Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31540897-20170722153802/@comment-30351779-20170723030203

Alright. First thing I'd like to try and reason with you on is that Sans bouncing doesn't 100%  mean he's breathing. It's the same thing with Undyne and various other monsters. Undyne bounces impatiently, RG1 and RG2 bounce in sync. Bouncing seems to be a thing the monsters do when they're fighting.

I won't completely say Sans' doesn't breathe, considering he's not an actual skeleton, just a skeletal monster, but I'm just saying that you can't point fingers to a single character in the game and go "He bounces! He breathes!", because multiple others do as well.

As to why Papyrus isn't bouncing around? I'm not completely sure. It may have to do with his nature, he is pretty confident and doesn't get impatient very fast (You can't tell me him waiting outside of Undyne's house all night just to see her in the morning because he was hopeful isn't patient). Sans seems to hate waiting around. No, this isn't a joke about how he doesn't fight you until Genocide, but Sans does seem to hate waiting around and doing things that take long amounts of time.

He talks about giving up multiple times in the game, and one noticable one was when he judges you on Pacifist. He said he 'would've thrown in the towel' by then, so that's just a theory.

Sans' bouncing around could be anything from anger, to excitment, to anxiety, to sadness. We wouldn't know because the only time he actually shifts his expression is when you stab him, which is probably the first time he's ever felt pain. (However, I did read a theory about not taking HP too literal, so I'm not going to jump a mile to reach the conclusions)

Other characters don't bounce as well. It may just be because of their personalities. Papyrus is patient, Sans is not. You know how it is. I hope you won't start screaming at me about how I'm 100% and totally WRONG. At least provide evidence before you call me dumb, okay..?

Sans does in fact have the worst stats, however, that may just be because he'd be overpowered without it. Just think of it this way:

'You're Toby Fox, and you're wondering about Sans. Mmm... 11 damage seems reasonable. Ooh, look, what about since you've been bad the entire game he gives you karma and takes away your invincibility frames?'

You test it out and die in the first second.

'You think to yourself. "If the invincibility is a cool feature I want to keep in, we could just give Sans 1 ATK to make him possible... that's one damage per frame, and the game runs at 30 fps... yeah, okay. We'll do it."'

You see what I mean? His 1HP may also be because  if he had any other number, there's that small posibility the  player could bug the game by taking less damage than that and Sans would just be sitting there with no dialogue as you stab him again, and that might even mess up the death text, who knows?

One thing people seem to miss is that when Flowey grabs them with their vines (Which hurt you during the Omega Flowey battle due to the thorns, I suppose) the characters take on their 'hurt' sprites, showing they were hurt. Sans survives this attack, and Flowey would probably be very, very confused if he just saw Sans turn into a pile of dust in his vine.

The characters have hurt sprites to represent pain, and of course, they are in IMMENSE pain when stuck in that vine (Which, if you were in, would hurt you a LOT)

I know I said 'dont take HP too literal', but I meant in certain situations. Being tied up and stabbed by thorns is not a good situation to use that against me.

We all know Flowey can make his bullets heal, however, if I was being healed I probably wouldn't scream in pain. Flowey can also take decimals off your health, only in determination do you stay alive, though. Otherwise, it goes down by one.

People like to assume that Sans is depressed and that's why he has such low stats, however, in that case, Alphys would also be extremely low, with her having depression, anxiety and multiple other things. We can't check her STATs, however she also survives the attack.

Asgore is shown to have depression and is even suicidal, so we can all see that theory is basically debunked, considering his stats...

Gaster definitely has some relation to the font skeletons, and perhaps may be a skeleton. No other characters speak in a font, so we can assume this is probably  hereditary. He has to have some blood (Not literal) shared between the FONT skeletons to be able to do this. His speech is also extremely similar to Papyrus, not having an * and speaking in all caps. We can assume ENTRY 17 is his, because, well, he's the only one out of three characters to have a scientific background (Alphys, Sans...)

The two people he may be referring to, for that reason, seems to be Alphys and Sans. Sorry, but, Papyrus or Chara don't seem interested in photon readings, and Sans has a lab for crying out loud.

If anything I said is false, please tell  me. It'd be a pleasure to think it through.