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Hello, hello. I know it is taking me long to make new posts, but as I said: studying is currently a priority to me. If I try to stay very active on DeviantArt, I am likely to roll down in education, which I, obviously, don't want, so, please be patient. Also, I am currently working on three more arts: one for EIN, one for Undertale (that one is actually a redraw of Temmie's drawing) and a one on TNO/Red that features custom flags for some of the Belarusian states' flags in the respective mods.

Now, to the topic.

That very topic is actually people often confusing two different AUs sharing the same name "Dustswap": the first one featuring Dusttale events in Underswap created somewhere around 2016 and the other one being an original 2020 vision of Sans and Papyrus swapping their roles in Dusttale. Note that all the following information is to be taken by you as my subjective opinion, but not as an attempt to push in my idea as canonical. Before I start my reasoning, I would like to mention that I am aware of the naming "Swapdust" that is the same as the first definition of "Dustswap", but the problem is that perhaps I have never heard of it before until the new concept of "Dustswap" was created by Daniztic and FlambeWorm370. Maybe I do not know something about this, please tell me in the comments below. Alright. Now, let us begin. First of all I am going to tell you why do I think "Dustswap" has the right to be seen as Underswap with Dusttale plot. You see the new Dustswap is based on the thought that in Dusttale there are only the main character roles: the murderer, the follower and the protagonist. The protagonist remains unswapped, while the murderer and the follower do swap. Such opinion is only correct if you take in account only the end of the Dusttale AU. And this is the opinion I disagree with. Not only because Papyrus is TECHNICALLY dead (well, the only way to resurrect a dead monster in UT so far is to apply Determination on an object with the goner's dust scattered over it, just like it was with Flowey), leaving only two evildoers on the scene, but because of the fact that an Undertale-derived AU is not only a result of some events, having led to that very outcome, but is also those events. Undertale-derived AUs just can't take place without a starting point that made it drift away from UT. There are many AUs, where the story began identically to Undertale but would change its flow right after a single event launches a chain reaction: Horrortale, Underfell (Yes! Initially, Underfell was a normal Undertale until Gaster has "cracked the code" and caused Asgore to corrupt mentally and start a new ruthless reign over the kingdom), Outertale, etc. Same goes for Dusttale. It originally was Undertale as well, however, at some point Sans completely received knowledge about the human's deeds though a glitch and then an insane idea came to his mind that later proved to work efficiently. So... What was the point of me "singing this song if nothing"? The point is that if we take Dusttale at its very beginning when it was still UT, right at the start of Undertale becoming Dusttale, and swap it all, with all characters, we will get Underswap, but with Papyrus having the idea to commit the great massacre. Dusttale swapped? Yes. "Dustswap"!

Now, onto the new "Dustswap". Even though, the naming is incorrect in my opinion, I cannot say I do not like the idea. The concept is fresh and original. Some may say it is just Dustbelief. Yes, partially they are going to be right, but only partially... Because Sans has his own role here as well, an important role in this "dusty powder plot". I like how Sans is portrayed a puppeteer, manipulating his brother like a tool, a grinding machine, covering its weak driver, but... But the concept would make much-MUCH MORE sense if the whole lore had its starting point not in Undertale, where Sans, Paps and Undyne just create a mess that seems a bit unreal to me, will be genuine here, because it's a situation much less escalated than the one, for instance, in Horrortale. But where then? My answer: in Dusttale. What would have happened if Frisk/Chara had managed to kill Sans in Dusttale and reset again? Sans for sure would have remember all, and with that in mind needless to say that in a new timeline he is the same murderer he used to be. A murderer in the previous timeline with his mind being twisted highly, with his morals being lost has a much higher probability of coming up with ideas as crazy as he is than just an injured skeleton. That would pretty much explain why Sans has not killed his brother on the spot with the genocidal plan in his head: he just does not want to kill Papyrus again, but he wants for him not to fear the older brother and make Papyrus understand his "seemingly" maniacal ideas, turn on his side.

With that said, I would like to restate my thought: in no way do I hate the concept of new "Dustswap", I just disagree with being named so with my explanation provided above, the AU itself has a lot of development potential and HAS to be developed further. This is all for now. Stay tuned for more and vale.

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Hello, hello. I know it is taking me long to make new posts, but as I said: studying is currently a priority to me. If I try to stay very active on DeviantArt, I am likely to roll down in education, which I, obviously, don't want, so, please be patient. Also, I am currently working on three more arts: one for EIN, one for Undertale (that one is actually a redraw of Temmie's drawing) and a one on TNO/Red that features custom flags for some of the Belarusian states' flags in the respective mods.

Now, to the topic.

That very topic is actually people often confusing two different AUs sharing the same name "Dustswap": the first one featuring Dusttale events in Underswap created somewhere around 2016 and the other one being an original 2020 vision of Sans and Papyrus swapping their roles in Dusttale. Note that all the following information is to be taken by you as my subjective opinion, but not as an attempt to push in my idea as canonical. Before I start my reasoning, I would like to mention that I am aware of the naming "Swapdust" that is the same as the first definition of "Dustswap", but the problem is that perhaps I have never heard of it before until the new concept of "Dustswap" was created by Daniztic and FlambeWorm370. Maybe I do not know something about this, please tell me in the comments below. Alright. Now, let us begin. First of all I am going to tell you why do I think "Dustswap" has the right to be seen as Underswap with Dusttale plot. You see the new Dustswap is based on the thought that in Dusttale there are only the main character roles: the murderer, the follower and the protagonist. The protagonist remains unswapped, while the murderer and the follower do swap. Such opinion is only correct if you take in account only the end of the Dusttale AU. And this is the opinion I disagree with. Not only because Papyrus is TECHNICALLY dead (well, the only way to resurrect a dead monster in UT so far is to apply Determination on an object with the goner's dust scattered over it, just like it was with Flowey), leaving only two evildoers on the scene, but because of the fact that an Undertale-derived AU is not only a result of some events, having led to that very outcome, but is also those events. Undertale-derived AUs just can't take place without a starting point that made it drift away from UT. There are many AUs, where the story began identically to Undertale but would change its flow right after a single event launches a chain reaction: Horrortale, Underfell (Yes! Initially, Underfell was a normal Undertale until Gaster has "cracked the code" and caused Asgore to corrupt mentally and start a new ruthless reign over the kingdom), Outertale, etc. Same goes for Dusttale. It originally was Undertale as well, however, at some point Sans completely received knowledge about the human's deeds though a glitch and then an insane idea came to his mind that later proved to work efficiently. So... What was the point of me "singing this song if nothing"? The point is that if we take Dusttale at its very beginning when it was still UT, right at the start of Undertale becoming Dusttale, and swap it all, with all characters, we will get Underswap, but with Papyrus having the idea to commit the great massacre. Dusttale swapped? Yes. "Dustswap"!

Now, onto the new "Dustswap". Even though, the naming is incorrect in my opinion, I cannot say I do not like the idea. The concept is fresh and original. Some may say it is just Dustbelief. Yes, partially they are going to be right, but only partially... Because Sans has his own role here as well, an important role in this "dusty powder plot". I like how Sans is portrayed a puppeteer, manipulating his brother like a tool, a grinding machine, covering its weak driver, but... But the concept would make much-MUCH MORE sense if the whole lore had its starting point not in Undertale, where Sans, Paps and Undyne just create a mess that seems a bit unreal to me, will be genuine here, because it's a situation much less escalated than the one, for instance, in Horrortale. But where then? My answer: in Dusttale. What would have happened if Frisk/Chara had managed to kill Sans in Dusttale and reset again? Sans for sure would have remember all, and with that in mind needless to say that in a new timeline he is the same murderer he used to be. A murderer in the previous timeline with his mind being twisted highly, with his morals being lost has a much higher probability of coming up with ideas as crazy as he is than just an injured skeleton. That would pretty much explain why Sans has not killed his brother on the spot with the genocidal plan in his head: he just does not want to kill Papyrus again, but he wants for him not to fear the older brother and make Papyrus understand his "seemingly" maniacal ideas, turn on his side.

With that said, I would like to restate my thought: in no way do I hate the concept of new "Dustswap", I just disagree with being named so with my explanation provided above, the AU itself has a lot of development potential and HAS to be developed further. This is all for now. Stay tuned for more and vale.