#the null

Cold, formal, and detached, Archive carries himself like a scholar watching a world he no longer belongs to. He has emotions, but they surface rarely and never in the way others expect. When forced into conflict, he prefers distance and control, fighting by drawing upon the fragments of forgotten realities that orbit him like colorful shards of glass.

FRAGMENTS and his advantages:

When Archive collects something forgotten, it condenses into a Fragment. Floating shards of light, each a different rainbow hue. They reflect the "essence" of what was archived. Some he kept in his bundles and some are in his realm/domain aka The Null.

He took advantage of the fragments like a trinket, weapons, something useful and a part of him. For example, he has a few fragments as his "signature" attacks/acts.

1. Pastel shards: might let him mimic humor or charm, stolen from a forgotten AU that leaned into comedy. making him seem charismatic, almost like he's "alive" again. This could be equivalent to his change of colours, like his mist changing into those color emotion based-shards. E.g:

2. a trident-shard glowing red, tied to an abandoned "King’s Trial" AU, lets Archive summon a flaming trident briefly. also having a few fragments of undyne variants, where he can summon spears each with unique abilities.

3. He has unique UI from his collection of forgotten aus, signature UI AKA; Defend, Recall, index, and repeat (his signature buttons). And for frisks and humans that have powers such as UI options, he can switch the places when they are about to pick.

4. His vessel has this power of mist, this sans (vessel) he found abandoned, has a blank space to fill 3 gems on his forehead, it wasn't there yet, and he plans to find a few that fit. If its filled, the vessel could have its own power. Aka misty, the result is that his vessel could turn into a misty creature, turning into mist if attacked, though—very limited if his gems aren't in complete 3. His vessel's mist could form into 'solid', e.g, a mist forming around someone, suddenly turning into a chain or other objects, solid. it can wrap, attack and even protect him from attacks. better if his environment mostly is misty. Again, very limited if his gems aren't complete.

FUN FACTS:

- he HATES mirrors. He views them like a cheap copy of reality. Avoid them entirely.

- Archive’s body isn’t truly his—it's a mask built from a dead AU 'Sans'. The static eye is where the "mask" doesn’t fit. It’s a scar of incompatibility: his true void-self leaks through, unable to fully align with the vessel. He keeps it closed because prolonged use weakens the vessel, risking collapse back into incomprehensible void-form.

when the eye is open, others don’t just see it—they hear it. A low droning static hum in their heads, like dozens of lost voices whispering at once. It’s disorienting, maddening, and reminds everyone around that Archive is not truly a Sans at all.

3. Collects what seems to be trash.

4. Emotionally muted, but he can still feel.

5. Looks homeless. He also went to other AUs trying to watch AUs without anyone noticing him. Sometimes he took a few things from each au he visits, like clothes, accessories etc. and sometimes he used it, since he doesn't know anything about how to dress well and general look—the accessories crashes making him look ugly, but he doesn't even acknowledge that.

6. Obsessive with collecting forgotten things, even the remembered.

7. He can't swim, he'll just lay underwater lazily without caring about the fact that he is drowning

8. HES ANCIENT OLD, he’s primordial in the sense that he came into existence not from a creator’s brushstroke, but from the first cracks of forgetting itself. Archive was already there—lurking in the shadows of the things abandoned before they even had a chance to fully live.

9. He's OMNIPOTENT IN HIS OWN DOMAIN.