During part 8, when she met with HT Sans!

He literally crushed her hand + they fought right after.

She was wearing bandages while it was healing during the interlude, but had to wear gloves at dinner to hide the fact that she was injured in the first place. (They're trying to cover up the fact that she 1. went to Ebott without permission, 2. dragged Blue along with her, and 3. Axe attacked and hurt someone all of the sudden.)

Update: that's also why Rus called her out for "reeking of dust" (+suspects that she fought with someone/is hiding things from them) during part 9, and the reason why Edge and Black start arguing about responsability, etc, later on

I noticed you made a visual difference between everyone’s text bubbles- could we maybe- get a full reference for each of them? For those who haven’t learned the difference yet-

Well, not “bad”, with 10+ characters present+1 page every other day, things are bound to be a bit confusing, but I'm genuinely curious about who you thought was talking all this time, since he's been on so many pages lately x)

The visual cues vary by chapter/situation, but you can usually tell them apart by the font and the speech bubble (and most important, context clues. If you still can't, then I prbly messed up, which is possible too, my bad).

Part 9 works like this:

UT Sans, lowercase, black, Comic Sans, white background UT Papyrus, uppercase, black, Papyrus, white background

US Sans, uppercase, black, Comic Sans, white background US Papyrus, lowercase, black, Papyrus, white background

UF Sans, lowercase, white, Comic Sans, black background (white outline or no outline) UF Papyrus, uppercase, red or black, Papyrus, black background (red outline)

SF Sans, uppercase, purple, Comic Sans, black background (purple outline) SF Papyrus, lowercase, purple, Comic Sans, white background (purple outline)

HT Papyrus, lowercase and uppercase, black, Papyrus, white (transparent) background

Mel, lowercase and uppercase, black, Myriad, white background.

Frisk, lowercase and uppercase, white, Arial, black background ( starts with *)

Not yet!

But it's a significant enough element of Mel's past to be mentioned in the coming chapters!

Until then, feel free to tell me your theories *smirk*

Is small a variation of Gaster? Or is this more-so foreshadowing the bond they have with him? (Loyalty or something.) Or something else entirely?

Rest assured, dear anon, I'm not done with those two yet! Like all the characters in TMS, Axe and Sweet also have an important role to play, and they'll have their moments in future chapters. I can even tell you that they have a lot of off-screen stories to share already.

As for Chapter 9, that’s a fair observation. Usually, Gaster only appears in TMS when he is mentionned and shown bc characters are remembering him/being reminded of him. They are meant for the Reader's eyes. But in some very specific instances, under very specific conditions, it has another purpose.

I'll let you ponder which one this is about.

Extra: Mel (I’m assuming you were referring to her when you said “small”?) knew a version of Gaster—this was hinted at in Act 1 and confirmed during the interlude and Act 2. The details of this relationship are… unclear. Though that won’t be the case forever. But for now, it does rule out the idea that she’s a copy version of him.

Mostly worried about Axe, Mel and Blue's safety (+injuries, etc).

Papyrus was relieved to learn that Mel didn't run away bc of something he did or said while they were training though (+Blue wasn't some kind of hostage, that's a relief).

UF Sans and Classic Papyrus?

Well they already met in the canon of TMS so that's a story for another day I guess? xD

Black sounds like the type to own either an old school motorcycle with flame patterns painted on it and spikes(bc old models are freaking fire sometimes, pun intended) or a very modern one with purple shine to it

And he'd be like a scary-looking motorcycle parent who every child fears. Like, imagine Frisk telling him they'll be late for school and Black goes "...*loud sigh* Alright, hop on" and when they arrive the kids are just staring at the two with Frisk sweetly smiling and Black not changing in the face, remaining rather stoic through the whole exchange before driving off

And Mel would be the scary-looking motorcycle parent who's actually like the sweetest parent in the whole town

He owns both but you won't get to see it cuz I don't have the patience to draw vehicles *sob*

Nailed the interraction though, it really sounds like something that he and Frisk (Mel too) would do xD He usually only takes them out for special occasions but Frisk knows how to be convincing.

He's flattered you requested more of his amazing impressions, haha!