Infinite Dust Sans

Infinite Dust Sans (often simply called ID!Sans or ID for convenience's sake) is a Sans OC from the story Infinite Dust, posted by ThomasTheCoolKid on Archive Of Our Own. He is a Sans created in a simulation by an extremely powerful version of Asriel calling himself "the God of Absolution", for the sole purpose of seeing the "logical conclusion" of both Dusttale's version of Sans and the possibilities in which he retained his EXP and LOVE after a reset. After realizing the truth of his reality, the simulated Sans hijacked Asriel's power in order to bring himself into reality, now acting as a sort of wandering Out!Code.
== Profile ==
=== Backstory ===
The story of ID!Sans actually begins with the self-proclaimed "God of Absolution", Asriel. This version of Asriel suddenly recalled a myriad of past True Pacifist Routes, all of which ended in his defeat, in the middle of his battle with Frisk. Realizing his current state is simply not enough to win, he passed through the barrier (purposefully not breaking it so he can retain the souls inside of him) and went on a rampage, absorbing every single human soul on the planet. After that, defeating Frisk and claiming their soul, the final soul of the timeline, was child's play... albeit child's play that resulted in the entire timeline collapsing in on itself.
After surviving the destruction of his own timeline, Asriel takes on his new title before suddenly witnessing the multiverse in the form of a cosmos of rainbow stars, ringing with millions of copies of the same voices. This catches his interest, but upon closer inspection, he becomes especially fascinated with Dusttale, as well as its many offshoots and continuations. The idea of a Sans that is actually strong, let alone that of one who went on his own Genocide Route, was incredible for him, but then a deep curiosity stirred within him. The curiosity for this scenario's "logical conclusion", as he puts it. 
This spurs him to use the souls inside him to create a simulation linked to Dusttale and its continuations. Within the simulation, the human (an indistinct amalgamation of Frisk and Chara, as Asriel didn't care for who was in control) would always be stronger than Sans regardless of how much LV he gathered, and the glitch letting Sans keep his LV after a reset would always be recreated perfectly. After setting these conditions and getting bored of waiting for what he knew would be an infinite amount of time, Asriel simply accelerated the simulation to an infinite degree, before going back to normal speed due to knowing he reached what he wanted.
In this final loop of the simulation, Papyrus tries to go up to Sans, but the moment he opens the door, he begins turning to dust. Sans, looking more weary than ever, simply put on his hoodie and pulled Papyrus' scarf right through his neck as he dusted away, causing him to collapse. He then continued wandering the Underground, his sheer killing intent being enough to kill any monster that approached him. Eventually, when the human showed up, the Underground was empty, save for a variety of detailed sculptures made of monster dust, either depicting scenes of the human's death or demonic caricatures of them. After they reach the Last Corridor (in which they instantly died of heart failure for the first time due to Sans' killing intent, though they would brace themselves for it the following times), they initiate combat with Sans, but since they're only at LV 1, Sans' own LV is infinite, and they no longer had Asriel's blessing that let them remain superior to Sans no matter what, they simply kept dying over and over again before Sans ended them, killing them with his new purple bones.
After this, Sans was elated. In his extreme state of euphoria, he began cursing everything in the Underground out of what felt like a complete lack of care... but once he cursed his own brother, he began breaking down, before the world around him faded to black and he was surrounded by an endless legion of Phantom Papyruses. Their questions as to how worth it all of this was and how little he likely cared about anyone at all were met with broken compliance, then threats for them to shut up, before he finally screamed out for them to keep quiet or else he would destroy them all. They then turned into their true form, Core Papyrus, who revealed himself to be the embodiment of Sans' deep-seated self-loathing over having to become the exact type of thing that the human was in order to stop them, and the way he simply killed all of his loved ones over and over again. Sans simply dismissed Core Papyrus and proclaimed that he has no regrets over doing what he did, as he believed it all to be worth it to put an end to the human, before seemingly destroying Core Papyrus with a large number of purple beams from his Gaster Blasters, albeit not without the phantom saying that Sans would never be rid of his suffering and the regrets he denies having.
After this, he recognizes Asriel's status as a spectator. After having a bit of back-and-forth, Sans called out to him, almost seeming excited to kill a god. Asriel didn't think much of it, as Sans was still merely part of the simulation, but then his power was hijacked to recreate his soul and body in reality. With this, the Sans with infinite LOVE was brought into the true multiverse, before the creator and creation parted ways, the creator deeming said creation "an actual monster".
=== Appearance ===
ID!Sans' design deviates somewhat from the original Sans' design, as well as that of Murder!Sans. He wears a blue hoodie with a white hood, which he keeps up, black shorts, and dusty white slippers. He also wears Papyrus' scarf around his face, mainly covering his mouth. 
Most of the differences come in his eyes. His eye sockets are both heavily and irreversibly cracked all around, due to all the stress from the literal infinite loop of murder he had gone through. Sans' usual white pupils are gone, the pitch-black eye sockets being his most passive state. His less passive one has an identical set of purple "bad time" eyes, without the slightest trace of red or blue. They also both have flame-like purple wisps coming off of them.
=== Personality ===
ID!Sans' personality technically used to be identical to the canon Sans, then to Murder!Sans, then to the fanon versions of DustDust Sans, all throughout the various skipped loops. However, by loop number infinity, he has grown completely numb to the effect all of the murder and LV had on his mind, being driven solely by the desire to kill the human and end the endless loop. Despite this, he seems to still have a bit of a playful streak, if a heavily corrupted one, as he did not immediately take down the human when he had the chance, instead choosing to keep killing them over and over before doing so. After finally doing so, he burst out in extreme joy at it finally being over, though it was quickly overtaken by a flood of guilt over what he had to do to accomplish it. This guilt would then be personified through Core Papyrus. Even then, he still has his manic moments, such as when he "killed" Core Papyrus.
After leaving the simulation, he remained his now-typical self, being a significantly colder and more sardonic version of Sans. He does not like being bothered too much, and tends to ponder the nature and purpose of his continued existence to himself. He developed a liking for black comedy on top of the ketchup and pun loving that he carried over from the original Sans, and has also gained a strong dislike of hypocrisy. This is because he recognizes that he is a hypocrite by nature of having killed everyone to prevent someone else from doing so, and he despites that about himself despite not regretting everything he did. Originally, this was because he considered anything that led to the human's death (including things he didn't enjoy) worth it, but currently, it's because none of it was real in the first place. Insinuating that he holds any regret over the endless loop is not a good idea, as his manic side tends to come out then.
== Powers and Traits ==
=== Powers ===
* Lethal Intent: A weaponized form of ID!Sans' extremely potent killing intent. Due to having infinite LV, his killing intent alone is capable of ending lives. Monsters, who are already extremely vulnerable to the intent of their enemies, turn to dust just from being in his presence, and even humans tend to die from it if they are weak enough and don't brace themselves. He is able to suppress this effect, but it is not easy for him.
* Gaster Blasters: Devices resembling skulls that shoot beams, as per usual. His in particular bear the same dual purple eyes and cracked eye sockets as he does.
* Bone Manipulation: ID!Sans is able to summon and control bones at will. They can be used either by erupting from the ground, walls, and/or ceiling, or by simply being fired off as projectiles.
* Soul Manipulation: Blue Mode: ID!Sans can turn the target's soul blue, making it and them affected by a gravitational pull of his choosing. Is generally used as a form of telekinesis.
* Blue Attacks: ID!Sans is able to perform attacks that do no damage so long as the target is not moving. Primarily limited to bones as a means of restriction for the enemy.
* Shortcuts: ID!Sans is able to freely and instantly teleport to any location of his choosing. It is most effective if he has already been to wherever he tries to teleport, which holds especially true when going between AUs and such.
* Dodging: ID!Sans is fast and agile enough, along with having a sufficiently quick reaction time, to avoid a good few enemy attacks. Linear attacks are especially easy for him to avoid, but massive AOE attacks are more problematic.
* Karmic Retribution: ID!Sans' "karma" ability, which acts as a poison-like effect to a chunk of the target's HP depending on their LV each time they are hit. Not too useful due to his absurd LV-based damage output, but still good in a pinch. He sometimes questions why he still has it after all of his own bad karma.
* Purple Attacks: ID!Sans' own flavor of purple attacks, which manifest as both purple bones and purple beams from his blasters. They do not deal any extra damage under any circumstances. Instead, at the cost of the inability to apply Karmic Retribution to them, his purple attacks have the unique capability to negate the determination of anyone they strike. If the attack kills the target, both save file access and the ability to refuse death are shut down, negating the capacity for determination-based self-resurrection, and if they survive, their determination is still disrupted and turned off for a brief moment. Interestingly, anyone these attacks kill has their body turn solid purple and crumble into purple dust, regardless of if they are a human or monster.
=== Phantom Papyrus/Core Papyrus ===
ID!Sans' equivalent to Phantom Papyrus is the "physical" embodiment of all his guilt and self-hatred for having to become part of the genocide loop problem and kill all of his loved ones in order to stop it. It comes in two forms. The first form is technically identical in appearance to Murder!Sans' Phantom Papyrus, if not for the fact that it is a hivemind comprised of an infinite number of such apparitions.
The second/true form is somewhat more unique, and is what is mainly known as "Core Papyrus". It takes the form of a massive monstrous Papyrus that is missing its lower body, its spine being embedded into the ground. It lacks the chestpiece and shoulderpads of Papyrus' battle body, its rib cage being fully exposed. Said ribcage also vaguely resembles a series of jagged bone blades. The edges of its "gloves" are tattered, and the fingers end in sharp claws that often dig themselves into the ground along with its spine. Papyrus' scarf spreads out over its back, taking the form of cloth-like red wings. Its head bears sharp fangs in place of Papyrus' more rectangular teeth, complete with elongated canines. Finally, its eyes constantly glow yellow, with flame-like orange wisps coming off of them. Interestingly, the hivemind form refers to themselves in the plural "we", while the merged/true form uses the singular "I".
== Relationships ==
* Papyrus: Despite technically not regretting Papyrus' death, it is still the greatest source of guilt for him out of anyone's deaths. This is likely why Core Papyrus takes his form.
* God of Absolution Asriel: He does not like this Asriel, due to how he created him and his entire world just for the sake of an experiment. While not for the same reasoning, the feeling is mutual.
== Trivia ==
* ID!Sans no longer has any power from the Asriel that created him, it was only limited to his breakout from the simulation.
* The simulation is now recognized as an "imaginary timeline": a timeline that technically doesn't exist and never has existed, but was forced to be recognized due to the definitive existence of something or someone from it. Imaginary universes can also hypothetically be a thing, but it's a lot more difficult, as the creation of an imaginary timeline requires one to possess a lot of power and it is far easier (if not at all less costly) to create an imaginary timeline based on an existing timeline or universe.
* If ID met Dust+, they would not like each other at all. Dust+ for his general hatred of all Dust!Sanses, ID due to the fact that Dust+ is being a hypocrite by deeming all Dust!Sanses a cancer that must be removed from the multiverse while seemingly not considering himself part of that cancer.
* Out of sheer boredom throughout the loops, ID has developed a talent for molding fine powders like dust into detailed sculptures.
* He does not wish to join the Omega Timeline, believing himself to not be worthy of living there regardless of all of CORE!Frisk's protesting.
* Core Papyrus can never be killed, and continues to haunt ID even today.
* He would not join someone like Nightmare if he could help it, as he has already defeated his human and his timeline is fake anyway, so there is no way for Nightmare to bring him to his side. It doesn't hurt that ID could feel Nightmare's bad vibes from a mile away.
* ID long since knows that Core Papyrus isn't real, but still keeps trying to kill it just so it shuts up for a bit longer.
* It is unknown how ID developed his purple attacks due to Absolution Asriel's incessant skipping to the end.
* Because no living version of Papyrus escaped the simulation with him, the scarf ID wears technically belongs to him.
* ID is still very much insane, he's just numb to his own insanity.
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