#void colleagues

Othertale 2026 Masterpost.

Othertale 2016 Masterpost.

Analysis + some hcs. (Feel free to take or leave anything.)

Undertale: Something New.

Epic Sanses.

Abyss Team.

Regarding Othertale.

Cold one with the bois.

Something Great.

Rahaf and Youmna celebrating canon ColorKiller.

Recharging Sleep.

ASKS

Here is the full ao3 series.

Here is the script for Othertale: Before the Hack. {You can find the official, finished, animated version on this blog—and some of the content seems to be in the comics, which you can also find on this blog.}

Here is three scripts from Othertale Shorts, including pre-canon stuff.

Sure, definitely. I feel like Sans and Gaster had their own makeshift signals and number of sounds—taps, clicks, finger snaps—for quick communication whenever one or both didn’t want or couldn’t verbally speak, and of course this likely carries over when Color first escapes the Void.

Especially if he’s too confused, too overwhelmed, too scared to communicate or interact with a world that’s unfamiliar and possibly even unreal to him at first.

Perhaps Bravery’s influence is a major factor here, compelling Sans to be brave and speak up—even if that action later, looking back, possibly feels unnatural and out of character to Sans.

I do feel that Color will be taught sign language in his facility care stay if they didn’t already know—either by staff, or by other patients. Color has the time, the patience, and the perseverance to learn.

I do believe he will still heavily struggle—he has episodes of dissociation, he has a fractured open skull, he struggles with emotional regulation, he struggles with understanding social cues, sarcasm, overstimulation, he has severe trust issues of just about everyone and everything during this time, memory issues, getting easily exhausted both physically and mentally from social interactions and physical activity. His bones are fragile, his body is possibly even athropied due to the Void.

He will struggle to regulate his frustration, anger, and embarrassment if he makes a mistake or forgets anything—which he inevitably will, more than just the “normal” forgetting of someone learning something new.

I do believe Color would struggle a lot with using pen and paper as an alternative means of communication, not only due to the the Void having likely destroyed and annihilated his fine motor skills—as well as Perseverance’s possible dysgraphia, their potential eyesight problems carrying over from when they were alive, and the body’s already existing visual impairments—and the likely awful, painful chronic migraines that he likely deals with and could be triggered by stress and frustration.

A tablet with an app could help of course, but the screen lights could probably strain his one eye—unused to brightness or light as it already is—and he’s is very likely very, very behind on the latest technology and out of practice on what he does know.

If Color even actually remembers how to operate a phone or a tablet at all after two decades of not seeing or using any, and struggling to hold on to his sanity, memories, and identity.

Which, of course, could cause all the emotional regulation issues mentioned above. Wouldn’t be surprised if he needed up crushing or breaking a piece of technology given to him in sheer frustration—or was definitely going to, only to suddenly be overwhelmed with a dizzying, yet blanket feeling of calm overtaking him. As if suddenly stuck in molasses.

So, perhaps he uses cards or pictures given to him to nonverbally communicate at first— and perhaps the staff and another patient even caught on to his and Gaster’s made up little language.

Or not, perhaps that was something Color was unwilling to share with anyone there, as if possessive of his own experiences and memories—even as he kept doing it. If anyone did catch on to it and let him know that they knew, maybe that became a point of conflict.

So maybe Color uses those cards, pictures, nonverbal communications like facial expressions, body language, and hand gestures—whenever he can’t verbally bring himself to speak—while he learns sign language, and tries to relearn motor skills and how to operate both familiar and unfamiliar technology.

I’ve seen it HC’d that Killer in Stage 4 uses Morse code to communicate, and Killer in Stage 3 is primarily via body language and vocalizations. I do think Killer would primarily rely on sign language, either something he knew as Sans or learned himself as Killer (something new, beneficial for survival), or something taught to him—perhaps by Chara or even Color—when in lower Stages. Sometimes Killer in Stage 2 may be too apathetic to even want to put in the effort to communicate.

And of course, Killer will definitely use text to speech or an app if he must. He is a bit chronically online, and im sure his phone is one of the very few physical items he places value on.

It holds his cat videos and cat photos, it has stimulating games on it, it has Color’s number on it and proof of Color’s existence on it whenever Killer can’t see him or speak to him or touch him to reassure himself Color is real for whatever reasons.

Even if he possibly does have to speak in code with Color, and find ways to hide Color’s contact such as disguising it behind a calculator app or something.

Killer can also use pen and paper of course, and his goop adds as a substitute for ink and his finger as a pen—as potentially does his knife and either his or a target’s blood—but his possible visual impairment from said ichor and lack of consistent eyelights could be a hinder here.

As well has hand and arm cramps and exhaustion, man can potentially lose entire limbs and Reset to have them back, doesn’t mean his mind doesn’t pull the opposite of a phantom limb and randomly decide, “oh hey this arm shouldn’t be here, wasn’t this cut off?” and then his body starts freaking the fuck out.

As for others I feel would use AAC, regardless of the specific form and based off nothing but pure vibes, I’ll go with..Ink (pictures, drawings), Dream (I feel he needs to use AAC actually but is actually kinda struggling to either learn or to accept that an alternative option is valid), Nightmare (pen and paper and probably drawing).

I also feel like Cross and Delta would benefit from using some form of AAC, but both are kinda too proud to admit it; even as Delta encourages Beta to use it.

I feel like Dust, one who is nonverbal in some manner or just really not one prone for verbal speaking besides from maybe talking to Papyrus, just generally prefers to communicate via vibes and body language. Man shrugs his shoulders so damn much. People struggle to either see his face at all or read his facial expressions.

Many people remember that Delta can travel around universes, albeit extremely clumsily, and most likely, he's generally poorly oriented in the universe. But that's not the main thing. Has anyone even thought about WHY he can do this? If absorbing a Human Soul was enough for him to jump around universes, then Color could also open a portal and escape the Void without Core!Frisk's help. Maybe I'm asking a bit of a difficult question, but nevertheless, I'm curious what you think about this?

The reason given as to why Color can’t is because too much use of his powers risks killing him. He’s able to bring others like Undyne into the Void, but it’s briefly mentioned that the first time Color attempted to leave himself, he almost “shattered” and he’s only still there because of Gaster.

It is unknown if he was attempting to escape, if it was a suicide attempt, or an act of self harm and endangerment—a reckless disregard for his own safety—even if Color wasn’t exactly wanting or planning to die at the moment, just didn’t care for any risks if it meant getting out.

There’s also the simple fact that, well, Gaster didn’t want Sans to get out or leave. In the scripts we were allowed to see a few months ago, it was shown that Gaster was willing to lie, sabotage, and stall to keep Sans in the Void with him.

(Which means there’s a possibility that Gaster could’ve both exaggerated the danger and risks, as well as his own involvement in saving Sans’ life, in order to both make Sans wary of attempting again and to create a sense of gratitude and indebtedness towards Gaster.)

On top of that, Color doesn’t actually canonically know about the existence of multiverses. Only alternate timelines—so if he ever ended up in the wider multiverse, it’d be both by pure accident and chance, but also at great risk to himself. He’s probably more likely to end up in an alternate timeline than an alternate universe. I’m talking like, Something New, Dustale, Horrortale, various canonical Undertale endings like Pacifist, Neutral, No Mercy, etc.

So basically—why hasn’t Color opened a portal and escaped the Void himself if one human soul was enough to give Delta that ability? He can’t know to jump to other universes if he doesn’t know for sure they exist or where they are let alone how to get there, and he hasn’t attempted to escape again using the souls’ abilities after the first try went horribly wrong.

So (one of?) Othertale’s script/dialogue writer(s) released the full Othertale: Before the Hack and some of the Othertale shorts scripts a few days ago. You can find links to those here. It even features some pre-canon stuff.

The Othertale: Before the Hack script shows parts that were cut out of the first animation—Othertale: Before the Hack (part 1)—and the rest of what I assume was gonna be more animations of Before the Hack.

When it comes to the scripts and animations, from what I can tell, you can think of “Before the Hack” as Season 1 and “After the Hack” as Season 2. It seems like Season 1/Before the Hack was planned to be released in parts in the form of animated videos.

These scripts basically reveal the entirety of “Season 1,” and its ending seems to potentially lead into After the Hack—aka Season 2–if Othertale hadn’t been discontinued.