Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27907368-20160428221757/@comment-27701762-20160506182355

H.N. H.N. Elly wrote:

Mabian wrote:

So we'd need to go back through all of Sans's dialogue to make sure that he refers to anything else in all caps. Well his in-battle wiki page even starts out with a quote containing a capsed word, let alone other stuff such as QUITting. And there's also your very first (!) meeting with him where he says that Papyrus is a human-hunting FANATIC, for example. Good. So now we have something to work with. The initial problem still exists, but we can at least find plausibility in the idea that Sans might have used a non-capitalized form of "determination" intentionally.

Speaking of him, doesn't he refer to the player as to "the anomaly" or the sort? And why would he say anything about the anomaly's reasoning behind the events? What for?

I can see a possible reading of that, but since all he says is "that's your fault, isn't it?", the initial presumption would be that he is speaking to the protagonist, not specifically to the player. The discussion of the anomaly's reasoning would be in reference to the fact that he knew in the past that there was some anomaly causing timelines to jump around. So whatever that anomaly was, it was doing everything for a purpose, and his thought was that the anomaly was trying to find happiness. He can talk about the protagonist as the anomaly and still use this language without it needing to refer to another entity. If we want to read it as referring to the player specifically, we need something else to show that he is aware of the player as an entity, and that he refers to the player as "you" at some other point.