Undertale's BIGGEST Rabbit Hole

[@DefinitelyBoredOranges]

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[@dylandelahaie7800]

Actually the first AU's was Kindred Spirits very original written fanfic version. Then followed by Dreemurr Reborn.

[@MeIsSpont]

Holy crap, UNDERTALE is almost ten years old? Dang we’re getting old.

[@dylandelahaie7800]

@@MeIsSpont I mean yeah... Yeah we do... ... **[White noises]**

[@DanialTarki]

I just realized Undertale Yellow also technically counts.

[@Nommies-44228]

Btw i noticed... the thumb line, looks like shayy thumbnail of his video that EVERY ENEMY is sans in undertale

[@Fernlom]

I was there, I saw it happen live on Tumblr. I witnessed Error, Fresh, and Ink transform from being Sans to original characters. I saw Underfell rise and fall, Underswap explode into its own complicated AU’s. It was a hellscape

[@Biscuit_gamer34]

Yeah. And some AUs were really good! Some were ruined… So I am sad now. But I am willing to move on but it stays forever in my heart.

[@theunfortunatewonderer5018]

​@@Biscuit_gamer34Agreed. My favorite is Parchment. It's about this Eldritch being that fused with Papyrus before it knew what morals was and the poor guy just wants to make things right. Awesome stuff Then there's stuff like Axetale which was absolutely amazing at it's horror and lore, but kinda got ruined for some people cause of Frans (even though Frisk is dead..) The creator then got bored and draws TMNT stuff now.. Can't blame em tho

[@Biscuit_gamer34]

@@theunfortunatewonderer5018 Yeah….. So did Flowertale about friendship got destroyed. I MEAN FLOWERS SHOW BOND BOTH FRIENDSHIP WISE AND RELATIONSHIP WISE. I swear every male and female being friends always get shipped no joke 😭

[@jeuniverse8460]

Ink is still a Sans tho, Error and Fresh stopped being Sanses.

[@zealousamourous]

@@theunfortunatewonderer5018 Omg I never heard of Parchment before he sounds cool. One of My Favorites is Chronicle. He's an outcode in a similiar vein to Ink but instead of bad memory he has narcolepsy and his whole deal is that he has the stories of every single AU and character in a Giant Library. His story never got finished unfortunately but he's still a cool one. Some other ones I really like are Delta, Cross, Epic, Abyss, Ganz, Handplates, and Playbacktale which stars Papyrus and Flowey becoming this fused being where Flowey gets to feel again but Papyrus loses the ability to feel. Super underrated aus. Ink will always be one of my favorites though cuz Artist who can't read a room XD. I feel really bad for Flowerfell though, poor thing just wanted to be a nice story only to be burnt at the stake by shippers and anitishippers.

[@AfterArtist]

The Undertale Multiverse is literally a different fandom from the Undertale fandom, as someone in both, they do NOT mix Sans is a species at this point

[@doritodorito492]

That's exactly how I describe it

[@solsoups]

here is the sans in his natural habitat...

[@Ghostiibat]

@@solsoupsi giggled at this

[@wantedbird55srandomchannel28]

​@@solsoups"oh wow, food." "let's catch it by standing behind this conveniently shaped lamp."

[@izzylikestuff_]

real (im a fan of both too HEKP)

[@BestGirl_Itzumi]

Hey, I just wanna make this clear before people get confused: CAMILLA DID NOT MAKE UNDERVERSE, nor did they work on it. They worked on glitchtale

[@Starx_the_furry_slayer]

I wanna work on 👹🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏🙏😭😭😭😭💀💀💀💀😝😜🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓😎😎😎😎😎🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔👉🔴🔵🤜🟣😂🤫🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🍷🍷🍷☝️✅❌😐😼🥺🤤🏐😑😶😯😁🕺🏻🖕🏻😢

[@Neontale_FanC29]

Right, Jael made underverse and x-tale.

[@juggernautic4l]

the sans hierarchy pyramid

[@williamdocherty1816]

Tumbler sexy man pyramid?

[@BallsLover90]

the sans hierarchy pyramid

[@Bobboerba]

Dont try finding not op sanses it’s a bad time

[@narrativeless404]

Yeah And it's *fucking stupid*

[@Tyler-q3k]

I do like Dreeurr Reborn for how wholesome and in character it is. (=

[@johnxmanny]

Sans: (exist) Undertale au creators: (with their hands full of buckets) good morning sunshine

[@yachet]

You are my sunshine! get it folks? 😂✌

[@theunfortunatewonderer5018]

Yeah, I kinda get it but.. Why is it always Sans?? Why not Toriel? Asgore? Frickin' ALPHYS? Bro I want a take on Underfell that goes into the life of people like Gerson and the Temmies

[@SansINess53]

​@@theunfortunatewonderer5018literally TS underswap :

[@Turbulation1]

@@theunfortunatewonderer5018 PS!Outertale:

[@Bora086]

fun fact disbelief papyrus was the 3rd at created after game and first 2 not even about sans

[@cultistemergency]

Undertale AU's were that one thing I couldn't escape from as a kid.

[@theunfortunatewonderer5018]

Still can't lol

[@HaloGuy5667]

I tried escaping it and I did for a few years, but it dragged me back, while I kicked and screamed.

[@EEE_dicon_sans67]

⁠@@HaloGuy5667 Relatable

[@GildaOphirah]

Fr I still can't escape it

[@extremedifficulty9786]

@@HaloGuy5667 i was like oh i wonder if people still do aus OH BOY i was flashbanged by alot of knowledge

[@Thy_Punishment_Is_OOF]

What I love in Underverse is that X-Gaster is as much of an analogy to a perfectionist AU author, as Flowey to a curious player.

[@orianefaton1885]

I wanted to tr to defend Ink when he said that Ink was the antagonist behind X-Gaster, then I was like... "you know, if you think of what is Ink's job, he is technially a muse... so him just doing his job, even though it has no bad intent... is what made the other perfectionnist guy lose it... kinda ?" But, I still want to defend Ink as he is my favorite and in itself, the only reason it went south is because X-Gaster is a perfectionnist, not beause Ink is "the dark mastermind behind it all" or something. (Ink is a dumbass, he is too stupid for this)

[@katherinesmallbean3594]

That's how I always saw him as well. It's awesome to hear someone else have the same take cause it means I'm not crazy lol

[@docclane]

Growing up with UTAUs it's like a whole other community with how intrinsic and vast it is. Honestly holds a special place in my heart

[@Sylvia568]

I read UTAU and did not realize it was UT AU. I really thought it was like UTAU in vocaloid terms until i realized that made no damn sense.

[@HiuuuS]

​@@Sylvia568 YEA LIKE, PLS SEPERATE UT AND AU, UTAU IS A DIFFERENT THING ONG 😭

[@Sylvia568]

@@HiuuuS geez, replying to my comments twice? I think either you just looked at like 10 to 25 of the top comments (completely fair behavior), or you looked at the comments, but just so happen to have a similar thought process to mine on which comments to comment about (if it is this one, i feel sympathy.)

[@purpledshadow]

@@HiuuuSIt’s slowly being referred to as UTMV (UnderTale MultiVerse) now

[@HiuuuS]

​@@Sylvia568 ...I don't think I replied to you twice as far as I can see? since I could only remember replying to two people from the different comment section including you ig

[@exqeriment]

24:00 as an autistic person whose special interest is the undertale multiverse: can confirm my brain is absolutely fried from 8 years of this. i do not regret a thing

[@zoura3113]

whats your favourite AU? :3

[@ElPeloXD]

@@zoura3113 trick question

[@zoura3113]

@@ElPeloXD ?

[@ElPeloXD]

@@zoura3113 it was suppossed to be a joke but eh, who cares

[@zoura3113]

@@ElPeloXD bro talking nonsense 🗣

[@ActionSquintRingo]

Undertale was the story about a lone developer who went to the mountain top and screamed "INDY GAMES ARE HERE TO STAY" then set the world on fire. A unforgettable classic.

[@aredboxnation]

*Indie

[@trollandroidx]

**India

[@noxixx]

***indeed

[@Scarde0]

****intel

[@Youpi-n1f]

****inkling

[@greenhydra10]

The way I see it, there are two ways to do AU characters really well. 1. The Thought approach. Re-create their original personalities as perfectly as humanly possible. Inverted Fate is also a good example. 2. The Error approach. Make them truly distinct characters with their own personality, backstory, quirks, and abilities. Xtale is a personal favorite in this category.

[@Jokes_Aside122]

What is the thought? I think I’ve heard of it before… is it any good?

[@TemporaryViewerHandle]

@@Jokes_Aside122 Its a comic, in which Sans gets a thought about killing frisk near the door of the ruins so they can get their happy ending early and without the human, and then shit hits the fan. It's completed you can watch it as a dubbed movie. Its a pretty cool story

[@characrum3523]

Inverted Fate is so good!

[@i8chocolatecake995]

Inverted fate mention 🎉🎉

[@Jokes_Aside122]

@@characrum3523 inverted fate literally JUST GOT AN UPDATE!

[@Moonprisim]

never thought id see bored oranges doing a vid on sans AUs

[@theunfortunatewonderer5018]

Same. I didn't even realize who he was until halfway lol

[@bluedemontr-whisperofwind-2296]

Camila has not touched Underverse, underverse is created by Jakei, please fix this

[@Ghostiibat]

I hate misinformation sm I hope Jakei continues underverse

[@Tereadj225]

I misread as jiafei and got confused😭

[@djlolya]

I absolutely loved handplates and its ending. I found out the comic dubs would never be finished so I took it into my own hands to just read it normally. So if you have the time to do it please do it, the little notes at the bottom from the author also just add a lot of more joy while reading something as depressing as it

[@HopeIsADrug11037]

i was obsessed with handplates when i was younger 😭 never finished it tho due to the dub thing. just thought it never finished cuz i didnt understand exactly what dubs were lol

[@djlolya]

@@HopeIsADrug11037 Honestly that's fair. Apparently Vade/Calysto became a vtuber and that's why he stopped doing them. (I have no intention of seeking out his vtuber channel, the past is the past)

[@sergiomendoza251]

​and he just retired of youtube forever

[@lavenderhexx]

​@@sergiomendoza251no actually! he's still very active until this day because like the person above you said, he's a vtuber now. But to not be that person I'm not going to say his new identity for privacy reasons

[@sergiomendoza251]

@@lavenderhexx ok...

[@virtueofdragonsdreamer7783]

Underverse was not made by Camilla (nor did Camilla even work on it) and its actual creator (Jael Peñaloza) is not a bad person. They’ve already been going through a lot. Please do not make it worse. Edit: Problem has been resolved. The part was edited out.

[@bedrockboy2194]

Yes

[@teenymite8358]

bro did you even understand the video? he never said ANYTHING about camilla creating underverse, he was hinting at GLITCHTALE and camilla. I am assuming that he wanted to avoid talking about that scum I now realize what yall meant, since I am late to this video, orange already edited out the whole misinformation part. I was trying to piece together how yall came to this conclusion at the end.

[@WarmNitrogen]

One thing that I really, REALLY like about XGaster is his actions. He represents an author, a writer (which I can relate to). He kills the characters he has created, analyzes other people's works, gives his characters happiness, revives them, puts them through torture, just like an author does to find what they find is better for their story, for what makes it perfect in *their vision.*

[@docclane]

jael is an absolute legend it's sad that she has gotten so much hate over the years

[@killertrom64]

What she do?

[@purpledshadow]

@@killertrom64Quite literally nothing but ppl spreading misinformation about her & also hating on her because she didn’t make the AUs canon enough (even though COMYET & CQ both have supported Jael)

[@KawaiiJammy]

​@@killertrom64 thats the point, she didn't.

[@drakeniko1298]

​@@purpledshadow also ppl wanted her project finish ASAP Like bro she is solo animated that series not to mention her animation are too good but ppl kept harassing her not to mention she havin hard time to animated + she have life dude ppl really dumb or didn't care of her let her rest

[@JessePrower]

@@purpledshadow Does this misinformation about her include her being transphobic?

[@legendarycryptid2629]

Honestly, as many have said, one of the biggest issues with Undertale AUs, if not Undertale as a whole, is the "Sansuration" as I call it, in which Sans ended up being _the_ most popular and interesting of the monsters for a lot of people, leading to the nearly decade long span of AUs and projects that seem to focus primarily on Sans, or if not that, give him the lion's share of development and relevance in the plot... even though Sans himself _doesn't_ have that much relevance in the plot outside of judging you before reaching the king and informing you of the status of the Underground based on the choices you made, and the optional boss fight if you choose to kill everyone. There's so many other characters you could explore, but outside of the skeletons or Gaster, there's barely any exploration outside of Dreemurr Reborn, Growthspurt, and a couple others whose names I can't remember. Hell, for all that it gets hazed these days, Glitchtale managed to tell a story where Sans _isn't_ the main focus... it's not a _perfect_ story by any means (Season 2 hit the DIAA so much I prefer Season 1 since that was actually good), but at least it does something with the rest of the cast.

[@rubyred6608760]

I think this comment is a little disingenuous. There is a lot of undertale stuff that isn’t sans themed that you haven’t mentioned. Undertale Yellow, Underplayer, X-Tale, Endertale to name a few popular ones.

[@isaacbatgamer9958]

@@rubyred6608760 Ah yes X-tale the definitley not sans focused au where sans definitley dosent kill everyone and definitley dosent lead to underverse ( sans gaming )

[@rubyred6608760]

@@isaacbatgamer9958 I’m not talking about Underverse, I’m talking about X-tale. They are two different things. Each X-Tale character has an animation dedicated to them. X-tale itself also has an entire comic that goes deeper into X-Chara, X-Gaster, X-Frisk, etc. Sans killing everyone isn’t the only thing that happens. There’s your non sans characters, enjoy.

[@TL3EN309]

@@isaacbatgamer9958 There are dozens of au's where sans isn't the main char in. Epictale for ex.

[@sketchyman5485]

​@@rubyred6608760 X-tale's comic isn't focused on sans, but it does focus alot on X-gaster, you said so yourself, the original commentor also said they couldn't remember that many au's where the skeleton brothers..*and/or* Gaster arent the main focus, so i'd say That part shouldn't be included, the other au's are fair tho

[@toonvoid856]

I was there…I saw the birth or countless worlds and their slow and painful deaths. And I saw worlds be birthed from the dead. And 27 different variations of the *same damn AU* every month or so. And it was the most beautiful hell I wish to witness again.

[@Ghostiibat]

It's coming back esp with Horrortale and Underfell creators coming out of hiatus

[@h.annimations2536]

Big bang be like

[@ArchbowMistress]

@@h.annimations2536 wait but for real tho, Undertale was literally a big bang- when the game released, the first few instances of fan content appeared literally a few days after it and then it spiraled from people realizing that they wanted MORE. When Underswap and Underfell barely became concepts, it sort of self-perpetuated, which sped up the explosion that is the Undertale Multiverse.

[@Higesgirl]

As a former tumblr girlie (I cringe so hard, lol), I remember a lot of cute and glorious fanart of the AUs now forever lost. Good yet awkward memories. Underfell, Underswap, Swapfell, and Outertale were my favorites if you're curious. I loved the gijinka versions of these AUs.

[@sergiorodriguez6719]

Now that you mentioned it Outertale recently (last month) got a full fleged fangame called PS Outertale. It's pretty cool, I recommend it.

[@magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479]

Being a Tumblr girlie now is like being a saint compared to most other forms of media consoomer.

[@legendarycryptid2629]

32:44 That's actually something I found really interesting about Underverse's incarnation of Ink Sans. Jakei is on record confirming him to be genuinely soul-LESS (namely because some fans were diagnosing him, cause there's always gonna be those who believe a character might have some type of mental issue or otherwise, right?), and that in turn brings me to _another_ thing I love about Underverse: the *_foreshadowing._* Throughout Underverse, you got constant little nuggets of things being _not quite right_ in Sans's universe, or that Ink isn't to be trusted, or of Gaster being a top level threat, all of which come to a head in 0.4 (and the prologue for Season 2 for Sans's whole "owner" deal). It makes rewatches pretty great since you can really start to see the pieces as they fall in place, like Ink's emotions finally running dry by the end of 0.3 Part 2, where the shapes just stop appearing... which continues into the interlude and 0.4 where he reveals himself as the catalyst for everything. It's so damn good and shows how well Jakei does as a writer, though I wish we had an adaptation of Xtale Timeline X where we get to follow Sans like the original comic did. I like the idea of delving into Frisk and Chara's thoughts more and what drove them to give the others their memories back, but getting to see Cross having to fight his friends who gang up on _him_ for refusing to help the brothers was really something I wanted to see animated... hopefully she can make that after her year long break ends...

[@DrMecha]

Ink is souless because he destroyed his to escape the Dead and abandoned AU. He survive solely on the creativity of the Undertale Creative Fandom, for without them he'll die. He's not the guardian of the AUs, rather the Muse of the Undertale Fandom; protecting their works for as if they're his very soul.

[@orianefaton1885]

@@DrMecha Agreed. Ink protect the AUs' scripts too, not the world itself. He protects the story the Creators made. Whether this is a happy or a sad one. I saw once a small fan art where you had a Creator complaining that Ink did nothing to save the charaters, they themselves created to be miserable in the first place. Jakei puts a genuine respect toward all of the characters and how they are described by their own creators. Ink is the most telling because of the bad surprise Comyet gave Jakei. The best example is mentionning in the interview video she did years ago. She said that the same day the first episode came out, Comyet revealed the fact Ink is a soulless being. So, Jakei had a tiny panic since a blue attack was used on Ink, used the fact he has Gaster's soul on his sash to fix this and as a result, we atively see it in ep 3, as the blue attack is used on X-Gaster' soul while it is in Ink's hand, with the detail of his hand, then arm aand finally the rest of his body following. Same for the insensitivit to pain, for example. Ink is stated to be unable to feel pain. And, we don't reall seem him express a lot of pain... the two times he kinda did seem to were when Dream headbutted him by teleporting to his face, where he said a small 'ouh' which could be him having learned a bit to mimicate or something, and in ep 3 after he was crashed due to the blue attak in a pile of bone attack. And it is likely for the same reason as for the soulless problem. Because Comyet had explained the thing with pain after the soulless thing, explaining for her, since Ink is a skeleton, he already doesn't feel (physically) much, but his lack of soul cut off entirely his ability to feel physical pain. Jakei must have seen it, because in ep 4 and onward, Ink never express pain. I mean, look at the fight against Fatal_Error and the face Cross make upon seeing Ink's wrist. The guy nearly lost his entire wrist and he is casual, just telling Cross "yeah, you don't wanna be touhed by his red strings" while waving his arm to show the barely attached wrist. (he is the best example of Jakei adapting to the facts about the charaters that are part of Underverse) She even put his dads in the omega timeline, something that unless you follow comyet and pay very close attention to Ink related stuff, people don't know.

[@DrMecha]

@@orianefaton1885 keeping up with canon info is pain I assumed. wonder how Jakei will deal with Error now that the entire script of his story was out in the open, leading to his own disappearance from the Undertale fandom as a whole. The missed opportunity was the exclusion of a suprised appearance from Error!Undyne; I could imagined a spear shot through the portal to the antivoid, leading to her pursuing him; a trap orchastrated by CORE themselves as a way to get rid of him.

[@orianefaton1885]

@@DrMecha Apparently, this is the other way around. ERROR!Undyne was supposed in the storyline of the error ask blog to lose it and go completely crazy after seeing Error's glasses, since it is linked to Alphys. (the glass were given to him by Alphys when he was still Geno, before the Anti-void). She got dangerous to the point Core Frisk and Error had to do an alliance to get rid of her. But, yeah, keeping up with the canon get tricky quickly.

[@h.annimations2536]

@@orianefaton1885 Ultimate-Destruction!Undyne

[@sansaraee]

Hey, uh, Camilla had NOTHING to do with the creation or production of Underverse. The creator of Underverse, Jakei, had been friends with her at one point in the past, but that was back when she was unaware of everything she had done and Jakei has already disavowed her multiple times. I encourage you to look more into it, especially because of the blatant misinformation.

[@DustGameplis]

What Camila did?

[@Siter]

​@@DustGameplisshe got some false allegations that people still believe to be true

[@arabel231]

​@@Siter The allegations are literally true tho? 😭 Plus remember her Livestream addressing this "you don't deserve an apology for getting groomed"

[@lafethegreat8552]

@@Siteris that lollang???

[@Siter]

@@lafethegreat8552 yeah this is lollang

[@jaczylijaaleniepowiemkto3243]

I'm honestly surprised you didn't mention HELP_Tale while talking about AUs piling up. I mean, it's literally an AU about too many rapidly appearing AU's destabilizing the multiverse and causing it to implode into a single, grotesquely corrupted amalgam of a timeline.

[@Logan_but_not]

Ayo, Cami didn't touch Underverse. That was made by Jael Penaloza who has been wrongfully harassed many times. Would be appreciated if you updated that or at least left a comment.

[@tanner201x8]

Stop appropriating black culture.

[@camie2075]

I always found the Undertale fandom so fascinating. You never had to play the game or read the information given by the au creators. You could find out everything you wanted about Undertale and the aus through fan osmosis. I never played the game or watched a playthrough of Undertale for years but I still new every character and story beat. People are so creative and cool! Undertale + Undertale aus have been a huge fixation of mine for many years.

[@terra_creeper]

The handplates dub by Starbot/Calysto will likely never be finished, but there is a dub by Phoenix Prime that is finished. There is a playlist by "Briana M" that combines them so it switches over when the Starbot/Calysto dub ends.

[@DrawciaGleam02]

Yay! Glad Phoenix got a shout out here!

[@bumbabees]

thats a shame. starbots dub was one of the best ones id ever heard.

[@petre1758]

That missspeak at 11:25 saying it was months and not years is one of the cruelest things a youtuber ever did

[@Szoferandados]

i love how he avoids Glitchtale on purpase

[@agentboi4794]

We don’t talk about that one

[@purpledshadow]

We don’t talk about Glitchtale

[@miltsukka13]

You can love story but avoid creator if needed! This should held true every media but yeah.

[@ЯрОк-и2й]

"avoids"

[@dennisthepickle8845]

@@miltsukka13 God damn. What happened?

[@phantom9831]

12:45 what's even funnier is that we're not even SURE this is Gaster, it's only assumed by the fandom, but nothing really confirms it

[@evanbutiforgot]

toby wouldn’t change it

[@Turtleboilol]

I kinda feel like he’s the real Gaster, since he wears a black, Scientist-like outfit, and seems to be the most important out of the secret characters.

[@phantom9831]

@@Turtleboilol the scientist outfit seems kind of a stretch to me. And important...it's just a fun value character that disappears once you talk to it. He's the most mysterious because he doesn't talk like the others, but maybe not the most important. I too want to believe it's Gaster, but nothing's confirmed so I can't tell.

[@Turtleboilol]

@ He’s in the middle of a small, isolated room, that’s why I said he seems to be the most important out of all the secret characters.

[@UNDEREVENT]

Good video! The fandom grows each year as it evolves and changes. Looking back on what and seeing how things are now is pretty cool to see. Though a lot of worlds and projects have been left behind/finished, there’s always more like it up ahead. And now with deltarune, the train will go light speed. Happy 9th Anniversary, UNDERTALE!!!

[@opekamma]

I never interacted with any undertale AU other than handplates. It's been my favorite and it's the only one I kept coming back to. Zarla's portrayal of Gaster is definitely my favorite past just the canonical weird blob-shaped guy

[@TobyStan]

The moment you brought up Gaster I just immediately went 'He's gonna talk about Handplates' over 'nd over again I was in the trenches and these are the horrible consequences that will forever plague me

[@orianefaton1885]

And here is why, as a coward, I do not approach this AU. I do not wanna be scarred for life, thank you.

[@Cherry_berryyyyyyy]

Wait hold on whats the problem?

[@Random34859]

I'm about to do an "erm acktually" moment. 4:15 this would be an AT (Alternate Timeline). Anything that takes undertale and does a, "well what if this happened?" would be an AT. AU's are things like Underswap or Underfell.

[@DrMecha]

It's technically an AU as it's an Derivative of Undertale; a Fanfic of shorts. AT refer to as route within the established game (Genocide, Pacifist, etc.). Think AUs as either an extension or alternative of what has already been established.

[@mrslasher1064]

Oh my god,who the fuck cares?

[@bumbabees]

@@mrslasher1064 guess those anger management classes are going well lol

[@soupcrackers]

all ATs are AUs, but not all AUs are ATs

[@perogun]

The whole AT thing was made up by the glitchtale creator who didn't want to be associated with all the "lame AUs" and look at what happened to them. Just say AU like everyone does

[@redbepis4600]

Toby fox actually aknowledged AUs in the recent autumn newsletter

[@bonbonribbon141]

the technical first au IS undertale because deltarune was thought of BEFORE undertale. and also i love underswap papyrus because he's basically just concept papyrus

[@jeuniverse8460]

But Undertale can't be an AU because it's the main universe. Deltarune just depends.

[@onesecgaming8102]

Theres an amazing fanfic on AO3 called "The Golden Quiche" that i personally love, its set post barrier breaking, and the author created an entire magic system with the Souls and all the different magic types in the game, i would highly recommend

[@oofingoofers9347]

What's the author's name?

[@artangelsproductions253]

Drop link

[@onesecgaming8102]

@@oofingoofers9347 sophtopus

[@frostscythe910]

Why we lying 😭 the writing is lowk hella inconsistent

[@AlexanderORiordan]

I think you misspoke at the end there. You said Underverse while showing messages from Glitchtale's creator. I think you meant Glitchtale....

[@SkylerFordwatts]

i gotta say....underveres is the most amazing show on youtube ive seen and i have no regrets finding it

[@kalpea_varis]

I saw so many freaking Undertale AUs before playing the game that I was confused how many storylines the actual game even had because there are like 300 sans alternatives out there. But I can't blame the fandom, if a media has a story that open for making alternative universes with differing decisions, mechanics, lore - why not do it? AUs keep medias alive after they end or while waiting for the continuation. I caught myself doing AUs for media where I wasn't satisfied with the canon story and felt like you could do more with it, e.g FNAF

[@Space_person_frfr]

Tbh there are probably more, I can name 70 existing aus in like 10 minutes, and those are decently popular ones, if you also look at fan games, alternate timelines and smaller, less popular aus, there have to be an insane amount of them. Way more than 300 I believe

[@orianefaton1885]

@@Space_person_frfr Then think of the one guy that is supposed to protet all this. It makes me curious how the hell Ink even does his job to be able to check all of those worlds go the intended way... Like... just... how...?

[@Space_person_frfr]

@@orianefaton1885 yes exactly, like bro probably needs a team of 50-60 people to help and even then he would work 60 hours a week or something

[@rosemary3029]

Orange:underverse was made by camelia cuevas Jakei(the actual creator of underverse):what am i chopped liver

[@DefinitelyBoredOranges]

check pinned comment I thought I already edited that part out

[@Havijijo]

The BOMB of nostalgia you gave me with mentioning handplates....I was OBSESSED with that comic back then....I wonder if it's still continuing

[@SillyMaze-Daze.animations]

I think it’s discounted or something

[@Havijijo]

@@SillyMaze-Daze.animations ah...what a shame

[@Nobody-707]

Handplates got finished last year(?) The calysto/famous dub was discontinued but someone else finished dubbing it

[@kazazalea7747]

it finished officially back in 2023, not discontinued, it just ended.

[@Havijijo]

@@kazazalea7747 ahhhh I will reread it then

[@Alex-kh9nw]

I love how the UTAU fans just basically made multiverse constant in their every story and completely agree to a certain system they built but also welcoming other's idea or headcanon TvT

[@warnergirls2010]

For me I love Ink sans as a character so much because of his flaws. Also, I think Ink's reasoning for doing all this has actually been more defined as the episodes come in. He's more like a antihero now than a true villain if I'm being honest and its not because of his lack of emotions really he was doing this. In the beginning, creators themselves destroyed half of the AUs which drove Ink into a uneasy alliance with Error (Which Ink didnt want) Ink's insecurities also of being forgotten....losing his only ability to feel with the few aus left probably also drove his actions to alliance with Xgaster. Gaster to me is the true villain because (SPOILERS) at least Ink is starting to realize that what he's doing may not be for the best not just for the multiverse but for him as well. Its not just to experience something new, and this is why I love Ink's character is because how many layers of him there are despite him not having a soul. He's always been there to support the creative community. He makes so many mistakes and can be scary but dang if he isn't cute and silly too.

[@i8chocolatecake995]

thisssssss

[@Bobboerba]

The three forms of aus 1 genocides 2 discontinued 3

[@Solesteam]

17:30 To be fair, Sans doesn't have it _that_ bad, since everything he knows is purely hypothetical...Theories based on the slight subpixel sized scrunching and creases of Frisk's face

[@crackersandpie136]

This video gets my automatic seal of approval for mentioning that Dusttale is like, an Ask-blog and not based off of the fangame. Appreciate the research done!

[@Trashman57]

I have always loved undertale aus its been a true passion and hyperfixation for a good 8 years now and it always makes me happy to see some talking about them so kindly. Thank you

[@ThatMeatyDemon]

Woahhh woaHhhh woahhh ohhh oh STORY OF UNDERTALEEEE 🗣️‼️🔊🔊

[@xandtheironminer602]

I fell from the light 🗣🔥💯💯

[@Welcometoyourlocalchannel]

@@xandtheironminer602 talk or should I fight?

[@CRUELSKELETON95]

​@@Welcometoyourlocalchannel MONSTER GENOCIDE..

[@LanzRivera2]

THIS IS MY UNDERTALE🗣🗣🔥

[@kattaplez721]

NO! nonono no. I HAD FINALLY REMOVED THAT MEMORY FROM MY BRAIN, AND YOU JUST BROUGHT IT BACK! NO!

[@geministrial950]

I thank the Undertale community for cultivating my love of AUs

[@rockmanbeta8055]

Bro... Just found an Undertale AU I wrote FOREVER ago and you post this as I start redrawing, redesigning, AND rewriting some of it?! How are you in my head?!

[@PedestalPrime]

DustTale has been my favorite for a while now. I'm a sucker for "fallen hero" archetypes, combine that with the unique element of a game character grinding for and stealing your exp to weaken you. And Sans' purple eye is sick as well.

[@clownboo2527]

video was very nice! it feels good to see the au comunity being presented in a mostly positive light for once :3 however I would like to say that the section at the end (more specifically around 33:37) has a bit of missinformation, "underverse was being made by one of the worst possible people" and then proceeded to show a screenshot of camila,, intentional or not you're painting jakei(the actual creator of underverse) in a pretty bad light! If im correct there was a lot of missinfo being pread about that whole situation and I think it would've been just better not to mention it at all,,, again, loved the video it made me very happy to watch as someone whos very active in the fandom :D but that part left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth,,

[@MochiiKun]

Jael has spoken several times on the subject, and she herself has acknowledged that she screwed up everything that happened and even apologized, besides, what they are telling you is that you showed a screenshot that is not even her conversation, but a conversation between Camila and Crystal, to do that is irresponsible @@DefinitelyBoredOranges

[@КомандаЛеви]

​@@DefinitelyBoredOranges well damn, looks like you are more of a pos than her. Not even made your own investigations, taking rumours as facts.... Shame on you.

[@IDK-qq7ct]

@@КомандаЛевиbro deleted his comment 😭🙏

[@orianefaton1885]

If you read the pin comment, yyou would know it was a mistake.

[@randomuser.5356]

Inverted Fate is the absolute BEST AU, period. It's absolutely incredible and characterizes each and every character so well.

[@Welcometoyourlocalchannel]

What about undertale yellow and the other freshed out aus like The Thought or og dusttale?

[@AloeHalo]

​@@WelcometoyourlocalchannelTbh idk if OG!Dusttale can be called an very loyal adaptation of sans

[@AloeHalo]

But yeah the other ones you mentioned are great

[@MikoVirus35P]

TS!Underswap too

[@devguy2750]

it's finished right? i read the whole comic up to the core part in 2020 (cuz the rest still wasn't done yet)

[@darkkwaknight]

Undertale is a absolutely amazing game but the fanbase it scares me

[@starmaker75]

It a 50/50 (or rather 80/20) where you might get something that actually interesting and cool to another sans oc and the likes

[@Sylvia568]

Well, with undertale, there are two paths after playing, descend further into undertale madness, or become a masochist (Touhou fan). Anyway i chose masochism.

[@HiuuuS]

​@@Sylvia568both, both are good

[@okami7dreco786]

I am part of the fanbase and the fanbase scares me

[@grimmygremlin]

👻Boo

[@skytheemperor]

I don’t think any fandom will reach this level of insanity

[@infrakazos]

Undertale AUs have spiraled even more since I left the fandom

[@theunfortunatewonderer5018]

Ey, there's some good stuff too! Outertale has a full game with a somewhat original storyline, Undertale Yellow is done and awesome.. ..But yeah it's definitely the minority lol

[@infrakazos]

@@theunfortunatewonderer5018 Outertale was an AU before I left, Undertale Yellow came out during my transition from being super into Undertale to checking in from time to time, so I'm fully aware of those AUs.

[@theunfortunatewonderer5018]

@@infrakazos Oh.. Yeah, I got nothing then. Well, Undertale Wildfire looks AWESOME, but it's only got a fight demo for now. That's about it as far as AUs go. It's not an AU, but Undertale Plus is new mod that's looking amazing despite being in super early devlog. It's mostly being made by a bunch of KZbinrs, so I have high hopes it'll release eventually. It'll be an Undertale mod with the Deltarune battle system, Deltarune and Undertale items and enemies, a Dojo mode, item and armor sprites, unused content.. a lotta shiz

[@HiuuuS]

it's better today than back in the days for sure in terms of quality fan stuff, like we didn't have underevent back then lol

[@sergiomendoza251]

​@@infrakazosthe best au in my opinion and i highly reccomend is Inverted Fate

[@soapsterrr]

absolutely no way you released this the same day I started getting dragged back by the ankles into undertale

[@EvonneSol]

As someone who was right there when the UTMV first blew up, I can say for sure that it was - and still is - a wild ride. It's not for everyone but rampant creativity and chaos made a turbulent environment where just about anything could crop up and catch on. I was one of the early bloggers for Underswap, so a number of my concepts made their way into the base portrayal of the AU without anyone remembering my involvement specifically. It just became a mishmash of concepts and thoughts and discussions that evolved over time, each iteration getting wilder than the last. On the flip side, you've got people that felt like outcasts outside of the internet, people whose ideas and obsessions weren't taken seriously or discussed openly, who felt at home with the massive following Undertale had. We were all strange outsiders who shared a deep love of one game, and the variants that spiraled off it, and it gave us a home to be as weird as we wanted without feeling like we didn't belong. That also attracted a lot of bad people whose intentions weren't the best, but I think scale has to do with that. Say you've got ten fans for an obscure series, and one of them is a horrible person. Multiple that by thousands, and you get hundreds of bad people ruining things for the rest of us. Not that I defend their actions, but it's a consequence of fandom and of massive crowds gathering around something and obsessing over it. I'm still on the scene on a few sites, and it's gotten extremely quiet these days. There's still artists posting, but a lot of them moved on to other, more recent content to go nuts over that. Now's actually the time where I'd suggest getting into it, looking up old AUs and exploring the vast network of concepts and theories left behind. It's almost like an archaeological dig, finding AUs that got trampled over when the fanbase was still big and thriving. Those of us that are left writing and drawing, making new fangames and theorizing about the characters, would be very thankful for the company. A lot of the terrible people moved on already, or got booted out of the fanbase, so you don't have to worry as much as you used to about it. I'm in it for the long haul either way. Undertale changed my life, in both good and bad ways, and now that the bad parts of it are fading there's a bittersweet nostalgia to everything I find.

[@ghostclout]

god i love this video. when i was younger and in the undertale fandom aus were everything to me, so obviously i enjoyed this video a lot. i know the fandom is still alive but i think its kinda rare to see general au content thats actually really goddamn good. thank you mr orangers sir. burgerpants on top btw

[@tornadoufo3969]

Dont confuse Camelia and Jael, Camelia Had NOTHING to do with underverse and neither are they the same person. It is understandable that people may miss-speak or make mistakes when talking if that is what happened, but please understand that Jale is NOT Camelia (aka: the creator of Glitchtale, aka: THAT horrible person).

[@benjo2704]

The Spiderverse inspired thumbnail is God-Tier. Stream did such an amazing job.

[@immatureshenanigans5620]

I'm rewriting this comment, as it seems the video delves into all AUs pre-pandemic, and I want to explain some things the video didn't include, that are pretty prevalent now Underevent: a yearly event where a ton of upcoming AU projects are showcased so fans can be up-to-date on what AUs they could be looking forward to UTSC: short for the Undertale Soundcloud Community; they've been around since 2016, but really only gained relevance after Deltarune Chapter 2 released, sparking a ton of new creators to create fan-made Deltarune content, and eventually create some of the best Undertale AU content the community's seen in years, such as original AUs that focus on the entire world of Undertale instead of just Sans, as well as revamping older AUs and making them better than they ever were Fan-Games: same with the UTSC, they've been around for awhile, but have only been one-off boss fights, or unfinished demos, short horror games, or Sans genocide route fangames (I will have to admit a couple of them were actually pretty good, such as the CC!Storyswap Asriel Fight) as of recent we've been getting fully fleshed out games, such as PS!Outertale, Undertale Yellow, and TS!Underswap, which are so good that even Toby Fox himself has acknowledged one of them (Undertale Yellow) we also still get boss-fight fan-games, although they're higher quality than what we had before, and are very unique concepts (eg: Call Of The Void, La Jupo Vania, literally every Dusttale take)

[@justanothercommentercarryo8367]

that could be an entire video of its own

[@willowfang7910]

him- you couldnt possibly know all of the undertake Aus me- and I took that personally

[@gray_n.s_sheep8439]

I may be late a bit from this community of ours-(bcs I was introduced to Undertale and the AU’s in 2019-2020) but- I still must say that people creates AUs gives us a base and a pov of how most AUs works. I would say Underverse did the most at show what it’s like to meet another version of yourself, we- you- ANYONE would either be freaked out, excited(for most people who already knew the AU theory), concerned(also for the one that knows the AU theory) and/or chill about it(which in most classic!sans’s reaction after already meet a dozen of himself). Thx to Underverse, most people have already became one of those “evil scientists”(=crazy theorists) that just speculate almost everything about the multiverse- if/or/and what-not.(coming from someone that won’t shut up about multiverse as you can tell from how long and pointless essay I’m writing) This parallel that we and most called “Underverse/Undertale AUs/multiverse of sanses AUs”- teaches us about the causes of our actions and consequences if we ever try messing with the time. Even if you turn the clock 1 second behind by science or- what not, it’ll damage the timeline, making parallel amongst parallel that is beyond imaginable. That is ofc just a theory-

[@gray_n.s_sheep8439]

I have more to explain. Just ask if you wanted another essay

[@johnwhite9048]

Underverse is litterally peak bro

[@Kayta-Linda]

Okay, I’m with you on pretty much everything, and your descriptions of characters and their motivations are absolutely incredible and pull all the heart strings, but.. calling Ink the “main” antagonist of Underverse is a bit much. That would still be XGaster. Ink might be the initiator, but that’s about it. He never expected any of this to happen, nor did he actually wish all this pain on anybody. Mostly because he literally couldn’t comprehend the concept of pain. So.. he’s not a villain, he’s just an idiot. And now that that fact has finally sunk in, he might actually figure out how to save everyone. So now, he’s joining the ridiculous army of anti-heros that is pretty much almost every other Sans.

[@Mozzedpunk]

aaww cool, my childhood!! My favorites were endertale, hunger/zombietale, bacontale and undertale green - it's cool looking back on old interests

[@dcincco]

Underverse does make everything worth it. As not an adult, I didn’t mind glitchtale, the fight scenes were great, the lore, well I think it kinda started dragging down after the monsters weren’t as in the spotlight as before, but oh well. Sadly, Jael is taking a break, but at least it’s only temporary! (Manga hiatus flashbacks, lol.)

[@GenericNintendoFan]

The Christmas party au webcomic dubs probably sent my life on an entirely different path.

[@ZapperRS]

Undertale AUs are... interesting... to say the least

[@SkylerFordwatts]

and thats why we love them. they are interesting and fun to make

[@psebb3502]

09:13 yup, the player was the one who pushed chara to kill asriel right at the end of the genocide route, chara didn't have it in them to kill their brother. now with the player not being a factor, it makes total sense Chara wouldn't finish asriel off.

[@psebb3502]

@@Person76439 You pushed THEM to kill. That Z button was you forcing them to kill their younger brother. You could go back and reset before that Z press with zero consequences.

[@psebb3502]

@@Person76439 both times when Chara attacks, namely the second slash that kills sans and the slash that kills asgore, you dont do the button input and then the slash happens. Chara interupts both of them. Its an automatic input. The same is not said for flowey, as you only have to press Z on him for the slashes to come rolling in.

[@psebb3502]

Your pushing Chara to kill flowey unlike asgore and sans where they killed on their own.

[@psebb3502]

@@Person76439 you didn't have to progress dialogue to kill asgore, after his last line he gets cut off by charas attack. You had to when pushing Chara to kill flowey however.

[@psebb3502]

@@Person76439 aaaaaaaaand you press the input after floweys dialogue. You push Chara to slash them. You made them sucumb to madness they wouldn't otherwise feed into.

[@nigtorranight233]

Hey there! Just want to pop in and point out some misinformation at the end of the video. ^^ No hate or disrespect is intended with what I'm about to say! But Camila is not making Underverse. Jakei is! And despite many people saying so, they are not the same person and Jakei has made statements that she is uncomfortable just speaking about Camila. Camila made GlitchTale and Jakei made Underverse. I'm assuming this was just a mistake while recording and was overlooked in editing, but many of us fans and Jakei herself would appreciate if it was fixed so no more unnecessary hate is thrown at Jakei, especially hate that is supposed to be for another person. Again, no hate or disrespect to you for this! In fact you seem like a great creator and I love the videos I've seen from you! I just wanted to make you aware of this ^^

[@-necromythzen-b6844]

Undertale's gonna be 10 years old, congrats. Also with UT Yellow In the picture, things might get crazier

[@tsrkfn]

The thing that gets me about Dreamtale is that it’s basically just a worse version of Chara and Asriel’s story. We got so far into Sans AUs they recreated something that already exists in the game

[@adish1401]

Undertale AUs have basically collapsed in on themselves in that period of time ':>

[@kanekap2278]

@tsrkfn Nice profile picture

[@megathepunnymenace]

⁠@@adish1401really funny that you say that, cause I’m pretty sure there’s an AU about AUs doing just that.

[@waynecarrjr.1187]

​​@@megathepunnymenacehelp_tale, it's one of my personal favorites

[@eloise-b]

I would argue that a bit. The original is, yeah, fair. Pretty much the same thing. HOWEVER Nightmare's existence is the sole reason the Star Sanses exist, how Cross's story took off, the Murder Time Trio exists, and [arguably] why you can find so much deeper political schemes/planning oi fanfic rather than god-like creatures simply fighting

[@demonicangel3191]

The way that I can recognize every Sans on there is very telling how much this character/fandom had a death grip on there.

[@smccookie]

the Underswap Creator quit because people were shipping Underswap Sans hard in rated 18+ content and wouldn't stop, causing the creator to become discouraged and depressed. I found out few other Creators had similar problems or had been bullied or harassed because of their Au works. It's honestly sad we won't get a proper ending for some Au's.😔

[@Im_InsideYourHouse]

I watched handplates YEARS ago, it was genuinely CRAZY. Thanks for reminding me of it, probably going to rewatch it

[@jackcutter2]

"there hasn't been an uodate for nearly ten months" 'shows it was almost 10 years ago, not ten months' i think the AUs destroyed your braincells XD

[@Gamegedon.900]

something tells me this will never end no matter what. and happy 9 years to Undertale

[@3_iq_individual]

im so mad that i can name almost every au in the thumbnail (besides for the one that looks like gaster though that could be echo but with a orange eye and the one behind reaper with the red scarf)

[@doot1doo1]

i was deep in the nichest of those trenches in 2016. i remember i was mutuals on tumblr with a bunch of undertale fanfic blogs and all of them had their favourite AU skeleton that they shipped themself with and I made fanart of them. mine wasn't even a sans or a papyrus, it was the underswap version of napstablook. i remember reading pj's daycare when i was like 11-12. none of these words are in the bible. i hope those fic writers are doing well. i've never felt more vindicated than that time when sans killed the queen by winning the tumblr sexyman poll

[@flynnhunt9916]

DON'T REMIND ME OF PJ'S DAYCARE 🫣

[@Orion1540]

23:33 Error wasn't created to counter Ink. 🤣Error was one of the first AUs created and everyone else wanted to be a rival to Error.

[@lightnarcissism]

This video was my last string before falling back into my undertale au rot hole I sat in for 6 years. I miss what it was like

[@tru3vort3x2]

BTW Handplates the comic is complete, and there is a comic dub by Phoenix Prime up thats up to date if you still want to watch it, trust me, its awesome

[@aureafaix]

I actually got into Handplates fairly early on and followed it to the very end. It's the only AU I followed and I felt the ending was satisfying. Zarla put a lot of care, effort, and personal sentiment into the entire series and it was an absolute joyride from start to finish. The complete work is on their deviantart, well worth the read if you have the time (keeping up with the fandub works too though for sure)

[@nuclear_stardust]

One thing you forgot to mention about the Undertale community: It's slowly resetting itself. With the exception of Toby Fox himself, every big name is gone for the most part. The AU creators are vanishing, the content creators are vanishing, the remixers, the artists... If you don't leave the community on your terms, you'll be evicted for something, as we saw with Camilla or NyxTheShield. There is ONE name I know that's managed to keep his nose clean, and he's a time bomb with a list of people waiting for him to screw up because he screwed them. The community is somehow decaying while growing.

[@DrMecha]

You have Deltarune to thank for that.

[@nuclear_stardust]

@@DrMecha Not exactly. Most of the "pillars" were pre-deltarune. Now they're going down because their pasts are coming back to haunt them or other reasons like it's just got for them anymore. People do grow out of communities with time, and that's okay, but a CONCERNING amount of big names in the Undertale community are being outed as creeps/horrible people/etc

[@pyrobowser158]

Wait what did Nyx do?

[@nuclear_stardust]

@@pyrobowser158 Wrapped up in all of the Camilla stuff. If I remember correctly he participated in the cover up, but crumbled the second he saw trouble

[@DrMecha]

@@nuclear_stardust I were more or less talking about the reset, as in the Undertale fans where slowly being replaced by Deltarune ones.

[@SirMeatz]

--- scuse me rq. 2:23 i see..---- I see my art :0

[@Isaiah-fm8lo]

Congratulations

[@EMan-xj5cz]

I definitely need this video, so I can understand what my friends are talking about and what the hell a “green sans” is

[@jimmakass7537]

I have such nostalgia for hansplates It was the first fanmade comic i read and the writing is impeccable. Plus it is hands down the best depiction of gaster i have ever seen. It feels canon material

[@gnlpsmff0808]

error was not made to counteract ink, he was originally made as a dare

[@lazyvoid7107]

Fresh, Error and Ink now canon

[@gnlpsmff0808]

@@lazyvoid7107 wdym

[@orianefaton1885]

@@lazyvoid7107 They never said they weren't canon... and technically, they will never really be, since they aren't Undertale characters. (though they have their own canon, due to being very popular characters) What they meant was that the way it was said made it look like CQ created Error after having heard of Ink. Ironically, I think Comyet and CQ created them very close in time and the two in canon have no connection, but the fandom linked them due to their conflicting purpose.

[@gnlpsmff0808]

@@orianefaton1885 ink is canon to error via fatal error comic

[@orianefaton1885]

@@gnlpsmff0808 Fatal Error is not made by Error's creator, CQ. So no.

[@sarahnova1567]

Handplates!! I just to read that when I was younger and only recently finished the comic. I really liked the dark tone it took (without it turning edgy, really), as well as it being so conclusive in itself. It was also very interesting when it came to lore and the extension of canon, so much that honestly I may have mixed them up more than once. It's really such a no so fun because the beginning is depressing, but insanely good read!!

[@MarRossi01]

Lover of piggy’s or crayon queen made error sans. I was deep af in the AU pit. They also made fresh sans and aftertale sans. They also made the whole shitpost au of sans AND PAPAYRUS OMG Christmas party AU. That one was my favorite

[@aceismagic14]

My personal favourite AU is FGoD (Forced God of Destruction), which is where Error doesnt WANT to destroy any AUs but is forced to by either a higher deity or the natural laws of the multiverse itself. This usually also includes the group labeled as the “Bad Sanses” also not wanted to harm people but having to because of an outer force, and the “Good Sanses” actually being really corrupt and shitty. The original is a fanfic series on Ao3 by harrish6, but there are HEAPSSS of versions of just this AU all over the fandom!! I definitely recommend this AU if you want something a little bit different :))

[@orianefaton1885]

Personnally, while the concept that the Bad and Error aren't doing it 100% because they want to is an interesting AU concept, I tend to think it is ver annoying that it paints either the Star as evil, or clueless. Ink is especially likely in FGoD to suffer from it, which is my biggest beef. Because in some, Ink is presented as if he create the AUs himself and endanger the multiverse, in other, he is made unaware of something that is a vital part of the wellbeing of the Multiverse, the one thing he protect so it make him look very incompetent. When in his literal canon, Ink is kinda forced in his position. He can only live if AUs are created. It make sense for him to protect them and assist in their creation. You get a real problem if both Ink and Error are forced by another entity. Because they tend to be among the strongest and they can't break free ? You have a real problem there. There is a channel that had this concept, the channel of NQ15.

[@aceismagic14]

@@orianefaton1885 definitely valid criticisms!! i don’t see those in many fgod aus but it’s definitely in a lot of them. my favourite part about the whole AU concept is that anyone can make anything they want, i love adding my headcannons to existing characters, spinning them to my own perspectives and making my own whole new universe out of it. this fandom is really good in the fact it IS so open to every possible alternate universe that can possibly be thought of!!!

[@chrismanning2888]

God the amount of FGoD knockoff fanfics people made when that story blew up was immense. I could not find a single au fanfic on ao3 without it being based off FGoD for like 2 years. I do love that story, it's one of the best written au fanfics out there, as well as one of the best Error written fanfics. But man, the amount of knockoffs it spawned was frustrating

[@ohohoho249]

Horrotale, Handplates, The Thought, Repertale, DeeperDown, Dogs Of Future Past (the same creator for Deltarune AU Paper Trail and Eldritchrune

[@Bora086]

kindred spirits is the first au created before dreemur reborn disbelief is the third one and for the 4th one which everyone knows im sure underfell

[@TheMediaMage]

So glad I finally got around to watching this! I was in the fandom during the height of AU creation and after seeing so much ridicule of it, so many creators either abandon their projects or turn out to be bad people, and just general shunning of something that would otherwise be harmless fun, seeing a video like this that examines that era of the fandom with so much genuine interest and enjoyment of the AUs in question is such a welcome breath of fresh air. Yes it was a messy, chaotic, and confusing time in the fandom's history and even today its influence hasn't ever really left, but I DO think that AUs have the chance to explore the story we got in the canon game in ways that we otherwise couldn't and allow for some genuine, harmless fun with a game that we really love. My heart goes out to all my fellow fans and creators of this game that are still finding joy in engaging with their favorite game and to those out there that are still throwing their hats into the AU-creation ring despite all the backlash it has gotten over the years. Y'all are so insanely creative and never cease to amaze me. Stay determined!

[@nvirdf]

the best part of undertale AUs is by far the music...

[@skibopmdada1152]

As someone who makes aus (not for undertale, psychonauts) the main reason is. Fun. I love putting my favorite characters in situations or making them act differently or have other characters act like them in their own special ways.

[@SkylerFordwatts]

same! so why hate on it or make fun of it if they are just people who love to create stuff off there favoret characters

[@steampunk-llama]

PSYCHONAUTS MENTIONED 🗣️🔥‼️‼️🔥🗣️🗣️

[@Oske-y3w]

Being an OG UTAU person, I watched so many things happen with the UTAUs. I’m even a proud creator of 2 lesser known AU’s! But I find it crazy to believe I used to know nothing about Undertale just 7 years ago, and now I know almost everything. I’m glad the fandom is still growing in remarkable ways

[@ilmiraculousdibill3686]

Name drop of your AU's ? :3

[@Oske-y3w]

@@ilmiraculousdibill3686 Jice and Xael, they are very unpopular but they’re there :)

[@ilmiraculousdibill3686]

@@Oske-y3w Thanks

[@Oske-y3w]

@@ilmiraculousdibill3686 no problem!