Faithtale (ROADRUNNER)

Created by ROADRUNNER

**FAITHTALE** is about what happens after Frisk dies and a new timeline is created rather than being reset. The timeline Frisk died in continues to exist without her, while Frisk continues from her last save in a new timeline. In FAITHTALE, monsters are able to live in perfect harmony with each other due to their possession of a unique soul trait called "faith.” However, their fragile souls are able to be corrupted by other soul traits if they spend too much time around powerfully traited humans. Corruption causes a monster's personality to slowly be consumed by a negative version of the corrupting trait. None of the seven humans except Chara were powerful enough to cause Corruption in the other monsters. FAITHTALE follows the events surrounding Frisk's arrival in the Underground. Frisk's uniquely powerful determination affects the monsters in unexpected ways, and leads to an unlikely partnership with a certain soulless friend.

## Characters

### Undertale Characters

#### Frisk

Frisk is non-binary fem-presenting and uses she/her pronouns. She is pale skinned in appearance, with a round face and short legs, measuring roughly four and a half feet tall. At the time she fell into the Underground, she wore her signature purple and blue striped shirt, with brown pants and a brown leather backpack. At eleven years old, Frisk was forced to flee to Mt. Ebott after her home city of Sodom was destroyed by a violent fire with unknown origins in 89 ABE (After Battle of Ebott). While the rest of her family and friends evacuated to the neighboring city Gomorrah, Frisk went toward Mt. Ebott in search of answers to the catastrophe. While looking, she fell into the Underground. Frisk’s soul is powerfully determined and corrupts monsters faster than regular human soul traits.

#### Flowey/ Asriel

Flowey’s age is unknown, as it is impossible to calculate how much time the prince spent between resets. His appearance within the main Faithtale story is that of a bright yellow flower with a forest green stem. He has six petals. In full bloom, Flowey’s “head” (including petals) is slightly larger than the open hand of an adult human. During his prime as a goat-monster, Asriel was exceptionally powerful, able to harness kindness traited water magic. However, as Flowey, he has weak magical abilities which only allow him to summon small neutral traited bullet patterns made of small seeds. Flowey is able to grow vines out of his roots to use as arms and hands. These are nearly useless for combat, as they can only be assembled into slow bullet patterns, though they are very intimidating, and often enough to convince someone he is a formidable opponent.

Flowey is the current (89 ABE+) form of Asriel, the prince of monsters. In 29 ABE, his adopted sister, Chara, poisoned herself to sacrifice her soul for the good of monsters. In order to give Chara a proper burial, Asriel used the power of Chara’s souls to return to the surface and deliver his sister back to her people in Gomorrah. While he was on the surface, humans attacked him, thinking he had killed Chara. He used Chara’s soul to destroy Gomorrah in retaliation. Asriel destroyed the city with fire as a result of (partly corruption induced) rage and exhaustion which clouded his mind. Upon returning to the Underground, Asriel died, leaving the soul to be collected by Asgore. The prince’s dust was collected with the flowers, which were dug up to ensure no dust was left behind. The soul which Asriel had borrowed was delivered to Alphys, the royal scientist, per her request, along with the dust and flowers. In 34 ABE, through rigorous experimentation and studies, Alphys managed to reincarnate Asriel by infusing his dust into a flower which was used as a vessel. This process used energy from Chara’s lost soul, destroying the soul but infusing the flower with intense determination. The flower almost immediately escaped the lab and traveled to the Ruins where he led a new life. Asriel renamed himself “Flowey” and began experimenting with resets, possible through the determination which composed a large part of him. During this time the prince developed his defining idiom that the Underground was a place where one must “kill, or be killed.” After seeing again and again every outcome and reaction he could possibly achieve, both ruthless and generous, Flowey lost interest in life, and deemed his actions meaningless. This attitude led the flower to lose what little determination he had left, and Flowey lost his ability to reset in 72 ABE. After this event, he began to adjust to somewhat of a stable life, revealing his true identity to his mother. By the time Frisk falls into the Underground, he is living with Toriel in the Ruins, and has reformed his "kill or be killed" philosophy. Instead, he believes that the monsters’ sacred "faith" and that the harmony the soul trait creates should be protected at all costs and regarded with utmost importance. Flowey dramatically opposes any form of death. Since he lost his reset abilities, he became extremely conscious of the permanence of decisions. Despite Flowey's mostly good intentions, his lack of a soul still gives him a sociopathic edge. He keeps his interaction with other monsters and the passing humans to a minimum. No one in the Underground besides Alphys, Asgore, and Toriel know of his existence. Only Toriel knows of his current whereabouts by the time Frisk falls in 89 ABE.

#### Toriel

Toriel is around two hundred years old, and was notably involved in the human-monster war. She knows Flowey is Asriel, her son. The two work together as caretakers of the Ruins, although Flowey usually causes more harm than good. Toriel possesses great physical and magical strength while in healthy shape, though she is slow to violence and generally uses her abilities for practical means rather than combat. Her soul is more resilient than most other monsters’ because of her relation to a special bloodline of monsters known as “Boss Monsters.” Her main magical abilities include mild bravery traited fire magic and aggressive faith traited fire magic. While at peak ability, Toriel has potential for extremely developed attack patterns. During her time in the war, these patterns were exercised in their prime, though during her life in the Underground her skills regressed due to a lack of practice.

In 32 ABE, at the end of The Expansion and not longer after the death of Asriel in 29 ABE, Toriel divorced her husband Asgore, and began to live alone in the ruins. The first child to fall into the ruins died immediately at their fall, but the next 5 children were each taken into Toriel’s care and raised in the ruins for respective amounts of time until Toriel deemed them strong enough to continue into the rest of the Underground.

#### Papyrus

Papyrus has been living in Snowdin with his younger brother Sans for as long as he can remember. He is extremely sociable and friendly, knowing pretty much everyone in Snowdin and many in Waterfall and Hotland. He is known in The Underground for his unconditional kindness and lighthearted spirit. Papyrus remembers nothing of his life before living in Snowdin, his babyhood and parents are a mystery even to himself. Occasionally he will visit Waterfall to spend time with his mentor and best friend, Undyne. This allowed him to connect with some of the residents there. The same applies to Hotland through his friendship with Sans’ colleague Alphys. A tight knit friend group exists between Sans, Papyrus, Undyne, and Alphys. The four will often gather at each other's houses to hang out.

Most of Papyrus’s life before Frisk’s arrival consisted of his initiation and training as a Royal Guard. When not at work he is caring for his brother or spending time with his friends. Sans is the most important person in his life to him, and the two keep very few secrets from one another.

#### Sans

Sans grew up with Papyrus in Snowdin. Like Papyrus, he has no knowledge of his past life. He is close friends with Alphys, and he has worked on many projects with her, including the design and construction of a weapon called a Gaster Blaster. Sans is at first glance humorous and lighthearted, but suffers from internal doubt and anxiety. He does, however, talk about his problems with his brother and best friend, which helps lessen the effects of his self-doubt and keeps him in a healthy mental state. He is also relatively close friends with Undyne, but not to the same degree as Alphys. Papyrus, Alphys, and Asgore are like a family to Sans. He will do anything for them, and he has maintained meaningful relationships with them throughout the course of his life.

During Sans’ early teen life, he and his brother joined the Royal Guard as sentries responsible for protecting Snowdin from newly fallen humans. During their time in training under Undyne, the brothers became more acquainted with the other high ranking officials in the kingdom. Papyrus grew close to Undyne through their shared passion and energy, while Sans grew close to Alphys through their mutual anxiety about their responsibility to the monster kingdom. Eventually, the brothers finished their training with outstanding results, and became the leading guards in Snowdin, even outranking veterans such as Greater Dog. The boys maintained their new friendships and Sans continued to work with Alphys on various scientific projects as a hobby. When the second human fell, Sans was the first to encounter them after they left the ruins, and was forced to kill them and deliver the soul to Asgore. This deed caused Sans to suffer from extensive trauma and guilt. Asgore took responsibility for affects the murder had on Sans, and took Sans under his wing to mentor and train. After killing the child, Sans vowed to himself never to kill anyone again. In order to keep this vow without losing his career, Sans studied melee combat under Asgore in an attempt to make himself easier to defeat in future combat. Over the course of this second training, Sans grew especially close to Asgore, and Asgore became a father figure to Sans.

#### Alphys

Alphys works in the Hotland lab, constructing and testing various projects while raising her adopted son, Gaster.

#### Gaster

Gaster is a ghost who permanently fused with the skeleton of Pen, the first human to fall into the Ruins, who died immediately at his fall. Gaster was of similar age to Pen when he possessed his skeleton. He has the mental capacity of a ten year old by the time Frisk falls. He ages extremely slowly, gaining only about 3 years of mental maturity between the time he fused with the skeleton and the time Frisk fell. After finding that he had fused with Pen’s corpse, Toriel cared for the ghost for a few months, but eventually passed it on to Alphys as an adopted son while on an errand to deliver the captured perseverance soul to the Royal Guard.

## Story

* Act 1
* Act 2
* Act 3
* Act 4
* Extras

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* Scene 5
* Scene 6

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* Scene 1 (pt. 1)
* Scene 1 (pt. 2)
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* Scene 5
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* Scene 7

* A Few Stars
* Unspoken