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my shameful secret is i've never actually played the game beyond papyrus's date
so I'm watching a playthrough for my fic and
there's so many small details I love it
Like alphys apparently having a wireless light thing
and Frisk putting the flour and milk on the eggs
Frisk no
They don't even move when he comes at them with a chainsaw this kid is so Done
I love this game :' D
more fuel to the 'Papyrus knows about shortcuts' fire: he's very unimpressed when sans says the activated puzzles are also making him miss work
it's really interesting going through this looking at where Frisk appears to talk
attempting to explain the steam puzzle to papyrus over the phone
frisk you shameless shipper
mettaton the heck did you just do to the fourth wall
viewer count keeps going down lol
i've completely forgotten about taking notes whoops
Frisk's stripes keep flashing as they walk
I'm headcanoning this as a future clothing thing and nothing can stop me
also the wall hole only goes a few feet deep which makes me think mettaton was deliberately sealed in there
come into my lab mettaton, I have a great idea for a show for you, it's just inside this wall...
come into my lab mettaton, I have a great idea for a show for you, it's just inside this wall...
the cask of mttillado
snrrk
why am I watching this when I have the game Right Here oh well
alphys you adorable ball of concentrated Gay
why are these puzzles apparently based off monster souls, is it meant to be educational?
what's with this lost cactus
these rotating cogs in the blackness inexplicably grind my gears
Muffet's fight is the entire reason I got into undertale
I saw it over my bro's shoulder and was like wow
everything's so synchronised to the music
still love it
(excellent music)
Frisk either telling or asking her to let them go AFTER at least one ACT
MUFFET YOU SAID IT WAS BREAKFAST FIVE SECONDS AGO
I wonder who was the one who tipped her off? I've seen Mettaton, but why would he switch forms just for that it doesn't fit
Flowey has a smile and can shapeshift, is his motive still Frisk's soul?
Flowey has a smile and can shapeshift, is his motive still Frisk's soul?
That would imply at this point he still doesn't see them as Chara
He might be lying through his teeth but I find the idea of Flowey having a hoard of G hilarious
good god tho going through dialogue for Flowsriel's app is like punching yourself in the face repeatedly
he wasn't even going to take the six souls, in genocide, he was going to let chara break the barrier
"we don't require a novel"
looks at 3 pages of 11pt font that hasn't even gotten to the start of in game canon
sweats
lmao shepard's eway app was 12k words. i feel ya bud
hhhh
cupcakes eyes are more like holes through it's body this Concerns me
mettaton coming down a stair brbrrbrrbdbrdbrbdrb
this musical omfg
Frisk continues to look utterly Done
his flames are pink! that's good to know for future reference
yell to yellow omfg this game
that soul inversion looks like it feels so weird
Alphys that's not a "silly program" that's brilliant
she's great uwu
ikr??? like, work she's done with souls is amazing
*the work
In future AUs I like to have a lot of the magic and soul related tech be directly traceable to her
...for better or worse
hhhhh that would be so good
I have so many alphys fics I wanna write, man... this is just makin me wanna write them more
she is, unironically, the brilliant Doctor Alphys
wriiiite them
I would read the heck out of them
I have like... one alphys oneshot and i'm looking back and cringing a little i got her so wrong
I REALLY SHOULD IT'S JUST BEEN SO LONG SINCE I WROTE FIC
i have like two neutral end pieces and then one big canon divergent au
because im personally salty that alphys has like no aus of her own
she doesn't stutter nearly that much, dear lord, this is what happens when you take characterisation from the fandom echo chamber
dude I fuckin do that when I'm tagging too
when I joined eway I overwrote it so bad like. I still have to catch myself
there's so much opportunity for AU!
like. AU where she actually did manage to break the barrier.
like. AU where she actually did manage to break the barrier.
where are the coffeeshop AUs can you imagine Alphyne coffeeshop AU
the one I have like... half-planned is an au where the determination experiments actually allowed her to save/reset
so she literally just... starts savescumming to get people to like her
hoooooh man she WOULD
alphys no
until inevitably frisk falls and she can't anymore and suddenly she has to deal with her relationships lmao
but yeah she ABSOLUTELY WOULD
get undyne to fall in love with her, repair all her relationships with others, be the amazing perfect person she's always wanted to be and tHEN
suddenly she can't be Perfect Alphys
BOOM, SUCKA, YOU GOTTA DEAL W IT
everybody's going to see what she really is oh no
plus facing that she had this amazing power and... used it for herself. didn't let people know so she could help them.
And there's nice parallels to MMKC's mind control
there's a lot there lmao I really wanna write it
(could be worse she could be melting)
dooo iiiit
take my firstborn child
EVENTUALLY LMAO...
oh god don't give me a baby jesus idk what id do with it
i'm ace dun worry it's very unlikely
(god the more I'm watching hotland the more attached I'm getting to Alphys hhh)
(she's very Spark)
what are the two neutral end pieces?
hahah Frisk just hung up on Papyrus re-explaining the puzzle I love this deadpan kid
why do the elevators look like boss monsters
OH i wanna do a one-shot for queen alphys bc im a big fuckin sucker for queen alphys stuff
and then i have a long-form fic about a king mettaton ending with the next humans to fall into the underground... bc i demanded alphys be Alive lmao
oh heck yeah Queen Alph is my favourite neutral
SSSAME
oooh
just. she evacuates everyone???
steps up to a position that has enough pressure to crush her even more than royal scientist because there's no one else
"I should have killed you when I had the chance"?
steps up to a position that has enough pressure to crush her even more than royal scientist because there's no one else
"I should have killed you when I had the chance"?
like damn
if Muffet hadn't stayed behind, you'd never have won
She did in genocide what she played at in pacifist
(and god Alph in the Mettaton Dystopia would be one heck of a ride)
that fic is like. completely planned and netted out I just need to fuckin write it
and here I am. a weenie
hhhhh
stop being a weenie
face fic writing head on
(something I think about a lot is the next human falling into an aborted genocide.
Empty, silent ruins. Howling snow. Deadly traps. kid you're getting uncomfortably close to being indiana jones)
Empty, silent ruins. Howling snow. Deadly traps. kid you're getting uncomfortably close to being indiana jones)
LORD
don't look now, but you're being watched
YE LL
nobody's playing around anymore. It's not plaques on walls
Everyone knows exactly how dangerous you are
Everyone knows exactly how dangerous you are
honestly that's the only situation where I could see something like underfell working out
but like. how far did the geno run go. who's left. bc I tell you what if it's Queen Undyne god help ur ass
Queen Undyne: u ded
Queen Alphys: no one's allowed to directly confront you but I hope you like deadly lasers and things designed to block you in
Queen Alphys: no one's allowed to directly confront you but I hope you like deadly lasers and things designed to block you in
yeah she. wouldn't want to sacrifice anyone. it'd be all puzzles and traps until you could actually be caught
and then she's just "fffffuck what do I do shit shit shit"
what if we just... seal the human in a wall...
god
problem solved
talking to sans like "??????????? what do"
sans like "idk push them into some lava maybe" "SANS"
what fascinates me is Alphys prioritises getting people away from you over killing you
which is really sound! stopping you from getting LV is important
that probably wouldn't change
which is really sound! stopping you from getting LV is important
that probably wouldn't change
(although there's probably a great deal more deadliness to the obstacles
pfft royal advisor sans
and god there's the added factor that like
that's a human SOUL
that's a human SOUL
does she start doing what Asgore did again?
(and it means she can't just punt the kid into lava )
I like how Bratty and Catty acknowledge their alley is creepy
alphys taking those two on dump trips is adorable
the ~mysterious disappearing key~
hhh did shyren already know blooky looks like I have to tweak something
HUMAN CLUB
i love metta and alphys's friendship
i love metta and alphys's friendship
sans keeps looking like he's occasionally stopping to read the next bit of his speech that's been scrawled on his arm
his anecdote seems more natural
toriel sounds like she laughs like my mom
red faced and crying a little and pounding on the table
everything about alphys makes me happy shes so good
there's so many good friendships in this game
I'm really feeling the 'neglected character' vibes when it comes to her now : (
I mean like a good fourth of the game is connected in some way to her story
'you'd be dead where you stand' gets funnier when it looks like he's checking his notes again for it
yyyyyep
HAH
"why'd I write 'thread' on my arm"
sans having to remember to threaten you
i can see it tbh
i sympathise with ficus licker
we are all ficus licker in our hearts
this is true
all of us trying not to let on we don't know what we're doing
omg narrachara subtely dragging Sans
"Comedians, dancers, Sans..."
it's like a very oblique 'that's not funny'
egheheheh
not surprised, after that
aaaa a rodent in a mining helmet everyone go home this is the best character in undertale
snowdrake's dad makes me wonder if monster culture considers normal others would consider overshare
i mean there's maybe only like 100-10Kish monsters in the whole underground, depending how many you assume are offscreen
there probably isn't really such thing as a stranger down there, in the general sense
that's true
we also don't know if Frisk asks anything, come to think it
(also huh, the hotel used to be an apartment block. that's probably not helping the overcrowding problem}
the hush puppy is weirrrd
I love Frisk trying to sell people junk look at this budding entrepreneur
man I wonder if King Mettaton runs things based on 'how they are on the Surface' as much as he did his hotel
honestly I think the hotel is where Alphys, Bratty and Catty used to live
ooooh! headcanon accepted
explains why they hang out in the alley nearby
and man if it's 200G a night on the cheap, how expensive is it usually
jeez metta
(also how??? does the wood become pipes? is the wood just painted pipes?)
(I like Gaster's sense of aesthetic.)
oh man this curcuitry pattern is so visually calming
A++ would visit ancient ruins of this
gonna go move buildings
why are there two silhouettes and one encounter this bothers me
monsters disappearing from the overworld bothers me
the overworld bothers me
someone looked at the CORE and thought "you know what we need? a pit full of fire"
I approve of their choices
pfft it's a literal firepit oyyy
oh man sigil above the doors
that's a great version of the delta rune holy shit
...signs of disrepair : (
that sure seems like exposed wiring
orrr a cooling pipe?
squints is that magic glass?
I wonder if the lines in the walls being cyan yellow and purple mean anything
the viewpoint makes it look like Frisk is walking up a wall hhh
whoa even the insulation is coming off the wire/piping
how old is the CORE
I don't understand anything about this trashburger room
sometimes I wonder is Gaster's fall was, well
"Will Alphys end up the same way?"
:^)
God I wish the Gaster Alphys parallels were explored more bc there's a real sense of inheritance there
and not in a 'all alphys has is what she got sense'
but more of a RQ/Steven building on from the past sense
but more of a RQ/Steven building on from the past sense
hhh I don't think I'm articulating this well
Just
The Royal Scientist sure is a title
The Royal Scientist sure is a title
who is putting trashcans in the middle of these rooms. why. why not the edges. this irrationally grates
YOU ARE SPEAKING MY FFUCKING LANGUAGE MY GUY
YOU ARE!!! SAYIN!!! MY SHIT MY DUDE
there's so much that could be explored with this angle???
good lord I love me some 'coming across remnants from the past and building on them in original fashion'
I'm 60% sure no physical DT machine existed until Alphys felt the blueprints
*found
i mean she probably felt the blueprints too
She took this proof of concept and made it reality and good god that takes skill
YEAHHHHHHH
especially since it was probably all in flipping wingdings
like we have... no real idea how much of gaster's research survived but it's obvious a bunch of the stuff she pulled on for her Determination research was from him
science is all about standing on shoulders and reaching hight
*higher
like a good 99% of his shit was probably gone but from the parallels between the design of the DT extractor and Flowey's DT transformation like... it's all connected. ot
it's gotta be*
hmm well I'm thinking that the reason Flowey had that element of his form is because that's his connection to the six souls; he was made using DT extracted from them with it
Alphys did remarkably well for a roboticist/engineer flung sideways into the mostly completely unrelated and underexplored field of SOUL research
fucking literally
like. when you consider what she was up against and that it wasn't even her field of study she did amazing
like the woman's gd brilliant she just... hardly believes it
: ( alphyssss
"silly program" kind of encapsulates it
"silly program" kind of encapsulates it
yeahhh
she just. oh my god does she try
she tries so hard
in this institution
she was stumbling around in the dark is it any wonder she stepped on a lego
two legos
like. like 17000 legos
help im steping on all these legos
i warned you about legos bro I told you god
i warned you about legos bro I told you god
man tho it kind of hit me in the face when looking through the lab logs but
she's just fallin down all these amalgamates
Alphys was the discoverer of Determination
snrrrrk
YYYYAESAH
like there was NO FUCKIN WAY she could've known what was gonna go down
She friggin' named this new, unknown substance
curby&coughing
was
it a bad move to just, uh, inject a shitton of it into people???? yes absolutely bUT
yeahhhh she caved into desperation bad time there
the thing is, the only property she knew it had was
"gives human souls their ability to stay intact"
the thing is, the only property she knew it had was
"gives human souls their ability to stay intact"
and one thing I didn't realise until I actually read the logs was
she wasn't trying to bring people to life
she wasn't trying to bring people to life
she was trying to preserve their souls
yyyyep
it was a reasonable deduction with a massive massive lurking flaw
that she had no way of knowing
she was running under the assumption that determination caused the physicality when... it's more complicated
literally she had no gd idea
like she. honestly made mistakes but they were LEGITIMATELY MISTAKES
i have so many headcanons about DT and how it interacts with magic
half the fuckin fandom like "oh man alphys did this on purpose" like. fight my whole ass buddy boy
YEAH
this wasn't hubris!
this wasn't hubris!
those people were for all intents and purposes dead as well
and she was so happy! accidentally brought them to life but alls well that ends well
and then uh
whoops
just. her story is really fascinating.
it isssss
im sorry i die about alphys every day I have So Many Passionate Emotions about her
give me the emotions I have a new love for this lazard
never be sorry
RIPS SHIRT OPEN I LOVE ALPHYS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hhhh, alphys's plan was to convince Frisk not to leave
which makes sense given the whole monster soul thing
but now all I can imagine is one of these 'frisk decides to stay' AUs
which makes sense given the whole monster soul thing
but now all I can imagine is one of these 'frisk decides to stay' AUs
which usually have them crashing on the skel's case but in this case has them sitting on the box bed eating ramen while watching human history and Alphys mildly panics
because she didn't exactly think this through
she's got a human kid staying at her place now
LMAO
who still doesn't know the amalgamates are there
and like jesus she can't just call Asgore and be like "yes ok the human is. at my house. yes the 7th one that would break the barrier but liKE"
what's one more secret right alph?
but asgore HAS TO KNOW there's one more human in the underground
lmao he calls alphys she's just like "UH THEY FELL INTO. SOME LAVA IN HOTLAND. DANG. SHEESH"
"SORRY GONNA HAVE TO WAIT FOR ANOTHER ONE HA HA HA oh god"
pffffffffffft such a shame. so sad.
meanwhile she's just Fucking Panicking
now factor in Frisk shipping her with Undyne
g o d
'hey Undyne you should come over to the lab Alphys really wants to see you!'
Alphys clawing for the phone while looking like she wants to curl up and disappear into the floor
Alphys clawing for the phone while looking like she wants to curl up and disappear into the floor
she'd just. she'd Die
RIP Alphys, 21XX
plus undyne just "wait asgore told the guard the human fell into the lava, alphys what the hell"
alphys just [closed mouth screaming]
and if it's someone other than Undyne: imagine Alphys trying to hurriedly hide Frisk like one quickly shoves a plate under a rug and then belatedly realising she's shoved them in with the amalgamates
LORD
having to run through true lab hoping she finds them before they do
this kid is doing wonders for her blood pressure but not good wonders
yyyyyyup
'oh my god are you okay'
'i got to pet a lot of dogs'
'that's??? good???'
'i got to pet a lot of dogs'
'that's??? good???'
frisk has great priorities in life
pfft *Burn
"I'm helping!" - Chara, probably
"I'm helping!" - Chara, probably
Frisk can now say they've touched Mettaton's backside
Chara Dont
is
that really his soul?
looking at the blueprints, I think Alphys might have flipped it with something injected
maybe a little DT
this could have lead her to conclude it was safe
bad things happened when she upped the dose
hmm, I'm on the fence
SOUL battle! Closest thing to an exchange of bullets Frisk will get
"It's out of batteries" Harsh, Chara
And that's hotland done. Time to stop I think.