Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27524978-20160210030742/@comment-28394344-20160731051304

Oobooglunk wrote: Tabbender wrote: If Sans is a revenant wouldn't he be immaterial tho ? And how would he even have been bought back to life ? With a body extremely weakened, to add. While I'd be happy to try my hand at disproving your counterpoints, just for fun, let's say you're right and there is no aesthetic connection between Sans and Ness. That still leaves us with the following evidence:


 * Courage is similar to Determination in name and properties


 * Undertale's surface world looks identical to the world of Earthbound


 * Sans bleeds, breathes, and sweats


 * Sans' attacks in the Genocide Run "drain" damage, the way it was "drained" in Earthbound

do these necessarily point at Sans being Ness? I think the points, let alone the last, can stay true with Sans being a separate, in-Undertale character, with their similarity to Earthbound being just references, some sort of shout-outs. After all, just how mad would you be if you design the world in a way only to say that one of your character is actually from another game? Then, damage over time is not that unique to Earthbound, as much as, say, Undyne's green mode (which personally reminds me of DDR), and, uh, Courage/Determination has nothing to do with characters's being; it doesn't distinct them but serves as a built-in mechanic.
 * Ness is not present in the Earthbound Halloween Hack, being stuck in an unseen alternate timeline: Undertale (only holds up if >2 other points do)

Also, Papyrus breathes and sweats as well, as we can read after the battle with him and see at the end of the date with him respectively, so it doesn't differ Sans much at this rate...