Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28303987-20160409204142/@comment-33255176-20171006024313

Lol. I get what you mean by everyone loves him, I love him the most. Undyne running in second. I actually see more comments about sans than I do Asriel/ Flowey.

But the thing is, throughout the game, we learn so many things about Flowey. We learn how he died, we learned how he reacted when he came to life, we learned how he's ALIVE!! We learned almost everything about him. We know he is a crybaby as well. Flowey is the main antagonist in the game, it's not that Sans is "mainer" than Flowey. It's really that we only really see Flowey at the beginning and end of the game. So there's nothing left to ask about him.

With sans, we don't know anything about him. With all of the other characters in the game, we learn their exact personality except for sans.

With him, it's unclear. He acts differently in each route. Does he remember the resets? In the genocide, he talks about how no matter what he does, it's all gonna be reset. It gives hints that suffers from depression. His laziness is a sign for apathy, fatalism, and giving up. They're types of depression. But we never have to solve his problem in the game. And if you haven't played/ watched the genocide route, then you would just assume that he doesn't have any problems. But if you have, then it means his problems can't be fixed.

The only thing that keeps himself in this world is papyrus and Toriel. He doesn't want papyrus to be unhappy without him. They're basically anchors.

When he's a lost soul, you can also tell he has depression. His words are, "just give up, I did." "You'll never see em' again." And "why even try?" So he's apparently had depression before the genocide routes.

But people love sans for many different reasons. His jokes and pranks throughout the game. His badass side of him. All of his weird abilities. His scientific background. His fricken depressing AF comments he makes throughout the game. And just him in general.

But I like sans for all of those reasons and one more. Sans always has a smile, he can't open his mouth. Something that is linked with depression is saying you're okay when youre not. Or smiling when you want to die. His smile just reminds me of that. And seeing that he has the worst depression of all of them, just resembles him. Jokes could be a way of covering up his actual feelings.

In Snowdin, that one monster next to the Satan looking one says that everyone tells jokes to forget the modern crisis they live in.

Maybe sans tells jokes to blind him from those depressing thoughts?

Let's steer away from the depressing side. My favorite side of him is his badass side. HE PRANKS YOU IN THE GENOCIDE RUN!! WTF 😂!! HES THE ONLY CHARACTER YOU FIGHT THAT TAKES HIS TURN FIRST! I think. AND THEN HE SAYS GET DUNKED ON!! AND THEN HE SAYS THAT YOU SHOULD BE BURNING IN HELL AND CHEATS THE SYSTEM BY ATTACKING YOU WHEN ITS YOUR TURN!!! BITCH THATS JUST BADASS!!

I also love the prankster side of him. Like how he pranks you across time in space. And when he says, "the truth is you got owned nerd." I think that's my favorite prank he did.

And one more thing. HIS THEME SONGS!! WHOLY FUCK THEYRE ALL EPIC!! Look up "the song that might place when you fight sans." And then there's megalovania and "sans." That shows that his themes are kickass.