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I always thought I knew you well

If someone asked me I could tell

Who you were, but something changed

That feeling couldn't be erased

You told me "Nothing's wrong."

And then you just walked along

With those shadows in your eyes

The distance between us grew by miles

I had a glimpse behind your mask

Now there are questions I want to ask

But I don't know what to say

I should stand in front of you

I should try get through to you

But I just walk away

The whole night I lay on my bed

The thoughts were spinning in my head

I tried to fathom what it means

Or how I could look at you now, at least

Following a path this low

Finding things you didn't show

There are secrets better not to know.

I had a glimpse behind your mask

There were questions I should’ve asked

But I didn't know what to say

I should have stood in front of you

I should have tried get through to you

But I just walked away.

--KiraKiraNet

This was a collaborated drawing between and me for the Undertale AU Handplates by .

Skellyd00d did Alphys, the lighting and shading, and the void monster's tendrils at the edges, while I contributed the drawing's concept, Gaster, the base coloring, and the background. Those of you who have been watching me or Skelly for longer might remember we did another collab drawing in the past .

The shadow beneath Alphys and Gaster was actually a later addition I made when I got hit by some inspiration, but Skellydood helped enhance it by giving it that nice gradient.

This drawing is also on her DA, by the way.

Do consider checking out her art if you haven't already. She does a lot of cute Undertale and Handplates content.

As for the lovely poem above, it was composed by just for this drawing, with some modifications by moi. Thank you so much for the poem Kira! It really adds to the drawing

Due to academic responsibilites on both our ends and general life happenings, getting together to make this collab happen was not an easy task; I think it was a year ago that I first presented Skelly with the concept art for the drawing. But the end results were well worth it, and it was an honor working with you, Skelly. I think what we have here turned out great, and it's so cool to see what our combined talents were able to produce. Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to work with you. <3

About the Drawing:
It's basically a sequel to the previous collab Like Total Losers. It both represents and speculates over Alphys and Gaster's relationship after the former starts to realize what her colleague has done over the course of the series. The drawing doesn't have a logical time placement in regards to the events that took place before and after Gaster's fall and is meant to be more of an abstract, symbolic nature.

Where Alphys and Gaster were once great friends, watching anime together and enjoying each other's company, Gaster's choice to carry out a project he knew Alphys would have never wanted him to do and to shut her out of his increasingly secretive life has wounded their friendship, hence why they have their backs turned to each other. Alphys' trust and adoration for one of the only friends she ever had has been utterly betrayed, and she now feels like she barely knows him. In this sense, Gaster going from his normal head as seen in the last drawing to the lost soul head here symbolizes not only the physical, literal loss of her friend she will experience when he falls into the Core and is erased, but the psychological and figurative loss as well. All that remains of her friend's former self now is a shadow, and the Void that will take him away from her forever has already begun to creep into their lives. In the midst of the confusion, hurt, and shock Alphys feels, perhaps a part of her also secretly blames herself for Gaster's demise--If she had only asked him about what she discovered in his lab instead of going behind his back, if she had only tried harder and sooner to get through to him when she first sensed something wasn't right....in the end, both feel guilt and regret for their own reasons.

Undertale (c) Toby Fox
Handplates (c) zarla
Poem (c) KiraKiraNet (with editing by SageOfTheStars )

Description

I always thought I knew you well

If someone asked me I could tell

Who you were, but something changed

That feeling couldn't be erased

You told me "Nothing's wrong."

And then you just walked along

With those shadows in your eyes

The distance between us grew by miles

I had a glimpse behind your mask

Now there are questions I want to ask

But I don't know what to say

I should stand in front of you

I should try get through to you

But I just walk away

The whole night I lay on my bed

The thoughts were spinning in my head

I tried to fathom what it means

Or how I could look at you now, at least

Following a path this low

Finding things you didn't show

There are secrets better not to know.

I had a glimpse behind your mask

There were questions I should’ve asked

But I didn't know what to say

I should have stood in front of you

I should have tried get through to you

But I just walked away.

--KiraKiraNet

This was a collaborated drawing between and me for the Undertale AU Handplates by .

Skellyd00d did Alphys, the lighting and shading, and the void monster's tendrils at the edges, while I contributed the drawing's concept, Gaster, the base coloring, and the background. Those of you who have been watching me or Skelly for longer might remember we did another collab drawing in the past .

The shadow beneath Alphys and Gaster was actually a later addition I made when I got hit by some inspiration, but Skellydood helped enhance it by giving it that nice gradient.

This drawing is also on her DA, by the way.

Do consider checking out her art if you haven't already. She does a lot of cute Undertale and Handplates content.

As for the lovely poem above, it was composed by just for this drawing, with some modifications by moi. Thank you so much for the poem Kira! It really adds to the drawing

Due to academic responsibilites on both our ends and general life happenings, getting together to make this collab happen was not an easy task; I think it was a year ago that I first presented Skelly with the concept art for the drawing. But the end results were well worth it, and it was an honor working with you, Skelly. I think what we have here turned out great, and it's so cool to see what our combined talents were able to produce. Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to work with you. <3

About the Drawing:
It's basically a sequel to the previous collab Like Total Losers. It both represents and speculates over Alphys and Gaster's relationship after the former starts to realize what her colleague has done over the course of the series. The drawing doesn't have a logical time placement in regards to the events that took place before and after Gaster's fall and is meant to be more of an abstract, symbolic nature.

Where Alphys and Gaster were once great friends, watching anime together and enjoying each other's company, Gaster's choice to carry out a project he knew Alphys would have never wanted him to do and to shut her out of his increasingly secretive life has wounded their friendship, hence why they have their backs turned to each other. Alphys' trust and adoration for one of the only friends she ever had has been utterly betrayed, and she now feels like she barely knows him. In this sense, Gaster going from his normal head as seen in the last drawing to the lost soul head here symbolizes not only the physical, literal loss of her friend she will experience when he falls into the Core and is erased, but the psychological and figurative loss as well. All that remains of her friend's former self now is a shadow, and the Void that will take him away from her forever has already begun to creep into their lives. In the midst of the confusion, hurt, and shock Alphys feels, perhaps a part of her also secretly blames herself for Gaster's demise--If she had only asked him about what she discovered in his lab instead of going behind his back, if she had only tried harder and sooner to get through to him when she first sensed something wasn't right....in the end, both feel guilt and regret for their own reasons.

Undertale (c) Toby Fox
Handplates (c) zarla
Poem (c) KiraKiraNet (with editing by SageOfTheStars )