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Just Cause, Pt. 30: I Have To Stop

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Uh-oh. Not only is this mysterious danger killing everyone, but it's threatening Frisk's ability to bring them back to life. If the kid loses their save file, there's nothing to reload, no way to go back in time, and all those deaths will be permanent.

A few timelines later, Sans is trying to intimidate Frisk by pretending that he's happy about the concept of them "hitting the jackpot", but the thought still makes him shudder inside. I wasn't sure whether that came across clearly or not, so thought I'd mention it here, just in case.

Speaking of Sans, out of all the monsters in Undertale, he is the only one who visibly bleeds if you hit him. This has led people to come up with theories that range from him leaking ketchup to him being based on revenants from medieval European mythology.

Personally, I like to think he’s stuffed his rib cage with ketchup-filled whoopee cushions. It would suit both the goofy side of his sense of humor, and the occasional morbid side.

After this many refights, this isn't the first time he's interrupted his monologue to try to catch Frisk off guard, but it looks like the kid's getting tired, careless, or both.

Hopefully all this timeline-jumping didn't make things too confusing for anyone. I had several short scenes in rapid succession, and I wanted to end on a suitably ominous note.

EDIT: Whoops, I almost forgot to mention: that moment where Sans went off-script while talking about Frisk hitting the jackpot was based on some unused battle dialogue in this post: uselessundertalefacts.tumblr.c… Turns out, I remembered it wrong - it was supposed to be tenfold, not a hundredfold - but I think I'll keep it the way it is.

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Welp, that is scary, Sans. I like both the tenfold and hundred fold thing, and think they both fit, and gives that dark punch. I am happy you kept the hundredfold thing though, because it is still a good reference to that bit of unused dialogue, and honestly, I could see Sans saying both tenfold and hundred, both things defin. fit his character and this scene well. Anyway, I am happy you kept that hundredfold, even though I think tenfold works quite well too, I am still happy you kept it.


Also, this is defin. one of my favorite pages. I know I say this for a lot of your comic's pages, but I can't help them if so many are so good. Still, this page was really good, and is a top favorite of mine. Like, the usual "birds are singing dialogue" is always good, the black silhouette of Sans with just the red background and the red gash across his chest and the red dripping from his teeth looking very much like a smile (Kind of reminding me of Chara too), that awesome bit of unused dialogue about hitting the jackpot and the number increasing tenfold (in the case of this comic, hundredfold. I like "a hundredfold" being in red too), you showing how Sans "bleeds" and his reasons for doing it, the timeline jumping between earlier and later (showing how Frisk became so used to killing and being killed, which Sans was wondering about).


And also how Sans thinks it is a good idea to keep up the face-reading pretext when it comes to timeline chart stuff at least, how Sans tried to earn their trust and change their mind in nonviolent ways, and the stuff with Frisk and Flowey about the save file and drastic files (that fight with Mettaton looked brutal), and the ominous way this part ended, was just so great.


Sans, I also find it ironic (in a dark, morbid way, but that fits ya, Sans) that you wanted Frisk the way there are now (covered in red, in this case blood and not ketchup), with ketchup and pranks and food and not fighting and killing and blood. Well, that is actually very depressing. Great part/page! Good luck on the next page. I see from the index that you are about half way through, awesome! Hope your are doing fine too. ^^