#the threaded heart

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Don’t mind the Random Dust draw dump.

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// I forgot I had this drawing of Dust lingering around since the weekend. 

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Send me a number and I will try to draw my character... (2 Dust) If your doing this that is I'm curious ^^""

Send Me A Number And I’ll Try to Draw My Character : here

Number Two - Formal Clothing. I love that you sent 2 because I really wanted to draw the AU!RoyalGuard!Dust, the alternate that added to original!Dust’s death count by slicing him in half. 8D

* I have found you…

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JourneyTale - Post-Fated Reset Timeline. - Dust Headcanon

After Chara’s disastrous True Reset, everything reverted back to the beginning with one glaring exception - Chara no longer rested within the Golden Flowers, banished from their native timeline. All that was left behind was a lost child who had forgotten everything except for the kind hand that reached out to them from the dark. 

Frisk suffered immensely. Without the constant support from Chara and the knowledge on how to ACT, Frisk could not complete a Pacifist route. And after their many deaths with Undyne, Frisk no longer saw the need. He couldn’t Run and he couldn’t ACT; therefore, he could only Fight. 

The unrelenting hammer that was Undyne had brought Frisk despair, and they contemplated giving up and never loading again. Only the memory of that supportive warmth kept them determined. Without Chara’s help, Frisk had to grow in other directions, particularly in the usage of Determination - the ability to manipulate Time itself.  

To Save. To Load. To Reset. Those abilities all revolved around the manipulation of a single Moment. It didn’t take Frisk long to learn how to manipulate the Moment they existed in on the fly. 

Necessity allowed them to grow quickly, pain and death being the price for failure. And before long, they were no longer being killed - they were the ones doing the killing. 

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✏ : What are their creative outlets?

In-Depth Headcanon Prompts : here

Narra enjoys storytelling. To them, it’s a source of comfort because no one can take their stories away from them. Those stories are an existence that will persist in their memory even when resets erase all of their accomplishments.   

Dust enjoys all forms of music and can play both the violin and the piano.

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“Mercy?”

“Mercy is the gift of the strong, friend.”

“Being weak, I can’t afford mercy.”

“Goodbye.”

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The Main Timelines for Deadly-Devotion's genocide!Frisk

Neutral -> Pacifist -> Genocide

Neutral:

Frisk was in perpetual fear in those earlier days; he only wanted to leave the Underground and never see it again. His first experience with a monster almost killed him, the so-called friendliness pellets nearly splitting his soul into two. The mother he always wanted couldn’t go on with him, too consumed by her own pain to do what was right rather than what was easy - though in hindsight he couldn’t blame her. 

In the end, the only person they had was a childlike voice that spoke in whispers and hints, providing ACTs that would leave neither him or a monster dead.

They were the only one he could trust in this world.

Other than the random death from carelessness, he had hope that he could leave this place. Most monsters he could appease with peaceful actions, and even Papyrus wasn’t that scary in the end... though he’d probably have to remind him in the future that humans don’t appreciate dog food. If everything had kept going like that, his heart might’ve never been tainted by malice and hate.

But he met Undyne. And it was a fight where he couldn’t run, hide, or even fight. It was a fight he could not win. His deaths kept ramping up from spears - from falling - from fleeing. And as everything he continued to do failed, he nearly lost his Determination to go on. 

If he didn’t have that one person by his side, he probably would’ve went the way of the other six fallen children. But he didn’t. And he learned that Flowey was right: sometimes all you can do is kill. He fought back that time - and the time after that - and the time after that.

By the time he won, he died more times than the number of people in his small town and acquired a philosophy that would mark the beginning of the end: whoever attacked him, he was going to kill. 

Pacifist:

Flowey's advice was the only reason he went through the Pacifist run, and in doing so died many more deaths than his Neutral run. Somehow, multiple LOADs later due to his acquired nature to fight back, he manages to get the so-called perfect ending and even forgave Asriel at the very end. 

But to Frisk, the ending he achieved was worthless because his benefactor who supported him when he hit rock bottom - the actual savior of the entire Monster world - is still dead, both in body and spirit.  

His goal of escaping the Underground had already been subsumed by a new one: to allow his one true friend, the one always by his side, to become something more than a mere NPC whispering advice. He wanted them to truly live - acting on their own and expressing on their own.

Many variants of True Pacifist were tried without any bearing fruit. And thus, desperate times called for desperate measures: if SAVING everyone didn’t work...

Genocide:

He wasn’t a hero. Never was or would be. He was just an awkward orphan that was looking for a place of quiet and fell into Hell. The only reason why everyone managed to live at the end of his Pacifist run was because of the voice in his head. They were the real hero. If it weren’t for them and their knowledge of monster habits, the Underground would’ve been quiet and filled with dust a long time ago. 

The entire Underground owed Chara. Which was why he was going to make them repay their debt by allowing Chara a chance at life... whether the monsters liked it or not. 

It nearly ended at the beginning when Frisk killed Toriel, the closest thing to a mom he ever had. If he hadn’t been so determined to achieve his goal, he probably would’ve turned the knife on himself and then reset. 

But he kept on going.

Papyrus with his love for everything but puns might have had a chance to live...but Frisk already noticed that this run was bearing fruit. When he walked through Papyrus’s puzzles, it wasn’t from his will but from Chara’s. And so Papyrus was slain too. All the monsters in the Underground combined did not mean as much to him as Chara. And so one by one, he killed them all. 

And in the moment where he himself was judged by the one whom he fought for, he merely stayed silent and smiled.  

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- Grudges

“Give what you take,   Take what you give.  What you’ve done to me.  I will not forgive.”       - Karma, VocaCircus