Well, you know how it'll go, right? I'm Asriel, you're Chara. I'd prefer to make some long and detailed post about everything, buuuuuuut....

:P

Thanks for making the thread. Yeah, we don't need a long explanation post - we know what we're doing, and if it turns out that we don't, we can figure it out then.

Also, first IC post is up!

Sorry it took me a while to respond to this, got quite a bit of things going on.

It's fine if you take a while. This is supposed to be something fun, not something to make you stress about your response time or post quality, so don't worry about it, k?

This is a plot/worldbuilding question: How much time do you think passed between Asriel and Chara's childhood, and the events of the game?

I'm asking because I think it'd be interesting if we could interact with child versions of the main NPCs, but that might not make sense timeline-wise. And we could stick with Toriel and Asgore, or make OCs.

Plot theories below. Sorry it's so long, I got a little carried away, so you can skip to the tl;dr if you want.

In New Home, there's a calendar. In Neutral/Pacifist, its description is (There's an old calendar from the end of 201X.) (A date is circled on it.) but in Genocide, it is (The date I came here.) meaning when Chara got there. The beginning animation is also marked 201X, which would indicate that Frisk fell within a decade of Chara. However, it seems unlikely that Asgore could collect 6 human SOULs in less than 10 years, or the monsters would've collected enough to break the barrier way earlier. Also, the main NPCs didn't seem to know Toriel, which is odd if she left just a few years ago. The alternate explanation is that the beginning animation was of Chara falling, and that Frisk came along many years later. This would explain Alphys' extradimensional phone - she didn't invent a cellphone that could access dimensional boxes, space-warping phones were a common technology by that point in the future. However, if it was far enough in the future for the 6 SOULs to make sense, Frisk's time would be way later than ours. The world we see in the True Pacifist credits doesn't look very future-y. And Gerson (the turtle in the Waterfall shop) can tell you a story about Toriel and Asgore. Thoughts?

tl;dr Either Frisk and Chara fell within 10 years of each other, or Frisk is from the far future and Chara from 201X. Or something I didn't think of.

I personally agree with the "Frisk is from the future" explanation. It does seem rather unlikely that 10 years would be enough for 6 more humans to fall and die, and that no one knows what the former queen would look like. Plus, maybe it was an old calendar that Asgore couldn't bear to throw away.

I'd like to elaborate more, but I can't be bothered to. I'm not that big a fan of Undertale. :P

I'm not that big a fan of Undertale. :P

Says the person whose avatar and (awesome) signature are both from Undertale. :)

If Frisk is from the future, I guess the existing monsters might be from Gerson's generation, however old he is? That could be interesting...

If I recall, monster food works differently from human food.... :P

After lazing about thinking hard about my next post, I have concluded that I will need to have npc help to move this along and get Chara some aid for his injuries.

Yeah, an appearance from Toriel or Asgore would probably help. In hindsight, we probably should've figured out NPCs earlier. Do you want us to share control of NPCs as needed for the story, or do you want to be responsible for half the NPCs, and I get the other half?

We can share control.

Sounds great. Also, I started listening to "Undertale" the song while writing, and realized that it'd fit well while reading too. There's now a link to the song at the point when I imagine it should start playing. Good/bad?

Sure, sounds good.

Hmm... how do I make the story progress from here....

I honestly have no idea how to make the story progress from here aside from a time skip.

I've been very busy with schoolwork and stuff, so I apologize for the lack of posts.

Sorry, man, I don't think I have the motivation to continue this. I've been trying to come up with something every now and again, but things don't really fit.