Undertale Off The Rails: Two Years Later

Menace Frisk is back; may God, Buddha, Zeus, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster have mercy on us all. Conventional Frisk asked her how she’s been doing in the years since Mt. Ebbot. What she’s been up to, hearts she’s broken, and just what shit she’s gotten into now?

Her ordeal in Mt. Ebbot still casts a shadow, but the scars have faded and she’s ready to make trouble with her pals. She gets on better with younger monsters. Partly because she doesn’t hold them responsible for trying to take her soul, and most monsters grown up are a little scared of her (She put a lot of monsters in the hospital after all). I figured Catti’s dry, deadpan who gives a shit attitude was a nice counterpoint to Frisk's crazed chaos Gremlin energy.

As for Noelle Jr., I took a bit of wiggle room from Toby Fox’s 10th anniversary Undertale stream. He added a bunch of extra content, like a little deer girl in Snowdin who’s quite obviously meant to be Noelle. But since he never talks to her or even shows her face, I saw the chance for a little wiggle room. In my deranged headcanon, she’s the unlucky daughter of Noelle and a certain blue bird with an ego the size of Uranus.

Evil Berdly has returned to terrorize the multiverse! He’s drawn villains from realities near and far into a diabolical legion bent on dominating all existence! Good news is he spends their meetings too whacked out on Monster Ketamine, singing Walking on Sunshine and inviting his tech bro buddies to join to get anything done. It doesn’t help he’s less interested in wiping out dimensions** than in flooding the multiverse with AI memes of himself, the US army and Teletubbies committing war crimes in Cuba. Still, he remains a nuisance for Frisk, the monsters, and their (65%) happy ending.

Never the best-behaved kid, Frisk’s issues were only worsened by dying over and over again. The worst of her trauma is her, but she still acts up at school, much to the annoyance of Toriel and her Mum and Dad. Her latest incident involved a mass brawl in the schoolyard. It left Frisk with a sling, a concussion, six windows smashed, and a dustbin launched into orbit. Her jailbird* Dad Rory was pissed, while her long-suffering Mum Ana just got another 10 years knocked off her life.

Frisk still resents the Hell out of Undyne for her trauma. Undyne feels betrayed Frisk kept her distance and never actually forgave her. And poor Papyrus finds himself stuck in a messy friendship custody battle. He can see that the two are a lot more alike than either would admit to themselves, with their punch-first, ask questions later approach to life, but both are too stubborn to see it. Still, he soldiers on, hoping to one day bring them together, but so far to sod all avail.

Will Frisk and Undyne ever bury the javelin? Will MK and Frisk grow up to have a dozen mutant abomination babies? And will Berdly chicken out of his pledge to fight a lightsaber kickboxing cage match with Jeff Bezos?

** Berdly subjected ErrorSans to the most horrific ordeal the multiverse had to offer: an interview by Joe Rogan! Error ranted that soon he would lay reality to waste. Joe nodded, smoked a joint and said it’s nice they could have a civil, multi-sided debate on the merits of destroying all existence.

** Don’t worry, Frisk and Ana are just about the only people he hasn’t punched at some point. Though Frisk certainly picked up some of his bad habits. Her human family’s a bit like the Osborns, loving but dysfunctional.

How are your Post Pacafists Frisks doing, living their life on the surface?

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