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I realize how frustrating bad fanon takes on the Undertale characters have always been, having been a fan since the game came out. I get it, I've felt it too.

But I also kind of feel bad because it takes so much effort to dig through all the dialogue. There's SO MUCH of it.

Especially for fan works being made between 2015 - 2018 because there was still new stuff being brought to light constantly that any normal single playthrough or "watched one playthrough on YT" wouldn't show you. There wasn't even a general consensus on Chara's role in the story for the first several years.

I feel like everyone goes through the "UT characters are funny and endearing!" >> "Wait, there's a lot of mysterious lore and implications here" >> "Actually, there's lore but it's still mostly funny" phases, but not everyone's at the same point in the ride.

I guess, I feel like as obsessed as I am in understanding the characters fully, I still think it's OK not to get them 100% right. People have been asking me questions about the game for 8 years like I'm an authority on the subject and I still don't have it all right.

(Honestly I think AUs that are totally and intentionally off base are OK too. Characters are toys, play how you want. Plz still tag them as their own thing though lol i beg you)

No purpose for this monologue, just to say writing the UT/DR characters in the perfect chef's-kiss sweet spot is actually really hard and don't feel too bad if you don't get it right lol

It's OK not to have Tolkien-scholar levels of knowledge on UT/DR, I still want to read your fanfics and see your art.

#!!!!!!#my uh. my papyrus post was not meant to take off like it did.#so it may seem a bit hypocritical to reblog this#there really is SO MUCH to dig through#and if you’re not on a PC then even with an archive of all the dialogue ever it’s gonna be hard to find That Exact One#without the function keys to give you a word search#there’s so much to every character! they’re so complex! it’s very difficult to write any of them Perfectly and Completely ‘correct’
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“Papyrus pretends to be clueless in front of Sans to hide his true intelligence for mysterious reasons” or. and hear me out on this one. you gotta be dumb to set the joke up sometimes.

That’d be like saying my brother genuinely believes the random object he picked up is a telephone and that he can actually hear a voice on the other side ask for me. Except the joke is that I take the phone, and I go, “Uh huh, uh huh, okay….” and with a look of horror and shock I look at him and say, “They hit the second tower.” Sometimes he goes ahead and says the punchline himself. Still doesn’t mean it’s a real phone call to him.

Sometimes you gotta ask, “what’s updog?” You know the punchline. It’s just a routine for fun at this point. A reason to laugh in the middle of the day, because someone remembered the joke and wanted to share it.

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Papyrus does lie and does say things that are suspicious but sometimes I see posts picking apart (what I think are) the wrong things, because they’re not considering the context as a whole. The game is funny. There are a lot of jokes all over the place. A character with depth will talk normal one second and then lose all braincells the next because their comedy partner showed up.

It’s good to think about and analyze because it’s a great mental exercise and will improve your overall reading and comprehension with future stories (games, books, etc). But sometimes, the answer to “why did he lie?” is “because he thought it’d be funny.”

#he said ‘cardboardhydrates’#lot of questions about his character. some can be explained as game conventions or real mysteries#but like. ‘he lied about not knowing what a lab was’ actually that’s an inside joke going back 13 years#similar vein: I say bye to someone twice and my brother says ‘but you said bye [name] twice?’#and I go ‘I like [name] :} ‘ because it’s a reference to a SpongeBob clip no one else knows about#he points it out every time I do it. unspoken solidarity and commitment to this bit
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“Papyrus pretends to be clueless in front of Sans to hide his true intelligence for mysterious reasons” or. and hear me out on this one. you gotta be dumb to set the joke up sometimes.

That’d be like saying my brother genuinely believes the random object he picked up is a telephone and that he can actually hear a voice on the other side ask for me. Except the joke is that I take the phone, and I go, “Uh huh, uh huh, okay….” and with a look of horror and shock I look at him and say, “They hit the second tower.” Sometimes he goes ahead and says the punchline himself. Still doesn’t mean it’s a real phone call to him.

Sometimes you gotta ask, “what’s updog?” You know the punchline. It’s just a routine for fun at this point. A reason to laugh in the middle of the day, because someone remembered the joke and wanted to share it.

#sans and papyrus: the Bit brothers#singing robopinions
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