Wishful Thinking

Tetrarune Master Post

Tetrarune is a Deltarune Yellow AU following Clover and Kanako, once childhood friends separated who fall together into the Underworld. There they meet its prince Rauska, and help those stuck suffering at the hands of injustice. All the while uncovering the secrets of the Underworld, getting to know the monsters living in the small community of Easttown, and learning how close the source of their problems lie, they might just become friends again.

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#Tetrarune AU any post relating to the au including asks, random art, and whatever else.

#Tetrarune comic contains ONLY the main Tetrarune comic

‎so I have come to ask you to discuss them and their relationship with their friends. clover gotta be my favorite.

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happy non-binary day.

Hi! Thank you for being willing to ask for help with writing, and especially thanks for reading my fics and liking how I write Clover. I hope you gain the courage to write! And even if it isn't perfect, just writing yourself is something special, don't forget that.

I believe that as long as you can come up for a reason as to why a character acts a certain way, you can do so many more things than what canon would suggest. I think, we should take a moment and humble ourselves on the fact that as UTY artists, we are essentially making fanfiction out of fanfiction. Nothing wrong with that! Just a reminder that we are meant to be having fun here.

I talk a lot about my characterization of Clover in this response. It includes why/how I write Clover closer to how they are portrayed in UTY, including how they are for Tetrarune, as well as a little bit about cocoapowder. Generally, looking through my asks tag wishponds will give you a good look into my thoughts.

But I haven't talked too much about how Clover feels about other characters aside from Chara. Oops! Shame on me for the shipping brain tbh. So here's some things on the main 4 of Clover's Concerned Guardianship Coalition:

For all Martlet is kind of screw up, Clover likes her the most. They get to feel useful by helping her do things that she struggles with. Martlet's earnest insistence that Clover should be taken care of and that they shouldn't have to deal with the heaviness that's put onto them makes them confused, because it's not something they've heard before. She's and adult that doesn't have everything together, and that maybe shows them that they don't need to either. She can be a bit overbearing in her attempts to be a good guardian, which at first Clover finds somewhat patronizing, but they've always wanted to be taken care of, so it isn't for very long.

Clover idolized Starlo a lot at the beginning, but is very aware of his shortcomings by the end. He's someone who understands and shares Clover's interests and isn't ashamed of being passionate, something that Clover might've needed to see in someone, especially someone older. Starlo also learns to balance work-life better, in helping his friends and family as well as letting them help him, something Clover also needs to see.

Ceroba is very complicated. Clover holds no judgment over her, even if she thinks they should. They want to help her even after all her ulterior motives. They cannot blame her for it. They know very well what it's like to be so hell-bent on a mission to save someone who is already gone that everything else falls away, and to push back offers of letting people in for the sake of ones sense of duty. There were some moments in the Steamworks where they thought of how things could be different if Ceroba was their mother, too.

Dalv gets such a short stick in UTY, we all know this, so I'll try my best. He's not really proper guardian material, but he does care a lot for Clover's well being, enough to try to be responsible for them if they need a more casual environment. Clover inspired him to get out of his shell, and in turn Clover is inspired by Dalv's bravery despite the things that have happened to him. They play music together and share quiet moments of hanging out in the same room while doing different things.

I am going through the Tumblr tag and asking the same questions to people I see there.

I tried answering this a few weeks ago but because I wasn't really satisfied with it and stored it away. Now that I'm back in the trenches I feel I can answer this a lot better so here we go-

I'm honestly taking a couple things from UTRY (even if I have my criticisms about it, there are concepts that are Fun and it's my biggest frame of reference for thinking about those two as a copow enjoyer, so I'm inherently biased if that's not what you're looking for).

If those two ever get along, it would probably take a verrryyyyyyy long time. I'm talking in any non-confrontational circumstances months or maybe years. First impressions would not be great, mostly instigated by Chara and their whole hating humans deal. But I do think both of them hold so strongly to their own beliefs (Chara being very black and white, Clover wanting to see the best in everything) that butting heads would be the easiest thing for either of them to do at first.

They would need to be in each others presence for long enough that the two of them might see their similarities and end up with a begrudging truce to eventual understanding respect. Both highly sacrificial to the end and willing to put in the work to do so when it came to helping monsters. Going so far as to do what they did, to give up their own selves even if no one wanted them to. Again, probably very slow burn unless they were forced to work together, mainly Clover would try to get closer overtime to understand Chara. And the first few tries would certainly not be appreciated.

i could see the idea that Chara could exploit Clover having anger issues to intentionally antagonize them, push them away, or try to reiterate that humanity is bad. I can see Clover thinking Chara might be someone who's mind they have to change, becoming more and more frustrated with them making increasingly impulsive actions to try and change their mind.

Whether or not it actually works could be up to interpretation. It could depend on how far along they are in their respective arcs, if it's a revival AU or timeline switch, or whatever.