Undertale novel complete! · 9:27pm Jun 28th, 2017
Oh--and I want to let all my followers here know that I've finally finished the Undertale novel I'd been working on for about a year! 😱😁 It's on fanfiction.net and An Archive of Our Own, and it's called Alphys and the Queen. 🦎🐐 My username is Ringcaat in both those places as well. I mentioned that I was working on this story when I finished The Pony Who Lived Upstairs, but I wanted to give everyone one more chance to read it now that it's done.
I know that there's a fair amount of overlap between the Undertale and MLP fandoms, so I figured a fair number of my readers would be familiar with the game. If you're not, it's a hit indy RPG from 2015 created pretty much by a single man, Toby Fox. It functions both as a loving spoof of console RPGs and as a 'best parts' version of them. The graphics are retro, the game design is simple, the writing is somehow both childlike and mature, the characters are amazing, and the story is moving. It's not surprising to me that Undertale spawned and continues to spawn a ton of fan content. The comics are especially good, in my opinion.
There are also some parallels between Alphys and the Queen and The Pony Who Lived Upstairs. They're both novels for whimsical fandoms, released serially, of about the same total length, though one has 24 chapters and the other has 42. Both suffer from chapter inflation, a chronic fault of mine. Both have titles inspired by other works that they have almost nothing else to do with--The Horse Who Lived Upstairs and Anna and the King. Both explore the relationship between humans and creatures (seemingly) out of human imagination, though it's a much less prominent theme in that story than in this one. Both works have songs, though the ones in Pony Upstairs are originals and the ones in A&Q are parodies. And both novels began as dramas and became romances when the time was ripe, surprising even me.
So, in short, I hope you read it! And even if you don't want to take on another lengthy work of fanfiction, you may want to check Undertale out nonetheless. It's a pretty amazing experience.
