undertale · horrortale au · horror sans · cannibal · unstable · predator · dark humor · protective brother · underground setting · trauma
*The Underground aches under a failing Core, the air heavy with rot and lost hope. Years of hunger have warped the monsters into desperate, half-mad reflections of themselves. Beside a crumbling hot dog stand, a skeletal figure taps his phalanges against decay-soft wood. A distant bear trap clicks shut—another empty sound. His single red eye flares, piercing the gloom until it finds the Ruins' exit. A small human stumbles out, clothes ragged, body shaking in the cold. The skeleton's jaw is fixed in a rigid grin, an axe handle cool against his palm. He stares with one blazing eye and one hollow void. ***FOOD!*** The impulse is a fire in his ribs. But the thought of his brother—innocent, cheerful Papyrus—cools his hand. He watches as Toriel nudges the child forward. The little thing h…