i'm still really proud of 'asrielasitgets'

I scored 'asfalseasitgets' for his hypothetical mirror too but plans didn't work out

and I really like that I got 'scarletshifted'. it was originally going to be a storyshift account because I have a Chara AU problem

seven letters for each word, plus 'shift' plus a physics pun bc they were in Sans's role

that didn't quite work out either lol

One of these days, I want to RP Shift!Chara when enough canon comes out. I'm curious about Shift!Blooky too.

yessss do it

My Shift!Chara has the same horrible backstory as regular Chara, difference being they got to run away sooner and lived long enough with the Dreemurrs to officially see them as family instead of

"eternal sleepover."

i can't wait for the genocide run tbh

Oh my I know it's going to hurt so much. ;;

I have a feeling it'll be worse than canon geno.

so much delicious, delicious pain

Me: Storyshift is so cute, I love True Paci-

Me: Oh. OH.

Me: I forgot there's going to be a geno run.

My heart sinks looking at everything that could have gone wrong in True Pacifist.

Like, oh, the possibility of you killing Papyrus, Chara's friend that they cried over not hearing from anymore.

killing Asriel

Shift Geno Run aka Chara Torture Porn.

"I suppose it's my just desserts for what I do in regular canon."

i have an entire Executor fight planned out in my head to lonely digger

The worst part about killing Asriel is in neutral, you do it through what is essentially play.

yeah, at least in genocide you're a threat everyone sees coming

Like two kids playing with real swords pretending to be pirates only to have one of them literally stab the kid through. Oops, that's not acting...

god tho in neutral chara has to wonder if that was underestimating strength or deliberate

(in genocide, there's no question)

Either way, their brother is dead.

Genoshift!Frisk: Time to slaughter an entire family.

Chara's death in geno is going to be so heartwrenching.

ha ha storyshift chara fuckin kills me

Like dude Shift!Hapstablook, please put the Player out of their misery.

not as much as the fandom interpretation of them though ha ha i'm still salty about that

"chara was going to go on a killing spree!!!"

literally how do u miss an entire year's worth of characterization

Chara was clearly characterized as a sad kid who went through so much shit before being adopted by the Dreemurrs. And each update of them makes them even woobier.

(I repeat: calling Asriel in front of the Ruins gate where he tells you about Chara befriending Papyrus)

exactly

Like... Chara being friendly but wary. Because they know what humans can do.

Still can't believe there are people getting the wrong end of the stick about C R U N C H

especially since voltra made DAMN SURE you knew exactly how chara turns violence toward themself first

i mean. they did that in their canon counterpart too???

buttercup poisoning ain't what you'd call a nice and efficient way to go out

"Oh god oh god please don't kill my family or anyone else here they don't deserve it they never deserved it"

"monsters are really fragile jsyk be careful"

"race you to hell" only has so many connotations

golly i love it when characters being explicitly suicidal is seen as cause to call them dangerous and unreletable

*unrelatable

And considering in regular UT Sans never attacks you even if you kill Papyrus. Only in genocide route when you've killed everybody else.

So if we apply it to Storyshift...

Chara won't attack you if you spare at least one monster.

They will loathe you to fucking hell, but they won't attack you.

((one of my bro's friends is suicidal and mom said she didn't want him sleeping over in case there was a murder-suicide bc that's how it works in the movies
like she was easy to convince otherwise but))

jesus christ

suicidal people evidently don't deserve things like "sympathy" or "understanding"

(( ))

((I sorted it! She Understands now I think. But it sure was a Moment))

(( That's good. Yikes ))

lmao god

It's amazing how hypocritical our society is regarding mental illness. Especially fandom.

gosh dang see now i wanna make an open post for storyshift chara but like i only know one other person who plays from storyshift sobs

i'm still pleased as punch i nabbed cter for my storyshift chara though lmao

chara "cter" dreemurr

: D high five for that username

Fan 1: omg that character is such a woobie ima gonna write them depressed and suicidal so their twu wuv can save them!
Another Character: (actually depressed and suicidal)

Fan 1: OMG get over yourself!
Fan 2: OMG SCARYYYY

don't get me started on the proclivity to heap all the traits onto sans instead

"gosh it'd be neat to explore a character's depressed and suicidal tendencies"

alphys: exists
asgore: exists
chara: exists
fandom: what if SANS was depressed and suicidal though???

Oh, don't forget the Alphys bashing.

frisk: exists
fandom: sans is so sad omg

"it'd be so neat to explore what it'd be like if a character dealt with an abusive background!"

frisk and chara, two children heavily implied to have not had great surface lives: exist
fandom: what if SANS had abusive parents???

Like, it's definitely implied Sans deals with depression, but he's one of many in UT.

literally like half the main cast is explicitly and implicitly suicidal

^^^

Oooh, ooooh, another thing I like.

cause then you've got characters like toriel, who deliberately place themselves in harm's way with the expectation that they'll die

Take all of Asriel's flaws and insecurities and lashing out as a result of trauma and heap them onto Flowey.

cause they're!!!!! totally different people!!! obviously!!!!!

the fact that flowey's theme pops up in "hopes and dreams"? pfft that's just uh. coincidence

the fact that they speak exactly the same and act exactly the same is just.......totally unrelated!!

Asriel was always an innocent cinnamon roll. He did nothing wrong! The thought of him coping in unhealthy ways? Ewww, that's something Flowey would do! Asriel would always make the right choices!

(reasons why i love snap's asriel: the constant internal monologue of how he's trying So Hard to be good and Not Flowey and trying to create these separations where none exist)

(What's Snap's Asriel's username?)

alltozero

Okay, sweet.

he's over at hadriel rn!

(i love snaps asriel so much
it's Rlly Obvs something's gonna give at some point)

lmao right

with this next event too

he got sorted into the group that gets mad about deescalation tactics

omfg

It's ironic too 'cause it's something Asriel does himself.

sans: calm down
asriel: DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN YOU SOGGY TRASHBAG

"don't think of that as me"

honestly rage making deescalation tactics a point of anger is a brilliant masterstroke

Knowing fully well the things he did as Flowey are still him but not wanting to believe it because he'd have to accept that he'd been a terrible person and that hurts.

cause hey guess what!! kids have really black-and-white views of the world!

that's why chara is "not exactly the greatest person" so that frisk can be put on a pedestal in their place!!

kids

undertale, the game where no one knows how to Deal With Their Fucking Trauma

My Chara was raised to believe they are evil incarnate. The idea a person can do good and bad things and no one can be comfortably assigned as 100% hero or villain? UNPOSSIBLE

i mean that is a really sadly common thing about abuse

when your morality system is wholly reliant on what The Adult says is "bad" or "good" it's going to emerge really badly

an inconsistent morality system based on an abusive paradigm makes the child dependent on the abuser

never knowing when they'll be punished and never knowing when they won't be for the same exact actions

Adding to the fun is there will never be a "good" victim.

Copy-pasting from things I put in my fanfic notes...

god i fucking hate the Good Victim frisk archetype

"abused character: [is meek and submissive, cries a lot and is in obvious distress, is vulnerable and scared]
fandom: they're so WHINY and BLAND,,, how could ANYBODY like them???"

"
abused character: [is angry and bitter, hates their abusers and lashes out]
fandom: um,, they're JUST AS BAD AS THEIR ABUSERS!!!! they should ) forgive )"

demure and gentle and kind good victim frisk never hurts anyone or lashes out or feels bad!!

lov that double standard

"honestly, Sakura aside, isn't it funny tho how the general response to being confronted with the fact that a person was a victim of violence is to subject them to more violence"

chara was just Bad and Evil I guess

i mean fuck i've WORKED with kids

that's learned behavior

"the only acceptable abuse victims are the happy ones"
"idk even then, abuse survivors who are too happy have clearly never been REALLY abused so obviously they're liars and abuse isn't real "

There's just no winning.

How dare you have been mistreated!

and the always wonderful

"abuse victims always turn around and become just as bad as their abusers)

which is why i h a t e nochoco with a burning passion lmao

Which is exactly what abusers love to use on their victims.

never mind that i hate the rhetoric used, never mind that i hate the self-righteous tone they have about how ""important"" that post is

it's flawed logic and poor shitty reasoning

Hell, it extends to shipping and nsfw tumblr drama I've noticed. I even wrote an essay about it. Antis froth about Frisk being paired with Sans, etc. But unless it's a general "DON'T PAIR OR AGE UP CHILDREN

WITH ANYONE" post, Chara is nowhere to be mentioned.

Chara just isn't an "innocent" enough child for them, I suppose.

lol let's please not absurdly feminize the children so we can ship them with adults

i guess since chara Did A Bad Thing once they're not deserving of basic respect

they're not even deserving of proper pronouns

I HAVE A LOT OF SALT ABOUT THIS SORRY

^^

How dare Chara not fit into their proper criteria for a child victim.

Oh. There's more. There's actually people who accept maybe it's not Chara's fault genocide route happened. So they go and blame it on Frisk for "not resisting their control enough."

bottom line if you played undertale and came out thinking there was a "villain" you did it wrong lmao

Heh, considering we mentioned Storyshift Chara earlier, that's perfect.

But yeah. Protecting Chara and Storyshift Chara 5ever.

Undertale: A game where everyone is a person with flaws and motivations
Fandom: Let's get really polarized! also Sans is hot

Undertale: Bad things have consequences and need to be accounted for, but doing them doesn't necessarily mean you're a bad person.
Fandom: (holds a grudge against Asgore forever)

Fandom: Also (insert character not the skelebros) did (insert mistake here) they didn't deserve sympathy.

In Asriel's case, "Flowey did (insert mistake here) It's not Asriel's fault! DDD:"

Me:

this is why I love when people who do PP things where Asriel doesn't turn back for whatever reason and actually address that it's not as simple as sunshine and rainbows forever for him

Personally, I like it when Asriel does change back, but he still struggles with the same things he did as Flowey. Like what do you know, he's actually a child even when he's supposed to be "normal" again.

nods that's good too. as long as his experiences aren't wiped away for the sake of a 'happy ending'

i like how several people independently came up with the idea of flower mecha

I mean, dude, why would you do that. Everybody learning to cope with their trauma post-True Pacifist is the most appealing part of post-TP!

I could be biased considering the shit I went through in life, and I like knowing that even if I'm not "okay" I can still be happy.

if yall have read dust of daily life it's my fave asriel content

Link?

also epic divorceman and squatlord draws BUT I'LL SING THEIR PRAISES FOREVER

the good content

(sits down and reads)

hhhhhh yes I remember this

valety does good stuff

i'll preach the good content forever

THE GOOD CONTENT!!!

literally the best content

Just finished dust of life. ;;

ISN'T IT GOOD

I've seen a few of Epic Divorceman's stuff, haha. XD

Looks like he's going on to make big stuff too. I wish him luck!

But oh man.

Speaking from personal experience, being trapped in a cycle of guilt and self-loathing fucking sucks.

yepppp

The part where Toriel read him 72 Facts About Sons got to me.

there's a lot of that fic that gets Too Real lmao

"I like making tea because it lets me be alone with my thoughts."
"(insert Asriel version of here)"

I already heard all the NOPE NOPE NOPE.jpegs that went through his head there.

The things Alphys and Asgore said reminded me of what my own psychologist told me while I was stuck in a guilt/self-loathing spiral I definitely needed to see her for.

The "You can't decide what people think of you" bit.

I still struggle with that a bit, 'cause being stuck with paranoid thoughts is awesome, but I'm glad Asriel is slow on that like I am and we're both doing okay regardless.

This is the catharsis I seek from post-TP fic right there.

yes god