You Ever Think About How Toasters Love Bread But Hate Toast

What’s your typical day like?

i wake up. i malfunction. i call it a day

C’mon Japan, are you guys even trying?

No way asriel undertale

Summary:

(noun): phenomenon in which the sudden introduction of air into a fire that has been depleted of all available oxygen results in an explosion

Teru confronts the reality that his relationship with his parents isn’t as rock solid as he thinks it is.

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hi everyone!! its been uh. a pretty crazy few months since the last update and everything has been super busy so we've made a lot less progress than we'd have liked. but we wanted to share this chapter as a christmas/new years/holiday gift!! gonna be a while till the next one though sorry ToT but thank you all so much for the comments you've left in the last few months, i'm going to try and get to some of them today!!! and as always thank you for reading and enjoying backdraft :D i hope we can get back into the swing of things soon. -mint

happy new year! hope you enjoy this little break in hiatus :] big shout out to mint for writing the majority of this one. she’s been going ham on these chapters while I’m still waiting for the writing bug to bite me again. thanks always for reading! - rose

happy new year! Thank you so much for coming back for this update. The biggest of thanks to Mint, who wrote a staggering portion of this chapter and did an absolutely incredible job!! All the best from all of us! - currant

more doodols from ch 6 & 7 of backdraft by @r0semint… back in my teru feelings era not that i ever really left

papyrus backstory rant repost from main

you know what isnt acknowledged enough?

we know more about sans and gaster's backstories than papyrus'.

what we know about gasters backstory:

he was the royal scientist, he likely had a lot of hubris, he built the core, he fell into the core, pieces of his existence were scattered across time and space, he had a following of people that were seemingly also caught in the blast and was/is somehow connected to papyrus, sans, the player, chara and deltarune. certainly not the most detailed but a damn good basic outline

what we know about sans' backstory:

he at some point was a scientist, there is a mysterious group of people he will supposedly never see again, he is likely the older of the 2 brothers, he might have seen a human before frisk, he at some point lost hope of ever returning to an unspecified location and at some point gained the title of judge. still relatively vague and some clues are fairly out of the way but still, a good idea of who he was before frisk fell and flowey fucked around

what we know about papyrus' backstory:

he came from somewhere unknown with green grass, he doesnt like hotland for unknown reasons, he made the battle body a few weeks before frisk fell, flowey took a liking to him for unknown reasons, undyne likely only recently started training him but when she did it was because he waited outside her house all night, he was apparently feeling down for a while before frisk fell and.. what else?

this vague ass tiny idea of what he maybe did like a month before we meet him hardly serves as a backstory. and funny enough this is all i can garner from oh idk THE CHARACTER WITH THE MOST LINES OF DIALOGUE IN THE WHOLE GAME SECOND ONLY TO THE NARRATOR! this is why i lovingly dub paps the king of deflection, as another example lets look at the time someone in the papyrus qna asked what he looked like when he was younger and in response he played dumb to be purposefully stingey about his past and try to show a picture of himself from the day before through a textbox. and its not like he doesnt know what hes doing, hes stubborn not stupid, thats why he vaguely hints at truelab during a phonecall despite moments before pretending he doesnt know what a lab IS, thats why he plays dumb around sans, thats why he seemingly lies to frisk about his knowledge of hotland, thats why he knows how to use reverse psychology well enough to manipulate UNDYNE of all people, and thats why he brushes off sans' time shenanigans as yet another prank across time and space, because he is the king of deflection and we dont know shit about his backstory and neither does anyone ingame, so if he does end up being the knight, he's hidden bigger bombshell secrets before, so why stop now?

COMMUNICATION IS A MYTH !!!

hanging out with my pals and what do you know we find 100 bottles of beer on the wall. so i say to my buddy rick "how do you think those got up there?" and hes already taking them down and passing them around. absolute mad lad

hello there i am a very tiny teensy tiny flying bug. i have been madly in love with you ever since i first saw you walking around in my forest. my natural lifespan is very short — i long to spend it flying directly into your eye, so that you might shed but one tear for my heartsickness