[ character designs, story and this post itself are all subject to change as this story is unfinished! ]
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HEARTTALE is an au where after the Monster Human war, Asgore made a promise, a promise to all monsters and a promise they must make to each other: to not fill their hearts with hate and resentment for humans or else they'll all target each other for survival. Instead they should learn to forgive and LOVE humans, as love united their houses, and he believes LOVE towards humans and each other will free them once more!
And now, the UNDERGROUND is Heart and LOVE themed with various shades of pinks, purples and reds, and things like romance, familial bonds and platonic bonds run deep within their culture! Like it being customary to give flowers whenever you visit someone and each flower having a meaning, a heart hand symbolizing good faith, and even the famous DELTA RUNE legend changing!
" The Angel... The One Who Has Seen The Heavens Above...
They will return. And the underground will be filled with LOVE. "
Now this au is somewhat unfinished! Some characters haven't been designed yet and not every single area has been changed or accounted for! But I Do have the more important characters designed :3
Here we have Frisk! They're around 10-12 years old! As you can see they're in pretty rough shape. That's because their life back on the Surface...wasn't the greatest environment. After running away from their family traveling trip to Mt. Ebott, they tripped on a vine and fell into the UNDERGROUND. They're very anxious, shy and scared their first time around, but depending on what Route they take, they either warm up to the Monsters and begin to LOVE them, their colors glowing brighter to symbolize healing from trauma...or they grow cold and begin to take their LOVE to cope with their issues, symbolizing how trauma can make you hurt the people you care about, and even people you rarely know :(
NEXT UP IS FLOWEY!! Instead of a Golden Flower/Buttercup, they're based on Crimson Flowers/Carnations! Their petals are lower to the ground so instead they form vines for hand gestures! Vines with small, tiny spikes that can suddenly grow larger and pack a real sting!!
Their goal is still very close to canon: Manipulate Frisk and the other Monsters to get all the human souls, and become a God so they can get revenge on humans for killing someone important to them, and play with Frisk forever! However to do that, they need Frisk's trust, so no Friendliness Pellets sadly
Flowey will try multiple things to get Frisk to give them what they want. They'll suggest that maybe the Monsters aren't as nice as they seem, noting how they're starting to run low on resources and tells lies of Monsters resorting to eating humans after their Souls are harvested, other times they'll use their trauma against them, saying they know how it feels and suggests that a little sparring would help relieve some stress. Depending on what route you choose they'll lean into each one more to fuel Frisk further. Like Classic!Flowey, in Neutral they can either be killed or spared, and in Pacifist they become Asriel Dreemurr!
Speaking of...
ASRIEL AND C(H)ARA!!!
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" asriel found Cara in the flower patch near The Entrance and took them home seeing they were hurt from the fall. after asgore and toriel realized that this human ran away from an awful situation, they decided to take them in as their own, making them the first fallen human and first human child to be adopted by a monster in decades. asriel and cara have been close ever since. "
LIKE THE TEXT SUGGESTS Cara is a lot like Frisk in how they ended up in the UNDERGROUND. Escaping from a toxic environment only to fall into the UNDERGROUND! And the story goes as usual: Cara gets sick and before they die, Asriel and Cara cook up a plan. Asriel would absorb Cara's soul before they expired and take them to the Surface, not only to see the flowers one last time, but to hopefully convince humans they're nice, with Asriel showing that even in death he still let Cara see the flowers they loved so much, and that this sickness was something they had before entering...it did not end well < :3
NEXT UP IS TORIEL! Caretaker of The Ruins! The Ruins is now a pseudo-museum for old weapons and items back when Monsters and Humans were united and fighting! A common one being banners and shields with the DELTA RUNE symbol!
She hasn't gone through much change personality wise as she would fit right in a place like HEARTTALE! The only difference is that she knows how to house flowers, fruits and vegetables as she use to provide for humans back on The Surface! She'd always leave fresh food for Monsters near Snowdin to pick up for their markets! However, her seeds don't last forever.
Next up is Little Miss Muffet! The local Spider Baker funding small spiders across the UNDERGROUND! She's mostly normal aside from having a Slightly more reasonable price at her Bake Sale. She's also someone who frequently takes the stuff Toriel grows from The Ruins, especially since her other fellow spiders live there!
Frisk still fights her if they pass by the Bake Sale without buying anything, but it's less of Muffet wanting to eat them and more so her Begging for them to buy Something since her family is struggling.
Next up is Nabstablook!!! They mostly stay the same as well with the only difference being they Frequently listen to Very sped up Nightcore, and is a bit of an anime enthusiast like Alphys...they prefer romcoms though.
Now I know THIS is someone you waited for...that's right! IT'S SANS! Sans is still lazy and loves himself a good pun every now and then, but he's also very flamboyant! Not to the same level Mettaton is, but more closer to someone like Rarity or even Leo from ROTTMNT, but he often plays into the fact he's sometimes dramatic which leads to him being Overly Dramatic for the bit!
He and his brother live in Snowdin, where instead of Christmas they celebrate Valetines Day! Snowdin is sorta the Capitol for all of Monster Kind and their culture! Instead of a Christmas Tree there's a Wishing Fountain, or The Fountain Of LOVE, where gifts, coins and such are placed either in or around the fountain! Many proposals, romantic or platonic were all made there!
Sans does still have a past with the original Royal Scientist and Frisk still fights him if they go down the Genocide route, however it is different.
At first Sans will refuse to fight you, as he is hopeful that Maybe this was all a big misunderstanding, that Frisk is just Scared, but that attitude changes when Sans dodges Frisk's attack. Throughout the fight Frisk teases and berates him, making him use more power on his attacks which tires him out. He gets more and more upset and angry, and after slamming Frisk around he just...breaks down and cries, after that Frisk can either spare him, which leads to him killing Frisk, no longer trusting their words...or Frisk kills Sans. He'll dodge a few times before eventually getting hit.
He also really wants a partner, as he is a hopeful romantic but often finds himself staring from afar. His name outside of his au is also Romance/Roro!
And lastly, it's the king himself...King Asgore.
Now he doesn't look...a Lot like his subjects, most of them have brighter colors and pinks, while he is a dark purple and black with very muted gold accents. There's a reason :3
Years of grief and anger of losing his children, his only son and human child, have eaten away at him as he grew resentful for the humans above, so much so that his once bright colors slowly grew dark.
You might've Also noticed that the golden accents are the same color as the stripes on Cara and Asriel! That's because their deaths effected the UNDERGROUND so much that Monsters now wear golden accessories to keep their memory alive. Toriel and Asgore have the most golden accents to them...and notice how muted his are. :3
After coming up with a plan to kill humans for their souls, Toriel stepped down as Queen and his subjects questioning his actions, even calling him a hypocrite for preaching LOVE when he himself no longer harbors it in his Soul...a lousy king they call him, not because he is a coward or doesn't know how to name things, but because he abandoned the very thing he taught Monsters when they were first sealed away.
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That should be everything! Right now not everyone has a design (Papyrus, Undyne, Mettaton and Alphys) and Cara is getting a redesign, but I'll try updating this whenever something changes!/g
I hope you all like this passion project as much as I do!!! Feel free to draw my sillies! If you wish! :3
