#vesseltale

I got so discouraged on this au

Maybe one day I’ll come back to it

Who knows when that is

I’m currently working on chapter 3 of VESSELTALE

I wanted to make this page a gif with animated glitchy effects on Flowey's busted save file, but I didn't have the energy to mess with that. If you're curious, the binary code is supposed to say "ERROR" over and over. I used a text to binary converter so hopefully it's accurate. (Unrelated to the Error Sans, for the record. I know he's popular, but he has nothing to do with this comic.)

Memories are weird in this timeline but for the most part everyone initially interacts with Frisk like they've never met because they can't remember previous timelines. I have never done a full Geno run, so I dunno what it's like to actually play a soulless paci run, but I was always under the impression that it was a true reset when you did. There will be exceptions to that rule, but they haven't come into play yet. So Flowey is basically meeting Frisk for the first time, but at the end of the Ruins this time. For reasons.

Long story short, I think I burned myself out, which is kinda expected when you try to do 2 comics at once. I kinda miss doing just stand alone art pieces. I have made some, but I haven’t posted to any major art accounts on any site. 

I also am at the point where if I’ve been gone so long I feel like I have to make the wait worth it so I’m trying to get 2 pages of each comic made and then dump em all at once. 

Another problem with VesselTale specifically is that I have a vague outline in my head for where the story is going, I don’t have a set-in-stone script. So VT might grind to a halt for a bit soon anyway cause I need to make a script. 

Whoop. Finally managed to finish this. We skipped a loooooot of the ruins, I had nothing else to pad out the journey conversation-wise and I’m sure y’all are looking forward to seeing more of the main cast. And lookit that, there’s one of ‘em now.

Also, humanity is slowly returning to husk Frisk, so the guilt is setting in on account of the pacifist route they’re taking atm. The way LOVE is explained by Sans, I feel like so long as their doing a violence, Frisk won’t feel guilt for what they did. When you have power over time and space it's easy to assume it can all be fixed.

Unfortunately it seems their actions had consequences after all.

Also, I’ve read everyone’s theories (if you commented ‘em in a page, at least) and to those theorizing that the deja vu got stronger, you actually aren’t wrong. I know Flowey’s acting like he never met Frisk, but deja vu =/= remembering. 

What was happening with the ruins enemies was not that they remembered what Frisk did to them, but rather that they were getting bad vibes from Frisk because of the deja vu. When Frisk did nothing to interact with them, it made some look at them in confusion which was what was happening on page 20. Hopefully that makes sense. 

Now that begs the question, what was keeping Flowey and Toriel from meeting Frisk at the beginning? If anyone can actually guess correctly, I’ll be very impressed cause there’s really only one hint that I can think of as for what it was and you have to think outside the box to see it. 

Some people actually already know what it is, cause I talked about this with friends. So, uh… if you actually DO know what the other, most major change is, maybe keep that one to yourself, haha.

I referenced the fangamer sticker sheets for color ideas for the ruins monsters. I will admit that all the froggits in the ruins are all white in-game but using the stickers' colors makes more visually interesting things and visually interesting is more important than 100% accuracy. To me, anyway. Creative liberties. But, yeah. Migosp is a red-violet color on the stickers. That's not me making a weird choice. Most people in the comments on previous pages have noted what is being alluded to here. There are other theories about this timeline that are also accurate, but maybe not to the degree people anticipate.