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OUTSWAPPED AU [MASTERPOST]

"we all change for the people we love. this? it's no different."

Here is where I'll be compiling all the comics and art for this au!

this au is meant to be a fun exploration of these characters. interpret it however you like, and feel free to leave suggestions.

as much as possible, i would like this to be an interactive au.

your choices matter.

[LAST UPDATED: Jun 1st, 2026]

Official Blog: [Ask Outswap!Chara - OPEN]

^ say hi NOW

"MAIN" COMIC

Timeline #1:

do the right thing? [analysis]

the root of all evil

Choose your Vessel!

i won't let this go to waste (part 1, part 2)

Dust of Snow

perverted sentimentality.

Timeline #0:

CHAPTER I: The Queen of All Monsters

CHAPTER II: The Royal Scientist

CHAPTER III: Captain of the Royal Guard

CHAPTER IV: Caretaker of the Ruins

CHAPTER V: It's a beautiful day outside

CHAPTER VI: good food, bad laughs, nice friends

CHAPTER VII: despite myself.

Timeline #???:

...DO THE RIGHT THING?

I will not let this go to waste.

dust and snow

i believed in you

MINI COMICS

Initial concepts (part 1, part 2)

Annoying Bob (part 1, part 2) [analysis]

MISC. ART

Happy Pride Month 2026!!!

ANSWERED ASKS

"How would papyrus handle the final corridor section?"

"Sans' favorite condiment?"

"Sans and Flowey hypothetical friendship?"

"Their reaction to meeting other Swap AUs?"

"Why are sans' eyes uneven?"

"What are the characters' "AU nicknames"?"

"Main differences between Outswapped and OG Underswap?"

"How would the AskError!Sans kidnapping arc go if it was OS!Sans instead?"

Sorry, spoilers lol

"Hmm, I'm curious to see what's going on with the Flowey situation in outswapped, since we know it's not Temmie. Is he one of the characters who goes unswapped?"

"Would MTT equivalent be mad dummy or napstablook?"

ASK-INSPIRED DOODLES

MWEH

Cat-related

Also cat-related

Do they give good hugs?

He is very very silly

QNA

"Which is it?? Outswap or Outswapped??"

both are correct, but for the sake of consistency, i will be referring to the au as outswapped and characters as outswap!character. the main tag will be #outswapped.

(credits to @freakazoiyde for coining the au name...)

"Do I have your permission to make—"

do whatever you want, as long as it isn't harmful! this is an open au inspired by a community au. fanart, dubs, translations, au-of-an-au... all are welcome. what is technically "canon" will be limited to what i confirm, but do not let that stop you.

"Will the Multiverse be involved?"

i do have some plans, but that won't be coming up anytime soon. probably.

right now, i will be treating this as a self-contained story.

aligned with the previous answer, however, you can make up your own interpretations of their relationship/s between other aus or out!codes. i love those.

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decide what i'll work on drawing next

angst idea 1 (holiday family flavored)

angst idea 2 (flowery and tenna flavored)

angst idea 3 (deltarune sans and papyrus flavored)

angst idea 4 (utmv x deltarune flavored)

all the happiness and joy and love in the world

Voting ended onJul 2

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it has recently come to my attention that i could be doing more to make my posts more accessible, so i will start adding ids to my art where i can.

any tips or suggestions will be appreciated, especially in how the sentences should be constructed. i am not very familiar with accessibility tools on tumblr, or the preferences of the communities that use it.

for now, i plan to use the descriptions that have already been provided by others in reblogs and insert them in the images' alt text. please correct me if something is off.

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haven’t played the latest deltarune chapters (YET) so most of your recent posts are filtered, but based on context clues I can only assume that there’s a lot of bread in it! Exciting times. 🥖🥨🥐🍞🥖🥨🥐🍞

NO, THERE ISN'T. THERE IS NO BREAD IN CHAPTER FIVE. ZERO. ZERO BREAD.

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"HOW ARE SO MANY PEOPLE SEEING BREAD???" Cause you drew bread, duh

i will bake you

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other than asgore, flowey is deeply connected to both alphys and papyrus

i'll be extremely surprised if (at least) alphys doesn't play a big role in ch5. she's so important. they've been building her up for forever

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well, i was completely wrong! wah. i'm way too biased towards undertale to make fair theories on future deltarune chapters. in the end, it is a completely different game set in a completely different universe (even if they are connected, in some way), and the relationships are not what they were.

but!

we got this! so i'm happy.

still hoping she'll get a bigger role later on. she is their teacher, and an adult, so maybe she'll be a candidate for one of the people they plan on telling, other than noelle?

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whats up with the stale bread????

all of you just want to see me suffer

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the amount of people who don't like flowery is absolutely astonishing to me. he very quickly became one of my favorite characters in the whole game.

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out of bounds

(where you find that the world you live in doesn't exist beyond a higher being's perception of it)

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HOW ARE SO MANY PEOPLE SEEING BREAD???

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Should've added a dead Onion in the water, smh.

😔

the little particles can be their dust remnants in the water

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I could have been normal about Papyrus if they had simply turned him into a town npc that you could casually talk to once or twice... What's making me insane is how they hide him, but at the same time tease his existence through oddly specific references that could actually mean nothing.

[sunny-knight]

NO CAUSE EXACTLY- MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY 😭😭😭 Whyyy are they doing the im not touching you just LEAVE ME ALONE IF YOU’RE NOT GOING TO GIVE US WHAT WE WANT (fallen to my knees in a heap of agony and impatience) WE PLAY THESE GAMES EVERY CHAPTER AND IM SICK OF IT! WE’VE PLAYED THESE GAMMESS BEFOOREEEEE!!!

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Honestly, yeah

I would NOT BE THIS PAPYRUS-BRAINED if he was just your regular background character since chapter 1 or 2

BUT THEY KEEP TEASING US WITH HIM

I keep getting more and more excited about WHY they hide him and WHY all these references to him exist

BUT IT COULD ALL MEAN NOTHING AND THAT THOUGHT SCARES ME

[insanelyadd]

I genuinely have been thinking about compiling a list of every reference to Papyrus in deltarune but I gotta lock in and replay the whole thing.

[sunsestart]

Please doo

I've also noticed them, but have been too lazy to compile them and I keep forgetting some of them cause they're like, subtle things

But they're like. Constant reminders of him not being there.

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out of bounds

(where you find that the world you live in doesn't exist beyond a higher being's perception of it)

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You're art is incredible btw shapes and colors the likes of which I have never seen. Thank you for gifting my eyes with your incredible ideas and artwork

i'm happy you enjoy my stuff!!! thank you :7

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was anticipating a drawing of that hometown scene from you but it still hurt so much worse than i thought. those tags make that post absolutely diabolical. will stare at it for days!!! wonderful heartbreaking stuff…

i didn't know people anticipated art from me, haha. such a strange concept. you were right, too. congrats! (am i really that predictable...)

and thank you!!!

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is it possible to miss a friend you've never made?

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it's really funny seeing some people's reblogs tagging this as deltarune spoilers. all of my art about dr!papyrus so far has been nothing but a figment of the imagination but yes please let's manifest this.

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don't forget don't forget don't forget don't forget don't

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can you imagine how cathartic it must have been for toby to finally release this chapter.