Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35757757-20190812175416/@comment-43715021-20190903150303

it is possible that sans is trying to get you captured, but sans knows that papyrus isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, when you get captured by papyrus (by letting him get you down to one hp) you can easily escape. sans cares a lot about his brother, so maybe sans is trying to raise his little brothers self esteem and make him feel good, but without getting you hurt or killed. That’s probably why sans feels so guilty when you kill papyrus, he feels that he brought a murderer upon his brother.