Webcomic / Ghost Switch

A story about choice, free will, and letting the ones you care about learn from their mistakes, all because two ghosts happened to switch places.

A description of the comic from CleverCatchphrase's DeviantART gallery.

This page contains spoilers for the fan comic as well as the original Undertale storyline!

Ghost Switch is an Undertale Role Swap fan comic created by CleverCatchphrase. This AU assumes that the "Narrator is Chara" theory is true (meaning all the flavor text in the game is given to you by Chara, the ghost of the first fallen human who befriended Asriel) and switches Chara's position as a narrator with Asriel's position as a flower (hence the title, "Ghost Switch"). How or why this happened has yet to be explained.

This comic can be read both on Tumblr and DeviantART.

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This work contains examples of:

• Accidental Pun: Happens with Papyrus on page 124, when he states that all of Sans' paper puns are "tearable".
• Acting Your Intellectual Age: Subverted with Chara. They have an impressive vocabulary, but it's not beneath them to make butt jokes as seen on page 102.
• Always with You: Literally with Asriel. He can't move very far from Frisk's radius.
• Ambiguously Christian: Chara is heavily implied to be Catholic in the comic. They quote the bible at several points during the flashbacks and on page 263 they try to convince Asriel to go along with the buttercup plan by comparing their sacrifice to the "savior figure" of their religion they told him about. They also seem to carry a hefty amount of religious guilt, explaining their martyr complex and their willingness to die for the monsters.
• Art Evolution: Massive artistic improvement can be seen comparing the first pages to the most recent ones.
• As the Good Book Says...: To a T with Chara, who can seemingly quote the bible verbatim.
• Back from the Dead: Asriel. And presumably Chara, if they truly are Flora.
• Background Halo: Easy to miss on page 104, as the "Spread Wings" Frame Shot trope is more in focus here on this page as well.
• Blah, Blah, Blah: Used accordingly by Asriel on page 99.
• Box-and-Stick Trap: A foolproof puzzle created by Sans on pages 184 and 185.
• Bump into Confrontation: Played straight on page 21.
• Censored Child Death: Played straight with Frisk on page 24, but then subverted on pages 147, 148, and 149, where they are shown being stabbed and bleeding out.
• Dead Person Conversation: Frisk any time they talk to Asriel.
• Death from Above: The Icicle on Page 147.
• Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Frisk, given they save everytime they encounter a save star.
• Delayed Narrator Introduction: Asriel. Frisk inspects plenty of items before they meet, but it's only after they both leave the Ruins that Frisk gets flavor text for anything they touch.
• Eyes Always Shut: Avoided with Frisk. They will open their eyes occasionally to help emphasize certain emotions.
• Facial Dialogue: Done perfectly with Frisk on page 111.
• Flash Back: Done between every arc, and whenever Frisk is unconcious.
• Flavor Text: Provided by Asriel in this comic instead of Chara.
• Floral Theme Naming: Every monster gives Flora a flower-related name and they are all simultaneously a pun related to that monster in some way, such as Froggit calling Flora, "Lily", since frogs sit on lily pads.
• Foregone Conclusion: For those who are familiar with Undertale's original storyline, it is safe to assume both Chara and Asriel are dead from the beginning of the comic.
• Foreshadowing: After Frisk insults Snowdrake's sense of humor, the poor monster runs away to tell his mom. This implies that the Amalgamates are home with their families and is outright confirmed when Endogeny, as part of the Royal Guard, ambushes Frisk.
• Foul Flower: Flora, who murdered Frisk on page 2 before even speaking a word to them.
• Freak Out: Predictably used on Pages 150 and 151 with Asriel, and aslo subverted by Asriel on Page 70. Upon learning he can only exist when Frisk wears the locket containing his dust, he decides to be forcibly optimistic instead of having a justified existential crisis. He seems to be taking it well.
• Ghost Amnesia: Asriel can't remember how he died, and didn't even realize he WAS dead until his mother walked right through him.
• Good-Times Montage: Two in the Ruins and two in Snowdin so far.
• Healing Checkpoint: The save stars, just like the game.
• Hearts Are Health: Breaking Frisk's heart isn't recommended.
• Heh Heh, You Said "X": Chara and Asriel throughout the second memory.
• Hurricane of Puns: Sans, appropriately.
• "I Can't Look!" Gesture: Asriel on page 118.
• I Have Many Names: Flora claims to have 15 names at the minimum.
• Illness Blanket: Worn by Asgore in the first flashback.
• Limited Wardrobe: Subverted with Chara and Asriel, as they are seen wearing different clothes in each memory. (But all their clothes still follow a green and yellow stripe theme.)
• Lying Finger Cross: Done by Asriel on Page 73.
• Mistaken Identity: Asriel mistook Frisk for Chara when they first met on Page 40.
• Oddly Visible Eyebrows: Frisk, who often has their eyebrows drawn just at, or above their hair line to help convey emotion since their eyes are closed more often than not.
• Oh, No... Not Again!: Asriel on Page 145.
• Power Palms: Asriel can cast both healing and fire magic from his hands.
• Reset Button: Avoided. From what we know so far, Frisk can only control when and where they save, but not the act of resetting/reloading. Their reloads seem to happen pretty instantaneously whenever they die.
• Reverse Arm-Fold: A default stance for Asriel.
• Role Swap AU: Chara and Asriel's positions in the narrative have switched. Chara is now the flower, and Asriel is the flavor text narrator and guide.
• Save Point: Used by Frisk and presumably Flora as well.
• Say My Name: Asriel has done this a couple of times with Frisk, and yet, even after a hundred pages since they have met, Frisk has not called Asriel by name even once.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Chara, who even uses the word "sesquipedalian" on page 100.
• Side Quest: Passing out Papyrus's flyers in Snowdin. Flora even addresses the gesture as such.
• Snooping Little Kid: Frisk, who went through Toriel's possessions in the Ruins, which led them to discover the locket, and thus meet Asriel. Though it could be argued that Toriel gave them permission to do as much based on page 34.
• Subverted Punchline: Sans employs this trope on page 122, replacing the audience-expected bone pun with a paper pun instead.
• Technical Pacifist: While they have not yet killed a monster thanks to outside interruptions during their battles, Frisk has been shown fighting in-comic multiple times. In every case, Frisk did not go on the attack until they themselves were aggressed first, and aside from their first conflict, they don't appear very remorseful about it, either.
• Written Sound Effect: Par for the course, being a comic.
• You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost: Slightly altered with Frisk, who uses the expression to subtly explain to Asriel what's going on.

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