LoveFool Physical print and comic is now available in my store!!! If you’re interested please stop on by, the digital is also available for those of you interested! <3
I’ll have plenty of charms, prints, and stickers too! <3
the sudden influx of steven au’s….. people drawing all the au steven’s interacting with each other……… reminds me of a certain skeleton………. and all the au’s people made about him……………. hmmmmmmmm………………………
Consider: Sans shows up to Snowdin from another world along with Papyrus, but soon realizes that this isn’t his Papyrus; it’s the one from this new dimension. He eventually assumes that the Sans of this world must be dead, so he continues playing along as “Papyrus’s brother” for his sake.
HOWEVER. Papyrus is going through the EXACT SAME THING. He’s from a THIRD PLACE. So now we have two skeletons thinking that they’re going undercover in this household
They’re both so concerned about being “believable” as their counterpart but it doesn’t matter because every time they display a trait that the original didn’t have, the other just goes “well maybe that’s normal for him in this universe” and doesn’t question it
Have you ever noticed how we can’t actually see his slippers in his overworld sprite?
We know from official art and merchandise (and Smash Bros) that they’re pink, so why is there no pink on his actual sprite? In all likelihood it’s a simple oversight, or they only decided they would be pink after the game’s release (like Kirby!) but we can go deeper.
Take a moment to think about when we get to see that he’s even wearing slippers: his boss fight. A fight that takes place at arguably his lowest point; not a single person you’ve encountered has been spared, and he seems aware of the possibility of the world itself ending if you get past him.
And where exactly has he been the whole run? He might be following you around more stealthily than usual, but in this scenario it’s not hard to imagine that he’d spend a lot of time in his room.
His house.
Where you would expect someone to be wearing slippers.
I find it completely believable that he would teleport straight from his house to the final corridor without bothering to switch shoes first - this is Sans we’re talking about, after all. But that still leaves the question: what’s he wearing in his overworld sprite, then?
The funniest option is that he’s not wearing any shoes. Just walks around in the snow barefoot all day like a champ
But as far as actual alternatives, there are exactly two instances I could find of Official Sans Material in which he wears sneakers instead:
Granted, these shoes aren’t completely white like his overworld sprite, but they do have white tips, and I think including a dark color (like the one on the plush) on his sprite would confuse where his pants end and shoes begin.
And here’s the real kicker: the plush is actually smaller than the version that wears slippers. Just like how his in-game sprite without the slippers is smaller than the one with them. Coincidence?? Quite possibly, but it’s fun to think about.
I FORGOT YOU CAN SEE HIS SLIPPERS IN THE TRUE PACIFIST RUN TOO
…I’m still sticking with the idea that he teleports from his house to the corridor though, considering that he vanishes from all his sentry stations at some point and you can’t find him anywhere else
Have you ever noticed how we can’t actually see his slippers in his overworld sprite?
We know from official art and merchandise (and Smash Bros) that they’re pink, so why is there no pink on his actual sprite? In all likelihood it’s a simple oversight, or they only decided they would be pink after the game’s release (like Kirby!) but we can go deeper.
Take a moment to think about when we get to see that he’s even wearing slippers: his boss fight. A fight that takes place at arguably his lowest point; not a single person you’ve encountered has been spared, and he seems aware of the possibility of the world itself ending if you get past him.
And where exactly has he been the whole run? He might be following you around more stealthily than usual, but in this scenario it’s not hard to imagine that he’d spend a lot of time in his room.
His house.
Where you would expect someone to be wearing slippers.
I find it completely believable that he would teleport straight from his house to the final corridor without bothering to switch shoes first - this is Sans we’re talking about, after all. But that still leaves the question: what’s he wearing in his overworld sprite, then?
The funniest option is that he’s not wearing any shoes. Just walks around in the snow barefoot all day like a champ
But as far as actual alternatives, there are exactly two instances I could find of Official Sans Material in which he wears sneakers instead:
Granted, these shoes aren’t completely white like his overworld sprite, but they do have white tips, and I think including a dark color (like the one on the plush) on his sprite would confuse where his pants end and shoes begin.
And here’s the real kicker: the plush is actually smaller than the version that wears slippers. Just like how his in-game sprite without the slippers is smaller than the one with them. Coincidence?? Quite possibly, but it’s fun to think about.
I know it’s been analyzed to death at this point, but I rewatched the Sans fight and it’s only now occuring to me just how… weird it is to witness??
Like we can talk about lore implications all we want and it’d be fun but when you take a step back for a moment, it’s really just. Sans venting at you for about ten minutes straight.
Everything he knows about the timelines, his nihilism regarding resets, going out of his way to call the player out on their motivations multiple times. It’s like everything he was repressing in all the other timelines finally broke to the surface, and he still somehow manages to be fairly composed with his word choice.
(He’s significantly less composed when he’s throwing you around the battle box as fast as he physically can until he just can’t do it anymore. All the more evidence that this fight is just him losing it)
But here’s the thing. He’s also doing his best to get you to give up. And as much as I applaud him for breaking the game’s mechanics wide open, disabling invincibility frames and attacking you in the menu… he really fails at making you want to give up.
Because as much as he claims to know “our type,” he forgets one crucial detail: we love being told things.
He understands that we’re doing the No Mercy route just because we can, but he neglects “curiosity” as a motivating factor. We want to learn more by exploring different routes, and in his frustration, Sans gives us exactly what we want.
(We also get a challenge from him, and what gamer dedicated enough to get past Undyne wouldn’t enjoy that)
And that’s kind of. Sad, in a way?? Even when he locks us into his turn, he can’t stop himself from talking. Everything he does to make us frustrated or bored doesn’t work because despite everything, we still like Sans. We want to hear what he has to say. And he has a lot to say that he would normally keep close to his chest otherwise.
I don’t know if that’s what the dynamic is meant to be like in canon, given how ambiguous Frisk’s motivations are and how we don’t technically know if there’s a “player” involved in the first place, but that’s just how it reads to me. And I think Sans having this slightly flawed perception of what the anomaly wants from him is a really interesting angle for his character and the fight as a whole
Finally drawing Sans again! The comic here is a reference to this dumb AU I made a while back, where everything is the same except Sans can’t stop laughing in the middle of his dialogue for some reason
