Jul 14, 2024
I don't typically like to complain about others' interps/fanon interps but it's always bugged me the way I often see swap papyrus characterized as being a total useless layabout all the time while conversely seeing people jump through hoops to attribute just about everything they can to Sans/UF Sans/etc and point out how, jokes aside, he canonically isn't actually lazy.
I know it's mostly just a symptom of not putting as much thought/attention into characters you're not as interested in, I'm sure I'm guilty of it with plenty of them, but it's just, idk...disappointing, I guess.
#it's not like all of the papyri don't suffer from it. ig you could call it like. one note syndrome or smth#people just gather up a handful of the traits that stand out the most to them and then that's it! character finished 👍#like stretch becomes: lazy flirty prankster smoker#edge becomes: loud mean grumpy violent#papyrus becomes: annoying saccharine unaware energetic#and I guess just due to the prevalence of people including papyrus simply because he’s important to sans; the focal point of their stuff;#you wind up seeing a lot of the same regurgitated characterizations that only get further perpetuated by being influence by *other* fans#doing the same#<- literally just described fanon...ough#of course there's other processes to reach fanon characterizations too but that's ig like#the specific pipeline for character who's mostly included due to importance to 'main' character#sunny with clouds#sun spots#sort of#maybe I'll make a separate post abt the swap brothers and stuff like this that they do so I'm not just being aimlessly negative
