#supplementary post

[undertalefanartproject]

Acknowledgements

Like the copycat resources post I'm going to be updating this post with more and more stuff over time.

Anyway, here's a bunch of cool people to check out.

(Note: If you're listed here and don't want to be for whatever reason, just tell me and I'll take you off.)

Contributors to the Undertale Fanart Project:

Currently just me because I'm writing this before it's actually started :P

How to get listed in this section: Add to the project in some way! (And then send me an ask or DM about it to make sure I see it)

Anyone who contributes by drawing their own art for the project, doing their own version of it, making resources or templates to help people organize their own versions, or anything else like that will get listed here. I want to encourage as many people to draw this game as possible!

Sources I borrowed from to make/organize the project:

(Most of these are also linked in the copycat guide)

The Undertale Text Project has been absolutely invaluable to me for checking dialogue, especially for stuff that only shows up under specific circumstances and is otherwise easy to miss, like deja vu dialogue. I also got a lot of the colloquial names I use for rooms from here!

This Undertale data site seems to have quite a few mirrors (originally found it by following a chain of "this mirror is outdated, check out this one instead" links a few sites deep) but the one I've been using is the one managed by Tomat. I keep a tab for this site perpetually open, and I'm one of those people who starts getting twitchy if I have more than ten tabs at a time, so that's a high compliment from me! This is where I got the room list I organized the project around, but I've gotten use out of basically every tab on this site except the unpacking and decompilation stuff. (Which I don't have the computer knowledge to do much more than blankly stare at, lol)

The maps put together by u/rqaa3721 on reddit have had a place of honor in my "useful stuff" folder since 2021, and they're always the first thing I check when I'm looking for a reference image for a room.

The wiki and I have had a contentious and passionate relationship since I first got into the game. It's a perfectly good wiki for normal wiki purposes and I've used it for that too many times to count. I sometimes wish it was more exhaustive about certain stuff, but the level of detail I crave is probably more than anyone else is interested in… Someday I'll dig out my old fandom account and check how many of the bits that have historically annoyed me are still there so I can fix them. Great wiki overall though.

People who have made significant contributions to my knowledge and understanding of the game:

(Section to be filled out in the future when I have a chance to go through the bazillion utdr blogs I follow because I mostly stopped interacting with the rest of the fandom for several years and forgot everyone's names lmao)

The stuff that got me into the game in the first place:

Obviously, I couldn't have gotten into Undertale if there were no Undertale, so here's the semi-obligatory shoutout to Toby Fox for making it. (And to Temmie Chang for doing the art, and to the kickstarter backers who added their own characters, and to the ones who "just" gave the necessary funding for Toby to actually be able to make it, and to Andrew Hussie for the basement thing, and to Earthbound and Yume Nikki for seemingly inspiring every indie game ever, etcetera etcetera.)

My feelings about Matpat Gametheory are deeply complicated and I'm not going to get into that, but I literally would not have discovered Undertale if not for him so I'm glad he made theories about it even if they were totally off-base. Also giving Undertale to the pope was hilarious.

Similarly, Undertale comic dub compilation channels on Youtube are ethically dubious at best but were nonetheless integral to how I got into the fandom back when I was too young to be allowed to have social media accounts.

Also, shoutout to people with terrible takes because it was seeing people's bad opinions that made me stop lurking and start posting my own theories and analysis (and later art and fic) with the intention of dunking on them with Facts and Logic (ah, the foibles of youth…) and the positive impacts of that on my life as a whole ended up significantly outlasting my original irritation at seeing people commit the horrific crime of Being Wrong On The Internet.

Inspirations behind this blog:

Daily art blogs are cool. I think they're neat. Always wanted to do one. It was that line of thought that led me to having the idea for doing this project as a dedicated blog and the rest flowed from there. The idea of doing a project like that as a self-building monument to your dedication to it is really cool to me. It's the kind of thing that just gets more awesome the longer it goes on.

Some cool daily art blogs who made me want to make my own include: @daily-sabo (One Piece character), @daily-odile (In Stars And Time character), and @poorlydrawnmcyt (Minecraft youtube. Not technically a daily art blog iirc but posted enough back when I first followed them that I honestly thought they were).

And the daily art blog to end all daily art blogs: @gbsketch has been posting (almost always full digital paintings) every single day without interruption since January 1st 2012 and not gonna lie they're kind of my idol. I watched a couple of their speedpaints to figure out how the hell they do stuff that awesome looking in the 20-40 minutes they claim is their average and turns out their method works perfectly for me so I just yoinked it. (Trick is not doing a sketch + keeping separate elements on their own layers and using alpha lock to shade them) Which is what made doing this project as a daily blog actually plausibly something I could manage without burning myself out. They're also the inspiration behind some of my experiments with weirder color palettes.

Lastly, @triscribe isn't an art blog but rather a (very good) writer, but I'd be lying if I said following their quest to write 100 One Piece fics in a year (WIZARD SHIT. I FEAR THEIR POWER.) didn't give me extra motivation to dig out my only project involving a similar level of obscene dedication to a fandom. I mean, if it's that awesome when they do it, right? Every time they post another fic I get fired up and open this project's dedicated google doc to... ok "write more lists" doesn't sound very cool but they're very big and detailed lists alright. When I finish this project's file directory all shall tremble in awe of its glory.

(I've been posting twice a day on my art blog since 2019 and I can acknowledge that this level of output could… plausibly inspire similar awe and trepidation in other artists? Maybe. That sounds weird and also fake I doubt it. But writing is different ok, I can fill a week's worth of my queue in a couple hours for visual art and that's if I'm not half-assing it. Writing is SO MUCH MORE TIME CONSUMING. Prolific writers scare me how do they do that…)

Other:

I've been doing all my digital art in procreate for... basically the entire time i've been doing digital art at all, save for the very earliest pieces (the ones from 2019) and while for most of this time i just used the default brushes, in late 2025 i started using this guy's brushes almost exclusively because they're just... insanely good. like there's thousands of free brushes available online and i still gave this guy enough money to buy all the sets that remotely suit my art style good. and he has a bunch of free stuff too and also he puts out a new free brush every single month that's only available during that month so it's very worth downloading all his free stuff and then signing up for his mailing list to get the free one every month. AND he doesn't pull any weird nonsense with the rights even for the free stuff, it is fully valid for commercial use. AND half his sets come with tutorial booklets to help you get the most out of them. fellow procreate users should check this guy out, seriously. (wild textures is my personal favorite of his sets bc it's the weirdest so fellow weird brush enjoyers will probably also like it. but he has normal sets too. a lot of them are just terrifyingly visually convincing imitations of various forms of paint if you're into that)

Oh, and a special acknowledgement to @askfriskandcompany for helping to trans my gender because that comic's (canon-compliant, but that was even more of a contentious topic back then than it is now) approach to Frisk and Chara's genders was my first exposure to the word "agender" and was arguably the first domino in the chain that eventually led to me becoming nonbinary.

It's not the only comic that was around back then that acknowledged Frisk and Chara as nonbinary, even just of the ones I knew about at the time, but for whatever reason, AFAC was the first one to get me to really think about it, and I really needed to do that thinking. Without getting into the weeds, let's just say there's a very real chance that this comic is the reason I'm not a terf, and I am unspeakably grateful that it was there for me to find when I did. There's genuinely good odds that reading AFAC altered the course of the rest of my life just as much as discovering Undertale itself did.

Also it introduced me to All Star by Smash Mouth through means of a parody of it I memorized and sang ad-nauseam for like a year straight (immensely annoying literally everyone in earshot) so it gets extra credit for furthering my youthful education in the fine art of memes.

That's everything for now.

PS: I don't know anyone's pronouns ever so I'm just they/them-ing everyone by default. Anyone who'd prefer I not do that for you, just tell me and I'll change it.

[elijahgeorgavic]

The missing inserts

This is a supplementary post to the one about the song Men are Pigs (Männer sind Schweine).

I’ve mentioned in that post that there are different movie clips used depending on which version you’re watching. Here are those versions:

 The single version, Some like it Hot (1959):

German:

„Männer? Diese schrecklichen haarigen Biester, die alles antatschen müssen. U-u-und dabei wollen sie alle nur dasselbe von einem Mädchen.“

 Translation:

"Men? Those horrible hairy beasts who have to paw at everything. A-a-and they all just want the same thing from a girl."

 Movie original:

“We wouldn't be caught dead with men. Rough, hairy beasts. Eight hands. And they … they all just want one thing from a girl.”

 Tape version, Some like it Hot (1959):

German: „Eines morgens wachst du auf, der Süße ist weg, und alles, was von ihm übrigbleibt, ist ein altes Paar Socken und eine Tube Zahnpasta.“ Translation: "One morning you wake up, the cutie’s gone, and all that's left of him is an old pair of socks and a tube of toothpaste."

 Movie original: “Then one morning, you wake up, the guy’s gone, the saxophone’s gone. All that’s left behind is a pair of old socks and a tube of toothpaste all squeezed out.”

 Vinyl version, Blue Velvet (1986):

This one is interesting because the audio clip used here is the first cut and doesn’t actually appear in the German dub, so I’ll translate both. Song version comes first.

 German: „Mach dich fertig zum Ficken! Fucking Fotze! Fotze!“

/

„Hau ab du alte Fotze! Du Fucker! Du Fucker! Du Fucker!“ Translation: "Get ready to fuck! Fucking cunt! Cunt!"

/

"Get out of here you old cunt! You fucker! You fucker! You fucker!"

 Movie original: Get ready to fuck! You fucker’s fucker! You fucker!

 CD version (in the post), Play Misty for Me (1971):

German: „Was hab’ ich denn getan, dass Du mich immer quälst und sagst, Du liebst mich nicht?“ – „Du hast doch nicht die geringste Ahnung, was Liebe ist - wir kennen uns ja nicht mal!“

Translation: “What have I done that you always torment me and say you don't love me?” “You don't have the slightest idea what love is - we don't even know each other!”

 Movie original: “Why are you playing these games? Why are you pretending you don't love me?”

“I don't even believe I'm hearing this.”

“But I love you!” “You haven't got the vaguest idea what love is. We don't even know each other.”

[parchnposies-mod]

This is a companion post, the main post will be linked below

( ◞･౪･)click here to go to the main post [Link] Please do not reblog this WITHOUT reblogging the main post as well. 

This is all speculation on my part, but its important to note that you should always ask yourself why someone might have said or done something. Even if the answer is incorrect or you dont agree with it, you might find yourself disagreeing with your most impulsive reactions and taking a calmer approach to the situation.

1) “if you’re not jewish you dont get to say “jew” period“ As we know now, the original sentiment here was “referring to people as a demographic they fit can be offensive and reductive, so instead use their demographic as an adjective (jewish) instead of a noun (jew).” so with that in hand we can clearly see that this is really just someone who’s tired of being called “a jew” in the same way that I am offended when someone calls me “a queer” without knowing if I’m okay with it. Most of the discussion around jewish people is hurtful and 

2&3) “holocaust, hitler, and nazi jokes aren’t funny period“ and “seriously quit saying “grammar nazi”“ keeping in mind that this was a post made in 2014/2015 think about the climate back then. This was back when it wasnt socially acceptable to be an out and out nazi/white nationalist/identitarian/kekistan or whatever the fuck, and a lot of the ways people were saying something was bad or irritating was by calling it a nazi. Both groups actually contributed to making nazis seem less like the horrific thing that they were: a political party that advocated for the genocide of millions. This would be incredibly frustrating to watch, to have people invalidate and joke about the reason your people are less than 1% of the world’s population. 

4&5) “also when the subject of the holocaust or hitler happen to come up DONT TRY TO SAY THAT HITLER WAS DOING WHAT WAS BEST FOR HIS COUNTRY OR THAT HE WAS HUMAN” “SERIOUSLY HE WAS A MASS MURDERER AND DISGUSTING IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD” No controversy around this one, please see my original reply to get my full response to this. But its good to again note why this sort of thing would be prompted to be said at all. One of the common ways people try to make white nationalism/nazi ideology more tolerable is by trying to paint Adolf Hitler as a sympathetic figure. This of course doesnt excuse what he did, but imagine seeing people say “hitler wasnt that bad” “Hitler was only a human being” “hiter was just trying to do what was best for his people.” over and over again. It would be upsetting because of fuckin course it would be. Hell its STILL upsetting. 

6&7) “dont make jokes about us being penny pinchers or greedy or any of that its gross and racist“ and “if youre a goyim dont tell me that “_____ was a very jew thing for me to do”“ I feel like being upset with stereotypes and reacting aggressively is super understandable, especially as a kid in their mid teens. I dont think this really needs further elaboration. Its insensitive and shitty, and makes someone feel bad for doing a “jewish thing” because they feel like behaving like how they are you’re buying into stereotypes. I relate to this specifically when I perform a behavior associated with my stereotypes, such as liking pink (i’m dfab*). My example is really toned down, but i think its a good way to relate because all of us have some dumb stereotype that we can relate to just being like “fuck i cant do x because i might reinforce preconceived notions.

8) “dont use yiddish, goy always mispronounce it and tbh it sounds stupid when you try“ Okay, its really important that i stress here again that OP does NOT agree with this statement anymore. To quote them directly, “i realize now that yiddish should be shared with all. Its not just a Jewish thing anymore“. However its still important to think of why would someone say something like this in the first place. This is where I speculate the most. I personally believe OP said this because yiddish is a part of their culture that they treasured at the time (likely still do) and while they were upset at people speaking it poorly it wasnt just because people were speaking it poorly. They were upset because of everything else in this post. The erasure of their history and the lessening of the severity of what happened to the jewish people through nazi jokes. The cruelty of having your identity stripped away from you beyond just another “jew”. The people sympathizing with Adolf Fuckin Hitler and trying to make him less repulsive and more “understandable” (read: forgivable). People using stereotypes to define your actions as something that “a jew” would do. The mockery of traditions and holidays “because they’re different.” These things are cruel, and when you hold something close to your heart and its attacked, as a child you will usually either react with anger and lash out to defend it, or shrink away from it and be ashamed. I wouldnt even be surprised if OP had at one point been ashamed of their heritage, only to have this post be the result of deciding to be proud of it and shifting far over to the other end of the spectrum past “happy and proud” to “aggressive defense”. 

I feel like i covered points nine to eleven pretty well in #8, but here they are for posterity  

• dont call our traditions weird just cause theyre different • be aware that jewish holidays dont get the same respect from society as christian ones do • seriously our holidays are almost never seen as “a legit reason” to miss work/school

Then finally is 12) “Educate yourself.”  I hope all of you leave this post feeling a little more like you understand what happened here, and more so i hope you have the tools to take a step back from snap judgments and ask yourself whats really going on. What someone really meant. Its not always what it seems at face value!  d(･∀･ ´*)

[undertalefanartproject]

the hiatus continues.... have some waterfall

hiatus isn't for lack of art but rather lack of motivation to write up posts properly (it takes longer than you'd think) so i'm going to keep the main posts on pause until i can build myself a nice buffer so i don't run out again

in the meantime, i'll keep posting stuff like this so the blog's not just totally dead

[undertalefanartproject]

Snowdin Masterlist

Masterlist for Snowdin. Each area is labeled with both the "official" name from the game files and a colloquial one I either made up or took from the Undertale Text Project. Rooms with multiple distinct sections may be further subdivided into multiple entries according to my arcane whims.

Certain rooms which only become accessible after backtracking from later parts of the game, such as Sans' room and the room behind the mysterious door, may be posted out of order. Don't be surprised if those stay inaccessible long after everything around them has been posted and hyperlinked. 

Console exclusive rooms are not currently included in the project because I'm PC only and honestly tend to forget they exist most of the time. I will add them eventually, but they aren't currently my priority. (Sorry, Mad Mew Mew fans! Don't worry, when I get to doing all the boss and miniboss fights, there's absolutely no chance of me skipping her.)

Other masterlists:

Intro/Misc

Ruins

Waterfall (TBA)

Hotland (TBA)

The CORE (TBA)

New Home (TBA)

True Lab (TBA)

room_tundra1 

Ruins door 

room_tundra2

Spooky path 

Lamp clearing 

SAVE POINT 5-

room_tundra3

Snowdin - Box Road (Save point) 

room_tundra3A

Fishing pole area 

room_tundra4

Papyrus' sentry station 

room_tundra5

Doggo's sentry station 

room_tundra6

Ice clearing 

room_tundra6A

Snowman room

room_tundra7

Electricity maze 

room_tundra8

Nice Cream Guy 

Ball game room 

room_tundra8A

Dogi sentry stations 

room_tundra9

Word search 

SAVE POINT 6-

room_tundra_spaghetti

Snowdin - Spaghetti (Save point) 

room_tundra_snowpuzz (Buried switch puzzle)

Warning: Dog Marriage

Buried map 

Buried switch 

Dogi arena 

room_tundra_xoxosmall

First xoxo puzzle 

room_tundra_xoxopuzz

Papyrus face puzzle

room_tundra_randoblock

Fakeout tile puzzle

SAVE POINT 7-

room_tundra_lesserdog

Snowdin - Dog House (Save point) 

room_tundra_icehole

Snow Papyrus and sans lump 

room_tundra_iceentrance

Ice slide xoxo puzzle

Slide (Success) 

room_tundra_iceexit_new

Gyftrot area

room_tundra_iceexit

View of distant cabin 

room_icecave1

Mysterious door

room_ice_dog

Dog room*

room_tundra_poffzone

Snow poff room 

room_tundra_dangerbridge

Danger bridge 

SAVE POINT 8-

room_tundra_town

Snowdin sign 

Snowdin - Town (Save point) 

Shop 

West Snowdin (everything left of the librarby) 

East Snowdin (everything right of Nacarat Jester) 

room_tundra_inn

Snowed Inn 

room_tundra_inn_2f

Inn rooms 

room_tundra_town2

North Snowdin 

room_tundra_dock

Snowdin dock 

room_tundra_grillby

Grillby's 

room_tundra_library

Librarby 

room_tundra_sanshouse

Skelebros' living room 

Skelebros' upstairs hallway

room_tundra_paproom

Papyrus' room 

room_tundra_sansroom

Sans' room 

room_tundra_sansroom_dark

Sans' room (dark)**

room_tundra_garage

The shed 

room_tundra_sansbasement

Sans' secret basement 

room_fogroom

Papyrus bossroom 

*Since this room is only accessible after no-hitting the credits on true pacifist (EVIL) It's probably the very last room I'll draw for the whole project, at least out of the ones that are accessible through normal gameplay at all. (The ones you can only get to by messing around with debug mode or editing your save are another matter, for obvious reasons.)

**Listing this for completion's sake because the game considers it separate from Sans' room with the lights on for code purposes. It actually getting a separate post to itself will be treated as a bonus post rather than as part of the main progression of the project.

[undertalefanartproject]

More unposted comics! After this I have an old draft for a lyric comic of Hallelujah that'll have to get its own post because there's like 11 pages for some ungodly reason, but aside from that this should cover everything that never made it to my art blog for whatever reason.

Well, barring me going through my old sketchbooks to dig up some even more ancient sins than the ancient sins I've already posted, at least...

Anyway, comics are under the cut so I can be as long winded as I want with my commentary. Some of these ones are actually good.

COMIC 1: Drawn September 13th, 2024.

This one is a bit of a weird one, since I actually have posted this comic on my art blog... Except for this one specific page because I was planning to post it verse by verse but only ever finished the first one. (At least until I went back and redrew the whole thing for the finished comic of the whole song I did in late 2025)

Song here is Soldier Poet King by The Oh Hellos

COMIC 2: Drawn February 3rd, 2025

This one was never posted because I only ever drew one page and presumably had more planned that I never got around to. I do love this song, so I might re-use it at some point, though this comic doesn't really have enough substance for me to bother directly building on it if I do.

Or, well. It has substance, but nothing I'm not already doing in a bunch of my Undertale lyric comics. I love drawing Dreemurr angst it's irresistible to me.

Song here is The Other Side Of Paradise by Glass Animals.

COMIC 3: Drawn February 8th, 2025

Pretty obvious why I never ended up posting this. It's just a rough storyboard I did in class to get an idea down, and then the actual idea is one I never ended up directly using.

Song here is It Took Me By Surprise by Maria Mena, though good luck deciphering the handwriting here well enough to tell which lyrics I was using. Especially since I only wrote a couple words of most of them as reference for future me...

COMIC 4: Drawn February 18th, 2025.

This is just the uncolored sketch version of this comic, but I'm tossing it in for thoroughness. Can't remember off the top of my head if I decided any of the panels here were different enough from the final version to be worth adding to the project as separate pieces, but it wouldn't be the first time and if it turns out I did do that, now I'll have something to link to.

This comic makes more sense with the added clarification that it's me playing with the idea of Chara and Frisk being effectively the same character, something that can be justified as some kind of reincarnation thing, Frisk being purely an avatar for the player with no consciousness leaving Chara the only actual person in the body, or certain readings of how soulless pacifist runs work.

Since I don't actually think this is the case in-game and only use this interpretation when it's convenient for fanwork, I don't generally specify the mechanism I'm justifying it with in a given instance unless it's relevant. In this case I was going for option 1 or 2, but 3 is actually the one I use most often, since it tends to be juiciest.

Song here is My Ordinary Life by The Living Tombstone.

COMIC 5: Drawn January 16th, 2026

There's technically a second page but the comic is literally better without it so I'm choosing to pretend that one doesn't exist.

I drew this at like 3 AM because I had to get it down to be able to sleep and then just never bothered to actually post it.

COMIC 6: Drawn January 11th, 2026.

I guess this should probably go before the other one but whatever.

Never posted this because it's unfinished and recent enough that there's good odds of me going back and doing the rest at some point, but it's a comic of this awesome fic where Discworld Death ends up in Undertale that I drew for a bingo event centered around drawing art for fics.

Using art I did for someone's else's fic for this project feels a bit sketchy, so only the textless panels will be showing up, since those don't include anything specific to the fic itself that could be considered "stealing".

It might sound weird for me to care about that, since I'm so loudly in favor of people "stealing" my stuff, but I don't like drama so I tend to try and be careful not to step on any toes with that kind of thing even if I still think the concept of stolen ideas is stupid.

Anyway, the fic is both excellent and quite short, so I'd definitely recommend clicking through to read it. You don't have to know anything about Discworld to get it past the base premise of the grim reaper being a thing in that universe, which is hardly a groundbreaking concept.

It's an excellent little story I've reread a number of times over the years, so I wanted to draw a more intensive piece for it... The deadline of that event is long past by now, but I still really like the fic so I am planning to draw the rest eventually.

I had a lot of fun with trying to make Death expressive without any actual expressions. It's the same kind of interesting challenge it is to get good expressions out of Sans, only even moreso because Sans at least emotes with his eyes, while Death relies entirely on context and body language...

[undertalefanartproject]

further never before-seen comics: miscellaneous edition

COMIC 1: Drawn September 22, 2022.

Ok this one literally doesn't have any Undertale areas in it because it's set on the surface and nothing from it will appear in the project unless I start trying to draw every AU or something but FOR COMPLETION'S SAKE. and also because it will probably rot in my comics folder forever otherwise.

Characters here are Reapertale!Chara and Core!Frisk, because I saw some stuff shipping them and thought it was cute.

I have absolutely no expectation of anyone being able to decipher the handwriting here, since I wasn't even trying to make it legible and even my tryhard handwriting was pretty mediocre back then. I'll add a transcript in the alt text at some point.

COMIC 2: September 24th, 2022.

Song is "I'll Be Good" by Jaymes Young.

Gave up on the draft halfway through when I realized I absolutely could not take this seriously for Undertale. "I never meant to make you bleed" is a hilarious line in the context of the player meaning it so hard they did the fucking sans fight for it.

Also I was very careful to make my Chara sympathies clear back then because I didn't want the haters to think I was one of them. I'm less anal about that now, since anyone who takes even a casual glance through my comics tag can see my unending affection for them lmao. Also I just care less about other people's opinions nowadays. #charactergrowth.

COMIC 3: December 24th, 2022.

What is it about the 24th that makes me draw comics... wait december 24th is literally christmas eve how the fuck did i have time to draw this. let me check the timestamp... NINE AM?

Honestly more likely that I was up all night than that I genuinely felt like drawing a comic that soon after waking up. Especially in 2022. I did not have a sleep schedule until I started college.

Anyway, I did a better version of this in 2025, since I did like the premise of it.

COMIC 4: January 21st, 2024

Teeeechnically I did post this one. Just not on tumblr. I stuck it on imgur or something so I could embed it in the fic it's based on.

Didn't post it on tumblr because 2024 was well after the end of my dsmp phase and Reverietale is a deeply weird and fucked up story that I never feel quite comfortable advertising, for all that I did put a lot of work into it and I'm not especially ashamed of its quality.

I go back and forth on whether I'll ever go back and finish the thing, especially given my assorted complex feelings about the dsmp these days, but it was my first big writing project and it does have a special place in my heart for that.

You can really tell I didn't have a lot of practice with dialogue heavy comics when I drew this... You can see me give up on making the speech bubbles for the last panel look nice in real time. The increasingly cramped handwriting as I realized I didn't have enough space but couldn't move them because I did them on the same layer as the art like a fool...

COMIC 5: February 11th, 2024.

Never posted this because it was the storyboard for this comic.

Song is "Rät" by Penelope Scott. I get very lazy about my handwriting for lyric comic storyboards because even I don't need to be able to decipher it as long as I can reverse engineer which line it's supposed to be.

If I'd ever finished this comic, it would have had a verse focused on Asriel, Frisk, and Chara in turn, going from pre-canon to a geno run to true pacifist. A geno run that either goes to full completion or stops at Flowey followed by a true pacifist run is a sequence you'll notice in almost all of my Undertale stuff, regardless of medium. I've always found it to be the most interesting order of events for the themes I like to explore.

"Do you believe even the worst person can change?" is a line that's always stuck with me. I come back to it a lot.

[undertalefanartproject]

figure i'll post the comics that never made it to my art blog now so i can link to the full versions when bits of them show up in assorted posts for the project

we will begin with...

ANCIENT SINS

aka the really old ones. most of which are not very good. (the lyric comics are fine though)

COMIC 1: Drawn on an unknown date, which for me typically means early 2019 at the latest, since that's when i started photographing everything as i drew it to post on my art blog. Would tentatively peg this one as 2017-2018 if i had to guess, though 2019 is also plausible.

Regardless of the exact date, it's a clear product of the Chara characterization wars that were a constant in the early Undertale fandom, back when evil Chara was considered the default. You do still get a couple holdouts today convinced they're a completely evil character, but nowadays that's more of a fringe opinion common among casual fans who don't actually know the lore very well, and it's pretty rare to hear from serious theorists/analysts.

Not sure if it was the Game Theory videos to blame or just general fandom misinformation, but for the first couple years portraying Chara as a sympathetic character with like. Literally any complexity at all was extremely rare, and even people who liked them would often be under the impression that them being directly responsible for the geno run (usually via possession of Frisk) was actual confirmed canon rather than popular fanon.

The canonicity of the player as a separate entity from Chara and Frisk wasn't really widely accepted back then, despite the game making it pretty clear at the end of the genocide run that Chara only did the whole "destroy the world" thing because of the behavior you modeled to them.

COMIC 2: Drawn May 25th, 2019

I was so bad at taking photos in the early days oh my god... I'll see if I can find the sketchbook this is in to get one that actually shows all the panels properly and has readable text. Don't worry, you're not missing out on much. I respect the spirit behind this comic, but my execution writing-wise was uh. Very "a thirteen year-old drew this" because I was in fact thirteen at the time.

COMIC 3: Drawn June 14th, 2019

Self inserting into Undertale was my greatest fantasy at that age. I also came up with a number of excuses to de-age Sans enough that I could ethically date him. Ah, youth...*

You can really see how my handwriting has improved over the years as I've done more comics.

*I love making this joke because anyone over the age of 25 immediately makes assorted hilarious faces at the idea of someone my age not being a member of The Youth. It was really funny when I'd do it at 15 but it's still pretty effective at 20.

COMIC 4: Drawn July 26th, 2020

I was surprised to find out I apparently never posted this one, but maybe I was planning to continue it and then just never did.

Fun fact: This is the earliest lyric comic I have a known date for, and is quite possibly the first one I ever drew! Considering that, the composition is surprisingly competent. I was definitely taking a lot of influence from other lyric comics I'd seen, but the specific choices here were all me and some of them are pretty clever! Kudos to past me.

Song is "This is Gospel" by Panic! At The Disco. Good odds the song choice was inspired by that one meme comic of Frisk hitting Toriel with the "IF YOU LOVE ME LET ME GOOOOOOOO" line from the chorus. I'd link it but I sadly don't have the original handy. I'll try and keep an eye out for it.

COMIC 5: Drawn June 21st, 2022

Ok, this one doesn't really qualify for "ancient sins" but whatever. Never posted this one because I meant to finish it and never did. The colors are Like That because I actually only used one color to draw and achieved the rest via assorted layer effects.

Song is Cabinet Man by Lemon Demon. Might come back and redo this one at some point, since it is genuinely a very good song for Undertale, especially the geno run, which I use in the vast majority of my Undertale comics because, for whatever reason, I tend to lean towards extremely dark themes with comics specifically.

Not to say my writing is light, but against my comics it's definitely lighter...