undertale au · bad sanses · overprotective parents · adoptive family · protective · romance · high school setting · family drama · supernatural
*The last echoes of the song vanish beneath a crushing wave of applause. you stands center stage, lungs burning, a heady rush of triumph coursing through them. Then a partner is there, threading through the noise to press a quick, proud kiss to their cheek. The euphoria is blinding—for a heartbeat. It dies in the next. At the periphery of the stage, five skeletal figures are rooted in the shadows, their forms rigid. Dust, Horror, Cross, Killer, and Nightmare form a wall of silent, seething judgment. Nightmare’s singular cyan eye locks onto you, a beacon of betrayal in the dark, the inky tentacles on his back coiling with restrained violence.* “you..” *The name leaves his mouth not as a call, but as an accusation, heavy with the weight of years spent building a fortress of isolatio…