Sans Species Guide

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The ultimate guide to the Sans Species.

## **Appearance**

Most Sanses are skeleton monsters around 4-5ft tall with a round face and pudgy look to them. In human variants, they typically have white or black hair and blue eyes.

Many of them have a preference of wearing a hoodie with pockets, with the exception of Swap variants, who often have a liking for scarves and armor like Papyruses.

Their eyelights are typically standard white when calm and colored when angered or using magic. Although the reason why varies between Aus, Sanses mainly only are able to illuminate one eyelight while using magic and it is much more rare to find a Sans who illuminates both eyelights.

#### **Common Traits**

Common personality traits and preferences Sanses tend to have.

* **Laidback**: Many Sanses on the outside just behave laidback and unbothered by things in their environment. They prefer to laze around and sleep when there is nothing they are needed for. Don't let that attitude fool you though, most of them aren't lousy by any means, they just don't often show it or maybe are just hiding the effort they put in. (Most Swap variants are an exception of this)
* **Comedic**: Sanses all like jokes of some kind, whether it be puns, pranks, or otherwise. Even those who don't tell jokes will find amusement in lighthearted humor in some way. They like to entertain those they care about and make them smile.
* **Intelligent**: Sanses as a whole are naturally intellectual and you'll hardly find any who don't have some type of higher education or science experience. Although, most of them don't care to show off that metaphorical "brain".
* **Dedicated**: Despite having a preference for lazing around, Sanses are all fairly devoted to loved ones and put in lots of work for things they do care for.
* **Righteous**: Sanses typically have a high sense of morals and justice. They can be very brave when they want to be, willing to risk their lives for what they wish to protect.
* **Secretive**: They all really like to hide things from others by nature and keep problems bottled up to themselves.
* **Dishonest**: They are not known for their honesty unfortunately, but normally feel like they have a good reason to lie.
* **Unstable**: Because they often put a lot of responsibility on their own shoulders given their position in most Aus, and the fact that they don't like to share their burdens with others, Sanses can stress themselves into mental instability quite easily, whether that means getting depressed or becoming full on insane.

## **Abilities**

Universally shared skills that *most* Sanses have.

* **Gaster Blasters**: A powerful skeleton monster weapon. Assumedly all Sanses can use Blasters, but they don't all do so for one reason or another. Blasters can vary in shape and design.
* **Bone Attacks**: A standard skeleton monster attack. Though it varies from AU to AU almost all Sanses can use both white and colored bone attacks. Bone attacks can also vary in shape and design.
* **Teleportation**: A skill *almost* unique to the Sans species. They are able to move through the void momentarily in a form of instant transmission.
* **Magic**: Sanses can all use magic to at least some basic degree, unless a health issue prevents it. Blue magic soul manipulation and levitation are skills they can all use, but there are many more with some being specific to their AU while others are universal skills they can all learn with practice.
	+ See: [Types of Magic in the Canonverse]

## Variants

Variants refer to things like; Swaps, Fells, etc

#### **Outcode Variants**

Outcode variant, or Codiant Sanses tend to be much stronger than most. They often have the ability to travel freely through the multiverse, whether through their own special kind of teleportation or code altering.

##### Some Important Outcode Sanses that exist in all verses.

* Ink Sans | The Guardian of Aus
* Error Sans | The Destroyer of Aus
* Dream Sans | The Guardian of Positivity
* Nightmare Sans | The Guardian of Negativity
* Reaper Sans | Grim Reaper/God of Death

## **Names/Nicknames**

All Sanses have personal names outside of their AU nicknames. Although only those they are close to would call them by their personal names.

* Eg. Underswap Sans is universally nicknamed Swap/Blue, but they have their own unique names such as Zenith from Underswap Timeline #37

## **Trivia/Fun Facts**

* All Sanses hate promises. Seemingly because they are never sure if they can keep them.
* Most Sanses do not trust or like Cross Sans given his previous shenanigans with the X-Event.
* It's an unspoken rule not to talk about Dusts, Killers, or other murderous AU variants. Most Sanses are uncomfortable with speaking about or associating with unsavory members of their species, especially not ones that kill Papyruses.
* Even if they don't hate them, humans creep most Sanses out given the genocide history.
* Similar to Classic variants love for ketchup, all Sanses have some kind of weird favorite food on them that is more of a condiment, flavoring or topper.
* They are the only ones whose whole species can teleport regardless of the variant. It seems like it is just a natural talent.