Spreadsheets and Stagelights
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(Abandoned fic prototype - see second work in this series for more recent version)
For years, you've worked at a Hillside Savings bank as an advisor. You've answered calls from customers trying to help them out as best you can. And even when the monsters came out of the mountain the town over, you advised them the best you can with their new lives aboveground. And you've been doing an okay job so far, you think.
But then your boss puts you on an outside contract, helping a certain monster superstar reach fame with humans, as well as be wise enough with his money to stay afloat.
On paper, your resume says you've got the skills to make it work. But there's more than numbers and charts to deal with in showbusiness, especially with an eccentric individual like Mettaton. And not everyone is friendly towards the new monster population.
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- Part 1 of Spreadsheets and Stagelights
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Spreadsheets and Stage Lights by DeadZedNed
Fandoms: Undertale (Video Game), Deltarune (Video Game)
04 Mar 2026
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(A neater, reheated iteration of a work I almost abandoned. Between the 10th Anniversary Undertale stream and Deltarune chapters, I found inspiration to return to it. We'll see how long that lasts.)
You have a new name after burning your old one, and the bridges that led to it. You simply go by Y now, and you are a financial advisor in what used to be a moderately busy tourist hotspot. West Ebbot and Greater Ebbot, a township and city within view of a grand lake and mountain, are husks of their former selves. You know better than to over-confidently think yourself an economic lynchpin, here at your humble banking job, but you do the best you can.
When the polluted lake gets cleaned up, it's too late for the tourism to return. Some years after though, something happens at the mountain that makes it the main attraction instead. The panic of pressure to preform is secondary to the relief of your assuredly continued usefulness, and therefore employment.
Money is necessary for goods and services. It's what society agreed to run on first and foremost, right?
Other sensations are luxuries.
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- Part 2 of Spreadsheets and Stagelights