#instead of drafts

[Prompt]

The admission caught him off guard. It wasn’t that Bo thought he was the worst thing to happen to Halldis - but certainly better things must have occurred, right? Halldis deserved many bright moments in her lifetime, and hearing that he was currently the brightest only made him more determined to keep adding to that.

    She hadn’t noticed it before. Before, it had just been the normal sky - granted, even the “normal sky” was one that she missed so terribly that it made her ache. If she closed her eyes and let herself relax for a moment, she could almost feel the way the the wind whipped her hair about, could almost hear her brother’s voice calling over the wind. 

   Maybe it wasn’t the sky that she missed so much, after all. 

   Having seen the sheer glory of the Harbor scattered with a million handmade stars, the real ones suddenly seemed so... lonely. The word moved through her like a Northerly wind and she clutched her forearm a little tighter. 

   No news. No news, no sightings, no anything. There had been no movement on the Missing Twin Brother front. Not since that strange man with the stranger mask who can come and gone in the blink of a eye. Dansleif. 

   So much had happened over the past few months. She took a deep breath, trying to push away the images that began rushing though her mind, and took a few steps back from the rail. Maybe she just needed more sleep. She wondered if the Boss would let her crash in one of the unrented rooms at the Wangshu Inn. Sleeping on the ground was fine usually, and especially when she was so low on funds. But tonight...

So, I always thought Papyrus’s fight would roughly the same as San’s; same if not similar attacks and same if not similar difficulty, maybe with differences like Papyrus not having things like Karmic Retribution. Y’know.

But a big difference I’d love is that, when he gives the option to spare him half-way through the fight, it’ll work. The player gets the normal “YOU WON!” flavor text, they gain 0 EXP and 0 gold, and Papyrus literally just says “I knew you had it in you!” and disappears in the normal short-cutty fashion.

But when the genocider moves on to the king/queen/whatever it is in this hypothetical AU, they’ll find out that their route has been switched to a neutral route because they spared Papyrus. And knowing how save-happy most players are, they’ll probably have already saved over their progress.

Papyrus duping the player would completely shut down the genocide route, and force them to have to do it all over again if they saved after his fight... if not, they’ll at least be momentarily inconvenienced.