everyone, never make me do this again (kidding.....maybe).
i love every single au i've come across so far but this one took the cake. i love the og UT spamtenna but MONSTER/HUMAN UT just hits different.
i love the original concept but i've been listening to too much centaurworld ost, and had been hyperfocusing on the idea of Tenna's 'Lord' status in canon, and seeing how that carries. Notes and more doodles below:
(first attempts at drawing them)
I JUST WANTED TENNA TO BE FANCY IN TRUTH, cuz im a sucker for period dramas. There's a lot i remember floating from twitter but the one i saw the most was like placing spam and tenna in medieval times (to show how long ago its been i guess since humans walked with monsters and used magic).
I tweaked it and borrowed the ant monster design for this cuz I LOVE IT TO BITS OH MY GOODNESS. SO notes:
Tenna is a monster close to the Dreemurrs and got his title on a whim (they thought it'd be fun) he's REALLY close to boss monster but just misses the mark (think more if he were injuried he'd persist like Undyne). While a lord he really is just that fun friend, the monsters love him for being so charismatic and always being entertaining.
Spamton is from a family of human merchants, want him to take on the family biz but his ways are a lil....theatrical. Family doesnt really like how outgoing he is, so Spamton spends his time out closer to monster kind. He met Tenna, they loved eachother's vibes and the rest is history!
Tenna often forgets he has a status among monsterkind, but then he hangs out with Asgore and Toriel who are also pretty lax about it. It was something that REALLY suprised Spamton when he found out, only because....son of some merchants and a HUMAN at that. Made him kinda self conscious but Tenna was there to reassure him it changes nothing between them.
When conflicts between monsters and humans reached a boiling point, Tenna had the idea to leave off somewhere where they could be together. Spamton was hesitant, because things were so bad outside and even within their immediate circle. He agreed soon after tho, while Tenna wanted to leave immediately, Spamton asked one more day to get his affairs in order moving is a lot of work afterall!
Spamton all the while was facing problems at home and communially. Humans glared at him for knowing or suspecting what he goes off doing with monsters, a BIG one at that. Monsters in turn didn't take to him because of guilt by association, he can't help being born a human. The plan would never come to, war had broke out but Spamton was determined to make his way to their meeting place to wait for Tenna (taking supplies and old armor/some costume from their performances to at least look intimidating). He'd eventually be caught (by human, monster, or both), and in the scuffle he perished. Tenna finds him but all too late, just barely hanging onto life. Too much blood, the wounds and blows too deep. Tenna scrambled to find some kinda healing but on the way Spamton dies in his arms. and it rounds back to the comic above. yvu doomed love, torn by grief and war.
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Behind the Glass
Rated: T
Words (so far): 15,583
After a foolish mistake leads to you getting captured by humans, you're trapped in a large facility built for the sole reason of studying and experimenting on marine life. Most specifically - mers. With danger at every corner you have to remain vigilant. From the tests they put you though to the lucky escape, you can't afford to get distracted... but unfortunately the yellow mer you've befriended is taking up more of your thoughts than you originally planned. Now you have to protect yourself from the humans, while protecting your heart at the same time.
Three blind mice. Three blind mice.
See how they run. See how they run.
They all ran after the farmer’s wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a sight in your life,
As three blind mice?
Falling is what he remembers and the burning of his skin. Landing was what came last and complete darkness. He had been cast down to earth... and unable to see the sun ever again. Things were always changing after that. He had to learn to blend in with humanity and he saw how much they had changed from the ways they had originally started. It almost made him laugh.
What truly shocked him was when he ended up in love. He married a woman and even had a child with her. With him unable to come out during the daylight rumors spread through the community they lived in and eventually word reached ears of people they didn't want knowing. His family was ripped from him and he could do nothing but watch them kill his family... the only real thing on this earth that made him feel.
Darkness falls and he was able to track them down. Killing them one by one he was a monster ripping them apart making them suffer in as much pain as he possibly could. He didn't care if this angered God and due to this he was given his final penalty... his final punishment. He would become a monster that had to feed on human life. He couldn't belong with them.
Stripped of everything he no longer feels true sympathy. He's a master manipulator and will say or do what he has to in order to get what he wants. His hunger is never ending but when he feeds he gains the person's memorys and talents. He's lonely and wants nothing more than to be with his family again. Being the monster he is he had to adapt and became a fast learner and through the years became very adept at reading people, the areas and became a musician.
Throughout the years he's learned many things, seen the world and it's people constantly destroy and rebuild itself. It greatly amused him how much humankind sinned. It was something he was able to use against them time to time. He now works as a records producer at a label that many Musicians come and go through with hopes and dreams. There he is always searching for the newest and brightest souls to join him.