Papyrus/Dustswap

== Disclaimer ==
This is canon DustSwap by Flambeworm370, this uses "modern AU logic" as many call it, if you disagree with this logic that is fine, but vandalism, deletion, or harassment of those who agree with the logic or the AUs creators is not tolerated.
== Brief Explanation ==
The idea for Dustswap is that the main characters shown in Dusttale (which are practically Sans and Papyrus) get their “roles” swapped, which are considered “The Murderer” role, and “The Follower” roles respectively. I’m sure by now many of you might already know this, so I won’t be getting into full detail about the concept, as it can be basically described as nothing more than “Dusttale but the characters get swapped primarily for the story”.
== Profile ==
=== Backstory ===
The Butterfly Effect would begin with Sans, rather than letting Papyrus confront the human,  He’d try to get Papyrus to avoid them in order to prevent him from getting into possible trouble. Papyrus is stubborn, and insists on trying to talk to the human, but Sans believes it’ll just end in disaster. Unable to decide, they both agree that going to a higher up may be the best option. They go to meet Undyne, but things start to become heated after Undyne completely goes against Papyrus.
Papyrus wants to convince the human that they can change, believing they can do better, BE better, if they just try, while Undyne not only wants to kill the human in order to harvest their soul, but also to stop them from taking more innocent lives. Leaving Sans stuck in between of both of them. This confliction of ideas ends in a fight between the three, leading to the accidental “death” of Sans, due to Undyne shoving the blunt side of her spear up against his head in a poor attempt at getting him away from her.
This “death” would end up in Papyrus snapping, believing Undyne has just killed Sans in cold blood, he’d use an attack strong enough to not only stun her, but straight up kill her (using the “letting your guard down” defense concept, in which if you aren’t focused, your defense will be close to being none). Her death causes Papyrus to break out from his rage fueled state. In shock and panic Papyrus flees the scene, he runs home, to his room, and curls up in his bed hoping its all just a bad dream. At that moment Papyrus believes that, not only was Undyne’s death his fault, but Sans’s as well.
The second thought would almost immediately be broken after Sans surprisingly enters Papyrus’ bedroom, wearing his hood up. He would find his brother curled up in his blanket, still freaking out. With that, the deal between brothers would happen. Sans would not necessarily reveal to Papyrus how he was alive (the attack from Undyne made him use a “shortcut” by accident, faking the idea that he had turned to dust.)
Rather, he comes to Papyrus with an idea on how to make the human change, a way to force them to stop, this idea would be for Papyrus to become strong enough in order to stun the human, because by this point Papyrus wouldn’t be strong enough. The idea behind “becoming stronger” would be to kill off other monsters in order to gain EXP (Sans would have this idea after returning to the scene and discovering that Papyrus had successfully killed Undyne.) At first, Papyrus would of course deny this idea, but after some clever convincing from Sans, his brother who he trusts fully, Papyrus would reluctantly agree, walking out from his room along with his brother, still holding onto the blanket he was curled up in, believing that it would bring him some comfort and protection from the things he was about to do.
=== Appearance ===
Papyrus physically appears identical to Undertale Papyrus, although usually in darker lighting and with either a more stressed or dead expression, what does change are his googly eyes, which become more bloodshot as he gains exp in a similar fashion to how Sans' eyes change to red in Dusttale.
His outfit change is slight but makes a large impact, his scarf is now ripped, no longer having a cape and having much less width. He also constantly carries around his large Purple and Blue blanket thar he took from his bed after killing Undyne.
=== Personality ===
Papyrus, compared to Dusttale sans, is extremely violent and sadistic, but only when he’s stressed out, as when he’s in a more calm state, he’s seen as more of a “soulless husk” of himself, or early on appears stressed, sweating and shaking.
== Powers and Abilities ==
Papyrus' abilities seem to be the same as Undertale Papyrus, bone bullets, blue attacks, and putting the player into blue soul mode, along with this in the final battle in the Last Corridor, he uses the "Gauntlet of Deadly Terror" to try and kill the human.
== Relationships ==
=== Sans ===
Sans was the one who originally convinced Papyrus to begin their murderous plan and also stays with him for the majority of the story, being the main speaker for the two while also commanding and planning how they execute their plan, by the end he's the only one that can safely be around Papyrus, though he eventually dies causing Papyrus' mental breakdown.
=== Undyne ===
Due to a conflict of opinions, Undyne accidentaly injures, and seemingly kills Sans, causing Papyrus to retaliate, taking her off guard and making her, his first kill.
=== Asgore ===
In the “Price of Victory” ending Papyrus leaves the human's corpse in Asgore's thrown room and leaves him be, and in the “Soulless God” ending, Papyrus brutally kills Asgore for the souls, beyond these small interactions, Sans is more-so the one to talk and threaten Asgore.
=== The Human ===
Papyrus seems to hate the human for obvious reason, originally wanting them to change and be better, which changes through the story due to Papyrus losing himself from having such high LOVE, eventually wanting them dead so bad he goes to the extent of killing everyone he could in the underground to stop them, he also sets up deadly traps to impede their progress. This hate for the human peaks after Sans dies, as he loses all sense of reason and blames them for his death.
=== Flowey and Temmie ===
Flowey and Temmie are the only other characters that are "swapped" in the AU. Papyrus for most of if not all of the story seems to not know of the two's existence, though he seems to kill Flowey and Temmie before the final battle when they're caught by Sans.
== Endings ==
There are exactly 3 endings Flambe and I have planned out. They are all based around the outcome of the final fight in the judgement hall.
The 3 endings would be as followed:
The “In vain” Ending. Simply put, it’s what happens when the player beats Papyrus, and continues on with their journey, not much else to say.
The “Price of Victory” Ending, where Papyrus manages to kill off the player. This happens if the player dies during a specific moment in the fight, or if they choose to give up when they die, (Which would only be accessible following Sans’ death.)
The players death would trigger an ending cutscene, it would consist of papyrus grabbing frisk’s lifeless body, and slowly carrying it in his arms as he makes his way to the throne room. The last scene would have Papyrus entering the room, and dropping frisk’s corpse onto the floor, before leaving. Ending on an image of Asgore's terrified expression.
Tho, you would still be able to reset after that, don’t worry.
The “Soulless God” Ending can only be achieved if the player give the correct series of responses when questioned by Sans during his encounters. This leads to him thinking more on the idea of getting ahold of the souls in a last ditch effort to overpower the player. This causes Sans’ dialogue to change before he succumbing to his injuries, ranting about the human souls Asgore is holding, inadvertently letting Papyrus know of where they are located. This ends the fight with Papyrus stunning the player, rather than killing them, before he flees the scene, managing to get ahold of the souls from Asgore, implying Papyrus had to brutally kill him before doing so.
After absorbing them, the situation goes terribly wrong as Papyrus would not be able to contain all the power of the souls, along with the LV he has accumulated. He would become a god with all the power but none of the control, and would lead him unintentionally removing the human as a whole.
On a side note, the Soulless God ending is the true ending of Butterfly Effect, having a different outcome than the others if it were to be achieved in a legitimate game.
If achieved, the game would close itself after the humans supposed deletion, changing the icon of the game, and leaving the launcher nameless as, if the player open the game again, they’d be met with a still image of Papyrus distorted face staring back at them. You would not be able to reset, leading to the game permanently being softlocked.
== Trivia ==
* Despite previous claims affirming that Dustswap/The Butterfly Effect is based around a take on Dusttale called Dusttale: Renewed, Dustswap nowadays does not follow any specific Dusttale take, and would most likely fit in better as an au based around the canon universe of Dusttale, following the idea that “it happens in an universe where it’s story is possible to happen”
* DustSwap has another nickname of "The Butterfly Effect"
* DustSwap was going to be featured in the FNF mod "Friday Night Dustin" with art made by D4niztic, one of DustSwap's creators.
* The song for the mod has been released, but plans for it were canceled due to D4niztic not wanting to work on art anymore
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adPB-oTTAPg&ab_channel=WassabiSoja The song previously mentioned
* During November 2023, D4niztic removed himself as owner of DustSwap, along with abandoning the idea of AU ownership, leaving FlambeWorm as the only owner.
== Gallery ==
File:Canon dustswap.png|Canon DustSwap Reference Sheet
File:DustSwap Old Ref.jpg|Old DustSwap Reference Sheet
File:DustSwap Stress.png|Papyrus and Sans Colourless Art
File:Ancient Dustswap Art.png|Ver Early DustSwap Art
File:DustSwap Old Final Battle Art.png|Early art of DustSwap's final battle
File:Papyrus do be crazy.png|Colourless Art Of Papyrus' Googly Eyes
File:Papyrus and Sans threatening.png|Threatening Art of Sans and Papyrus
File:DustSwap Abstract Papyrus.png|DustSwap Papyrus...?
File:DustSwap Abstract Sans.png|DustSwap Sans...?
File:DustSwap Battle Phase 2.png|Final Battle Phase 2
File:DustSwap Battle Phase 1.png|Final Battle Phase 1
File:DustSwap Old OW Sprites.png|DustSwap Old Overworld Sprites
File:DustSwap Overworld sprites.png|DustSwap Overworld Sprites By Flambeworm
File:DustSwap updated OW sprites.png|Modern Overworld Sprites
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