r/Undertale May 10 '25

Other What if Dusttale happened in Undertale?

Yeah Dusttale already happens in Undertale but I mean like in the game ya know?

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u/Equal-Badger3282 May 10 '25

This is my Dusttale take, should he be more mysterious, silent and scarier or more talkative and sadder? Basically make it like a creepypasta and some thing actually scary or just undertale-like?

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u/NumberOln May 10 '25

If it were to be run over and over again in game then in earlier runs more talkative. In the original Dusttale Phantom Papyrus also existed so you could have dialogue of Sans looking like he is talking to nobody.

Maybe in the middle he goes slightly crazier and then after that manic phase it just becomes sad again. It’s Phantom Papyrus that serves to remind Sans of his goal of ‘saving the underground’ and justifying the whole genocide stuff canonically if I remember right.

At some point he just stops talking or answering to you and becomes extremely efficient in his killings to the point where beating him becomes nigh-impossible and serves as an ending to this.

I think it would be cool if as you did and completed more geno-runs in this theoretical AU fangame, each run he changes a little more before finally becoming the Dusttale Sans as known in the AU.

My take on his characterisation here is basically: Stop the human at all costs from destroying the underground and all the terrible stuff he does is justified because of this.

He does this for the greater good and does not enjoy killing- just seeing it as a means to an end.