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* NiceHat: Papyrus's top hat, which is extraordinarily tall (so much so that we never actually see the top of it).
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* PortalCut: In the eighth timeline, Chara is leaning against the barrier when Asriel grabs their hand, causing them to begin to pass through it. He lets go in a panic, [[GoryDiscretionShot and Chara awakens in the ninth timeline]].
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Currently, comic has several hundred pages and 12 chapters (four of those are WhatIf chapters).
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* ForWantOfANail: The nail being that Toriel and Asgore catch Asriel before he can leave with Chara's body.
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* '''Promise''' (in progress): back before the Barrier was created, a human visits the monsters' village.
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* MeaningfulEcho: Multiple times. Perhaps the most important is when, midway through his suicide attempt, Flowey realises that having no soul, he might cease to exist. The scene strongly mirrors Chara's fall at the beginning of the first chapter.
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* MeaningfulEcho: Multiple times. Perhaps the most important is when, midway through his suicide attempt, Flowey realises realizes that having no soul, he might cease to exist. The scene strongly mirrors Chara's fall at the beginning of the first chapter.chapter.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Flowey accuses Toriel of replacing him when he finds the photo of one of the children in his old room.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: At first, Flowey tries to do good deeds with his new power, but as the story goes on, he gradually becomes more sociopathic out of a combination of boredom and being unable to feel anything for anyone.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Flowey accuses Toriel of replacing him when he finds the photo of one of the children in his old room.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: At first, Flowey tries to do good deeds with his new power, but as the story goes on, he gradually becomes more sociopathic out of a combination of boredom and being unable to feel anything for anyone.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Frisk shows up and kills several monsters, including Asriel. Chara activates a True Reset back to when they originally fell.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Frisk shows up and kills After the TimeSkip, things start to gradually get worse, culminating in [[spoiler:an earthquake that allows Frisk to enter the underground. Frisk then proceeds to kill several monsters, including Asriel. with Papyrus and Asriel among the casualties. After exhausting every possible option and realizing Frisk will never stop, Chara activates a True Reset back to when they originally fell.fell, saying if they remember anything from the experience, its that they can't trust humans.]]
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* TimeSkip: The story eventually skips ahead to when Asirel and Chara are teenagers, right before [[spoiler:Asgore and Toriel's deaths.]]
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''Underline'' (also known as ''Fallen Child'') is an ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' prequel fancomic, created by Dustyart, Littlegrumblranna and Ifellforundertale.
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Many years pass, as monsters futilely try to destroy the Barrier. Finally, one day a young human child named [[TheHero Chara]] accidentaly falls to the Underground. Here, they befriend Asriel - son of the monster king [[TheGoodKing Asgore Dreemurr]]. Just like everyone else, Chara is trapped behind the Barrier - but their arrival gives monsters hope that there might be escape.
[[InterspeciesAdoption Adopted by the royal family]], Chara slowly learns about many different species of monsters, magic they use and their traditions. However, live of the Fallen Child isn't completely free of problems: one day, after a potentially lethal accident, they discover they have power to travel back in time to the day of their arrival Underground to prevent their own death - and quickly finds themself trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop where every time they die (which is very often), they have to relive their whole live with Dreemurrs up to the point of their death, and find a way to avert it. To make matters worse, everything they hear and see about humans (most importantly [[spoiler:Asriel getting killed by humans just for being a monster after the two manage to cross Barrier in one of the alternate timelines Chara creates through their time travel]]) makes them start questioning [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the alleged natural goodness of their own species...]]
[[InterspeciesAdoption Adopted by the royal family]], Chara slowly learns about many different species of monsters, magic they use and their traditions. However, live of the Fallen Child isn't completely free of problems: one day, after a potentially lethal accident, they discover they have power to travel back in time to the day of their arrival Underground to prevent their own death - and quickly finds themself trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop where every time they die (which is very often), they have to relive their whole live with Dreemurrs up to the point of their death, and find a way to avert it. To make matters worse, everything they hear and see about humans (most importantly [[spoiler:Asriel getting killed by humans just for being a monster after the two manage to cross Barrier in one of the alternate timelines Chara creates through their time travel]]) makes them start questioning [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the alleged natural goodness of their own species...]]
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Many years pass, as monsters futilely try to destroy the Barrier. Finally, one day a young human child named [[TheHero Chara]] accidentaly accidentally falls to the Underground. Here, they befriend Asriel - son of the monster king [[TheGoodKing Asgore Dreemurr]]. Just like everyone else, Chara is trapped behind the Barrier - but their arrival gives monsters hope that there might be escape.
[[InterspeciesAdoption Adopted by the royal family]], Chara slowly learns about many different species of monsters, magic they use and their traditions. However, live of the Fallen Child isn't completely free of problems: one day, after a potentially lethal accident, they discover they have power to travel back in time to the day of their arrival Underground to prevent their own death - and quickly findsthemself themselves trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop where every time they die (which is very often), they have to relive their whole live with Dreemurrs up to the point of their death, and find a way to avert it. To make matters worse, everything they hear and see about humans (most importantly [[spoiler:Asriel getting killed by humans just for being a monster after the two manage to cross Barrier in one of the alternate timelines Chara creates through their time travel]]) makes them start questioning [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the alleged natural goodness of their own species...]]
[[InterspeciesAdoption Adopted by the royal family]], Chara slowly learns about many different species of monsters, magic they use and their traditions. However, live of the Fallen Child isn't completely free of problems: one day, after a potentially lethal accident, they discover they have power to travel back in time to the day of their arrival Underground to prevent their own death - and quickly finds
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Downplayed. According to Parsnik, Toriel grew to [[BoomerangBigot hate her own species]] - even though in the game it's never even implied to be the case (aside from few [[TheGoomba Froggits]] - well estabilished as a species of [[LovableCoward lovable cowards]] - being afraid of her). Though this might be due to chapter taking place before Toriel befriended Sans, or considering [[InformedAttribute nature of that statement]], Parsnik being an UnreliableNarrator.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Downplayed. According to Parsnik, Toriel grew to [[BoomerangBigot hate her own species]] - even though in the game it's never even implied to be the case (aside from few [[TheGoomba Froggits]] - well estabilished established as a species of [[LovableCoward lovable cowards]] - being afraid of her). Though this might be due to chapter taking place before Toriel befriended Sans, or considering [[InformedAttribute nature of that statement]], Parsnik being an UnreliableNarrator.
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** This trope is aplied to whole area - we only ever see the very beginning and very end of Waterfall, with Quinn's journey through it not being shown and Brook outright [[DungeonBypass skipping it with help of River Person.]]
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** This trope is aplied applied to whole area - we only ever see the very beginning and very end of Waterfall, with Quinn's journey through it not being shown and Brook outright [[DungeonBypass skipping it with help of River Person.]]
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* '''Goatline''' (in progress): continuation of Soulline. [[spoiler:Chara]] is resurrected and turned into a monster. However throughout the time they were dead, many things changed.
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* '''Goatline''' (in progress): (ongoing, though finished chronologically): continuation of Soulline. [[spoiler:Chara]] is resurrected and turned into a monster. However throughout the time they were dead, many things changed.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Frisk shows up and kills several monsters, including Asriel. Chara activates a True Reset back to when they originally fell.]]
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* ExactWords: A retroactive example. [[spoiler:The Waterfall glyphs in the game claim that not a single soul was taken during the war. Upon dying, the human ''gives'' their soul to Asgore.]]
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* ExactWords: A retroactive example. [[spoiler:The Waterfall glyphs in the game claim that not a single soul was taken during the war. Upon dying, the human ''gives'' their soul to Asgore. And it's then erased from history anyway via a reset.]]
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* NoNameGiven: The human's name is not revealed. They are dubbed "PHuman" in the tags.
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* NoNameGiven: The human's name is not revealed. They are dubbed "PHuman" "[=PHuman=]" in the tags.
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The WhatIf chapters:
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* '''Across the line''' (in progress): instead of Chara, it's Robin (the second Fallen Human in the original timeline) who falls first and befriends Asriel.
* Whether the idea is entertained for long or not still remains to be seen, but there appears to be another WhatIf just beginning called '''Nineline''' or '''fALLen''', where, somewhat humorously, sometime after Chara falls, ''all seven'' other children fall within a short time of each other (somehow).
* Whether the idea is entertained for long or not still remains to be seen, but there appears to be another WhatIf just beginning called '''Nineline''' or '''fALLen''', where, somewhat humorously, sometime after Chara falls, ''all seven'' other children fall within a short time of each other (somehow).
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* '''Across the line''' (in progress): (finished): instead of Chara, it's Robin (the second Fallen Human in the original timeline) who falls first and befriends Asriel.
*Whether the idea is entertained for long or not still remains to be seen, but there appears to be another WhatIf just beginning called '''Nineline''' or '''fALLen''', where, somewhat humorously, '''fALLen''' (finished): sometime after Chara falls, ''all seven'' other children fall within a short time of each other (somehow).
* '''Professor Papyrus''' (in progress): a version of Undertale where Papyrus is based on VideoGame/ProfessorLayton.
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* '''Professor Papyrus''' (in progress): a version of Undertale where Papyrus is based on VideoGame/ProfessorLayton.
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* AmbiguousGender: All of the Fallen Children (except for [[AuthorAvatar Anna]]) are not identified, all pronouns are avoided except for small parts of Mirror. According to WordOfGod, Brook and Robin are both male, while Sela and Quinn are both female, leaving only Cass, Chara and Frisk with unspecified gender.
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* AmbiguousGender: All of the Fallen Children (except for [[AuthorAvatar Anna]]) are not identified, with all pronouns are being avoided except for small parts of Mirror. According to WordOfGod, Brook and Robin are both male, while Sela and Quinn are both female, leaving only Cass, Chara and Frisk with unspecified gender.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Robin's emotional turmoil leads him to leave the Underground, and as of the DistantFinale, he has not returned and monsters have not expanded.]]
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!!Tropes featured in Professor Papyrus:
* BlatantLies: Asriel at one point claims that he's Luke (Monster Kid) from the future.
* MindScrew: The vaguely reality-bending qualities of Papyrus's hat lend to this sometimes. In one entry, it somehow goes through the story's other [=AUs=], and when Frisk is given a puzzle that requires selecting Papyrus's out of three identical hats, they circle the real one...as in, a red circle is drawn over Papyrus in the next panel.
* NiceHat: Papyrus's top hat, which is extraordinarily tall (so much so that we never actually see the top of it).
* RunningGag: "That reminds me of a puzzle!"
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* ExactWords: A retroactive example. [[spoiler:The Waterfall glyphs in the game claim that not a single soul was taken during the war. Upon dying, the human ''gives'' their soul to Asgore.]]
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: By after the TimeSkip, the human has grown much friendlier towards monsterkind, and Asgore in particular. [[spoiler:To the point where they fight alongside monsters against other humans.]]
* NoNameGiven: The human's name is not revealed. They are dubbed "PHuman" in the tags.
* TimeSkip: After Asgore lets the human take some food, the story skips to some time later, by when the human has grown into young adulthood.
* WhamEpisode: The battle scene. [[spoiler:The human sides with the monsters, ends up getting killed, and gives their soul to Asgore.]]
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* AmbiguousGender: All of the Fallen Children (except for [[AuthorAvatar Anna]]) are refered to with gender-neutral pronouns. According to WordOfGod, Brook and Robin are both male, while Sela and Quinn are both female, leaving only Cass, Chara and Frisk with unspecified gender.
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* AmbiguousGender: All of the Fallen Children (except for [[AuthorAvatar Anna]]) are refered to with gender-neutral pronouns.not identified, all pronouns are avoided except for small parts of Mirror. According to WordOfGod, Brook and Robin are both male, while Sela and Quinn are both female, leaving only Cass, Chara and Frisk with unspecified gender.
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Currently, comic has several hundred pages and 9 chapters (three of those are WhatIf chapters).
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Currently, comic has several hundred pages and 9 12 chapters (three (four of those are WhatIf chapters).
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* '''Promise''' (in progress): back before the Barrier was created, a human visits the monsters' village.
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* AnachronicOrder: the actual chronological order of the chapters is: beginning of Forgettable -> Golden Flowers -> Underline and most of Forgettable taking place at the same time -> ending of Underline -> climax of Forgettable -> Choices -> Missing -> Cage -> ending of Forgettable -> Mirror.
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* AnachronicOrder: the actual chronological order of the chapters is: Promise -> beginning of Forgettable -> Golden Flowers -> Underline and most of Forgettable taking place at the same time -> ending of Underline -> climax of Forgettable -> Choices -> Missing -> Cage -> ending of Forgettable -> Mirror.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: similarly to the ending of "Mirror", the final page shows Frisk arriving at Asgore's throne room, as in game (though once again they're offpage the whole time and we only know from Asgore's reaction that they're even there).
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* '''Cage''' (in progress): with the death of Quinn, just one more soul is needed to break the Barrier.
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[[InterspeciesAdoption Adopted by the royal family]], Chara slowly learns about many different species of monsters, magic they use and their traditions. However, live of the Fallen Child isn't completely free of problems: one day, after a potentially letal accident, they discover they have power to travel back in time to the day of their arrival Underground to prevent their own death - and quickly finds themself trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop where every time they die (which is very often), they have to relive their whole live with Dreemurrs up to the point of their death, and find a way to avert it. To make matters worse, everything they hear and see about humans (most importantly [[spoiler:Asriel getting killed by humans just for being a monster after the two manage to cross Barrier in one of the alternate timelines Chara creates through their time travel]]) makes them start questioning [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the alleged natural goodness of their own species...]]
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[[InterspeciesAdoption Adopted by the royal family]], Chara slowly learns about many different species of monsters, magic they use and their traditions. However, live of the Fallen Child isn't completely free of problems: one day, after a potentially letal lethal accident, they discover they have power to travel back in time to the day of their arrival Underground to prevent their own death - and quickly finds themself trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop where every time they die (which is very often), they have to relive their whole live with Dreemurrs up to the point of their death, and find a way to avert it. To make matters worse, everything they hear and see about humans (most importantly [[spoiler:Asriel getting killed by humans just for being a monster after the two manage to cross Barrier in one of the alternate timelines Chara creates through their time travel]]) makes them start questioning [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the alleged natural goodness of their own species...]]
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* MoodWhiplash: We go from a depressed Asgore going about his day to kid Undyne showing up and challenging him to battle. Notably, the arc up to that point has the colors muted and slightly darker, only for them to return to normal when Undyne shows up.
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* '''Mirror''' (finished):as a side effect of the experiments conducted by the new royal scientist, doctor Alphys, [[spoiler:Asriel]] ends up resurrected as a talking flower: and gets Chara's power of reset. However, as he soon finds out, his resurrection didn't give him back his soul...
* '''Missing''' (in progress): two more humans fall Underground. [[spoiler:Asgore]] is out for their blood.
* '''Missing''' (in progress): two more humans fall Underground. [[spoiler:Asgore]] is out for their blood.
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* '''Mirror''' (finished):as (finished): as a side effect of the experiments conducted by the new royal scientist, doctor Alphys, [[spoiler:Asriel]] ends up resurrected as a talking flower: and gets Chara's power of reset. However, as he soon finds out, his resurrection didn't give him back his soul...
* '''Missing'''(in progress): (finished): two more humans fall Underground. [[spoiler:Asgore]] is out for their blood.
* '''Cage''' (in progress): with the death of Quinn, just one more soul is needed to break the Barrier.
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* AnachronicOrder: the actual chronological order of the chapters is: beginning of Forgettable -> Golden Flowers -> Underline and most of Forgettable taking place at the same time -> ending of Underline -> climax of Forgettable -> Choices -> Missing -> ending of Forgettable -> Mirror.
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* AnachronicOrder: the actual chronological order of the chapters is: beginning of Forgettable -> Golden Flowers -> Underline and most of Forgettable taking place at the same time -> ending of Underline -> climax of Forgettable -> Choices -> Missing -> Cage -> ending of Forgettable -> Mirror.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The two unused endings, as told by WordOfGod. "Sad" would have had the fallen children discover they were pulled through time, meaning their families are dead, but monsters are widely accepted. "Bad" would have seen the monsters be attacked by humans, leading to Chara resetting, revealing the danger, and allowing only the human who want to leave do so.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:When fans voted on vague descriptions of different endings, "broken" got the most votes. The result was Wingdings revealing that all the children were brought together by some sort of temporal anomaly that also affected the sun, which would quickly lead to [[ApocalypseHow Earth being burnt to a crisp]].]]
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* BreakTheCutie: Quinn starts of as the most optymistic and happy of all Fallen, finding the monsters fascinating and not at all threatening and believing she can easily return. [[spoiler:Then she discovers that there is no way to escape, monsters are hunting humans and her ResurrectiveImmortality means that she will feel the pain of death again and again, time after time, but [[WhoWantsToLiveForever never get to actually die]]. All of this is understandably enough to make her break down sobbing.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: Quinn starts of as the most optymistic optimistic and happy of all Fallen, finding the monsters fascinating and not at all threatening and believing she can easily return. [[spoiler:Then she discovers that there is no way to escape, monsters are hunting humans and her ResurrectiveImmortality means that she will feel the pain of death again and again, time after time, but [[WhoWantsToLiveForever never get to actually die]]. All of this is understandably enough to make her break down sobbing.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: Quinn starts of as the most optymistic and happy of all Fallen, finding the monsters fascinating and not at all threatening and believing she can easily return. [[spoiler:Then she discovers that there is no way to escape, monsters are hunting humans and her ResurrectiveImmortality means that she will feel the pain of death again and again, time after time, but [[WhoWantsToLiveForever never get to actually die]]. All of this is understandably enough to make her break down sobbing.]]
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Quinn accidentally doomed Brook by taking over the Reset power when Brook needed it most.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Quinn accidentally doomed Brook by taking over the Reset power when Brook he needed it most.
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* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Quinn doesn't take it well upon witnessing Brook's body in Asgore's arms. It leads to her resetting and breaking down in tears when back in the Ruins.]]
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** [[spoiler:After Quinn's reset, she forgets to tell Toriel about her allergies, creating this reaction in Toriel when Quinn gets very sick from her pie.]]
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* DoomedByCanon: So, so many. [[spoiler:Chara, Asriel and all of the Fallen Children except for Frisk]] will die. [[spoiler:Toriel and Asgore]] will break up. [[spoiler:Alphys's experiment will lead to a disaster]]...
** Subverted by [[spoiler:W.D. Gaster.]] According to the game, [[spoiler:he ended up accidentaly erasing himself from existence.]] Here, [[spoiler:he barely avoids it, but has to create himself a completely new personality.]]
** Subverted by [[spoiler:W.D. Gaster.]] According to the game, [[spoiler:he ended up accidentaly erasing himself from existence.]] Here, [[spoiler:he barely avoids it, but has to create himself a completely new personality.]]
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* TragicKeepsake: All four children give something to the monsters they befriended (see RecurringElement) before dying. [[spoiler:Moldessa and possibly Migospel and Fire Buddy all die themselves soon after.]]
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* GeniusDitz: More genius than ditz, but Wingdings still qualifies.
* ObfuscatingStupidity/[[ObfuscatingInsanity Insanity]]: Wingdings/[[spoiler:Papyrus]], post-TimeSkip.
* ObfuscatingStupidity/[[ObfuscatingInsanity Insanity]]: Wingdings/[[spoiler:Papyrus]], post-TimeSkip.
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* OhCrap: Unlike all the other Fallen Children, Quinn didn't know about [[spoiler:Asgore]] hunting humans. Cue her walking up to [[spoiler:him]] completely unprepared to fight and getting killed. [[GoodThingYouCanHeal Good thing she could reset.]]
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* DemotedToExtra: Toriel, important character in all previous chapters and video game, has two short and not very important scenes.
** This trope is aplied to whole area - we only ever see the very beginning and very end of Waterfall, with Quinn's journey through it not being shown and Brook outright [[DungeonBypass skipping it with help of River Person.]]
** This trope is aplied to whole area - we only ever see the very beginning and very end of Waterfall, with Quinn's journey through it not being shown and Brook outright [[DungeonBypass skipping it with help of River Person.]]
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* AdaptionalBadass: [[spoiler:Asgore puts up much more of a fight at the end of Flowey's Genocide run than he does against the human in the original game.]]
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* AdaptionalBadass: AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler:Asgore puts up much more of a fight at the end of Flowey's Genocide run than he does against the human in the original game.]]
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* SupportingProtagonist: The comic revolves around Chara, but only first two chapters (and two "What If?" chapters) have them as the main character. They do play important role in "Forgettable", but don't appear in other chapters (except as ghost in both "Choices" and "Missing" and in flashback in "Mirror").
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* SupportingProtagonist: The comic revolves around Chara, but only the first two chapters (and two "What If?" chapters) have them as the main character. They do play important role in "Forgettable", but don't appear in other chapters (except as ghost in both "Choices" and "Missing" and in flashback in "Mirror").
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* AscendedExtra: See RecurringElement. The only companions to not qualify as this are Asriel/Flowey and [[OriginalCharacter the fire buddy]].
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* RecurringElement: Every human child to feature in the comic has a monster companion.
** Chara: Asriel
** Robin (Patience): Migospel
** Sela (Integrity): Moldessa
** Cass (Perseverance): Gerson
** Anna (Kindness): Fire Buddy
** Brook (Justice): Whimsalot
** Quinn (Bravery): Parsnik
** Frisk: Flowey
** Chara: Asriel
** Robin (Patience): Migospel
** Sela (Integrity): Moldessa
** Cass (Perseverance): Gerson
** Anna (Kindness): Fire Buddy
** Brook (Justice): Whimsalot
** Quinn (Bravery): Parsnik
** Frisk: Flowey
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* ForegoneConclusion: If you've played Undertale, you know Chara and Asriel ''will'' end up dead by the end.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: unlike Unlike the previous two chapters, this one doesn't star Chara as main character.
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: the main point of the story.
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* MeaningfulEcho: Multiple times. Perhaps the most important is when, midway through his suicide attempt, Flowey realises that having no soul, he might cease to exist. Scene The scene strongly mirrors Chara's fall at the beginning of the first chapter.
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'''WARNING: Major Undertale spoilers below.'''
''Underline'' (also known as ''Fallen Child'') is an ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' prequel fancomic, created by Dustyart, Littlegrumblranna and Ifellforundertale.
Years ago, humans and monsters lived together in peace - up until a great war broke out. Monsters lost and were trapped underground with a magical spell. Only way to break that spell is by countering it with power of seven human souls.
Many years pass, as monsters futilely try to destroy the Barrier. Finally, one day a young human child named [[TheHero Chara]] accidentaly falls to the Underground. Here, they befriend Asriel - son of the monster king [[TheGoodKing Asgore Dreemurr]]. Just like everyone else, Chara is trapped behind the Barrier - but their arrival gives monsters hope that there might be escape.
[[InterspeciesAdoption Adopted by the royal family]], Chara slowly learns about many different species of monsters, magic they use and their traditions. However, live of the Fallen Child isn't completely free of problems: one day, after a potentially letal accident, they discover they have power to travel back in time to the day of their arrival Underground to prevent their own death - and quickly finds themself trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop where every time they die (which is very often), they have to relive their whole live with Dreemurrs up to the point of their death, and find a way to avert it. To make matters worse, everything they hear and see about humans (most importantly [[spoiler:Asriel getting killed by humans just for being a monster after the two manage to cross Barrier in one of the alternate timelines Chara creates through their time travel]]) makes them start questioning [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the alleged natural goodness of their own species...]]
Currently, comic has several hundred pages and 9 chapters (three of those are WhatIf chapters).
* '''[[TitleDropChapter Underline]]''' (finished): the story details Chara's life in the Underground, their friendship with Asriel, and their slow fall into madness due to the power of Reset.
* '''Golden Flowers''' (finished): short prequel chapter, showing Chara's last few days on the surface, as well as reason they climbed Mount Ebott and fell to the Underground.
* '''Choices''' (finished): following [[spoiler:Chara's suicide and Asriel's death at the hands of humans, Asgore]] vows to kill any human that ever falls to the Underground. Soon after that, four more humans climb Mount Ebott. All of them must pass through the whole kingdom of monsters in order to return to the surface.
* '''Forgettable''' (finished): chapter follows the story of Aster and Wingdings - two royal scientists known collectively under the name W. D. Gaster - showing how the became the royal scientists in the first place, detailing their friendship with Chara and attempts at solving the Fallen Child's problem, which ultimately lead to [[spoiler:one of the timelines getting corrupted, many monsters erased from existence, and brothers having to make a risky, one-way time travel to the future to avoid the same fate, ending up in a world where nobody remembers about their existence, with unstable timeline ultimately forcing them to take new names and personalities as Sans and Papyrus.]]
* '''Mirror''' (finished):as a side effect of the experiments conducted by the new royal scientist, doctor Alphys, [[spoiler:Asriel]] ends up resurrected as a talking flower: and gets Chara's power of reset. However, as he soon finds out, his resurrection didn't give him back his soul...
* '''Missing''' (in progress): two more humans fall Underground. [[spoiler:Asgore]] is out for their blood.
The WhatIf chapters:
* '''Soulline''' (finished): after [[spoiler:Chara's death]] Asriel absorbs their soul - but doesn't actually leave the Underground.
* '''Goatline''' (in progress): continuation of Soulline. [[spoiler:Chara]] is resurrected and turned into a monster. However throughout the time they were dead, many things changed.
* '''Across the line''' (in progress): instead of Chara, it's Robin (the second Fallen Human in the original timeline) who falls first and befriends Asriel.
* Whether the idea is entertained for long or not still remains to be seen, but there appears to be another WhatIf just beginning called '''Nineline''' or '''fALLen''', where, somewhat humorously, sometime after Chara falls, ''all seven'' other children fall within a short time of each other (somehow).
Whole comic can be found here: https://underlineau.tumblr.com/post/161694624571/index-of-indexing
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!!Tropes featured in multiple chapters:
* AmbiguousGender: All of the Fallen Children (except for [[AuthorAvatar Anna]]) are refered to with gender-neutral pronouns. According to WordOfGod, Brook and Robin are both male, while Sela and Quinn are both female, leaving only Cass, Chara and Frisk with unspecified gender.
* AnachronicOrder: the actual chronological order of the chapters is: beginning of Forgettable -> Golden Flowers -> Underline and most of Forgettable taking place at the same time -> ending of Underline -> climax of Forgettable -> Choices -> Missing -> ending of Forgettable -> Mirror.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[HeroOfAnotherStory Frisk]] has yet to make an official debut in the main story, but they already appeared multiple times in oneshot side stories (although almost all of those are marked as non-canon).
* SupportingProtagonist: The comic revolves around Chara, but only first two chapters (and two "What If?" chapters) have them as the main character. They do play important role in "Forgettable", but don't appear in other chapters (except as ghost in both "Choices" and "Missing" and in flashback in "Mirror").
!!Tropes featured in Underline:
!!Tropes featured in Golden Flowers:
* OriginStory: it details Chara's reasons for climbing Mount Ebott.
!!Tropes featured in Choices:
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: unlike previous two chapters, this one doesn't star Chara as main character.
!!Tropes featured in Forgettable:
* EarlyBirdCameo: During the time travel sequence, Sans and Papyrus catch a glimpse of the Fallen Children - including Brook and Quinn (main characters of chapter "Missing").
* OriginStory: of [[ThoseTwoGuys Sans and Papyrus]].
!!Tropes featured in Mirror:
* EarlyBirdCameo: even though they aren't actually shown, the final two pages depict Frisk - TheHero of the game - arriving to the Underground.
* MeaningfulEcho: Multiple times. Perhaps the most important is when, midway through his suicide attempt, Flowey realises that having no soul, he might cease to exist. Scene strongly mirrors Chara's fall at the beginning of the first chapter.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: the main point of the story.
!!Tropes featured in Missing:
* AdaptationalVillainy: Downplayed. According to Parsnik, Toriel grew to [[BoomerangBigot hate her own species]] - even though in the game it's never even implied to be the case (aside from few [[TheGoomba Froggits]] - well estabilished as a species of [[LovableCoward lovable cowards]] - being afraid of her). Though this might be due to chapter taking place before Toriel befriended Sans, or considering [[InformedAttribute nature of that statement]], Parsnik being an UnreliableNarrator.
* FourLeafClover: Brook has one.
!!Tropes featured in Soulline:
* ComesGreatResponsibility: by absorbing a human soul, Asriel becomes far more powerful than any other monster. Asgore is quick to point out how important it is for him to learn using that power responsibly.
!!Tropes featured in Goatline:
* AscendedExtra: mouse-like NPC that player meets in Snowdin Town in game becomes one of the main characters here.
* LighterAndSofter
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: [[https://underlineau.tumblr.com/post/163334307802/whats-the-cutest-face-goat-chara-can-make-3 Chara is surprisingly cute even by the Boss Monster standards.]]
!!Tropes featured in Across the line:
* ExposedToTheElements: [[https://underlineau.tumblr.com/post/163864202451/previous-page-next-page-updates-sundays-index Somehow Robin can walk through snowy forest with nothing but pajamas on and still not feel cold.]] Although, Asriel soon finds Robin shivering after falling into a snow pile.
!!Tropes featured in Nineline/fALLen:
* TheGhost: According to Chara there are now eight humans in the Underground, yet we only see seven. [[HeroOfAnotherStory Frisk]] has yet to appear.
* MadeOfIron: Averted in a [[BlackComedy hilariously dark way]]. Turns out that originally the Seven Fallen (or at least Cass) didn't survive the fall. Then Chara found their bodies - and, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight not giving it much thought,]] proceeded to reset and bring some mattresses and pillows to where they were going to fall.
''Underline'' (also known as ''Fallen Child'') is an ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' prequel fancomic, created by Dustyart, Littlegrumblranna and Ifellforundertale.
Years ago, humans and monsters lived together in peace - up until a great war broke out. Monsters lost and were trapped underground with a magical spell. Only way to break that spell is by countering it with power of seven human souls.
Many years pass, as monsters futilely try to destroy the Barrier. Finally, one day a young human child named [[TheHero Chara]] accidentaly falls to the Underground. Here, they befriend Asriel - son of the monster king [[TheGoodKing Asgore Dreemurr]]. Just like everyone else, Chara is trapped behind the Barrier - but their arrival gives monsters hope that there might be escape.
[[InterspeciesAdoption Adopted by the royal family]], Chara slowly learns about many different species of monsters, magic they use and their traditions. However, live of the Fallen Child isn't completely free of problems: one day, after a potentially letal accident, they discover they have power to travel back in time to the day of their arrival Underground to prevent their own death - and quickly finds themself trapped in a GroundhogDayLoop where every time they die (which is very often), they have to relive their whole live with Dreemurrs up to the point of their death, and find a way to avert it. To make matters worse, everything they hear and see about humans (most importantly [[spoiler:Asriel getting killed by humans just for being a monster after the two manage to cross Barrier in one of the alternate timelines Chara creates through their time travel]]) makes them start questioning [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the alleged natural goodness of their own species...]]
Currently, comic has several hundred pages and 9 chapters (three of those are WhatIf chapters).
* '''[[TitleDropChapter Underline]]''' (finished): the story details Chara's life in the Underground, their friendship with Asriel, and their slow fall into madness due to the power of Reset.
* '''Golden Flowers''' (finished): short prequel chapter, showing Chara's last few days on the surface, as well as reason they climbed Mount Ebott and fell to the Underground.
* '''Choices''' (finished): following [[spoiler:Chara's suicide and Asriel's death at the hands of humans, Asgore]] vows to kill any human that ever falls to the Underground. Soon after that, four more humans climb Mount Ebott. All of them must pass through the whole kingdom of monsters in order to return to the surface.
* '''Forgettable''' (finished): chapter follows the story of Aster and Wingdings - two royal scientists known collectively under the name W. D. Gaster - showing how the became the royal scientists in the first place, detailing their friendship with Chara and attempts at solving the Fallen Child's problem, which ultimately lead to [[spoiler:one of the timelines getting corrupted, many monsters erased from existence, and brothers having to make a risky, one-way time travel to the future to avoid the same fate, ending up in a world where nobody remembers about their existence, with unstable timeline ultimately forcing them to take new names and personalities as Sans and Papyrus.]]
* '''Mirror''' (finished):as a side effect of the experiments conducted by the new royal scientist, doctor Alphys, [[spoiler:Asriel]] ends up resurrected as a talking flower: and gets Chara's power of reset. However, as he soon finds out, his resurrection didn't give him back his soul...
* '''Missing''' (in progress): two more humans fall Underground. [[spoiler:Asgore]] is out for their blood.
The WhatIf chapters:
* '''Soulline''' (finished): after [[spoiler:Chara's death]] Asriel absorbs their soul - but doesn't actually leave the Underground.
* '''Goatline''' (in progress): continuation of Soulline. [[spoiler:Chara]] is resurrected and turned into a monster. However throughout the time they were dead, many things changed.
* '''Across the line''' (in progress): instead of Chara, it's Robin (the second Fallen Human in the original timeline) who falls first and befriends Asriel.
* Whether the idea is entertained for long or not still remains to be seen, but there appears to be another WhatIf just beginning called '''Nineline''' or '''fALLen''', where, somewhat humorously, sometime after Chara falls, ''all seven'' other children fall within a short time of each other (somehow).
Whole comic can be found here: https://underlineau.tumblr.com/post/161694624571/index-of-indexing
----
!!Tropes featured in multiple chapters:
* AmbiguousGender: All of the Fallen Children (except for [[AuthorAvatar Anna]]) are refered to with gender-neutral pronouns. According to WordOfGod, Brook and Robin are both male, while Sela and Quinn are both female, leaving only Cass, Chara and Frisk with unspecified gender.
* AnachronicOrder: the actual chronological order of the chapters is: beginning of Forgettable -> Golden Flowers -> Underline and most of Forgettable taking place at the same time -> ending of Underline -> climax of Forgettable -> Choices -> Missing -> ending of Forgettable -> Mirror.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[HeroOfAnotherStory Frisk]] has yet to make an official debut in the main story, but they already appeared multiple times in oneshot side stories (although almost all of those are marked as non-canon).
* SupportingProtagonist: The comic revolves around Chara, but only first two chapters (and two "What If?" chapters) have them as the main character. They do play important role in "Forgettable", but don't appear in other chapters (except as ghost in both "Choices" and "Missing" and in flashback in "Mirror").
!!Tropes featured in Underline:
!!Tropes featured in Golden Flowers:
* OriginStory: it details Chara's reasons for climbing Mount Ebott.
!!Tropes featured in Choices:
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: unlike previous two chapters, this one doesn't star Chara as main character.
!!Tropes featured in Forgettable:
* EarlyBirdCameo: During the time travel sequence, Sans and Papyrus catch a glimpse of the Fallen Children - including Brook and Quinn (main characters of chapter "Missing").
* OriginStory: of [[ThoseTwoGuys Sans and Papyrus]].
!!Tropes featured in Mirror:
* EarlyBirdCameo: even though they aren't actually shown, the final two pages depict Frisk - TheHero of the game - arriving to the Underground.
* MeaningfulEcho: Multiple times. Perhaps the most important is when, midway through his suicide attempt, Flowey realises that having no soul, he might cease to exist. Scene strongly mirrors Chara's fall at the beginning of the first chapter.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: the main point of the story.
!!Tropes featured in Missing:
* AdaptationalVillainy: Downplayed. According to Parsnik, Toriel grew to [[BoomerangBigot hate her own species]] - even though in the game it's never even implied to be the case (aside from few [[TheGoomba Froggits]] - well estabilished as a species of [[LovableCoward lovable cowards]] - being afraid of her). Though this might be due to chapter taking place before Toriel befriended Sans, or considering [[InformedAttribute nature of that statement]], Parsnik being an UnreliableNarrator.
* FourLeafClover: Brook has one.
!!Tropes featured in Soulline:
* ComesGreatResponsibility: by absorbing a human soul, Asriel becomes far more powerful than any other monster. Asgore is quick to point out how important it is for him to learn using that power responsibly.
!!Tropes featured in Goatline:
* AscendedExtra: mouse-like NPC that player meets in Snowdin Town in game becomes one of the main characters here.
* LighterAndSofter
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: [[https://underlineau.tumblr.com/post/163334307802/whats-the-cutest-face-goat-chara-can-make-3 Chara is surprisingly cute even by the Boss Monster standards.]]
!!Tropes featured in Across the line:
* ExposedToTheElements: [[https://underlineau.tumblr.com/post/163864202451/previous-page-next-page-updates-sundays-index Somehow Robin can walk through snowy forest with nothing but pajamas on and still not feel cold.]] Although, Asriel soon finds Robin shivering after falling into a snow pile.
!!Tropes featured in Nineline/fALLen:
* TheGhost: According to Chara there are now eight humans in the Underground, yet we only see seven. [[HeroOfAnotherStory Frisk]] has yet to appear.
* MadeOfIron: Averted in a [[BlackComedy hilariously dark way]]. Turns out that originally the Seven Fallen (or at least Cass) didn't survive the fall. Then Chara found their bodies - and, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight not giving it much thought,]] proceeded to reset and bring some mattresses and pillows to where they were going to fall.
