#i lov error

one sided friendship.

swap’s just his friend to survive. error’s his friend because hes lonely and desperate and is clinging to the one person who’ll tolerate him and DOESNT piss him off all the time. (canonically speaking, ink isn’t there to be his friend).

in the askerror comic, blue doesn’t LIKE error very much. he’s uncomfortable and he listens to error but its just so error doesnt kill him/do anything worse (i mean, he’s already KIDNAPPED HIM and taken him away from his brother). blue even admits to figuring out how error works and whats going on in his head (which REALLY pisses error off), and its just to show how he is, rather than enjoying his time spent with error, is calculating error’s every move and analyzing him and reading him like a book. swap was driven by the need to survive.

Btw what caused errors haphephobia? Im curious to see what u think :3

i love you error sans.

ok. honestly i have no idea. and ive looked and found nothing much (or i didnt look hard enough and if there is a canon reason i’ll die). but heres what i could come up with.

found this about his glitches (and strings). i think, since he is ABLE to touch people without freaking out, its a comfort thing. he gets nervous trying to touch (even if its just holding someone’s hand) and he doesn’t like the way it feels. when he holds someone’s hand in the askerror comic, he takes it slow, he trembles, but he eventually does it.

error can. Ykw. NOT glitch. Thats how he was able to fool ghost toriel so well into thinking he was her sans. so if he’s calm, feels comfortable, and isn’t glitching, he’s able to touch another person (and considering how lonely he is, he could be pretty touch starved).

he actually willingly takes his glasses off and shoves them onto blue in the askerror comic. to do that, he’d have to touch blue. he trusted blue enough to show him a part of his past and even considered him a friend (enough to where he felt betrayed when blue claimed he figured him out). he trusted blue enough that, when he attempted to touch his face, he was able to without glitching and getting nervous (albeit the contact wasn’t for very long, its still touch).

thats also why he doesnt like touch out of the blue. he needs time to calm down and make it leas painful/uncomfortable for himself.

every bad experience with touch makes physical contact harder the next time he tries. every good experience does the opposite. it’s a matter of who he’s touching, for why, and how its initiated.

it could be a matter of classical conditioning 🤓 touch was something he was ok with. a neutral stimulus. the glitches are painful. he is naturally inclined to react to pain, as any living thing is. unconditioned stimulus triggering an unconditioned reaponse. now, after becoming error, touch can make him nervous, and being nervous makes him glitch. therefore, the neutral stimulus of touch becomes conditioned, triggering a fear/sympathetic response even though TOUCH isn’t what hes afraid of. that is his conditioned response.

his haphephobia could LITERALLY be classical conditioning and all he’d need to do is have someone be patient and slow with him to associate touch with something positive rather than the pain/discomfort of glitching. error’s haphephobia is a fixable problem, but he’s soo unfocused on his mental health it’ll probably just get worse and worse as time goes on. considering how i like to treat error (with nightmare and errormare), nightmare will just make it worse, and ink doesn’t care enough to take it slow nor entirely respect his wishes.

I think he might have it due to expressing some symptoms in the ask error comic (ex: mood swings, pushing people away out of fear of abandonement/betrayal ecc.) But I wanna know your opinion cuz youre the expert :3

Btw your art is very yummers <3

im kinda sucked into forsaken right now so this might not be as in-depth as normal but ok

i dont think error has bpd. personally. i sont think his mood swings and issues can be tied to a disorder.

for one, i think his mood swings could be from something more like schizophrenia— he has shown to experience mood swings, paranoia (that fear of “betrayal”— or his fear that SOMEBODY is out to get him), hallucinations, and i could see him mumbling some word salads when he’s trying to talk to somebody. psychologically speaking, error could’ve been genetically predisposed to be schizophrenic, and if he had a brain he’d be chemically imbalanced enough to develop the disorder (he probably developed minor symptoms as geno, but i do think being stuck in somewhere white and deprived of sensory input AND social interaction could have set him off on the psychotic break he didnt need). or. like. i feel like if he wasnt put in the antivoid he wouldn’t have developed schizophrenia period. (Also side note: geno probably worsened his chances of developing schizophrenia with determination. geno calls it a drug himself, and although i dont think it technically works like real drugs, excessive use of THC can change someone’s brain CHEMICALLY enough for them to begin having schizophrenia)

also, just to let you know, im not an expert 😓 im just using knowledge i have from my psychology class!

anyway. i think error is a narcissist, but he’s not bad enough to have narcissistic personality disorder. he clearly does care about something, and somebody (toriel, blue, such as when he feels guilty). he’s insecure, geno always has been, and it’s a part of his personality to be outwardly destructive (violent tendencies, murder) rather than inwardly destructive (not taking care of himself or self harm).

hehe yes i know so many. Im going to try to think of some i havent mentioned here but i probablh have

- his REAL (supposed) name is “Gaylord Scooter Brighton” so do with that what you will

- he and ink aren’t actually canonically enemies. I mean if you think about it, they’re not canonically anything, but they’re more friends than anything. i always think about that drawing comyet (i think) made of them sitting eating noodles together

- PROBABLY not canon but if you see the way error talks about toriel in askerror.. he even calls her Tori. He’s so in love with that woman

- he really likes asgoro. I think he has a thing for goat monsters

- His strings are actually blue magic— hence why he can “control” someone if they’re touching their soul— and hence why they don’t work against someone like ink. I believe this is mentioned in the askerror comic too, where ghost tori asks him if his strings are blue magic (they are). i’d get comic evidence but i’m too lazy 😓

- im not sure how it works or what the intricacies of it are, but error can see code of worlds. this is from askerror too lol

- i noticed that in askerror, when he’s in that ghost au talking to ghost tori through the door, there’s often white glitches behind him— almost IDENTICAL to the glitches that cover geno’s melted socket in the aftertale comic. the connections were always there even before cq released the big “ouuh geno is error!!” she was hinting at that from the beginning

- in the askerror blog, there’s a panel of a memory or something that he has— i forgot the context. But in it, even though its from ERROR’S perspective, his hand is white, just like geno’s. Papyrus is smiling at him and everyone he loves is there too. It’s a hazy memory for him, but thinking about it CRUSHES me. that panel is from GENO’S POV..!!

- error’s blush is blue. Trust me. Its blue. Look st the comic. Not red or yellow. It blue (so is geno’s lol)

ok HONESTLY them i cant see getting together like. Ever. Error HATES cross and cross HATES error. i think the only way cross and error would be “together” is if nightmare forced them to hug or something (which he would do).

though, i do think error and cross could have some cool dynamic if you took it far enough. I like to think geno and cross would like each other, and error isn’t that far off from being geno. if the slow burn was REALLY slow, cross could come to like error IF he realized who he was and WHAT happened to him.

though, to be fair, im not an expert on cross or his personality like i am error LMAO.

error’d at least appreciate the company, and if cross could get past him being a murderer for a living, cross would like him too. i could see them hanging out bonding over chocolate or something.

cross could show him his favorite food, too, but he’d bring him to underswap to show him and error’d FREAK with guilt or something (y’know, error kidnapping blue and turning him into an error, LMAO). it’s weird because cross is sane and error isnt. at least geno has a little more sense, but error??? i think cross would be confused or get weirded out when error starts talking to the voices or has one of his horrible mood swings and makes cross leave him alone (only to regret it later). cross would try to console error but the manbaby’s so emotionally constipated he’d curl into a ball and refuse to open up. error wouldn’t get cross’s jokes (if they were humans, cross is probably in his late 20s, and error, to me, is at least in his 40s). think of those two age groups trying to understand each other’s humor.

What would happen if error got sick? How would he act in that situation and how does it affect him?

hehe thank u sm.

let me think about this cus ive never thought about it tbh. I think he’s just so miserable and he mopes around until he gets better. i think if anyone kept him company while he’s sick, he’d appreciate it a lot (bc being lonely is one thing but veing lonely AND sick is worse).

[TW SUICIDE] is error sans suicidal? Cuz i feel like he is :/

oh dude absolutely

i hc that no matter what he does, no matter what ending he gets, its always death by his own hand. if things go well, there’s ought to be something that’d tear him down until he can’t take it anymore.