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• autonomy autocracy//kiss me kill me//i love you by Squiped_Mew

  Fandoms: Undertale (Video Game), Underverse - Fandom  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen, M/M
  • Complete Work

  09 Nov 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Cross/Ink
  • Cross/Dream
  • Cross/Nightmare
  • kind of for all of these
  • cross & xgaster
  • Cross & XTale Chara
  • Cross sans
  • Ink Sans
  • Xtale Chara
  • XTale W.D. Gaster - Character
  • Error Sans
  • Dream Sans
  • Nightmare Sans
  • Xtale Sans | Cross (Undertale)
  • _____tale Sans | Ink (Undertale)
  • Error Sans (Undertale)
  • Dreamtale Sans | Dream (Undertale)
  • Dreamtale Nightmare Sans (Undertale)
  • XTale W.D. Gaster
  • XTale Chara (Undertale)
  • Dreamtale Sans | Dream/XTale Sans | Cross (Undertale)
  • Dreamtale Nightmare Sans/XTale Sans | Cross (Undertale)
  • XTale Sans | Cross/_____tale Sans | Ink (Undertale)
  • XTale Sans | Cross & Xtale W.D. Gaster
  • Unhealthy Relationships
  • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
  • Angst
  • Implied/Referenced Character Death
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • XTale Sans | Cross-centric (Undertale)
  • Undertale Alternate Universes
  • Alternate Universe - Undertale Multiverse | UTMV (Undertale)
  • if the gods of your multiverse look like you but dont behave like you at all
  • and youve developed a weird attachment to them both because you desperatly envy them and want to be powerful
  • and also because you admire them for being powerful to the point where its twisted up into reverence bordering on attraction
  • is it still selfcest?
  • Power Dynamics
  • Power Imbalance
  • Bittersweet Ending
  • looks at cross and dream in this fic "this too is yuri"
  • xtale chara "can you quit lezzing it out with all these alternate versions of yourself and lock tf in"
  • Attachment Issues
  • Canon Compliant
  • Underverse
  • Self-Reflection
  • Mental Health Issues
  • "errrrm sorry all relationship tags take you to sans/sans" IM GOING TO KILL YOU

  Summary

  Cross hates reverence. It’s a dirty, foul thing in his mind - reverence is what led to his universe’s destruction. Reverence for power, perfection, for something no mortal would ever be able to touch. Gaster - well, XGaster as he’s known in the Multiverse, a stupid name for a stupid man - wanted to become a god, to touch the golden pedestal that Ink stands on. That got him killed, and it’ll get Cross killed too, if he keeps this up. 

  But he wants it. That power, that freedom - he wants the chain off his neck. 

  He wants what Ink has. 

  He wants everything Ink is. 

  He wants- 

   

  (Or: Reverence, envy, and the strange intersection between the two.)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,660

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