#fellswapx asks

[xxtha-blog]

no clue if you were asked this yet, but what are some of Ace's or Gin's hobbies?

Gin's hobbies are cooking, working out, weightligting, playing drums, and reading. Sometimes he likes to write highly complex political theories and sometimes he likes to pretend he's a chef at a famous restaurant.

Ace's hobbies are being a nuisance, theft, trickery, bribery, getting kicked out of casinos, annoying Ink, learning his 16th language, deciding to be evil for a day because he's bored, deciding to be evil to the evil doers he was working with last episode, pretending to die, grieving at his own funeral, travelling, building complex machinery, trying to start a romantic relationship with anyone significant to the story, and posing as other people's friends or significant others so he can gain insightful information and/or permanently and adversely damage their relationships for fun

[fellswap-x]

HI! I am new to this so question: What do the Skelebros think of their AU counterparts? If they know about AU's whht about Ink and Error or Dream and Nightmare? I love your blog! :P

As far as the comics go, no one in the AU knows about other universes.

If they did, I'd expect it to go very poorly. The FellswapX underground has a population of over 200 000 monsters, a ruthless queen with a massive army, and thousands upon thousands of weapons of mass destruction that cause damage to monsters in the same way weapons cause damage to humans (ie they can't just heal all their injuries with food).

If Gin (Sans) or Peppermint (Papyrus) were the only ones that knew, Gin wouldn't think much of his alternates, or even see them as the same people, as he'd see himself as superior. Pepper just would just find it mildly interesting.

[xxtha-blog]

This seems like a stupid question, but is the FellSwapX main comic over? Or are you still planning to make more? (After the epilogue) like more side stories or something

Can I have a break? can I have a little rest? Do I not make enough? Will you never be satisfied? Anyways, I have 3 pages left to draw which means like 8 for you

But I want to do something special for the end so I am delaying the inevitable for a few more weeks

[xxtha-blog]

Did you just give up on the battle system or was there a reason it wasn’t used after Sans?

The battle was Grillby's way of getting Chara to realize what their soul could do with Determination, while also ensuring they aren't able to be taken alive by the guards, once that's accomplished and he returns to try to convince them to use said power to kill the Queen, there's no longer a purpose to it

[xxtha-blog]

What was your inspiration to create fellswapx? I can't recall if you ever answered this sort of thing before, but it's so interesting to me the way you've taken this story and I'd love to know how you decided where you'd want it to go

Inspired by the concept art of Fellswap Gold

But from there, I consider Underswap to swap roles, and also any other element you feel like swapping, and Underfell to take personality traits to negative extremes, so it's Undertale if monsters swapped as the genocidal ones instead of humans, and their personalities (having been swapped) were taken to the logical extremes. From there I tried to find the most interesting combinations of these two things:

So (Asgore's) Toriel's ambition to save monsters can only mean the destruction of all of humanity. Her grief is a hatred she feels justified in rather than remoseful reluctance.

(Sans's) Papyrus's defeatism and apathy turns into full blown lack of care for his life and even his attempts to care are selfish in nature. Nothing he does is ever enough and no decision he makes is ever the right one.

(Papyrus's) Sans has no ambition to join the Royal Guard, but circumstance drives him to the very top of it because he can kill without hesitation. His kindness is a self sacrifice so unshakable it means doing anything.

(Frisk) Chara is trying to stay in the underground rather than find a way out. Their Determination will be used by monsters instead of a player

Story developed from there.

[xxtha-blog]

lots of dreamtale asks recently huh? lol. which of your aus do you like best? Chancetale or FellswapX?

I only have myself to blame

FellswapX by far, mainly because I didn't write it when I was 15 and it has a coherent plot, but Ace is still my best written/favourite character. The comic doesn't even do him justice I don't think. I have been considering doing some more stuff with him, but I have a list or ideas about a mile long.

[xxtha-blog]

Why is Gin named after an alcohol? Did he come up with that name on his own, or was it a nickname given to him by a friend/superior? What's the meaning behind it? It sounds interesting.

Muffet gave it to him, derogatorily, during the time in which he used his wealth and status to coherse her into giving him drinks after she closed. She considered it her least favourite drink.

They both somewhat hated each other: Gin because Muffet was a greedy and selfish friend to his brother and perpetuated his alcohol addiction, and Muffet because well, fuck anyone in the guards and especially one paying forcing me to work late just so he can drink without being seen.

But because Gin had a lot of the same core beliefs as Muffet, and would be drunk, he often divulged secrets to her he told no one else, and began to consider her one of his only friends, even if she hated his guts. It was the only nickname anyone gave him that wasn't related to the queen so he kept it close to heart and prefers it over Sans.

[xxtha-blog]

Does Gin dream of an ideal life (dream job, hobbies he wants to pick up or better pursue, the kinds of people he wants in his life, whether he wants a partner or not, etc.) he wants to live but can't because of his circumstances? If he does, may I ask what his ideal life looks like?

His dream job is being a chef and his hobbies are cooking, working out, political revolution, playing drums, and reading.

He would like to leave his universe but he doesn't know other universes exist. He would like a partner but he doesn't like anyone in his universe.

There's a different timeline where he runs away with Lust and they live happily ever after only it's not a perfect ending because he never finished what he tried to finish and it haunts him for eternity wondering if it was a suicide mission that would keep him trapped in his poisition until he died or if there was a chance he could stop the war.