Tag: monster friends

once more into the undertale fic recs

feralphoenix:

there are only 19 of these right now but i’m an impatient asshole and there’s not a thing on this list that doesn’t deserve more attention. so Here.

jet black and cerulean sky by @lumalees. postcanon, 3 alive babies au. chara needs some solitary cooldown time to deal with sensory overload, which means that somebody needs to stop asriel from crashing in and making a gigantic ass of himself. fortunately frisk has been meaning to make friends with him anyway.

fire spilling from your soul by @lumalees. charasriel, fantasy au. when you’re being sent over to deal with a dragon problem for diplomacy reasons you have a lot of different options for solving the issue. “fall in love with the dragon” sure is one of them.

where the heart goes by @lumalees. precanon. frisk sure was ready to call toriel “mom” right out of the gate, weren’t they? also here’s your daily reminder that growing up first nations in north america can suck hardcore

the dust of daily life by @lumalees. postcanon, 3 alive babies au. asriel takes a crack at the whole “coping with his issues, making balanced relationships, and not actively shooting himself in the foot every moment of every day” thing with varying success.

Graves in Bloom by @vietblueart. flowertale au. in which the player is an asshole on a reset spree, said reset spree is slowly damaging the world of the game itself, chara is very definitely not ok, and sans is cranky.

oneirodynia by @hanniballlester. midcanon. in which undyne remembers more than people give her credit for and tries to deal with it.

heart/soul by @lumalees. precanon, charasriel. chara and asriel muse on blood, souls, and the differences between monsters and humans.

ring, ring by @thethrillof. postcanon. frisk leaves sans an important message.

Keep an Eye on the Shadow’s Smile by Kaesa. precanon, soriel. did you know that all you need to do to get me chanting GOOD SHIT GOOD SHIT about soriel is to frame it from toriel’s pov. anyway here’s an account of how toriel and sans become friends, from toriel’s perspective.

There Is No Crime In Being Kind by @inverts. baby boss monsters #3. asriel, along with his totally helpful and not at all malevolent guides frisk and chara, traipse through the region that in another world would have been known as snowdin and meet papyrus. talks about gender are had. asriel gets a turn at the total asshole wheel.

Today Seems Like A Good Day To Burn A Bridge Or Two by @inverts. baby boss monsters #4. the team meets up with undyne, there are a few disquieting rumblings, and we get to discover what undyne and the royal guard are like in a world where asgore wasn’t available to be undyne’s mentor.

You Can’t Find Your Name In The Script by @inverts. baby boss monsters #5. mettaton. mettaton? mettaton!!! meanwhile, we get to discover a few things about why frisk and chara are the way they are, frisk mcfreaking loses it, and chara is deeply unimpressed. if you haven’t been keeping up with this series please do yourself a favor and read it?! the worldbuilding is so smart!

what greater gift by @lumalees. charasriel, postcanon, 3 alive babies au. chara decides that they and asriel are adopting a shelter cat. asriel is dubious about this but decides to give it a try anyway, and everyone learns a thing or two about handling rescued animals.

A Necropolis In Full Bloom by @eristastic. charasriel, beauty and the beast au redux. chara, the unloved child, does their duty to their abusive family by sacrificing themself to the terrible beast their father has angered… only to find that the circumstances aren’t what they thought. their host is unpleasant, annoying, and hard to deal with, but with the help of a meddling castle and a whole host of enchanted flowers, they find themself embroiled in his business anyway.

Good Enough by @ayu-ohseki. alphyne, postcanon. alphys has some Suspicions about things that are going on with her little human friend, but finds herself at a loss as to how to help. undyne proves to be an unexpected font of good sense.

can you really call this a prison sentence, I didn’t receive an orange jumpsuit by @lumalees. charasriel, postcanon, 3 alive babies au. chara puts asriel in gay baby jail. that’s it. that’s the fic.

Five Times Papyrus was Very Great (and the times he is still just as great, but needs a reminder) by @lockandkeyblade. postcanon. in which papyrus is a good and helpful friend to, among others, frisk, sans, undyne, asgore, and chara; and in which everyone else is a good and helpful friend to him too. i love “papyrus understands more than fandom gives him credit for” fics, and this especially is a good one.

Places That Aren’t Here by @epic-divorceman ( @dan-mcneely / @thegiantrat ). postcanon, comic. some 10-15 years after game events, the trio takes a field trip to help chara get some closure. featuring frisk as ultimate wingperson and asriel reminding us that yes, he does know how to not be a wet blanket.

untitled oneshot by @meyecy. midcanon. frisk tries to decide what to do about undyne.

Only a few of these are my kind of thing, but I don’t reblog enough fic on here.

imitationknife:

wait. why does mettaton use the world “bloodshed” when his P/N battle starts. that can’t be a common phrase in monster language, monsters don’t bleed. did he pick that up from all the human TV and movies he’s watched? also, what do monsters say instead of bloodshed? dustshed?

I’m not sure where people are getting the idea that monsters don’t bleed. They turn to dust *when they die*, but operate as if they were normal physical entities for the most part until that point. When Toriel is wounded, we see dark slash marks that match blood better than dust, and although I know we all love our ketchup jokes, the same is true of Sans. Undyne shouts about every monster’s heart beating as one, which doesn’t make much sense if they don’t HAVE beating hearts. It’s not like monsters are skins stuffed with sawdust Velveteen Rabbit style.

Though, that aside, it could simply be borrowed from human language. Plenty of exposure to human culture going on here, enough to keep monsters speaking a mutually intelligible dialect of English despite at least a thousand years of isolation (unless you assume some entity is translating, in which case “bloodshed” may just be the best translation of the word Mettaton is actually using.) Mettaton especially is fascinated by Hollywood pop culture and bases his own performance style on what he takes from film.

coryoungart:

Happy 1-year anniversary to UNDERTALE! Have some Undertale positivity I made a while back. 🙂

This game came at a very, very difficult, very bad time in my life. It made me feel hope for the first time in years. It made me want to be kinder and more selfless. I can only dream that one day I’ll make half as much a positive impact on someone that Undertale made on me.

Here’s to many more years filled with determination!