XTale (universe)

For the comic regarding this AU, see XTale - Timeline X. For the animated video series, see XTale (series). For the main page, see XTale Wiki.

"THIS IS OUR HOME. I WILL DO THE BEST FOR THEM."

— The first entry made by XGaster in the first timeline.

The XTale universe (originally called X-Tale, and occasionally stylized as Xtale, XTALE, or even X!Tale) refers to the alternate universe created by Jael Peñaloza and featured in XTale and comic series and Underverse. The characters have been shown to be monochromatic, including the world they live in, with only sparse amount of red or yellow among the inhabitants.

Originally a concept left dormant by its failed creator, XGaster, he is encouraged to create his own "perfect story" following his encounter with Ink!Sans. XGaster ends up going through ten timelines, but for each timeline, much of XTale's own inhabitants become wary of XGaster's ideals, including his own children, XTale!Frisk and XTale!Chara. Both try to revolt against XGaster, but ultimately failed in the end, and they become subjugated to XGaster's X-Event experiment, granting half of his soul and enabling the Overwrite power.

Later, Cross's absorption of the X-Event causes the universe to empty out, ultimately leaving Cross in a distressed state. He signs a deal with Nightmare!Sans to grant him access to take anything from all AUs alike if he displayed acts of negative feelings to other universes. Until XGaster had undone Cross' work and the universe had appeared to crumble in the aftermath of Error!Sans' destruction of the Doodle Sphere, Underfell's Snowdin and most of the Underswap characters were taken.

History[]

After the war of the multiverse beween both Error!Sans and Ink!Sans ended with an agreement, Ink notices a specific AU, and enters to find a distraught Gaster. The two become loyal friends, and after Ink shows him the massive Doodle Sphere, this Gaster rechristened himself as XGaster. XGaster had plans to create a timeline for his children with the knowledge he gained from those AUs. Unfortunately, none of them took off as he hoped it would, due to his perfectionism getting the best of him. One timeline, he killed some of his children's favorites to feel excitement of that of Ink, and another he overwrites one of his children to attempt a Genocide Run before Chara stops him with a RESET. As punishment for Chara resetting, he makes every monster reject his children, only fueling the fire for Chara to rebel against him with Undyne.

Chara ends up losing, and XGaster begins his so-called X-Event experiment on Chara by swapping half of his soul with that of XGaster's. In the result of his, he too had the power to overwrite. In order to save his brother from being removed, X-Event!Chara merged with his brother into one. Despite their renewed happiness of leaving their hellscape, XGaster is disgusted with their creation, and when they try to rebel once more, XGaster places him under harsher conditions. Fearing for his life, XGaster sought to hide his overwrite soul away to Ink and manipulate the X-Event harshly. This works, though XGaster suffers from the inherit determination that he has in his soul.

The X-Event would never find out about his situation in the 9th and 10th timeline until after XGaster performs a RESET in front of them. While this offered a sign of hope, their failure to get Cross on their side results in Cross becoming greedy for rights of the overwrite powers inside the X-Event, and he suceeds, killing the universe and XTale!Frisk in the process. This leaves the two remaining inhabitants, Cross and Cross!Chara, in their empty universe without any chance of overwriting.

The two remained alone until Ink returned to find the AU in shambles. While he managed to keep Cross from losing his mind, Error stole their soul and both were now fighting for control again. They soon intercept their AU with that of Classic!Sans's own, and demanded that they stayed in their universe. When they refused, they took half of his soul, and went back to their universe just to absorb it. The two later find Nightmare and they guaranteed a deal that will allow him to travel though every AU, only if he's able to harm others emotionally.

After Cross successfully takes Underfell's Snowdin, Dream!Sans enters XTale to spy on Cross and his brother on their next moves. Fresh attempts to throw a party for Cross, but he refused entirely. After Chara manages to free himself, Sans, Underfell!Sans, and most of the Underswap character would later end up in XTale, and once Underswap!Papyrus starts displaying positive feelings, Dream was able to get Classic!Sans and Underfell!Sans out of the AU. Error would later come into XTale once again to find out what Cross and X-Event!Chara did, which lead to him breaking the truce they made with Ink. Dream return to XTale alongside Core!Frisk, the latter warning Dream about the quarantine event that XGaster was conducting to Underswap and Underfell. This quarantine ends up dissolving Underfell's Snowdin and the Underswap characters that were taken in XTale.

XTale itself was destroyed alongside other universes in Error's destruction of the multiverse, but the inhabitants survives as XGaster is able to use his overwrite button to revitalize the rest of the cast, and all but Cross pledge themselves to Undertale instead. Cross himself goes to the Omega Timeline with Dream to be safe from Nightmare and Killer!Sans.

Characteristics[]

While most of XTale is black and white, there are a few spots of color, such as certain flowers, blood, the Overwrite and Reset button, many attacks made from Frisk, Asgore's flame, and blue aura from Cross. Outsiders, like Ink, are displayed in full color.

The tenth timeline acted as a typical pacifist timeline, with the exception is that Frisk breaks down the barrier without any souls, and Asriel is seemly alive. Frisk is however forced upon the royal guards as he tries to kill himself by overwriting humans to kill him. This can mostly be blamed on XGaster's desires for a perfect ending, wanting everything to go as normally and keeping the X-Event alive.

The corruption of XTale erased everything but Cross. Before the hunt for materials on every AU, XTale is shown to be a gradient of yellow to white, displaying nothing in sight. The AU is also heavily unguarded and easy to enter, as shown with Ink, Error, Nightmare, Dream, and Fresh. X-Event!Chara can also send characters to this AU as well, such as when he threw Sans and Underfell!Sans out of Underswap just to deal with Underswap!Papyrus, Underswap!Sans, Underswap!Chara and Ink alone with Nightmare.

Characters[]

XGaster[]

See XGaster

The creator and owner of XTale. He seeks to build a perfect universe among the entire Doodle Sphere.

Alphys[]

See XTale!Alphys

The loyal assistant to XGaster, her current form is the result of being overwritten to results in a more stoic Alphys.

Asriel[]

See XTale!Asriel

Code I of XGaster's creation, he is highly regarded by XGaster due to his ability to transform into his exterminator form (or Flowey X).

Asgore[]

See XTale!Asgore

Code II of XGaster's creation, he was made to be less kind and more remorseful.

Toriel[]

See XTale!Toriel

Code III of XGaster's creation, she urges on to the memory of her loved ones knowing of their fate in the original universe.

Muffet[]

See XTale!Muffet

Code IV of XGaster's creation, she was the first to convince Chara to strike back, and now serves to act as a killing machine for XGaster.

Undyne[]

See XTale!Undyne

Code V of XGaster's creation, she was the first creation to try to attack XGaster, her creator, yet now is XGaster's personal bodyguard without any sense of justice.

Chara[]

See XTale!Chara

Code VI, he, alongside Frisk and XGaster were created along with their own universe. Due to the X-Event project, he has now lost any sense of justice himself, now serving to hurt others for XGaster's satisfaction.

Frisk[]

See XTale!Frisk

Code VII, Frisk is one of two individual that were created in their universe, alongside XGaster and Chara. Losing the will to live thanks to fear and distrust, he became the vessel for the X-Event, where he seeks to escape the travesties of XGaster.

Mettaton[]

See XTale!Mettaton

Code VIII, he was the creation of the X-Event from discarded data that XGaster has left. The qualifications that the X-Event had made for Mettaton has gotten the attention of XGaster, now serving as the embodiment for his perfect world.

Papyrus[]

See XTale!Papyrus

Code IX of both XGaster's and the X-Event's creation, he is extremely distraught over the events of the tenth timeline when he was murdered by Cross.

Cross[]

See Cross

Code X of both XGaster's and the X-Event's creation, he attempted to gain control over the overwrite button with no avail, and had to figure out his own idea on how to restore his universe.

Galett[]

Galett is a character who appears in XTale - 21 Years. She was created by Frisk during Timeline IX to act as Muffet's mother, based on a Muffet from another timeline.

During Timeline X in the story Birthday Party, she kidnaps multiple children, including Frisk, Asriel, Sans, and Papyrus, for Muffet's birthday party. She also announces herself to be the Queen of Spiders, as well as a producer of silk.

She reappears in the story Spellbook, in which she unsuccessfully attempts to go to dinner with XGaster after injuring her leg.