Deltarune: Neglected oversight

"It feels like I'm forgetting something..."

[neglected-oversight]

Summary: Two individuals find themselves in another dimension, but the residents aren't what they seem: dangerous, unable to recollect events of the past, as if they've suffered from amnesia. They're tasked with closing the "dark fountains," which appear to be the source of the denizens' seemingly malicious behaviour. Yet the more they adventure into this dimension, the more they wish to forget themselves.

Main account: @boredgrace23

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Concepts

concept character art:

New Kris Dreemurr (Old: Kris Dreemurr / additional concept)

New Susie Dinomite (Old: Susie)

Noelle Holiday

Spamton Addison / additional concept

Jevil

Berdly

Ralsei/Serial

Seam & Rouxls Kaard / Seam doodles

The Addisons', Swatch, and Sweet, Cap'n and Cakes

Tasque Manager

Concept art for fights/other things:

Same prophecy, but a tad bit different

Berdly and Noelle fight

Bottom floor library, school hallway, and bathroom door & hallway concept art

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Important/lore asks

Majority of the concept art isn't canon Clearing up some confusion about the lore and universe

"Can I make you fanart?"

Does Dess still exist in your au?

Do you have any plans for your au?

Does the NEO machine exist?

Who're the "secret" bosses?

Starwalker???

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Old summary:

Deltarune: Neglected oversight is basically Deltarune, but in “hard mode”, it also has a pretty simple concept. It follows along with the progression of Deltarune, but instead of the regular characters you all know and love, everyone who steps into the dark world, including darkeners who live in the dark world, forgets who they were and are pretty much lifeless shells of what they once were because of the fountains. Think of it like how it was near the end of the pacifist route in Undertale, every monster forgot who they were and Frisk/the player had to recover them.

But unlike in Deltarune, the designs and personalities are different. Kris, you and Susie are the only lighteners who have any recollection of who they are after they step into the dark world, and their mission is to help everyone recover their lost memories while still trying to close the fountains.

[neglected-oversight]

EPISODE ONE OF THIS AU IS NOW POSTED! Thank you to everyone whose been with this au since 2022. Holy shit, I can finally get this out there.

[boredgrace23]

Realised mid way through drawing how similar this au is to an infected au, which is kinda funny.

[boredgrace23]

YOU HAVE ENCOUNTERED !?

But it seems that KNIGHT cannot dance to spare the... The... It seems to have forgotten it's name.

The LOST darkeners are forgotten in the darkness. Left to their own devices, there seems to be no end in sight for these beings, eternity stretching ever long.

After being forgotten for so long, it seems they are no longer beings but echoes of what they once were. Your only move seems to be to end it's torture, however difficult it may be when they scream for their angel.

[boredgrace23]

There's something wrong with the Dark world. Who is this strange guy, and why does he resent them? Why does he keep calling them SOLDIER and KNIGHT? One thing's for sure, they're getting the hell out of there.

Serial is Ralsei's counterpart, and like every other denizens in the dark world, is LOST. He's grown bitter and has forgotten all that made him before. The more you SAVE him, the more you get to learn his story.

The old designs for their characters are here. Serial, unlike KNIGHT and SOLDIER, hasn't had his design changed since I made it back in 2022. Because I like his design :]

[boredgrace23]

Gaster and His Canary absolutely adore each other, watching the narrative unfold from a distance. They're the epitome of Lovecraftian monsters with so much love for living beings and a deep hatred for living beings that engrave their very core.

So I lied that this au would be like og Deltarune, seeing as The Canary and Gaster act as a subset of antagonists while not being antagonists.

They get in Kris's way, but think of them as more of Rouxls Kaard in his polycule if they were actually healthy and were like homoerotic friends. The Canary and Gaster aren't people. But they're all the same "alive."

This had been planned for about 2 years now, but I never said anything about it since I didn't want to fully plan out this au without at least a deeper idea of what Deltarune is about.

(link to old account @neglected-oversight)

[boredgrace23]

This is my 3 year old au called Neglected Oversight, the plot being relatively the same except it's a psychological/survival horror, as per my usual genre of storytelling. I decided to remake it.

A few key differences I've made are that the characters are at least 17-18. The other key difference is that humans are incredibly shorter then monsters, because big means intimidating (head nod).

My old account for the au is still up (@neglected-oversight), although I won't use it much besides to repost art. Mostly because the account is old, and I just want a fresh start for my au that isn't muddled by, uhh, stuff I won't say.

Mostly, I'm not sure if this'll become an animation, a comic, or just a series of drawings and you as the viewer can interpret it, but I'll see what comes of it.

Besides that, here's a Susie and Kris height chart.

Please ignore that Susie isn't taller then Kris, I need to make her shorter to fit the frame.

[neglected-oversight]

Omg what's your reaction on chapter 3 & 4 and the ralsei lore <:

[[ GO FOLLOW MY MAIN ACCOUNT @boredgrace23 ]]

Now that I have more writing experience, I wasn't all that shocked. A lot of the things I thought would be canon were, so, uh, haha. Though his character progression is insane. It hit hard, especially in chapter 4 with Kris telling Ralsei that he doesn't need to smile. Oof, I almost wanted to cry at that.

I'd love to ramble about his character, but I don't want to spoil, so I'm mostly rambling below about how I'll go about this au now if there's anyone curious.

Mostly, I was honestly just expecting for the lore of my au to completely fall through with the amount of lore drops, to my utter surprise, my au still holds up.

Which is completely shocking. Pat on the back to younger me for being smart enough to leave most of this lore open-ended and unsaid. Especially since this au was created 3 years ago, which, WOW.

Serial and Asgore's (which I haven't gotten to yet) lores especially. Their lores for this au hold up insanely well with canon.

But, yeah, this au, particularly Serial's story, will definitely be reworked due to the age of this au.

Can you believe I was 13 when Deltarune came out and I was 16 when I made this au? Now I'm 19, almost 20. Crazy stuff.

[boredgrace23]

HUH?? MY AU IS STILL GETTING ATTENTION? HUH??? AWWWW THANK YOUUU!!!!

[neglected-oversight]

So it's been a good while, huh? Fyi, I'm going to be redrawing and rewriting everything for Neglected Oversight on my other account @boredgrace23 for private reasons I won't state.

[neglected-oversight]

(Blows off dust) It's still here...

So uhh, it's been a hot minute eh?

[neglected-oversight]

Pilot has been moved to a second channel (GraceBOREDPotts)! If you're interested in watching, here's the link! I would really appreciate the support the on it!

Unfortunately, like I said last post, progress has been slow since I got into TF2. But production IS still ongoing! I'll come back with an update on progress soon!

[neglected-oversight]

Teaser for my animation. My watermark's being nervous rn. Give it some time.

[neglected-oversight]

I stalked your other account and you said you were 19 and the first post you made was in 2022 Im doing a rough guestimation BUT YOU WERE 17 WHEN YOU MADE THIS AU??????

I was actually 16, my birthday wasn't until July :)

This au was actually one of my greatest feats since I've always wanted to create an au! Obviously I've gotten WAY better at story writing and art since then! Still, this au will always have my heart.

[neglected-oversight]

UPDATE ON ANIMATION

Progress has been slow since I lost motivation and joined another fandom. I also impulsively decided to make an animation out of this au, so I didn't have a very concrete story in mind. Good thing about my impulsive story-making decisions is that they're usually for the better.

I haven't decided on what to do yet, but I can confirm that the storyboard/script for the introduction has been made, I've also been chipping away at the other scenes I've got planned.

This might take months or even years to make, hell I might even post just the introduction (which is only 8 minutes long) after becoming impatient. But I want to reassure people that this IS being made! Just that progress has been slow.

Also episode 1 has been downgraded to just a pilot. I'm not sure if it's gonna be canon or not yet, but we'll see when we get there.

Thank you for being patient, especially the older fans of this au.

[neglected-oversight]

Guys, I promise I'm getting episode 2 done! I never break a promise. I just can't promise when I'll be done. So here's a sneak peak in the mean time!

[neglected-oversight]

The pilot was amazing!!! cant wait to what's next!! ^^

Questions: from old questions? How come this 'lancer' fellow doesnt exist?

Thank you! It took some time figuring out how I wanted to animate the pilot! And while I want to say for sure when Episode 2 will come out I can't give any promises.

Also, I still don't get why everyone keeps asking me about this "Lancer" guy. Lancer this, Lancer that. You know, how about instead of asking where Lancer is, we ask how this "Lancer" fella is? You guys ever thought that he's having a bad day? Maybe he just needs some alone time? "Lancer." What a goofy name. /J