#yelo rambles

if you strip away ink's driving force, his whole motivation for protecting the AUs and keeping up his morally grey rules and never touching scripts — the WHOLE point of ink's character - then what's left? that's not ink, at that point. that's a completely different character.

people will agree that ink is autistic coded and ADHD coded, but will then turn around and call his emotions fully fake/artificial. can we see the... obvious issue with that?

yes, he does get his emotions from something that isn't a soul. they have the ability to choose what he does and doesn't feel. a small part of it is pretend, because he can't get the full experience. but he chooses to keep his vials balanced anyway, because it's pretty disorienting for him otherwise and he doesn't like it when they aren't. his emotions coming from vials instead of a soul doesn't make what they feel and experience any less unique to him. there is obviously a disconnect between how he experiences emotions VS how other people experience emotions (neurodivergent people experiencing emotions differently from neurotypical people COUGH), but it doesn't mean that they should be discredited and written off as completely fake. he has real love and care for his dads; even when he forces himself to abide by his own rules in a scenario where one of their dads dies, he is still so CLEARLY distraught, grief-stricken, and torn up over it. should that not be taken into account at all?

ink protects the AUs to keep the creators happy, because without the creators, they have no source of paints. and without his paints, he isn't anyone or anything. he isn't alive. they're a hollow, dead husk of a skeleton, forever unmoving and lifeless. if we take that away — and the only real consequence of them not being able to access his vials are oh he's still alive they just can't feel things — then what's the point? what are they doing all this for? what is he protecting the AUs for, what is he protecting the scripts for, what is he doing all of this for? the backing behind his actions and morals become a lot less impactful, and seem a lot less important, if the only reason he's doing it is to feel things. it lowers the stakes by quite a lot.

wow

what

hi... soriel

1. a villan/antagonist

2. emotionless

3. non-human

this goes for all fandoms, but i think it's especially bad within the UTMV fandom. like yes, i LOVE to see aroace rep in stories, but not when the only aroace characters are one (or multiple) of the three examples above.

ink, i think specifically, gets treated pretty badly by the fandom. people either erase his aroace-spec identity completely, or they villanize them. Underverse is a pretty popular example of this. the only canonly aroace characters in Underverse are X-Gaster (the big bad villan) and ink (the guy who stopped taking his vials and betrayed their friends and is helping the big bad villan). the issue isn't inherently having these kinds of characters be aroace -- but when they're the ONLY ones who are, it makes it clear how you view aroace people; that good people, who are expressive in their emotions, can't be aroace.

Okay... listen to me. Very carefully.

5 is clearly an important number that relates to Ink Sans. His original AU, _____tale, has EXACTLY five letter spaces. Ink is also associated with prisms, which have 5 points.

Comyet posted and immediately deleted two posts—the first stating this:

This post had no tags or context to it at all. (the tags you see are from my reblog).

The second one answers an ask, that states this:

Again, a tagless post with no context that was deleted almost immediately after it was posted. She simply replied with a triangle—and, what I can only assume is meant to represent a prism.

The Prism Collection was officially announced on March 15th of 2021, exactly 1 month away from Ink's birthday, April 15th.

The original collection announcement post also stated that April 15th, 2021, would be Ink's 5th anniversary.

As of right now, it is December of 2024. next year will be 2025... 25... 5.

I don't know what Myebi is doing, but there are TOO many coincidences to string together, and it leads back to Ink and the Prism Collection. I think Mye is planning something, because these cryptic posts were most definitely intentional.

Perhaps confirming his original AU was meant to be called Prismtale? Or that Ink's true name is Prism? Or a secret 2nd drop of the Prism Collection?

...or she's pranking us and pulling our legs, lol 😭 I have no idea, but I wanted to just make a post pointing out what I've noticed and what this could mean.

Sincerely, your local diehard Ink fan 😛

making Mad Mew Mew nonbinary instead of her canon identity as a trans woman is making her CIS. her ghost was born nonbinary, and the whole allegory is that she posesses the mew mew doll and starts identifying as a woman (much like Mettaton's trans man allegory). stripping that away and making Mew her assigned gender (or lack thereof) at birth is MAKING HER CIS.

so, Frisk and Chara are cis males instead of nonbinary. Mettaton never was a ghost before inhabiting the robot body, so he's also cis and never stated to be otherwise.

wow! thank you, Jakei, for erasing every canon trans identity that was originally in Undertale! the representation was ALREADY there. would it really have been so hard to keep it? the fandom is already used to these characters being trans, because it's canon in Undertale. the backlash wouldn't have been that bad (excluding the trans cross post), especially since Jakei is Spanish, one of the top LGBTQ+ progressive countries. are you... kidding me??

She only cares about likes and dislikes, people were hyping up the cross is transcoded thing so she showed it off once or twice for those in favour of it - but it wasn’t her intention, so those who didn’t like it complained about it and Jakei just deleted them all in favour of those people

She doesn’t actually care about representation she only likes to appease to people unfortunately

yeeepp

unfortunately, jakei's stance on trans people is kinda obvious. she erased frisk and chara's original nonbinary identities, took away mettaton's transness by removing the ghost backstory, and i don't even know if mew mew is shown much (or at all) in x-tale or underverse.

as someone who is aroace myself, i do not ignore or erase ink's aroace identity. even though i pair them and dream together, he is still aroace and i still view them as such. drink is a complex relationship to me, and the aroace identity is also a complex spectrum.

i'm simply going to redirect you to Coolingrosa's post on why i think drink works. personally, it's one of the only ink ships that i can see meshing well with ink's canon character and identity.

Jakei's weird inconsistency and erasure of character's trans identities when she is a CIS person is not the same as me drawing drink. me drawing drink does not necessarily mean he isn't aroace anymore. i know it can feel frustrating to see a lot of people who DO post ink ship art and simultaneously erase ink's aroace identity (trust me, it bothers me too) but that's not what i'm doing. i apologize if it may seem that way.

not to mention that comyet has stated that shipping ink is completely fine. not only is it encouraged by comyet, but drawn to be encouraged by ink themselves too.