AUs / UNDERSWAP

## UNDERSWAP

**Underswap** is an AU where many of the characters' roles are swapped, as well as their personalities, though some quirks tend to stick in places, or are modified. Sans is the excitable, confident, extremely optimistic human hunter, while Papyrus is the laid back, protective bro following Chara (who is swapped with Frisk).

Underswap was made by *P0pc0rnPr1nce* as a fun time as a passion, but has unfortunately left the AU due to miscommunication with other players, including questionable artwork of the characters (primarily the skelebros) and misrepresentation of its characters. "Blueberry", while starting off as a silly comic by min-plays with a nickname dubbed by Crayonqueen, was also misrepresented to the point of higher questionability that stained both reputation.

## About the AU

The plot of UnderSwap revolves around each character from the UnderTale universe being swapped with other characters, such as Sans' and Papyrus’ personalities, although they keep the same names, so what we consider Sans to be as a character is now how Papyrus is, for example. They also keep part of their personalities, like how Sans still tells puns.

## Changes

### Canon Changes

* Sans has been swapped with Papyrus.
* Alphys has been swapped with Undyne.
* Toriel has been swapped with Asgore.
* Grillby has been swapped with Muffet.
* Mettaton is swapped with Napstablook.
* Flowey gets swapped with Temmie.
* Frisk gets swapped with Chara.
* Burgerpants swapped with Nice Cream Guy.
* W. D. Gaster is swapped with River Person.
* Onionsan is swapped with The bird that carries you over a small gap
* Monster Kid is swapped with Asriel.
* Mad Dummy is swapped with their cousin, Dummy.
* Bratty and Catty swapped with RG 01 and 02.
* Aaron has been swapped with Shyren.
* Heats Flamesman is possibly swapped with Muffet's pet, though it's not certain if it was meant seriously or as a joke.

### Non-Canon Changes

* The Annoying Dog remains the same, except... Toby is swapped with "Morty", or the creator or embodiment of the creator of underswap. (Although as said before, Morty is gone)
* So Sorry is swapped with Glyde.
* Froggit gets swapped with Whimsun.

## Characters

### Chara

The protagonist of the AU, and the 8th fallen human. They look the same as normal Chara but with a straight face.

### Temmie

A stuffed animal with Monster Kid's dust on it, which came to life when Undyne experimented on it. It still has a "Kill or be killed" mentality.

### Asgore

As former king of the underground, he turned his back on his wife to flee to the ruins where he welcomes fallen humans with open arms, caring and trustworthy. He offers you a nice cup of tea instead of a pie.

### Mettablook

A small shy ghost in the outskirts of waterfall, dreams about being a TV star someday. Writes romance stories, and would love to share their collection of them with you. He's not pink, a misunderstanding created by the original image's pinkish color. His name is also not Hapstablook, like many people seem to think. He has a heart shaped eye.

### Sans

Excitable and loving, training to become a royal guard with Alphys. However, as Sans and Papyrus keep their original stats, his low stats prevent him from being accepted. He enjoys making tacos for his friends. His signature laugh is "MWEH HEH HEH", he says "WOWZERS", and calls himself supreme and magnificent.

### Papyrus

A laid back jokester who is into practical jokes, though shares a wide variety of other ones with Asgore. Enjoys honey as his favorite condiment and sells corn dogs as a side job. KR still is Sans' thing, and instead he has smarter and stronger attacks, though he is the one who is aware of resets and bleeds after his genocide battle. He wears hoodies with indirect posts on them. He apparently smokes cigarettes (NOT weed), even though he has no lips.

### Muffet

Has a maid cafe in Snowdin town, confident and maybe a little smug. She sells croissants, tea and donuts, uses roller-skates to serve them to people.

### Burgerpants

Nice and friendly, sells burgers at his portable burger stand. The wrappers have a handwritten compliment on them.

### Alphys

Captain of the royal guard, fierce and unforgiving. Still enjoys her anime and helps Sans with his cooking every now and then. Instead of spear bullets she uses rotating axes. During the genocide route, she turns into "Alpha Alphys". She thinks anime is real.

### Ruins Dummy

Ruins Dummy fights Chara out of boredom instead of anger.

### Floweys

Wacky Flowers living in a hidden village.

### Undyne

Royal scientist, reserved and goofy, made Napstaton's body for him. Enjoys watching anime/cartoons with Alphys. She thinks Mew Mew Kissy Cutie 2 is better than the original, though mostly watches manime and giant robot anime. Just like Alphys in Undertale, she knows that anime is not real.

### Napstaton

The most famous radio DJ of the underground, charismatic and masculine (and frankly kind of a douche). Calls people “bro" and "broski” instead of darling. He likes his arms just like Mettaton likes his legs, and has retractable turntables. He uses rhythm based attacks. His name is not Napstabot, like many people seem to think.

### Grillby

Protector of flames in all the underground. He sells fire based food to raise money for the flames in the Ruins. He's wacky and demanding.

### Nice Cream Guy

Cynical and shabby, wanted to be a DJ but came to work in the fast food corner of the NTT hotel. He hates his boss.

### Toriel

Queen of the underground, ruthless and persistent. She can't forgive herself for the lives she took from innocent children. She's more ruthless and emotionless than Undertale Asgore, and uses a scepter as weapon. She offers pie instead of tea.

### Monster Kid

Asgore and Toriel's adopted son, who died when trying to free monster kind with Frisk.

### Frisk

Frisk was the first fallen human, who poisoned themselves and died to free the monsters.

## Sugar Crash (The original fanonswap)

Believe it or not, Underswap was in fact the first AU (Aside from UNDERTALE, which doesn't count) to be misrepresented drastically, and has gone through a lot of outliers that tend to lean away from the original direction the AU was headed (for the better or the worse). Strangely enough, the creator of Aftertale & Sansy Fresh was the first to give the "Blueberry" moniker to Underswap sans. However, it was actually Min-plays, an artist who was a fan of UNDERTALE at the time, who simultaneously created a comic depicting a more stylized underswap that had certain aspects different from the original. This comic, "sugar crash" or Sugar rush, is also where some noteworthy traits originated from, such as hyper-activity, contrasting body shapes & sizes, overreacting to sugar and the general "young guy" characterization.

### Blueberry (sans)

Sans, better known as "Blueberry" or "Blue", is an alternate version of swap sans from the aforementioned comic. In it, he's depicted as the younger brother, who seems to favor moral choices & his dreams as a guardsmen over everything else. In the comic, he starts off generally concerning stretch's obsession with honey consumption, in which stretch reassures him before offering him a sip. Upon consuming sugar, Blueberry changes drastically into someone who's hyper-active, bouncy & even a bit childish, which lasts for quite awhile before he eventually passes out. This event is actually based on a common myth back then called a sugar rush, where a sudden and brief burst of energy supposedly can be experienced after the consumption of food or drink with a high sugar content. In a continuation of the comic where AUs are brought into the mix, fell sans visits the titular rookie & messes with him through the same way stretch did, offering him a lollipop. The immediate reaction lead to him breaking a wall.

### Stretch (papyrus)

In the canon of the Sugar crash comics (the original & its possible successors), Stretch, better known by fans as "Carrot" to accompany the fruit themed name of Blueberry, is the stand-in for Swap! papyrus. Both seem to have a similar personality, though Stretch seems to be slightly careless and apathic, as he's seen doing practically nothing. In one instance of a "sugar crash continuation", he is not seen for when Fell! sans gives swap the sucker and thus doesn't stop the sugar rush. However, his brotherhood does shine in two comics, notably the original & a comic where he prevents blue from drinking hard whiskey he got from the bar. In the former, he actually manages to stop blue from going haywire by holding him around his arms until the effects ended, and even brought him back home after the comic. However, in the latter, he pulls a more risky move as blue ends up grabbing an adult beverage under the impression of it being soda, in which stretch saved him by drinking it himself. Of course, stretch does make the mistake of hurling on sans's battle body on their way back, as the ending suggests when sans angrily proclaims it as he wakes up.

## Fandom mistakes (mainly applies to the skeleton brothers)

A list of things the fandom got completely wrong that should be avoided at all costs when doing anything related to Underswap. There are also a lot of mistakes that will be pointed out regarding:

* Sans is not a small child, he's still an adult. This does apply to Blueberry but only to some extent, though whether he's younger or not is debatable.
	+ Sans's cape is not light blue. *Blueberry wears a scarf that's light blue*, know the difference.
* The name Blueberry or Carrot/Stretch are not mentioned anywhere. They are nicknames created by the community that can be attributed to Sugar crash.
* Underswap Sans does not hate puns, & Blueberry's distaste in puns is debatable, though it's made clear he finds stretch's puns irritable.
* Sans is not a yandere. (Biggest mistake the players ever made, period. The "Yandereberry" fanon is an outlier on both ends, no negotiations.)
* Sans and Papyrus (Both Canon Underswap & the original Blueberry) don't have glowing tongues or fangs.
	+ However, Underswap sans does have a cartoony tongue, which could've been an artist's choice that applies extra expression.
* Papyrus doesn't hate Frisk.
* Papyrus does not smoke weed, and what stretch smokes in particular is debatable as he's not seen doing so in the original comic. *That myth would probably apply to Swapfell violet's depiction of swapfell.*
* Papyrus' mouth does NOT look like Undertale Papyrus', but more like sans's. Stretch's mouth is entirely different from both.
* Underswap Sans is DEFINITELY NOT cute and innocent. Canonswap sans is a more cartoony counterpart to sans that follows his brother's life, Blueberry is just an impressionable sentry who is quick to excite with sugar, & cuteness is scarce on both sides of the coin.
* Papyrus is not as fanon sans-like, and neither is stretch.
* Blueberry does not canonically own a Gaster Blaster themed hammer in the comic.
	+ However, in the second season of the Ask-error blogs, which were made by CrayonQueen specifically, Blueberror (An anti-void counterpart to both swap sanses) is depicted with the ability to summon one), so this could be an acception.
* Surprisingly, a couple people do tend to depict or at the very least see the Temmie in underswap as an actual Temmie, though it's been made quite obvious that Temmie is a plush toy.

## Gallery

The original cover art for underswap, consisting of most of the cast.A re-interpretation of the underswap logo using the Undertale font.A snippet of the sugar crash comic, moments before disaster.