Sans appeared in front of his house in a brief flash of blue. Sighing, he braced himself, plastering his usual grin back on his face before opening the door and heading inside.
“hey paps, what’s up?”
Papyrus, who had been stirring a pot full of something that smelled vaguely like what might have once been tomatoes, now set his spoon down and turned toward his brother.
“SANS! THERE YOU ARE, YOU LAZYBONES! I TAKE IT YOU GOT MY MESSAGE?”
“yeah, you said it was important?”
“YES! IT IS! I’M GLAD YOU RESPONDED SO QUICKLY!”
“heh, yeah. so...what’s up? something wrong?”
At this, Papyrus suddenly looked oddly hesitant. He turned back for a moment to stir his pasta, his other hand fiddling with the edges of his apron nervously. “W-WELL, YOU SEE, I WANTED TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN...TROUBLING ME RECENTLY.”
Sans’s brow furrowed in concern. It wasn’t like Paps to beat around the bush like this--usually, he was direct and to the point. “what’s the matter, bro? you know you can talk to me about anything.”
“WELL, IT’S JUST THAT I...” He took a deep breath and turned back towards his brother, his voice uncharacteristically quiet. “I’m...worried about you, Sans. You spent practically the whole day today laying in bed. You didn’t even tell any of your horrible jokes!”
Sans grinned at him, though the expression didn’t reach his eyes. “aw, come on bro, i was just being extra lazy today, that’s all! i’m fi--”
“Please don’t lie to me, Sans.” Sans’s eyes widened, and he could clearly see the hurt in Papyrus’s expression, mixed with--wait, was that...guilt? But Papyrus continued, stopping his train of thought. “You’re never this lazy, and you definitely never seem this--this depressed! At one point today I looked in your room, and you were lying there, just staring up at the ceiling, and for a moment I thought that you...you had...” He looked away, but not before Sans saw the tears in the corners of his eye sockets.
“I...I’m scared for you, Sans. I know you’ve been out a lot lately...did something happen?” When the shorter skeleton looked away, silent, he frowned. “Brother, please...I know you don’t like talking about these things, and I don’t know if I can do anything to help, but please talk to me. Don’t bottle all of your feelings up like this! It’s not healthy. A-and you don’t have to deal with this alone; I’m here for you...”
Sans winced; that hit too close to home, sounded far too much like the conversation he’d just had with the kid. He wondered...was that intentional? Did they do that on purpose? Heh, probably. Still, he grinned at his brother, trying to shake off the guilt bubbling in his chest as he did so. “paps, really, i’m fine. alright, i’ll admit something happened that left me a bit...rattled, but i’m good now! you don’t need to worry so much about me.”
Papyrus only frowned deeper, concern for his brother shining clearly in his eyes. “I worry because I care about you, brother. I want to make sure you’re all right.” Ouch, yep, it was definitely on purpose. Damn narrator, twisting his words around and sending them right back at him. Even then, he still said nothing, and finally Papyrus sighed, shaking his head. “Very well, I’ll let it go this time. But I mean it Sans, if you ever need to talk about it, or anything at all...”
Sans nodded, holding back a sigh of relief. “don’t worry bro, i will.”
The tall skeleton narrowed his eyes. “You promise?”
Shit. He really, really didn’t want to say the words. Luckily for him, it was at that moment that the pot on the stove began to emit a dark smoke, accompanied by the odor of something that may have once been pasta burning. With a yelp, Papyrus turned back to the stove, scrambling to turn off the heat. “OH NO! MY SPAGHETTI! I HOPE THERE’S STILL TIME TO SAVE IT!”
Chuckling to himself at the sight, still trying to dislodge the lingering feeling of guilt in his chest, Sans headed towards the stairs. He could use a nap.
AKA what’s been going on lately cos the next Time Party starts tomorrow and I might as well get some stuff down before then right?
SO. Quick summary:
Tagged along to sort-of-but-not-really help to save Fable’s timeline. He basically did nothing useful, but he DID get into a fight with Fem!Sans cos she was hurting Frisk. More specifically, she almost killed them. He uh...kinda killed her. But then she showed up immediately after. So.
Time Party! Lessee, what happened this time? Weeeellll...
-Angst (because killing and Frisk LOSING THEIR DETERMINATION OMG)
-Kelpy the kelp plant!
-Lots of puns!
-MOAR ANGST
-Aaand closing off with Frisk’s DT still not back...and him leaving them a note on a ketchup bottle. Nice.
But wait, we’re not done! Gray decided to show up to Frisk’s new school cos he was a bit worried about some of the texts they sent him...and uh. They both got freshified for a while. So, fun times.
Fresh!Blur!Sans left him with an ominous word... “Cipher.” WHAT COULD IT MEAN?
So basically Frisk still doesn’t have their DT back, Gray may or may not be getting a job as a janitor at Frisk’s school, and although he’s better now, he’s still feeling rather guilty about various angsty stuff. Killing people, not protecting Frisk, etc. Oh, and he’s probably gonna finally figure out the truth about the multiverse soon...fun fun.
(...that I can remember and that Gray was present for.) Party 1: -Walked into the ballroom when it was raining food -Lemonade party -Taught slave!Sans how to summon bones -Stargazing with @askafallencaptain 's Pikmin!Frisk -Made friends with a Chara -Talked to @hbanana222's Frisk and learned their story, about resets, etc. Party 2: -An almost-fight with lone!Sans -Dancing with @mikmik121 's Nabstabot (and actually having fun omg?!) -Glitterdemic -Angst and blaming himself, yaaaay! -??? -To be added when I remember? Party 3: -Frisk fucking DIED because Geno!Pillow!Frisk was being very murdery -Lots of angst, more self-blame -Went with blurred!Sans and Gracetale Sans to Frisk's timeline so they could reset -Joyful reunion an hour or so later in the ballroom -Next day, epic snowball fight with Pikmin!Frisk, Frisk, CORE!Sans, Gasty, and Perma!Sans! -Truth or Dare shenanigans! Resulting in... -Gray wearing Mettaton legs; -Classic Sans drunk and wearing Mettaton's legs; and -Blur kissing a very drunk Judge!Sans! (Which Gray got on video, heehee!) -Oh, and Gray also killed a possessed Neutrella with some help from Classic (and Blur? Don't remember). So he'll be feeling a biiiiit guilty over that...even if she did come back, not possessed So, lots of fun so far! Oh, and Gray's getting a bit bothered that he can't always seem to remember what's happened when he's back home...
Have another Gray!Sans! I actually finished him a few days ago...and then my app crashed and left me with not even the completed sketch. -_- So I figure at this point it's good enough...even if I think he looked cuter the first time. He looked cutely embarrassed before, now he just looks...kinda awkward? Idk.
Tried doodling Graytale Sans with an iPad app and my finger. The left arm's messed up and the perspective's probably a bit weird, but otherwise I think it turned out all right. ...Should've made the hoodie grayer though. Oh well.
Ideally, I’d like to make a comic telling the story of this AU. Granted, many things will be the same as, or at least very similar to, the events of the game. However, there will be some changes made. What all those changes are and how big they’ll be, I’m honestly not sure yet--I’m still trying to get a feel for how different I want to make the characters from their canon counterparts.
With all that said...I’m not exactly an artist. I haven’t drawn much of anything in years, and as a result I’m not very good. I also have neither a scanner nor a decent way to do digital art. So any art that IS put up here will likely not be of the best quality, at least at first. Honestly, part of the reason I’m creating this AU blog is to motivate myself to start drawing again and hopefully improve my skills in the process.
I’m much more of a writer, really, so you’ll likely see plenty of RP logs, drabbles, and the like from me. If you have ideas or headcanons you’d like to share, feel free! I’d love to hear them--but be warned that I may want to use them as AU “canon”!
(Speaking of RP, I just participated in the Time Ball last weekend--and it was a lot of fun! It’s the first time I’ve done that kind of large group roleplay, so it was definitely an experience! I have some edited logs that I may post here later; let me know if you’d like to see them, or even just a summary of events!)
Whew, that was a lot. Sorry for rambling on there--I tend to do that. Hopefully I’m not forgetting anything. Anyway, feel free to ask or suggest anything--I’d love to hear from people!
(And if someone can explain the terms “mun” and “muse” to me as far as RP blogs seem to be concerned, that’d be great.)
Have a lovely day, and thanks for taking the time to read this~!
