"Your fantroll will become canon in UnderTale."

[cath­ode ray pube]

I remember this being a tier on the Kickstarter. What the hell is this, anyway? Was it just some kind of joke?

[KallenKouzuki]

It's a reference to the Homestuck Game kickstarter (Toby Fox does a good amount of the music for Homestuck). The tier in the Homestuck Game kickstarter was supposed to be a complete joke, and was for $10000, so Hussie assumed no one would do it. Turns out 2 people did before he closed it so no one else would.

I am almost 100% sure Undyne is the 'canon fantroll' that someone got from the tier on the undertale kickstarter

[Herb]

To elaborate further: the trolls of the two people were made canon in the comic first, but might also show up in the game.

The hilarious part was that Hussie killed off the fantrolls just one page after introducing them, and they didn't even get speaking parts.

[Uroboros]

If I recall, the people who claimed the fantroll tiers never actually paid up. Their pledges actually being 'jokes' too, hence the fantrolls being fried after one panel.

Undyne is closely tied to the story so I doubt it would have been a fan-character. Besides, if you backed at that tier, wouldn't you want to announce it to the world?

[Stelliferous]

the reason they were fried is that the $10,000 was explicitly for a single-page appearance. $100,000 was required for the "your fantroll lives beyond one page" tier. there was also a $1,000,000 tier to make your fantroll the most important character in the comic. they were all meant as jokes of course

[Slime Drips]

this game has a flexing horse, burning ropes, and a cat (dog?) with glasses and hair

undertale is actually just a homestuck fangame

[Tsuki Zero]

Originally posted by Mallow:

this game has a flexing horse, burning ropes, and a cat (dog?) with glasses and hair

undertale is actually just a homestuck fangame

I disagree... It is just as random as Earthbound. Have you played Earthbound.

[Boxcar Comorant]

Originally posted by Mallow:

this game has a flexing horse, burning ropes, and a cat (dog?) with glasses and hair

undertale is actually just a homestuck fangame

Undertale is heavily inspired by Earthbound, which is also a huge inspiration during the first 4 acts of Homestuck.

[greeby]

Originally posted by Tsukiyomaru Zero:

Originally posted by Mallow:

this game has a flexing horse, burning ropes, and a cat (dog?) with glasses and hair

undertale is actually just a homestuck fangame

I disagree... It is just as random as Earthbound. Have you played Earthbound.

you're implying that this person wasn't joking???

[Superscooter]

There was none. It was some furry oc that got locked away in the game

[ll_Vaporware_ll]

Originally posted by Superscooter:

There was none. It was some furry oc that got locked away in the game

I believe muffet on the other hand is also an oc/paid for character, but unlike the hidden monster, she turned into a one hit wonder. Nice design an all.

[Charles Wenzel |CFS|]

They're both very cool and fit well with the game's themes / humor

[A Little Hyena]

He's named So Sorry because he
never actually says his name. The first line he says to you is "I'm so sorry!". It's a joke. That's literally all it is. I thought it was funny and charming, and his attack patterns are really unique.

[Madness]

Originally posted by Khatoblepas:

He's named So Sorry because he
never actually says his name. The first line he says to you is "I'm so sorry!". It's a joke. That's literally all it is. I thought it was funny and charming, and his attack patterns are really unique.

I thought it was because Toby was sorry he had to put him in the game.

[Uroboros]

To be fair, Muffet's design fits perfectly with the early mention of the spider bake sale, and manages to be a charming addition to the world like she actually belongs there. The furry OC does kinda stand out as just furry OC. I imagine if the person who used his own character was more flexible and suggested alternate forms, he could have had a more prominent part in the game. Maybe not a miniboss like Muffet, but he wouldn't be so tucked away like that.

That was one of the parts of the 'get your thing in the game' tiers, you had to be flexible so that it would work as part of the world. An elephant-looking kangaroo thing with a 'sexy 3D jiggle' and who is 'good at art!' just stands out like a sore thumb. Though to be honest I thought Woshua was a bit out of place as a normal monster in the early zones too, and may have worked better as an encounter in the labs where there are more construct-like mechanical beings.

In my opinion, the fursona would have worked waaay better if the emotes were better picked, and the form was more expressive than just being a bipedal animal. If it needs to stay chubby and friendly, it could have been made into a quadrupedal version that shuffles along the ground using its belly like a sled and emotes more like a mix of a dog and a moldsmal, a wobbly, hungry, dork-thing with a black mop-wig covering its face over. Maybe drawing stickfigures on the ground to try communicate. *Asks for directions*, *Wonders if you're gonna eat that*, *Can't find his way to the art club*, etc. ACT responses include stomping the dirt drawings out, drawing back, tipping it over, etc. I dunno. Anything to fit better?

Then again, I say this without ever having encountered it nor wanting to seek it out.