#eldritchfell

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If anyone ever has any questions about Eldritchfell lore (either the world itself or the characters) or my Undertale headcanons, feel free to ask because I spend too much time thinking about this AU. 

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What inspired your comic?

Damn, that's a tough question. And a bit of a warning, but this may touch into spoilers for the comic.

I've mentioned it before, but this is actually the second reboot of Eldritchfell I've made, and the very first concepts were ended up different from the first comic I put out.

Eldritchfell was inspired by three things mainly though, I think.

For one, I've always loved taking characters the fandom sees as 'villainous' or 'evil' and thinking 'well, surely it's not as simple as this. What if the truth is a little more complicated?' As an example, just starting Eldritchfell, I'd just come off writing a fanfic with the premise 'what if in Soulless Pacifist, Chara's plan was not to kill everyone on the surface, but to use Frisk's stolen soul to revive Asriel.'

That's kinda a major impact on all my stories, to be honest. I just can't get start writing a story until I can get into the villain's head, and understand why they do and want what they do.

Second major influence was my love of the eldritch, and especially my love of the podcast Welcome to Night Vale. For the unfamiliar, it's set in a fictional town in the American desert where every single conspiracy theory is real, and plays with satire a lot. Often monsters, eldritch abominations, and conspiracy agents walk the streets alongside normal citizens-- and sometimes they ARE the citizens!

But at the same time, I've never found a more gentle horror story. Though many terrifying and fucked up and downright strange things happen in Night Vale, the narrator goes out of his way to state the love he has for his town and his community, the loving detail he goes into when describing its denizens, accepting even beings like a five-headed dragon or an omnipotent and faceless old woman or angels he's not allowed to acknowledge the existence of as his townsfolk. And even when they're bad people, he still tries present many of them as people.

So I wanted to write a story with eldritch elements. But I also wanted to consider... why are the eldritch and otherworldly beings doing what they do? Is it really so incomprehensible?

And the third and final inspiration... well, the Undertale Multiverse, for all it's called 'cringey' or 'dying' or 'toxic', is something I really love. I wanted to make my own addition to it, to make an homage incorporating and referencing it. Maybe even give people another angle to look at it from, another setting to play in with their AUs. I wanted to explore the multiverse in a way I hadn't seen people do so, yet. To take characters that I've seen dozens of iterations from, and put my own personal spin on them and the world they live in. Eldritchfell, despite the name and some... divergences, is actually extremely close to classic Undertale-- had certain events played out differently, perhaps it'd just be an AT rather than an AU. Perhaps it is still just an AT, for all its newfound differences. Perhaps you'll judge for yourself.

We're not very far into Eldritchfell. We haven't even seen the state of the Underground. But I can't wait to show you all. Thank you very much for this question, it was very fun to answer. ^^

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Image Description: In the forefront is a simple golden flower. Behind it are visible a pair of blurry arms made of some sort of vegetation, tipped by red claws. Behind them is a heavily blurred smily face in yellow, similar to the one associated with Flowey and Chara on a No Mercy run. 

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That Flower He/him Ex-Monster - ? - 💧⚐🕆☹ ⚐☞ 💣☜💣⚐☼✋⚐🕆💧

Magic: ✍✍✍✍✍✍

-Your best friend. -Remembers everything ☟☜  did.

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Image Description: Simple lineless drawing of Toriel. She is a tall anthropomorphic fanged goat woman. Her eyes are light violet with sideways pupils like a goat’s, and glasses with a gold chain. She wears a purple dress with yellow accents, with a dark blue cape over it. Over the cape are a pair of silver pauldrons and a golden clasp in the style of a Delta Rune. On the bottom right portion of the screen is a pale blue-violet monster Soul. 

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Toriel Vermeil She/her Ignicorn - Old - Soul of Integrity

Fire Magic, Dual Blades, War bow, Flame Whip, Gauntlets, healing magic

-From general, to queen, to hermit. -Knows what’s best for you. -Doesn’t know her own family.

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Image Description: Simple lineless unshaded drawing of Chara. Chara is a small, thin androgynous child with pale while skin and short ginger hair. They shyly keep one hand behind their back. They wear semi-formal clothes-- a pale green sweater with a solitary yellow stripe over a yellow button-down, and brown pants and shoes. Part of their face, most notably their eyes, are obscured by golden flowers, which also dot their hair. In the bottom right portion of the screen are the broken fragments of a red soul, barely a fourth is visible. 

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Chara Dreemurr

They/xe/it Ex-Human - 12 - Soul of Ipseity(Fragment)

Weapon: Sarcasm / Armor: Apathy

-Best travel partner -Confused -Knows some things. Suspects many more.

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Image Description: Simple, unshaded and lineless image of Eldritchfell Frisk. They are an androgynous and fat teen with light brown skin and darker brown hair, which is long enough for a ponytail. She wears a blue and pink sweater, with matching socks, blue sneakers, dark blue short shorts, and wields a stick in his hand. In the shot, he’s running forwards, a jubilant smile upon their face. Their eyes appear shut, and there is a bandage on her nose. 

Frisk’s soul is depicted besides them. It is red. 

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Frisk Ebott They/them + Any Pronouns Human - 16 - Soul of Ipseity

Weapon: Stick / Armor: Old Bandage

-Determined as heck -Nosy as heck -Trying their best, but is it enough? 

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Image Description: A kitchen, not dissimilar to the skelebros’ kitchen in their house, although in absolute chaos. 

There is a pot on the stove, completely on fire, which has covered the stove in ash and soot. Two skeletons are attempting to deal with the fire-- Lucida of Underheaven, and the Sans from an AU called Bygone. They have taken out a fire hose from the cabinet below the sink, and Lucida tries aiming it at the fire to put it out-- only to miss completely and hit the wall above it instead. 

In the background, many details of the kitchen are visible, including a poster saying ‘osteoperosis’, a tea kettle shaped like a turtle, flame-patterned kitchen towels, and a cutting board and knife block.

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Underheaven by @wraithvine

Bygone by @unregisteredcookie

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Image Description: Sans, Alicia, and Gibson of the Abysstale AU, sat on a couch in the dark as though they’re watching television of a movie. Sans sits in the middle, holding a bucket of popcorn which he’s eating. Alicia has grabbed one of Sans’ wings, and is curled up on the couch with it wrapped around her as he looks at her dubiously. Gibson is posed far more dramatically on the arm of the couch, back arched with a hand to his forehead, as though he cannot even look at the screen. 

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Abysstale by @metakazkz