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#''this is papyrus; the guy who was willing to show mercy to someone actively wiping out every monster in the underground
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Do you have any regrets?
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"NOPE!!!! EVERYTHING IS GREAT! BECAUSE I AM GREAT!!! AND SO IS EVERYTHING I DO!!"
#undertale: scattered extension#utse#papyrus / scraps (utse)#ask#anonymous#ic ask#i. actually think he's *mostly* genuine here#he *does* have some past regrets of course. but his really major ones actually happened before even undertale took place#like i said previously. he doesn't actually regret doing the thing that caused him to die as a skeleton#even if he definitely would have preferred *not* to die of course#and even as scraps. i don't think he's done anything that warrants *too* much regret yet?#aside from massively inconveniencing chara with his constant resets gfgdgdf#but i keep going back and forth on that. it's a bit of a struggle to find that balance between#''this is papyrus; the guy who was willing to show mercy to someone actively wiping out every monster in the underground#and who believes that *anyone*--no matter what--can be a good person if they just try to be''#and#''he is in FLOWEY's role. do not hesitate to make him do flowey things. no one would think asriel would do all that either but Guess What''#dgdgsf#i think. he hasn't gotten to the point of Killing People For Fun. and ultimately never does#but he *does* gain that mindset of ''it's okay if i murder people because i can just undo it all with a reset. it doesn't really matter''#and he doesn't reach that#''i am a god and everyone else's lives are just toys for me to play with. i am the player in a game and everyone around me is just an npc''#belief that flowey has#instead he's more like ''i have a goal and if i have to hurt or kill other people as collateral to reach it then so be it.#my ends justify my means because i can just undo my means once i finally reach my end.''
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