Prequel: The best thing that never should have happened
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I feel like I'm clogging this collection up with announcements, but I have written a one shot prequel explaining where Sans and Papyrus came from and how they ended up being adopted by Gaster!
I'm really pleased with it, but it's definitely not fluff and it's rather long (for a one shot) so it didn't seem quite right to upload it here.
Some headcanons and ponderings of mine that prompted me to write this origin story:
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In the Happy Family universe Gaster and River are related. Both are shadow monsters with very specific shadow magic at their disposal. They went very different ways though. Gaster became a scientist and engineer, River went a more spiritual and philosophical route. This posed no problems, until Gaster started to actively experiment with schadow magic, trying to use it for his inventions. River strongly disagreed with this and their arguments only got worse. Gaster refused to stop his experiments however and the fact that he didn't changed his life forever.
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When everyone gets to the surface at the end of the true pacifist run Papyrus doesn't know what the sun is, but Sans does. Why? Is Papyrus faking? Has Sans been to the surface before? Has Sans read about the sun and just not told Papyrus up til now?
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In some playthroughs Frisk finds a poorly drawn picture in Sans' lab with three people on it and the words "Don't forget". Who are they? Surely Sans and Papyrus can't be on the picture, because Frisk would recognise them. Did Sans make this drawing and if so when?
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And then that all important line Sans says when he explains his demotivation:
"i gave up trying to go back a long time ago. and getting to thesurface doesn't really appeal anymore, either."
Go back where? That's the question I wanted to answer when I started writing the prequel.
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If that sounds interesting to you, please, check out "The best thing that never should have happened" and tell me what you think!