so a bit ago i got a lot of compliments for the old version of my spamton ex, and while im very grateful for the compliments (thanks so much!!) i wanna explain why i wont be using that version as its lore relevant to my inl1997 au

So essentially maybe about two years ago I posted designs for when spamton fuses with the shadow crystal it was given (which you can see here if u want) and initially I designed it so that it contains spamton NEO motifs as a sort of foreshadowing. But recently I got a better idea, and Ive decided im going to revamp that idea and change it to when Spamton fuses with the shadow crystal, they transform into Spamton Ex. I think it would be interesting for a version of Spamton Ex to be as equally tied to his own strings as he is with NEO — in comparison to Mettaton — and for Spamton’s Ex form to be a negative experience as a result (especially when in my au, it preludes right before the events of Spamton’s puppetfication). here’s a concept design i sketched awhile back