i watched playthroughs of undertale back in the day but actually playing it now im just…hit really hard by how fucking bizarre it is that the fandom characterized sans as some sex god like…. hes just goofy and depressed
the disconnect between erotic and stoic fanon sans, and the canon sans who stacks dozens of hotdogs on your head.. incredible
the way in which the fandom missed the point of sans and the game at large is still one of the most tragic things to me. the only side of sans they’re interested in is what they see as dark, edgy, and sexy, but is really just hopeless desperation that you, the player, push him into by murdering everyone he cares about. it’s a side of him that should never have to be seen. it’s very obviously not who he wants to be and the fact that the fandom drools over that side of him as hard as they do almost feels sadistic and cruel in a strange way
id agree like… yeah “killing is bad” is hardly some groundbreaking message but the way the game goes about it is really interesting and unique. its really neat how you see the characters in the pacifist run vs the no mercy run and how theyre pushed to their breaking point. and yet somehow this incredibly simplistic message flew over peoples heads and what came out was “skelton badass and sexy”
I recently got done playing a pacifist run on the PS4 and I kinda made that connection as well. It’s just so weird how Sans got so sexualized by the fandom just because he had a “dark” side to him, which in reality is just desperation to try and save what world he has left.
Like, I get it in a sense; playing a genocide run shows Sans in a completely different light than what you’d expect from him, and people love that. But the only reason he’s being so “dark” and “edgy” is because he’s trying so hard to stop you – the player – from literally ending the world. It’s not dark or edgy. It’s an act of desperation.
I really love Sans because he’s just this goofy fuckin skeleton man who just wants to live in a timeline where he and his friends are happy, and it’s pretty sad to see how the fandom has twisted his character into something that’s not even him anymore.
general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff best quality: worst quality: ship them with: brotp them with: needs to stay away from: misc. thoughts:
consider: before jasprose was even a thing rose alchemized fake cat ears that she still just casually wears sometimes
double consider: rose doesn’t let those near her head anymore due to any resemblance to jasprose and jasprose wears them in addition to her preexisting cat ears, partially out of spite and partially because it’s a Look
honestly “i’ll do whatever you want” “then perish” is the single most powerful exchange possible in the english language and it’s from some bizarre “hewwo” obama rp
And there was that other post where someone dreamt that Obama said “violence for violence is the rule of beasts” like what is it about Obama that makes people come up with such raw fucking dialogue for him
my mother had a dream where he lived in the forest and she had a cigarette with him and he said “to become god is the loneliest achievement of them all” and put it out and walked into the mist and i’ve never fucking forgotten that
Reboot this post to be blessed with dream Obama’s wisdom
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