* I remember a time... * A time when Monsterkind was happy. * A time where our species wasn't so... * Violent. * A few years ago, a rebellion had occurred. * Over what, I forgot. * I think it was bread... * ASGORE was mad. * The queen had just left him. * His children had just perished. * And to be met with anger? * It had pushed ASGORE to his wit's end. * He punished my people severely. * Promised them destruction. * But our royal scientist had another plan. * Choose a Monster every year. * Give them DETERMINATION. * Just enough to let them persist through death. * Not enough to make them immortal. * And have participants try to dust them away. * If the participants win, they are treated as if they were the king's very own. * Taxes are lifted for everybody. * Resources are readily available. * But, should the participants fail... * . . . * Dark times. * Dark, dark times. * There was little food. * And the money that we did have wasn't enough to buy enough food. * I held my son in my arms as he withered away. * . . . * This is the Underground now. (Apologies if it's a bit sloppy, I wrote this during physics :sob: also my first shot at Prohibition Era-esque AU, yay!)
(Note for @SorryGuysBSF: yes, this is Castaway!Sans' AU. Why isn't he named Altera!Sans? Well I totally didn't forget that I had this name rattling about in my brain until now, so...yeah, it's like how the Sans from DustTale isn't canonically named Dust!Sans and is instead Murder!Sans, so....yerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...)
