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Welcome to the official Tumblr blog for UNDERTALE YELLOW - FROST BLIGHT.
(By the time this post was published, we are still in a very early stage of development, as time goes on this post will be updated in the future.)
So what exactly is "FROST BLIGHT" to begin with??
FROST BLIGHT is a fan project of UNDERTALE YELLOW that will integrate the concept of DUSTTALE as a whole. In simpler words, you may consider this to be the official "Dust" AU of UTY.
Wowwwww, another Dust AU, definitely hasn't got enough of it. So what is it about?
We are more than aware that by now the whole shtick going on with Dust AUs has gone stale for many, but we have a completely different direction with this project.
Rather than following the classic DUSTTALE route where you would be fighting against a monster that is killing its own kind in order to level the playing field with the human, FROST BLIGHT will take place in an alternate universe rather than an alternate timeline of base UTY. It happens in a scenario where the entire world has stuck in a second Ice Age not long after the Great War, leading to all the events happening in this AU.
With DUSTTALE focusing on the aspect of LoVE and EXP, for this AU we want its story to focus on JUSTICE, and explore the many faces of that particular concept, as stated in the description: "What is justice, for those who have never seen peace, and for those who have never seen war?"
In FROST BLIGHT, it follows the story of a world where JUSTICE no longer serves as a tool for balancing order, it is now simply for justification, excuses, even, toward everything from right to wrong.
You take a bad thing, and then you compare it to some other bad things, and suddenly it's no longer a bad thing, it's been JUSTIFIED! It becomes a good thing.
And eye for an eye, justice is blind. Blind the whole world, she does not mind.
Okay, we are going a little off topic, alright, that is cool, so what's up with the characters?
Alright then! Behold, our lovely protagonists! FROST, and THE FALLEN.
"Wait, why are the both of them... the PROTAGONISTS?? Shouldn't there be one protagonist and one antagonist like DUSTTALE does?? Like Sans and the player?"
Because in a way, this serves as a tool to portray the different ideology of JUSTICE by making the story about BOTH of them, because that is exactly the motive behind their actions in the story - Both of them believes in a completely different sides of the same concept, clashing with each others.
And finally - Our goal for this project.
This is not the first, and definitely will not be the last Dusttale-esque AU, we have switched things up to not make this AU being incredibly stagnant like the majority of AUs with that concept. In a way we have “reinvented” the concept by integrating ONLY the core idea of DUSTTALE into UTY.
To us, DUSTTALE has always been about someone doing something that challenges everything that they stood for in order to stand against something else. Whether it is conflicted with their morality, or them already being such a flawed person, they fell even into a deeper hole and eventually never find a way out ever again.
In other words, DUSTTALE is not just simply an AU where a character suddenly gain awareness of the game's mechanic and falling into the same deranged path like the player to us, it can, and it DOES mean much, much more. FROST BLIGHT is our attempt to explore on that particular concept, using UNDERTALE YELLOW.
So what are we going to do with it? Making a comic? A soundtrack site? A game??? Well, truth to be told, none of us really thought that far yet, we have so little people working on it together so the chances are slim, we can't do EVERYTHING alone.
But you know, never say never, perhaps that can change in the long run, maybe this will turn bigger than our expectations, maybe we will just keep being lowkey, who knows? The possibilities are endless, but honestly? It does feed into our excitements, we want to do this to see how far we can go, to find our limits and even find a way to go beyond. It's fun.
So, for now, we are just a bunch of goobers that are half the planet apart, who just happen to have a story to tell. : )
But more on that, this project was created out of our love and appreciation for UNDERTALE YELLOW, and to me personally - DUSTTALE. UTY has been one huge inspiration for all of us and it is practically how we even and became friends.
As for DUSTTALE - I have grew up with it since 2016, and I had a really interesting love-hate relationship with it, so much drama and breakdowns I have went through because of it, but it has also inspired me to do things that I can never imagine. I want to take this chance to make a tribute through this project, I love it with all my heart, and I want to use all that love to make FROST BLIGHT's story come to life.
Well, I suppose that will be it for now. We are very excited for the upcoming path, along with all of you, this will be a good run.
In the meantime, you are welcome to ask us anything!
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