True Dust

Base Form

King of the Null

Leader of the Executioners

**True Dust** is a Sans originally from an Undertale Timeline which has been erased for unknown reasons. True Dust takes refuge in a place called the NULL. a place of pure emptiness and hollowed people who you would mistaken for normal monsters. True Dust is the Leader of The Executioners. A Group of Undertale AU Sanses who have lost their timeline through genocidal players or through other catastrophic means.

## Backstory

Unlike other Dust AUs True Dust didn't start with the cycle or the realization of the loop but it was created out of curiosity. Joseph who was a human in the real world was a huge fan of Undertale and other indie games such as Hollow Knight and Cult of the Lamb. Joseph who was just starting out his coding career knew how to edit the files of games. Out of pure curiosity he took the human's files and mixed them into Sans's files. He thought that it would crash like normal games do when you put a file that doesn't belong into another but unlike what he expected the game loaded as per usual. Joseph thinking that it will probably load snowdin then crash chose to play. When he come to snowdin though his encounter with sans was the same for the most part. but upon closer inspection he had small lines going from his left eye to under his skull. In other interactions Sans's dialogue was extremally different from his original. He talks about how hard it is for someone like him and his bro to live quietly in peace. Talking to him more reveals that unlike other monsters he has natural determinations. To Joseph he thought he was dreaming at this point because he didn't change anything other than the files of sans but he pressed on anyway. Everything was normal for the entirety of the pacifist route besides the fact the fact that sans now had four vines around him during the final flowey encounter instead of the usual two.

Joseph saw that everything was going well but he wanted to see more. The second time around he did a genocide run. It was mostly the same except for the sans fight. He talks about how the player / human could have now killed anyone but chose this path. His attacks were much more powerful with also having red attacks that would drain LV per frame of hit which were annoying yet interesting. Soon Sans dusted away as per usual, Joseph was a bit disappointed with that fact because he wanted to see sans do what undyne did and become much more powerful but the 3rd run was the most interesting. Joseph wanted to test more with the genocide route did another one but this time was much more different. Sans was very reserved while also being much more aggressive. His usual "crossword puzzle" was difficult and required the him to solve it because there was spikes between them. Joseph completed it and was given a warning by sans to not continue. Joseph not seeing any of the characters as alive continued and killed papyrus. Waterfall and Hotland were the same but when Joseph got to core there were no monsters and at the mettaton encounter they refused to turn into their NEO or EX form. It was hard but it was eventually won by Joseph and he made it to the judgement hall to a very angry sans. his battle was much harder than even the 2nd run but it was eventually won by Joseph because sans didn't have enough determination. The fight also didn't end when sans fell asleep, It ended when he gave up. The end was the same and Joseph with a slightly twisted sense of curiosity continued the genocide routes. When it hit his 35th route there was a major change in sans's behavior. He became a bit more unhinged and was seemingly distracted with something in his head and he didn't know until his 46th run. Sans finally did it, Sans did his own genocide after 45 runs of genocides. It took much less than he thought, if he remembered the Dusttale AU said it took over ten-thousand runs. Sans was much more thorough with his genocide than Dust was, making sure to kill very single monster, even killing dummy and nabstablook. After a long time of walking through a empty underground sans was in the judgement hall covered in dust but when sans hit Joseph the game broke. When Joseph tried to open the game again after the break it only gave a 404 message meaning that there was no undertale. He chose to reinstall it and it worked but all of his work was gone. He chose to give up on it for now to proceed with his coding career.

Sans experienced something different, when the game broke he took the human's soul and absorbed it, afterward he was knocked out until he woke up in something that looked like his world but much more white with no colors. he chose to stay in the woods out of fear of something being here worse than the human. Sans after a long time realized his new abilities with his new soul and it was much more than he could ever imagine. I saw inner workings that he only found in a book about programming that washed up into the dump during one of the resets. He started to learn about the place around him but all he got was a 404 page that told him that there was nothing and it was NULL. From then on he called the new place the NULL and learned about what was going on inside of it. he saw things that were just like his friends but much more bland with expressionless faces. The Null variants did not attack him but when he saw the null version of himself it turned and became extremally hostile becoming monstrous in a way. With the powers he had sans easily killed his null variant but when he did this his soul hurt extremally badly like he was having a heart attack and his soul was trying to rip itself apart. After an unknown amount of time [it felt like days to sans] the pain slowly went away with sans's coat changing almost completely. his hoodie become completely colorless and the fluff on his hood was acting like fire without the heat or color of it. Sans now knowing that he could not be attacked by any of the beings in the null with his variant now killed. He continued his work with the code. He modified his stats to be much more powerful than usual but soon learned that there is a limit to how much of a boost he can take without his body ripping itself apart. After an extremally long time of solitude he gained the courage to try and recreate his brother. Using the knowledge he learned through the code he slowly build his papyrus. Making him exactly the same as he thought but there was a problem. Sans could no longer remember his brother's face but he couldn't live in solitude for any longer so without finishing it he started the program. His brother was created in front of him but his eyes were censored by a red bar of energy. Papyrus acted just like he used to and Sans was extremally glad with this because he was no longer alone in the world of the NULL.

Papyrus was hidden from NULL papyrus because he didn't want the same thing that happened to him happen to his own brother. out of the "trees" and other materials he created a small base in the forest. one day while he was working with his code he managed to open a gate to an unknown location. Sans was ecstatic but before he went to tell papyrus he thought about what would happen to papyrus if he went outside of the null with his unfinished and glitchy code? He couldn't risk losing papyrus so he went into the portal alone finding a large castle made of a black substance. Righteous [sans's name from now on] snuck around the castle and managed to enter without being detected. He soon spotted a group of skeletons that looked exactly like him, These were Horror, Murder / Dust, Killer, and Insanity / Dirtytale, He began to think about how there were other people that were just like him until he heard a call for the group and he followed them and found the leader of this group, Nightmare. Righteous knowing that he most likely dug too far into this started to leave until he was caught by nightmare as he tried to leave. Righteous began to run quickly knowing that these sanses were not friendly. True Dust, with his normal and coding abilities managed to barely make it out. He slightly cursed to himself that he wasn't able to fight and had to run like usual but he had a plan so then he wouldn't need to as much anymore. True Dust after that day became very busy with with a project he was working on. While he was running from the sanses he used his abilities to grab bits of code from each. He was unable to get nightmare's code, he thought it was because nightmare wasn't chasing him so he didn't have a line of sight on him. Using these fragments of code from the 4 sanses that attacked him and some of his own code he created Goddkira Sans [or more commonly known Satsjuinki] a sans created by another sans of sanses. Godd was like a kid when he was first created fully. He was learning about who, how, and what he was. After a few days of time passed Godd soon learned magic and it's own abilities such as bones, knives, and a lot of determination in his system. During this time True Dust made the discovery that he could no longer age because of being in the null for such a long time. As well as training godd, Righteous trained himself in combat to use his coding abilities and his base powers effectively.

When True Dust was confident that himself and Godd was ready for anything he opened the portal once more. He and Godd came out to a different area which looked like the throne room. Godd and Righteous made their way to the judgement hall where Kyuuseishu, Decadent Society Sans, and Hardmode were battling the human. Righteous when seeing the human once more and had a breakdown with the area around him starting to glitch and some things started to be deleted. Godd acted quickly and used a strategy that Righteous Papyrus uses to calm down Righteous Sans during these types of mental breakdowns. True Dust regained control of himself and used his own determination and coding to lock the player out and outright delete the human. giving Righteous EXP because he was the one to do it and he became LV 21. The Universe soon started to collapse and True Dust passed out because of the amount of energy that was spent doing that thing out of the blue. When True Dust woke up he found Papyrus Decadent talking to one another while watching True Dust. When Righteous fully woke up Decadent told how everything went after he passed out. Decadent explained that Godd guided everyone into the portal and carried Righteous through before they were all deleted by the collapsing universe. Kyuu was going to kill Righteous because of his LV when we got inside but Righteous Papyrus came in and explained that Righteous was a good person and Godd also said that he was the one that saved everyone there. Hardmode and Decadent agreed that killing the person that saved him isn't a good thing to do. Kyuu after some convincing agreed to it but only because he saved them and he didn't want to make Papyrus angry, even if it wasn't his Papyrus.

After this moment everyone gathered to talk to each other on what to do because of the fact that they didn't have anywhere to go even if they left the NULL. Righteous gave them a home in the NULL. They agreed because of the lack of options and that they wanted to be able to stay with Righteous Papyrus because it was going to be the closest thing that they will get to their own papyrus and the start of the Executioners group was created. [I was really tired when I made this part give me some slack plz lol]

## Profile

### Appearance

Righteous has a light gray hoodie with a dark gray hood, gray fluff around his neck, pants, and light gray shoes. He has a red scarf around his arm to remind himself of what he lost back when his universe collapsed. under his jacket he has a dark gray shirt and around his skeleton are red veins going around his body like blood and on his chest is his soul which is always exposed. His pupils are always red and when he's using his magic both of his eyes become like stars with red and white. His hood waves around like fire and can't be torn off or broken a lot like fire.

### Personality

Righteous is a lot like an opposite of his normal lazy counterpart. He is often busy working on projects or helping people around within the null. He can be a bit unhinged and is bad at reading emotions which can make him seem cold to people. Righteous can often experience PTSD from things that correlate with his past experiences being tested on by Joseph. During mental breakdowns things start to glitch out and if it gets too bad things start to get deleted. Godd and Righteous Papyrus are the very few that can calm down Righteous but others can if they say the right things.

### Equipment.

#### Living dust:

Through the hundreds and hundreds of monsters he has eradicated, the dust that has accumulated on his clothes has been impregnated with the determination that Righteous!Dust gives off from his body, making him take some consciousness, although he reacts more in relation to the determination of Righteous!Dust, making a small removable armor, invulnerable to physical blows (being able to stop them in their tracks), although attacks with a weapon can easily pass through it; It can also concentrate on a specific point at high speed or disperse in order to suffocate opponents, before entering a battle making it difficult for living entities to breathe. (the most he has ever hit him are the fists of insanityinsanity, leaving him with cracks in his hands).

#### Gods annulator [Scythe]:

Through the determination of Righteous!Dust allows you to use the power of nothingness itself, allowing you to create this weapon; which transcends the laws of the Au's. In its passive form it has enough power to destroy an Au with a decisive attack.

Being able to use the "null power" allows you to use the effect in different ways, from eliminating entities with infinite shields, life, energy, etc; immediately, to bend reality to create cracks that consume everything in its path, and even concentrate extra energy to create extra spells as "null shield"; which absorbs everything that is matter or energy to store it, and use it in their own way.

### Abilities

these are separated into three categories

#### Codification skills:

##### -Copy/Paste.

Righteous!Dust once he turns someone into a folder can copy and paste the aspects and characteristics, and add them as his own; but this takes a long time and a lot of concentration. During this time, he is very vulnerable to damage but once he finishes copying the attack for his own, he can use them just fine. The more complex the moves are, the longer it will take. [Examples: Outertale's Stars and Horror's Spikes, and aspects such as true!insanity's "madness".]

##### -World coding.

From altering basic world functions, to modifying the physics, appearance and view of how an object or character may look, pausing time (within a single universe at a time, as you can freeze it in several at the same time, but you would have to go from one world to another, paralyzed worlds have are basically invulnerable), you can also expel and add entities to the AU where you are.

##### -Entity coding.

His coding abilities can range from modification to creation/deletion. The limits of this ability is that he cannot delete entities that have immunities (within the code) or are stronger than him and he cannot modify another person's stats completely. He can only give them a small boost, but that's all he can do. The same is true in reverse, where he can only slightly reduce stats.

##### -Universal erasure.

Righteous!Dust can erase an entire Au, but for this he needs a large part of his power. He usually doesn't use this ability and does it in the conventional way like erasing the human and blocking the player, collapsing the universe completely. After using this ability there is a chance for fragments of the au to enter the null but they are usually destroyed on contact with the ground as they cannot be added as they are deleted elements.

-save and reset, or load state (allows to load a previous state of the individual, as well as TP it to the same place where it was saved); within a universe as a maximum range.

#### Magic skills:

##### -Red magic.

based on the determination he has been able to infuse this with the magic he used, and create this version of "red magic", it only manifests itself in attacks that gives them certain properties; these attacks do not consume normal energy, they are linked directly to the will of the user, can do more or less damage, but in themselves cause great damage, regardless of the intentions of the user (but can be survived once reached, according to the intentions mentioned above) (they do not inflict damage by karma).

-Variations: orange(only does damage while not moving, and outwardly burning damage), light blue(only active while the target is not moving, and cumulative damage with a gelid effect), violet (allows karma damage for any attack), blue (gravity, can also have an area effect, altering even magical attacks and enchanted objects, or similar properties), green(total immobility, causing the individual's muscles to contract the more the affected person exerts himself/herself).

##### -Red Bones.

The red attacks of Righteous!Dust are divided into two categories. The normal red and the powerful version. The long-range version when hit takes away LV and gives it to Righteous!Dust. You can also return it if you wish, this category also takes much more energy than the normal attacks. Although this effect is variable, from an explosive effect to electrify the opponent.

##### -Blasters Omen.

by accumulating both LV and determination created a second version of the same blaster capable of using 3 types of shots; one with the power of the null, capable of destroying half Au with a prolonged shot; another influenced by his determination, which leaves a red trail in the direction of the beam making the temperature of that area is an embracing fire that burns from within the victim (being able to burn buildings to their foundations, as collateral damage); and finally one of purple and red color, which gives a necrotic effect to those who get to receive a part of the shot (can wither ecosystems of an Au, with a small impact), this series of blaster takes longer in its charge in each shot and in the invocation of each one.

##### -Blasters Overcharged.

it is a blaster overcharged with determination in an excessive way (using the Null for this), this when overcharged makes its handling complicated due to its latent explosive effect, but being moderately fast to replicate it is useful to make a minefield, when it explodes (or when it fires) it leaves a large area impregnated with determination, affecting areas the size of a medium continent and all those who come into contact with it.

##### -Ominous pressure.

With the LV he has he is able to cause his opponents to be diminished in his presence, so that the monsters of the original Undertale can be reduced to a physical form without any trait.

##### -Euphoric determination.

With the great determination he has he is able to influence his enemies, not only with his LV, but with monster magic and determination, he can trick the vision and senses of every creature, making them see a color he wants in specific and disorient him by sensory excess and hysteria.

##### -Mutagenic Dust.

Using a small part of his determination and the dust from his clothes, he can make monsters mutate with bulges and malformations in exchange for enormous power, using space and air to contaminate those he desires. This is the ability most detested by DR because of how it affects monsters only.

#### Null skills:

##### -Null Rift.

True Dust can by creating rifts, which go out and into the null, only he and his people of choice [or if they are more powerful than him] can go through them, due to the existential barriers of the null.

##### -Null resistances.

As a being living in the null, his mind and soul are very different from normal ones, making him immune to any kind of "soul attack" or "mind attack".

##### -Nullification.

Righteous can, for a few seconds, switch from reality to null, while doing this, his "mind" would still be wherever he was within reality while his real body would be in null, making him immune to most types of attack. He can do this for long periods of time, but eventually he will have to stop because he will tax his body by constantly being in two planes at the same time. Because of his connection to the null, he is resistant to most attacks that directly attack the soul or mind.

##### -Manipulation of the Null.

True Dust can manipulate the NULL in many ways, how to use a portal as a shield or expand it and create a direct barrier to the null, and in some exceptional cases, bring the NULL into a universe. If your opponent is pulled into the NULL, it could be compared to if someone will face God, in the case of being transported to the part where True Dust lives (otherwise, he will be consumed and transformed into primordial energy, routed for mainframe use). True Dust gains a great deal of power and can nullify any and all attacks his opponent can make. There are rare cases such as some alphatale characters that can bypass the null ability (the limit due to the Righteous!Dust determination).

### enhanced EXP (V1):

after the union of the null with sans through the determination he obtained, he got control of this particular reality, and thanks to his characteristics and sans' determination; the soul of sans and the null are linked making him create an ability based on the memories and the LV obtained from the eliminated monsters, making that with the remains of energy of the old monster in his soul, he makes the null passively reconstruct the entity according to the memory of Righteous!Dust, at the beginning it is only a spectrum with the figure of the individual, the reconstructed being will acquire certain aspects of the dead, from obvious holes where he received damage, to areas that leave a red smoke (symbolizing the part where he was attacked by a blaster), and cracks in the lower part of his body, not to mention the red color in various parts, such as hair, eyes and even the same cracks. these beings once completely rebuilt give an enhancement equivalent to a human determination soul. they are stored, in a special part where the remains of the Au de true dust reside, they can at any time be called upon to take the power of Righteous!Dust while he rests.

### weaknesses.

One of the biggest advantages is his determination, which allows him to have the link with the null, however due to that his life depends completely on his determination, because once he gets lower than a human soul he will be consumed by the null little by little ending his existence completely.

## Trivia

* Righteous really hates Error because of his point of view of being a destroyer and he doesn't like ink because his actions don't help the people who actually need it.
* the only time he uses physical blows is to be able to take out flying versions of dustdust (due to the aggressiveness and targets of dustdust), although once he had to hit error sans and after hitting him he took a slight damage in his hand.
* Righteous has exceeded Determination skills, even when there are several souls supporting each other.
* Righteous have been able to dodge the 1st Godray and invalidate the second hit within seconds.
* Righteous's group and the Bad guys are not on bad terms but Nightmare's castle's security has been quite a bit tighter after Righteous's unexpected visit.
* Righteous really likes red velvet cake but really doesn't like raspberries.
* Righteous learned the hard way that mustard gas doesn't not in fact tasty like mustard gas.