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Rational Undertale?
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Author: u/None *
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Score: 4
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Created: 2015-12-03T08:14:01
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u/None [+11] *
Meh! Undertale is already pretty "rational" in a way: it's a game about how everyone around you is actually a real person with their own lives, and you don't need to powergame your way through a heap of corpses, and in fact you're kind of a bad person if you do. It's a very Reality Ensues sort of game, that way.
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u/Bowbreaker [+4] Solitary Locust*
If the box is all you know and you don't know that there's anything reachable outside of it you don't really try to escape it. People thought for eons (and still think) that our world was created by a superior being. Yet breaking out and going to His world only exists as the typical "path to paradise//heaven/nirvana" thing. I haven't heard any stories of vikings trying to break through Ymir's skull.
u/None [+8] *
The sun is shining. Birds are singing. Flowers are blooming. On days like these, time machines appear in the middle of fields. A skeleton steps out and hammers into the ground a sign that says:
do you want to have a bad time
##these flowers are bad
you need a cup of butter
not a buttercup
He sighs as he finishes. "why didn't i do this before? i'm such a bonehead." He gets back into his time machine and vanishes.
u/Uncaffeinated [+3] *
Wasn't his time machine broken? I don't think he actually did any travel himself.
u/Cariyaga [+1] Kyubey did nothing wrong*
I think it was mildly implied that he could send objects back through time, by the picture in his lab...
u/Psy-Kosh [+2] *
I think it was more a method of preserving information against rewinding of the timeline, rather than actually sending info back.
u/Tommy2255 [+2] *
He says a few times that he can tell "by the look on your face", and he needed to use a password to know that you could time travel. I think he just knows that resetting the timeline is possible because of his scientific background and just knows what to look for.
u/Cariyaga [+1] Kyubey did nothing wrong*
That's true, but there's also the matter of the picture in his lab that shows him, all the friends you've made, and you, together.
u/adad64 [+1] Chaos Legion*
I got the impression it just survived the resets, and he couldn't go back himself.
u/ancientcampus [+1] juggling kittens*
That was my impression, or that he was somehow peripherally aware of what happened in past resets.
u/Psy-Kosh [+3] *
Hee. That would perhaps solve things, to the extend one ignores all the issues with basically cutting away a branch of the timeline/rewinding it, but... Do you really think that was a misunderstanding on Chara's part, rather than a deliberate murder attempt?
u/NotAHeroYet [+7] City of Angles Municipal Government*
No. Now, if you wanted to write it... Rational!sans would be an optimal choice. (What run it is is up to the author.) Take either Flowey or chara for the antagonist. Rational!Frisk breaks the laws of balance, since canon has them completely OP with the save and all- if victory is possible, they will win in the end. Rational!Flowey is arguably worse, but may make a good dubious character.
u/Cariyaga [+4] Kyubey did nothing wrong*
Not as far as I've seen. I've been checking AO3 and and FFNet pretty obsessively for fics. :p Edit: The closest thing I've found is this, dealing with the political aftermath of exitting -- it's only got two chapters, though they're long: http://archiveofourown.org/works/5148158/chapters/11851688 Also, fair warning to anyone remotely interested in playing the game Undertale (really solid one, by the way, though this isn't exactly the place to proselytize), don't read this. Spoilers abound, and it's a game that pretty much anything about it is a spoiler.
u/AurelianoTampa [+2] *
I'd like to see this too; I don't think it would be a good thing within the confines of the story itself, but within the meta-story (the fact that several characters know you can save/reset and thus are more than just the sprite within the game) would be amazing. Yes, they escape the Underground... but they also spread the knowledge that some force out there is controlling their fates and who can just... delete everything. Basically it would become an A.I.-gaining-sentience type of deal, in my mind. If you find anything, please post it!
u/NotAHeroYet [+1] City of Angles Municipal Government*
Controlling their fates? AFAIK, everyone who knows about timelines doesn't believe it controls their fates like a puppet, merely that the timelines get destroyed for arbitrary reasons, and the present becomes a future that may or may not repeat.
u/mhd-hbd [+2] Writes 'The World is Your Oyster, The Universe is Your Namesake'*
I wrote this a while back, and have been mulling on whether my next writing project should be a Groundhog-day exploration of the Undertale mythos.
u/callmebrotherg [+1] now posting as /u/callmesalticidae*
I'd read more of this.
u/mhd-hbd [+2] Writes 'The World is Your Oyster, The Universe is Your Namesake'*
A blast from the past, I must say. Perhaps, one day.
u/callmebrotherg [+1] now posting as /u/callmesalticidae*
I await the possibility with great anticipation.
u/Suitov [+1] The Culture*
It will if I can finish it.