Undertale - Pet dogs and date a skeleton!

1) Congratulations and good luck. I expect you will get a good grade.
2)You said it was a college project, right? What kind of college allows you to write a thesis on a cartoon 8-bit skeleton?

 

It's one of Humboldt University's American Studies/Gender Studies Additional Credit class :P
Since my career goal is doing Video Game Studies for a living I better start early! (Though the project isn't graded it's "just" for a class exhibition where we show off the class's results. Whimsy is also in the class and is doing a much much cooler project over HERE!)

 

Wow, congrats on you goal. I don't really hear people wanting to take a part in video games. Good going. I can't wait to see your final product.

(Just for fun...if you're doing a project about Sans, be sure to add a lot of jokes.)

 

pfff noooo i don't think academia can handle bone puns yet :P

 

OK so I'm averting my eyes from the rest of the discussion because I'm not very far in yet but I felt a burning need to gush about what a huge lovable nerd Papyrus is. ok bye

 

I AM HUGE AND LOVEABLE!
BUT I AM NOT A NERD.
THAT'S SANS.

 

Says the skeleton who's still wearing the costume he made for a costume party weeks ago.

neeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd

 

Does anyone notice these similarities?

Spoiler: Papyrus and skeletor

Spoiler: Dora and Frisk

 

I mean there is definitly a reason that most people tend to voice Pap in ways vaguely reminiscent of Skeletor. I didn't think about Frisk and Dora though :P

 

Why does everyone give Mettaton Markiplier's voice, though?

 

huh i wonder, mettaton is on of the two characters who have a canon voice after all

 

... Two?

 

Flowey

Spoiler: spoilers of the geno run

 

I have been told by my friends that I laugh like how Sans talks, have an evil laugh like flowey, do a good Papyrus impression, but I tooka personality quiz and got Chara and

Spoiler

Asriel

 

an important guide by papyrus

 

so because i'm either dumb or it doesn't exist i just transcribed all of sans' lines from his bossfight MYSELF
and because i'm a nice person, i'm putting them here under a spoiler cut.

Spoiler: sans bossfight

[no modifiers as far as i can tell. also no one gets dunked on. stuff in round brackets is flavor text.]

it's a beautiful day outside.
birds are singing, flowers are blooming...
on days like these, kids like you...
SHOULD BE BURNING IN HELL.

huh.
always wondered why people never use their strongest attack first.
(You feel like you're going to have a bad time.)
what? you think i'm just gonna stand there and take it?

(you felt your sins crawling on your back.)
(SANS 1ATK 1DEF
The easiest enemy.
Can only deal 1 damage.
Can't keep dodgeing forever.
Keep attacking.)

our reports showed a massive anomaly in the timespace continuum.
timelines jumping left and right, stopping and starting...

until suddenly, everything ends.

heh heh heh...
that's your fault, isn't it?

you can't understand how this feels.

knowing that one day, without any warning...
it's all going to be reset.

look. I gave up trying to go back a long time ago.

and getting to the surface doesn't really appeal anymore, either.

cause even if we do...
we'll just end up right back here. without any memory of it, right?

to be blunt...
it makes it kind of hard to give it my all.

... or is that just a poor excuse for being lazy...?
hell if i know.

all i know is... seeing what comes next...
i can't afford not to care anymore.

ugh... that being said...
you, uh, really like swinging that thing around, huh?
...
listen.
i know you didn't answer me before, but...
somewhere in there. i can feel it.
there's a glimmer of a good person inside of you.
the memory of someone who once wated to do the right thing.
someone who, in another time, might have even been...
a friend?
c'mon, buddy.
do you remember me?
please, if you're listening...
let's forget all this, ok?
just lay down your weapon, and...
well, my job will be a lot easier.
(Sans is sparing you.)

welp. it was worth a shot.
guess you like doing things the hard way, huh?

sounds strange, but before all this i was secretly hoping we could be friends.
i always thought the aomaly was doing this cause they were unhappy.
and when they got what they wanted, they would stop all this.

(the REAL battle finally begins.)
and maybe all they needed was... i dunno.
some good food, some bad laughs, some nice friends.

but that's ridiculous, right?
yeah, you're the type of person who won't EVER be happy.

you'll keep consuming timelines over and over, until...
well.
hey.
take it from me, kid.
someday...
you gotta learn when to QUIT.

and that day's TODAY.

cause... y'see...
all this fighting is really tiring me out.

(Sans is starting to look tired.) [a guess. waiting for the flavor text to spell completely here is a death sentence.]
and if you keep pushing me...
then i'll be forced to use my *special attack*.

yeah, my *special attack*. sound familiar?
well, get ready. cause after the next move, i'm going to *use it*.
so if you don't wanna see it, now would be a good time to die.

(Sans is getting ready for something.) [same as above]
well, here goes nothing...
are you ready?
survive THIS, and i'll show you my *special attack*!

huff... puff...
all right. that's it.
it's time for my *special attack*.
are you ready?
here goes nothing.
yep.
that's right.
it's literally nothing.
and it's not gonna be anything either.
heh heh heh... ya get it?
i know i can't beat you.
one of your turns...
you're just gonna kill me.
so, uh.
i've decided...
it's not gonna BE your turn. ever.
i'm just gonna keep having MY turn until you give up.
even if it means we have to stand here until the end of time.
capiche?
you'll get bored here.
if you haven't gotten bored already, i mean.
and then, you'll finally quit.
i know your type.
you're, uh, very determined, aren't you?
you'll never give up, even if there's, uh...
absolutely NO benefit to persevering whatsoever.
if i can make that clear.
no matter what, you'll just keep going.
not out of any desire for good or evil...
but just because you think you can.
and because you "can"...
you "have to."
but now, you've reached the end.
there's nothing left for you now.
so, uh, in my personal opinion...
the most "determined" thing you can do here?
is to, uh, completely give up.
and... (yawn) do literally anything else.

heh, didja really think you would be abl-

...
...
...
so...
guess that's it, huh?
...
just...
don't say i didn't warn you.
welp.
i'm going to grillby's.
papyrus, do you want anything?
-FIN-

 

Spoiler

man, i keep wondering who this part is referring to

is sans talking about himself? or gaster? or.... somebody else?

because the need to keep going, just to see what happens, sure seems like the person who made the "this next experiment seems very, very interesting" entry.

but sans also has some kind of idea in his head that papyrus is a better person than he is. he looks up to pap (not just literally), and most of the stuff he bothers to do is for his brother's sake. he nudges at the player to indulge pap's puzzles, and play along with his question re: crosswords vs junior jumble, and threatens them if they're murderous. he talks about what a cool guy papyrus is, and it's clear that he's not talking about pap's fashion sense or anything... but his readiness to believe in himself, and to never hurt anybody, and to keep striving towards his dreams.

 

Spoiler

hehe i just took it as him talking directly to the player. Because sans certainly fucking knows or guesses from reasonable evidence that he's in a game. so i never really considered he might be projecting someone else on the player here. But... i think gaster might not be too far off either. Since... well. He apparently really didn't know when to stop.

 

Spoiler: more sans discussion

one part in particular that stands out to me.
The fandom fucking LOVES to make Sans out to be a secret badass.
But the truth is... he isn't even a badass when he gets serious!
Just... looking at the transcripts, he gets out like three really cool lines. And the rest of the time he actually stammers his way through, trying to talk a serial killer down from murdering the shit out of him. He is scared.
It makes him so much... realer. Than if he had been some blazing hero badass hiding behind the lazy goofer facade.

he says this right when he thinks he's finally found a way to trap the player-character in a stalemate. he could have said any kind of cool one liner but what he chose is some weakass burn attempt which he messes up delivery of by going 'uh' in the middle.
God but i love this nerd.

 

Spoiler

Everytime i watch the battle and sans says yawn, I yawn, too. I find that very weird.