Character opinion bingo: Underswap Undyne? :3
Context.
Underswap Undyne is so fucking underutilized in Underswap-centered stories. She's either Alphys's girlfriend or characterized to have the disposition of a sopping wet cat with a secret dark side when Swap!Undyne does not exist to be Alphys in a different skin.
The main point of Underswap is that the roles of certain characters are swapped around. The switched personality bit is only partial.
With this knowledge, Swap!Undyne has the potential to be a crazy ass motherfucker whose anxiety fuels her anger and sense of justice for what happened to monsterkind. Her heart is in the right place, but her mind isn't, and I think that with enough incentive and trauma, this bitch could snap. She has the potential to be either Chara's greatest ally or enemy, as anything she creates could be a hidden sabotage or the ultimate defense for the human as they make their journey through the Underground.
That being said, I have yet another reason to be mad at the fandom and that is because on top of all the usual Underswap slander and complaints you've probably seen before, every other character is fucking ignored, Undyne included, when she could be the motherfucking BANE of Chara's existence.
It would be an interesting dynamic that since Swap!Asgore is in the Ruins and Swap!Toriel is on the throne, maybe that means the previous humans didn't die the same way as they did in Classic Undertale.
Maybe, just maybe, Undyne could be responsible for each of their demises instead of Queen Toriel, whether that be indirect or not, to spare the Queen of grief in turn for one step closer to monsterkind's freedom.
Classic Undyne was willing to kill Frisk when she met them, so why can't Swap!Undyne be different in the fact that she's not only willing to commit murder for her cause, but also that she has succeeded at least once? Why can't we take traits from both the Classic characters and traits from the characters they're being swapped with and get creative with it?
Undyne can be the royal scientist, but why not a MAD royal scientist too? She can have the madness her Swapfell/Fellswap versions WISHED they had, or could make worse. Make it a curse to be the royal scientist since the River Person disappeared and W.D. Gaster may or may not have returned with more than a couple screws loose.
-- Sarco
