Spirittake concept art and more (character specific) lore!
I’m probably going to change their design 50 more times before I’m happy with them but here’s the ones I’ve made so far!
Eyes/Flowey is the only character that’s outwardly insane. The other monsters will try to hide the worst of it, but most know it’s obvious enough not to lie about. Regardless, Flowey judges them for their manipulation. “Your best and only real friend down here”, he’d say, because he’s the only one true to you.
A little dialogue Flowey would probably say is along the lines of,
“After a certain point of it always being something new, it stops being interesting and starts getting concerning. When there’s no way to tell time, it feels like infinity, and the effects of infinity begin happening. Anything and everything possibly, with no exceptions. And let’s just say, everyone down here has a pretty fucked mind when push comes to shove.”
Papyrus is still the light of the underground and remains very loved. Mainly, he is more nervous. Still extremely outgoing and extroverted, but more unsure of himself and shuts himself in a lot. Has a hard time maintaining friendships. While his shadow didn’t fully take over, unlike everyone else (except for Flowey, due to him not having a soul), he is not all there. Hallucinates (is it really a hallucination?) Sans sometimes, he is in strong denial and still cooks for Sans. He makes him a plate out of a habit that he doesn’t want to break. He spends a lot of days with Undyne and Alphys, who try to be there for him despite their growing psychosis.
Alphys has a round glasses with one broken lens and a long, fluffy lab coat that’s probably either electric heated or lined with hot hands hand warmers. I haven’t thought of designs for Papyrus and Undyne yet, but I’m thinking longer, lined gloves for Papyrus, and he dorns his brothers hoodie around his neck.
Alphys’ intention is only to find a way to manage the core again without fully shutting it down. Instead of a shy stutter, she is in a near constant state of cold. She’s not freezing, but definitely shivering most of the time. All of her experiments go towards stabilising the core.
“If o-only that lava was safe enough to use for warmth. It’s s-so concentrated in p-power, it’s more d-dangerous than the core itself at f-full capacity, and that’s precisely w-why any human s-soul to fall down here will be used to p-power the core, before we can even t-think about getting to the surface.”
Next post will be about each of the areas climates!