#thanks candy!

[maladelusio]

Fantasy!verse: Staged (remastered slightly and with a new outfit!) 

There’s no Ink or Error in Fantasy!verse, so what happened to the people who could have been..? 

not an outcode, Staged lives in a complete and complicated au called Understaged which eventually manages to make its way into a permanent happy ending on the surface.

you’d think he’d get sick of stories but he’s always interested in hearing new ones. he’d LOVE to see different universes!

his au probably has a Supremely complicated backstory questioning the meaning of telling stories but for our purposes lets Ignore All That

General notes about Understaged: ‘stories’ work as sort of ritual engaged magic in their world. taking on different 'roles’ can change you and your abilities. wearing particular ‘costumes’ or performing particular norms for a role will enhance the abilities associated with it.

in a check you can always see people’s CHOSEN stories/roles such as 'Papyrus [Royal Guard Aspiree]’ but depending on the situation you might be able to pull up more private or Enforced roles like [Judge] or even something secret or bad they believe about themselves. or even… a metanarrative role, like [final boss] or [protagonist]

A number of people are aware of timeline issues as a form of ‘genre awareness’ and magical sense of ‘what story is playing out’. Staged has never given up quite the way canon Sans does; he has more support, and maybe an extra dose of positivity from an ‘event’ during the creation of his AU…

he keeps turning up in roles like 'the hedge in front of your neighbors house’. even if there wasn’t a role like that in the script. everyone acts, but he likes being able to act out of the spotlight. once you’re on stage, your options get limited.

he’s actually happiest helping with the set design crew. a demon with a paintbrush

staged says he’s writing a play but really its just a collection of notes disguised as puns about timeline shenanigans and what he can perceive of the 'world narrative’ on a magical level. And also a lot of random other jokes. he’s not actually that much of a creative writer himself, but he does like to analyze

kind of low empathy for people he doesn’t know personally (read: hasn’t trauma bonded with over an impossibly long period of ‘time’ :P)

Couldn’t have made him without @candy-cryptid’s help and ideas!

Staged is not meant to represent a canonical backstory/AU for Ink (Ink is canonically from ___tale) and has lived through an actual au story rather than being stuck unfinished and then tearing his soul out. However, a significant amount of inspiration was taken from Ink (who belongs to myebi/comyet)

[tokai-teio]

anchovy!

favorite thing about them: she’s an admirable leader who wants the best for her teammates/classmates, and she’s a clever tactician who almost completely fooled Miho’s team into a pincer bait

least favorite thing about them: her manga counterpart was kind of a bitch (though i do admire that she believes that it’s her duty as commander to bring victory to her teammates above all else)

favorite line: “Since we’re attacking from 3 directions, we should call it "Operation Three Cheese Pizza”!“ “It doesn’t matter what house’s style we’re up against, we won’t lose. Or rather, we’ll win!”

brOTP: Pepperoni/Maho

OTP: Maho

nOTP: Momo

random headcanon: she and Maho become roommates in college after the conclusion of the series

unpopular opinion: it’s hardly unpopular, but i really wish the fight against her school had been included in the original run of the anime instead of being shifted to an OVA, since that makes it harder to show my friends the anime in the proper order

song i associate with them: the one and only “Funiculi Funicula” by Luigi Denza and Peppino Turco (also known as the “Spiderman Pizza Theme”)

favorite picture of them:

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