Sans

**Overview**

Relationships

**Sans** (often styled as **sans**), full name **Sans Serif**, is the older brother of Papyrus, the older adoptive brother of Shae, and the oldest son of Ariel and Gaster. He lives at the skelefam house.

He runs an illegal hotdog stand and is seen frequenting Grillby's.

## Appearance

Standing at 4'9, Sans is a short, chubby, largely-built skeleton with a rounded "top-heavy" slightly bean-shaped skull with eye-sockets that looks passive and tired. He has pupils, a triangular nose, and a large, chubby even, build. As a skeleton, he is seen smiling most the time.

Sans is seen wearing his signature blue jacket, a white t-shirt, black shorts or sweatpants with white stripes, and pink slippers. He sometimes wears a green visor.

When angry or upset, Sans's pupils will disappear. His telekinesis pupil blinks between cyan and yellow and is in his left eye and may appear outside of telekinesis, possibly when he's distressed enough.

## Personality

As Papyrus's foil, Sans is a laidback, somewhat lazy skeleton. Like his brother, he likes memes, puns, and pranks. Despite his laidback nature, Sans is often described as a "mother-hen", for he often acts overprotective over Papyrus, and can hold a grudge sometimes. However, he is more likely to forgive someone if they fix their mistakes and actually are remorseful and apologize, though it seems he's more concerned with holding grudges if someone were to wrong his family, rather than himself. Sans can be sarcastic at times, especially notable in his sense of humor.

Like Gaster, Sans often says text slang, such as "lol" and "lmao", a mannerism he picked up from Gaster since the former's freedom from the VOID.

## Abilities

Sans has all standard monster abilities and skeleton monster abilities, including ones exclusive to the skelefam.

### Skillset

Intelligence: Despite his often goofy and unserious nature, Sans has proven many times that he has a high level of intelligence, being able to understand science with ease. This also makes him proficient in his battling capabilities.

Exceptional Observability: Sans is excellent at observing people and the environment around him, making him very good at easily reading people's body language, often catching little details others can easily miss. His observation skills makes him a little aware of resets; though he does not pertain any memories of anything or any events in the time between resets, he can tell when one happens based on observations he makes, the sense of deja vu from him and others being one.

### Unique Abilities

**KARMA:** Sans's magic works based on the KARMA one has; the higher their LV, the more damage his attacks will do, making up for his low attack stat. In addition, the KARMA makes it where attacks don't do the full damage at once, instead acting as a poison of sort, lowering one's HP slowly until the full damage has been done. It can 'stack', in which it can build up and will cause the poison to stay longer. Paired with his dodging ability and rapid fast-paced attacks, this makes him quite lethal against opponents with higher LV.

**Enhanced Upper-Body Strength:** Much to the awe of the RG Stooges, Sans has surprisingly good upper body strength, able to pick up Papyrus with no issue, despite Sans seemingly having weak strength to the point of being unable to pick up a light person such as Papyrus.

## Relationships

### Papyrus

Papyrus is Sans's younger brother. They share a positive relationship; Sans cares deeply for him and loves him dearly, and is a doting older brother. The two are really close and are often seen hanging out with each other and playing video games together.

Sans is also considered protective of him, bordering on over-protective, and would do anything to protect him.

### Shae

Shae is Sans's younger adoptive sister. The two have a positive relationship, despite their interactions usually being short. Sans sees her as his sister and will do anything to protect her. The two seem to bicker sometimes.

### Gaster

Gaster is Sans's father. Despite Gaster's eccentric personality and having massively changed since being rescued from the VOID, both in physique and behavior, the two share a positive relationship. Although they tend to bully each other and Sans is often disapproving of Gaster's shenanigans, he sometimes will join in it too depending on what is, given it's not a harmful prank.

Sans shares his love of science with Gaster, allowing them to bond over such subjects, and letting them often hang out together in Gaster's lab. Sans seems to have began copying Gaster's tendency to use text slang in his speech. This heavily implies Sans looks up to him.

### Ariel

Ariel is Sans's mother. They sometimes hang out together and share a positive relationship. When Gaster is up to mischief or Papyrus doing something dangerous for himself, she's usually the first one he tells.

### Trivia

* Sans was originally going to date Grillby, but then it later changed to Tinero, then it changed to make him completely uninterested in dating.
* Sans is left-handed.
* Sans seems to have a pretty unhealthy diet mainly consisting of greasy food.
	+ Sans especially loves ketchup, and often drinks it by itself, but is also seen pairing it with burgers and fries.
* Sans speaks in all lowercase with few exceptions.
* Like Gaster, Sans has a hatred and animosity towards anti-vaxxers and flat earthers.
* Sans has katsaridaphobia**,** which is the fear of cockroaches.
* Sans taught Papyrus how to play the trumpet.
* Sans does NOT have 1 HP.