Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-33677803-20180205210714/@comment-33959130-20180218061943

In my opinion? They're basically the same. It's implied that Papyrus does indeed have gaster blasters. If you spare Papyrus and abort a genocide route, this is the dialogue you get when you interact with the box in his room: 'Those are all the attacks I was about to use on you' or something like that  but then he says ' if I used it, you surely would have been blasted to- where is my special attack anyway?' Key word here? BLASTED. Papyrus also is way too nice to unleash those things on the human. Sans, of course doesn't fight you in pacifist. However, one of the reasons why his boss fight in genocide is so hard is KR, Karmic Retribution. THAT STUFF is (super annoying) entirely your fault. Karma is the punishment for bad deeds. And in the genocide run? Oh man, that's a whole lot of bad deeds. (I know he ignores invincibilty frames, but Iunno how!!) So in conclusion, in pacifist, Papyrus doesn't want to hurt you, and neither does Sans. In genocide, Papyrus still won't hurt you but Sans wants to kill you. This, in my opinion is based off of their personality, Papyrus would never hurt a human. Sans would. They're different, but same in power. Again, my experience playing the game, so if I'm wrong, correct me, and if your opinion differs, please don't kill me. I'm willing to respect yours.