Talk:Abandoned Quiche/@comment-27371693-20151209145733

I'm not sure why people are so quick to dismiss this as not belonging to Sans. Yes, it is implied he attempted to make pie if you check the stove while Papyrus is showing you around their house, but what exactly does that have to do with this bench and this quiche? Why couldn't he have made this quiche before making the pie? Maybe he abandoned this quiche for some reason and then decided to make a pie instead?

Now I've got another mystery for you to solve. Who spoke the message that the echo flower repeats? If it was Sans, then I would reason that the 'responsibility' he was not ready for was protecting Frisk. He doesn't like making promises, but he made this one anyway for Toriel. Keeping tabs on Frisk is putting a lot of stress on him, as he knows what awaits Frisk at the end of his journey from the very beginning. No matter how good Frisk is, he is fated to be trapped with the monsters that don't particularly like humans for sealing them in the underground, or he has to kill Asgore. Or Asgore would have to kill Frisk, and is Sans willing to see his promise to the end and protect Frisk from the king? From the very beginning, Frisk's fate is bleak no matter how you slice it.

But thats just a neutral run, you say? True, in a genocide run, all of the echo flowers are silent because all of the monsters have long since fled the area after being forwarned of the human that has been slaughtering everyone in his path.

Except for one echo flower. Thats right. This echo flower still has its message in a genocide run. Even though everyone has fled to safety. Everyone... except for Sans. Sans, who is constantly keeping tabs on the player in either timeline, observing their actions and finally confronting them in the end to pass his judgment. "I wasn't ready for the responsbility" is much easier to make sense of here... considering he promised to protect a human that went on to slaughter his brother and everyone else he's known in the underground.

Why is he making pie, then? For Toriel, perhaps? Abandoning the Quiche may be symbolic of the turning point in his life when he chose to protect this human instead of killing them like the previous 6.

I guess we'll never know though. I think there's more to it than just a reference to a real occurance in Toby's life, otherwise there seems little point giving Sans the character trait of liking Quiche. That isnt just a coincidence.