#trousled rambles

like i agree that knight papyrus isn't very plausible from a narrative standpoint, but it's been frustrating to see ppl start acting like it wasn't ever anything more than a silly joke or crack theory. outside of the extremely-obvious-Holidays, papyrus is by far one of the most fitting candidates for the knight's identity & he still has yet to be anywhere near as solidly debunked as basically every other pre-ch3 knight theory has been (other than, again, the obvious)

to me it almost feels like the longer we go without him being involved in anything, more people are starting to treat him like he's just a shallow joke character instead of, yknow, a character

and like. yeah papyrus is goofy as all hell. he is a very very VERY comedic character who i'll admit is rarely, if ever, written seriously, even in the actual game he comes from. but the thing that makes him a great character is when you look at him underneath all that silliness

and the thing is, that's what you do with literally every other character already. that's how most ppl engage with undertale/deltarune's stories in the first place. but when it comes to papyrus specifically, for some reason, people just. don't even want to entertain the idea that there could be anything more going on there at all

all these theories about sans & what could possibly happen in dr for sans to get stuck in ut or whatever, & then papyrus is just like. there. he has nothing to do with anything, ever. even tho he & sans are both canonically stated to have arrived in snowdin at the same time

i have genuinely seen more people suggest that deltarune sans straight up left his brother behind before they ever considered that papyrus could perhaps, maybe, possibly, also be weird & mysterious

every weird thing he ever says is either taken completely at face value or used as evidence for yet another theory about sans and sans alone