#pepper route

[ignoranceisparadise]

Things seem a little, Weird?

Thank you to @theanthologyanomaly for giving me the idea for this!

[artmolonara]

Since we had a Salt Route with Spamton, should we have a Pepper Route with Tenna? I’d imagine it’s pushing Tenna to the brink where he’s convinced the only way he’ll get views is by showing a Spectacle/Tragedy, turning him against his employees and having them die in horrible ways.

“Keep those eyes glued to your screen, folks!”

“Don’t you want to know what happens next?”

“KEEPWATCHINGKEEPWATCHINGKEEPWATCHINGKEEPWATCHING~”

“Viewer Discretion is Advertised.”

I’d imagine this route starts after the crew would be captured in the gotcha balls, only due to certain circumstances, only Kris escapes and Susie and Ralsei are stuck in the balls along with Toriel.

Likely this is triggered by finding dead pixels in earlier parts of the chapter.

Oh! What if it’s a like continuation of Salt, where Kris, being alone, pulls out the DealMaker/PuppetScarf to make Spamton help them again. Tenna and Spam reunite, actually recognize each other, and it becomes an unhealthy comeback tour of destruction. Got to give the viewers what they want, right?

Incorporating the idea of burn-in would also be an interesting addition.

Ill ruminate and add to this as I think of stuff.

Edit: I’ve reblogged with some additional ideas and thoughts of what the AU may entail. More will be added as I think of stuff.

[ignoranceisparadise]

More Pepper Route, frowns

[artmolonara]

Thinking again about the Pepper Route I thought up, which is kind of like the Salt Route but for Tenna and relies heavily on his use of guns so instead of salt we collect bullets (pepper) that look like dead pixels (full info here).

I actually think it would be interesting that we would have had to collect these pixels across the chapters, as there were the ones that were in the final bosses area that we could see, in order to collect the rest in chapter 3.

It would play out like a genocide route, as I described, but at the point were everyone is freed from the prize balls, only Kris gets out and is separated from the rest of the party.

From there, Kris will enter the 3rd round, which because of the killing, is a western ghost town (the train segment may be included as well, perhaps it's derailed?)

Entering the town, Tenna might give some history, mainly about the cowboy puppet show and why it was canceled. Due to the subject matter in the show, gun violence, drinking, etc, some people thought it was too violent and called in to complain (*cough* Toriel *cough*) Now that's not to say it wasn't unfounded, the show did get pretty violent, but you liked it like that, didn't you Kris? You and Asgore, it was your show! You were gonna see it through to the end. No matter how dark it got, you were invested in those puppets, you needed to see how it would end!... but you never did... Left on a cliffhanger, a deadly game left unfinished... How bout we finish it now?

There would be a showdown, and we would be lead to believe at first this is the final confrontation, but then it's revealed the real last game, the final round, it a certain game you play with one bullet. The real reason the show got canceled.

In order to win this, after Tenna goes first, you have to pull the trigger towards Kris three times in a row. Each time, Kris becomes more and more distressed. The final 50/50 chance we give to Tenna, and he loses. (Again, check my info post for dialogue.)

Edit: Thinking about Spamton connections. Besides the idea of Spamton in cowboy get up, using his strings like green lassos and potentially tying people to the train tracks like an old school villain, in that final moment, I feel like he would try to intervene if certain circumstances are met (Either if we didn't do the Salt Route or we did, not sure). He might shoot his heart out to take the bullet, giving Tenna a chance to escape at the cost of his life (but Tenna would be too heartbroken/stunned to run), or use the heart to sever Tenna's arm so the shot misses, or a combination of the both. Either way, it's for naught, as Kris will end them both (maybe even ramming Spamton through Tenna's screen ala Jennifer's Death in Dream Warriors.)

[ignoranceisparadise]

Sorry if this is weird and I’m stupid but is Spamton’s grooming of noelle in your AU in a “coercing her into doing what I want with horrible intentions” way or is he actually romantically/physically grooming her.

Not asking in a bad way! I know you would handle such a thing with tact, just wanted clarification since Noelle has a wedding attire type vibe going on but is also just a sick wintery design.

For what I've made for it so far its purely the former. BUT. Also I do think the latter is vaguely there in more of an allegorical sense within like the whole bride and groom visual thing the two of them take on as they spend more time together as a team, if that makes sense? So like within the text itself that I'm crafting, Spamtons whole deal with Noelle is obviously inappropriate but isn't explicitly getting into romantic and or sexual grooming, its literally just what already happens in the weird route, but it definitely has like the aesthetics (feels like a weird word to use in this context but idk how else to describe it 😭) of it with the aforementioned wedding thing, and other stuff he does like giving her all sorts of gifts and calling her by pet-names :^(