When Ink tore his soul apart, something went wrong. For one: his soul was not what was destroyed. He was. Ink was scattered, reduced to the barest parts of an already blank slate. A Creator found them in this sorry state. The Creator did their best to stitch them back together, but he was only enough to take form as an infant. He couldn't grow, not in the limbo they were kept in, so they couldn't become all they were meant to be.
The Creator was left with no choice. They had to get Ink out there, somewhere, anywhere, if only for the chance that he could become Ink. Thus, in an act of desperation, they planted Ink, wrapped in a scarf imbued with their creative talents, for Dream to find. He would have the best chance left in the Guardian’s hands. From that point on, it was out of their control.
And, truly, it got out of control.
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(more info about the au under the cut!)
Welcome to the product of one hell of an epiphany!
(came up with the initial idea of this au approximately 20 minutes later <3 had intentions of renaming it to literally anything else but sharing is caring and now we're all stuck with rapunzelverse)
The Rapunzelverse is quite self explanatory I feel: Rapunzel (specifically from Tangled) combined with UTMV, but where Ink is Rapunzel <3 There are times when it'll be really loosely based on the movie and times where they're basically the same but it's a journey nonetheless!! Think of it like crack taken seriously because it really did just start off as a joke
(Major) Roles:
ink is rapunzel (duh)
cross is flynn ryder (and xchara too haha)
nightmare is mother gothel
dream is both of rapunzel's parents
(technically the other parent could be red (fell), outer and blue, but like dream is the full-time dad)
blue is the head guard
killer and dust are the stabbington brothers
horror is that one thug at the tavern
either error or fresh were going to be the horse and like it’s still possible but currently not in the plans. felt it important you knew because it’s really funny to me lmfao
There are other characters which make appearances, but they don't really have a movie equivalent!
Disclaimer: there are no (prevalent) ships :)
(there is exactly one background ship but i wont tell ;) unless someone guesses it. which you wont lol)
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So here's the basic plot points leading up to the current story:
Dream found newborn baby Ink in the woods and (very reluctantly) adopted him. A year or so later, Nightmare noticed Dream acting weird and had Killer keep very close tabs on him, leading to them finding out about Ink. Nightmare was under the impression Ink would be like Dream (a spirit) and wanted to take that power for himself, use it to strengthen his empire (He also wanted to hurt Dream very badly to 1) drive him to rage or 2) effectively eliminate him as a threat.) Once he stole Ink, he forced the MTT to stay silent about the whole thing under threat of eternal torment, taking away whatever they had left, psychological play/torture, etc etc.
He got away with it. Nobody ever knew what happened to Ink. Dream had his suspicions, held onto his belief that Ink was out there, yet, for decades: nothing.
Until Horror broke the silence.
(Also XTale happened mostly the same except XGaster really is just dead and Cross and XChara got taken to the Omega Timeline. And Horrortale went 💥💥💥 Ink but raised by the MTT (and NM) and everything went wrong)
Anywho :)
Thank you if you read the whole yapfest hehe I have so many words to speak about this AU <3 Updates to the main comic are very inconsistent due to Uni but I am trying my best! Might end up being partially an ask blog to tide things over, especially after I get done with chapter 1!
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(i'll make something for this section later lmao i just thought the gartic doodle was funny)
made this as a quick redraw of something that was on their artfight pages last year 🙏 i think it’ll be a yearly thing maybe but i wanted to post it hehe
i’ve made pretty good progress on the next few pages btw hehe 😋
doing summer school rn and im gonna start the artfight grind soon but ill try to do a bit better about long ass breaks between pages 🙏 gonna post a few doodles in the meantime hehe
gonna try to keep myself back on my schedule until i go back to school!! (so like 3 more pages but wtv) after that point i’ll see if i can at least do one a week
