Expanding on my Undertale Spamtenna AU woohoo (told you I was insane lol.)
Note: The illustrations are meant to show each different ending and thus are not related nor a chain of events. I’ll go into detail for all 3 endings under the cut.
Also note: This AU may be different from most common Undertale Spamtenna AUs, as you never battle Spamton in the Neutral Route. Instead, you battle their daughter and possibly Tenna depending on your choices.
Neutral Ending 1: Betrayal/Missing Family
Requirements: Spare Bibiz in battle, but kill Tenna once he spares you.
Tenna will jump into the battle after a few rounds once he hears Bibiz’s crying, assuming you were only there to help keep her company. He’ll tell you that reason he wasn’t there to begin with was because he’d just got back from his appointment with Dr. Alphys later than he hoped & presumed Bibiz would stay asleep while he was away. Since Spamton is the only mailman in the Underground, he’s not around to watch her, either.
Aftermath:
As with any Betrayal kill, Tenna dies in one hit.
Bibiz will cry and run away, never to be seen again.
Spamton will never be encountered by Frisk/the player.
Sans’ Call:
Sans will tell you about the mailman being worried sick, running around desperately to find his family. No one really knew the family well since they kept to themselves in the garbage dump, as if they were banished or too afraid to reach out to anyone. Even Sans is surprised, saying he’d never even heard of the mailman’s family until now.
Neutral Ending 2: Lost Signal/No Signal
Note: I actually can’t decide which name to call this run so I use both ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Requirements: Fight Bibiz and Tenna.
Trying to kill Bibiz will trigger Tenna interrupting the fight and taking the final blow for her. Tenna yells for her to run and go find her other dad, thus you can never kill Bibiz. Instead, you must kill Tenna, as any attempt to Spare him will be ignored. While Tenna is a tough opponent, he’ll glitch and spazz out with every hit while having a coughing fit, saying he’d rather die by saving his family rather than “a little cold”.
Aftermath:
A trashcan and a yellow arm are the only remains of Tenna. If you try to grab the arm, it will shock you.
Again, Spamton will never be encountered by Frisk/the player. Bibiz will never be seen again, either.
Sans’ Call:
Sans will tell you about the mailman quitting his job unexpectedly, though he’s “too lazy” to take the new job opportunity for himself. Monsters living nearby took pity on the baby constantly crying in the dump, so they donate food and toys for the former mailman. Despite this, however, the mailman is cold and bitter, blaming you for his misery. At the very end, Sans will cheekily ask: “Now, why would that be? It’s not like you killed his husband…right?”
Neutral Ending 3: Final Episode/Canceled Episode
Note: While there are two different ways this route can go (hence the two different names), the ending is ultimately the same.
Requirements: Spare Bibiz and Tenna.
Again, Tenna jumps into Bibiz’s battle once he hears her crying. Once you Spare them both, Tenna will have a coughing fit. He dismisses it at first, saying that all the excitement must’ve jostled his wires a bit. After another coughing fit and a bit of glitching, however, he groans about his visit with Dr. Alphys and how she told him that he may not last another week. Realizing you’re still there to hear all this, he asks you to keep it a secret.
Aftermath:
If you say yes, Tenna will thank you, saying that he hopes to see his husband home soon as he plans to take the family out for dinner.
If you say no, Tenna will thank you for your honesty at least, telling you that he hopes nothing but the best for a good person like you.
After leaving the dump and saving Undyne from a heat stroke, you will find Spamton on his last round of delivering mail. You’ll have the opportunity to talk to him about his family or fighting, to which he’ll laugh at the latter and say that unlike most Monsters, he’s smart enough to know not to initiate a battle with a stranger.
If you said yes to keeping Tenna’s secret, Spamton will mention that he can’t wait to return home and be on his short-lived merry way in Hotland. Off to the side, he mentions a strange letter addressed to him with no sender address. This is considered the Canceled Episode route.
If you said no to keeping Tenna’s secret, Frisk will automatically tell Spamton at the end of your conversation with him. He’ll laugh it off at first, then immediately run home. This is considered the Final Episode route.
Sans’ Call:
Sans will mention that between you and him, the mailman and him share notes for shortcuts and will always cross paths whenever he uses them. This time, however, he never saw him. Eventually, he found the mailman and his daughter weeping in the dump over a pile of dust. Sans hates to assume, but there’s a reason why Monsters don’t live in the dump, and he finds it strange that the mailman does. Normally, Sans hates taking favors, but he knew the mailman needed help, so he took the job for the mailman to take his time to mourn.
If Tenna in your Undertale au got fixed would he be able to start the process of recovering or is he doomed to die
DONT WORRY I PROMISE THERE IS A HAPPY ENDING FOR THE BROKEN CRT it’s just that the process for recovery involves going into the True Lab with Tenna & his daughter (meaning he can only be saved in the True Pacifist route).
I’m still working on a comic for this AU, but there’s more to Tenna’s illness than just a few broken parts. Instead of asking to keep his illness a secret (like in the Neutral Routes), he’ll ask for you to find a cure instead, as he feels Dr. Alphys is hiding something. After he overhears the whole date debacle between Undyne and Alphys, he decides to follow you, but he is…unstable, to say the least, so his daughter has to carry him.
I wasn’t going to spoil the True Pacifist ending for Tenna until after I finish the comic, but since it may take a while, I figured why not? ^-^
True Pacifist Tenna! He’s used to the wheelchair, so Alphys modified an AV cart for him to wheel his daughter around 🥺
