UnRelated

**UnRelated** is an alternate Deltarune universe in which everything transpires as it does in chapter 1, whereafter the story takes a different turn by erasing Kris and rendering Susie unable to return to Dark World until she's well in her 30s.

The story was conceived in late 2018, and relevant artwork first uploaded at Deviantart on December 2nd.

## Story

> After sealing the Dark Fountain, Kris stops coming to school and no one knows the reason. Susie decides to head for Dark World alone, but finds the closet has reverted back to normal.
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> With no idea how to reopen the portal, and after being informed that Kris has unceremoniously moved out of Hometown, she embraces her old life as an unapproachable, friendless outcast.
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> Many years pass, and the school hosts a reunion party. Though not interested in meeting with her old classmates, Susie shows up with the underlying hope Kris will come as well and get the opportunity to ask questions or reminisce about their strange past adventure. But, she spends the whole night standing by herself.
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> She hides away in the school's closet to sulk, then suddenly, a light is turned on and a man's voice scolds who he thinks is "Kaard". Susie notices to be sitting on the bed of a new, yet familiar face, and immediately deduces she's teleported inside the castle of her best friend, Lancer.
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> Now that she's back in Dark World, she's hesitant to leave out of fear the portal will close on her again. She contemplates making it her home, but Ralsei insists it's not suitable for Lightners and the world she was born and raised in should not be carelessly discarded. Susie claims nothing to be waiting for her back there, yet Ralsei manages to speak some doubt into her and argues she's partially to blame for that.
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> With Kris still missing, he wishes for her to go back and find out what happened, but Lancer shares Susie's fears and wants her far away from Dark World's exit. He tries to influence her final decision by making her stay at his castle as pleasant as possible, though little effort is needed to please her, as his familiar quirkiness proves to be an attractive trait to a person who's long lived without company.
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### Alternate endings

There are three possible conclusions to the general plot, dubbed the "True Pacifist-", "Neutral-", and "Genocide Route", primarily referring to the quality of the ending, not the actions of the designated main character.

***True Pacifist Route (Good ending)***
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> Ralsei convinces Susie and Lancer she needs to go home and bring proper closure to the life she abandoned. She leaves and reconciles with all the people from her past. As Ralsei and Lancer are the only Darkners strong enough to approach Dark World's entrance without losing their form, they forcefully keep it open in case she settles on staying with them after doing the rounds.
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> Days pass with no sign of her. Ralsei collapses in his exhaustion, leaving it up to Lancer. Before losing consciousness, he asks if he's emotionally prepared himself for the chance Susie doesn't return, but Lancer's convinced she'll come back, making it clear he has not.
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> More days pass. Because of the "real world's" light seeping through the portal, the weakened Ralsei can't recover and has remained a pile of clothes the entire time. Lancer has adapted a monstrous form during his struggle with keeping the portal from falling shut. The weight is crushing and he feels more disheartened with every minute that passes, but refuses to let go.
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> The moment his knees finally give in, a purple woman jumps past him. Lancer lets go and Susie wants to give him a celebratory embrace, but his heavy body drops without returning a word. She quickly goes to check on him, then carries him and the formless Ralsei to their respective homes.
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> After an undetermined amount of time, Lancer awakens in his room. Susie is curled up next to him like a dog, pushed so far against him that she has practically disappeared in his fur. After nearly killing her by turning on his side, he greets her with relieved joy.
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> He asks what her plans are now that she's officially a Darkner, to which Susie replies taking over his castle and killing Rouxls Kaard. He asks if she'd like to make her violent takeover legal by marrying him, since "this is the good ending".
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> Lancer and Susie become the king and queen of spades. Despite never having found Kris and her Lightner status being revoked -rendering her unable to ever return to her old world- Susie feels to have made the right decision.
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***Neutral Route (Average ending)***
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> Ralsei convinces Susie and Lancer she needs to go home and bring proper closure to the life she abandoned. She leaves and tries to reconcile with all the people from her past, but not everyone cares to engage with her and the entrance to Dark World has closed itself once again.
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> Certain residents have gone missing and much is left unsaid. Susie concludes that though this ending is lacklustre, there's still time to make something of herself and she shouldn't linger on the past. She keeps a skeptic amount of hope she'll one day see Lancer and Ralsei again.
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***Genocide Route (Bad ending)***
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> Ralsei's nagging about Susie's presence and Lancer's embrace of familiar villainy lessons lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Lancer is insulted by his ally's distrust and the attempts to guilt his only friend into leaving, and his feelings of panic and anger turn him into a ruthless monster.
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> Susie thinks it's cool and encourages it, giving him little reason to stop. Ralsei tries to argue for his good intentions, but she calls him selfish and only interested in getting Kris back for personal reasons.
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> A terrible reign begins, and those who dare to fault Susie are imprisoned. Some time passes, and since Susie still doesn't care to interfere with Lancer's unfair practises, he becomes worse and begins executing people on the spot. Survivors of the Card Kingdom take refuge on Ralsei's territory, but with no way to stop the indifferent Susie and powerful Lancer, they can only pray for their safety.
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> Susie believes they've made their point and is willing to leave Ralsei alone and let him keep "the traitors", but Lancer's disdain for them keeps growing the more he lets their past remarks fester in his mind. Riled up by his own emotions, he visits them behind Susie's back.
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> After a month of peace and fun with Lancer, Susie has fully calmed down as well. She reflects on the past events and feels a bit remorseful. She suggests reconciling with Ralsei, but Lancer says there's no use, as his kingdom is empty. She's not surprised by the implication everyone has fled farther away from them, but still wishes to see for herself.
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> Upon arriving in Ralsei's domain, she sees all buildings have been turned to rubble. At the spot where his castle once stood, the dark fountain still stands like nothing happened, making it the only point of interest. On her journey towards it, she sees pieces of familiar attire spread around and in between the wreckage.
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> In front of the fountain lies a piece of green ripped cloth. The ground is covered with deep claw marks, and the faint silhouette of a floored body is seen in the dust, desperately reaching out for something that was never there.
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> The imagery is clear enough for even the dense Susie to understand, and she turns around to run for Dark World's exit. A warped shadow approaches, then multiple spade-tipped tongues grab and drag her back before she can get anywhere near the portal.
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## Characters

### Susie

Susie is a canon character from Deltarune and a dinosaur monster.

She's a rebel outcast from a neglectful home, possibly with no parents present, which made her happy to had acquired many friends at the end of her Dark World adventure. Eager to follow up on Ralsei's invitation to come over and eat some baked goods, she planned on heading back without Kris, but met with the disappointing discovery the portal had closed itself.

Susie's hostility and pessimism grew the following years, leaving her friendless and blind for Noelle's attempts to connect with her. Ralsei hints at the latter fact and Susie seems to be self-aware enough to entertain the allegation she is partially to blame for her unhappiness.

Even so, after reuniting with Lancer, she finds little appeal in going back home and risk the chance of losing access to Dark World again. She has great affection for him, evidenced by the necklace she made of an ace of spades card.

Susie looks in many ways the same as her teenage self, with major differences being her height, the thickness of her hips and legs, and a short tail she doesn't hide away anymore. In casual settings, the back of her hair is tied in an upwards ponytail, and she wears a purple jacket, blue pants, black shoes, and a white with light blue striped low-cut shirt. She carries a tired expression on her face.

### Lancer

Lancer is a canon character from Deltarune and a spade card monster from Dark World.

After his father's defeat, Lancer took his place as new the king of spades. Though the child hardly had the mental capability needed to be a practising monarch, the Card Kingdom survived his odd rulings and managed to flourish -comparative to previous events.

He shares his castle with the previously imprisoned card kings and lives in peace with all his board game-themed underlings, yet never felt to had made a real friend after Susie, and spent the rest of his childhood feeling fairly lonely.

Rouxls Kaard, who lazily resumed the role of his "caretaker", often urged him to take on a more serious demeanour, if only to benefit himself. Kaard is obsessed with ensuring his own comfort by serving those who are powerful, and by ironically trying to turn Lancer into his dethroned father, hopes the other card kings become obsolete in the eyes of the people, and he the right-hand man of a sole ruler once again.

Though Lancer lacks the mindset of a dominant power seeker, Kaard's pushing managed to mature him into a competent king. Still, he practises the same weird hobbies behind the scenes, and when given the choice, will always do something fun over doing his job.

When he reunites with Susie, his teachings are abandoned even further to engage in playtimes they're way too old for. She reintroduces him to the joy of being a "villain", and though it's intended to be innocent games, the fact Lancer has the blood of something more ominous -and this side of him can easily be called upon now he's an adult- makes Ralsei in particular worry for Dark World.

Lancer becomes the antagonist in the Genocide Route ending because of Ralsei's attempts to make Susie not act like herself around him and leave Dark World as soon as possible.

As a child, Lancer adored Susie as a friend and his "mentor in scary", while as an adult, these feelings grew stronger and turned romantic. He immediately became set on working towards a future where she wouldn't leave his side again, preferably as his wife.

He's become noticeably large and wears a slightly altered variant of his father's costume, as for a black shoulder-padded cape with upside down spade ornaments hanging at the bottom rim. When in private settings, he rarely wears his royal costume. Lancer has long, plentiful fur on his torso, making bodysuits his preferred choice of clothing to keep his fluff in check, though the area on his chest always hangs out and also somewhat mimics the shape of an upside down spade.

Lancer himself is a white-furred creature with thick blue eyebrows, a black nose resembling the base of a spade, blue-circled eyes, and a big toothy mouth with a long spade-tipped tongue for a stomach. Because of his fur, it's not visible when shut.

From the base of his nose goes an upwards line, like the top half of his head is made out of two separable halves; which is the case. Another fanged mouth is hidden inside his head.

Though he looks chubby, it appears to be an effect created by his abundance of fur. He's uncharacteristically muscular underneath.

### Ralsei

Ralsei is a canon character from Deltarune and a goat monster from Dark World.

He was raised with a prophecy and long awaited the heroes who were destined to save the world by closing off excessive Dark Fountains. He accompanied Kris and Susie with taking care of the one that sprung up in the nearby Card Kingdom, but when the portal to Dark World closed itself afterwards, he could only share his assumptions with Susie why that happened many years later.

Though the end of chapter 1 left the lonely prince with allies and a full castle town to rule over, Ralsei appears to greatly miss Kris, though puts on an overly mature act and doesn't subject others with his sadness. Still, he urged Susie to leave Dark World and find Kris for him, though masks the request as something that is necessary for the future safety of all worlds, since Kris is argued to be a prophesied hero.

In the True Pacifist Route, Susie does some quick detective work and shares with him the unsatisfying conclusion Kris is untraceable and the name alone produces no results in any database.

In the Genocide Route, Ralsei grows impatient with Susie and Lancer's messing around, and becomes the unintended reason they lash out and start terrorizing Dark World. He is killed by Lancer in the end.

Ralsei looks much like an adult Asriel, but half of his body has become blackened and looks like how he appeared to Kris and Susie at the beginning of their original adventure. Negative thoughts appear to affect his appearance; and he suffers from loneliness, dwindling hope, and worry for Kris.

### Kris

Kris is a canon character from Deltarune and a human being.

Kris was a prophesied hero and deemed the only one able to close off Dark Fountains; a phenomenon that brings life to lifeless objects, but endangers the existence of real creatures, here called "Lightners".

After defeating the King of Spades and erasing the fountain that spawned, Kris did not return to school the next day, and a mere week later, was reported to had moved out of town with Toriel for unspecified reasons.

In the Neutral Route, Susie returns home after other characters have already disappeared. They, in this ending, and Kris are never found again.

Those missing happen to be the same characters that appeared in Undertale, implying they have been taken and inserted into that reality. Kris received different treatment and became two personalities; Frisk and Chara. Why this was done and who transported everyone to the world of Undertale is unknown within the story.

## Gallery

**Comic sketch of page 1.**
  *(‎Wiki exclusive upload, 2018)***Comic sketch of page 2.**
  *(‎‎Wiki exclusive upload, 2018)***Susie and Lancer as adults.**
 *(Deviantart upload, December 2, 2018)*
## Trivia

* "Unrelated" is an anagram of the word(s) Undertale/Deltarune;
	+ The title acknowledges the story isn't canon.
* Susie's hairdo as an adult is somewhat inspired by her original character design.