Skeletons

Skeleton is a subcategory of undead type monsters that look like human skeletal systems [1]. The first skeletons likely came about the same way Chara transitioned to a monster [2], and all of them can trace their ancestry back to a human [37].

## Known Monsters

Papyrus

W.D. Gaster

A.R. Hermann

Harlow Garamond

Goopster

Lucida

Chara

Final Destination

The Agent

sans

Penisfont [27]

## Bodies

They live between 70 and 120 years, depending on family history and lifestyle [21]. A skeleton is naturally room temperature, and as a result, cool down easier than many monsters, though they aren't as bothered by differences in temperature like those with skin do [38]. The skulls are also hollow [40], and the interior is where the skeleton's voice comes from, with something inside the skull muffling them [41]. They base gender on self-identification rather than physical appearance [4] since any skeleton can become pregnant [5]. Most skeletons figure out their gender between the ages of 2 and 4 [48]. Skeletons weigh slightly more than a human skeleton and don't generally float in water [29]. A skeleton's pupils are pinpricks of magic to help them see better [13]. Because they do not register extreme heat or cold as uncomfortable, while they notice it being there, a meal being freezing cold or burning hot is more akin to a texture than temperature. They also do not have a cold food's taste muted [45].

### Bones

A skeleton takes the form of a human skeletal system, usually white or off-white, but can be any color, due to reasons like ancestry or being a ghost that had chosen bones that had already been turned a specific color as a body [34]. Unlike human skeletons, they have no marrow [3]. When scared, they rattle, which is their equivalent of shivering [22]. They also have inner ear bones as well [42]. Broken bones will disintegrate if they fall off, but if bandaged properly, they will heal [25]. Cracked bones are the equivalent of scrape wounds for them [19].

### Ligaments

Skeletons are held together by invisible and intangible tendons that as a result, allow them to have dislocated limbs and can be damaged with magical attacks. Dislocated bones are difficult to use effectively and can hurt. They can heal, but sufficient damage will result in bones falling off and too many bones lost will result in the death of the skeleton [35].

### Hair

A skeleton may generate a tongue or hair when they choose [9] [10] [11], but they vanish while the skeleton sleeps [12]. The easiest color for a skeleton to manifest is that of their soul [46].

### Gashadokuro

A type of giant skeleton from Japan. They were between 2-5 stories tall and relied on scare tactics to prevent humans from killing them. They did have great strength, even without intent, purely from physics, but remained vulnerable to killing intent. The preferred method of dealing with them was to send ninjas after them. Due to their size, they require large amounts of food, so they conserve energy by moving slowly and sleeping a lot [44].

Those gashadokuro that survived retreated to the ocean where barnacles and coral have since begun growing on their bodies [8].

## Fonts

Skeletons are able to perceive the fonts that people speak in, and as a result, are named after their first words [6], though this can still be conveyed through sign language [7] and this trait can carry over to anyone with skeleton ancestry. Anyone who hears them get the sense that the skeleton's voice fits them perfectly and skeletons themselves can take things further and immediately know the font the person is speaking in, even if they have never seen it before. Thus, upon hearing another skeleton speak for the first time, they immediately know that their chosen name is some permutation of the font name [26]. Multiple skeletons using the same font can exist at the same time, and identical twins will share the same font [30] (twins with the same font will use nicknames to distinguish themselves [32]). However, skeletons frequently have more than one font they can use and each comes with its own voice. Typically the one they enjoy the most is the one they will use [31]. A skeleton's handwriting will be in their font [33]. In skeletal culture, fonts are gender neutral names because it's not something a skeleton can choose [36]. It is difficult for a skeleton to speak with a font they do not instinctively have access to [39].

A skeleton that learns a language with a different alphabet would first use their font to say a romanized version of that language, but as fluency grows, they gain a new font in this new language [47].

## Abilities

Skeletons typically use bone attacks, with the ability to apply orange and cyan magic to them. They have telekinetic abilities and don't need to breathe. Skeletons find the Magic Eye spell easier to learn than other monsters [23]. Depending on the severity of the injury, skeletons are better had healing broken bones than others [28].

## Culture

Skeletons have taboos against walking around naked, even though they don't have anything to expose [14]. Their opinions on x-rays are the same as human opinions of nude pictures [15]. Skeletons use a special kind of soap called bone soap to clean themselves, though they still use toothpaste [16]. They accept that to humans, skeletons are symbols of death but find the Day of the Dead to be a tasteful depiction of both them and death [17]. The sound of cracking knuckles is to them what seeing a double jointed human showing off is to us [18]. Giving themselves hair is seen as caving in to human beauty standards [20]. Skeletons from the surface took up scythes as their kind's favored weapons because of the humans' association of them with the Grim Reaper [24]. A common prank for skeletons to play on friends with skin is to spend time in the cold before pressing their hands onto them [38]. The glamor spell is used by Surface skeletons to keep themselves hidden from humans [43].

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