#catacombtale

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A second year (or, second time-) of doing a card for the @xpau-official season!! This time, featuring Koda, Ichor, Tulpa, and Pretender!

I like to think that Koda (despite facing gods) is weirded out by the other versions of Ichor, so it's hard to get them to come to events! Tulpa and Pretender have heard a bazillion things about Koda (Ichor's a proud monster,<3) so they're curious to finally meet the little human! Koda was bribed via candy cane.

And! Their sweaters!

Koda: "Ho Ho Holy Shit"

Ichor: "God, Let This Merry Gentleman Rest"

Tulpa: They're just a gingerbread man :]

Pretender: "Gay Apparel"

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Redraw (resketch?) Of an old wip sketch of my Catacomb!Muffet I found in an old sketchbook.

Obviously it's an improvement cuz the first one's just a sketch, but man do I miss drawing Moneybags over here.

Extra old sketches hehe:

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Happy 2026 everyone! (At least in my timezone lmao-)

I figured I'd draw N and Ichor again, especially since he's kinda in retirement now that I'm not bullying him as often 🙏 He was my first introduction to utmv ocs and I like to draw him on special occasions even if I never do it any other time haha! ( I was also gonna draw him in a cute fit like N but I'm lazy and N's outfit is just what I'm wearing lmao-)

In other news...

Thank you in particular to @ancha-aus @0p1er0 and @rendoa-blog <3 I keep in contact with some of you guys better than others but every time I see any of my beloved mutual in my notifications I get a boost of serotonin. You guys carried me through the year and I can't tell anyone how much I appreciate it all :'3

I can't wait to see everyone in the new year and be even MORE chaotic <3

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Did I spend all Halloween working on this? Yeag. Was it worth it? YEAG???

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*A thick, stagnant fog blankets the ground in Waterfall. It moves nearly as much as the lazy god (which is not much at all).

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Out with the old, in with the new, y'know? (Aka, say hello to my new Banner! Thank u Ancha + Papil + anyone else watching this chaos unfold-)

Ramble about these guys under the cut because I love adding lore to posts!!!

Okay. First things first, it was HARD picking a reasonable amount of ocs/aus to include in this. I left out a few of my pet projects, but settle on (left to right) Phishbone, Pretender, Ichor, Ec-4o!Blue, Tulpa, and New Age!Nightmare in the end. The first 3 are ocs, the last 3 multiverse aus!

Phishbone is kinda just a weird outcode Papyrus. He's the multiverse's conflict resolver, because he'll stick people into his portable pocket dimension (the cube he carries) and make them complete puzzles until they've resolved their problems! He can use any soul trait magic too, just out of sheer luck from what he was taught in his au!

Pretender is a Sans from the au Doppletale, a horror-based au in which the Monsters are doppelganger of sorts, locked underground. In order to escape they have to Be Human, and in order to look human they have to eat human flesh. Pretender is one of the few monsters who has sworn off eating human meat, and he helps the last fallen human (K, from @/oodlesndoodles is usually my go-to human for the True Ending, but Ozzy from @/mylackofgrammeristerrifying is the other human-) His other humanoid form is my baby boy baby, but I can't draw humans like. Ever. So he stays like this!

Ichor is from Catacombtale, an au where the Monsters are Gods and descendants of gods, locked away by Mortals. Ichor (once known as Sans/Punishment) was a God of the afterlife with his brother (Reward/Papyrus) but he had his magic limited by mortals using golden chains. Now he goes by Ichor (or, Pun, to the Hero) and just tries to give any fallen mortals Hints on how to survive the trials of his fellow gods. (Sad old man, my longest-running oc in this cursed place <3)

Blue is from a multiverse story, Ec-4o.verse. It's dystopian, apocalyptic, sci-fi, and post-war, in which monster magic was spread out across the world. This grasp of magic made tech much more advanced, to the point of sentient robots (Ecto). A war broke out, Yadayada, Blue was born during the end of it and grew up in the aftermath. He loves technology and is obnoxiously good at his work, no matter how many people beat him up about it. With his brother and the weird hermit he moves in with (Dust) he can unintentionally unravel the mysteries of the war!

Tulpa is from DreamEater AU, another multiverse story. In this, Dream was injured in a retreat away from his brother, and ended up paralyzed and alone in another au. Fresh, unknowing of who Dream was, decided to swap hosts and use Dream. Ofc, when he bit into the golden apple, he basically got addicted. He sticks around and Dream often wrestles for control, until they come to an agreement that Fresh will move the body, Dream will speak and try to live his life. Over time, Fresh notices just how thinly worn Dream is and decides to give him a hand with starting to say no to people and take rest and think about himself for once. Eventually, the two are so close it's hard to tell where Dream starts and Fresh ends, hense the nickname of Tulpa for the two of them!

Nightmare, from New Age AU, is my newest but one of my favorites. It's a medieval-set au where he abd Dream are princes, set to inherent the throne. Dream will lead, Night his advisor. Only, the 0rophecy meant to lend Dream his power talks of death and sacrifice, so Night acts to stop Dream... by eating the apple that would give him powers instead. Unable to control the magic, Nightmare finds himself much older and much stronger than be was 2 seconds ago. He ends up having to rule like this, sending hid brother away lest sonething awful overcome him. And he's bettering the kingdom, hiring criminals. Until his apple magic... wears off. Leaving him at age 13, the year he was when he took the throne.

Anyways yeah they're all my favorites ever, hope this one is fun!!! (Feels good to put my sillies up on the space instead of N lol-)

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pretender and Ichor seem like old men on the separate sides of the technology spectrum.

Ichor is confused, deflated even. Sure he loves learning but all these documents have been digitalized. he rather have the original copy then learn how to scroll with a mouse. If he doesn't already remember it of course.

Pretender wants to learn it all now and fast. Technology hastens this act. Instead of having to travel everywhere and memorize hundreds of medical papers its all in a neat hundred folders on his computer. It brings him glee to clean out his computer or go to computer edict classes.

hi spot

Ohh my gods hey Owl!! The url change jumpscared me haha- but hiiiii!!!!!

The quality went down as I kept doodling but you captured their vibes so perfectly, haha! Ichor is NOT fond of modern technology only because it's so far outside his usual scope of things! He's much more of a physical copy kinda guy! (Cameo in the doodle of Koda being equally bad at tech trying to call + teach his dad how to Computer)

Then Pretender is a fiend for keeping a bazillion files on his computer!! Everyone he meets yells at him for having 18000 tabs open but he knows exactly what each one is open for and why! So much info!!!

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Woag, hey, Ichor content :]

So, context lmao-

Ichor's 'best day' I think was the day Copper (his son) called him 'Pa' for the first time! Ichor (at this time, Punishment) had quite a few children with mortals, but he was never able to stick around to help raise them because he'd be recalled to Mt. Ebott by Balance before he could. Copper is the first kid he was able to stick around and watch grow up!! Copper was also a very quiet kid, didn't speak for a decent section of his toddler years, so him calling Ichor by a parental title?? Ichor totally started happy-crying about it! (This is the era when he fell in love with Eclipse, a mortal prince, and abandoned his godly duties to live with him and raise a family-)

Ichor's 'worst day' was after his best day by about 400 years. A war between the mortals drove a forceful recall of the gods to Ebott, forcing Ichor away from his family without a choice. By the time he was allowed to lead, his bloodline had all died off, and being pissed at his fellow gods, he fled to the far corners of the world. Just so happens, in a town far off, where he was gathering souls for punishment? Ichor ran across mortals with golden chains which could capture even a God and render them powerless. He was the first God captured, the only Major God. After him were dozens of minor gods over the course of several years. His worst day? The one when the mortals slaughtered the minor gods, killing his fellow immortals, permanently. (The only reason he was kept alive was because the mortals feared angering the remaining major gods. Despite renouncing them as divine beings, they still thought they would retaliate with great price if Ichor was killed.) They left him out in the arena to play witness. And, this was the day he got his socket-wound!