Well, here we are, the part pretty much everyone's been waiting for! *grins* Now that we're over the long and boring explanations, we can finally start getting into the good stuff. By-the-by, thank you to everyone who actually bothered to click on this mess of mine! It's so amazing to see people actually showing interest in this! *throws confetti*
These are the character assignations, and keep in mind that I have yet to make them officially canon, so they can be subject to change or tweaking.
Enjoy!
P.S.: I'm mentioning something here that I didn't want to incorporate into Pt. 2, because I felt that it would mess up the flow of it and just confuse people. The only thing you have to know to understand it is the difference between the Traditional 52 (the cards with the four suits) and Tarot Cards. Pretty simple, right?
When a new deity is born, their Soul is still not fully developed. As it finishes forming in the critical early few weeks of its life, there is a tell-tale signature that distinguishes that that particular deity has what it takes to become a future Hour. The factor is so small and subtle, however, that only the current Chronophobia knows who does and who does not possess the signature. Since the Null Hour cannot reveal who they are, they devised a way to single out these particular deities: by creating marks or tattoos based on the shape of their designated Hour somewhere on their body.
There have been cases where an Hour can take the role of another Hour (this can only happen if that Hour position is strictly vacant) along with their original one should they so choose, and should this happen, they would gain the Hour number they took as a second mark. These are plainly referred to as Secondary Tattoos, with the deities original tattoo being their Primary one. However, only this Primary is permanent, so should they resign from the position of their second hour, the Secondary Tattoo will disappear and the Primary shall not.
There have been cases, however, where anomalies occur and a deity is born with not one, but two Primary Tattoos. As rare as the condition is, no negative side effects have been attributed to it so far. With no official name to it either, it is not uncommon to hear it being referred to as the Gaster Syndrome. Why it has such a name, though, is a thing that no one remembers; but a thing that no one wants to change, either, for it feels wrong to even think about altering it for some unfathomable reason.
Current character assignations are as follows:
Asgore: Eleventh Hour- King; Primary Tattoo (11) is found under the left clavicle and over the heart. He rules kindly and justly over the Hours and Citizens, even going into the Inner City nigh everyday to walk and talk with the deities there.
Toriel: Twelfth Hour- Queen; Primary Tattoo (12) is found on the inner part of her right wrist. Following her unofficial renouncement of her place as the Queen after the mysterious murder of her son, Toriel took the position of the Eighth Hour and relocated from the upper levels of the Tower to the Inner City; Secondary Tattoo (8) is found on the right side at the base of her neck.
Asriel: Since he was young at the time of death, the 'prince' was not able to fully succeed in developing a full tattoo from either of his Hours, as he was born with Gaster Syndrome. He was set to be either the Third or the Sixth Hour; Primary Tattoos (3) and (6) were found as faint markings over his left and right forearms respectively.
Flowey: Thirteenth Hour- Joker (The Destroyer); Primary Tattoo (13) found scattered over any one of his six golden-white petals. Due to his revival by Time itself post Asriel's death, his physical form resembles more of a constantly shifting wisp in the shape of a buttercup flower.
Sans: First Hour- Keeper and Thirteenth Hour- Joker (The Restorer); created with Gaster Syndrome, leaving two full-fledged markings on his bones. Primary Tattoos (1) and (13) are found on the palm side of his right and left hands, respectively. Due to his critical positions as both the Keeper and a Joker, Sans must pose as a Citizen by order of Chronophobia and use Papyrus as a way of justifying his presence in the bi-monthly meetings of all the Hours. Not even Asgore can know of this secret.
Papyrus: Sixth Hour Follow Up- Still in training by Undyne; Primary Tattoo (6) is found as a slightly faint mark on his right shoulder under his armour. Even if he slightly questions his brother's habit of following him to the meetings, his joy for Sans finally doing something productive is stronger than his curiosity.
Gaster: Seventh Hour- Scientist/Curator; Primary Tattoo (7) was found on left shoulder blade. Following his 'fall' into a Corrupted Timeline after a particularly powerful Glitch hit the Tower seconds before its destruction, Gaster was destroyed with the Corruption and scattered across space and time with it. The after effects of this was that everyone, from the Hours to the Citizens, forgot about him and his existence, with the exception of the Jokers. However, his greatest contribution to the Tower, the Cogs of Time, remained in reality and continue to moderate the basic out and inflow of the Timelines. With his newfound knowledge of practically everything, the former Seventh found out that even when he existed, he had always been Chronophobia due to his nigh omnipotence following his accident in another, premature universe running parallel to theirs. The only reason time and space hadn't unraveled due to this paradox was because both Gasters (now one and the same) never met or spoke to one another in person. (Post-Corruption) 0 or Null Hour- Chronophobia; Primary Tattoo (0) is not a marking at all. It is instead represented by the twin holes in his palms.*
Undyne: Sixth Hour- Protector; Primary Tattoo (6) is found over her left eye under the eye patch. She trains her shadow, Papyrus, to be the next Sixth Hour should she fall... or so she claims. However, what Undyne doesn't tell him is that she is actually just teaching him how to cook or how to play fight, since she doesn't want to place the responsibility of being the Ultimate Protector over his shoulders due to Papyrus' sympathetic and optimistic view on everyone and everything, even the Dark Beings that come from the leftovers of destroyed Corrupted Timelines with the sole intent of consuming every inhabitant of Clockwork Tower.
Alphys: Ninth Hour- Smith; Primary Tattoo (9) is found on the underside of her jaw. Following the creation of the Hours' Heirlooms, she is mostly in charge of making sure the 'Cogs of Time' keep turning smoothly within the most sensitive areas of the Tower, despite not fully knowing how they work. As a way to fill in her slow schedule, Alphys decided to take in another Hour at Undyne's insistence. Seventh Hour- Scientist/Curator; Secondary Tattoo (7) is found in between her shoulder blades.
Mettaton: Second Hour- Lord; Primary Tattoo (2) is found over the Soul Container on his abdomen of his robotic body. Being born a ghost, he was unable to do any actual work for the Tower, even though he had a mark on his front. However, due to this, he was able to convince Alphys to make his Hour Heirloom be an actual body that he could use. She conceded and so now Mettaton can perform his job, which he is entirely grateful to her for.
Napastablook: Citizen; being his cousin's neighbour whilst he was still a ghost, Napastablook kept him company on his everyday mundane life. To motivate Mettaton, he would create music mixes so that he could pretend to perform. It worked in the beginning, but it wasn't enough later on to appease his cousin. Following his cousin's departure, however, he became more reclusive and is now socially awkward.
Muffet: Fifth Hour- Money Handler/Banker; Primary Tattoo (5) is found on the topside of her tongue. Although she is supposed to stay within the Tower, Muffet still prefers to stay in the Inner City where her bakery is. The fact that her mark is in such a hidden place is something she loves to exploit when she pretends to just be a regular Citizen with a small pastry business to trick other deities.
Grillby: Tenth Hour- Feeder; Primary Tattoo (10) is found on the back of his left hand under his flames. Due to his job as providing food for both Hours and Citizens, his bar (as some call it) is found along the bottom of the Tower and near the Inner City, so everyone can reach it if they want to.
As for the humans, they come from one of the Universes that has managed to survive for so long. This universe has an entirely different deck of cards representing them: the Tarot Cards.
The only one that is focused on rather than the whole deck, however, is the card of the Fool.
The Fool: Represents a new journey or a new beginning, and consequently, the end of something else. Depending on the position of the card is the resulting connotation of it.
Chara: Reversed Fool; the backwards nature of this card means that they are representative of foolishness, naivety, recklessness, and of being a risk taker. However, this is not to say that Chara is simply that all around. Instead, it means that the nature of their title is simply that: to bring about the end of a journey so that Frisk can bring about the beginning of a new one.
Frisk: Upright Fool; the 'normal' mature of the card is that it is representative of beginnings, innocence, spontaneity, and of being a free spirit. As with Chara, this is not to say that Frisk is the literal incarnation of all this; it is just to say that their title's nature is simply that as well: to start a new journey and look at it through fresh and inexperienced eyes as they traverse through it.
So there we go! All of their current positions and some background info to back it up. I didn't explain all of it here, of course! That's more reserved for when the actual stories come out to cover all of it. Which leads me to mentioning that this story will mostly be- as the title says- tales or little stories of everyday life or particular occurrences whilst I finish developing the actual true storyline and what it'll consist of!
Meaning that if anyone wants to see or know more about a particular thing, leave a message or review asking for it and it'll probably (read: will) end up here.
On another note, the Fool isn't the same as the Joker. Not even close. Whereas the Jokers can overall choose to restore or destroy Timelines, the Fools can only journey through and explore those Timelines.
... I don't know, I liked the idea of showing the difference between the monsters/deities and the humans by making them be two very different things. Probably confused someone or something, but hey! That's why the messaging system exists!
*: The explanation of this and the paradox will come in a future story. Believe me, this is probably going to be such a lengthy chapter that I got a headache out of it just by summarising it into that paragraph *rubs temples*
