i particularly love transfem dreamtale twins (either both of them or just one) for a small headcanon of mine
i like to think the dreamtale twins were genderless at birth, just little balls of magic with no gender or anything like that. and even when they became skeletons they didnt inherently have a gender
i think that the villagers, because of the time period, probably assigned them both as masculine, or male. i mean, theyre supposed to be these strong guardians with such an important job, right? of course a woman couldnt do that! (in their minds, at least) plus… a lot of people make the “default” as masculine or male, rather than simply defaulting to genderless. so even if they didn’t look particularly “masc”, i bet the villagers would assign them as such
but anyway, the twins were both assigned to be masculine. so, they just had to fit the villagers’ ideas of it
dream i bet had to uphold a more masculine or stereotypically “male” identity, even moreso than nightmare. the villagers preferred dream more, of course, so dream likely had to put on more of a show for them, even if they didn’t realize it. they had to be “a strong young boy” and help carry firewood, or be an “smart young man” by helping heal sickness. they probably had to constantly uphold a reputation as being these stereotypically masculine things in the villagers eyes. i bet, if she was transfem, that would put a lot of weight on her when she was older, when she realized who she truly was
i think its a similar situation for nightmare. they were bullied, of course, made to seem weak by so many of the villagers. i bet they often were told to “stop whining like a girl”. weakness was seen as being feminine, i bet. perhaps nightmare tried to uphold a more masculine identity for so long because being a girl would be one more thing they were seen as weak for. being masculine was the only thing they had left. i bet that this, too, weighed on her before she realized who she was
i dunno if i headcanon both of the twins as transfem, but i totally can see the logic behind both ideas
There is a somewhat interesting commonality between Ink’s perspective and your typical canon-adjacent Sans characters, which of course includes Swap Papyrus and that is the view of the game/character. As with such a belief, they can also echo Ink’s sentiments only from a self-deprecating and apathetic viewpoint rather than a empathetic-less one. Because Dream is somewhat forced to interact with universes to counteract Nightmare’s interactions, and his interactions must be significantly more known and personal than Nightmare’s due to the restrictions of his soul, a clever Sans-type can catch on very quickly to his oddities, made even more apparent by his vessel’s look, and because it is somewhat hard to lie to a person who knows, Dream is forced to confirm their suspicion over trying to convince them otherwise.
I typically try to draw small subtle variations between the Sans’s, but here, Dream and Swap are in some panels, perfectly identical copies of one another. Same height. Same head shape. Only different by their eye colour, clothes, and smile. His form is of course, a perfect replica, from a Swap timeline existing far before this current one.
I tried to pull as much of the original canon as I could for Underswap, though there frankly is so little it becomes a bit difficult and I was forced to lean more onto Undertale. I used to rp Swap quite a lot, though, so it came back to me pretty naturally.
I did not include their nicknames because they have yet to even suggest such a thing. I think this may come up in the next comic. And yes, I do plan another part for this comic.
Back on the topic of Papyrus, I hope he does not come off as too unlikeable. If you caught on to some of the expressions, you might notice Chara may recognize Dream from somewhere… they are deep in their timeline modifications. Now Underswap’s story is slowly being pulled off course by even more outside forces as Nightmare specifically targets universes Dream has visited and people Dream has spoke to with Killer, to send a message. He asks Killer not to kill them… that’s the only reason Sans stays alive ;)
this is kind of a double whammy on Papyrus’s psyche. As with Undertale, he knows resets are happening but doesn’t remember them. He actually likes Dream quite a bit, just has too much on his mind.
Required reading: Rahaf’s Killer v Swap comic and Comyet’s Ink/Underswap comic, both events will be considered canon, however, I imagine the Swap characters acted a bit differently and things occured for different reasons. For example: in my comics Killer comes here explicitly because of Nightmare and Swap does not know who he is.
i am not sure if Killer can control timelines he enters. It would make sense if he could. He has more Determination than his Chara and took control of his own timeline. It would only make logical sense any timeline he entered of similar capacity would relinquish control to him, which is a pretty neat concept, though I feel Rahaf could got 50/50 on me and say the game rejects him due to not being a player from the same game/code. For sake of these comics, I will go with my initial headcanon that Killer does override other human’s/player’s controls when he enters other timelines. We actually see something similar to this happen in the initial Killer v Swap comic. Though not explicit, we see Chara react to Killer’s determination. I like the idea Nightmare can use him to stop resets. It makes him even more of a valuable tool to be used. Make him a powerful as the story allows to be interesting, I say.
some more canon facts I pulled:
Papyrus wears sweaters with shitty graphic text on them. I thought it would be even funnier if they randomly changed half way through a normal day. Like every time he reappeared. Just a slightly different hoodie. Second part of that is my headcanon for it
Sans does in fact like puns, he is the one that tells them, Papyrus is more of a jokester and a prankster than a punster.
Side note, I find it funny the underswap document says Sans’s eyes aren’t stars as a point, and while they certainly aren’t all the time, so this is technically correct, we know he can change his pupil shape, and there’s really no reason to think that means they can’t also be stars. I consider this a bit of a misleading statement… nitpicking lol
Finally: Swap and his 1 HP ass ain’t ever joining Dream on any adventures or missions ever, sorry, another Star Sanses L 😔
Okay, that’s enough talking, does anyone read these?
Animation I made for sketchtube weekly theme 'broken glass'. Have always wanted to animate Dream esp since he my Underverse bias. Animating the fx took me longer than I thought but I really like how it added to the overall look, made it feel cooler I think?
Now I'm curious, what are y'all's favorite rarepair ships (non problematic pls) that you BARELY get any content if you don't do it yourself? From any fandom, not just Undertale!
Honestly I have one that I can LITERALLY COUNT the amount of recurrent creators making content about it... I'm one of them, but I only make it to myself because I fear the public opinion on it ❤️🩹
i really like when people make characters animalistic without giving them, well, an ears and tail
i think its super interesting to see how you can make a character seem more like an animal without making it like, kind of obvious? like playing around with other animal traits to make a character more animal-like without just popping some ears or a tail on them
that isnt to say i dont like just adding those, but theres plenty more ways to make a character animal-like without just those. digitigrade legs? fangs? claws? maybe even a more protruding snout? add a couple more limbs to them? some spots of fur or maybe feathers? whiskers? maybe they can even walk on all fours just fine? you can play around with animal traits, and even add animal behaviors!
i love adding ears and a tail to a character, but its always so interesting to see how much like an animal you can make a character without those
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