Before The Anger- Episode 62, "Again With The Student Party..."

Before the Anger side story:

"((She had no Appetite.))"

This is the first relevant side story in BTA. It follows Chara as she first entered the underground and her fear of monsters.

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(1) Chara had no appetite. She stared at Toriel in the kitchen, who hummed a song and bounced on her feet as she crossed to the stove. The same confusion every time. Chara counted the seconds it took for Toriel to remember that her fire magic no longer worked. Exactly six. Toriel laughed to herself and turned to Chara. “Hey, sweetie, would you like to help me in the kitchen?” Chara knew exactly what was going through Toriel’s mind. “Family bonding”

(2) Chara decided to humour Toriel and joined her in the kitchen. She even pretended to smile and said, “Sure, Mother.” and seeing Toriel’s face light up made Chara’s smile genuine. What a stupid woman. Chara stood beside Toriel, looking up into her piercing eyes. Being this close to such a creature made Chara’s hands tremble, so she made a tight fist. 

(3) “Here, child, you can cut up the carrots!” Toriel offered Chara a knife with a big smile. Chara’s hands felt ice cold; the knife, the sharp edges catching the light; Toriel’s disgusting, monstrous grin; her claws grasping the handle. Chara raised a hand to her mouth to cover her disgust and rushed out of the kitchen without a word. Toriel watched her leave, a confused tilt in her head.

(4) That night, Chara didn’t eat. Or the next, or the night after that. Toriel and Asgore were concerned, but being that they didn’t know much about humans, they had assumed Chara had a different diet. And in any case, the other monsters were getting curious about Chara’s existence and wanted answers, so they arranged a QnA at the castle- with Chara’s permission, of course. 

(5) Today was the day of the QNA. Chara calmed her nerves and looked out on the crowd full of horrible creatures. She had no appetite. Her stomach ached. Her hands twitched. Her mouth curled into a sickening grin. As she approached the monsters, Asriel finally caught up to her side, out of breath. “Are you excited?” Asriel asked, an innocent squeak in his voice. Chara stroked his soft ear. 

(6) Suddenly, Chara felt puny and defenseless against the towering, snarling, grinning monsters. They clawed for answers. Chara’s own breath suffocated her. She could hardly feel her feet as they sprinted toward any semblance of safety. But every corner was unknown, full of terrible surprises. Chara collapsed, finally, on a secluded ledge in Waterfall, curled into a ball of sobs and fear.

(7) Chara heard something behind her and jolted to attack. The second before her fist was about to land, she pulled away. It was only Asriel. Asriel was shaken, but continued toward her anyway, his eyes large with surprise. “Why’d you run away, Chara?” Chara caught her breath, soothed by his childish voice. 

(8) “It’s hard to… to be the only one of your kind in a big, scary new world. Can you imagine if you landed in a world with only humans, no friends?” Chara explained. Asriel paused for a moment, then sat down in front of her. “You have me! We are friends, right?” Asriel held his breath as he waited for Chara’s response. Chara smiled and pet Asriel, “Yeah. It’s just you and me against the world, buddy.”

(9) Toriel searched for Chara and Asriel, the worst in her mind. She worried this would happen, with Chara skittish behavior around other monsters. Finally, Toriel found them in Waterfall. When she asked what happened, Asriel stood up and said “Chara and I wanted to go for a swim.” Toriel furrowed her brow. Asriel was only six years old, he had never lied to her before. Asriel clutched Chara’s sleeve with a nervous smile.

Episodes with this side story: 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50

For the first time in a year, I drew these little rodents from a story I never made called "Moonface"

This is Cancia and Musar. They are on the run from the police because Musar (the shrew guy) stole the King's face. Its hiding in his little man purse. Where does Cancia come in in all of this? Well, they are perfect strangers, but she followed him out of curiosity after he crashed her show and danced with her. The show is called MoonFace, which is where the story gets its name.

This world they live in is inhabited by rodents, and their king is an owl... You can imagine the problems that might arise. They look a little kiddy because 1) that's the art style for this story and 2) rodents kinda always look like babies so I emulated that in their designs. Oh, and it may be worth to note that these two are one of my ONLY hetero love stories. My token straight romantic rodents ❤

Ultimately, I may never pick this story back up but its still cute. They are fun to draw, tho!

I replied to this ask before I came up with the idea the draw things for each ask, so to make it up to you, I drew you something now!

Sorry for the wait, @susartwork lol. I made your little guys 😁

They were extremely fun to draw. I hope its accurate enough 😅

I just read all of BTA and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!

I love how you portray Alphys, and I love Siqua and the others as well! (funk Gaster tho) Their interactions are so fun to read.

The story is so interesting too and the art style is awesome. Keep up the good work!! ♡

Omg thank you!!! (And yes, you are right about Gaster... He gets even worse)

My favorite thing about writing is dialogue and psychology, so I'm glad you noticed😁 tysm for saying this it was so nice 😭❤

Before the Anger- episode 37, "The 'Complicated' History"

I love this episode! All the little details make my nerd heart happy. This episode has set the most timeline out of all the others so far!

((Elaine and Papyrus had gotten to know each other. Months had passed. They were close, like an older, responsible brother and a found sister. Papyrus wasn’t what Elaine had expected. He didn’t try to be a “father figure”, but his presence brought the same comforting energy anyway. But there was one question Elaine had: why would Papyrus quit being a royal guard?))

Uh oh! Some spoilers for Papyrus's future?

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Before the Anger- episode 34, "...No. (pt. 1)"

Does this episode look different to you? If so, you are right. This was actually the first episode I ever made of BTA. I was testing the comic style and didn't think how much my style would change. So it's a bit odd, but I tried my best to edit it so its less jarring.

((Seeing as the conversion was finished, Elaine started to leave, but was stopped by Undyne. “Wait,” she said, “I need a name to refer to you as.” Elaine made a dreadful sigh, knowing this question would come up. “Legally? ‘Elaine’. But nobody has ever called me that before.”

“So what do they call you?” Undyne asked. Elaine shook her head and started a list, “Kid, Armless, Trippy, little Jailbird… really anything you can think of. It was the same with my mom and sister. I never even learned what their real names were.” Undyne tilted her head, shocked, “What a strange tradition. What about you? What do you WANT to be called?”))

A double decker for today's side story! This one is almost over. Afterwards, we'll start a new side story (in my opinion, a much cooler one)

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I love the composition and colors here!!! Just perfection so pretty❤❤❤

Sorry for taking so long to reblog, I was doing easter stuff :)

They are doomed, I fear 😔😔

We must cherish it for as long as possible

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If you somehow haven't noticed, I've been reorganizing my Tumblr. Now I've probably clogged up your feeds y'all im so sorry 😭😅

To apologize, here's an apology drawing.

Hey, at least the Table of Contents is super neat now! you should check it out because I spent all day on it no joke. 🙂

This drawing was inspired by @featherspiral s art. Just very good stuff go check them out

Before the Anger- episode 61, "What is a God? (pt. 2)"

A new room for the first time in a while! This is the Garden. It isn't really shown off in this episode because its not the main focus, but there will be more detailed scenes in this room later.

How do we feel about how Asgore handled that situation? Was he too dismissive, or just trying to calm her down? Or something else? Its your opinion to make :)

((Asriel prepared himself for the question- something he’s wanted to ask for years, but every time he’d start, Toriel would flash him the look. The look that told him what he was about to say was rude or dangerous or could set Chara off. But Toriel isn’t around, and by now, he and Chara have known each other so long that, in his mind, it was time for his questions to be answered.))

What does "set Chara off" mean?

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Before the Anger- episode 25, "Picnic Party (pt. 8)"

So, Siqua finally talked about the fading magic. They've alluded to it before, but this time its direct. Now we are setting up timelines! Remember: Alphys and her colleagues had magic when they were kids.

((Undyne titled her head and spoke humorously, "You're not trying to challenge me, are you?" she was referring to Elaine's poor condition; exhausted, dirty, and somewhat wounded. Elaine shook her head. Amused and mildly concerned, Undyne invited the strange girl into her home to chat.))

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I enjoyed this intellectual conversation between brothers

I've actually thought about having a sideplot in season 2 about the kid's extracurriculars. Papyrus being a drummer would be very fitting (no promises, obviously)

Nothing unusual about this conversation…..Absolutely nooottttt buzz buzz

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Decided to do a paper aesthetic kinda, idk I thought it looked cool😞 (Also another BTA character drawn!)