Summary: Papyrus accidentally kills the small human. When he attempted to grab Frisk's soul he mistakenly grabbed Chara's instead.
Rating: Mature
:Graphic Depictions Of Violence Major Character Death
Characters:
Papyrus (Undertale)
Chara (Undertale)
Sans (Undertale)
Undyne (Undertale)
Grillby (Undertale)
Royal Guard Dog Squad
Frisk (Undertale)
Monster Kid (Undertale)
Mettaton (Undertale)
Tags: Angst, bad Papyrus, Mayhem, Feels, Dissociation, Brutality
Author’s Note: SO! This is fic is actually really old and completely finished! I just felt the need to put it on Tumblr properly. I probably won’t put up the other chapters, but if you want the rest you can go to A03 to get the rest!
He didn’t mean for it to happen. He only wanted to fight the human until he was able to capture them and put them in his shed so he could prove to Undyne how great he was. She was going to be so impressed that she would have had to have let him join the Royal Guard. So then… how did things end up so wrong?
The human had been so kind to him. They solved all his complex and extremely impressive puzzles, they resisted his totally awesome spaghetti just so they could share it with him later, and they even made his brother Sans happy by playing along with his irritating jokes. Why did he attack the human? Was… was he a bad person?
The human had been doing really well during the fight! They were very good at dodging his attacks but he could tell they were starting to get tired near the end of it. He had just sent a really neat bone attack towards the human when they tripped on one of his bones that he had used in a previous attack. His new attack caused bones to jut out of the ground, and when the human tripped they sustained a direct hit from his suddenly not so neat new attack. He wasn’t exactly sure what happened next. The bones from the new attack just sort of went through the small human, and they began leaking a lot of red stuff that looked an awful lot like Sans’ ketchup. But it wasn’t ketchup… and he was very certain that this red stuff was supposed to stay inside of the human.
Now Papyrus was standing still in the snow. His scarf was flapping gently in the wind as he stared down at the small broken human lying at his feet. He knelt down and laid his red gloved hand gently on the human’s shoulder.
“W-wake up Human! Now is not the time to be resting!” Nothing happened.
“Human you must wake up! How am I supposed to share my spaghetti with you if you’re sleeping!?” Nothing happened.
Tears began to fall from his eye sockets as the reality of the situation began to sink in. He had killed the human. He WAS a bad person! No no no no! Th-this couldn’t be happening. He never wanted this. He would never want this!
He held the human tight to his chest as he sobbed into the human’s blue sweater. “Please human, I’m sorry! Please…” Papyrus squeezed his eye sockets shut tight and wept.
Eventually Papyrus looked up and noticed a soft, pulsing, red light hovering above the human. It was their soul! It was so beautiful Papyrus immediately began tearing up again at the sight of it. Without thinking he reached out to grasp it.
He didn’t even notice that the red soul flickered black just before his gloved hand wrapped around it.
The moment Papyrus touched the soul it felt like a lightning bolt was ripping through his very essences. I-it hu-hurt! It was hurting him! His right eye socket felt like it had burst into flames, and waves of pain shot through his body. As he writhed on the ground he cried out in agony, “Help me! Somebody please help me!” The pain abruptly stopped and a voice he didn’t recognize responded to his call.
“I’ll help you.” The voice sounded like it was coming from within his own skull.
“Wh-who are you?”
“My name is Chara, and I really must thank you so much for freeing me from that human’s soul. That was awfully kind of you.”
“You came from the small human’s soul?” He wiped his tear stained face with his bony arm and asked, “How did you get stuck in their soul? Are you a human?”
“That’s not important. What’s important to me right now is helping you.”
“Yes… yes, I need help. My right eye socket feels funny.” He clasped his hand over his eye socket and could feel that it was emitting a strange warmth.
“Perhaps you should look into the river,” The voice calmly suggested.
Papyrus staggered to his feet and walked the short distance to the river before dropping once again to his knees. When he saw his reflection he gasped. His eye socket WAS on fire! No… he was wrong. It was glowing orange and the strange aura moved like it was fire but it wasn’t. He vaguely recalled his brother being able to summon a similar blue eye when he was very angry. It only happened a few times because Sans was rarely ever angry. Papyrus just assumed he didn’t have that ability.
“You didn’t have that ability, but since you killed the mean human that trapped me you have gotten a lot stronger!”
Papyrus didn’t like this at all. He thought the human was nice and he didn’t like the feeling of getting stronger just because he killed something. He wondered for a brief moment how much EXP and LV he had just obtained by killing the human, but he quickly pushed those thoughts out of his mind because it made him feel sick to his nonexistent stomach.
Looking back at his reflection he asked, “How do I make it stop?”
“I believe once you calm down it will go away, but first you need to get rid of the human’s body.” The voice called ‘Chara’ was so nonchalant despite the gruesome task it had just assigned to the skeleton.
“Why would I do that!?”
“You wouldn’t want the town to find out that you killed the human right? What would Sans think if he knew his sweet, innocent, little brother was a murderer?”
A shiver ran up Papyrus’s spine at those cold words. However, he also knew that the voice was correct, and he needed to get rid of the human’s body. His brother would be disappointed in him if he knew what he had done. Maybe he would even hate him. Papyrus looked at the body with dread and said, “I think maybe you’re right, but I don’t want to touch it anymore.”
“That’s fine. This is a good opportunity to try out your new magic. Why not use it to lift the human and throw it into the river?”
Part of Papyrus wanted to tell Chara ‘NO!’ but another part he never knew existed was screaming at him to obey. It’s not like he could gain more EXP by disposing of the body right?
Instinctively he raised a shaky hand and the human’s body turned a glowing orange that was identical to his newest feature. He raised his hand a little higher causing the human’s body to levitate off the ground. Slowly he brought it towards the river and as gently as he could he lowered the body into the turbulent waters.
