Before The Anger— Episode 64, "Theories Are So Immature."

New animation just dropped!

I wanted to practice lip syncing, so I took a short bit of a song I'm working on and made a little animation! Its very sketchy and unfinished, but "clean" wasn't my goal anyway. This was actually a very helpful practice!

If you know anything about my music (for the majority of you, probably not lol) you might recognise this tune. I like to reuse bits of my music in other songs as a call-back, at least when its in a series or album. In this case, this is Sans's song, but I used some of Nimiee's theme "No Exception" because these two interact a lot in this song. (I'm currently in the process of making theme songs for all of the characters in Before the Anger)

This is nowhere near the final version of the song, by the way! I'm just a very slow composer.

Notes below cut :)

Im still new to animation and, despite producing music for almost 2 years now, have yet to make something that sounds professional lol. I am a trained soprano 1 with a naturally alto-ish range, but I tend to make songs with a higher range. Therefore, this tenor range song is quite a challenge 😅

In this animation, some of the original lyrics change meaning. Near the end of Nimiee's verse, the lyrics change to red, and instead of Toriel being the one to help, it is Asriel. Of course, Sans is his normal pessimistic self. But, instead of calling Nimiee a stupid child- like he usually does- the scene changes to show a mirror. Tsk tsk. Are we projecting, Sans?

Most of the themes so far have two versions; a casual, lighthearted one; and a heavy, sad one. However, I don't think I will be giving Sans a lighthearted version of his song. What will I be doing with these themes? Possibly... a comic dub...?

GASP! Poetry!?

I love when people look into my tiny details. Idk if I've said this before, but every pose and dialogue and speech bubble (well, except for some things in the beginning, when I was still figuring things out... Lets ignore those.) The angle of the body tells so much.

One tiny detail, for instance- Chara's signature color is red, yet the clothes Toriel and Asgore give her are green. The complementary color. You may have noticed that when adding red filters, the green dress tends to turn a little. Do with that as you will, I just like to ramble.😈

I love this! EEEEEE

Such a strange, wild child..

Based off this episode [here]

BTA IS BY: @bri-jo-g

Before the Anger, episode 11- "Work Stuff"

Note- sorry for not posting for so long! However, is some romance budding between these two?

You may be wondering where you can read the original UnderAnger (BTA is a prequel to it, after all) Well, although there is a Webtoon of UA, I cannot recommend that you read it since it is old and awful, and more importantly not even cannon anymore. I have been going through the process of rewriting it on Wattpad (I know the reputation... it's not that kind of story I promise) but I'm not finished and some things aren't fully timeline accurate. However, I'll link it anyway in case you are curious. UnderAnger

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Before the Anger- episode 44, "Annoying Kid!"

((“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.))

I love Papyrus and Sans's dynamic. There's a lot of complex psychology in the little details (do you notice a theme in these comics?)

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Before the Anger- episode 18, "Picnic Party (pt. 1)"

Alphys caught lacking

This is the first of a 10-part series. Also the first mention of "royal weatherpeople". What other royal occupations are there other than guard and scientist? Why are the weatherpeople never happy? What do the weatherpeople do? Weather, of course.

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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!

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.

Click "keep reading" to read the full side story :)

(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

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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Before the Anger, episode 8- "Cleaning up (pt. 1)"

AND episode 9- "Cleaning up (pt. 2)

Double upload!

Fun fact- when I first made Under Anger (what BTA is prequel-ing) I was 11 and was sick of every AU being about Sans. So I went out of my way to give every other character more lore than Sans bc I'm petty /hj

But that's why Alphys, Undyne, and Papyrus have a lot more substance and scenes, while Sans is pretty much just reacting for the first season of this comic. For those sans lovers though (so pretty much all of you) he becomes kind of cool once he gets older.

But yall haven't even met the skeleton brothers yet! In due time.

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Before the Anger- episode 40, "Student Party? (pt. 2)"

Cliff hanger! And, spoiler, the cliffhanger won't be resolved next episode because there's a Holidays special... But, after that, it'll be back!

This is episode 40! That means theres only 10 episodes until we are caught up with the WEBTOON. Once we are caught up, I will be posting them at the same time: every Thursday normally around 12pm but things happen lol. It'll be sad to say goodbye to daily-ish posting, but oh well! It may give me more time to make official art of this story, which tends to do better on tumblr.

No side story today, since we finished that last one. The next side story will start on episode 42. I'm very excited for it, and you should be too :)

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