i love the pocket of neutrality geno lies in. not evil enough for the bad sanses. not heroic enough for the star sanses. powers are too lame to be part of the epic sanses. i like to think he’s smack in the middle of all of it. he’s thst person who’s like “oh i know a guy” he knows all the guys. every single one of them. not a guy that he hasn’t met
nightmare WOULD have recruited him if it weren’t for the fact geno is so unbothered by him. he’s the sort of raging hypocrite nightmare loves, but this guy has literally zero fucks to give. and he can’t leave his little pocket of void anyway so what’s the point.
geno’s probably met dream or ink. i have no doubts he’d get along great with swap, being close enough go geno’s papyrus. he’s probably on good terms with all the stars
i don’t know much about the epic sanses (?) aside from the basis/key details of their backstories but i think they’d get along pretty well— delta and color being classic variants and whatnot, and epic being generally chill as well
i just think it’s so funny that i literally feel like i could put this guy in a room with ANYONE and he’d honestly be fine. he’s got the canon sans chillness to me. he wins most amicable guy award
geno having classic’s level of chillness perfectly encapsulates his vibe to me. putting him in any specific group (bad sanses, star sanses, etc.) feels like you’d have to push for him to really gaf
geno is always on the outside looking into the “main” conflicts surrounding the dreamtale brothers or error and ink. geno knows error. geno would also likely know ink or dream or nightmare in some way. geno is paired up with reaper most of the time. geno could chill with cross or epic and have a good time. geno could be dropped into the classic+swap+fell+horror group and fit in just fine
geno is just that guy. loved by all and welcomed too. not fully drifting from group to group but existing in his own bubble
most of geno’s multiverse interacts that i’ve seen involves reaper or error or fresh! and fresh is another character that doesnt exist in any specific group but could fit into them easily. they all have their own unique dynamics that i just adore
AAAA YOU GET IT!! i do like geno’s little “bubble” being what is typically considered his family (error and fresh and reaper, sometimes after and paci if they’re mentioned at all) but his lack of both fanon and canon interaction with the rest of the multiverse is a big portion of why i like exploring his relationships with other characters so much.
his stance is so neutral that it’s almost strategic. it’s wild to me. it’s why (and sorry for this tangent in advance) i SERIOUSLY had to consider the hermit when looking at what tarot card best suited him— not quite so much just for his character, but for my interpretation of his multiversal role, albeit a little more symbolically.
i love the headcanon that classic is royal judge and i love putting it on geno as well. i think he’s observant in the same way. knowing every big player in the multiverse means knowing a lot about what’s going on in each side, and being brothers with two of the biggest multiversal players is even better. (i like your point about fresh being similarly neutral!! the cq siblings all have that weird bubble to me— the only difference is error, who, rather than fitting into none of the groups, fits partially into multiple of them)
pointing at your tags and waving my arms around incomprehensibly!!!! i would love to hear you talk about epic. i haven’t gotten around to reading any of the epic sanses original stories yet so i’d love to hear it!!!
cross dynamic with geno is something i thought about after underverse 0.7.2!!! it’s actually one of the easiest interactions he’s probably had with any other au. i’d like to think that either after the events of underverse, or in another multiverse, aftertale as a whole would be a second home to him. i need geno and after and ink and cross to have tea parties together. i need killer to get away from nightmare and join them. color drops him off and picks him up. i think they would all benefit from this















