After the events of chapter 3, Toriel throws out Tenna before the fun gang had the chance to give him a new home. After being taken to the junkyard, he wakes up in an apocalyptic dark world filled with an endless sea of trash and other discarded darkners.
Spamton (along with some other cyber city folks) met the same fate as Noelle's laptop broke due to his virus-ridden emails. When he finds Tenna, they end up having to rely on each other to survive, despite their mutual resentment.
CONTENT WARNINGS:
Dark themes, horror, violence, bright colors/eyestrain, suicidal implications/thoughts, trauma (I will be tagging each page appropriately and put a warning over particularly triggering stuff! More warnings will probably be added as I continue)
INFO:
Info sheet
COMIC:
Comic Start
Episode 1: New Home
Episode 2: Who Are You?
CHARACTER STUFF:
Monster
The gang
hes literally a bomb idk what you want me to say
Relationship
Hurt
Susie
Junkyard Tenna Doodles
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Notes: This is a practice comic for me, so I'll be making it casually and experimenting a lot with it! (It probably won't end up linear either)
This au isn't exactly cannon compliant either, as I'm pretty certain dark worlds work differently in deltarune ^^;;
(this is a long post- its a bunch of text explaining his character, so click read more if youd want to read that!)
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At the end of chapter 3, the Fun Gang aren’t quick enough to pick up Tenna before he gets thrown away. He gets tossed into a junkyard, his darkner self ending up in a sprawling, toxic wasteland. In a day, his life of privilege and luxury turned to pure survival.
This is Tenna’s worst fear- one that he made a shady deal with the knight and fought for his life to avoid.
He always thought that his life would be over once he gets thrown out, but he’s still… Alive. He never wanted to think of a life where he has to live in the garbage, and yet here he is.
He is TV. He is meant to be watched. That’s all he is. So who is he if he has no audience? Who is he without his purpose?
Living his worst fear, being abandoned by those he called family, and not knowing who he is anymore breaks him. He doesn’t know how to continue, or if it’s even worth the effort.
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If he was still on air, he'd use this place for the setting of a grim survival film. This world looks like it's been ripped straight from an apocalypse movie- one where the protagonist must adapt and learn to survive in the wasteland.
...Hold on.
That’s exactly what he’s going through right now! And it comes with all of the action, tension, suspense and dread- to make a THRILLING movie!
His tune changes. Who needs to be TV when you can be ON TV! He’s the star now! The protagonist everyone roots for! Someone you remember the name of and not see as a piece of disposable furniture!!!
So, he makes his character: RAYTUBE. Based off of the gruff, adaptable, stone-cold apocalypse movie protagonists, inspired from the style of Mad Max (along with his own bright flair, of course!). Instead of a broken, on the fritz piece of junk, he’s a dangerous machine that no one wants to mess with.
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He sees Raytube as a character that he plays, while he still sees himself as Tenna. However, because he is living the movie, he is almost always in character. There are days where he doesn’t consider that he's Tenna at all- or where the lines are blurred and he feels like Raytube. But at the end of the day, it is a complete act. He is still the same whimsical, bubbly show host, he’s just doing what he does best: acting and putting on a show.
He knows that he isn’t actually in a movie. But in order to avoid the horrible reality that he is in, he deliberately pretends that he’s in one. With his own suspension of disbelief, it makes everything more… Bearable.
But this has its drawbacks. This makes him disconnected from the reality of his situation and from how everyone else views the world around them. Playing a badass character who people are meant to be afraid of means that he gets himself into a lot of conflict. Conflict that would make for a good show, but it’s real to everyone else. This gets him into very real danger and makes him enemies when he truly doesn’t want any. But this is what Raytube would do, and this is the thrilling life of a protagonist, right? So… He keeps on acting and pushing through.
There are times where the illusion breaks, and things become much, much more real for him. Usually in intense, dire situations. Once the illusion breaks- all of the fear he’s been pushing away crashes into him at once. He is thrown into a panic, losing all sight of his character and what to do.
Tenna doesn’t truly want to fight. Instead, he tries his best to weasel his way out of situations with his acting skills. The results are… Mixed. Due to winding up in danger often, he is forced into resorting to violence or other things he normally wouldn’t do. He eventually picks up these skills (along with the help of Hatemail (Spamton)), but he hates using them.
What Tenna wants most of all is normalcy. To be the center of attention as he always has, to have a loving family in a stable, welcoming home. To have that all taken away from him leaves him with nothing. So, clinging onto seeing this new life as a movie where he has to keep performing is a way of him trying to hold onto that normalcy and continue doing what he always has.
Doing this allows him to avoid things that he doesn’t want to address, such as: Who is he if he isn’t tv? Is he dying now? How much longer does he have until he falls apart and becomes scrap metal in the sea of garbage? Was he ever part of the family to begin with? Was what happened to Spamton his fault? What good is he if he doesn’t have a purpose anymore?… Etc. He can ignore all of that now, because Raytube doesn’t have these problems to deal with.
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The character Raytube is a gritty, aloof, resourceful and tough guy. He has lived in the wasteland for a while now, which molded him into this stone-cold badass. He is the leader of a gang (the TV gang) which is composed of a cast of rough-and-tumble survivalists. (Tenna had given the others characters and roles for them to fill so they can go along with his act.) Raytube is intimidating and someone to not mess around with. He will threaten violence and not be afraid to use it.
How well Tenna portrays this character is… Well…
He is still a phenomenal actor, however he is basing this character solely off of tropes and an archetype. Serious badass types are also out of Tenna’s wheelhouse. Raytube is played as a stereotypical gritty protagonist, with overused oneliners and a way of talking along the lines of “You really don’t wanna mess with a guy like me”, which can end up too corny and over the top a lot of the time. So whether or not he is taken seriously depends on the person.
Tenna is more broken than he was at the end of chapter 3, as he wasn’t handled with care being put in the junkyard. Being a broken CRT, he glitches often, is an electrical hazard, is at risk of exploding, and MIGHT be radioactive. This, of course, is devastating to Tenna and yet another thing he is in denial over. He also uses Raytube as a means to cope with this. Raytube isn’t broken, he is dangerous on purpose. Tenna incorporated the hazard stickers on his body into Raytube’s costume as a way of Raytube owning being a danger. Tenna can’t take the hazard stickers off of himself, as they are on his light world form, so he does this to make them look intentional.
At times of intense emotion, whether it’s anger or joy, he often breaks out of character completely, not realizing that he dropped the act. He struggles to hold back such emotions when acting. Also, playing someone aloof like Raytube means that he has to bottle up MANY of his emotions… Which is not good, especially for someone like Tenna.
with the donations and the help of some friends, they managed to reach their goal and stay housed!! thank you to everyone who donated, reblogged and helped out!! seriously, im so relieved this worked out, thank you.
hey! two of my friends had a sudden financial emergency which could get them evicted by 6/19 if they dont have the money needed. im putting this out on my main blog to help. please donate if youre able to, and if not, reblogs are very appreciated! thank you guys!
HELLO!! now that school (and moving immediately after) is done, i can finally post again! thank you all for the patience ;u;
i intend on organizing this blog better, redoing some info stuff and making more JYAU comics!
i will say that ive been stuck on the pacing of chapter 3/4 of the comic, as i have a goal in mind but im not quite sure how to get there smoothly yet. so while i work through it, im going to make some non-chronological comics in the meantime! my plan is to finish their "epilogue" (up to where they get to the point of their current au selves) and then making episodic comics from there
i will get back to asks, but since i couldnt keep up before, i wont be able to answer all of them unfortunately. ill try my best though!
hello!! im still very busy from school, so take some doodles ive stockpiled in the meantime!! once school is over ill be a lot more active and get back to making comics yahoooo
* While we may have more contributor-lead AUs join this list, I'm happy to say that after reaching out to many lovely AU creators, we can reveal that the following AUs listed below will be options for our contributors to make pieces for!!
* Here are all the authors for all the following AUs!
- Big Shot Bakery AU: GostCatt (twitter)
- Big Top AU: @crochetclown
- Corporate TV World AU: @trashiiplant + @skencil-mcmooney
- Defernull: @underfell
- Deltanova: @nakakabaliw
- Endless Christmas AU: @trashiiplant
- Factory Settings AU: @starridge
- Flower Tenna AU: @semisocialporcupine
- Junkyard AU: @nicoccat
- Lovebug AU: @fungii
- Mettopolis AU: @hirngespinst-phi
- Monochrome AU: @spamtennazz
- New Deal AU: SaladBarr006 (twitter)
- Puppet Show AU: @revvkr
- Royal Caretaker AU: @doctorsiren
- Spamtenna Swap AU diionysan (twitter)
- Star-Loved AU: ViGrotter (twitter)
- Tea Time AU: @jumpieart
- Televangelist AU: @spamtennazz
- Undertale AU (Monster/Bug Tenna): @semisocialporcupine
- Undertale AU (Trash Heap): @entityoffline
- Cowboy Show AU: @majorlobster
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* Thank you so, SO much to all the AU creators that gave us permission to use their work in our projects! You're all amazing and we hope to make you proud~! 💖
* We have more posts lined up for today, so stay tuned!
YAHOO!! I am so excited for this, you have no idea!! This is such a cool project and I'm really happy for my AU to be apart of this- thank you so much to the team for reaching out to me!!
(go check this out along with the main zine!!)
YOOO WHAT THIS IS SO COOL
AHH first off i love their original design and their concept, especially how you made their face the spell check lines!! i LOVE this design and seeing how this character would end up in the junkyard... ogh it makes me feel bad for them tho oh no ;n;
ALSO THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! so cool to see someones character/sona in my au YEAAA
It's been so fun to see the gorgeous junkyard au fanfic coming in!
Buuuut, that being saiiiiid...i think, when it comes to this au, your art will always be my favorite. Like if i could make a wish and have a full comic book of your story done in a snap, I'd make my special wish be that it was done exactly how you'd do it. There's something about your linework and the way you pick colors that feels so perfect to your au.
Anyway i love your art 🧡
AHHHHHHH
thank you, this means so much to hear, seriously- ;u; hearing that youd want this as a full comic book in my style makes me so happy. this means a ton too coming from you because i also adore your work and your fanfic!! its one of my favorites and one of the few i keep up with (er. when i have time anyway, i need to catch up when i can -u-;; ) and all of your comments and everything have always brightened my day whenever i see them.
here's a part of one of my favorite scenes in Not-So Fresh (re)Start, this scene felt so real to me when i read it and it was genuinely comforting. i felt the entire spectrum of human emotions reading this fic, my god. i absolutely love your work, and thank you so much again!! :D
