Considering it's been long enough, I thought it'd be cool if I started sharing some old stuff that we decided to scrap for a reason or another, and where to start if not one of the oldest, most high effort concepts we've made: a swap version of Disbelief with Dust.

Here's the scrapped design sheet made by @JustaNeon

The video attached to this post is a relic from 2023 that @JustaNeon made for me while we were conceptualizing a fight for this. He even made the concept song despite being a very beginner musician and not grasping the basics of composition yet. A phase 1 song was actually composed by a more skilled musician, @ErinnTheUTSCGuy , but I've decided to scrap it for a multitude of reasons (mainly that it ended up turning into what I wanted to avoid, aka average dusttrust slop). There's also the fact that we hadn't figured out proper motifs to include, plus the fact that the song itself doesn't really fit the new vision I have for Sans... so if you want you can listen it here, as I archive everything on my account:

The design is based on my own swap take's Sans & Papyrus designs, or at least the design they had in 2023 since they have changed. Here's some piece of fanart a random artist in a server made a while ago, I sadly have no way of finding who they were so if you're seeing this post please let me know so I can credit you.

In the original concept of the fight, sans was only going to say a few lines at the intro of the fight, then NEVER speak again for the rest of the fight, completely focused on fighting you. I really want to keep this, albeit with a rework of the initial dialogues.

We also had conceptualized a Papyrus vs human encounter and then a Papyrus vs Sans encounter, which appears in the intro of the animation (we wanted to include some panels during the intro speech). Here's the old papyrus concept design sheet, featuring the old (and very boring) design of my swap papyrus:

the bone bat will stay for the new design, the only thing that really changed is the base swap papyrus design. He also has an unfinished song that i may or may not either scrap or have it be finished.

Now, one of the main reasons of why I've decided to scrap all these things is because well, i realized it's not a good idea to make a take based on another take that hasn't been conceptualized yet, but since now I've fully ironed out how my underswap soon-to-be project will play out, I have also completely rewritten how swap!dwd will play out, too.

These are some of the newer sprites for the swap take, although the battle sprites in the picture are slightly outdated as they received fixses:

If you're wondering what to expect from the future, consider checking out my friend @cassdudette 's soundcloud account, as we have been working on a DISTRUST take together featuring my swap take designs, which is indeed to be considered a "prequel" to Distrust with Dust, and it's also from where most motifs will be taken from. We are also releasing the tracks in reverse order, for the "haha funny swap reverse" joke we have in the dev server. Check out phase 3 here:

And here are is the phase 3 designs sheet that @JustaNeon made for us:

Hopefully you liked what I had to show, I apologize for the content drought we have been having as of recently, I've been very busy with irl responsibilities (I moved out, I live alone in a city I'm not familiar with, and I go to university, so you can imagine how my mental health is handling this).

That being said, let me know if you would like me to do more of these posts, cause I got TON of old stuff to show in the meantime that we polish what's new. Here's a funny sprite based on an inside joke we have (you should take inspiration from DECEMBER sprites.....)

Darius out, peace!!!