Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27524978-20160210030742/@comment-4383275-20160505075651

GetYourFix wrote: If it's not ketchup, it's blood? DT is much more likely given that it's actually canon. Again, we don't see an extra human SOUL in PT when everyone's SOUL is leaving ASRIEL. There's still just 6 human SOULs.

See my above discussion with Stevethebarbarian.

Yeah, how does he wink, then? How does this guy emote?

Some face masks have been created that can move with their wearer. More importantly, my earlier "Alphonse analogy"--that Sans is a hollow costume that once contained a human--could explain this.

Should I be equating PK powers with magic?

Perhaps: Ness' eyes light up when he uses PK Fire and Sans' eyes light up when he attacks. It's more likely that he replaced his PSI with something more powerful, courtesy of W.D. Gaster. That's why Sans attacks with Gaster Blasters, after all, isn't it?

How does he speak? I've played the Mother series. That kind of stuff wasn't on the menu.

Again, Sans would not be the original Ness, but the mysterious, admittedly unseen Ness from the Earthbound Halloween Hack. In fact, this would explain where Ness went in the Halloween Hack: the Phase Distorter, which is said to have taken him to an alternate timeline, could have sent him to the underworld of 201X. This is why Sans would no longer care about "going back" OR "going to the surface." Note the distinction he makes: they aren't the same thing.

If he's a human, why didn't his determination override Flowey's? Why was Flowey still able to mess around with time when a human was Underground? How long as he been a human and had no one notice? Moreso, why is he using magic when he could just fight us how any other human would fight a young child?

My Alphonse analogy would explain this as well: Sans would not be a full human, just the costumed remains of one.

You know, pick them up, slap their face and take more than one hit from a worn dagger that's implied to be used for gardening. The battle system with sans makes no sense if he's a human.

This could also be explained by the Alphonse analogy, but it's worth mentioning that a human being can theoretically be eviscerated with a gardening tool, especially by a killer like Genocide Frisk.

Those 9s above his head mean that Chara's intent to kill affected him.

Or that they've become incredibly strong...

And Papyrus was the only monster in game that didn't dust simultaneously. I think that's pretty special.

What about Undyne and Mettaton?

Your evidence is "he bleeds" when that's not even certain. DT is canon - sans being human isn't.

Sans is not visibly injected with DT at any point in the game, but breathing and not visibly turning to dust are unique to him.