I honestly don't remember most of what I said in part one, and this is so dead now that I don't really care to reread it. Literally all motivation and connection I have for UnderTale is dead. I'm sorry. It's not really anything that anyone did (everyone says the "cancerous fanbase" made them leave, but for me it's just a natural cycle that must come to an end, as it does with every fandom I enter and leave). But like, I really wanted to finish it. I REALLY wanted to finish it. But now I don't. Now I have absolutely no desire to even touch anything UnderTale again, except two or three comics I'm following (mostly Handplates). Right now I'm really into Steven Universe and Pokemon. Heh. Hehe.
That being said, it also means that I won't hold back with the details I had planned for EquationTale (or at least those that my brain hasn't forgotten yet). So I left off on the end of a normal run, right? Yeah, something like that. If you noticed in the normal run, Mettaton has dated basically nobody. Except Sans. He went on a "date" with Sans. There's your bone, MettaSans shippers.
Oh, and if you count that one in Hotlands with Frisk. I never really counted it as a date since it was mandatory to continue to the end, but eh. You could count that. I think I forgot to mention that last time? Yeah, so the Frisk "date" is basically more bad puns and more hints that Frisk knows exactly what's going on. Haha.
Anyway. Pacifist. He goes back to "date" Temmie. Learns more about being sensitive to people. Probably makes Temmie cry for a second time. I dunno. I really enjoy writing about sad Temmie.
The "date" with Papyrus- there's a bone, all you Papyton shippers- is rather...interesting. While I'm going to keep my opinions out of this for the most part, I will admit that I have nothing against Fontcest. Oh yes. Sue me for not automatically hating the incest couple. I...have issues with some of the people who ship it, but...I'll keep those to myself. Just know that while I don't have anything against the couple, it'd be pointless to add it into the story. Remember when I said that my motto was to stray away from the unnecessary? Yeah. That relationship is completely unnecessary. Being in the Alphys/Undyne role means that they should have a close relationship, but by all means, I'm sure that a brotherly one counts. So that's what I was going to get at more or less.
You see, Sans never really takes time to see his family much anymore. If you look at the timeline, it says that Sans kills one of the SOULs. Or, uh, runs into it. Or something. I dunno I kind of forget. But in essence, he has an encounter with a SOUL that forces him to realize humans are a very real threat. He figured that three, four were just coincidental, but after that, he realizes something is very wrong. There are people falling down for a reason, and he needs to get it taken care of. He needs to be ready- to train. And so he does! ...at the expense of seeing his family less and less. Papyrus, busy with his job as the Royal Scientist, doesn't have a whole lot of time to spend going all the way to Waterfall (or even Snowdin for that matter); there are problems to be dealt with and words that must be looked up before he can do that! And all those weird things in the basement. Gotta take care of those, too.
Being away for so long can hurt a relationship. Like, a lot. When Sans stops visiting, Papyrus begins to believe that his brother no longer cares for him- even if this is just on a subconscious level. He has bouts where he can't sleep at night, or where he'll cry himself into a coma. His work is suffering. The poor guy can't even get into his Bill Nye VHS tapes properly! He doesn't know what's wrong with him, but he knows he needs the emotional support of his brother.
And his brother misses him, too! Hell, Sans even sends a letter to Papyrus! He just...forgets to sign it. And evidently, Papyrus can't recognize his own brother's handwriting and just assumes Mettaton can write in Wing Dings. This makes sense.
Either way, he takes Mettaton to a place very close to him, a place Sans and him used to play at all the time when they were children: The Dump.
Woo.
Long story short, Sans and Papyrus reconcile, Temmie pops out of nowhere, and the brothers admit their love for one another. After all, they're brothers. Pretty damn close ones, too.
The True Lab was something I was thinking about for a while. Alphys's backstory is probably of one of the most detailed ones I worked with. Yes, she made the Amalgamates, which you fight as you make your way through the the True Lab. I didn't really put much thought into whether I want them to be the same characters amalgamated or I wanted to switch them out with someone else. It's sort of hard to keep track of where everyone is...I dunno. What I do know is that once you reach the end, you see five containers: a Green SOUL, a Yellow SOUL, and three empty, open ones.
Though Mettaton is much less concerned with this than he is with the things trying to kill him. I was going to make him make a big deal that he didn't buy chisps, and therefore, it wasn't the food that they were going after. They were trying to go after Alphys, who was constantly screaming whenever one was near, and when one wasn't? Mettaton couldn't help but harass a story out of her. It didn't work so well.
Mettaton becomes cornered by these containers and the amalgamates in front of him. Just as it looks like those things are going to droop their goop all over him, Papyrus rushes in to save the day!
"I bet you're wondering how these guys got here," the skeleton says, petting one on the head and laughing as it nuzzles him. "I have absolutely no idea!"
Alphys shifts her feet.
He continues on about how he found them while everyone was looking for Alphys. Then he feeds all the amalgamations and leaves, also leaving Alphys and Mettaton to speak to each other one-on-one. She explains her involvement with the amalgamations and DETERMINATION experiments. She yammers on about how she built Mettaton a body not to be nice, but to help him protect her, just as she had tried with all the other humans that passed through the Underground and died. Alphys did know of Mettaton's cousins, though not that they were all related. Well, she didn't know until Matt, the Orange SOUL, fell down. That guy wouldn't shut up about his family. It was actually rather sweet… Then she put the pieces together. ..unless Matt fell down first? Actually, he might have. I don't remember.
Mettaton shares a little bit to her about his past as thanks for opening up to him about the truth.
Yada yada yada. Mettaton makes it back to Asriel (again) who barely even puts up a fight this time. Also, Chara steps in. Like, barely even a minute into the fight. At first, Asriel is so, SO happy to see them, but quickly realizes that the feeling isn't mutual. Chara begins to yell, which morphs into screaming and towering over the poor goat child. Chara loves Asriel, but...but their mother? HOW. COULD YOU KILL. MY MOTHER.
"Your mother? I-I don't understand…"
Chara grabs him by the collar, the point of their knife brushing against his soft fur. "Chloe. Fourth human. Yay tall. Long, straight brown hair. Green dress? Apron? Frying pan?"
When the look of confusion doesn't seem to wipe away, Chara rolls their eyes and drops their adoptive brother to the ground, huffing and turning their heel. "GREEN SOUL."
Asriel proceeds to shit his pants.
Sans comes running in. Panting, of course. Even with all of his training, his armor is still pretty heavy.
"Az! *huff* Mettaton! *huff* stop the fighting!"
Sans glanced over at Chara, knife poised toward their chin and their back turned to the king in despair.
"woah, is...everything alright?"
"SANS MAKE SURE YOU TELL THEM THAT FIGHTING IS VERY BAD!"
Papyrus had finally caught up. Seems like the two brothers were talking during their own "date" and had come to the conclusion that they had to stop Mettaton and the king from harming each other. They (Papyrus mostly) were thoroughly convinced that if they could get the robot and the king to befriend each other, maybe they could think of a more peaceful way out of this…?
And Temmie follows after. Temmie always follows after.
Finally, Frisk arrives, and upon seeing Chara, sprints up to them in a big, warm hug. See, unlike Sans in the original UnderTale, Chara and Frisk had known each other before Chara locked themself in the Ruins. All this time, Frisk was dying to see them face-to-face, to wrestle like they used to, the two- no, three- of them, reuniting with Asriel and forming the tornado trio of chaos that they once were. They really, really missed those days…
Then Chara and Frisk talk casually for a whole five seconds, of which Chara gasps a bit.
"Wait, is that...Temmie?"
"Uh, yeah, why-? Oh wait you're allergic to temmies."
Well shit.
Then Asgore comes in 'cause he's super happy that ¾ of his family are in the same room and he wants them all to hug or whatever.
They both respond with, "DAAAAD!"
And then Papyrus and Sans hug each other and Chara makes fake gagging noises.
Then Papyrus asks why Temmie called them all here. Except Chara. Chara came on their own accord.
Temmie responds by saying that a little fishy told her to get all her friends in one place...for a party!
The last movement in the group of six is Frisk responding with a look that they had just shat their pants. They turn to Temmie. "...a fishy?"
Well, the rest of their unspoken question was soon answered when they all become entangled in...fishnet? Yeah. We'll go with that. A shit ton of fishnet to the point where they can't even wiggle. Then that little fackin' gold fish shows up.
Most of them try to wriggle their way free- Sans is confused, Asriel is crying, Frisk is frozen with fear, Chara's screaming something about being able to reach their knife, and Papyrus and Temmie are desperately attempting to chew their way through the net. Much to the reader's/player's surprise, it's not working.
Fishy laughs about how she's gonna kill Mettaton, traps him in a little box so he can't move, blablabla, laughing...laughing...laughing. He's almost dead. Then she lets out a startled shriek as the blade of a knife whizzes by her, even yanking off a few of her scales. She turns back to the six in rage. DON'T. FUCK UP. HER PLAN.
Yeah so then they fight and I'm pretty sure you know what happens. Basically, Undyne's super sorry or whatever and she just wants Alphys back. Mettaton ends up keeping Undyne (Fishy) for Alphys as a pet goldfish. Dead ghost lizard Alphys can smooch a smoll goldfish. Yes.
Then everyone's standing on top of the cliff, watching the sunset. Or rise. I don't remember. It's been awhile since I've done anything with this game. Either way, Temmie loves it, and Frisk just loves seeing her so gosh darn happy. Temmie runs off, Papyrus and Sans following after. Asriel hurries off to make sure they don't get into trouble- he is king, after all, and wants to be the first monster to meet the outside humans, but also wants to talk to Chara later, in private. Maybe with Frisk, but at least not with Mettaton around.
Frisk shares a heartfelt moment with Chara before following off after Az and the rest of Frisk's family, leaving just Mettaton, Chara, and an Alphys that only one of the other two could see. She wasn't going to make herself visible just yet.
Remember how Chara had a crush on Mettaton in the beginning? It comes back around at the end, where they admit...not necessarily that they like him, but that they don't want him to leave them. Either way, they won't force him if he wants to return to his family.
This is where I'm a little iffy about. For the genocide run (which I was very hyped to write about, by the way), of course it would start by having the player become bored and reset. That only makes sense. But then what about in-story? Why would MTT reset? Or Alphys? Would they? Would Frisk reset once they get their DETERMINATION back? Or Chara? Or Undyne? Maybe one of the other SOULs? The only plausible thing I could think of was if Chara fell off the cliff, died, and MTT reset for that purpose. But...I don't know. It's dramatic- I could play it off just fine. It just seems really random. But why else would the timeline reset?
I also tossed around the idea of having it set in a different timeline entirely, where this is Mettaton's first time falling down. Alphys and Meckenzie would have no memories of their previous runs, since there would be none. It'd also give a reason for Alphys to...how did I word this?
"...install a voice command instead of a personality stabilizer."
Yeah. I was having trouble coming up with why Mettaton would even do genocide in the first place.
Then Frisk wouldn't have their memories of the previous runs that didn't happen, though, which would be a bit more boring in the background, and to top of it off, it really didn't seem to be in the player's personality- y'know, the whole two traits I assigned to them- to just straight up do genocide on the first run. Maybe if I wrote some more it would come. I don't know. I guess that can be left up for interpretation.
Either way, I imagine the difference being that Meckenzie listens to Alphys, who instinctively commands him to kill every monster they come across. She immediately regrets it, but decides that it's for the best. The big turning point for her character would be killing the temmies, of whom she finds absolutely adorable. Meanwhile, Mettaton and Meckenzie would slowly become two separate entities entirely. In the pacifist run, Meckenzie learns life lessons and discovers more about himself that he hadn't known before. He begins to realize his flaws, explore his gender identity/expression, accept himself, reconcile with his cousins, and make friends that truly teach him to enjoy life. His outwardly actions, displayed by the Mettaton body, express who he is as a person. They're in sync with each other; Meckenzie and Mettaton are almost completely one.
In genocide, this couldn't be farther from the truth. Meckenzie does not want to kill, but for whatever reason (still going with the voice command), he is forced to against his will. At first, he's merely a bit shaken. His major turning point would be, first, taking out Toriel (who doesn't really die, but scolds him for going down the wrong path and goes to warn Chara), and later, Chara, who doesn't quite believe her adoptive mother at first until Mettaton turns on her (I almost proofread that as 'turns her on' woops-).
Funny thing- Mettaton doesn't turn on them 'til the very end. They tell him to just stop; they can help him get better together! And he...he hugs them. He's crying. Chara...Chara finally helped somebody. They smile. For all their life they felt completely pest-like and worthless. They finally managed to help someone- to stop a genocide. Maybe Frisk was right. Maybe you didn't always need violence to-!
Oh boy, the look on their face when the knife tore through their back!
Shock was the main emotion, though once the situation had been assessed, Chara felt enraged, betrayed, and above all, heartbroken. They could only mutter the word, "Why?" before collapsing in Mettaton's arms, their Red SOUL emerging from their body. Mettaton began to reach for the strange object much like his own, but the moment he had laid a finger on it, it cracked- once, twice, finally splitting apart into several pieces, leaving both party members to face what they had done. It was said that a human SOUL remained ever-stubborn after death, refusing to disappear as the monsters had. Something like this was unheard of. Could there be a moment, even a single instant, where the human desperately wanted to cease existance so much that it actually happened? Was that the other side of the coin called DETERMINATION?
Meckenzie wasn't the same after that. He hated his new body. He hated his new companion. He wanted to go home, but Alphys kept saying that home was this way, this way! Having no one else to trust, he really had no choice but to follow.
Alphys told him to avoid Temmie and Frisk, so he did. He avoided most anyone that he could, because coming into contact with someone usually resulted in their demise, which never failed to make him feel worse than he already was.
This has been sitting in my Google Drive box for two months and I don't even have enough motivation to finish this. Comments seem to give me a temporary mostivation bonus...so I'm hoping to post this, get at least a comment or two, and then have enough energy to finish going over the genocide run and then make a list of all the characters with their archs.
Since I'm only planning on uploading two more times, now would be the time to ask questions. This story's so old I doubt its followers even remember what it's about anymore, but if there's something bothering you, please, feel free to ask. Most likely, I'll reply.
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