Undertale things
Fellverse Soulmate AU where the monsters make it to the surface. Fell-Papyrus has a good paying job of some sort an undetermined number of years after the resurfacing.
One day, he meets his soulmate. She’s(or he‘s) a hooker. Or, at least, Papyrus is sure they’re a hooker because they always smell like several different people every time he meets up with them. He never brings it up though, he courts them all the same not wanting to scare them off.
But still, during every date, he can smell countless other people on her skin even though it’s clear she showers regularly.(Monsters in this AU have stronger senses than humans) It does bother him knowing that his soulmate is copulating with other people, but it’s her job—and they’ve never brought it up before. So It’s not like he’s going to make it her problem that the way she’s makes money to take care of herself bothers him.
However. As soon as he’s sure that she’s comfortable around him and settled in their dynamic, he brings it up. With halting words and a poorly hidden nervousness, he tells her that he can support her, that she doesn’t have to work like that anymore. She asks him what he means by that. He says that he knows what she does for a living and that she doesn’t have to. That he has enough for both of them if she’d let him support her.
Having a growing inkling as to what he might be taking about, she feels like she might start laughing, but asks him anyway what exactly he thinks she does.
Seeming to try and stay calm and not flustered, he tries to describe prostitution without actually saying it ”Well, you…canoodle. With other people……for money. Don’t you?” He hurries to add ”Not that that’s bad! Or anything. I just want you to know that you don’t have to, because I am here and I want to support you”
Unable to contain it any longer, she bursts out laughing. Once she calms down, she explains in-between chuckles that no, she is not a sex worker. He asks that if that is the case, why can he always smell so many other people on her?
A little surprised that he can detect something like that even after she’s clean, she informs him that she co-teaches a Brazilian jiu-jitsu class on the weekdays. She constantly smells like other people because she has to get up close and personal to show her students how to do the moves, particularly when it’s time to grapple live.
At some point she’ll invite him to sit in on a class and he. Will. Be. Scandalized.
Another story about the typical machine Au with all the skelies living in the same house. This is one of the ones where sans and a few others are toxic assholes and most of the rest are just toxic or gasslighty. As per usual, a human enters the scene in some manner.
She’s homeless, estranged from family, and now all those shitty tsunderes want her. They offer her the maid job but—I think the fuck not. She wants nothing to do with any of them as they are strangers. She has nothing against monsters, she’s just has no desire to live in a house full of men who could at anytime decide to assault her. Nah, she’ll take her chances with doing how she’s always done. Besides, she’s not even attracted to skeletons.
It doesn’t end there though, because with just a couple chance encounters one or two of them get dangerously obsessed. Luckily during the story, she meets someone.
This someone is a bit older than her, well-off, and a lovely woman. They get on like a house on fire and when the woman hears how her younger friend is homeless and jobless, she sends her with a recommendation to another friend of hers who owns a chain of bakeries with one in the next town over.
The skelies are still stalking lady number one though, and their occasional harassment and inability to take no for an answer is making her increasingly paranoid. A potentially dangerous encounter with them leads the woman to finally ask her friend for help. After hearing what had been going on, her friend. is. PISSED. Immediately she calls up a lawfirm she does business with and hires their services.
The lawfirm gets the skelly stalkers on charges of attempted assault and harassment. A restraining order is issued along with six months jail time.
Also—In my eyes classic Papyrus can do no wrong, so he’s one of the only two skeletons who didn’t think about her much until the others got really creepy. He tried talking to the others about their weird obsession, but they didn’t listen. Sometime after the other twos hearing he sends a letter to m.c. apologizing for everything she had to go through. Swapfell Papyrus was the other one who felt nothing much about her.
Weeks pass, and it turns out the story was actually a bakery romance lesbian au all along. The couple are happy together.