Every once in a while, I decide I need to go back to Sans's sprite and re-decide how I want to draw him, particularly his head shape and eye socket shape. And then I usually go of the rails seeing how I'd tweak things for his variants, which definitely happened this time.
Red and Blue here are kind of just what I use as a default placeholder look for Reds and Blues in general -- they're not the canon designs or from any particular interpretation of their AUs, and that's true of Dust here, too. The Horrors are from two separate Horror AU ideas I'm kicking around, but they're very Halloween Town Horrors: they look kinda scary, but they're not malicious. And then Killer and Error here are pretty much straight lifted from their canon, visually.
The bottom set of four are from @popatochisssp and you can easily read more about them using her Undertale Skeleton's Master Post. Slate and Jasper are from Wave 1, and Ash and Brick are from Wave 2. I really like them, and I think you probably would like them too, if you don't aready :3c But if you're not into Sanses, or these types of Sanses, there are a bunch of Papyri and Swap / Swapfell Sanses you might enjoy! (Edit: fixed so all the colors have the appropriate hex code colors as assigned in their reference post.)
When you try to cut your own hair and end up looking like Azula from the ATLA finale and also you're married to the devil (hyperbole) who laughs when you ask him for help
At least your brother-in-law is a gentleman š
(Skeletons belong to @popatochisssp )
Well done, everybody~!
Edit: better, updated version here
He calls it "getting head" just to make her even more mad
(Kohl / Descendtale!Sans belongs to @popatochisssp)
Someone mentioned theyād like to see Kennyo with a man bun >u> I was trying to find the post where it was mentioned, but I canāt! So uh if youāre seeing this, let me know what you think. Thanks for the inspiration!Ā ā
Edit: Aha! It was @renwritesrandomthings
5 am thoughts: It's fun seeing monsters written from the UTMV as really powerful and dangerous, pretty much always in the context of romance fics, but every time I do see it, I can't help but think about Asgore and Sans, and even Undyne at her most determined, getting merc'd by a child. About how not a single human soul was taken in the war between humans and monsters, while "countless monsters" were turned to dust.
What I'm saying is the first time a Bad Sans ran into an adult human who regularly hurts people for their own benefit and/or amusement (and there are...lots of them), they'd get their shit wrecked. Nightmare and Error aren't actually monsters, but as long as they're operating within the UTMV, I'm applying UT's mythos and themes to them. Outside of natural disasters, humans are the most powerful destructive force in the (multi-)universe and everything hinges on whether we choose kindness or cruelty.
Horror could be dusted by a Karen and that's just the sad facts of the metaphysics Toby Fox laid out for us.
If anything, the scary skeleton bfs need their human lovers to protect them in a world where they're no longer going up against beings made primarily of love, hope, and compassion.
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This is from summer 2018, very early in the development of Reika and her story. A lot has changed in the conceptualization of her character and herĀ ārouteā with Kennyo, so to speak, but Iām wheezing reading this and I think itās funny enough to post, even though itās scrapped. I think I was just playing around, doing something fun to get a start on the project, so I wrote this as if it was the opening of an animeĀ š
[Exterior Shot: As if from the ground, looking up at a wide blue sky with a few thin clouds as a plane crosses far above]
[Interior Shot: Inside the plane]
Reika looks out the plane window with a bright, hopeful smile. She glances down to her phone, and sends a messgeāāYeah, Iām reading it (laughing emoji)āābefore pulling up the digital copy of A Travelerās Guide to Japanās Hottest Warlords
[Voiceover]
āMy name is Ishikawa Reika, 27 years old and single, blood-type O, born in the United States.ā
[Exterior Shot: Kyoto University]
Reika stands before the iconic camphor tree and clock tower, one hand holding the extended handle of her āteacherā suitcase, the other shielding her eyes from the sun as she looks up at the tree with a smile.
[Voiceover]
āA few months ago, I moved to Kyoto to finally begin my dream of teaching English to students at the university. As the child of immigrants, I also wanted to get closer to my heritage.ā
[Interior Shot: at Nobunagaās memorial stone]
Reika walks inside the small shrine, looking at the engraved stone with a more curious/solemn expression.
[Voiceover]
āBut this might beā¦ā
[Exterior Shot: Azuchi town]
Reika, on Masamuneās horse and flanked by Hideyoshi, stares up at Azuchi castle in the distance, clearly mortified.
[Voiceover]
āā¦too close.ā
[Roll Opening Credits]
āI have something special, just for you.ā
Very rough concept sketch for another form of Nightmare to use in my own stories (maybe! eventually!) -- I like writing him as speaking very eloquently in a cruel, condescending way, but itās a little undermined when he looks like our round snuggly boy Sans Undertale. š I just donāt find him scary in a hoodie and basketball shorts. He can be scary in the way he behaves, but... well, itās fun to play around with new ideas, too.
So I hc that while sometimes he chooses to look like Sans, specifically around people who know Sans because itās extremely unsettling to see a warped, goopy, tentacled version of someone you know and love (or to see a warped, goopy, tentacled version of yourself!), his default form borrows more from the body he stole/corrupted -- i.e., from the true Nightmare. Heās chosen to make himself intimidatingly tall, though, with unsettling proportions. He wears the robe open and is just naked bones underneath because people are often spooked by skeletal figures... heās SOL with skelefuckers, though, hahahaha~
Ah... it's the boneman
And some self-indulgent fluff
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