Malfunction!Sans

## Backstory

Malfunction was originally a Sans from Mafiatale, however, Nightmare arrived while traveling through AUs and began wrecking havoc in the area, gaining the attention of Sans, who attempted to stop him, but was effortlessly defeated. Mafiatale was the first AU Nightmare had been to other than Dreamtale, so he found the concept of Sans interesting. Someone similar to him, yet different in many ways. And thus, unlike with Gaster and Papyrus, choose not to kill him.

So he drenched his soul in the substance that made up his body, which turned Sans into a far more malicious yet powerful being. Nightmare, wanting to cause chaos in the multiverse, threw this new skeleton out into a random universe Error was coincidentally in. The two fought, and Error won, stringing him up and nearly erasing him. However, Nightmare intervened, demanding Error cease, as he didn’t want his creation destroyed this early on. So Error stopped out of interest, but since Error nearly erased him, Malfunction got all glitched.

So now Malfunction had the capability to travel between universes, and lacked morality in general. Thus, he arrived at an Outertale genocide timeline, where everyone was dead. Malfunction strung up the human, and webbed them to the ceiling of Asgore’s throne room. He found that, unlike Error, his strings were unable to actually erase or corrupt entities, just subdue them. He played around with the human for a bit out of boredom, until he considered his old mafia roots.

Then he began considering: What if he… ‘expanded’ his operations? So he went back to his creator, Nightmare, who he could sense through negative emotions, an ability he shared with said creator, albeit to a weaker extent. He asked Nightmare for an Alphys, promising to create a bunch of negativity through his activities, and Nightmare, despite being sceptical, agreed. So Malfunction Alphys was created, and brought back to that Outertale timeline.

Then Alphys created a drug, known as Malnode, which was tested on the human. It had the effects of being horribly addicting, yet terrible for the person who took it, giving them headaches and similar symptoms, yet drawing them in to eat it. Malfunction Sans and Alphys then began spreading their operations throughout the multiverse, selling these drugs throughout The Omega Timeline, until Core Frisk found them, and yeeted them back to Outertale via being Omnipresent.

So now Malfunction Sans and Alphys are essentially drug lords, who hired a bunch of mercenaries to distribute Malnode en-masse.

## Profile

### Appearance

Malfunction!Sans is a black skeleton wearing the same type of clothes as mafia Sans however, his suit is white and gray, as he also has two black tentacles on his back similar to Nightmare!Sans. he is also seeminly covered in the same substance nightmare is in

### Personality

Malfunction is a strict sadist, enjoying the suffering of other entities in nearly every circumstance, as shown with the human he captured from Outertale, who he tortured ruthlessly for his own amusement. He however has shown restraint in the past, as shown in the fact he can maintain his composure to most people. He often mocks his rivals, and has a tendency to underestimate his opponents, due to his vast wealth and power. Similarly, he has an insatiable greed, hence why he indulges in all the shady businesses that he indulges in.

He also talks like a typical mafia boss

## Powers

### Glitched Bones

This attack is similar enough to Undertale Sans except glitched and black, which allows it to deal more damage. It is hard to see these.

### Glitched Blasters

These are skeletal blasters which fire beams of energy in the direction they're pointed at. They are glitched and black, which somewhat resembles Error!Sans, Error blasters. (one of his blasters has a funny looking hat, he calls it joe)

### high intelligence

Mal is extemely intelligent and seems to always have lots of information on his opponents, he tends to use it to minipulate and taunt people

### Shatter Strings

He uses white strings to tie up people, but he cant control the victim's body or shatter souls

### Appendages

Not gonna lie. It's the same as Nightmare

### Negativity Absorption

He's able to use negativity as a healing source

### AU Hopping

Malfunction has the ability to hop through AUs at will.

### Tentacle Grab

He's able to grab people with his tentacles and crush them to death.

## Malnode

a horribly addicting purple liquid created by malphys, usualy contained in vial. malnode is highly adictive, but gives headaches and similar symptoms, however if used enough it could cause Death

## Weaknesses

**Glitching (Malfunction.exe has crashed):** Malfunction like many Errors can crash however, this is only in certain circumstances. Malfunction must be affected by another Error with positive emotions (such as BlueBerror for example) in order for him to crash. This rarely happens, but he tends to stay away from Errors that are not chaotic.

**Dream!Sans and Ink!Sans:** Ink has the capability to oneshot Malfunction with his pink-paint attack, which will restrain Malfunction and make him functionally immobile until someone assists him or he somehow otherwise breaks the strings. Dream can defeat him in a single strong attack, as he lacks the resistance to Dream’s abilities that Nightmare has, and is far weaker to them.

**Lack of Regeneration:** While humans have the capability to regrow small injuries on their own, Malfunction completely lacks this. He can only regenerate when absorbing large amounts of negative emotions. This means that if he’s isolated and injured, he will be unable to recover from said injury. This also makes imprisoning him simple, as one can simply break his wrists and ankles, and he will be functionally immobile.

## Relationships

### Malfunction Alphys (Co-Worker)

Due to the fact he is dependent on her for much of his business, he treats her with some extent of respect. He has no real ill will towards her, however no deep connection either. He’s generally friendly to her, and vise versa, but neither of them has a deep friendship, and their friendship is far more akin to a business relationship.

### Nightmare (Creator)

Mal doesn't have much of an opinion on nightmare, and mostly refuses to talk about him. if its out of fear or spite is unknown

### LV!Sans and Liquidation Sans (on-off co-workers)

mal doesnt really see liquid or LV as friends, just people than he can use. but he does enjoy annoying liquid

### CORE!Frisk (Enemy)

They became enemies after CORE!Frisk found Malfunction selling Malnode in The Omega Timeline.

## Trivia

* Malfunction, due to originally being a Mafia Sans, has a new yorker accent which glitches on occasion, giving him a strange voice.
* Mal has an ask blog: https://askmalfunction.tumblr.com/
* Mal used to be called "error5055" back when he was a just a generic error OC
* Mal has made a non-canon cameo in Ask-Error S2: https://askerrorsans-s2.tumblr.com/post/678283877002985472/malfunctionsans-sup-kid-want-some-malnode. (he still has the DT that Rorre/Sans the Undying gave to him)

## gallery

Art by horror123456 on DAart by Pxel0ndyart by amegalotale sansart by alterna teamart by SugaronionsMalfunction sprite (old design