Yes, I know there is a pre-existing AU on this called "UNDERTALE: Overwritten", and an artist by the name of Lucyphera (second image) made a design for Frisk's replacement, Hero. But, that's what Retakes are for. So here are some ideas I thought out for "UNDERTALE: Tales Retold" (or Jitto lé Gitto's CR!UNDERSWAP, if you can even call it that)

Since Undyne's armour is what appears in Junkil's basement instead of Mettaton NEO, I've speculated that a few parts of the armour are on Junkil REDUX, such as the fins being Junkil's shoulder pads, and the tail being the... Torso thingy. And presto, a new character was made: Heavy! (Only his REDUX form is complete). Heavy is a Mettaton and Undyne Armour swap, meaning that the armour on Alphys, the new captain of the royal guard, has an advanced robotic suit called "Unit Metta".

Since Asriel and Kris effectively swap in Deltarune: Chapter Rewritten, we can come to the conclusion that since Charkis (the Ralsei swap for DR:CR) is Chara adjacent by design, it'd make sense that Chara swaps with Asriel, effectively making Asriel more Ralsei adjacent by design. And you may ask, "who swaps in Flowey in this case?". Simple, rather than another character like Mad Dummy or other characters swap with him, we swap with another nature-based object in UNDERTALE. And since the theory of Chara being buried under the mangrove in the Ruins is popular among the community, we can come to the conclusion that the Ruins Tree swaps with Flowey and Asgore's garden, making a new character: Grovey the Mangrove!

And since the Papyrus Knight theory is popular, we can assume the same with Deltarune: Chapter Rewritten and make Sans' battle armour as huge as the Worldsmith's armour is. Hence Sans' design being inspired by the "Always bet on Sans Worldsmith" meme. Meanwhile, Papyrus actually retains his cool guy façade and make him more of a frat guy, taking inspiration of his Cool Dude design from the original.

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So essentially, with all of those in mind, we can now safely say that we currently have this swap chart:

Hero > Frisk

Grovey + Ruins Tree <> Flowey + Flower Garden

Asgore <> Toriel (As in DR:CR they swap with eachother)

Papyrus <> Sans

Alphys <> Undyne (Same case with the Asgore and Toriel swap)

Mettaton <> Undyne's Armour

Chara <> Asriel

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Tags (ignore):

#undertale; #underswap; #deltarunechapterrewritten; #chapterrewritten; #undertalesans; #undertalepapyrus; #undertalealphys; #undertalemettaton; #undertalechara; #undertaleasriel; #sans; #papyrus; #alphys; #mettaton; #chara; #asriel.