Sans/X-tale

XTale Sans/XSans, also dubbed Cross, is a main character during the XTALE series, the protagonist during the XTALE Comic and the Anti-Hero of Underverse Season 1.
He was made by Jakei95 (aka. JakaeiArtworks) on DeviantArt.
== Bio==
In X-Tale, X-Tale!Sans was a trainee for the royal guard, who began experiencing issues related to his code; which is actually relatable to The X-Event's cause.
After he seals their main SOUL within him to result in his universe's corruption, and his realization that he couldn't overwrite, he finally obliged to follow Cross!Chara's orders. 
During Underverse Season 1, he appeared as an antagonist causing chaos across the multiverse; first stealing Undertale Sans' soul, then making a deal with Nightmare to emotionally hurt people to be able to travel to AUs to take their core codes back to his universe. 
But in Underverse 0.3, during a confrontation with Team Sans, after he was destroying Underswap, he was defeated and got his stolen soul taken away, erasing him from existence Once Chara got a human soul.
However, at the end of Underverse 0.4, XGaster revived him and offered Cross to join him and his friends.
==Profile==
===Appearance===
Before being brought back in Underverse 0.4 Cross had one white pupil and one red pupil, a lightning bolt shaped "scar" under his right eye socket, gained during his fight against X-Tale!Frisk before X-Tale!Gaster reset. His soul was half an upside-down white monster soul and half a red human soul.
He wore the same attire as he does now consisting of mostly black and white, same with the rest of the X-Tale cast. His attire consisted of a white jacket with a hood over a black long sleeved shirt and several white attachments and white fluff on the hood, black shorts with white X's on each leg and white shoes with X's on them. He wore a golden locket, a black and white tattered cape and fought with the HACK knife, a small, fragile knife capable of corrupting codes itself, if it does not break in the process.
After being brought back in Underverse 0.4 Cross’ scar and red eye are no longer present, he no longer has the HACK knife and he’s not wearing the golden locket anymore.
===Personality===
At first, Cross was far more compassionate than Undertale Sans, wanting to believe in Frisk even when he attacked him. But everything changed when his friends, including his brother, turned against him, after receiving their (and his) memories back, ruthlessly killing his friends and Papyrus.
His greed and recklessness was shown as even when Chara told him he couldn’t overwrite, he killed Frisk anyway. Once he realized the truth, he had a mental breakdown and became completely delusional over the loss of his own world, even to the point of throwing his negative feelings at Chara.
Despite this, he becomes excited and obsessive over tacos and chocolate, and was very friendly towards Ink before he told Cross that he couldn't revive the dead. Afterwards, he acts arrogant towards others and is disgusted by everything around him. Cross is also more active than Undertale Sans and was never lazy. He also became very selfish and rude, ruining other AUs pacifist timelines just to restore his AU.
==Abilities== 
During before the incidents of TIMELINE X, Cross was a well trained guardian alongside his brother, by general Mettaton. He has 10 years of training and experiences, making him a worthy opponent. Because Cross is a Sans, his abilities do not change: Gaster Blaster, Telekinesis, Bones, 'Shortcuts' (Teleportation) etc. 
After he obliterated everyone, including his own brother, and absorbed Frisk/Chara's soul, he gained new abilities. He wasn't able to OVERWRITE since it the half that he managed to grab wasn't programmed to work with the body and/or soul with a monster, but he gained reduced abilities: 
He is able to steal certain code from different AUs, and wants to use it to remake his own world, while also being able to EDIT what he stole for his own pleasure. His own code also allows him to regenerate any wounds. During the XEvent, his teleportation also increased, allowing him to teleport to any au that he wants as long as he has knowledge for at least a route. It's also shown for Cross to have gained new bullet patterns from Chara, which are shaped in the form of Knives. But these abilities aren't usable if his other side isn't awake. Otherwise, his abilities don't change. 
==History==
=== XTALE ===
===== Timeline 1 =====
Cross makes a brief cameo as one of the living monsters along with his brother and the others. (With the exception of Mettaton.)
===== Timeline 2 =====
During the second timeline, Cross played as XFrisk’s best friend, the person which Frisk could always rely on, and tell his problems. However, those moments didn’t seem to last long because XGaster, later on, murdered the skeleton.
===== Timeline 5 =====
Cross makes another brief cameo, during Undyne and Alphy's date, as one of the monsters sitting at the table, seemingly speaking to someone.
===== Timeline 9 =====
Cross was shown to sell pies of all kinds of sorts, hence being the one who helped Papyrus find Frisk thanks to giving him the idea for the big dog.
===== Timeline 10 =====
After Frisk’s outrage in the ninth timeline, he resets, which completely creates a parallel timeline in this new universe, the first one allowed to ever coexist. Cross and Papyrus are reverted back to toddlers, and they’re taken under the care of XGaster, who adopts the 2 little skeletons. Shortly after, the 2 are introduced, by their adopted parent, to the royal siblings, becoming best friends in no time. In an incident, 1 year after they met, Cross was tasked to pick his best friend from the tree utilizing his blue magic and telekinesis, however he was interrupted by XGaster, which led to Frisk getting his arm broken.
The barrier broke and monsterkind was freed six years later. However that hope didn’t last so long, as presumably humans started to attack Frisk to the point of almost killing him. Cross and his brother, Papyrus, signed themselves up to the royal guardsman in order to be trained and protect their best friend. 
10 years afterwards, Cross still proceeded to do his job, however himself confirming that he doesn’t really like it. Being chosen as a candidate to eliminate Frisk, Cross began to develop a genocide code due to the OVERWRITE button, starting to enjoy thinking of Frisk’s death. It was also shown numerous times that Frisk attempted to suicide by controlling Cross (The surprise test given by Undyne and the peace ceremony). After the disaster at the ceremony, the skeleton ran away intending to hide forever, however he was shortly found by his friends. Deeming he has a corrupted mind, Cross realizes the truth about Frisk and XGaster when a reset occurs.
Filled with confusion in his mind, Cross confronts Frisk about the current situation, where he finally learns the truth, along with seeing the original universe, UNDERTALE. Outraged, Cross refuses and tries to change Frisk's mind, however he gets himself pinned by a tree and stabbed by Frisk’s knives. Getting the iconic scar and nickname "Cross”, because of his large uniform who appears to be extra sized for him, the skeleton was so mad at Frisk, due to the human child using him and his friends as weapons and pawns, that he couldn’t even feel the pain anymore, saying he “doesn’t feel like forgiving Frisk”. XGaster, shortly after, shows up and resets, sending them all back before Undyne’s surprise test. Avoiding Frisk at all cost, it’s revealed that his former best friend had recovered everyone’s memories and controlled them, where things didn’t twist up his way.
Everyone had betrayed him in the end and went all out on Cross, planning on eliminating him. First by rampaging him till only half of his soul remains, then a huge wave of blasters, however which his brother couldn’t succeed since he didn’t want to destroy his sibling. Cross, breaking inside the party, sends XGaster away and fights with his friends. Coming out victorious, the skeleton absorbs his best friend’s soul, thinking he’d have the ability to permanently alter reality, however it didn’t go as planned, as it turns out his soul wasn't capable of manifesting such power. Realizing he murdered his friends for nothing, Cross walks and cries in an endless white void. Shortly after, his tears caught up on Ink’s attention, and so a new story began. 
===Before Underverse===
The 2 became friends in a short time, however due to Ink’s rude and emotionless self this relationship wasn’t the best, but it was something. One day, Core Frisk attempted to convince Cross to come inside the Omega timeline, which the skeleton refused because he didn’t want to believe his world was gone. After learning that Ink is unable to restore his world back, since he can’t resurrect the dead, Cross’s mentality was affected once more by his other side. Things went even worse when his soul was stolen by Error. Due to his side's powerful determination, the 2 were given with a short deadline before they turned to dust, constantly fighting who controlled the corrupted body.
===Underverse===
====0.0====
In desperation, Cross teleported to the main universe and stole half of Original Sans’s stole, his original plan to replace his original counterpart, however being interrupted by Ink. Shortly after he escaped to (what it seems to be) the edge of the doodle sphere. 
====0.1====
Absorbing the soul with hesitation, Cross learns the truth about the multiverse, planning on restoring his world. Soon found by Nightmare thanks to a small breakdown, the 2 soon make a deal, which gave Cross access to other universes, in exchange for his assistance in multiplying negative feelings, his goal to steal codes from different worlds in order to rebuild his destroyed home.
====0.2====
The first target being Underfell, Cross plans on stealing snowdin first, however he’s attempted to be stopped by Underfell Sans, which leads to a fight. Soon interfered by Sans and Ink, Cross manages to corrupt Fell's code, placing the rude skeleton under his control, triggering another fight. Successfully stealing Snowdin, before losing Fell out of his control, Cross escapes back to his au with the stolen place. He rests until moving on to the next au. 
====0.3 part 1====
Chatting a bit with XChara, Cross gets tricked into sleeping, which makes XChara gain total control over the body. Knocking the boy out, and having a small discussion with Nightmare, Cross infiltrates into Underswap, where he realizes that its code is similar to his world. Unable to use the XEvent’s capabilities, Cross starts terrorizing the town in order to do Nightmare’s part of the deal, where he’s soon found by Ink, Swap Sans, Swap Chara, Swap Papyrus, Classic Sans, Fell Sans. Talking with Ink, Cross lets his guard down and ultimately loses the stolen half of Classic Sans’s soul, turning him back into the corrupted state. Moments later, XChara steals 99% of Underswap Chara’s soul and awakens.
==== 0.3 part 2 ====
Cross, during the second part, only makes a small cameo, where his half confuses him for Swap Sans due to their similar code.
==== Xtra Scene 2====
Inside Error's dream, Cross and XChara were shown to have captured Undernovela Frisk, fighting if they should take their soul or a monster soul (If Cross controls the body or if XChara does), however being interrupted by Undernoveloa Asgore (Asgoro) and Undernovela Sans (Sins).
====0.4====
After the XEvent is over, and XGaster is fully back, Cross gets resurrected thanks to his creator’s capability to permanently alter reality, given a choice whether the skeleton is against him, or either joins him. After the gang leaves, Nightmare assaults on Cross with Killer, however shortly after being saved by Dream on the last second, both escaping to the Omega Timeline.
==== 0.6 ====
(To be added)
=== XTale 21 Years ===
(These events happen during TIMELINE X.)
====Chapter 1====
Cross, alongside his brother, make a brief cameo at the end of the comic, them hoping around excitedly about the news their father brought them.
====Chapter 2====
Chapter 2 happens after the tree incident: Cross still taking the guilt for it. Him, his brother, Asriel and Frisk walk to the playground (unsupervised) for the little siblings to play, while Cross keeps apologizing to Frisk for breaking his arm. Interrupted by the 2 small children, Cross attempts to stop Papyrus from destroying the town made out of toys, which resulted with Frisk getting hit by a house. After Frisk ran away, due to him being chased by Muffet, Cross and the others follow him in order to make sure he's ok. After conversing with Muffet, she calls for her mother. Cross afterwards tries to calm the new foe, saying they didn't want adults to get involved, but fails since Muffet's mother arrives. As Muffet explains what happened, it's revealed that the small town was hers, made for her little cousins. Her mother, "infuriated", traps the children and kidnaps them. (To be completed when the comic is also done)
==Relationships==
=== XChara ===
These 2 don't have a pleasant relationship; rather a toxic one. Even during Timeline X Chara despised Cross for his decisions, even warned Frisk he'd refuse to help. After his soul was absorbed by Cross, Chara began to be more and more aggressive towards him, and when he killed Frisk in the void, he began to become more manipulative. After Ink arrived, Chara started to become less involved, and with the help of Ink Cross gained more control over the body. But when it was revealed that he can't resurrect the dead, Chara began to take action on his mentality again, and everything got worse when their SOUL was stolen. When Cross managed to gain half of Classic Sans's SOUL, with the help of XChara, he began to plan on stealing parts of other worlds. Cross accepted since he wanted his home back at all costs, but Chara's intentions differed. XChara saw Cross only as a tool, just as XFrisk predicted him.
=== XFrisk ===
Cross used to be XFrisk's best friend, during both Timeline II and Timeline X, the rest are unknown. He used to be the person Frisk relied on the most with his problems, causing these 2 to have a great bound together until Cross gets killed by XGaster.
During Timeline X things differ: XFrisk was Cross's first best and friend when they children, but we didn't get much as XFrisk didn't really interact that much. 10 years after the barrier is broken, these 2 seem to have grown more together, or as much as they could be. Cross and Papyrus have entered the royal guard just for Frisk's sake, to keep him safe from the overwritten humans that kept attacking him. XFrisk has chosen Cross as his candidate to help him eliminate his corrupted soul, but when he learned about the silent war and what XFrisk did, he started to argue, breaking a bit of the chain. When Frisk stabed him in the back, Cross was too furious with him to even feel the pain. He later on revolts, managing to stab XFrisk and grab his soul before he was the one eliminated, and they have a brief conversation, on how XFrisk dearly doesn't want Cross to hate him forever, before he gets stabbed with the HACK Knife.
===XPapyrus===
Cross's relationship with XPapyrus changes drastically after the events of TIMELINE X. During Timeline IX, we don't see a lot of these 2 other than being close from what we see. After the RESET, and 10 years ever since the barrier was broken, Papyrus seems to always comfort Cross during when he loses his sanity, especially with the incident at the ceremony. When everyone's memories were restored, Papyrus was siding with Frisk and the others, having to initially kill Cross so he wouldn't interfere, but refuses and fails. After Cross manages to kill almost everyone during the final XGaster encounter, he seemed to have spared Papyrus, knowing he wouldn't stop him, and he was right; Papyrus didn't move a finger on Cross. But that didn't stop him to try to negociate with Cross, which resulted him getting killed. When the XEvent was over, and XGaster was once again back, he along with Cross were revived, and according to Jakei, Papyrus is very disappointed in Cross for his actions.
=== Ink Sans ===
During his time in the void, Ink always came to accompany Cross, the 2 of them becoming good friends in a short amount of time. They always drew together and goofed around, while Ink also secretly telling him about the Alternative Universes without context, which also informed XChara. When Ink told Cross that he cannot resurrect the dead, Cross became a bitter towards him, and when his soul was stolen it got worse. During Underverse 0.2, when Ink refued to help to help Cross and saw him using Classic Sans as a "pawn" he got more furious with him.
=== XGaster ===
Cross didn't like XGaster ever since Timeline II (indirectly.) and Timeline X. During Timeline X, Cross despised XGaster for his lack of empathy towards him and his brother, and how much effort his brother puts just to impress him. He even specified to Papyrus that they didn't become royal guards for him. After Cross receives his memories back, he begins to hate him more, but despite that, he still refuses to help Frisk and the others, mainly because he "doesn't want to change something that is fine as it is" (he's speaking about TIMELINE X.). Regardless, it's shown he doesn't have much information about XGaster, and during Underverse 0.3 part 1 he mentions how he isn't afraid of XGaster, since "he won't be part of his new world".
=== Nightmare Sans ===
Cross and Nightmare don't really have a relation. It's only known they made a deal/truce that would benfit them both, which eventually turned out for Nightmare to trick Cross. Other then that, nothing.
=== The XTale Gang (Excluding The XEvent prototype 2 and XGaster.) ===
Although he seems to dislike them during TIMELINE X, he has a soft spot, and desperately wants them back after he wipes them.
XMettaton is Cross's general, he trained him and his brother during TIMELINE X.
XUndyne is his captain
XMuffet is a co-worker to him and his brother.
=== ===
==Gallery==
Cross Reference.jpg|Official Cross Reference, drawn by Jakei95
File:Crossnewref1.jpg|Cross's updated ref, with his height changed. (Drawn by Jakei95)
Cross Reference Old.jpg|Old Cross Reference, drawn by Jakei95
File:Cross Reference Old2.jpg|Cross's second old reference, drawn by Jakei95
Cross Artwork1.png|Official Cross Artwork, drawn by Jakei95
Cross Artwork2.png|Official Cross Artwork, drawn by Jakei95
Cross XBlaster.png|Cross's XBlaster, drawn by Jakei95
I am the X-Event.gif|The X-Event
==Trivia==
*In early concepts, Cross was initially going to be named "Chalk", because his au's first idea of going to be inspired off arts supplies (hence why they were lacking color, Chara's initial font (Chalkduster), and Cross's nickname "C", obtained from Ink).
*He has a severe fear of cows. This trauma seems to have been activated during one of his missions with Mettaton, where his jacket started to get chewed by one.
* Cross seems to get distracted easily, which results his guard being let down often.
*During the XEvent, he seemed to have lost any sort of intention to mercy, because even when Underswap!Sans offered a home for Cross, he still attacked him.
**However, Chara states in 0.4 that Cross is one of the reasons why he felt mercy, because "he was still part of their soul".
*Ironically, Cross is the only one whose theme is named after his own name, while everyone else has original theme song names.
*Cross is able to lift up to a bus
*Cross is the only character whose theme song was remade 2 times in a row. First version of Cross's Theme, created by Jakei95 and arrangement by NyxTheShield. Second version of Cross's Theme, created by NyxTheShield. Third version of Cross's Theme, created by NyxTheShield.
*Originally, Cross's theme was supposed to be called "Cross Melody" First ever theme song for Cross, composed by Jakei95.
*Based on the power levels that Jakei posted, He's just as powerful as his brother, more powerful than XMuffet and weaker than XUndyne.
*He's shown to be very good friends with Epic Sans.
**However, his relationship with Epic Sans is not canon to Underverse.
*He likes to say "Dude", compared to his best friend who says "Bruh".
**Again, outside of Underverse. He doesn’t actually say “Dude” in the series like Epic Sans does in the Epictale comics.
*He shares the same interest for Chocolate as his Chara, however they do not share any relation with each other because of it.
**Eventually, thanks to Ink, Cross has gained a liking for Tacos too.
*In the comic version, some things differ then those from the animated series. In the comic, everyone was trained to learn about their magic and how to use it because of XGatster (including Cross), unlike in the series. In the animated series, XFrisk always had his scarf, but in the comic it was Cross who gave it to him as a sign of encouragement.
**However these things may not be deemed canon anymore, as the pages with that information are not present in the current comic and were permanently deleted off of tumblr (the comic can be found here).
*Cross has fangs.
**It was stated that Cross used to bite people using his fangs when he was younger.
*Cross’s code is more similar to Underswap Sans’s rather than Classic Sans’s. This could be due to his profession as a Royal Guard, more believing than Classic Sans, their liking for tacos and that Cross was NEVER lazy.
*HE IS NOT APART OF THE BAD SANSES.
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