#newplates

Wonder if that could branch off into the idea of Something New Sans also being the Sans from Handplates.

Maybe in that timeline, Papyrus and/or Sans were allowed (or secretly met) one or both of the Royal Children, and perhaps discovering Sans/Killer and Papyrus’ existence and how Dr.Gaster treats them and why he does that is what further encourages Chara and Asriel to go through with their plan to find six souls to free Monsterkind.

Because now not only would they be freeing every Monster, but maybe they can free their friend(s). Chara seems like they’d be willing to sacrifice themself even more for that.

Handplates Killer and Color would go hard. Imagine their backstories, the same starting point, diverging at some point and all leading up to their first meeting as adults in the present.

I think Killer’s Stages would probably present more akin to how parts in osdd-1A is described in this scenario. As in, they are all killer; they all identify as killer—just some are killer is who is more monster, more like sans, and some are killer who is more chara/gaster, more human. They’re just killer in different modes, or well, stages. Following either different programs or has some sort of “failsafes.”

Or Maybe Killer’s Stages came later in this handplates to something new idea—split off from everything that happened with the human, but killer is still there due to events/childhood with gaster, splitting off into the other stages later on. So at first it’s just sans and killer, and then “killer” becomes sorta like a subsystem of their own.