Talk:Neutral Route/@comment-27012364-20160209042714/@comment-27555277-20160308182706

Because he's the only one with enough hope to take lead after everything has fallen apart. After Asgore dies and the souls are gone everyone is distraught. When there is someone who would still has hope (or determination, in Undyne's case) they take the reigns (pun wholly intended) and rise to power, whether or not they're exactly royal. That's why there's never an instance where Sans becomes ruler, since he doesn't really care enough and knows it's going to be reset anyhow.

Besides, we all know that politics is a bit odd around there anyway: "If there's ever a problem a skeleton will tell a fish lady about it" or something of a similar caliber ;) Even the fact that he takes enough of a stand to do that may be a qualifying factor.