It's beautiful, is it not? Life always finds a way.

welcome to UNDERTALE: VALOR (also stylized as Undertale VALOR and UT VALOR), an AU built off a very simple premise: "what if Asriel and Chara never died?" this one simple change led to a butterfly effect that made the underground completely unrecognizable from what you may remember it as.

familiar characters given completely new identities, as well as the introduction of entirely new ones (some of whom may be familiar to the truck freaks out there)!

now, just sit back and enjoy the show.

Synopsis

You play as HERO. You're a young adult living in Rebotco Village, lovingly dubbed by its residents as "Hometown," since, if you live there, you were probably born there, because no one would willingly move there. If there's one thing you'd want anyone to know about you, it's that you have quite a taste for pranks and practical jokes, much to everyones — especially your family's — dismay.

You're also VERY adventurous, potentially to a fault. Your latest idea for an adventure is based on a tale you heard from your parents.

Over the course of a few months about 20 years ago, just before you were born, 6 of the townspeoples' children went missing. It's said they were taken away by Monsters, creatures of all shapes and sizes who used to roam the land, just like you Humans. However, Monsters haven't been on the surface for centuries, and no one knows where they went. According to some RUMORS, though... they've taken up shelter in an underground network of caves, with the entrance tucked deep in the winding canyons of Rebotco Valley, just south of Hometown.

Your mother always said that your birth was what warded off those disappearances, and that one day you would be the savior of those missing children. That's why she named you Hero!

And now, in 201X, you feel that you've reached the age where you think you're finally ready to venture off into the canyon and finally put to rest the mystery of the 6 missing children. You're not going to let ANYTHING stop you now.

Before You Begin

UNDERTALE: VALOR is, technically speaking, a role-swap au. however, i believe it's best to not think of it as one. Instead, UNDERTALE: VALOR is what i've always thought an AU SHOULD be: an original story that takes place in a whole new Underground using UNDERTALE (and deltarune) as a base. it, naturally, takes many cues from UNDERTALE, but it also takes inspiration from the games that inspired UNDERTALE, such as OFF, the Mother franchise, Brandish, and more.

UNDERTALE: VALOR is my love-letter to the work of Toby Fox and those who came before him.