For your au what made you decide to make papyrus the older brother?
Ooh! Ok! So, I made the concept for BTA/ UA a really long time ago. At that time I had no idea that Sans was canonly the older one— I just thought it was fan speculation! My kid brain said
2) how predictable that the more gullible one is younger! I'll flip the script. 😼
3) UT Sans says that Papyrus "takes care of him" which I took very literally. Like, I knew sans was being kind of ironic when he said it, but maybe he was playing on the irony of the fact that Papyrus is older and has the responsibility of taking care of him, yet seems so irresponsible? Idk I might have been reaching.
Also, at that time, BTA was honestly more of a fellswap AU than anything. Sans was a little more reckless and spoke like how I did at the time (like a middle schooler) and Papyrus was very reasonable and spoke in a more mature tone. Its important to note that at that point, Papyrus had maybe one or two scenes about him? and that was it. Their dynamic wasnt really explored.
(the only scene he's in in the 2020 comic BTA was based off of ⬇️. He said even LESS in the 2019 book version. In the og ORIGINAL 2016-2018 traditional comic, I quit before I made it to the point where he showed up lol.)
(aww how adorably emo they were back in 2020...)
Even though I'm now older, and the vibe of this story is almost unrecognizable compared to the older versions, I decided to keep this kind of random and pointless change of canon for a few different reasons.
1) I'm so used to it! I've had this story for about 9 years, and even though I've rewritten it many times, their ages have never changed
2) I've come up with a lot of lore around these two and the order in which they were born/ created is very important.
3) more lore. Mainly the lore thing.
But, I wouldn't say they really view each other as "big brother" and "little brother". That's more of a technicality for them. They both feel protective of each other the way an older sibling would, whichever one was actually created first is unimportant to them. (Though, Papyrus likes to make fun of Sans for... Being young? Classic older sibling shit.)
Though a big difference in their age is due to Papyrus being parentified. Papyrus, in BTA, quite literally has to "take care of sans" even though both of them are of equal intellectual capabilities (sans even possibly being smarter) because Sans is 6 yrs old and very weak, so Papyrus has to protect him. It's good for his ego, though. "The undefeatable great Papyrus will protect you!!" Shit
Today I felt like drawing an oc, so here's your Al! It was inspired by this post.
He was supposed to be in like "concentration" face, but... Not sure if i succeeded.? i got a feeling halfway through that it looked like i was drawing him filming a thirst trap 😭... I promise that was not my intention 😭😭