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But would your favorite continue the age of fire, extinguish it and bring about an age of darkness, or take the flame for themselves and become the dark lord?
They've been putting writer's notes on each story so far and a lot of them are really interesting.
Matthew Morgan
Not
Jace Myers
I'll fuck you in the ass if that's what you're after
Camden Edwards
I said post the lewd
Jayden Williams
What was this?
Hudson Garcia
dunno, didn't catch it
David Jackson
which one?
Julian Rodriguez
Hypothesis: In every AU that primarily revolves around swapping roles, there is only one pairing that's actually interesting and everything else is an afterthought.
Swap based AU's are rarely interesting unless you do something like Pumpkin did where she made the minor characters like the Snowdrake family into the roles of the Dreemurr's.
Owen Anderson
Can't really think of any interesting pairings in Underswap. I mean, there's flowey swapped with temmie, but that's just stupid.
Landon Rodriguez
Underswap led to Papgore porn at least so its not completely worthless
Maybe for you, but I just can't get off to those characters. Underswap Muffet is pretty cute, though.
Jayden Lewis
Chara burpfic?
Owen Sanders
Tsunderplane oil leak fic?
Nathaniel Butler
Cheerie chirpfic?
Wyatt Ramirez
Mettaton bootlickingfic?
Christopher Collins
Only if you completely ignore any and all aesthetic-focused AUs
Chase Edwards
He is >primarily revolves around swapping roles
Luis Hughes
>I know they get memed a lot here okay, stop. I'm going to level with you for a moment here
I don't hate the undyne writefag, it's a good thing that someone's still doing fics. I don't mind the memes either, because they're usually more amusing, than hurtful, somewhere on the level of skull, when people found out about his ending. but the level of devotion towards this one writer by the /trash/ regulars passing by here is really starting to approach some serious bootlicking levels
I'm sorry I really couldn't word this in a nicer way
Adrian James
Burgerpants hasanicedayfic?
Colton Watson
Shame, really. Stuff like Arctictale, Underkeep, Underdream, even Tribetale right now, are all aesthetic-focused and are actually pretty decent with some minor occasional gaffs.
Maybe the lack of a story isn't there to ruin it, see: storyshift, but they're almost always a delight to see art for.
Oliver Gonzalez
OP here, I wasn't intending to deride other AUs - Tribetale is downright beautiful - just noting that in my experience a lot of the community around Swap AUs have disproportionate focus on one pair of characters while the others are comparitively neglected, and I was curious if that's an accurate assessment..
Anthony Powell
>people aren't allowed to talk about undertale content creators in the undertale general
Parker Williams
If you're looking strictly at Swap AUs, sort of. Storyshift tried, but kinda failed, Underswap is best left unsaid, Altertale is maximum oversoriel, but those are really the only very big ones I can recall. Stuff like Inverted Fate or Altered Destiny play around with swaps as well, but with more of an ensemble focus.
While there are a lot of swap AUs on paper, most don't really make it beyond the idea-phase
Jonathan Martinez
"Oh my user, I've been on my feet all day and I'm so very tired. I would appreciate a little foot massage."
Ara ara intensifies.
Robert King
not what I said, but nevermind, you can screencap what I said and have a nice laugh on /trash/ about it if you like
Alexander Watson
Toriel, you probably need to consult a podiatrist after cramming your large feet into such tiny shoes. You've probably done yourself some damage. Look at procuring some custom shoes better shaped to fit your feet, as odds are most human manufacturers aren't equipped to make shoes that would fit.
Easton Thompson
I like the aesthetically focused AUs but Tribaltale hasn't grabbed me, the art's visually interesting but otherwise, eh. Also I dislike Sans/Frisk so when I realised they're taking it that direction it lost some points with me.
That's totally fine though, that's the thing about aesthetics, they either grab you or they don't, not much the artist or you can do about it.
I'm only kinda sad for the artist, because they finally decided to show this stuff outside pixiv and tumblr immediately descended on them for flavor of the month causes, this time cultural appropriation
Ryder Sullivan
These are the Undertale characters ranked by how likely they're to pee outside: Sans > Chara > Asriel >Asgore > Papyrus > Undyne > Frisk > Mettaton > Alphys