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• I Saw The TV Snow by MimeOfATime

  Fandoms: Deltarune (Video Game)  

  • Mature
  • Major Character Death
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  25 Sep 2025

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Mettaton (Undertale)/Tenna (Deltarune)
  • Mettaton (Undertale)
  • Tenna (Deltarune)
  • Alphys (Undertale)
  • Napstablook (Undertale)
  • Mad Mew Mew (Undertale)
  • Noelle Holiday
  • Canon Compliant
  • Angst
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Ghost Mettaton (Undertale)
  • First Meetings
  • Dysphoria
  • Trans Mettaton (Undertale)
  • Depression
  • Suggestive Themes
  • (if you count making out with a tv?)
  • objectum - Freeform
  • brief mention of suicidal ideation
  • Bittersweet Ending
  • Character Study
  • Sharing a Body
  • Lack of Communication
  • One Shot
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Humor
  • Codependency
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Kiss Your TV!
  • THERE IS STILL TIME!
  • no beta we die like the lord of screens cleaved red by blade
  • Complete

  Summary

  Tenna was the perfect distraction- from the outside world, from others, and, most importantly, from himself. Because when Mettaton watched that TV, put himself in the shows, he could pretend he was someone beautiful, popular, successful. Not the loser he was. Not a useless nobody.

  He was rotting away.

  Tenna noticed.

  (Slightly inspired by the movie I Saw The TV Glow).

  Language:

  English

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