Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27491885-20151228162741/@comment-32182236-20170816184332

What if Sans and Papyrus appearing out of nowhere is, while not a reference to the world of Earthbound obviously, still a reference to SOMETHING? Specifically, to the Void, a literal world of nothingness?

Sans and Papyrus are brothers, therefore, they must have a father. But.. Who IS their father? We don't see another skeleton in the entire game... Or DO we?

Gaster is the father of Sans and Papyrus, and therefore where they came from. But, Gaster was erased from the timeline, shattered across time and space when Gaster fell into the core. But the things he CREATED still remained intact, such as the Core itself. Likewise, so would Sans and Papyrus. But their origin is now completely nonexistent-From the perspective of the new timeline, Sans and Papyrus literally popped into existence from nothing! Or, more specifically, from the Void, the dead timeline that Gaster still lurks within today..

As for who the older brother is.. Probably Sans. He's learned a lot more from Gaster than Papyrus, who we're not even sure has the Gaster Blaster! Though, that's all I have for Gaster. After all, it's rude to talk about someone who's listening.

Sans is sort of a funny brother who makes a lot of puns, but is very knolwedgable, to the point of being able to prank his brother across time and space. He also does it to us. Papyrus, on the other hand, creates a lot of puzzles that completely fail, like the tile puzzle, and the spaghetti trap that isn't even a trap. He also tried to "solve" the horoscope. And kind of gets cranky when he doesn't get his bedtime story from Sans. The evidence all seems to point to Sans being the older brother, rather than Papyrus.