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I was reading your response about the older dead brother... Now I'm wondering/thinking. If every Au has a dead brother... Doesn't that mean that there is an Au (or multiple Aus in that matter) where none of the brothers die. Also, cause I'm a brat, but only if you're up for it, how would each papyri lives be different had the dead brother survive? Only do the Sans if your in the mood.

Lol—actually? For the non-Twist ‘verses, the younger brothers wouldn’t exist. In those verses, Gaster made the 2-series boys because the 1-series skeletons proved to be so fragile.

So it would actually end up with Sans and Rus or, in the Fell-verses, Slim and Red only—no 2-series boys at all, except in the Twist-verses. The Sans-es would be older in the non-Swap ‘verses, and the Paps would be older in the Swap ‘verses.

(There’s actually a really wild rabbit-hole you can go down, figuring out how many possible combinations of Papyrus-es and Sans-es there are if you use my background headcanons. @crushingonsans and I stayed up super late one night, calculating it out. The number was obscenely large. This is part of the readson I don’t actually treat my AUs as a result of the “many-worlds” theory. They’re just an after affect of the magic used to create the barrier.)

Cash and Plum would have a younger brother, though—a younger brother that would be a lot like Papyrus (or a mix of Papyrus, Edge, and Twist).

So, if none of the brothers had died—

Undertale:

Sans and P1 would have been brothers. I’m gonna go ahead and call P1 “Honey”, because that’s what he’d be like. He’d be quiet and shy. With a tendency to laugh too loud—only to immediately get embarrassed about it. Smart though. Unlike Papyrus, Honey’s more into books and theoretical mathematics as opposed to applied mathematics and engineering.

Sans would be...honestly, pretty unbearable. He’s overprotective in my headcanons, but Papyrus chafes under that protection. He fights it in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. Honey would just accept it, even if he doesn’t like it. This is a bit of a bad brother au, frankly. Sans thinks he’s doing the best thing for his little bro—especially considering his delicate health!—but he’s really, really not. And Honey just won’t stand up to him at all.

There wouldn’t be any platonic Undyrus here, but I think Honey and Alphys would have an online friendship.

Underswap:

We’d have Stretch and...I don’t have a nickname for Sans as the younger brother. Uh? Fuck it, I’m calling him Sans. So, Stretch would be the older bro, and I’m afraid he’d also initially have a bit of an overprotective streak? But I think Sans would end up just sort of...leaving? He’d come of age. He’d leave. Probably get a job at the castle working for the queen. (Maybe dating the queen?) He’d really resent his older brother, and do his best to keep away from him.

Stretch would be miserable as a result. Probably drinking himself into an early grave. He’d feel his brother’s distance and dislike very keenly, and blame himself for screwing up their relationship. Hopefully, Muffet might step in and help him get back on his feet, get help or counseling.

Underfell:

So this would be Slim and Red—but let’s call them Pup and Cherry. At first, I thought these guys just...wouldn’t survive? But I think, maybe, they could. Cherry would still have that period of going semi-catatonic, and Pup would still seek out help from Muffet, but this time, with Pup’s fragile health, she’d decide that making them into sweet-pieces would be her best option to turn a profit.

I can’t decide if she’d sell them both or keep Pup for herself as a status symbol. Either way—they’re sweet-pieces.

Swapfell:

It’s Red and Slim again, but let’s call them Mutt and Crimson.

Mutt would be the older brother here. I don’t think the queen would have had the same interest in Crimson that she would have had in Razz, so she probably would have given them both longer leads. When Alphys rebelled, Mutt and Crimson probably would have gone with her. Crimson would end up working more closely with Undyne and Mutt would work with Alphys. The rebellion would have taken over much sooner, so by the time Frisk came through the Underground, they’d have been out in Snowdin, acting on behalf of the new Empress.

Swaptwistfell:

This got long. Wow.

This is a Twist-verse, so all three would have made it through here. The youngest brother is a P2 model like classic Pap, Edge, and Twist. Let’s call these guys Plum, Money, and Crisp. I’m calling Plum by the same name because he’d be virtually unchanged. His younger brother’s death was meaningless to him; he is an actual sociopath.

Money’s still pretty similar, but the main difference is that he’d actually have someone he cared about; Crisp. It would anchor him to the “family”, but it would also result in worse fights between him and Plum. In the normal ‘verse, they’re not violent, but here, I think they would be. So Money would be even angrier, more bitter, and more distrustful, because he never would have gotten out.

Crisp would be a lot like classic Pap in some ways. He’d be part of the guard’s engineering corp, and so he’d throw himself into his work building traps to escape his unhappy home life. He’d probably befriend the man behind the door (Asriel), and might even be able to coax him out into taking the throne from his mother. With the Queen exhiled, Asriel would be able to put this ‘verse back on track. It would be more Tale than Fell. Plum would likely go with the Queen, and the two Papyrus-es would finally be free. Money would still be pretty hard for Crisp to draw out of his shell, but he’d manage in time.

Twistfell:

Let’s talk about Sans and Blackberry. (I’m out of nicknames. I’m sorry.)

Blackberry would probably be a lot more like Blue? Softer and sweeter. Less prone to poisoning people. He’d have two older brothers to keep him safe after all.

I...want Sans to live here? I really do? But I’m having a hard time believing Twistfell Muffet would let Twist keep a semi-catatonic monster around the way Fell Muffet did. I don’t know. Maybe Twist stashed him somewhere. Let’s assume he lives, or this exercise is really very pointless.

Between Sans and Twist, I think they’d actually overthrow Muffet before things got too bad. So Twist wouldn’t be as scarred up, he wouldn’t be claustrophobic, and his LV wouldn’t be as high.

All three of them would run a Hotland gang with Blackberry as the face of the bakery, and Twist and Sans doing the dirty work behind the scenes.

#gang’s all here #imagines #headcanons #au #au papyrus #au sans

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