#redroot au

[trixiethunderchild]

There's something moving under the ice. Trying to get out of the cold water.

It's me.

[trixiethunderchild]

DELTARUNE: REDROOT.

An alternative take on the Weird/Snowgrave route, where Noelle's spell is stronger than she thought.

NOTE: Although this is an AU and non-canon, there are spoilers for the normal and weird route incorporated. Also, sorry this is so long!

STORY AND ADDITIONAL IMAGES BELOW:

The weird route starts the same and remains so up until the Berdly fight. When Noelle finally casts Snowgrave, it overwhelms her and casts everything around in ice. Unlike the canon weird route, Kris is frozen in the chaos. Their soul is ejected.

Now Noelle faces the Player, the one who's really been calling the shots. She's petrified after what she's done, professing she'd do anything to fix it - to make things right. Without a host, and the Player being as cruelly curious as they are, they take her up on this offer. In her daze, she wouldn't realise that the Player is a dangerous force before it's too late.

Being a monster, she's able to absorb the Human soul to some extent (assuming the soul functions the same in Deltarune as it does in Undertale). Her original soul and most of her bodily agency remains, but The Player is highly compelling and tormenting (not to mention the Thorn Ring still has her in a trance).

Unfortunately, in her escape from Cyber City, she bumps into the worst guy you'd want to see your mental breakdown. Spamton. He'd catch on to what happened to Kris (seeing as he knows what the Player made Noelle do in the canon route). With Noelle all alone, he leverages the opportunity. He can be bigger than big. With her new strength and the Player's help, he can share his influence to as many dark worlds as she can open.

Basically, Noelle's life sucks. She takes the Dealmaker with her, and has to battle the constant commands inside her head.

Since the soul can seal the fountain without Kris, the Player guides Noelle through Cyber City, with additional help from Spamton in finding a covert route underground to the fountain. You would miss all of the fun, lighthearted story and misadventures from the normal route. Noelle goes along with this, being told that both Berdly and Kris will wake up from the nightmare.

So, uh, how are the other two doing? Not great! Ralsei wouldn't know the full extent of what happened, but he would sense a powerful shift in the future. He knows that, whatever's occurred, he won't be needed anymore. He'd try to keep composure for Susie's sake and remains hopeful he can bring it back on track somehow.

Susie would notice Kris has been missing a while, but would have Ralsei ease her worries. Once the fountain suddenly closes without her knowledge and she's ejected out of the dark world, she'd be confused but there'd be a sense of relief. Y'know, since she assumes only Kris can seal the fountains. She wouldn't notice for a moment that Kris isn't waking up since they're prone to long naps in class.

Of course, Noelle shuffles right out with the Dealmaker in her pocket, unable to bear facing Susie with the realisation their nightmare isn't over.

Susie would stay behind and try shaking both of them up. Yet, she can feel how cold they are. She'd lug both to the hospital herself where she'd stay the night. Susie wouldn't suspect anything of Noelle yet since her mind's preoccupied with concern. Both Toriel and Asgore would be notified, both of whom are heartbroken and confused. Asriel would be heading home sooner.

Once everyone else is gone, Susie would open a dark world in the hospital, to try and fix things the only way she knows how. All they need is a little healing, right? Ralsei will know what to do.

TO BE CONTINUED .... WHEN I THINK OF THE REST!

Alas, this DOES mean Mr. Ant Tenna doesn't appear in this AU since Kris can't open the fountain. I know. I'm sorry too. Maybe I'll find a way. Also, I am not an expert on all the Deltarune mechanics, lore and tidbits so forgive me if I got any info wrong!

Anyways, if you've made it this far, thank you so much for reading! Let me know your thoughts and I'm hopeful to make more content soon!

[trixiethunderchild]

Been thinking more about my Redroot!Ch3, so here's my dark world Rudy design! I chose a toy soldier style for his look for multiple reasons:

Toy soldiers are obviously heavily associated with Christmas! They're quite kitsch and nostalgic too, which makes sense for him.

He's a "trooper" in the sense that he's battling a tough illness but still keeping a smile and positive outlook for his family

He's heavily associated with Asgore (a king), and so it's kinda similar to their Santa and Rudolph dynamic

He's very protective of his family, especially his daughters and would throw himself in harm's way for them

He look nice

ORIGINAL AU:

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[trixiethunderchild]

Prove me wrong.

ORIGINAL AU:

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[trixiethunderchild]

Take my guiding hand.

ORIGINAL AU + EXPLANATION:

When Noelle is overwhelmed by emotion, fear or dread; she loses the strength to combat the Player's influence. Spamton placates her by never telling what the Player made her do. There's always an excuse.

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[trixiethunderchild]

REDROOT!TENNA

first of all - im so sorry ive been gone for AGES i was taking a mental health break and i will be gone another week cus im going on a trip with no internet

BUT i leave you with a development ... i dont really craft my stories linearly so for this au's sake this is quite far ahead OOPS

this would be a short boss after the roaring knight's appearance. just against noelle and spamton. at this point he would recognise spamton and the whole chapter does kind of dig into their relationship.

but this boss would have very wonky, distorted attacks that would range from pathetically weak to sporadically sharp. it's tenna's final bow as they prepare to leave/seal the fountain, begging them to stay.

this tenna has lost kris, all his friends, his employees, about to lose toriel too and be thrown away. if they leave now, he'll be left to die in the snow. best to put him out of his misery.

that's all the info i can give for now :] hope u like it

[trixiethunderchild]

https://youtu.be/Hv6RbEOlqRo?si=2ASYy_-8a17N5-hC

this video is what I meant before. a true vintage classic, and the SOUL speaking in a jankass TTS voice tickles me. also would mean it can 'sing' with the right inputs which is just nice. I think

LOL anyone can imagine the Player's voice as they wish so this could be canon to you. i do think noelle's patience would run out a LOT sooner tho.

[trixiethunderchild]

ooooooh. exctied for what you have on that control route, but what immediately came to mind was Noelle going 'can't you just EXPLAIN this all to me?' and the SOUL putting on a tiny pair of glasses and doing that sped up gif of the man talking and drawing on a whiteboard but about Deltarune lore, with it all framed in much more universe-friendly terms. and then noelle somewhat explodes a tiny bit.

yeah sorry the ghost(?) remnant of your missing sister is monologuing and begging for help within unseen folds of reality. and also maybe your crush dies at the end. so that's why, Noelle.

Noelle after the 5-hour, video essay style infodump about how she isn't real and how her sister's been shattered across time and space:

...maybe it's best she doesn't know everything actually