To determine who the game's villain should be, did you know we had to go through 5 different characters?

Starting with our first villain: Chara. While Chara is already known as the original villain, many other characters were considered as replacements for them, which is what I'll be covering for this post.
(Won't be going into much detail about those villains, there's a lot to say.)

During the PREBOOT era of the game, we considered to have Temmie as our second villain.
Temmie took the role of Sans' ally - while in reality being a manipulator, only using Sans for their own benefit, said benefit being the return of a bigger threat, our third villain: Frisk.

This idea was scrapped due to writing limitations, but it's still something fun to imagine every once in a while (we also wanted to completely get rid of both Chara and Frisk from the story, so that's another reason, I guess).

Villain #4: THANATOS ... yes, you read that right.

We thought it'd be funny to have a character named after the game's title - not very proud of that one.
He was also given an alternative name, "The Entity", which is what I'll be calling him from now on, for my own sake.

The Entity was an original and mysterious character, trapped in an unknown dimension, willing to do anything to set himself free. If that sounds generic as hell - then don't worry, you're absolutely right.
We didn't have many great ideas for this character, nor we were very proud of it, but we knew it was a step in the right direction. So we kept dancing around that idea for a while until we finally came up with our fifth, and final villain: Napstaton.

Napstaton is a great and fun character, we saw the huge potential in one of his versions from a neutral ending where he becomes a king, and immediately knew this is who we needed as the game's antagonist. The idea of a corrupted king, that used to be friends with our protagonists, just to have them face him sounded FU*CKING AWESOME, so far being a great and fitting villain for the new direction we're taking with the AU.

... and that's the end of this post! If people like this style of posts then I'll do more future, covering old Thanatos ideas that ended up in our comically sized trashcan. byes