![]() The other Goner Theory posts were partly our attempt at explaining why Sans spends the whole game deliberately deceiving us he gives us countless hints that he has a tragic past he can never return to, and his Lost Soul battle has his text shaking with the emotion he’s been hiding behind that permanent smile. We never actually find out where their issues came from, or if we’ve even helped them solve them by the end of the game. Toriel and Asgore’s tragic problems stem from the loss of their children, Alphys has her secret shame hidden in the True Lab, Undyne is both driven and hindered by her hatred of humans, but the skeleton brothers have nothing. There isn’t anything, anywhere, in Undertale’s plot to indicate why this is the case, and it’s this which makes both Papyrus and Sans the exceptions of the main cast. Well, the short answer is we just don’t know. So if Papyrus is so well-loved by his friends, his brother, and practically anybody who comes into contact with him, why does he feel so strongly that he’s unimportant? When, in fact, the opposite is true the residents of Snowdin will all feel as though something has gone terribly wrong without him, and killing only Papyrus in a neutral run will net you a pretty bad ending- Toriel exiled, Undyne a furious empress, and monsterkind now wholeheartedly focused on destroying humanity. He constantly reaffirms the idea that he has no friends, and that he is of no real importance to anybody. But what if something other than memories carried over? Something that he might be desperately trying to hide?Įven though Papyrus is constantly talking about how great he is, he actually seems to think that he isn’t important at all. He seems to be almost too ignorant of anything involving lab work to have explicit memories of the Dead Timeline. But what, exactly, is he hiding? To answer this, we need to take a look at what Papyrus actually knows.Īs was previously mentioned, Papyrus doesn’t seem to retain nearly the same amount of knowledge as Sans in the new timeline, if anything. Why is he the only character without an asterisk before his speech? Why does his death affect subsequent events of the game including the ending so much? Why does his room stop all music, even post-pacifist, when no other place does? Why does Flowey take such special interest in him, even saying that he kept him from boredom the longest? Why is he literally the only one who can’t kill you?Īs the questions pile up, it seems that Papyrus might be one of the most secretive characters of Undertale. And when you stop to look deeper, there are a lot of almost mini-mysteries surrounding him. Although Papyrus is played off as a naive, innocent goofball of a character, nobody in Undertale is without their secrets. Who has practically nothing adding to his backstory. One character, shrouded in mystery, who doesn’t abide by the rules of the game. In all of the theorizing of Undertale, there’s one character who stands out. Co-Written with This post contains major spoilers for ALL runs of Undertale.
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