Freak Squad

((Holy cow three weeks?

... I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised. It did take us months of near constant writing to push out the ridiculous amount of fiction we’ve posted here.

And that’s probably only like... half of what we’ve actually written? There are tons of other aus that sit in google docs that will probably never be posted. lol

Right now we are actually writing a little together again, which is fun! Although I don’t think it’s something that will be fully posted, at least not in its current format. Outside of that though I’m working on a western au on my main, and I know Baseball has a few fics she’s pushing through over on @batfamscreaming, as well as her to-do book.))

((I’m going to give this a tentative yes? Since this blog has garnered a little interest again (thanks @kdccreative) I’ll start to check it a little more.

That being said though I work full time and Baseball has their own projects they’re working on too, so don’t expect all questions to get answered and give us a little time to actually see the asks that get sent in.))

so the thing is, I don’t necessarily dislike doing construction. I do it willingly and sometimes very aggressively! but that doesn’t mean I want someone to be able to tell me go do construction and all the time.

It’s not necessarily that he did something to make people dislike him. It’s more that he had power over them that they had no control over. I’m not really explaining this very well, mmm

when I was in college, I was real ass depressed. I was often in the type of bad mood that wasn’t really even a mood as much as a physical crankiness that I tried to tone down and pretend didn’t exist when encountering other people.

My college also unfortunately had a habit of chalking the sidewalks. Everywhere. They were ads, announcements for events, doodles-- and encouraging messages.

I remember one point where one organization covered the entire campus with comforting phrases like “You can do it!” “Smile you’re beautiful” “you can do anything you set out to accomplish” “This will all pass eventually” ; You know, empty platitudes.

One of the “smile youre baeitufl” or “youre so brave!!” ones was Right. Outside. My. Dorm. Every time I exited the door i most commonly exited, I would pass that message, and the only thing that very nice bland message elicited in me was Fury. Not even a fury I could enjoy, because, again, Depressed and so I would feel the screaming but without the emotional release.

like, you need to have negative emotions sometimes, and wildly all these positive phrases were unintentionally shaming me into being That Angry Person on A Happy Happy Campus.

but you want to be happy! If you had the choice, anyone would choose to be happy!

but it doesn’t work like that. You cannot be happy and content literally all of the time, it’s just physically impossible, and pretending to be that way all the time comes with a mental strain that eventually leads towards big ass breakdowns over ‘absolutely nothing.’ This is usually what Linda is actually mad about when venting her anger on retail workers. 

And then there is Aes, whose magic makes it so you can be content all the time. Happy, even. Everyone who works for him is chill. no one wants to leave really. people actively seek Aes out in Hotland sometimes because it’s so much easier to be chill and kinda high maybe than to deal with the reality of an inescapable slow death beneath a mountain.

Alphys was one of the workers. She came and partook, and she stayed until the last day when Aes walked into the CORE. And then the spell was broken, and she had spent years of her life and scientific research building this machine that... she didn’t even understand. It was working, sure, the Underground had electricity, but no one had been given a blueprint. No one knew the full shape of it-- everyone had been working on their own pieces automatically, without any need for instruction!

That’s scary. Maybe nothing ‘bad’ actually happened, but that doesn’t mean that years didn’t pass and she barely remembers a variation in her days, or emotions, or life, for all those years on autopilot.

And then, of course, you have Sans and Papyrus, who were young and in need when Aes took them in. Papyrus isn’t even young enough to walk on his own or talk-- he’s still swaddled up.

What happens when you grow up without adversity, or negative emotions, or even being able to watch someone model those behaviors for you?

What happens when you’re in that state for years, and have been content for so long, and then suddenly, the person who’d been protecting you from literally everything has left of their own will, and you are injured, and for the first time in your life, you realize there will never be any stars above you?

some worlds don’t have Gasters and would’ve never had a CORE built, or something else would have come up in its place. Aes slipped into a world without a Gaster because it was empty. The name “aes” comes from “aesthetic” actually. He’s the encompassing Gaster aesthetic.

And so VK wouldn’t recognize Aes even if he could find bits of him (which he will not) because Aes isn’t a Gaster-- so that isn’t a soul he can incorporate.

Aes is not connected to Seer; Seer is just the most similar thing Goop can think of to compare Aes to. Aes sort of appears as people expect to see him, and so when Goop sees someone he doesn’t really understand, I guess Seer is the first sort of thing to come to mind. Aes is very aware of the multiverse and has always been. He is not a Gaster as much as mimicking a Gaster (which is why his appearance is a big mess) and so he knows Gasters generally build CORESwhen he says he knows about Goop’s CORE because Goop mentioned it, that is Gaslighting as Hell my dudes :)

So this is a fun one, actually, it

We did not RP this out, because it would be long and devistating, ironically, but the basics is: rage found out he was from another world and his mind finally loses it.

Longer version:

So war happens. Vrinda and Treb murdered by humans. War ends. Dings and Rage don't make it to the mountain before it's sealed up. All monsters outside the mountain are eventually killed off but them, and so they spend the intervening millenia(???) As Basically Cryptids, occasionally killing humans off but mostly trying to keep their heads down and survive. Something something a couple cults, time passes.

The mountain is eventually opened up again and monsters reintroduced to the world, so natutally they show the fuck up. 

Grillby is extremely surprised to see these two disasters still alive after all this time, and sort of takes them in and keeps them away from the humans and any too excitable monsters while everyone aclamates again. But of course, you cant have monsters that still actually lived and remember thr war and then Spent All That Time Outside the Barrier and keep them a secret for too long, so they eventually become a hot goss topic and at this point skull and I were still on a weird "aw yeah let's give them a happy place to settle down and be cheesy" so they write a book w grillbys help about the war and how much humans suck and living outside the Barrier. 

This is probably tbe first book written by monsters after the barrier fell and so it actually goes Fucking Wild way beyond the monster circles and ends up readable worldwide. 

..... Which is how we were like "but hey what about" and a sect of some of tbe cults dating back to the Goddamn War find them and they have some Questions and also one of the guys they kill in the RP who is really good with a bow and arrow was a member anf was killed by them so rhis cult has PASSED DOWN A BLOOD FEUD with these TWO SPECIFIC SKELETONS so they have business to attend to

And in the process of Very Unpleasant Hospitality the cultists definitively establish that Rage's magic is completely different from any other and spend like a week chuffing over torture until finally Rage gets one of them to gloat about what so specifically is interesting and tbe guy lets it slip that rage is an especially rare specimin because he's a monster from another world. 

And that's just about the last straw rage can take. Because he's been through a lot of shit but the one thing that was always solid was in his childhood, knowing that everything was just a lie told to him. That he was just kidnapped by an abusive human, that magic wasn't evil, that he wasn't really a dead human---

--that he was just a skeleton. Just like his brother. 

After everything, having his basic foundation ripped out from under him goes badly. He manifests his magic despite any restraints and dusts the human so badly he rips a hole in realities. 

One of which might be his 'home.'

And he's going to destroy it. 

(And Dings, of course, will follow him. He'd follow Rage to the end of the world. 

And the next one.

And the next one.)

((Thank YOU for reading it! It still holds a really special place in my heart (and Baseball’s too, I’m sure), so knowing it’s still getting read and enjoyed really makes me happy. I’ve read through all your asks and let Baseball know. We’ll go through them and answer what we can soon!))

((Please don’t ever apologize for sending us asks like this! I have a knot in my chest and I’m smiling so wide it hurts. Thank you so much for sending this in.))

((Teach would be really flattered I think, especially now. He has a bit of self-image issues after he had the boys since it took away a lot of the perfection that came with his abundance of magic.

Doc though? I think he might wonder if you need glasses. lol If either of them wins the whole “I hate everything about myself” award it would definitely be Doc, even if he hides it pretty damn well.

I’m unsure what you meant by the last bit of your question, but if you mean how they would be able to tell one another the other is cute, it’s... easy. Teach thinks Doc is adorable and wonderful and Doc is hella gay and thinks Teach is really attractive. lol))

((Aww, thank you. You guys are so sweet.))

((Thank you! We’re still not completely back, I’ve been busy with work and Baseball has been busy on her farm now that she’s home from college. We’ll get things sorted eventually though! Thanks so much for sticking with us.))

((Thank you! I hope so too. I’m going to stay with her at college for couple of days and finally get that College Experience(tm). So it should be fun!))

((Yeah definitely. AYEM Pap definitely would love to give his ‘younger self’ advice, but I think he knows that he might not take it. He remembers being very head-strong back then, so getting through to him about certain things might be near impossible, but he may try anyway.

He does like a challenge.))