I think I’ve never told you guys about my very first idea for an Undertale AU before, right? Well, I got into Undertale a little late in the first wave, and I almost immediately latched on to the designs of Underfell. But I didn’t quite like how rough it was back then and how the super anxious and submissive version of Sans got abused by the supper sadistic Papyrus version. And thus Warfell was born.
The history is almost entirely the same, but right before Ariel died Asgore was able to retrieve Chara’s soul. Blaming humans for the death of his child, Asgore declared that he’d take the souls, become a god, and destroy all of humanity for their crimes. And after many years of training his subjects to be ruthless and collecting the souls of the humans that fell down, he now has seven and breaks the barrier.
To his shock though, the little souls are completely spent and disappear. So the monsters stay underground for 15 more years, while scouts go out to spy on humans and secretly collect more souls for the officers that will lead the war.
I imagined this AU with the meeker versions of Fell Sans. He mostly tries to avoid the village and instead spends a lot of time in the woods, talking to Toriel at her door, telling jokes, finding comfort, reporting her the news. When he tells her that the seventh soul has been taken she busts out in tears and asks Sans to make her a promise.
“There will be many in this war that never asked for this. That never wanted for this to happen, or even have locked us up in the first place. Please, my friend, take care of the innocents. Give them hope for a peaceful future.”
When Sans agrees, Toriel thanks him, there is a moment of silence, and then some dust starts to drift from underneath the Ruins’ door.
Those 15 years that are spent preparing, Sans moves into Toriel’s house to be away from the violence. There he makes his own preparations and befriends a little golden Flower with whom he can grief the lady’s death together.
5 years after the war officially started an 8-year-old Frisk is trying desperately to survive. They had been locked up in the basement as punishment when their town was attacked, and they stayed there for a week as the monsters moved on. Now they roam the broken streets, looking for food, water, and shelter.
While doing so though they see a monster through the dust and rubble and flee. They try to desperately escape, but the monster always seems to pop us in the places they try to run to. Eventually, they become so erratic that they run straight into a broken traffic sign and knock themself out.
To their surprise they wake up….period, that’s a big surprise on its own, they’re alive! But they’re also in a large room, which is surprisingly cozy despite being entirely concrete. But there are a bunch of bunk beds with colorful blankets and posters all over the place, and there are some toys and even electronics that haven’t been put away properly.
They go exploring, finding also a bathroom, a large room full of couches, chairs, and beanbags, and eventually a room with a large stove and rows of tables. And in each of the rooms, there are at least a few children hanging around or playing.
They are eventually approached by an older girl called June who sits them down and tells them that they are safe here. Frisk is worried about the monsters outside, but June explains that there is a barrier around their bunker. One that is similar to but weaker than the one that kept monsters trapped underground. A monster can only come in if it is let in. She explains that all of them came from attacked towns and cities and were brought here to recover, be kept safe, and eventually returned to the humans. She isn’t able to get far in her explanation though before Frisk hears there is a knock at the door on the other side of the room. A little girl with a periwinkle headband and a wooden sword runs over and asks who’s there.
“who.”
“Who who?”
“owls? i thought i was hearing children before!”
The little girl giggles at the answer and reaches for the doorknob. Frisk jumps to their feet, fearing that the little girl will accidentally let in a monster. And they think their fear became reality when through the gap of the door they can see a blood-red eye, a sharp-fanged grin, a bloodied skeletal hand and an ax gleaming in the light.
Frisk instantly shoots back towards the room with all the bunk beds at the back, yelling at everyone that can hear that a monster got in. Behind them, they can hear a scream, right as they dive into the space between the closet and the wall. There they stay, shivering in fear with their hands over their ears.
It stays still for a long time though, or at least there isn’t a sound that gets past the hands blocking their ears. So they open their eyes and are startled to see several of the other children peeking into their hiding place with the skeletal monster standing right behind them. As soon as they see Frisk watching them, multiple of the children start talking to comfort them, but they can’t understand a word of what is being said. So the monster gently shoos the kids away and sits down in front of Frisk.
He introduces himself as Sans, caretaker of the lost children. He reassures Frisk that everything is okay and everyone is safe. He spends a little while explaining everything to Frisk, with a little talking flower that is growing out of the dirt he has in his pocket to back him up. Once Frisk isn't as frightened anymore he calls for a few of the children to help them feel at ease and come out of hiding.
When they eventually get back to the dining room, Frisk finds out that the scream was one of the kids, Kevin, who got excited that Sans brought back some rabbits he caught for the boy to cook. (The blood on Sans’ hands was from said rabbits.)
Frisk stays with the group for a little over a month, in which time they get used to Sans and learn that even though he can a bit impatient and tells jokes that make the older children cover the younger one’s ears from time to time, he is a very affectionate and dedicated caretaker.
One day though, Sans rounds up all the kids and they go outside. Sans leads them towards an underground network where a few human soldiers stand there waiting for them. They quickly usher most of the kids into the tunnels and hand over a few crates to Sans. Apparently Sans had been able to strike up a deal with the humans: He helps children escape and delivers them back to the humans, and the humans provide him with the medications and other harder-to-obtain tools so he can care properly for more children. And mustard, there are bottles of mustard there as well.
Six of the children stay by Sans’ side though, even when the soldiers ask if they still insist on staying with Sans.
Frisk is too intimidated by the military men’s yelling and decides to stay with Sans too.
Together they help each other and any new kids Sans brings back, and they try to survive in this war-filled world in the hopes that one day there will be peace.
Now, background information!
The six other kids staying with Sans are:
June, 17 years, straw hat and a hunting rifle, justice soul
Kevin, 14 years, waiters apron and a spade, kindness soul
Percy, 10 years, colorblind glasses and a touchpad, perseverance soul
Indy and Brenda, twins, 9 years, loose pants/sneakers and sweatband/brass knuckles, integrity and brave souls
Patricia (Patty), 5 years, blue headband and wooden sword, patience soul
And yes, all of them (including Frisk) are the reincarnations of the 7 souls. They stay with Sans because, deep down, something tells them that he might be the key to peace between humans and monsters.
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Patty has been with Sans the longest, since she was a little baby. Sans found her and her dying mother under the rubble and after a lot of tears he promised her he would do his best to take care of her daughter.
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Sans has 3 human souls of his own, each of them given to him willingly so he could protect the children. One of them is Patty’s mom. She has been conscious and asleep to help Sans take care of the youngest children and babies. (And to watch her little daughter grow through his eyes.) During the first few years, she even played a huge part in reigning in his violent tendencies, and he is thankful for that.
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Yes, there are collars, because they were a must in the original Underfell (blech). Sans has made one for each of the children. The first time they went out just to play Frisk was disgusted by this, throws their’s own away, and tries to run off. They can’t get far though before they get caught by Papyrus, who has leadership over one of the villages nearby. Before he can kill Frisk though, Brenda who had been following Frisk intervenes and tells him that they are ‘one of Sans’ mongrels’. Papyrus is skeptical, but when they go to confront Sans about it he confirms it as well.
The monsters that had been closest and friends to Sans in the underground have a deal with him. Any humans that wear a collar, marked as his, are to be left alone. They won’t save the kid if they are caught by another monster, but they won’t hurt them.
Mm some tasty WarFell content, I’ve only done a handful for the sake of it because it’s fun soo here’s Defiance (Stray), Dream (Hope) and Donut (Paprika)!
There’s also War!DreamG (Vision) at the bottom there since I drew Hope on the same canvas at the time so- SHRUGS
give me a character and i’ll give you a sample of how i’d rp them » accepting.
do not do this to me
a g ain i’ve seen like 15 eps and dEF am not confident enough to really write anyth with mcgillis and gaelio interacting bc i haven’t seen enough to really form an opinion on what’s going on in his head when they talk so have some internal monologue during that scene when almiria greets him
i’m assuming or at least hoping that the marriage would be a few years down the road and that the engagement party is basically just celebrating the deal being sealed between the families in the way of most arranged marriages but the writing is still under the cut bc for the followers who haven’t seen IBO his arranged fiancee is like 10 which is disturbing
“Mars is a little far from home.”
“But I’d say the trip was well worth it.”
Before McGillis can respond, he’s interrupted by the sound of running footsteps and a high-pitched cry of delight, a child’s cry. “Macky!”
The name makes his skin crawl, makes him feel sick, but he still catches her when she leaps into his arms and wraps her own around his neck and chuckles–the deep, quiet sound is the most minimal-yet-acceptable response he can come up with.
“Macky! Welcome back!”
“Almiria. Everyone’s watching,” he says gently, lowering her back down to the ground. It’s quite a distance.
“Even after three months, you’re still just a little kid, aren’t ya?” Gaelio butts in, putting a hand on his hip. Don’t remind me. Even despite the unpleasant topic, however, McGillis finds himself vaguely grateful for the diversion of her brother’s comment. He’s grateful for Gaelio’s presence, too, he realizes as Almiria begins her emphatic rebuttal - it’s an excuse for him to be anywhere but with her, alone, facing the reality that someday he’ll be married to someone a good decade younger than himself.
give me a character and i’ll give you a sample of how i’d rp them » accepting.
PSA EVERYONE I’M VERY NEW TO THE FANDOM AND I’M ON EPISODE LIKE 15 AND GHELEON KNOWS THIS SO DON’T MAKE FUN OF ME IF IT’S BAD
have some college au
Eugene assumes the knocking on the door is just someone staggering into one of the cheap wooden chairs until the voice outside cuts above the inebriated chatter. “Campus police! Open up!”
Dread crashes through him as he whips his head around to look at their host. Oh my God, we’re fucked. “Shit, Orga, what do we do–”
His friend scans the room - which currently holds about seven more people and about fifteen more empty beer cans (give or take) than any plausible study group. “Everyone hide the cans and the cups. I’ll hold them at the door.”
“What??” Eugene demands. “They’re still gonna see past y–”
“That means now!” comes a slightly deeper voice outside. Oh, fantastic. There’s two of them. See what you guys did? God, we’re gonna be in so much trouble.
“If you don’t open the door, they’ll just open it themselves and then we’ll be in even worse off!” Biscuit says, looking in Orga’s direction. “Get the door while we can at least minimize how bad our punishment is.”
Orga grunts in agreement and steps past both of them. Eugene’s heart hammers against his sternum and he really starts to wish he’d kept his shirt on, even though there is no AC in the building and packing so many people into such a small common room has made the air even hotter. It would help the case for his own sobriety when they get lined up and interrogated by these guys.
Orga turns the opens the door just enough that Eugene could put his head through if he wanted, but sure as hell not the rest of him.
He’s buying us time, the freshman realizes abruptly. He scrambles to pick up a few cans of PBR and dashes to slide them under the couch.
“All the way,” one of the security officers instructs.
Eugene stands back up and tries to look like he wasn’t just hiding empty beer cans under the furniture as Orga steps back to allow the two of them–a blond and some guy with purple hair–to stride past him. The one with the dyed hair glances around the room, then sighs and glances back at Orga, looking more exasperated and annoyed than angry. “Pour them out.”
“Hey! You didn’t even check his BAC! How do you know he was drinking?!” Eugene demands; the words leave his mouth before he even realizes he’s thought them. Officer Purple Hair lowers his clearly-tweezed brows and opens his mouth to respond, but his blond companion speaks up before he can.
“Because there are beer cans all over this room, some of them not entirely empty.”
