Handplates

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Handplates is a complete web comic by zarla-s based on Undertale. Beginning from a short comic of Frisk wondering why Sans and Papyrus always cover up their right hands, it is an AU that provides a hypothetical scenario that Sans and Papyrus were experiments of Gaster's, and suffering ensues. The focus is usually on the brothers' perspective, wherein they try to survive and adapt to the things Gaster puts them through, with the story providing explanations for why they are the way they are in Undertale proper. However, just as much time is devoted to Dr. Gaster's perspective as well, where he forces himself to continue with his experiments despite the emotional and physical toll such cruelty is taking on him, convinced that it's necessary to win the monsters' freedom.

While the story began with several out of order comics just focusing on the brothers' lives as Gaster's test subjects, as the AU progressed a clear chronological narrative began to emerge. The AU also goes beyond just backstory, carrying on to Sans and Papyrus's lives after Gaster inevitably falls into the Core and is erased from existence, and eventually, into the fallen human's various runs of the game. Zarla has also occasionally written mini-comics and done illustrations for alternative scenarios where Gaster backed out of his experiment and raised Sans and Papyrus as his sons (either from infancy or sometime before or after first drilling the titular hand-plates onto them, for varying levels of angst) and one scenario where the boys escaped to the ruins and were adopted by Toriel.