be scared
I should have done this AGES AGO.
This is dedicated to all the people who are just as crazy as I am :D I hope to god you're out there-
You ever heard of the game Night In The Woods?
A quick glance through your blog makes me think you'd like it lol
OH IM SO GLAD I GIVE OFF THOSE VIBES-
Yes, yes I have…..*bursts into tears*
Mae is my favorite character :3 this is a pretty old drawing, but its the closest thing i have to NITW fanart😔
…maybe I should make some…
frantic scribbling on a notepad noises
IM SOBBINGGG LITERALLY ME AT YOU THOUGH 😭 I love your comic sm I go crazy for all the sand and paper writing
How I feel seeing some of my moots
Like they have so good art
I know this isn’t canon in undertale or this au, but just imagining Papyrus knowing about resets to an extent because part of him was split across time and space, and he just hides that from everyone so he can be “everyone’s good old innocent Papyrus with 0 problems” is such a fun idea to me.
I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS ON THIS THOUGH- BECAUSE WHAT IF IT WAS CANON???
Excuse me while I use this to make an analysis of Papyrus’ character- i didn’t choose this life. This happened to me.
The main question I ask on the debate of if Papyrus is aware of resets or not, is…if Papyrus, as we know him…doesn’t know about resets…Then would learning about that…change ANYTHING about the way he is now?
The most obvious trait of Papyrus is that he’s INCREDIBLY optimistic. He’s one to go in with his head held high, and keep it raised for basically his entire life. Everything he does is incredibly light hearted, and this leads to a lot of accidental flanderization and misremembering of his character. But to get more into that, I wanna address how Papyrus and Sans contrast and are foils to one another. They are complete polar opposites…and yet… SO alike. In their little bits they do in the Snowdin Forest puzzles, Sans doesn’t take anything seriously, while Papyrus takes EVERYTHING seriously, but in the end it’s all light hearted. I know some of that comes from just the games general tone, but I like to think some of it is part of their genuine character.
Analyzing characters in Undertale can sometimes be a tad frustrating in that way, since its hard to tell which jokes have meaning and which jokes are just jokes.
But back to my original point, Papyrus sometimes gets very mad, sometimes very confused, but seems to either flip on a switch with anger, or just roll with confusion, as seen with Papyrus being “mad” at Sans, or confused at what Undyne is saying on certain phone calls. He’s just naturally a very happy person.
Thats where the common trope of Papyrus lying about everything and actually being a completely different person from whats shown in the game comes in. I think thats inherently a tad silly, since “I lied.” is a bit of a lazy twist. THATS NOT TO SAY HES NOT DEFINITELY GOT SOME WEIRD SUSPICIOUS THINGS ABOUT HIM Its just to throw all of his actions in the game out the window in favor of “he was acting” “he was lying” is not how I like to analyze him (but if you do, more power to ya :D) (Some also argue that Sans is just like that, but I disagree since in the geno route when its properly revealed just how much he knows about resets, it completely makes sense and is more like an answer to a question we had for the longest time. WHAT does he know?? cause he clearly knows something. Additionally, in that fight, Sans doesn’t at all come across as a completely different person, its more like we’re getting to know him better. See a side that he’s buried for the longest time since he never thought it would come to this. Or at least hopes to god it wouldn’t)
Papyrus’ optimism/pacifism both comes across as naive, and extremely admirable. It takes different forms in different settings and perspectives, Flowey dismisses it as stupid, but thats because he’s Flowey- Sans genuinely admires it for several reasons which ill get into later! And Undyne…uhh…honestly i cant tell how she feels about that, just that she cares an awful lot about him and thinks itll get him killed one day (*cries vehemently*)
But my main point here is in the usual game/pacifist route, its very clearly established that Papyrus has a heart of gold and sometimes that can get exploited on how he is the one constant moving factor to help the route actually happen in helping Flowey set everything up. It’s lowkey giving foreshadowing on how he may be the knight in deltarune because of- OKAY OKAY- PUT DOWN THE GUN
Getting exploited is one of the downsides we see in the pacifist route, but in the geno, we get a VERY clear look into how far he is willing to take his faith in others. His willingness to see good in people is tested, and its established he doesn’t have a single distrustful bone in his body, always believing in people to change. It’s never “too late”. Even after you kill him too
This is HOW Papyrus would know about resets comes in
The King Papyrus ending is a moment in the game that I have many opinions on that disagree with a LOT with a big portion of the fandom (at least last time I checked)
Papyrus not being told about his friend's death, leads to 2 big assumptions about his GENERAL CHARACTER THAT I DISAGREE WITH. Sans lies to Papyrus on a daily basis, and Papyrus doesnt understand what death is. These are things that work in to fit every day life, and are proven by happening WHEN ALL OF HIS FRIENDS ARE DEAD 😭
I feel these are more a result of Papyrus’ unwavering trust, which can be certainly admired in a lot of ways, but of course, used, too. Even if people agree with me on that unwavering trust part, people still use that as ammunition for Sans lying to him being an often occurrence. But- Sans… right now- is being put in a REALLY bad spot. Telling his brother to his face that all his friends are dead isn't something I think anyone wants to do. So, him lying to Papyrus isn’t exactly proof that he thinks little of him in any way, it's more his desire to protect a person he loves from knowing a horrible truth, and having the opportunity to do so on a silver fukn platter. But even then it feels like Papyrus still knows…he’d just rather accept whatever Sans tells him. Thats Papyrus’ ONE AND ONLY FLAW
Papyrus also seems like he naturally thinks very black and white? and by black and white I mean only white.
The common consensus on his character is he only SEES good, but just like the assumption of how things work in daily life being attached to how these characters act when someone comes down and kills all their loved ones, I think thats working on a very surface level character-moral-compass. Its not that he only sees the good, its that he believes in the good no matter what. There may be bad, but good can and will, prevail
Papyrus sees and knows that people have the ABILITY to lie, he just also believes they are telling the truth when they say something like “I promise this is 100% true” because he still trusts everyone, and trusts himself to handle whatever happens as a result.
Papyrus sees that the world may never truly have an ending, but he believes that things will turn out eventually.
Papyrus is not stupid, he’s optimistic.
and also autistic
MY BOY!!!!! MY BOY!!!!!! THE BOY???
Ough this is so so gorgeous and honestly one of the most impressive artistic feats ive seen- THE DEDICATION IS CRAZY!
My boy is riiiiight there :3
as a celebration- heres some more art of him! He got demoted cause he lost a bet to Bubble :3
I plan to do more with him but nothing too serious cause this entire au is basically one big shitpost and Caine + Ragatha interaction excuses. (GUYS THEYRE SO SIMILAR YOU GOTTA BELIEVE ME)
GROUP PHOTO!
Drew every Caine I could think of- apparently you can fit 50 Caines on one sheet of paper lol (and I’ll draw more next time!)
NAMES—————>
Abstracted Identity (AI, YAI, AAI) @galactic-knightmare
Artificially Organic (AO) @jaxangel
Amazing Ice Skating (IS) @deduukkk
Avatar Code Error (ACE, ACE!Z) @ladymiraclewings
Cannon Caine (C) GLITCH
Critical Error (CE) @the-spam-specialist
Cat!Caine (CC) ANYONE!
Discord RP, Llama’s Caine (RP:S!C, V!S) @llamaflower
Discord RP, Kay’s Caine (DKC) @?
Dragon Caine (DC) @ray-of-destiny
Diary: Property of Caine (DPOC) @funnyguy788
Discord RP, Gaygemzz’s Caine (HT) @?
Emotional Caine (EC) @sunnyknight-original
Freak Show (FS) @hootbon
Fight Club (FC) @burrotello
Fazbear and friends, EP: o5 (FAF) zamination
Flaw Swap (FS) ME!
Fan VN Game TADC (VN) @
Gravity Falls Caine (BC) ANYONE!
Gender Swap (GS) ANYONE!
How To Raise (HTR) @bubblebear4life
Human Caine (HC) ANYONE!
Little Nightmares (LN) @iamespecter
My AI My Circus (MAMC, YMAMC) ME!
Night Walks (NW) @funnyguy788
New Ringmaster (NR) @?
Opposite TADC (OC) @?
Power Loss (PL) @sunnyknight-original
Ringmasters Written Reminders (RWR, YRWR, A!RWR) @the-spam-specialist
Reasonable Crashout (RC) @17-noodlebird
Rot For Clout (RFC) AND (CF) @?
Road Trip (RT) @17-noodlebird
Replacement Code, swap (RCS) @replacementcodeau
Road to Digital Hell (HT) @gaygemzz
Storybook (SB) @
Spudsy’s Caine (SpC) @?
Swap Caine (SC) @?
Therapy but it's just Zooble interrogating Caine (TBZ) @spark-hearts2
Tumblr, Pudding’s Caine (PC) @puddingandp1
The Amazing Digital Carnival (DC) @burrotello
The Shadow’s Digital Performers (DP) @theshadowsdigitalperformersau
The Amazing Digital Office (DO) @pikavani
Traveling Circus (TC) @lumineary-arts
The Influence (TI) @spread-the-influence
Undertale Caine (UC) ANYONE!
Wonderland (WC) @endomentendo
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(Please comment and fill in the blanks/fix errors!)
FINE more context because its funny to be incredibly vague about things im working on
be scared
TAKE MY PAINE!!!!
IM SORRY IM SORRY DONT KILL ME IK THIS WAS A WHILE AGO AND NOW ITS NOT EVEN FINISHED AND IT NEVER WILL BE 😭😭
I wanted to explain why, before I analyze it as a whole- SCROLL DOWN FOR THE GOOD STUFF!!!
Basically YOU REMEMBER THAT ANIMATION I POSTED LIKE 2 DAYS AGO??? And how I wanted a new app to rig better??? Well @distantmaniacallaugh got me into Toonsquid. So THANK YOU DISTANT, MY OP :D but then that also means that im not animating on procreate anymore- ever. Toonsquid has……changed my life. im never going back. (get ready for some animations coming real soon, I’ve started like 6 projects 😭) BUT all of the frames done for this bad boy were done on procreate- so its actually Distants fault that this is unfinished so GET THEM!!!!
THIS ANIMATIC IS EFFECTIVELY THE CULMINATION OF ALL MY OBSESSIONS WITH JAX AND CAINES POTENTIAL RELATIONSHIP!!!
Showing the timeline of Jax’ development in the circus, so ofc beginning with his first day. Goose once said he handled it “not well” but we can pretty easily assume that based on the everything about him.
For this narrative specifically though, he’s at first confused and a tad concerned, before trying to take off the headset, it not working, then concern turns to panic.
Ragatha is quick to try and console him, telling him that everything will be alright despite the circumstances “take a deep breath”.
But then Caine comes in.
This is a representation of Jax’ whole attitude twords the place taking shape. Ragatha is someone who (at least tried to) believe your life does indeed matter in the circus, as she seemed to have a great mentor in Kinger for that sort of thing. But Caine is someone who, so far, doesn’t appear to value LIFE whatsoever. Mainly because he just doesn't understand it- but whatever reason he has for his actions doesnt matter here, since it comes across all the same. He interrupts Ragathas to ask Jax his name!
Caine interrupting Ragatha symbolizes Jax’s own viewpoint he’ll go on too have, that he will adamantly believe/go along with Caines view point than Ragatha and Kingers. I feel like Jax’ view points eerily reflect Caines own (as an AI who doesn't value other AI life, Jax is a human who clearly doesn't value other human life.)
Jax has been established to be someone who REALLY likes being in control, (as shown very clearly in the first 2 adventures-) and what I think makes for an interesting plot in how he could interact with Caine, is Jax is very much willing to TAKE that control. under any means necessary. What goes through his mind here when Caine asks his name, is “The Ringmaster has control.” “I want control.”
“Control The Ringmaster.” this last line being shown by how he chose his OWN name.
Time goes by, people abstract, some old, some new. Kaufmo appears, but doesn’t disappear, showing that this next moment happens much later in Jax’s career but still before Pomnis' arrival.
Jax is going about his usual business, talking to Caine, getting what he wants because he knows how to work the AI. He thinks he has Caine in the palm of his hand, but as we see from Caine zoning out and questioning things, he couldn’t be further from the truth.
But Jax is still blissfully unaware, going about his business, convincing Caine to give him random shit to have fun with and mess with people, including keys to everyones room, explosives, centipedes, and then him just stealing Zoobles limbs for shits- He couldn’t be happier to fully embrace the slapstick. There are no consequences here, so why act like there are?? (and thats where he’s wrong)
Its all going well, until Pomni requests to change the adventure (episode 4). Jax is like “…heeeyyy..only IM supposed to control the ringmaster- wtf man >:(“ but he brushes it off. Then the adventure turns for the worst, when Gangle makes it so there will be consequences- but not just for this adventure, no. Caine said “thats what my adventure(S) have been missing”
Guys Jax is so cooked in these next episodes
Im genuinely convinced id still think about them/Caine while i’m in an ambulance being rushed to the emergency room
HOW ELSE AM I GONNA DISTRACT MYSELF???
Im losing my mind cause I have 2 amv ideas that im equally as enthused about- i gotta pick one or the other
also ive made several amvs now so the bar is WAY HIGHER but my skills are still fairly low WE GOTTA COOK WITH THIS ONE 😭 I wont give any context cause im tryna be as quiet about it as possible (unless you read the “keep readings” hehe looky you, youre in the cool kids zone) BUT HERES A SCREENSHOT!!! also this doodle looked really funny so take that
…..if you know you know.
Characters (left to right): Arch, Felicity
Howdy! Im Sunny/Arch :D Ive got illustrations, animations, and essays for fandoms and original characters
My Main Project: Whats Left 🏠
Undertale/Deltarune and The Amazing Digital Circus hyperfixation
Struggling with how to draw something? Ask me in the Ask Me Anything box!!! I’ll gladly make a way-too-in-depth tutorial
Artfight: SunnyKnight
Youtube: @Sunny_Knight27
Commissions Open!!! (Public prices post - pending)
THE ARCHIVE:
HIGH EFFORT/ILLUSTRATIONS ⭐️
IM NOT DOING ANYTHING - TADC (Caine)
Fraying Decaying Mind - Forgettable AU (Skelebros)
ANIMATIONS N ANIMATIC ⭐
TIMELINES MUST PASS - Forgettable AU (Skelebros) (drawings as wallpapers)
LOVE LOVE LOVE (unfinished) - TADC (Jax and Caine)
LOW EFFORT/FUNNY ART ⭐️
Wingdings Back Talking - Forgettable AU
Famous Last Words - Undertale
Why Can They Speak Binary Code - Undertale (Skelebros)
WRITTEN YAPS N ESSAYS ⭐️
Forgettable AU Page Analysis - Forgettable AU
Dinner Is Gone AMV Analysis - Forgettable AU
Papyrus and Resets - Undertale
Keep Reading - For Extra
The Scrap Bin :3 (doodle collections)
The First - Caine and Papyrus
^Lyrics from “Neighborhood #2 (Laika)” by Arcade Fire^⭐️They/Them - 17 y/o artist! Papyrus and Caine rule my entire life and there is no going back
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