Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190131130037/@comment-32182236-20190303020432

One more thing I'll say. I'll go into more detail when I get my full analysis of the chapters down, but Papyrus was not born in 1995. He's never met a human before, and he would have met Chara.

Either the 95 was a random number (it's common practice for users to add a random number to their name), or Papyrus was born in 2095, 2195, etc.

The Surface world looks too.. non-futuristic for it to be those years, but given that it's been millenia since the war happened, that places the war before the creation of the Gregorian Calendar, and potentially before the Julian calendar. So 201X in the monster calendar might not be the same as 201X in our own calendar. We know Gaster ezisted before Chara fell in 201X, so those VHS tapes might have came from the monsters and not the humans, meaning Chara falling in the distant past is not out of the question.