Authors note:
I know most readers don't care about authors rambling, but I just want to get a few things off my chest and you can skip this part if you want.
So this is the first fanfiction I have ever posted online. Not the first I have ever written if I'm gonna be technical, just the first I've ever shared on such a large scale is all. The first fanfiction I think I ever wrote was when I was like 9 years old. I didn't technically write it down as much as I just had a bunch of panels that all related to one another, but thus "fanfic" was basically a crossover between "Jak and Daxter", and "Ratchet and Clank". Or at least it started that way, but as time went on the story went completely of the rails and I started adding characters from Sly Cooper, some movies I think, and even characters from freaking Grimm Fairy Tales like Little Red Riding Hood. Eventually, I started adding my own OC as well, who was basically the son of Jak and a complete Gary Stu. But as much of a nonsense, these "stories" were I kind of wish I had kept them these days, or at least a transcript or something. Not because they were good mind you, but as a kind of memoir and a token of my childhood past. But alas, during my early teens I entered a kind of an edgy phase and so I threw all my work and stories away because I considered them too childish and threw them away. You know that phrase about when you grow up you let go of childish things, including the fear of childish things. Well, these days I have managed to mostly move past that fear, which is more than I can say about my past self. Maybe that's why I have started writing fanfics again, after over a decade. Because it's something I have wanted to continue with for a long time, but never had the courage to write down my passion and ideas.
But anyway, on the topic of this story there are a couple of things I wanna say. I started playing Undertale kind of late. I mostly wanted to wait until all the hype died down a bit so I could go onto the fame with a more open mind. So in the summer of last year, I bought it on pc(and if I had only waited a few more months I could have bought it on the PS4 instead of my shitty laptop) and sat down to play it. Even though I had gotten a few spoilers due to the nature of the internet, I had a mostly open mind. Suffice to say, I adored it. I loved almost everything about it. I loved the characters, story and music, and I am not exaggerating when I say that this was the first game to make me cry while playing it. Other games have managed to make me sad or made me tear up when I thought about them sometime later, but none have made me shed literal tears while it was still playing. You know when a game is good when your biggest problem with it was that there more of it(and also that there was no sprint) and here is the key, I wanted more of it. Now with the magic of fanfictions, every kid and fan of writing can have the chance to make more. Only, there was one problem: I didn't know how to replicate the game's charm. I can kind of replicate the characters I think(and hope) but not the tone or charm. Now there are PLENTY of UT fanfics and works on the web, and some of them have put in the utmost effort to successfully recapturing the soul of UT. But then I thought to myself: "If I can't recapture the tone and essence, why not just add my own charm instead?"
And thus was born "The Shattering". An Undertale AU with my own charm and tone, with the first story being "A hunt to remember."
But for now, I think I have written enough of the authors note.
So in short, this fanfic slash AU is something I have been very passionate about writing. But I am also open to criticism, which is something I hope a lot of you will deliver. I am of the mindset that criticism is one of the most important things you can get as an artist because without critique, you won't be able to learn or improve.
So just critique or praise or do whatever the hell you want with my stories. I hope you'll read it and the rest will come soon(maybe in a week or two).