ThomasTheCoolKid and his random shenanigans

Just whatever the heck I want to do here.

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Yet another new AU in the works

Undertale: Shadows Cutting Deeper

Inspired by Something New (shoutouts to @rahafwabas) and the recent shadow crystal Dusttale trend

Premise: As an experiment, a bored player stabs Sans in the shoulder during their first meeting. It's not just any normal stab, though; it is the exact same sort that, when done on the ground, creates a Dark Fountain in Deltarune. The result is Sans gradually mutating, transforming into a creature of darkness akin to the Roaring Knight, or even a miniature Titan/Titanspawn.

Three stages of his transformation:

The starting phase. Sans mostly looks normal, though still tries to hide any transformed parts of himself. He already can't muster a proper special magic eye, it degrading into flickering wisps of blue and yellow light around his left pupil. Note the stitched up hole on the right shoulder; that is where he got stabbed.

The transformation has gotten worse, affecting the whole upper right side of his body. Sans has come to wear his hood up, somewhat resembling Dusttale's Murder!Sans in the process. He has also decided to preemptively switch to full track pants instead of shorts, and also wears boots instead of sneakers, in case the changes grow further. May also wear a white scarf to further hide his dark deformities (NOT Papyrus' scarf, he does not die and this is not a genocide run).

The last phase, how Sans looks during the Last Corridor confrontation. While still only loose wisps of light, the remnants of his special eye have grown more intense, along with darkening. Resembles a mix of fanon DustDust, the Roaring Knight, and a miniature Titan, the latter two especially UNDER his clothes.

He still has all of his classic abilities. Bones, Gaster Blasters, funky soul gravity shenanigans, teleportation, Karmic Retribution... The big difference is some additional darkness manipulation, extra attacks similar to the Roaring Knight, and a VERY notable boost to his physical abilities. Despite not gathering any LV like Murder or Killer, I would not call him physically inferior to them.

...unfortunately, this transformation also leaves him particularly vulnerable to light-based attacks.

Official name for this Sans is Darkling!Sans

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I have decided to have a try at human Killer

Killer by @rahafwabas of course

Shitty ibisPaint base pose aside, I took the "canon" human Killer design and combined it with elements of how I personally visualize "human Sans". For instance, I generally see Sans' eye changes mostly affecting the irises, so with Sans' serious face and how Killer usually is, they look pitch black, like the iris and pupil have melded together. (For reference, typical white dots translates into black irises with white pupils, and the special magic eye MAY turn the sclera black to better contrast, but I'm not sure)

[avant-garde-au]

🖌️ Hm? you look confused…

🖌️ Ooohh I get it, surprised to see Horror talk to Blue so casually?

🖌️ They’re pretty chill with each other now, especially since they do cook-outs every now and then!

🖌️ …Our multiverse is so calm now that everyone’s following suit.

🖌️ Which is! a good thing! I think!

📚 speaking of which, when’s the last time you’ve eaten?

🎉 Yesterday!

📚 that’s. a lie…— don’t walk away.

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Ink’s Design!

Error’s Design!

Dream’s Design!

Nightmare’s Design!

Blue’s Design!

Killer’s Design!

Murder’s Design!

Trickster’s Design!

Nems’ Design!

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❄️ HES SO CUTE

🌟 my favorite grandchild..

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Horror in heavy winter clothes is such a great idea, I wanna do it for one of my own Horrors

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Suddenly my brain has devised a take on Vampiretale

My take in particular is quite notably inspired by Kamen Rider Kiva (the aurafarming GOAT of Kamen Rider seasons)

The AU's version of Frisk

Frisk in full vampire mode + a visual of their soul

Every self-respecting vampire should have some decent level of drip at least

There are a total of four routes in this AU:

The pacifist route, a typical thing for AUs where you don't kill or turn anyone

The neutral route, now rocking even more possible outcomes due to being able to turn people instead of killing them

The genocide route, where you kill everything as per usual

The conquest route, a new sort of "variant genocide route" where you turn your victims into your personal vampire army instead of flat-out killing them

I'm working on a doc explaining the exact vampire lore for this AU, so be wary of that

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So! I have a brief story depicting the end of the conquest route, ready for your reading.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Suddenly my brain has devised a take on Vampiretale

My take in particular is quite notably inspired by Kamen Rider Kiva (the aurafarming GOAT of Kamen Rider seasons)

The AU's version of Frisk

Frisk in full vampire mode + a visual of their soul

Every self-respecting vampire should have some decent level of drip at least

There are a total of four routes in this AU:

The pacifist route, a typical thing for AUs where you don't kill or turn anyone

The neutral route, now rocking even more possible outcomes due to being able to turn people instead of killing them

The genocide route, where you kill everything as per usual

The conquest route, a new sort of "variant genocide route" where you turn your victims into your personal vampire army instead of flat-out killing them

I'm working on a doc explaining the exact vampire lore for this AU, so be wary of that

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So, beyond my prior involvement with @coffeefueledal's Cyberverse on account of being one of the people behind Forgotten Multiverse (previously a separate project, now included in Cyberverse), I have decided to make more characters for it. Thankfully, a recent story for CV gave me the perfect reason/inspiration.

Baku (right) and Melino (left)

Within Cyberverse, there is only one "true" version of Dream (full name here: Daydream) and Nightmare, embodying all positivity and all negativity respectively. All other "variants" of them across different multiverses are imperfect recreations, only embodying specific elements of the positive/negative spectrum. Forgotten Multiverse's Crimson is one such variant, specifically embodying hate, whereas his brother Gold embodies love. The story I mentioned that inspired this also introduced Hope, a Dream variant that is also based on Asriel, with a corresponding Nightmare variant named Despair that we sadly don't see in action.

Baku and Melino are similar such variants. Based on Frisk and Chara respectively, they embody the very namesakes of the original beings they are based on: dreams and nightmares. Melino induces nightmares in people, Baku destroys them to allow the people in question to dream good dreams instead.

Some extra details about the two:

As you may see from the image, Baku and Melino are a brother and sister, rather than two brothers as per usual. Baku is a boy, Melino is a girl (though flatly calling her a woman isn't inaccurate).

Baku is named after a yokai that eats nightmares and leaves good dreams behind (NOT the Kamen Rider character, though the comparison is approved by me because Kamen Rider is based). Melino is named after a Greek nymph known for causing night terrors.

Baku's fighting style is essentially that of a Quincy from Bleach, just golden instead of blue. Very much inspired by how Uryu Ishida fights, especially in the Thousand-Year Blood War anime.

Melino is quite playful compared to other Nightmare equivalents. While about as power-hungry as any other, she essentially sees her conflict with Baku as one big game.

Melino is partly inspired by Pitch Black from Rise of the Guardians, complete with feeding off of fear from nightmares.

Rather than an apple, Baku's soul resembles a leaf, as their version of the tree did not bear fruit. Instead, it had golden and black leaves that could be used as dreamcatchers.

Instead of being taken over by another being, Melino fell by being consumed by her own heightened power after accidentally mostly corrupting the tree and then lashing out at the ones that assaulted her because of it. If Kamen Rider Zeztz taught me anything, it's that nightmares are just naturally volatile and hard to control.

Similarly to the Nightmare from @the-true-ascendanceverse-project (and as seen in the image), Melino's powers manifest as more wispy shadows rather than the classic Nightmare goop. Makes for a good parallel with Baku's light. Her corruption also mainly manifests in her black hair, hate-esque blackened eyes, and fractured halo.

...yeah, a lot of Melino details and not too much for Baku yet. Despite me having thought of Baku first.

Oh well, Nightmare's always been the more compelling of the two brothers anyway, right?

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Non-ATU content jumpscare!

So sometimes, I just randomly think up OCs and put them in the UTAU wiki.

Here's one of them.

Crimson!Dust

"look, buddy, i hate this as much as you do. if i had a chance, i would've quit this a long time ago. but the voices... they just won't stop

I like this guy. Maybe I shouldn't, but I do.

Short terms explanation: Murder/Dust absorbs the human's soul to make them stop reloading and killing him anyway, becomes the new player character, continues to suffer because the player is a jerk

[crystal-mori]

So uh... over a month :| anyway, Omega!Tale is still a work in progress if anyone here remembers it. It's taking a lot longer than I hoped, but it's still happening eventually... (Root has nothing to do with this, just a silly guy)

Root belong to me

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I also have an Omegatale and this calls out how I haven't done stuff with that in forever and I DO NOT LIKE THAT

[sinn0hh]

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I would LOVE (not in the sense of LV) for people to draw my characters, whether they'd be from A Tale Unspoken or some other random design I think up.

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I believe I should note that I FRICKIN' LOVE ALIVE! There's a reason why I decided to make the Eternal!Gaster mess canon to A Tale Unspoken's "main" multiverse. Also the ALIVE crew are such goobers I love them XD

Shout-out to @tatatale for making such an awesome story!

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Quick yap session about Error

I see there's a pretty big trend of "retired destroyer Error" going around, @the-true-alphaverse-project even runs with that idea. And believe me, I love this concept. Prime!Error is AWESOME. The idea of him retiring as a destroyer (and possibly leaving room for someone worse to take his place, oh hi Proto!Error) is really cool and would lead to some great development. And the reasoning behind it makes a lot of sense.

...but what if we take it the other direction?

The main reasoning behind Error's potential retirement all boils down to the events at Ghosttale, and how Error was originally a perfectly chill dude, if rather confused about everything. And while - as I said - I LOVE the idea they go for here and would love more good guy Error, they do tend to miss the other part of that sequence: the crashout.

Error was perfectly fine with the world of Ghosttale at first, yes... but the MOMENT he realized it was an AU, it's like a switch flipped and he went full-on "AUs are filthy glitches" destroyer mode. It makes no rational sense as far as SPECIFICALLY ERROR is concerned (as in not Geno). And then you remember the explanation of how Errors work: they are fundamentally driven by their last thoughts before the Anti-Void's corruption fully takes hold of them. Geno's last thoughts were those of hatred towards other, happier worlds.

The moment I realized that, it all clicked for me. Error's hatred for AUs isn't just a personality trait or character quirk, it is quite literally a CURSE. Error is a deeply tragic character, doomed towards unending murderous hatred towards completely innocent people for reasons that he himself has nothing to DO with. And while the idea that he gets tired of it and dips is great, one could very easily play it for the tragedy that he is.

TL;DR: ATU!Error genuinely believes he is trapped in the path of destruction and has no true way out so long as AUs and ATs continue to exist.

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Here's the main antagonist of A Tale Unspoken's second arc. Or, at least, the Undertale half of it.

Adam Kadmon.

An artificial god comprised of human, monster, and machine components, for the purpose of making sure the monsters return underground.

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Here's some art of how certain characters look in A Tale Unspoken

Nightmare (was the first character I changed the design for because holy shit canon Nightmare is so dripless)

Ink

Error

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New Undertale AU MV story in the works

The story is called A Tale Unspoken, and it revolves around a Frisk from the original universe five years after the true pacifist ending (and some other stuff prior) who, funny enough, DOESN'T have a soul of determination. It's still red, just that red means something else in her timeline. And yes, this Frisk is a girl, here's a pic of her.

Pretty bad sketch, but I did my best.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Here's a link to chapter 1 of the story.

Have fun!

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So my dumbass just recently decided to make an OC for Rumble After Dark

Meet Ayana! (Yes, I looked into it, that's a unisex name apparently)

Details:

Mirror entity

Can be either male or female, but typically sticks to male (the gender-shifting is why I went for a unisex name)

Can transform into other people, but generally doesn't exploit that in combat

Very curious and inclined to examine whatever information he finds, such as vampires not being seen in mirrors

Weapon of choice: telekinetically controlled mirror shards (they can either flow freely or clump around Ayana's hands and feet for extra damage)

Playstyle: whatever the hell Chizuru from King of Fighters is supposed to be (lots of funky mixups with mirror clones, has a projectile reflector)

Bi by default of his gender being "whatever I feel like at the time"

Always barefoot in his non-copied forms, but surprisingly doesn't get his feet dirty

Left side of non-copied body is covered in a silvery crack pattern

"If you wish to play so badly, I'd at least like to know your preferences first."

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Why yes, I DO write random Undertale bullshit!

And also OTHER kinds of random bullshit!

[voydcat]

This feels very true.

All three: teenage superheroes with incredible strength, the ability to swing around and Trauma

Deku: also comes equipped with the most overpowered Spider-Man ability (Spider-Sense), and also has the power-and-responsibility mindset packaged in

Denji: can stick to walls, lives the Peter Parker experience of being perpetually broke with a minimal support network, terrible relationships, and trying to juggle Taking Care Of Himself with Being A Superhero

Am I on to something or am I just crazy

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Nope, this is kinda legit actually