#guileless-screaming

[guileless-beast]

okay yeah sure the inherent tragedy of an innocent Green getting infected onboard and being either forced to watch something wearing their corpse kill everyone or made to pointlessly fight against the alien’s control is sad and all, but…

what if there was never a humble, clueless worm farmer, but the alien wishes there was?

like- imagine, you’re this big strong species, sent to massacre this ship of weak aliens. you learn about allllll the stuff they do, you learn of all of their jobs and cultures and social norms and prejudices and everything. you make a persona based off what seemed easiest to mimic. someone dumb, naïve, and trusting. you’re smart, after all; playing dumb requires much less of you than any other strategy, and you want to save your energy for important, enjoyable things like hunting.

but then you realize just how nice it is to be so gullible, so innocent and kind. it’s much easier than being yourself, certainly. you like pretending to be harmless. you like acting as an eager, easily manipulated intern. you…

you like being an alien more than you like being yourself. you think about your little persona all the time, even when you have no reason to. what do they like? what don’t they like? what sort of parents do they have? nice ones, definitely. gentle ones, probably, if you knew parents could be that. siblings? maybe some little siblings. could they be the oldest? no, they’re too naïve and energetic. one or two older siblings, maybe three younger? how many kids do the aliens have on average again?

but that doesn’t matter. none of it matters, you remember, and you force yourself to refocus back on your mission. none of it matters because there never was a “real” Green, and there never will be. you will never be Green. your life will never be as simple as theirs would be. your life is complicated, difficult, nothing like theirs. these feelings are pointless and distracting, so you push them down as far as you can. you need to focus on your task.

even still, you find yourself having to ignore the dangerous longing bubbling in your chest, having to ignore stray thoughts emerging from below.

it’d be so nice to be Green. I wish I knew how to raise worms. I wish I had siblings like theirs. I wish I grew up on their farm. I wish

and you find yourself desperately pushing them back down before you have the chance to agree.

[guileless-beast]

One of the funniest things about Green is that *they* are the crewmate larper, not Orange. Orange is the job larper. Green made up a whole backstory and dream (even if it’s cringy and unbelievable to anyone but the audience), did tasks as a janitor, acted very friendly and positive nearly all the time, fixed (what was probably) their own sabotage… like y’all need to understand Green is the larper to end all larpers

[guileless-beast]

Something i wish people focused on more is imposter Green’s anxiety. Sure, people will focus on a crewmate Green’s anxiety but never imp!Green?? Like, y’all remember them panicking over White’s body, right? And them getting scared by Lime, and them getting scanned? They’re intelligent, but not infallible. They act like they were some mastermind puppeteer once the jig is up in E10 but they’re not even close to that.

I dunno, just… evil alien imposters can be anxious too guys lol

[guileless-beast]

something something there can never really be a truly “good” version of shadow milk no matter what due to the nature of the concept of knowledge itself being neutral/evil leaning. the closest you will ever get is some sort of trickster god (sage of truth), cunning and unempathetic

[guileless-beast]

I just realized I don’t actually have to crawl to Hazbin Hotel for my fill of rich (and secretly/not-so-secretly pathetic) asshole robot x reader anymore. I can just look up Big Shot Era Spamton x Tenna x reader and I’ll get both better written source material and double the pathetic men!!

[guileless-beast]

You know, I love that the Among Us Show didn’t try to make the voices of the amongi completely androgynous. I love that people make masc and fem designs of them alike (provided they still go by correct pronouns). I love that the characters can just be nonbinary, be they masculine-sounding or feminine-sounding. I love that being androgynous is not a requirement or expected of them for them to be called what they want to be called.

[guileless-beast]

one of the worst aspects of being aspec in my opinion is that instead of it being mostly christians or politicians or bigots that hate you it’s moreso your fellow queers. you’ll get one shred of rep in a show and it gets immediately annihilated for allo things, usually shipping or smut, because nobody even knows about aplatonics. it’s such a fucking betrayal because these people are supposed to be your allies but the second you get something for yourself they snatch it out of your hands and refuse to acknowledge that it’s yours, and that everything is up to interpretation, actually, and that aros can be in relationships, and that aces can have sex, and apls can have friends, and that makes it okay for them to erase the little scrap of something that was yours and make it into theirs.

and then you see someone ship a gay man with a girl and the same person who snatched that shred from you along with a whole horde of people fucking dogpile them, yelling that it’s not okay. and you wonder where all that anger was when your rep was stolen from you.

[guileless-beast]

i think i figured out why monsters in undertale can use magic actually. it has to do with Gaster and the Amalgams because when does it not

This requires a bit of setup, though, because I’m not sure how widespread some of these theories are. So just bare with me as I try to explain what I believe happened to Gaster and its consequences.

First: Amalgams are scattered across time and space just like Gaster. We see this through ERAM, Friend, the Roaring Knight’s attack where it cleaves the battle box in half (the “spikes” are Lemonhead’s teeth), and the Everyman easter egg in Jevil’s battle.

Second: Gaster fell into a Dark World, not the CORE. We know this through Entry 17 (“Dark darker yet darker” “Photon readings negative”) and the Gaster Followers (“He fell into his own creation”)

Side note: Goner Kid specifically mentions the idea of a world where you don’t exist, which could be a reference to Dark Worlds along with Gaster?

Third: The Underground is a dark world. I’m serious.

…kind of. Entry 17 has a very interesting line that I think isn’t talked about enough, and is the backbone of this theory. I quote:

THE DARKNESS KEEPS GROWING

Growing. It’s spreading.

Dark Worlds in Deltarune have always been opened in confined spaces, and they’re never open for long (minus Castle Town, except not really, because it’s only been open for a couple days as far as we know) so we don’t know whether they would spread if given the chance.

Gaster’s Dark World was given that chance, and it started to spread. Gaster had just enough Determination to open a Dark World, but did not have enough of either DT or Light to seal the Dark Fountain, nor the knowledge that he needed to do so to stop the Darkness.

I’m not sure if Gaster wanted to study or stop the Fountain, but I do believe he injected himself with or had Determination on him when he fell and shattered. This connects the Amalgams to the Dark Worlds: Too much Determination and you shatter, at least partly. This is why pieces of the Amalgams can be seen in Deltarune. They’re not as scattered as Gaster, though, because they’re more than one person. Due to being melded together, they had the strength to stay together.

But what does this have to do with why Undertale monsters can use magic?

Well, that Dark World was never closed. When Gaster fell, the darkness consumed the entire Underground (and possibly erased Gaster from the timeline), enabling monsters to use magic. The monsters of Undertale are a weird meld of Darkners and Lightners. The aftermath of a very… strange, Roaring. “When the LIGHT is subsumed by SHADOW,” Ralsei says. If this counts as a Roaring, then it means the Titans don’t appear for every Roaring (the one we see only appeared after two dark fountains were opened, maybe the subtler spread of a single Dark World wouldn’t create/summon one?)- or maybe Gaster dealt with them, somehow.

Note: this could also be why Sans is so fucking strong. He’s from Deltarune, thus making him a Lightner. This could also be why he is so fucking weak! Despite being a Lightner, he has very little light (DT).

Another note: If you subscribe to the theory that Gaster created Ralsei and Castle Town, then you could take this theory a step further and say this explains why Castle Town’s fountain is “pure” and why Ralsei knows so much.

Of course, this theory has holes. How were monsters sealed in the first place without magic? Why do humans have magic and not monsters? All questions I do not know the answer to! Who says the humans didn’t just seal the monsters in a Dark World (“…with a magic spell” the prologue of Undertale says. It’s a reach, but maybe Dark Worlds were considered magic spells?) back then?

Maybe the reason why monsters needed human souls was because they didn’t have enough Light to unseal/break the barrier. You do fall into the Underground, after all, just like a Dark World. Maybe the Roaring rewrote the entire timeline to get rid of Gaster, and that’s why humans and monsters have magic. Who knows! I’ve already talked way too much about someone who’s listening. (Sorry, Gaster.)