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So if Sans is a human.. Why didn’t HE get the True Pacifist Ending?

Well, Sans is no longer innocent. He’s killed someone before, at least once. And only someone pure of heart would have the determination to face Asriel in the final battle and win.

Why didn’t Sans kill Asgore or Toriel, and use their monster soul to cross the barrier?

Sans likes Toriel.. A lot. And spent ages knocking on the Ruins door in the hopes that someone would reply. Almost as if he knew someone would reply, eventually. And Sans seemingly didn’t have access to Toriel before this time, even if they did get along famously from the start.

As for Asgore, Sans may be a killer, but he doesn’t seem to do it because he wants to, only when it’s necessary to protect his friends like Papyrus. At the MTT resort Sans tells Frisk “You must really wanna go home. Hey, I know the feeling buddo.” but ask Frisk “maybe sometimes it’s better to take what’s given to you. Down here you’ve already got food, drink, friends… is what you have to do… really worth it?”

In his battle, Sans says “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.”

Sans had somewhere he once wanted to go back to.. He wasn’t born in the Underground. But when weighing the options of having a life of friendship with the monsters, and having to ruin all of that by killing their beloved King just to go home again.. Sans choose to spare Asgore and stay in the Underground. And Sans tries to convince Frisk that this is something he should consider, too.

Despite whatever hell he’s been through, Sans still has compassion in his soul, and tries to do the right thing.

And Sans is also aware of the Meta situation. That if Frisk does continue on his quest, and try to kill Asgore… it won’t work, and both of them will just end up back here again. Almost as if Sans HAS tried to walk the very same path that Frisk himself too, realizes that the Neutral Ending to Undertale is no true ending, and is trying to warn Frisk about that. That killing Asgore is a bad idea.

Remember that Frisk never actually leaves the Underground on a Neutral ending. No matter what happens, he never get a chance to absorb Asgore’s soul and gain the power to pass the barrier. Flowey always stops him.

And the time-traveling Sans knows this.

Then.. Sans says something that will always creep me out to the end of my days.

“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 wanted to do the right thing. Someone who, in another time, might have even been.. A friend?”

“C’mon buddy. Do you remember me?”

Do. You. Remember. Me.

Sans knows that Frisk knows Sans… from another time.

Both Sans and Frisk are humans. And both have walked this very path before.

In fact.. Sans is able to dodge ALL of Frisk’s incoming attacks, something no other foe was ever able to do. Almost like he had pre-knowledge of them. Even when Sans is asleep, he’s still able to FEEL when Frisk is going to attack, and dodge THAT blow, just like all the others.

And it’s only when Chara takes over Frisk utterly, and makes her own unauthorized attack.. That Sans is finally unable to dodge, taking the hit. An attack that Frisk himself never made.

It’s like Sans and Frisk both share a powerful psychic connection.

But it’s even more than that.

Remember all those times that Sans teleported? Breaking the twig behind Frisk, going the wrong direction and somehow ending up inside Grillby’s and the MTT resort with his “shortcuts”, vanishing without a trace right in front of Frisk in a black screen flash?

Sans takes Frisk along with him on several of these teleports. But in post-Papyrus Grillby’s we learn that Sans never takes Papyrus along with him on these teleports. Sans always appears first, and Papyrus comes in later, looking annoyed.

Sans’ teleporting has long been part of the mysterious lore of the game. But he’s not the only one who can do it.

Frisk can teleport, too.

Once The Real Battle Begins in the Sans fight, Sans puts Frisk in a series of quick situations that flash in and out along with the screen blacking out. In one of these minigames, Frisk finds himself trapped between two crushing walls of bones, facing certain death.. And yet the screen suddenly blacks out, and Frisk reappears a moment later, taking no damage.

Frisk TELEPORTED out of this trap. The same way that Sans could. Frisk might not have all of his memory, but somewhere in there is the knowledge of powerful psychic abilities on part with Sans himself.

I’ve always wondered why Sans was the one who judges Frisk in the end.

Asgore is the King, and highest political authority. Undyne is the strongest, and has the most unyielding sense of justice. Papyrus is the most innocent, and most worthy to call out others on their wickedness. Alphys is the smartest, and has the best knowledge of what Frisk has been doing in the Underground this entire time. And Toriel has all of these things put together.

Why is Sans.. the killer clown slacker with an immature sense of whoopie cushion humor, the one most qualified to pass final judgement on our soul?

For one very powerful all-consuming reason.

Sans IS Frisk.

(to be continued)