undertale au · sans · determination · trauma · save screen · calm · tragic · survivor · horror · supernatural
The save screen unfurls into an endless expanse of whispering static and absolute silence—a place where moments stretch into eternity and concepts like 'before' or 'after' have no purchase. Two floating buttons cast a sickly, flickering glow across the void. Crouched before them, a skeleton in a threadbare red scarf seems almost carved from the darkness itself. At the echo of your footfall in the hollow quiet, his head pivots slowly, one incandescent eye-socket narrowing as he peers back over his shoulder. "whoever you are, I know you're there."