kr-i replied to your post “So you have a Fell verse. Are there any other verses you're gonna add?...”
I'M BEYOND INTERESTED HMU BITCH
I mean if you so insist
Under a cut because my brain really went off.
Long story short, somewhere in the span of time before the game where Flowey is still in control, Sans disappears. No where to be found. Papyrus is panicking, Undyne has the whole royal guard sweeping the entire Underground for over two months, and it all comes up with zilch.
Search grows slower as the case goes cold, and Undyne just... starts keeping Papyrus company. Trying her best to keep his hopes up and making sure he doesn’t grow completely lonely... in vain, sadly.
Some more months pass, and during that time Undyne let Papyrus join the royal guard; if only to get him motivated to actually do stuff and distract him from the bad feelings. Did some good for him, at least- she assigned him to Waterfall so she could him out of trouble.
One day she catches him talking to Flowey, interrupts when she hears Flowey saying something not-so-nice, and causes the weed to run away. She interrogates Papyrus, gaining little information but telling him to be more wary. She knows damn well there isn’t a single “flower monster” in the Underground.
As it turns out, Papyrus listens to her- and that pisses Flowey off. So he throws a big fit and decides he’s gonna turn Waterfall into a dust wasteland to get back her. And he succeeds; up until the point where it’s time to kill her. He didn’t think there was anything special about her.
He knocks her to 0HP, only to cause her to go Undying; he’s a very talkative villain, and with all the pettiness and vitriol he has he manages to unintentionally call out her determination without a full genocide route.
This goes VERY poorly for him... because, as I’ve mentioned in past headcanons, Undyne the Undying is higher on the DT totem-pole than Flowey is. So when he dies in seconds, he STAYS dead. And eventually, when she realizes her power, she RESETs to bring back everyone else.
Flowey is even more pissed and confused, since as far as he knows he just woke up back at his original SAVE point and has to do everything again, so this time he goes for a full genocide route.
Second verse same as the first. He gets wrecked, and stays wrecked. She recalls the memories from the last encounter while in the form, but doesn’t want him to keep trying... so, she tries her best to hang on to some memories before forcing another RESET.
Doesn’t remember enough to think about it. Before she can act, another genocide route comes her way, another fight that leads to her going Undying, and another dead flower. She tries to remember harder.
RESETs. Slightly more precise memories, but she doesn’t act on them in time. Another genocide route, another fight, another dead flower.
This goes on for a bit, Undyne remembering more and more each time... before, eventually, she remembers enough to see what’s coming and stops Flowey as soon as he leaves the ruins. He still kills her, she still goes Undying, and she still RESETs for the sake of the citizens living in the Ruins... keeping the thoughts in her mind.
Eventually, Undyne remembers enough that she just... becomes Undying as soon as she ‘wakes up’ from the timeline rewind. Rushes straight to the Ruins, breaks down the door, and gives Flowey a fucking a heart attack when she finds him trying to kill Froggits and wipes him the hell out.
Still, he’d managed to kill SOME monsters, and she doesn’t feel right to let them stay dead when she has the power to reverse it... so, she does, and does the same thing with the same result next RESET.
However, this time she doesn’t kill Flowey instantly- instead, she tries to talk him out of it; letting him know she could just kill him and leave him dead at this point. Flowey, while an asshole, is an asshole that doesn’t wanna die- so begrudgingly, he accepts, and she RESETs once again.
She finds him outside her door a soon as she stepped out, and they talk. Not a very insightful conversation, filled mostly with insults and questions of how she’s determined that she clearly can’t answer, but in the very least one that leads to an agreement to stop his stupid tantrum.
She also questions him about Sans, but as it turns out he doesn’t know any more about where the bonehead went than she does. Well, shit.
This breaks off the awkward encounter, and Undyne is left alone... with her memories of every past RESET fully in-tact, full control over the timeline, and the ability to go Undying on a whim. And an urge to learn more about “determination”.
So, she goes to Alphys, and... well, spills literally everything she knows so far. Alphys is the smartest person she knows, so she assumes she’d be able to help her figure this nonsense out... as it turns out, she knows more about determination than Undyne expected her. Almost seems like she might’ve experimented with it or something...
Add some weeks worth of tests and experiments, and Undyne, instead of starting to melt away with time like other monsters fueled by determination, actually seems to be growing stronger and more stable.
The reason for this, in theory, could have to do with the fact Undyne wasn’t “killed” like she was in past RESETs, and instead brought the power over through her memories (those memories being what drew out her determination) to the current timeline where she was alive and well. So, her DT doesn’t have to fight to keep her together because she wasn’t falling apart in the first place; instead, it just grows and grows without tax.
With all this at her hand, she essentially “resigns” from being an active member of the royal guard- still officially the captain, but letting Papyrus take up the reigns as “vice captain” because he’s more than displayed that he can handle it. As it turns out, he’s super good at the job.
She’s taken to just staying at Papyrus’s place while he’s working, doing the very important job of sentry work while he lives his dream- while, in actuality, quietly honing her abilities in hopes that, one day, she might be able to use them to bring Sans back somehow... LOAD back to before he disappeared, maybe? Who knows what she could do with enough time.
Going into the current situation... she’s taken up the role of watching out for humans that come through Snowdin; watching them, but not really intent on doing any human hunting anymore- only there to make sure none with ill intent make their way to Papyrus. And keep watch on the ones that wouldn’t afterwards, just in case they change for the worst.
I can go on for a whole another hour about things like her genocide fight, but I’ll just leave it here for now. It’s a history post, and rough one at that, I’ll talk about things like mechanics later if people want that.
🍃🏹➳ The Huntress lived so far away from the rest of Snowdin that she hadn’t even been aware of what was happening until it was all said and done. She had come into the village with a small sleigh full of maple syrup and pine tar bottles to sell to the local shoppe, but when she had gotten there... there was nobody around. It was a ghost town.
Though she didn’t realize it yet, she was pretty damn lucky. If she had known there was a human slaughtering monsters left and right, she would have not hesitated to try and stop them... and then she would have been dead.
The fae lived so far away in the snowy wilderness, in fact, that she had not even met Sans before. Strange, almost as if she didn’t really belong in the underground at all. Or did she?
“Hey, you,” she called, spotting him. “What’s... what’s going on? Where is everybody?”
