byte ballads by louie zong

cerulean, she/her, ceroba apologist utdr sideblog =) main is @ceruleanwarbler2 avatar from uty artbook #EndSteamworksErasure2K24

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its expanded to the point i need a general link. i havae maany uty resources on my website. i havee

dialogue dump

demo dialogue dump

dialogue version differences

room listing

other resources

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[ascendant3rd]

luckypatch

[goomyloid]

I loved the underground (cont. below)

❤️

[songsbeforebed2022]

tenna does not see toriel as his mother. #mytruth

[songsbeforebed2022]

I just think it’s strange how tennas treatment of toriel in ch3 is so intentionally and undeniably asgore coded but everyone just wants to conveniently ignore that bc it’s more wholesome and cute to make him her (in some cases literal) baby. He literally calls her Tori. Tenna does not need to be infantilised for his one sided relationship to the dreemurrs to be heartbreaking and tragic.

[starlos-hat]

chujin moodboard

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Ok man. Whatever.

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when i first played the game i wasn't sure if axis didn't remember integrity because 1. chujin suppressed axis's memories or if because 2. axis suppressed them himself. but now that i have likely hundreds of hours in the game, read every piece of text in the game–especially axis and chujin's–many times over, documented every single line of dialogue in the game, broke down their characters again and again for their articles, im proud to say IDK

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axis: I DO NOT WANT TO LIVE KNOWING THE HORRIBLE ATROCITIES I AM CAPABLE OF COMMITTING

chujin: *in his 'repair axis' uniform* you're going to love what i'm about to do then

or

chujin: hey don't talk about the murder please

axis: WHAT MURDER

chujin: that's what i like to hear *pats him on the back and leaves*

axis: ??????

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how was this a year ago

[abandoned-quiche]

>posts conventionally attractive glass deer skeleton

[thesluts2004]

don’t care didn’t ask + you’ve projected onto this character to the point that your characterisation is unrecognisable to the source material

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i feel like i downplay the fact that chujin has a filing cabinet with documentation on all of his friends more than i should but like. hes literally normal

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#Hard to tell if this is serious or not#but he WAS an extremely social person who probably needed some way of keeping track of everyone he knew

its serious in the sense that chujin is like. he is a morally gray character. he does stuff that's really good and he also does stuff that's really bad. having a cabinet full of monster names could easily connect into his research into boss monster souls or mayybe somehow into the broader issues he has with relationships like ceroba's--but, like you said, it could just be that he had trouble keeping track of people. i think that too! even though theres a way to read his cabinet as incredibly suspect, i have a hard time doing that because it makes more sense to me to read it as his innocuous way to remember people he cares about.

its joking in the sense that

Does this look like the kind of guy who could be lacking in his interpersonal relationships especialluy with his wife. Hes cute hes literalllllly nice. he's literally normal guys

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i feel like i downplay the fact that chujin has a filing cabinet with documentation on all of his friends more than i should but like. hes literally normal

[clegfly]

made this one in a fit of seething rage

[ouramateur]

“A blade forged of fate”

A comic about a thing I noticed

[ouramateur]

“Eyes closed”

Phew! I hope everyone enjoys this one! Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got some rambling to do!

This comic is all about Ralsei and Kris’s complex relationship. It follows them through their unseen interactions during the “close your eyes” scenes of chapters 1 through 3. The goal of this comic is for these inter-spliced scenes to be able to be read as one flowing “conversation” which characterizes the whole of their relationship, but also for you to be able to read only the panels of each specific scene and be able to read a complete conversation between them there as well, which characterizes the state of their relationship at that point. I’m sure that, if we ever learn what these conversations were about, that they’re probably not really like this at all, but I’m less focused on theory crafting than using these moments where the two no longer have to act a certain way for the player or other characters and are able to speak plainly together to illustrate their complicated situation. Ralsei in Chapter 1 coming on too strong with his, ‘just be a good guy!’ Talk, (not unlike how he did with susie,) then in chapter 2, having spent more time with his friends, expressing his care for them, and in chapter 3 being more understanding because of their growing friendship… only for that to be undercut by the betrayal after a victory against the knight.

I’ll spare you the scroll and keep the rest of my babbling under the cut lol

So, yeah, elephant in the room, this comic considers Kris Slash theory (aka They Slash Them theory) as canon. I know it’s kind of a controversial one, but I really like it at least. I hope this comic has expressed how I find it narratively intriguing and reflective of the characters. Maybe its not for you but I’m not really here to persuade anyone or make a case for it, just to use it :)

Anyways, I love these two so much and I’m so happy to be able to work on a project all about their melodrama. With Susie and the player around, they play the roles of team mates, as simple as that, but they’re both harboring secrets that only the other truly understands. Kris as an ever increasingly regretful double agent, Ralsei who is desperate to avoid to disaster that Kris is going about causing but unsure if he believes he even can. Still, is that ‘act’ just an act? Or is it real in a way? They’re just two kids who are doomed, who have been made to pursue that doom by outside forces, who have been made into adversaries because of it, and yet who can’t help but care about each other anyways because when they’re together (as well as with susie) they’re able to forget about their doom for just a moment. Ughhh my heart!

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[the-lemonaut]

Ooooh they are so edgy

This is so stupid but I couldn't stop myself from drawing it