Chapter 18 – Author's Getting Lost!
Alright readers. Time for another word vomit that yal can skip if you're keeping up alright. For those of you losing track of who is where and what time it is, I'm gonna try and break it down here. I'll admit that even I am starting to lose track 'cause of the breaks I keep taking from writing and with life so busy and haywire it's just not working.
A few of you have asked how long certain characters have been places because I haven't touched on them in a while. Well, to be honest, the reason it has been a while is because I don't want to focus exclusively on one set of characters. I also don't want to make chapters too too long. (Yes I meant to use two toos there.)
I try to set a minimum of four thousand words per chapter, but I don't want too much beyond that either. Personally I love reading one-shots and overlook stories that have a word count similar to mine most of the time. I understand if people drop off reading mine just because of the length. For those of you who stuck with me. Thank you so much. It means so much, beyond what I can put in words. To those of you on Archive of Our Own who constantly leave messages, you guys are the reason this story is still being written. I love you guys.
Anywho, Time and how it passes. After this blip of just me, it will finally be the second day of the story. That's right, in most areas, only a day has past. Undertale, UnderFell, UnderLust, Dancetale, Echotale, Swaptale, Creationtale; these have only gone through the progression of one day. Dreamtale on the other hand has had centuries pass. I may include maybe one or two more chapters of Dreamtale and its characters down the road, but not anytime soon. Alchemytale has gone through about two weeks, maybe a month. I skipped a lot of time there so that I didn't overload the story with just them. I skipped over their building of a solid portal and going through the ins and outs of building the portal and overcoming their various problems. I went into Blaster's a bit more just because he is an interesting character.
Most of these have pictures associated with them and I don't know how to post them to AO3 or , so they are all featured on quotev. I didn't create the pics, just nabbed them off Bing and they gave me inspiration so I used them.
Now for where everyone is, that is the doozy. I think almost everyone is back home. The Alchemytale group just fell into another verse. Big oopsy. I'm debating on bringing in a whole new ship with that, but don't know yet. I've put allusions in to this new au they found and well, yeah, I'll let the cat out of the bag. They found Horrortale, and Axe/Horror found them. Let me know in the comments which name you prefer for the maniac Sans from that world. Ink and Error will be a set, I'm not messing with that ship. They went back to Ink's universe, if it can be called that. Paperjam and Gradient will not be in this fic, but I may eventually make another "T" rated fic with the family. Not sure yet. There will be NO pregnancies in this fic. I don't do that. Just no. In Swaptale we have some very confused skeletons and Berry, the Sans of that verse is in Classic. Ya know what, heck with writing it out. I'll just make a list for ya. Easier to see that way. Take notes if you want. I do all the time! Sorry the writing is such a mess!
Undertale – Sans (he is drunk), Frisk (also drunk), Gaster (acting as caretaker but not related to the other skeles), and Berry (who passed out just inside the door when he found himself not at home.) (If I were Berry I woulda turned around and tried the portal again, but I'm not Berry and he ain't me.
UnderLust – Hip (Who stayed the night with Amethyst), Amethyst (about to be ripped a new one by Hip because he roasted his phone), Teal (at the brothel making breakfast for his new mates), Razzy and Plum (just waking up to Teal's amazing smelling food)
UnderFell – Fell (sulking in his closet after missing supper due to lying to Boss), Boss (probably laying the next work week's schedule), Spikes (likely working on some new torture device and thinking about how much Frysk had seemed to enjoy what he did to her)
Echotale – Echo and Frysk (both passed out from long days but still on alert should anyone come too close to their hidden hole)
Dancetale – The characters that are supportive to the story and belong here are here. There are currently no main characters in this universe.
Alchemytale – There are currently no main characters in this universe.
Horrortale – Axe/Horror (looks like he is a bit manic. Depending how your responses may make him a more main character), Daederath (confused and laying in the snow with Blaster beneath her and Nightmare draped over her back where he fell after her), Blaster (trying to figure out why the snow is gray and praying they hadn't ended up in one of those bad places Nightmare talked about. Also inwardly cursing Daederath's excitably nature that got them in this mess), Nightmare (Frozen in disbelief that a) the portal worked, b) they just happened to port to the first alternate universe he had come across besides his own in the blank space between them and c) the EXP and LOVE on this guy were way up there)
Creationtale – Ink (miffed that he had to leave so suddenly but understanding that Error had to leave. Considering letting Error out more), Error (crying to himself as his illusion of a happy life in another verse seems to be destroyed)
Swaptale – Stretch (depressed but high as all hell due to hitting the weed extra hard after seeing strange look-a-likes of his brother. The disbelief he got from his family was bringing him down even more), Segoe (caught up in his own self-deprecation on not being a good enough father.)
Dreamtale - There are currently no main characters in this universe.
Suit it to say that we are on Day 2 of the main story. Everyone is on the same time now, if not the same timeline/universe. There are still a few more universes I want to bring in that I have had planned from the very beginning, but recreating the lore for them to fit my purpose means that it may take a bit more time before the join in the story.
Now, on another subject, I have had a lot of people it seems saying that they would prefer that Blaster and Nightmare be the cannon in this story. I can likely make that happen instead and pretty easily at this point. That just means (SPOILER) Daederath gets hitched with Segoe. I didn't want to spoil it, but it was already spoiled for some. This fic is written because I have ideas and I want to create semi original ships as well as sail a few of the well-known ones. It is also written for the enjoyment of the readers. If you are not enjoying the fic due to a pair not getting together that you want, then I will alter it, even if I have to go back and modify certain wording in past use. Looking at it, the alteration would still work relatively well, perhaps better that way. If you, the readers, would prefer this going ahead, please let me know in a response to this particular chapter/note. I'm giving you a choice, don't blow it and complain later please. The vote will be open for a few chapters as I try to alternate between characters and the second to last one was Alchemy, so you have a minimum of three chapters to make up your minds.
Everyone seems to be keeping ships connect at this point so I am not going to go over those. If somebody wants me to go over the ships again, let me know and I'll edit this and update the ship list for everyone.
As for "Chapter 17/15 – How Amethyst Met Hip" that was a flashback. I will have one or two more of the flashbacks with those two as I like the story that was concocted for them. They will be noted in their summary or in the beginning somehow that they are in fact flashbacks or memories or from the past.
I would also like to bring up the fact that a few have mentioned that characters are portrayed differently than they have seen them elsewhere. That is likely due to the fact that I don't do tradition research. I look through pics on the image search and watch a ton of videos on youtube. Very rarely I will drop in on the wiki for something when I can't figure out a name or meaning behind something. Usually though, I just look to the video comments and make my own assumptions. That is why Nightmare seems strange and much different than he may appear elsewhere.
The same is very true for Swaptale. In a world where everyone is always cheery, I can't see how there could be such a thing where everyone can be that positive. We all know that Stretch…er Honey-kun. I may change that yet. Honey-kun doesn't flow all that well. Well anyway, Swap Pap loves to smoke, we all know that. Some say it is tobacco, others say it's weed. I say weed. In my experience, weed is used to treat anxiety and severe pain, whether it is prescribed or taken recreationally, those are the normal reasons, along with the euphoria it provides some. The same thought applies to the rest of the family. Weed is known to contain hallucinogens, this affects the smoker's judgement. Due to that, their family may come to resent or distrust them as is shown in Berry and Segoe's attitudes. Segoe is going through something that I figure many parents of drug abusive children may go through. He doesn't know where he went wrong as he had tried to provide a happy childhood for his eldest son. Their whole world I guess could be sort of summed up and described using the song "Dollhouse" by Melanie Martinez. Essentially, for those who won't look it up (I never do) it is a cute and pretty exterior they show to the world where everything is all happiness, but underneath, they are rotting and falling apart, having a hard time making it and struggling like everyone else with their secrets from each other. It is a very dark twist on the normally cheerful swaptale that I didn't plan on bringing in, but the story writes itself usually, and it did here. I explained that in the first note I believe.
Finally, I want to again thank all those who continue to offer their support to my story and continue to read even though my updates are sporadic and not reliable or often in coming. I check AO3 and almost every day for new stuff in my inbox or reviews respectively and I get excited every time I see a post. I usually reply. If I didn't, I apologize, I likely checked it on one of my really bad days where my personal depression just said check and see if this wakes you up and I went through the motions. For that I greatly apologize. You are all very important individuals. It has gotten to the point where I go on and I recognize repeat names and when I have a new person commenting. I do take into account what you all say. If not for the readers, what point would there be in writing. I write so that others can enjoy. I get enjoyment from seeing others enjoy what I produce. I make nothing off this monetarily, but emotionally, this helps support me more than any social media.
So here is your job with this chapter.
Let me know what you want Horrortale's Sans to be called: Axe or Horror
Choose who Blaster should hook up with: Nightmare or Segoe
Remember, Daederath gets whoever Blaster doesn't.
Finally, if you want a list of Ships, let me know and I'll edit into this.
Leave a comment and this story will continue! 3 ya all!