Fennel's Various AUs

A place for @fennecthunderfox to ramble about her Undertale AUs.

[fennecthunderfox]

First Update of the Year I Guess

I tend to appear and disappear without warning, so I figured perhaps I should update people on my progress on things and my plans for them. 

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Feel free to give feedback regarding VesselTale updates. I feel like it’d be disappointing to be left hanging if I continued and disappeared again. But if any progress sounds good to enough people I’ll work in those pages as well. 

[fennelsarchive]

I wanted to make this page a gif with animated glitchy effects on Flowey's busted save file, but I didn't have the energy to mess with that. If you're curious, the binary code is supposed to say "ERROR" over and over. I used a text to binary converter so hopefully it's accurate. (Unrelated to the Error Sans, for the record. I know he's popular, but he has nothing to do with this comic.)

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[fennecthunderfox]

Been doing Defnodel and VesselTale comic uploads in tandem with Soriel Week uploads and I think I’m pausing all uploads until this weekend because I need more time to work on them and I don’t want to run myself ragged trying to do them on time. 

I honestly might upload the next VesselTale page and say “good enough” and only focus on the soriel arts just because it’s a lot to do after a month or more of radio silence. 

After Soriel week and the VT page I’ll be shifting gears towards my UT anniversary project. 

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There will be at least 1 more page of VT, just not yet

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Memories are weird in this timeline but for the most part everyone initially interacts with Frisk like they've never met because they can't remember previous timelines. I have never done a full Geno run, so I dunno what it's like to actually play a soulless paci run, but I was always under the impression that it was a true reset when you did. There will be exceptions to that rule, but they haven't come into play yet. So Flowey is basically meeting Frisk for the first time, but at the end of the Ruins this time. For reasons.

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[fennelsarchive]

Since I reblogged a thing I figure it’s only fair to give another “where am I” update. 

Long story short, I think I burned myself out, which is kinda expected when you try to do 2 comics at once. I kinda miss doing just stand alone art pieces. I have made some, but I haven’t posted to any major art accounts on any site. 

I also am at the point where if I’ve been gone so long I feel like I have to make the wait worth it so I’m trying to get 2 pages of each comic made and then dump em all at once. 

Another problem with VesselTale specifically is that I have a vague outline in my head for where the story is going, I don’t have a set-in-stone script. So VT might grind to a halt for a bit soon anyway cause I need to make a script. 

So ye. That’s where we are currently. 

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If you like to think of the Ruins Dummy as being its own character, that’s totally fine and valid. I don’t think there’s any outright confirmation that Napstablook was in the Ruins Dummy, but considering how angry Maddy is about what you did to her cousin, how the diaries in Mettaton’s house only seem to mention 3 ghosts, and the winter alarm clock dialogue from Mettaton, I think it’s safe to assume there are only 3 ghost cousins. Since we really didn’t get much info about Maddy until later console releases of Undertale, I think a lot of people personified the Ruins Dummy as a separate ghost cousin. It’s fun to make characters, I make a lot myself (if you read my other comic, you WILL see OCs eventually, that is a threat) so don’t let my take on the Dummy ruin your fun if you like them as their own character. Pun genuinely unintended. Side note, if the kids come off as acting like bickering siblings, that was the intention. Also I was going to make the laughs be a part of Chara’s text in the last panel, but that would’ve been impossible to read. Like, “WE-HEE HEE HEE’VE BEEN LI-HI-VING,” it sounds alright in my head but looks way too weird in writing.

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i thought mew mew was the dummy ghost????

[fennelsarchive]

Mad Mew Mew is Mad Dummy, yes! When you meet her as a dummy in Waterfall, she references the Ruins Dummy as her cousin. In the Xbox port Dog Casino she references her cousin as “Blooky” at least once (if I remember correctly anyway apologizes if I’m wrong). 

[fennelsarchive]

Whoop. Finally managed to finish this. We skipped a loooooot of the ruins, I had nothing else to pad out the journey conversation-wise and I’m sure y’all are looking forward to seeing more of the main cast. And lookit that, there’s one of ‘em now.

Also, humanity is slowly returning to husk Frisk, so the guilt is setting in on account of the pacifist route they’re taking atm. The way LOVE is explained by Sans, I feel like so long as their doing a violence, Frisk won’t feel guilt for what they did. When you have power over time and space it's easy to assume it can all be fixed.

Unfortunately it seems their actions had consequences after all.

Also, I’ve read everyone’s theories (if you commented ‘em in a page, at least) and to those theorizing that the deja vu got stronger, you actually aren’t wrong. I know Flowey’s acting like he never met Frisk, but deja vu =/= remembering. 

What was happening with the ruins enemies was not that they remembered what Frisk did to them, but rather that they were getting bad vibes from Frisk because of the deja vu. When Frisk did nothing to interact with them, it made some look at them in confusion which was what was happening on page 20. Hopefully that makes sense. 

Now that begs the question, what was keeping Flowey and Toriel from meeting Frisk at the beginning? If anyone can actually guess correctly, I’ll be very impressed cause there’s really only one hint that I can think of as for what it was and you have to think outside the box to see it. 

Some people actually already know what it is, cause I talked about this with friends. So, uh… if you actually DO know what the other, most major change is, maybe keep that one to yourself, haha.

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[fennelsarchive]

I referenced the fangamer sticker sheets for color ideas for the ruins monsters. I will admit that all the froggits in the ruins are all white in-game but using the stickers' colors makes more visually interesting things and visually interesting is more important than 100% accuracy. To me, anyway. Creative liberties. But, yeah. Migosp is a red-violet color on the stickers. That's not me making a weird choice. Most people in the comments on previous pages have noted what is being alluded to here. There are other theories about this timeline that are also accurate, but maybe not to the degree people anticipate.

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[fennelsarchive]

Don’t really have anything to say about this one. Just getting kinda bored of the Ruins rooms so we’ll be blasting through them in the next few pages.

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“Risk” and “Chance” are the only codenames I have to differentiate between the canon cast and vesseltale cast, I’ll need to figure out nicknames for everyone eventually...

[fennelsarchive]

If you like to think of the Ruins Dummy as being its own character, that's totally fine and valid. I don't think there's any outright confirmation that Napstablook was in the Ruins Dummy, but considering how angry Maddy is about what you did to her cousin, how the diaries in Mettaton's house only seem to mention 3 ghosts, and the winter alarm clock dialogue from Mettaton, I think it's safe to assume there are only 3 ghost cousins. Since we really didn't get much info about Maddy until later console releases of Undertale, I think a lot of people personified the Ruins Dummy as a separate ghost cousin. It's fun to make characters, I make a lot myself (if you read my other comic, you WILL see OCs eventually, that is a threat) so don't let my take on the Dummy ruin your fun if you like them as their own character. Pun genuinely unintended. Side note, if the kids come off as acting like bickering siblings, that was the intention. Also I was going to make the laughs be a part of Chara's text in the last panel, but that would've been impossible to read. Like, "WE-HEE HEE HEE'VE BEEN LI-HI-VING," it sounds alright in my head but looks way too weird in writing.

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[fennelsarchive]

I was going to put off making this page a little longer, but I decided if I waited I wouldn’t do it. So I stayed up all night to make this page. It’s 7 am. I am going to pass out as soon as this is posted. 

With that said, if there’s a weirdness with this page, blame it on sleep deprivation. 

Except that split panel in the middle, that weirdness was intentional. I’ve seen people do panels like that to show the passage of time without outright saying that time passed. So the room you fall through the floor to get to the other side, the leaf puzzle room, and the mouse hall are represented in each panel to show that Frisk and Chara have traversed a good deal of the ruins without dragging along with boring details. 

Also Naps isn’t where they should be. Which is odd, considering you can’t kill a ghost.

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[fennelsarchive]

These two have become masters at driving each other nuts at this point. The back-and-forth between them might seem pointless- I don't think anyone is going to feel as strongly about monster candy as Chara does- but if I don't spice up the pages somehow it'll just become a slideshow of the ruins. But in my art style. Which wouldn't be as entertaining.

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[fennelsarchive]

I dunno if I can keep up these 2 page updates going forward, but at least there’s one this time. 

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And we’re back

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[fennelsarchive]

Totally forgot to share this here whOOPs.

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VesselTale page 10

It exists now.