everbough

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[everbough]

HOMETOWN DADS AU MASTER POST

A pinned post at last! This is a master post of all things "Hometown Dads AU" related. If you're new to this Spamtenna/Adoptive-Father AU, this is a great place to start!

Treat this like a pretty table of contents. Tags, post links, FAQ, etc, are all here. I do my best to keep this regularly updated!

IMPORTANT TAGS/LINKS

Art Tag

QnA Tag

Lore Tag

Fic (AO3)

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q: What is this AU?? A: This is a lighthearted AU where all the Darkners are Lightners and live in Hometown! This AU is meant to have as close a vibe to the Undertale True Ending Montage as possible. This AU is character-driven over a narrative-driven one, like the game.

Q: Is this AU about Spamtenna? A: YES! The main focus of the AU is on Spamtenna and Susie. Tenna is Susie's adoptive father. Tenna and Susie have moved to Hometown, and the exes finally cross paths after 15 years of no contact. They rekindle their friendship and romance through the influence of their kid(s).

Q: Why is it called "Hometown Dads"? A: Because "All The Darkners Are Lightners And Tenna Is Susie's Dad And Also The World Isn't Actively Ending" was too long. Also, it's accurate. They're all in Hometown. Tenna's a dad. That's about it. Send tweet.

Q: Can I make fanart/fanfiction of this AU? Can I tag you? A: Yes, please make things and tag me if you do! I love seeing and reading people's takes on this silly little universe. Just make sure to credit the origins of the AU if you post it somewhere, so people know where to find the masterpost :)

LORE

Big Shot Era + TV Time

Addisons

Hometown Map

CHARACTER INFOSHEETS/DESIGNS

Ant Tenna

Spamton G. Spamton

Lancer and King "The Spades"

Queen

Mage Boom (Gerson’s Human Partner)

The Addisons (1) (2)

The Mikes

Jackenstein

Seam and Jevil

ART

Breakfast is Ready!

Grades & Surprises

Parent Teacher Conferences

Pancakes

Graveyard

Magma Dump

Spa Day

Big Shot Era Poster

Various Doodles

Baby Tenna (1) (2)

Reunion Comic

Reunion Comic (Risograph)

Addison Passive Aggressiveness

Big Shot Era Tenna

NSFW ART

Misunderstanding

A “Little” Growth

Venomous Love Bites

If you can't find something of mine here, check the "my art" tag :)

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Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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[everbough]

i think my cat likes your htd au map because she got on my desk and kinda just.. stared at it. it was weirdly cute.

that’s a mood tbh

I love that!

[everbough]

There are so many Darkners in chapter 5 that have resurrected me from my art block like fr

[fennidae]

Ralsei everytime Flowery showed up

[everbough]

Ready for Deltarune Tomorrow to explode the motivation directly into my brain and also make so many plot holes for my HTD au YIPPEE

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It's been just over a year since Deltarune chapters 3 & 4 released! I did the 3D work, which mostly means Tenna 📺 I figured it's been long enough to share some "behind the scenes" stuff, starting with a look at the Maya file for his static poses...

I'd individually render the poses to get that early 3D shine ✨ Here's some of them at their original resolutions! I would work from text descriptions from Toby, and sometimes there'd be a Paint sketch to help out. Gigi drew the concept that I modeled from and some poses too!

I had a lot of fun pushing myself to match the dynamic poses Toby had in mind for Tenna - making him so crazy and expressive was something I couldn't have done without his prompts. He'd draw the faces on afterward too, which really brought Tenna to life!

(lots more after the Read More cut...!)

Here are some of the Paint sketches Toby drew to help me with specific Tenna poses! I love seeing his drawings LOL, genuinely really good and evocative 👍

There was a time when I was struggling to capture what he wanted for these specific Tenna poses… Until Toby acted them out himself, and I thought, "Ah, it's like that. I understand." and then I was able to make them just how he pictured them.

When looking through the renders and choosing what to share, I laughed at these two… Remember when Tenna had a gun? Remember when he bent over in a very specific way that might remind you of another, different image? No? Maybe you don't…? Well. Don't worry about it.

These ones are cute… Tenna is pretty cute sometimes! Has anyone ever thought this? Actually, before people knew he was going to be a strange 3D sprite the Whole Time, I was worried people wouldn't like the style and it'd sour people's views on him. I'm glad that didn't happen.

Toby thought it would be funny to have Tenna do some really smooth, mocapped animations sometimes - specifically free to use ones that often pop up in other things. An extra funny part to me is how many frames these take up in the game, and how his tails are stuck to his legs…

Speaking of mocap, Toby wanted Tenna to use custom mocap animations as far back as 2016 - Ten(na) years ago! I got an Xbox Kinect at the time and learnt how to set this up, but then never used it. Here's a look at messing with mocaped stuff again in 2022. So Normal.

Don't bother trying to help him here, he's just being dramatic 🙄

I particularly like these poses - I think I improvised most of these just based off the context they get used in… I always liked posing his tie and coat tails as if they were also parts of his body he could move. Which I guess they are?

After I rendered out the individual poses in high quality, I'd force the color palette to be limited to just a few shades and then I'd shrink the result down to pixel sized sprites. Like these! I'd tidy them up a little, but they'd really get improved on at the pixel scale by Clairvoire.

As well as Tenna's sprites, I also worked on his intro "movie"…! Seeing people be completely overloaded by this on first playthroughs would always make me laugh. In game, there's a ton of extra editing done by Everdraed, but my unedited cut looks like this ⬇️

This was the entire storyboard I had to work from, and I'm realizing now that there's the note "put him in car etc" that I never did and actually don't know what it would mean exactly. Working on this had me listen to the accompanying audio many times, but it's good so it's okay.

Here are a bunch of random clips of the Maya project for Tenna's intro movie. This is how movies get made, I think!! Yeah… Just like this.

Say it with him, folks!!

For the 3D Ralsei clip from the intro, Toby really wanted it to look a certain way, and drew more sketches for guiding me with this part than any other. They genuinely helped.

Remember how Toby's original storyboard has the note "covered in slime and shrinks"? That meant I had to learn how to make 3D slime. You can see my tech advancing here.

I'm really happy with how the final Tenna animation at the end of the intro movie turned out! It wouldn't look as good if it wasn't for some 2D animation to reference from SmallBuStudio, so thank you to them for the help! Tenna is cute… Huh, I already said that…?

Phew!! That's a lot of Tenna. I hope it was fun to look through my posts! Oh, one more thing - the Fangamer Mr. Tenna Figurine just straight up uses the 3D model I made, which I think is really funny and cool and nice. Check it out if you want! Thanks for reading!

[milkdango421]

I MADE A NEW SPRITE FOR HTD TENNA (⁠人⁠*⁠´⁠∀⁠｀⁠)⁠｡⁠*ﾟ⁠+

This is by far my favourite tenna sprite, and I'm so happy how it turned out,

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE

The flower (⁠人⁠*⁠´⁠∀⁠｀⁠)⁠｡⁠*ﾟ⁠+ HTD Tenna probably doesn't actually grow the flower but I love the visual

BONUSES!!!

Gaster wiggle

And the bloom animation

(i didn't know how to use links last time LOLOL mbmb)

I'm really proud how all these turned out, they look so good 😍

I recommend everyone take a look at @everbough 's stuff, cuz this au was made by her. Here's the link to the master post of the au

[everbough]

LOOK AT HIMMMMMMM

Teeheeheeheehee!!! Oh he looks so scrunkly and spaghetti-coded!! Yes yes yes!!! Staring at this for forever now, wonderful, beautiful. Reverent, even.

🐜💛 🐜💛 🐜💛 🐜💛 🐜💛 🐜

[milkdango421]

I tried making some sprites of HTD Tenna cuz I haven't seen anyone else do it yet :P

Here's a hug with Susie(i somehow forgot his gaster in this one but now I'm too lazy to change it)

I would've made some more expressive sprites but here's what I have for now. I haven't made any pixel art in years so I hope y'all like it

this au was made by @everbough, master post is under the cut

https://www.tumblr.com/everbough/797616274603704320/hometown-dads-au-master-post?source=share

[everbough]

AAAAAA LOOK AT HIM YAP 🤩

these are so freaking cute, I’m losing my entire shit. you translated him so well!!! and the hug? gosh….i love them so much. I’m going to look at these for the next 200 hours.

[everbough]

hi hello!! this is going to be so out of nowhere but I've just been doing a re-read of Endurance and I was wondering if I would make a podfic of it and some of the related stories? I always like to ask before I make them but didn't know if you'd see with the fics being years old hehe

Ooooh! A podfic would be sick! Yeah, you have my consent for that! Just make sure to credit the story :)

Can you send me the link when it's done so I can listen? :)

[everbough]

I have got the most random thought for you also hi :D

Basically just the hometown dads au but dark worlds exist, and in the newer locations of hometown

The reason I thought of this was because I had the thought of HTD tenna encountering something eerily similar to canon tenna if a dark world were to end up at his place

Also, we need Susie and Lancer absolutely eating log salsa next chapter

Oh, I have thought about this SO MUCH!!

It’s basically an AU of the AU, where the plot of Deltarune happens in HTD Hometown, and there’s an all new arrangement of Darkners.

Ralsei is a Lightner, but his parents research Dark Worlds, which is how he knows how they work. This turns him from a Prince of the Dark to a Scribe of the Dark.

Chapter’s 1 & 2

Chapter 1’s Dark World would be the antique store that’s run by Seam. Seam is still a shopkeeper and they’re aware of Dark Worlds, so their dialogue is almost exactly the same. Darkners are then made up of antiques there. The theme of the chapter would be revisiting old memories and nostalgia.

Chapter 2’s Dark World takes place in the craft store. Chet (my Darkner OC) is the lightner shopkeeper there and thinks she’s just having a wild dream. Everyone is made of art supplies! The theme is finding your creative voice and using art to help you process feelings/grief.

Chapter 3

Chapter 3’s TV world is almost exactly the same. The difference is that it isn’t Kris’ TV—it’s Tenna’s in his basement, where allllllll of his TV Time memorabilia is.

Tenna AND Spamton fall into the Dark World after the trio and they become the grand prize instead of Toriel. TV World Tenna is basically just canon Tenna, with the difference being that a Big Shot version of Ch2 Spamton is cohosting.

HTD Tenna is confronted with his past mistakes and inability to let go with TV Tenna. They do NOT get along at all and it causes a big blow up that honestly was probably good catharsis for HTD Tenna. Spamton is also getting ire from his Darkner self AND TV Tenna, which causes some dramaaaaa.

The adventure progresses as normal. HTD Tenna and Spamton wake up thinking it was a dream. TV Tenna gets donated to the school.

The theme is about change, both positive and negative.

Chapter 4

At the beginning of Chapter 4, HTD Gerson passes away. Susie cannot accept this. Chapter 4 still occurs in the church and Gerson’s Dark form appears as a ghost because his coffin is still in the cathedral (woof). The theme is then about grief and accepting loss, as Susie gets a chance to say goodbye to Gerson and have a final conversation with him, whilst going through the five stages across the course of the adventure.

Can’t speak on the salsa log, but there will be salsa! ;)

[everbough]

Hi! I wanted to asked you a question real quick question about you hometown dads AU design of spamton. In his ref sheet you have "taloned feet" im redesigning my Nikia from this AU and wanted to incorporate more of her other father into her design. I have a couple of refs (credits to the artist of these they're not mine just found them on Google) but I wasn't sure which one you thought best suited him.

Hiya! The first one is more accurate! :)

[everbough]

almost done with classes and then I can finally FINALLY get the other half of chapter 4 done. Summer is gonna be fic-filled 🎉

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the rainbow umbrella comic blew up on Twitter and I don’t know why

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recreation of a moment that happened earlier today

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