Papyrus

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**Papyrus** is the younger brother of Sans and the second-in-command of the Royal Guard that does more of the more "front" tasks. He lives in Snowdin with Sans. He is one of the first monsters Frisk can befriend.

## Appearance

Papyrus is a tall skeleton with a lanky build, long legs, razor sharp teeth, and two scratch scars going over his left eyesocket.

Papyrus is typically seen wearing a black chestpiece with spiked or torn shoulder pads, black pants, elbow-length torch red gloves with small fringes at the top, torch red high-heel boots, and a tattered torch red scarf-like cape. He wears a torch red Wrestle Mania belt with a gold plate given to him by Undyne.

His armor is black and covers his whole body, with larger, wide spiked shoulderpads with golden trim. He wears dark red high-heel boots and elbow-length gloves. In the middle of his torso is more golden trimming, and a large red heart on the middle. He appears to not have a helmet.

## Personality

Unlike many other monsters, Papyrus is one of the more docile monsters; along with Toriel, he feels genuine remorse when he has to kill someone. According to himself, he can sometimes be judgmental, though he strains that despite that, he wants Sans to be able to feel like he can tell him if something's wrong or if someone's messing with him. Despite the hatred of his job, Papyrus takes his job as a RG (Royal Guard) very seriously and will follow every order, no matter its severity and his own reprimands. He takes it seriously because his respect for Undyne buffers his hatred of Asgore. He can sometimes be obliviously supportive. It is implied he reserves himself from swearing, or at least from the more crude ones.

Papyrus is shown to be protective of his older brother, having joined the RG just so the latter would be safe (and being manipulated into it). He further shows this by sometimes going on long-winded rants about how much harm he'd bring to someone if they were to ever hurt Sans or make him feel unsafe. His protective stems off to Frisk, as seen in a Betrayal artwork, where he is shown defending Frisk from Undyne.

## Abilities

### Skillset

**Culinary Expertise:** According to Fella, Papyrus is a very good cook, being able to make decent lasagna.

### Magic

Like most other monsters, Papyrus has the ability to do magic. However, as a skeleton, his attacks are composed of bone-like attacks, with one of the ends being spiked, and the other coming out to a point.

**Battle Proficiency:** Papyrus is extremely strong, almost evenly matched with Undyne.

**SOUL mode blue:** Like his brother, Papyrus can also do SOUL mode blue. In this mode, the SOUL turns blue and is affected by gravity. With telekinesis, this can be further enhanced.

**Bone attacks:** The primary attack he uses. The edges of the bone can sometimes be sharp, and all vary in size and can be used to spell out words or objects.

## Relationships

### Sans

Sans is Papyrus's older brother. Though not negative, Sans and Papyrus are not close and are kept distant by Sans. However, but they care for each other deeply; Papyrus cares deeply for his older brother and is willing to go as far as to join the Royal Guard to keep him safe. Papyrus will protect him when needed and is willing to fight anyone who messes with Sans. The two often bicker, but they never get too violent. Papyrus wishes to help Sans, but the latter refuses his help, instead continuously make up excuses as to why he won't accept it. Papyrus gets annoyed at the fact Sans refuses his help and when he believes he can't be the best.

In multiple comics, he is seen comically tossing Sans at somewhat far distances. Papyrus knows when Sans is probably not in the mood to be tossed, so he won't when Sans is too upset/angry or prone to being set off.

He also appreciates gifts if Sans gives him any, no matter if it's silly and/or a joke. The poster, for example, was gotten for him as a joke, but Papyrus kept it and hung it up anyway.

### Frisk

The two become friends at some point, though the exact events leading to this is currently unknown. However, Papyrus is willing to defend them from Undyne, his superior which he respects. He once laughed at Frisk when they were playing basketball, though they quickly retaliate by slamming a basketball in his face very hard.

### Undyne

Undyne is Papyrus's boss. Not much is known about their relationship, though it is hinted the two are often seen butting heads, as Papyrus often thinks he can surpass her. This leads to him often challenging her to duels and sparring, under the impression he could win. However, she always overpower him. Undyne, however, does love to spar with him.

Despite this, Papyrus greatly respects her, to where it buffers his hatred of Asgore, making him take his job seriously.

### Asgore

Asgore is Papyrus's superior. As many other monsters, Papyrus is intimidated by Asgore, though he is brave enough to defend Sans from him. Asgore is responsible for giving him the scar going through his left eye and for manipulating him into joining the Royal Guard, claiming that Sans will no longer be messed with if he were to join.

Despite his fear, Papyrus despises Asgore greatly, as there is a picture of the latter in the former's room, which has many knifes thrown at it.

## Trivia

* The only reason Papyrus joined the Royal Guard is to protect Sans.
* Papyrus has a laugh that goes "HAW HAW HAW!" rather than "NYEH HEH HEH!". It is described as a "powerful ugly laugh".
	+ It's why Papyrus doesn't like when anyone makes him laugh, as he knows it is ugly.
	+ Sans and Undyne are the only ones who knows this.
* Papyrus likes evil puns, but will not get regular ones.
* In numerous comics, Papyrus is shown to like cooking.
	+ He likes to cook lasagna.
	+ He also is shown to cook chimichangas that Sans sells at his various food stands.
	+ Papyrus wants to write his own cookbook.
* Papyrus is an excellent actor, in the sense that he can pretend to be the menacing Royal Guard everyone sees him as to get on their good sides, as well as pretending that he views the killing he's forced to do is for "sport".
	+ Fella states Papyrus does NOT like doing the more lethal jobs and feels remorse when he has to kill someone.
* Papyrus likes board games and wishes to play them with everyone.
* Despite his voice being deeper, Papyrus can do very high-pitched impressions, which may or may not scare people.
* Papyrus owns Royal Guard armor, but is miserable and hates when he wears it. He never wears it unless its official business with Undyne or Asgore.
* Papyrus hates Asgore the most, being considered his "#1 hater".
* Out of everyone, Papyrus swears the least.[1]

## Gallery

Papyrus dusting in the Betrayal route.Talking to Undyne during the closure route.
1. ↑ https://underfell.tumblr.com/post/653775544045944832/has-papyrus-ever-killed-anyone
2. ↑ https://underfell.tumblr.com/post/727762552099110912/fun-fact-papyrus-owns-royal-guard-armor-but
3. ↑ https://underfell.tumblr.com/post/727768396024905728/the
4. ↑ https://underfell.tumblr.com/post/653775544045944832/has-papyrus-ever-killed-anyone
5. ↑ https://underfell.tumblr.com/post/185869661356/so-based-upon-the-ballin-comic-papyrus
6. ↑ https://underfell.tumblr.com/post/185872180796/can-i-headcannon-that-papyrus-is-just-really-good
7. ↑ https://underfell.tumblr.com/post/727762552099110912/fun-fact-papyrus-owns-royal-guard-armor-but
8. ↑ https://www.tumblr.com/underfell/731563501594738688/happy-birthday-to-underfell-thank-you-for-kicking?source=share&ref=\_tumblr