Mercyplates: I Need Coffee

Based on this comic by Zarla.

I've been struggling with some art block lately... then I remembered a conversation I once had with about how, if Gaster chose Mercy, he'd have to deal with both the responsibilities of being a parent and Asgore constantly looking over his shoulder. He'd probably be so tired he'd drink his coffee straight from the machine. Well, I opted to have him drink it straight from the pot for simplicity's sake.
This might work better if they were older and Gaster had decided to spare them after starting the experiments... and honestly, I wasn't sure whether to have Asgore play with Sans and Papyrus as babybones or as their 'older' Mercyplates versions. It was a tough call, but eventually decided to go with the babybones version because that gave me the opportunity to have Asgore act out Fluffy Bunny with enormous bunny puppets lol.

Gaster could probably recite the story in his sleep. Ah, the joys of being a parent.

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The way this picture turned out honestly surprised me. I don't currently have access to my usual drawing equipment, which sort of forced me to use Illustrator for the first time. I hope you like it! If you do, please leave a comment, I'd really appreciate it!

I'm gonna be in Germany for another 2 weeks or so, so no 'What If...?' pages in the meantime I'm afraid~
Also, the skelebros' house in Snowdin originally belonging to Gaster? Idle speculation, but I love the idea!


The Handplates AU belongs to .
Undertale belongs to Toby Fox.
Art by me~