Glitched!Creation

Glitched!Creation is a universe that follows the concept of monsters fleeing to the Underground instead of humans imprisoning them there. Most characters have fast paced attacks that're often dark and difficult to see, with brighter attacks dealing more damage, slow and relaxed music, and dark attire with turquoise highlights. The most notable visual change between royal members and the common monster is their frequent use of long, flowing scarves, which are often used as a method of allowing others to spot royals in a crowd.
=== Contact ===
Long ago, two races had inhabited this world, humans of the surface and monsters of a large cavern underneath called "The Underground". Monster kind had made first contact, first appearing to the humans of the surface through a large entrance in a well known mountain called Mt. Ebott, introducing themselves as beings purely of magic and light in a race built upon peace and understanding. Human kind had quickly adjusted to this new discovery, even going as far as to write a treaty between them, allowing the two races to share with each other the wonders that one anothers' world never had. After this point in time, the two different societies had built a trade between magic and technology, allowing both to build upon their resources and thrive...but trouble had brewed between the leaders of both races since their first greetings. The high lord of monster kind, a tyrant king that had gone by the name of Dreemurr, had never trusted human kind, seeing them as a civilization of bloodthirsty rats who would only temporarily work with his own people to gain what they could and leave once they prosper. Even despite this, he himself held little respect for those that stood below him, only going as far as to act as if they exist in his world if they word directly under and for him. Those who offer only their loyalty and nothing but are his prized few. The leader of the human race, a skillful and respectable soldier who's name had become lost to time with his legacy, held a near opposing amount of respect for all who fell under his rule, only denying it to those who threatened the well being of his people or entirely challenged his rule as leader, often punishing those who resist in ways that would range from banishment to public execution. Because of this, he had as little trust for the dormant tyrant king as they did for him, leading to growing personal disputes born purely out of paranoia. Long battles had been fought after these disputes had leaked into the two separate societies, eventually bringing both into a full scale global war.
=== The War ===
Due to the heavy advantage given by technologically advanced magic, monsters had claimed victory against humans, allowing Dreemurr to ready the final strike against the foundation of human civilization and thus any hope for rebuilding. His own second in command, a determined goat warrior he had named Asgore Dreemurr, decided that this was too harsh of a fate for humanity, so he grabbed the king's trident and jammed it into his upper back, piercing his soul an leaving behind only a pile of dust and a badly injured human in his place. Quick to take action, Asgore spared the human leader, announced the death of the old king, and ordered an immediate evacuation in the event that humans wouldn't let the event go and instead return later on with far greater weaponry and resolve. Upon getting nearly everyone into the Underground, Asgore used a large amount of his magical energy to form a barrier that sealed the various pathways that had connected monster and human kind for so long, sealing their fate with it.
=== An Old Life In a New Age ===
Having lived so long with the help of human technology, monsters were forced to quickly adapt to the severing of their previously constant flow of materials and energy, only being able to work with what they were able to take with them during evacuation. Having lost their only sources of light in the Underground, their first priority was to find a way to re-energize the various forms of light gifted to them by humans, which was made possible through the use of certain types of electricity based magic. Having done that, and already having various sources of food and water throughout the caverns that had fed them for centuries, along with numerous places to live between the homes that they never left and the new homes that had once held humans during the treaty, the main issue to address was returning to their fully independent structure. With a new king in place, a rightful king, monsters were much more motivated and quickly worked toward repairing various buildings that had been damaged in the war and cleaning up all of the dust piles and human bodies that were strewn across the cavern, making sure to give everyone, even the humans who fought against them, proper burials. The final step before letting life do as it so chose was to regroup the royal teams that had either disbanded or completely died out during the war.
=== Royal Rebuild ===
The main groups that fell into the roles royals are the Head Scientists, the Crowned Guards, the Peacekeepers, the Support Squad, and the Royal Family. At the time, Gaster had been the only human who had both stayed in the Underground after the war, but had also built a personal connection to Asgore, becoming somewhat of a close friend to him. Paired with the fact that he was one of the most intelligent and cunning beings to exist in the underground, he was among the first choices to fill the role of "Head Scientist". Next in line were the Crowned Guards, and the three most fit to lead it were Gerson, a wise turtle monster that had carried all of his weight and more while protecting the underground from invading humans during the war, Scaeya, the determined daughter of one of the most fearless monster warriors who charged directly into the human armies and heavily crippled them before being killed by a sudden ambush from the ground, and Asriel, son of the king and a leader to be, a just soul who would do only what is necessary to win in a battle. Various different monsters were chosen by the Crowned Guard captains to fill both the roles below them and the spaces yet to be filled in the Peacekeepers and Support Squad, so after this point, all had gone well...until a shadow came out of hiding.
=== The King’s Fall ===
Few humans had stayed behind after the war, and most had no other choice in their mind but to retreat into hiding after the only exits in the Underground were sealed off, one of these humans being Chara. Asgore had taken a day to search through and clean out the dusty city, leading him to find Chara, who was desperately trying to keep a confident face in his presence. He had always been a merciful monster around humans, so when Chara drew a small pistol, loaded only with one bullet, he responded with open arms, a sparing decision that brought upon his death in one quick pop. Scaeya and Gerson had found them not long later, standing in front of a pile of the king’s dust. Gerson had to control every amount of his grief for Asgore’s death to keep Scaeya from killing the human, scolding her and claiming that they’re just a young and confused human, that she herself wouldn't have done different in their shoes. He approached Chara with care, making sure not to act as a threat, and offered a peaceful resolve, something she hesitantly accepted, having no bullets left. From then on, Gerson had raised her to see the true nature of monster kind and how to live as they did, purely built on understanding.
=== The Third Crowned, The Eighth Soul ===
With the death of his father fresh on his mind, Asriel took the crown that sat in the center of a large dust pile and sat in his rightful throne, claiming his place as the next king. As a first act, he decided to forgive Chara and move on from what she did, but with the exception that she would vow to offer the same mercy to him that he did to her, which she readily agreed to. His next act was to have a more thorough search of the forgotten human city, in search of any more humans that may have stayed back during evacuation. In his search, he found seven human children scattered throughout the city, who he had technically raised since then, albeit loosely. Even so, one of the more persistent children, a soul of determination named Frisk, refused to return to the city, insisting that they stay with him...so they did. 
=== From The Dust Came a Light ===
While Asriel had quickly accepted the death of his father and his new role as king, it had been the snapping point for Gaster, making him go as far as to attack Asriel in hopes of taking a hold of his soul and using it to bring the first rightful king back, and as such, he had to be banished to a place deep in the underground with the spoken name of Waterfall. Due to the loss, Gaster's closest assistant and student, Papyrus, had taken his place as "Head Scientist", hoping to achieve what his predecessor had attempted in a far less violent manner. With the help of a fully determined soul, Papyrus was able to expand his research on souls and the properties of monster dust to include research on the unique nature of determination and how it reacts to monster magic. In the midst of his research, Papyrus and a hand picked crew of scientists were able to find that determination allows one to refuse to die in numerous situations or simply jump back to moments in time to avoid the encounter completely, but it often counteracts with the weaker nature of the magic that builds monster bodies, often melting them to a point of near dusting, which is only prevented by the full death immunity that a fusion allows for. Using this knowledge, Papyrus set himself onto the task of finding the correct amount of determination to keep a monster both alive and stable, while furthering his goal with forming a monster body from dust. After plenty of broken souls, recorded logs, failed test subjects, and sleepless nights, he had finally cracked the code. With a soul formed from the magic found in dust and samples from his own bones, he had formed his very first working subject, a lifeless but stable monster. After days of trying to find why it wasn’t responding to any sort of stimuli, he noticed that one of its eye sockets began to glow a faint but notable red, and it appeared to be moving...it was alive, he couldn’t have imagined what changed, but it was alive...but this wasn't the end of his experiments, far from it.
=== The Grand Reveal ===
While Papyrus had been raising the new monster who he had created, who he decided to name Subject-“Sans”, Asriel had become increasingly worried about him, not having seen him out of the lab for months. He decided to look for Papyrus himself, only to make sure that he was okay, and in his attempt, found around six different skeletons sleeping in a large testing room, with Papyrus nowhere to be found. His immediate response was to feel both surprised and disgusted by what was being done behind his back, but he brushed off his anger to focus on the sleeping figures, seemingly children. While approaching them so he could take them home, one of the children woke up and immediately tried to attack him, screaming for the others to run, which they promptly did before Asriel could stop them. Knowing that he wouldn't be able to find them again, he waited for the only remaining child to exhaust their energy and let him take them to a safer place. The child eventually passed out on the ground, so he picked them up and walked out of the lab, promising to himself that he would find Papyrus later...which he never did. Now Asriel had once again seen a moment of tranquility, with the added responsibility but not particular burden of raising two children in a simple house on the edge of the human city, which he had, in a fitting manner, named The Lost City.
=== Final Days ===
On a day far past that moment, when the kids had grown enough to go on their own adventures, Asriel decided to open the main barrier for the first time with a guard to his side so he could try to fix the broken ties between monster and human kind, and to his surprise, his offer had been accepted. While it was a hesitant answer, the new leader of humans knew that there was little reason to hold a grudge against those who never even fought in the war, and as such, decided that it would be best if they rewrote their once burned away treaty. Asriel had been excited to get the news out to Frisk and “Sans”, but before he could, he saw “Sans” walk into a doorway of sorts, and he promptly followed them out of curiosity. After this point, no one knows what happened to this universe, but most speculate that it was deleted by a foreign source known as Erasure. 
== Characters ==
=== Original Main Cast ===
==== Frisk ====
Frisk was a child with a Determination soul who had lived most of their life in The Lost City, even after the war between races. Out of all the children that had been left behind as a result of the war, Frisk was the oldest and the quickest to come to a problem’s solution, and was thus seen as a leader. After being taken in by Asriel, they had calmed their constant mental desire to survive, but grew to be ambitious, aiming to rival Chara and her supposed “destiny”.
==== Toriel ====
She had been the mother and predecessor of Asgore, having served as a warrior since even before the first king and was seen as a guardian to all. Even after the king had began his rule, she strove to instill hope and determination into the souls of the oppressed. On a rather rowdy day in the Underground, she even planned out a rebellion against and overthrow of the king, which had led to her breaking down half of the royal systems and eventually dying by the hand of the king himself once she reached him. Most who had stood at the bottom of Dreemurr's ladder still followed her example however, and the Deltarune Society had been built secretly in her image.
==== Sans ====
As a result of Papyrus’s desire to create life from dust, he created a large number of test subjects that were eventually scrapped for being “useless”, but “Sans” was the first in a string of successful subjects, along with beingt he only to have been caught by Asriel. Despite having a body and soul made of magic, he couldn’t use magic for attacks, so after being raised by Asriel and gaining more of a personality, “Sans” grew to become a more calm and collected character, often following Asriel’s lead with not getting involved in fights and instead would spend a lot of his time taking care of The Lost City and keeping an eye on the two groups of monsters that constantly fight against each other there. He deeply cared for Frisk, seeing them as his own sibling, so he would have done just about anything to keep them safe in their journey.
==== Papyrus ====
Having lived a great amount of his life directly below the former Royal Scientist, Papyrus had gained a fascination with the science of the magic that lies within both human and monster souls. After Gaster had been banished, Papyrus, being his closest assistant and personal student, was next in line to take the spot. After he had gained his promotion, he had buried himself in his studies, spending countless months working toward the ultimate goal of toying with life and death to become a god through magic, all while trying to keep it hidden from Asriel. He had lost his mind in the midst of his studies, leading to the creation of multiple flawed experiments after his first success and his eventual disappearance.
==== Undyne ====
Undyne had lived as an idolizer to Toriel, often having to be physically held back when another act of rebellion was taking place. After Toriel's death, she trained to become second only to Dreemurr, which was challenged by Asgore, and become the spearhead of operations in her newly formed Deltarune Society. She eventually became good friends with Alphys, an aspiring technological engineer who was brought into the society because of her capabilities. They eventually agreed together that Undyne would pretend to die in the upcoming war so she could strike the king down once and for all, a plan that went horribly wrong when Asriel beat her to the punch an she was subsequently trapped on the surface with Alphys.
==== Napstablook ====
This ghost was a mere trickster in life, but was brought to the extreme in death. It had been a human adult from the war who had traded their sanity for immortality, which led it to spend the rest of its existence as an angler and a murderer. With little of its mind left, it spends its days in the Lost City, luring stray children and adults alike into the shadows, where they lose their souls and become one with the puppet hive mind.
==== Alphys ====
Alphys is a wandering sort, always somewhere different every time you look away and look back where she was. She invests herself in evolving the bond between technology and magic, allowing her to always find something new to work on until she can finish the previous thing. When she had gotten involved with the Deltarune Society, she had enough resources to truly put her research to the test, leading to the development of a whole arsenal of magic infused and dependent devices, including a few robotic bodies that would let a human or monster soul persist after the death of its host, which were eventually found by a royal member and thrown into the scrapyard. To avoid her fate with the king for what would be seen as treason, she decided to never leave Undyne's side, even when she was going to be trapped on the surface because of it.
==== Mettaton ====
When the electrical systems throughout the Underground were built, a strange signal entered it that seemed to be its own type of monster. This signal runs the systems throughout the Underground, keeping them nice and orderly while avoiding being sighted in case. They have a tendency to walk around using one of the scrapped robotic suits when no one can see or hear them, which they eventually got used to enough to not want to leave, so they often act as if they're deactivated when others are near and wander when they leave.
==== Asgore ====
He had begun as the son to who was seen as the most influential traitor in the entire Underground, and because the king saw potential in his future, he raised Asgore as his own after the death of Toriel, eventually training him enough to become second in command. Due to the ongoing war and the constant threats to both monster and human kind, he killed Dreemurr and took his place as first rightful king of monsters, using his pre-exiting status to lead monster kind through the first stages of life in a post-war underground. As a king, he was a more merciful monster, seeing past the ways of the old king and realizing that those who stand proudly under the rule of their king are more useful than pride could ever be, and thus he worked on keeping a looser grip on those below him and focused more on how to support them.
==== Asriel ====
He’s was the third to be crowned as king of monster kind and lived as a former captain of the Crowned Guards and current sole leader of all monster kind, which he finds to be a surprisingly relaxing job compared to the work that had to be done by the day as partial Crowned Guard captain. He takes on the sparing trait of his father, more often than not leaving the more violent side of his work to his trusted guards, who were normally more than willing to do what had to be done. Once he brought back the ties between humans and monsters, he had felt that he did everything he wanted to do in life ever since he first took the throne, having led monster kind through the second half of an old life brought to the new age and the re-connection with the surface.
==== Chara ====
Chara was a child who held a Justice soul and was the first to establish order in the group of children that had been left to survive in the Underground. She was the daughter of the human Minister of War, and was taught her whole life that monsters are not to be trusted unless you hold every advantage over them. With this frame of mind, she had murdered the king in fear of what he’d do to the other children if he found them, but was spared by his wisest guard and taught of the more merciful side of monsters, how they aren’t much different than the humans of the surface. She eventually grew up to be one of the members of the king’s Crowned Guards, and takes her job with pride.
=== Original Minor Characters ===
==== Gaster ====
The former Royal Scientist who had held his title as most intelligent monster in the underground all until his banishment. While not much is known of him now, a large amount of his research on human and monster souls still remains in the hands of his former assistant, Papyrus. Before his banishment, however, Gaster had been a devoted scientist who would stop only in moments where he has to question his own morality in the name of research.
==== Grillby and Muffet ====
Taking inspiration from the common restaurant of the surface, two skilled workers with food, Grillby, who had actually owned a full scale pub styled restaurant back in his days on the surface, and Muffet, a beginner to the business but masterfully skilled with making bakery style food. They set everything up in the old home of a ghost named Napsta and took off immediately, becoming one of the most widely sought out places to exist in the underground. They’ve hat their fair share of bickering, but overall, they’re just glad to work together in a way that helps everyone included. 
==== Gerson ====
Some say he has lived longer than the first king, and most would believe them. Gerson is among the wiser monsters, often able to correctly judge and act upon another person or situation. During the war against humans, he was one of the few who decided to stay back at Mt. Ebott to make sure no one in the underground was harmed as a result of the death raining from the surface. After the rise of the second crowned, he was chosen to become the next to stand right beside the throne, being the most trusted guard of monster kind as a whole.
=== New Additions ===
==== Azzy ====
In his numerous tests, Papyrus created an amalgam that highly resembled an amalgamated Asriel, and seeing it as nothing but a failure, he threw it away. In Asriel’s search of the lab, he found this melted form and decided to take it to The Lost City, and now it roams around the large space as a soulless and partially formless being, in hopes of finding the being that brought it into existence. If one were to find it and say hello, it would respond by wearing a confused expression and saying, “How can you see me? You aren’t him.”, and then sliding away into the endlessness of the cavern.
==== Dreemurr ====
The first to ever be crowned, the all famous tyrant king who led monsters through years of suffering for his own pleasure and even a global war all to suit his personal gain. There isn’t much reason as to why he was such an oppressive and vicious ruler, he just let the power of being the first and only king get to his head, making him believe that all who stood below him existed only to bow to his lead of iron strength grip. What had partially led to his demise was the common belief that he had killed the queen and used it as fuel for the fire between monsters and humans, claiming that their own Minister of War killed her. No matter what, however, most tend to forget his role in their lives and his name, only partially holding onto those moments to establish the unspoken rule that if you want to be a true king or queen, start by not doing what he did.
== Location Changes ==
* The Ruins and New Home are replaced by The Lost City
* Snowdinn is replaced by Fungal Forest
* Waterfall is replaced by River Vein
* Hotland is replaced by Supercomputer
* The CORE is replaced by The Brain
* Waterfall is technically replaced, but is then moved to the abyss