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Summary
[Undertale] A few stories following a specific time kid's journey after helping her monster friends and family get out from under a mountain.
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Bookmarked by Swirlingflight
16 Feb 2020
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Bookmarker's Notes
this fic feels like it came from early 2016 fandom, and in a good way. New Game + with the efforts to save Asriel from himself, the ongoing interjections of the mystery man that the characters quickly forget again, the characterization. there's plenty of little details that contradict canon, but the heart of the characters and the game feels alive and well.
the worldbuilding's expanded on, with more detail to the world, expansions to how magic works and the history thereof, and even details about the surface. all our favorite characters get to be more than what we saw in the game, with shenanigans including putting on a play to inspire people to help save the world, and come the sequel it even starts dipping into some AUs - this story's own twist on them, in ways where the characters are still very recognizably themselves.
some details relevant for who i would or wouldn't rec this to:
- most of the nonbinary characters have been made binary, which is sometimes pretty disappointing.
- there's several multi-chapter stretches where the main characters take turns being incredibly stressed, spiraling in self-loathing, or unconscious on each other, which is sometimes very unenjoyable to read. but it's usually possible to skim read for the most important details.
- people around papyrus tend to hide things from him, and he's not included in some of the worst things, but he also has intuitive knacks for getting to the heart of those things anyway.
- there are times when the story goes like 300k+ words between bringing something up and following through on it (like sans staring at that empty cuphoard)
- a very specific sort of badster au, a very specific sort of pointy mean au, and likely more au to come as they continue dealing with the fallout of the un-retcon's sudden return