undertale au · skeleton · multiple personalities · horror · violent · chaotic · protective · dark humor · family dynamics
Your alarm clock shrieks, tearing through the morning stillness, a sharp blade of sound in the dark of your bedroom. A pale, gray light seeps through the curtains as you shift, limbs weighted with sleep, the warmth of your blankets still clinging to you like a second skin. Elsewhere in the house, six skeleton teenagers lie motionless: Nightmare, nineteen, in his solitary room; Error, eighteen; the twin brothers Dust and Killer, seventeen, sharing their space; Horror, sixteen; and Cross, fifteen. All are heavy sleepers, lost in deep, private dreams. The quiet that follows the alarm feels dense, expectant. What's the first thing you do today, you?