is it just me or is headlock (the song) lowkey him

or how FE sabotages himself through the entire comic (spoiler it's not his fault)

Fatal is implied to have a different perspective of reality from the very beginning. With all these glitches, bright colors, people becoming more like disturbing images of themselves and hallucinations is what makes Fatal so paranoid and distrustful of others. I can even say delusional.

Fatal has a very strong believe like:

"Everyone is against me" or "Everyone is trying to hurt me"

It is important to note that for readers it sounds stupid, because for us what happened is not real. But the thing about delusions is that even if what is happening has never happened, a person still experiences emotions as if it was real.

Bright example, ending of chapter 1: Fatal believes that he is being chased by Error.

For us readers, it's absolutely clear that this is not real Error but just a hallucination. Real Error is resting somewhere out there. But you will not be able to explain this to Fatal without causing confusion, because for him it was real. Which is evident from the way FE tries to attack Error and shows genuine fear when he was captured.

Example #2, chapter 2: Fatal believes that Swap is trying to manipulate him

Fatal: "You think you can just get away, you think you can just manipulate me? you think you're so damn clever, that I'm your puppet?

It doesn't make sense to us, but Fatal strongly believes Blue is trying to hurt him.

Example 3, chapter 3, Fatal thinks Error is trying to kill him again:

FE who saw Error in a potential place where the attack came from, immediately connected the dots and assumed that he had come for him again. I know it's confusing, for us readers it's their first encounter since the prologue, but for Fatal - Error tried to kill him 3 times.

Example #4, Patch Notes, "You think I'm crazy, don't you?":

Patch: "I have no idea where that come from. I've never said anything like that."

I was kinda wondering why would Fatal think Patch was unsuccessful project when he is absolutely perfect? This is not about incorrect coding but rather something on a personal level. For Fatal Papyrus is someone who would accept him without second thoughts, like yeah from what I seen FE requires an unconditional love. But Patch is bothered by his behavior, he calls it weird and strange, he questions it (which is understandable Patch needs someone to talk to) but Fatal is paranoid, and their situation is worsened by the fact that they don't communicate at all. Patch is concerned about FE and this is a normal reaction, but for FE its something that means:

"Patch thinks I'm crazy"

"He doesn't say it but I know by the way he looks at me"

So my sister got a new drawing tablet recently, and she gave me her old one. The first thing I draw? A smol blue raspberry!

It doesn’t have pen pressure but shhh

Fatal-Error!Sans belongs to @xedramon / @fatal-error-blog

They never repeated Fatal's words. At first it was not that surprising for me bc canonically Fatal's voice is half-whisper and I thought maybe they just don't hear him but we see how FE shouts and they still don't repeat after him AND also 👇

Sometimes there's moments like this in comic when echo flowers say strange words, even if theres no one around (it's clearly not from Fatal bc he got punched with blaster I don't think he's in mood rn). It might be an auditory hallucinations

They also dont repeat after Gaster Flowey, it can be counted as foreshadowing but it also makes it even more interesting. Echo flowers repeated lines from each Sans or Papyrus who got dragged here, even Patch

So what's the reason Fatal become an exception? Maybe he's just not considered "alive" by the world or the world can't recognise him as an "real" being (remember the time Outer tried to capture his soul but couldn't) it reminds of Core Frisk somehow