Here we are once more!
Today ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls we are going to be talking about the characters inside the story! For the next few chapters too...
Please take note for I'm so sick and tired of seeing these tropes constantly used, abused, and mangled to death.
I will also be talking about some of the good troops that I personally think are nice and give a little bit of Splash of color to the story. Once again these are my own personal opinions, fuck off if you don't like them.
First category will be the Hot Topic of every undertale fandom lover.
(This chapter is all about Sans, have fun you sinners)
Sans:
Since there are so many different AU's of him people have their own different views of him. People don't take an account that it can get very cringy if you do something stupid or your not using your brain correctly when it comes to formating any and all Sans'.
If you did no such research whatsoever and just relied on the people around you writing other fanfics about him you are going to fail. And failing miserably you will. When writing a story and their characters it depends on how you want to base your story writing on.
Consider the following if you are thinking about writing a story, you have wrote a story, or you've been reading a story with Sans being a main character. :
Do you have an outline of where your sorries going to be or go?
Do you know how it's going to start and stop?
Is the character's personality staying the same or constantly changing?
Is your story character driven? (This means you have an idea where the story might go but the characters actions and personality can move the story to new directions when ever your writing) ( if you use this as an excuse you are a horrible person and should put yourself in time out)
I don't care if you said yes or no to any of these you should always check for all of these.
When it comes to Sans and the Au's of him you need to map out there are most use in highlighted character traits. These traits are mostly used and what the character are mostly falls back on, so if you have a piece of paper with all these traits nearby and you can easily look off of it it would be great when writing your story so you don't turn Sans into a neat freak who is working as a mall cop.
(P.S I will come back to the topic of character traits in later chapters, I PROMISE!)
This also goes to how you write them, or more so how you speak through them and their actions. Once you start writing about this character their actions to the small bits and pieces of their sayings can be influenced by their character.
The simple "sure kiddo" is a backup line that almost every single writer who uses and incorporates into this character. I can understand when you use it for the simple answer of going to the store answering replied or even texting.
But the overabundance of it is seriously getting on my nerves. Mostly the kiddo part, Sans said it in the game because Toby Fox made the playable character a CHILD.
Sans is OBSERVANT and called the player kiddo as to safe time for inputting the name you picked into the game constantly, do you know how much time that would take!?! More time than toby wants!!!
Plus He doesn't call toriel "kiddo" now does he. No, he doesn't ass licking bitches!
Something you also want to incorporate when writing and speaking with or about this character is how your reader can actually READ the fucking shit. I am going to go on a fucking rant about Error Sans.
I did not make Error Sans, but I know damn well for sure he does not speak with numbers. He came originally out of drawing from a comic. Not a full published fanfiction.
A COMIC.
I know Comics are mostly used conveyed through drawings but whenever there is dialogue you want to make sure the reader can read the crap.
So whenever I see something stupid with numbers and hashtags and something encrypted and their speaking for him.
I don't want to read anymore. Do you know why?
I want to read something that I can understand properly. If I didn't I'd go to a different book in a completely different language that I do not know and look at that shit.
I want to be able to understand what your characters are saying and not have to resort to look into the comments or even waiting until the end of the fucking book/chapter for you to leave a note on saying what the fuck he's saying.
Screw you, that's how you lose readers people. If you're making something that is supposed to be read and understood you want people to understand and not get confused and leave.
His character: research it!
I'm not a fuckin maid bitch.
You want to write about him go right ahead but you need to do the research behind him. Don't expect others to do your work for you.
But one thing for sure if you do not get this right 100% of the time I will drop the book and leave a comment on you needing to read this book instead.
He has a fear of being touched. That is PART of him!!! you cannot trash that and replace it with something different. If you do you just made up a different character, congratulations!
Error has a back story, look at it. Don't just make up your own!
Next in the list is UnderSwap Sans. He is said to be like Classic Papyrus.
I can understand the confusion that comes to whether you want him to be innocent or Not Innocent. The truth behind this is whether you want to SpongeBob it or you want to actually do it like an adult.
Spongebob is in his 30's and acts like a child. If you want his character to be something like that then you're basically SpongeBobing it. Super innocent and naive till the very end, and doesn't know shit.
The adult pathways quite different. You still have the positive attitude the almost somewhat like innocent child feel but he knows what real life is accepting it, sex, and all the adult things in life but having more positive outlook. I personally prefer this type as it feels better to work with. His character is not so stiff not so borderline childish.
He's only perceived as a child from more fell versions. Or people who see more optimistic and positive people to be naive and easily fooled, just like a child.
Now for the wide range of Sans'! Woop woop...
If you want to add in small things like if someone likes music, or porn, anything that seems to fit with their personality, backstory, and interests. I'm fine with giving it a go and most are open for new things.
As said before I don't get pissed off easily when it comes to the smallest shit.
But if you're going to make them sing, ANYTHING. Even happy birthday. DON'T.
Singing is something that comes from the ears, not the eyes, WHICH YOU ARE READING!!! Sure, I can imagine what the voice may sound like to the obvious soundtrack and writers.
But am I gonna really? No, I'm not. Fuck you if you think everyone will.
I skip over that crap easily, If your gonna have them sing summarize it. Don't give me a play-by-play on each and every fucking word they sing.
Summarize what they sing, how they sing it, and maybe If They dance Or sway. Other characters feelings towards the singing and movement. Done, not that hard. Easy to read, makes me not cringe.
Sure it looks good if you copy and paste the lyrics when the word count goes up... but it doesn't when I drop the book from you doing it too much.
Characters even the Sans Au's can be unique in different ways. Just try to stay into your own damn lines.
Love and Action when it comes to the characters...
Ugh, I skipping this...