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• He Never Had a Chance. by jacobz21

  Fandoms: Undertale (Video Game)  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
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  • Work in Progress

  15 Sep 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Sans & Sans (Undertale)
  • Sans Ensemble (Undertale)
  • Sans (Undertale)
  • Dust - Character
  • Killer - Character
  • Ink - Character
  • Nightmare - Character
  • Horror - Character
  • Dream - Character
  • Error - Character
  • Swap - Character
  • Dusttale Sans (Undertale)
  • Killer Sans (Undertale)
  • Dreamtale Nightmare Sans (Undertale)
  • Alternate Universe
  • Alternate Universe - Undertale Multiverse | UTMV (Undertale)
  • _____tale Sans | Ink (Undertale)
  • Error Sans (Undertale)
  • Horrortale Sans (Undertale)
  • Alternate Universe - Horrortale (Undertale)
  • Alternate Universe - Dusttale (Undertale)
  • Reader is an Alternate Universe Sans (Undertale)
  • Dreamtale Sans | Dream (Undertale)
  • Underswap Sans (Undertale)
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Angst
  • Major Character Injury
  • Xtale Sans | Cross (Undertale)
  • Depression
  • Dusttale Papyrus (Undertale)
  • Dreamtale Nightmare Sans Being a Jerk (Undertale)
  • Fear
  • Trauma
  • Loss of Identity
  • Loss
  • Sans (Undertale) Remembers Resets
  • Reader is Dusttale Sans (Undertale)
  • Memory Alteration
  • Manipulation
  • Poor Sans (Undertale)

  Summary

  Dust never wanted happy endings, he never needed them either. But after he lost his sense of purpose, is there hope? Maybe the infinite loops of resets and killing everyone dragged him into that conclusion. Maybe he could live in a sense of peace and tranquility. But the multiverse has other plans. The poor guy's torture of resets never ended, even after being dragged out of his AU. Essentially nobody remembers this. Nightmare thinks he's delusional and his 'friends' already know how crazy he is, so there's no point in asking really. He swears something bigger is going on here, and it's dragging him INSANE.

  Maybe the guardians of creation and destruction have to do with this...
  ~ (i upload once every other week + READ CHAPTER 1 NOTE BEFORE READING!!!)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  12,449

  Chapters:

  5/?

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