't care about any religion related stuff either, so yeah he ain't joining Elymas' cult, bro literally just wants to beat up Gaster. And Veratus, well uh, he's kinda like a royal guard of some sort, right...? Well Bonslick doesn't really get along with the po-po so... YOU'LL NEVER TAKE HIM ALIVE, RAT!!

Left-E!! Luckily there is NO data of Bitsy on his criminal database, but as SOON as she starts doing creepy stuff in front of children she's OUT. Ice-E's P"E"ZZA doesn't allow crazy cultleaders to enter the establishment anymore, sorry Elymas. And Veratus... Reformed by the criminal, and now loyal to the criminal, i think this interacion would go wrong in several ways.

Sonatta! Well, besides her creepy behavior sometimes, she seems like a nice friend to take a cup of tea with! I think she'd outright disagree with Elymas, the angel exists! They just haven't showed up yet... And as for Veratus, i think they could probably get along! Considering she also came from a very similar dark world.

Quiddo! Quiddo is very Quiddo to everyone, no matter their multiple eyes, religion, or if they just outright hate Quiddo! Now. Quiller. Disturbing the minds of innocent children may be one of the most inoffensive things Quiller has ever seen, not much to add onto that. If Elymas ever saw half of what Quiller has seen, they'd realize there is no entity in this world or any other that's worth putting your faith on, not even yourself, on Quiller's mind, they should give up. And Veratus, on Quiller's eyes, is just another decomposing corpse.

Ohohohoh boy! Finally got to this one. I've been just sort ruminating on this boss for a while. The only thing I knew for the longest time is I'm at least 60% confident that chapter 5 will happen in the Flower Shop? But then what could be abandoned, discarded, or unwanted in a greenhouse/flower shop? Weeds? Mushrooms? Well I guess? Lotta flowers and though the mushroom idea was enticing at first, I couldn't wrap my head around a good idea for it. There was also the thing with this boss likely having the blue soul mode, and possibly having a reference or allusion to Papyrus (or Sans ig but Paps uses the blue soul mode first). But then also also with this being Asgore's flower shop and Asriel possibly being involved, there's the chance it could be based on Flowery, but then- And you can start to see why this took me so long.

EVENTUALLY, I came up with the idea of an abandoned toy soldier, lost among the plants and eventually taken over by them. There was also some talk about it being a nutcracker or garden gnome instead, but toy solider won over. Nutcracker felt too similar to Spamton and I just couldn't really get the garden gnome to vibe right. Anyways! Like two, three weeks ago I managed to sketch a design I kinda liked before trying to think on it more. Still not the boss I'm proudest off, but everyone, met The Great and Mighty Veratus! (Name subject to change if I can find a better one.)

(Once again, theme commissioned by my good friend @kierangecko)

Veratus, from verrat (German for traitor), ratus (latin for rat) and a corruption of veritas (truth). I think the thing I was struggling with for the longest time was the name. It needed to fit with the other names, and also sound good with the title of "The Great" (because Papyrus reference). Like I mentioned before though, that name is subject to change if I come up with something better.

Like I've mentioned with the other two, I know this is no where close to what we'll actually get, but all of this is just for fun and so I have some secret bosses to draw my Junior Secret Squad kiddies with. Once we DO finally get chapter 5, Veratus will likely just become one of the secret bosses of Fool's Fate.

Now, backstory under the cut.

I got tripped up with the voice claim, other wise this would've been posted sooner.

Info under the cut

So I decided to draw my bosses with other people's bosses! Starting with Veratus! (Ironic as he's the last of my secret bosses I made for a Deltarune prediction. Any others I make will be for Fool's Fate.)

First we've got Veratus with @glitch-the-artist's toy solider with blue soul mode secret boss, Marchon. They and Veratus can bond over... wind up keys I guess? Veratus does have a wind up key on his back that just isn't often shown unless he's facing backwards. It starts winding the other direction whenever he... steps out of line, to speak. (Fun fact, Veratus also has a rattail braid that can be see from his back too. Get it? Because, because he's a rat and-)

Next is Veratus with @mercair's Quiddo, who might not seem in anyway related to Veratus, however both of them originate from Dark World's that aren't the one's they're found in, and get overtaken by plants or fungi.

Day 260 of drawing Junior Secret Squad until Chapter 3

Pretty much since I came up with Wilbur and the final three secret bosses, I found it ironic that Bitsy was paired with Naomi and Veratus with Wilbur, when the secret bosses seem to much better match the personalities of the other's kid. But then also Elymas uses the green soul mode and has an Undying form, and thus could also be paired with Naomi by that logic