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Dark Origins: Early Contest Announcement!

Hey, everyone! Since we're nearing the 100th episode mark over on Tapas, I wanted to let you all know that I'm planning to host a fanart contest to celebrate! While the official deadline has not been decided yet, I'm announcing it in-advance so new readers can catch up with the story. If you are interested, please read the rules below the cut:

How to participate:

1.) Comment below, make a post sharing Dark Origins, and tag me to let me know you are planning to enter. 2.) Submit one piece of fanart featuring the characters from Dark Origins. It can be anything from your favorite scene, to how certain events in the story parallel some of those in Undertale, to theories or reflections on its themes, etc. You may submit up to two pieces, but be sure to tag me each time so that I see them. Please keep the content of your submissions Rated T for Teens or SFW. 3.) The official deadline is now set: All submissions must be turned in by Saturday, July 11th, 2026. I will then review the entries over the course of the following weeks and announce up to three winners on my socials. 4.) No AI art will be accepted as a submission. 5.) Since not all of the characters have visual references made for them yet, especially as they age up, I'm not going to score anyone heavily on accuracy: I'm more interested in seeing how you bring the characters to life in your submissions. However, if you do want some reference material, I do have designs for some of the characters' original counterparts from Origins fancomic and Something Familiar visual novel (beta) that you can take a look at.

Prizes:

1st Place will win a full-body, full-color, one-character commission with a detailed background.

2nd Place will win a full-body, full-color, one-character commission with no background.

3rd Place will win a half-body, flat-color, one-character commission with no background.

NOTE: If you are one of the winners and you would like to change the details of your prize, I might accept it depending on your request. For example, if you are the 1st place winner and you prefer a b/w style like from my FusionFall fancomic, those tend to require less shading and detail overall, so I could potentially upgrade that to a full-comic page. Just be sure to talk to me so we can negotiate and keep in mind that I will only do pieces that are SFW.

A big thank you to those who've stuck with the story so far and best of luck to those planning to enter!

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Finished drawing from yesterday’s sketch with a gif to show its process. :)

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The rest of the sketches of ORIGINS and dark!ORIGINS I've drawn while waiting on rendering.

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Sketchy comic drawn while waiting on rendering. Might post the other sketches later.

Fun fact about Dark!ORIGINS Ferris and Castellar: They fight all the time and won't even know how it started. You just kinda have to wait for them both to burn out. Their relationship can be summed up to one, long game of "Say Uncle!"

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Working on a thing. No promises to the end result just yet.

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Read Dark Origins :: Reflections (Part 5) | Tapas Community

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"Rustdust. While it was a term that the seer didn’t really hear in the Boroughs, she did know of it. It was derogatory slang for a monster that strongly resembled a human—born from an old myth that their dust looked like dried blood, the color of rust, when they died. It was a word that occasionally followed Avalbanshee, and was supposedly one of the reasons she rarely visited her hometown of Icefield. It wasn’t used often these days."

Dark Origins has been updated on Tapas, FFN, and Ao3!

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Read Dark Origins :: Kings and Crossroads (Part 5) | Tapas Community

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To their credit, as rowdy as her guildmates could be, Ferris knew very few of them that made for poor drinking buddies. Most of them could either hold their liquor well or knew their limit. The young seer was proud to think that she could easily knock back a few rounds herself.

She did not expect someone as poised as Lady Toriel to sneak multiple glasses until she fell into a giggling fit. Gerson, King Asgore, and the guildmaster made a joint effort to get her cup away from her. When they managed that, she tried snatching Gerson’s bowl-shaped helmet to use it for a glass instead.

Dark Origins has been updated on Tapas, FFN, and Ao3!

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No preview this time. Only my now favorite, no-context spoiler for anything I have ever written: Ferris only gets out of a tough situation by the skin of her teeth because her opponent didn't think to check the medieval toilet.

The next chapter of Dark Origins is up on FFN and Ao3.