What Lies Beneath The Bones...

Contest Entry for GolzyBlazey 's GZtale contest. I'm very proud with what came out, since this is my first time drawing with a broken glass like effect. I looked at the other contest entries and if you're wondering, no I did not get this idea from my awesome friend BrassWarrior , I just thought of broken glass because ever since I finished reading the comic, I always thought of making a drawing with Ganz and Papyrus with the broken glass effect. I just didn't have enough time or the DETERMINATION to make one. But anyway, I just hope Brass can understand this and I hope I won't get disqualified for doing something similar.


-Decided to do all of the themes for the contest which were hallucinations, memories, light and darkness. I also thought it'd be nice if I incorporated the original events that happened in the actual story to this. And I decided to not add too many parts with the humans or anyone else since they aren't in the comic yet and don't want to make assumptions. If anyone didn't know, all of these events happened straight from Golzy's comic. Starting from the top left corner, the first two are linked images and they represent hallucinations because in the comic, SPOILERS BY THE WAY!!!, Ganz gets flashbacks of his dad, Gaster, forcefully giving Ganz the Determination Pills and in his flashbacks, he acts out and strikes Gaster through the chest with a bone, only to have it strike Papyrus as his flashbacks felt too real and caused him to act out of his thoughts.

-Then the two images with young Papy and young Ganz, they represent memories. In a little three-page spoiler thing for GZtale that Golzy did, the scene was about Ganz struggling to contain himself which resulted in him almost attacking Papyrus when he tried to help his older brother.

-Next is with Gaster and young Ganz on the opposite end below the first images. I did this one as two, young Ganz with his flaring eye as both light and memories while Gaster meant darkness and memories as well. This scene was when Ganz ate his first Determination Pill which caused his powers to show as he defended himself against Gaster's attacks. I made the floof around his neck a bit more darker since I imagined it getting a bit darker due to eating the Determination Pill which I believe caused his jacket to darken in color and obviously the markings.

-Third to last is the images below the young Ganz and Gaster ones with Papyrus and Ganz being injured. This is another light and darkness one with light being Ganz and darkness being Papyrus. This scene took place rather "recently" I guess you could say with the comic. I believe the human's name is Jean and as the monsters of Snowdin saw him walking through town, they threatened to kill him and all that. Before this, Ganz was told by the lady on the other side of the door, Toriel, to protect the child, I believe. So, with Undyne being relieved of her Royal Guard duties when Papyrus was named as their leader after losing half of his SOUL to Ganz's accidental attack before, Undyne knew that the human had to be protected. Undyne attacked Papyrus when he was about to kill Jean and that led to their battle and the human fleeing to Ganz. As Undyne and Papyrus fought, Ganz managed to help Jean only to have Mettaton come in and soon, killing the human. This led to Ganz teleporting his way to Papyrus who was about to finish Undyne off, and with that, Papyrus slashed Ganz with a slash of his claws. Saying that it was a shame to see the day that his brother would become a traitor which was protecting the human.

-Second to last is the bottom right images with both young and older Ganz. Although this didn't occur in the actual comic, I guess I could say we can interpret what we thought Ganz felt during his growth. This is another light and darkness one, as young Ganz being light and older Ganz with the claw marks being darkness. No, older Ganz does not become evil, hopefully. I just put this as light and darkness because if you think about after reading the entire comic so far of both parts, you can't help but wonder, what if Ganz knew what was coming to him in the future as a young kid? I drew this part like that because I asked myself that question, like, if young Ganz was thinking after he took his first Determination Pill or something, *what's going to happen later on? And then as he grew older and went through some tough hardship, at the point where he has the scars, older Ganz reflects on his memories, *what have i done wrong to go down this path? I always go deep into these type of things that interest me. But really, can you imagine if Ganz asked himself these questions? If we know how Ganz is, he probably will ask himself similar questions, think about them, or he might even try to become someone he is not just to try and change the path that he now walks.

-Okay! Last one! This is the final image with Ganz crying and holding the human Jean in his arms, you probably can't tell but that's his hair, I didn't know how to draw Jean's position so just put a floof of brown hair there XD. Anyway! This last image is about hallucinations. I say so because, Ganz made a promise to Toriel that he'd protect the human. And as Mettaton appeared and killed the human, it was as if Ganz had been torn in two for breaking his promise to the one who's probably the closest monster in all of Snowdin at the scene of the human's death. And after Ganz is injured, he and Undyne flee from Papyrus and the Royal Guards, and Undyne leaving him, Ganz makes his way to the door to the Ruins and knocks onto the door until Toriel shows up. This leads up to Ganz admitting that they failed to protect the human and that he was now being chased after. But back to Jean and that scene, I also say hallucination because although Ganz had probably never met a human before, the human had trusted him with his life and yet, Ganz couldn't do anything but stand and watch him die. In my opinion, I'd say Ganz saw this as a hallucination and wanted all of this nonsense to be a simple dream that would never happen, but he was in reality and he now had to face it. Jean had died in Ganz's arms while Ganz did nothing but stand there and watch Mettaton kill him, not saying he's useless or anything but in the comic, he doesn't do anything to try and prevent his death, though I know it's intentional.

This isn't really as important as the rest and doesn't represent anything other than Ganz right now. But the full body Ganz in the center represents him as of now as he suffers, he is put between a rock and a hard place, literally. To me, it feels like Ganz wants to help his brother while his brother is trying to kill him, I guess. Ganz's cracked SOUL means a lot too, it doesn't represent anything of hallucinations, memories, or light and darkness, but rather how hurt he is, physically, emotionally and mentally hurt. The cracked SOUL not only represents him, but rather his own stabilization as a monster, cause honesty, to me, if his brother tried to mercilessly kill him, like my own Sanzter and Papyrus, then he'd literally go mad from all the depression, stress, sadness, guilt, pressure and shame that he tries to keep contained. And I mean it when I say;

*he will literally go mad.


So, yeah! That's the reason behind my choices of images in the drawing and everything else. Sorry for the long description, I love GZtale and Golzy's story for it and I love it with a burning passion in my heart and SOUL. I tend to be very descriptive of all the little details of my drawings when it comes to Undertale, whether original or AU. Thanks for reading and viewing my artwork!


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UNDERTALE (c) Toby Fox

GZTALE, Ganz, GZ Papyrus, GZ Gaster, Jean (c) GolzyBlazey

Art (c) Me


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