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Re-posted from my dA/tumblr:

Five years.

Five years? Five years.

It's absolutely wild to think it's been 5 whole years since Undertale came out. In some ways it felt like it's been longer, and in other ways shorter. It feels like it's always been there, but something so new and nice that it has that certain freshness to it still. A plot so simple but so complex, a playground for stories of all kinds but a finality to it that says it’s complete regardless -- if you did true pacifist hah!

While I went on a bit of a break from Undertale for about a year and a half, this game still means so, so much to me. It came out and I found it a few months later in a giant transitional period in my life, when certain foundations of mine were being rocked, and it became a light in my ever and steadily darkening world. It made me feel, it drew me in, and that’s all it took. From that simple game, from a simple play through watched, a new path was opened. It became the bridge that truly started and strengthened the bond of friendship that my best friend and I have to this day, it brought many members of my found family into my life, and it even opened the gate to me finding my partner.

I owe a lot to this game, to Toby Fox. To those little pixels that found a way to make me feel so much and gain a piece of myself when my world was starting to shatter. I drew, I wrote, I plotted and laughed and cried for years, always wondering what more I could put into building universes around this game and it’s characters. And like I said, while I might have took a break from burnout -- as you do -- I have never, not once, stopped loving this game.

It will always be a beacon of light, a reminder of what I found when I thought things lost. It will always have a place in my heart as fondness and warmth.

And it will always remind me to stay determined. ❤️


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Undertale © Toby Fox

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