Happy XAsgore's, and successively X-Swap!Toriel's birthday!
Unfortunately i didn't have time to fill a board with sketches of her, because i just arrived from my vacation trip, so yeah. But i had fun making this, i'm proud of the lineart.
Oh! Also, my computer came back life! I mean it still have a crack BUT i can work with it, i see it as a cool ass scar with a good story to tell.
And yes, i know her trident is not accurate to XAsgore's, but when i noticed it, it was too late, okay?
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Summary: Cross and X! Papyrus go to work at the hospice that his father runs. Cross thinks it will be an easy job of watching cameras and making patrols... but he ends up making friends with a patient, playing the detective and discovering much more than he wanted to know, including himself.
Sans (Cross) and his brother start working as guards at the hospice (Research and Mental Rehabilitation Center) of his father, the famous Dr. Gaster (X!Gaster).
For Sans it is a simple job of watching cameras. He and his brother will not have to deal directly with the crazy poor that their father treats (or so he hopes), but everything changes when he is dragged into an investigation, ends up befriending some patients and discovering the truth about the place, his father and even himself.
Dream / Nightmare (Dreamtale) - hospice patient and a severe case of memory loss and double personality.
A skeletal monster who spent years in a coma and when he woke up presented a case so serious of dual personality that even his appearance changes.
The first personality is called Dream, a gentle, kind and calm young man. It looks like a normal skeleton with yellow eye lights.
He doesn't remember anything about the accident that left him in a coma and the only thing he remembers from his old life is that he had a brother, but he doesn't remember anything else about him, neither name nor appearance.
He doesn't understand why he is there and wants to leave as soon as possible to try to find his brother. Considered harmless by everyone.
Nightmare is the second personality of the young skeleton. Violent, cruel and sadistic. It is not only your personality that totally changes, but your appearance as well. When Nightmare takes control a black liquid oozes from its orbits covering it completely and its lights become turquoise blue. When Dream returns, the “black slime” regresses to its orbits without leaving a trace.
Being Nightmare he just wants to cause as many problems as possible.
Dream and Nightmare do not seem to know that they share the same body, but they know each other's existence (but they think they are separate individuals). For some reason Dream thinks that Nightmare was the one who caused the accident that left him in a coma.
While Nightmare never reveals his connection with Dream, he only wishes, above all, the destruction of the gentle skeleton (which may indicate that deep inside, Nightmare knows that he shares a body with him and “killing” Dream, the body can be his alone).
Dream is ink's friend, the monster that “haunts” the hospice. Nightmare already pretends not to know him, but gives clues that he is aware of his existence.
Dream befriends Cross, while Nightmare tries to use Cross in his plans, both to escape and to try to make the life of everyone around him hell.
Ink (Inktale Sans) - enigmatic figure that “haunts” the hospice.
Officially, he is considered as a common “imaginary friend” of several patients (the theory is that one patient told the other and the story spread like an urban legend).
Despite being considered as the result of the imagination of the patients of the place, some employees came to see him (what makes some believe that he is really a haunt).
He is described as a skeleton monster that is always dirty with ink and with eye lights that change according to who saw him. He has a cheerful personality, a little flustered and always seems willing to help, even though his "help" sometimes causes more problems.
Gaster (X!Tale) - Doctor and director of the Hospital. He is a specialist in psychological problems and highly respected in his field.
Originally he became a doctor just to make his dream come true, give "life" to his imaginary friend Ink.
Gaster never accepted that his "friend" was just the result of his mind and through tests and experiments, he is trying to "bring" his friend from his mind to reality. The fact that several people can see Ink is considered proof that he is succeeding in his attempts.
He was a terrible father, neglecting his children most of his life, always very busy with his work and his patients.
He spares no effort, nor does he care about sacrifices and the pain he causes, as long as he achieves his goals.
Sans/Cross (XTale) - Elder son of Gaster. It was originally the doctor's first attempt to create a body for his friend. The plan didn't work out and after an incident he suppresses Cross's memories of the time that he was a guinea pig.
Despite not remembering that time, he has nightmares about what happened and other sequelae of the experiment.
Sans has no interest in working with his father (although he once tried to get him interested in becoming a doctor), he just agreed to work at the hospice to support his brother.
Papyrus (XTale) - Younger son of Gaster. When the experiment with Sans did not work, the doctor thought about trying with Papyrus, but the child can shake the monster's cold heart, that gives up, focusing only on the patients of the hospital he runs.
Papyrus always wanted to become a police officer and Gaster always disapproved of his son's choice, but ends up encouraging him to work with him as a hospice guard in an attempt to dissuade him from his dream (and who knows how to influence him to a more scientific career).
The younger monster hopes to get some kind of experience in his new job that will help him realize his dream. He knows Undyne, a police detective, and becomes friends with her and under her influence ends up investigating the strange events of the hospital.
Frisk (XTale) - one of the Gaster patients. He is described as a calm and peaceful child with fits of violence in which he loses control and attacks anyone in front of him. When he are in one of your "crises" he becomes very violent and dangerous.
Due to several experiments of the doctor had his physical development delayed. He's a lot older than he looks.
Frisk was hospitalized with his twin brother Chara. They both had a very strong connection and Gaster uses that connection for his experiments. After several horrible tests he manages to make Chara's soul share the Frisk body .
Frisk and Sans had known each other for a long time, although Sans no longer remembers him, as Gaster started experimenting on the twins at the same time with Sans.
Frisk calls him "Cross" because he says his friend Sans, the "original", was killed by Gaster a long time ago (referring to Gaster "killing" Cross's original personality).
Chara (XTale) - twin brother of Frisk. He was hospitalized with his brother when they were still children.
He had a suspicious and explosive personality.
He ends up being killed by Gaster when he decides to tell the truth about what the doctor had been doing with him and his brother to Asgore, another doctor at the hospice. His soul was then “attached” to Frisk's, and Gaster used him as a scapegoat when he murdered the other doctor.
In the beginning Chara could only "get out" when Frisk lost control, in time, he was able to be heard by his brother and now they are both trying to escape from the hospital and take revenge on Gaster.
He hates Cross because he thinks he abandoned them as a child (because he was lucky enough to escape the experiments and be treated like a son, while he and Frisk remained as guinea pigs).
Alphy (XTale) - doctor and the main assistant of Gaster.
Alphys begins to suspect that there is something wrong with the madhouse. She even comments with Undyne, with whom she was going out, about her discomfort, but she couldn't say exactly what it was. She then begins to investigate and finds out about the experiments the doctor has been doing with patients.
Before she can tell Undyne, she ends up being discovered by the doctor who brainwashes her and makes her his assistant / puppet. After brainwashing she breaks up with Undyne.
Undyne (XTale)- policeman and Alphy's ex-girlfriend.
After breaking up with Alphys she realizes that the doctor is acting strange and, remembering the doctor's suspicions, starts trying to investigate the hospice, without success, mainly because her superiors think she is just resentful for the breakup.
Things change when she finds unlikely allies in the hospice director's own children.
Asriel (XTale) - Doctor “responsible” for Frisk.
He's a good doctor and doesn't really know anything about what's going on in the hospital.
Gaster uses Asriel to control Frisk / Chara, with the threat that if they don't behave he will kill him as he did with his father, Asgore, who was the doctor in the hospice.
Asgore (XTale) - Doctor at the hospice and friend of the twins.
Chara tells about what Gaster was doing with them and Asgore is going to confront the doctor. He ends up being killed by the skeleton monster who takes advantage and uses the death of the goat monster to cover up Chara's death (saying that Chara killed the monster and that Asgore ended up mortally wounding the child in self defense).
Toriel (XTale) - nurse, mother of Asriel and wife of Asgore.
Just as the son doesn't know anything about the hospital. She worries a lot about Frisk and Chara when he was alive. She does not blame children for her husband's death.
Toriel, just like Alphys feels there is something wrong in the hospital, but unlike Alphys, she prefers not to look deeply at the problems at the hospice.
Geno / Error (Aftertale Sans / Errortale Sans)) - A skeleton monster originally hospitalized under the name of Geno, with serious depression problems. It was one of Gaster's first test subjects. The experiments with him ended up driving the poor skeleton crazy.
His personality became so erratic and dangerous that Gaster had to isolate him, which further worsened his condition to the point that it not only affected his mind, but his magic and appearance. After his move he completely forgot who he was and started calling himself Error.
Gaster keeps him isolated in a white room and few know of his existence.
Although Gaster initially considers it a failure he ends up changing his opinion and finding it his first success because, after becoming Error, he was the first being, after Gaster himself, to see Ink.
Oddly, Error has a deadly hatred of Ink and has vowed to destroy it and all the other "errors" of the Doctor.
Killer (Killer Sans) - hospice patient.
Gaster even used it as an experiment for a while, but gave up because he considered it imperfect. Killer had his feelings erased as a result of these experiments.
He is the first to be recruited by Nightmare for his escape / destruction plans.
Dust (Murder Sans - Dusttale) - hospice patient.
Dust is a case of great interest to the doctor. A skeleton with a serious dissociative case that ended up killing his brother in a psychotic episode. Since then he fantasizes that his brother is at his side, talking to him even though no one sees him.
Because of this, Gaster did everything possible to put the skeleton in his care, including paying lawyers to ensure that he was considered crazy and ended up in the asylum instead of prison.
Gaster is convinced that like him, Dust is a rare case of a monster that can see beyond the mundane spheres and communicate with real beings, although they cannot be seen by other people.
He is recruited by Nightmare as well as Killer, to help him escape from the madhouse.
Blue (US! Sans) - Blue is a volunteer nurse at the hospice.
Befriends Dream. It is through him that Cross will meet Dream.
He has no idea what happens at the asylum and will be targeted by Nightmare's wickedness.
He interacts with Ink thinking that this is a patient. He doesn't understand why people look at him strangely when he comments on the dirty of paint monster .
The baby pal, his design is so cute and soft, it has to be one of my favorites, anyway, i almost wasn't able to fill the board, but i happily was able in the end.
