#observations&headcanons

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Papyrus is good at painting. He painted a rock formation to look exactly like a rope bridge.

Papyrus is good at putting machinery together, such as his traps. We don't know if he personally designed and built most of them, but he at least set them up.

Papyrus is… good at carpentry, and bad at mock carpentry? He built the "bars" in the path connecting the Snowdin Forest to the door to the ruins, and in the punishment shack. They look perfect. But his cardboard sentry station that he built himself sucks and is falling apart. But maybe that's only because it's cardboard in the snow.

Papyrus is good at lying. Not even Sans notices sometimes.

Papyrus is a complex creature.

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They end up on the kiss cam. Obviously they can't do anything much, so they shoot for a platonic forehead kiss. It's… still incredibly tender. Uncomfortably so.

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The theory that they can be harmlessly dismembered or voluntarily detach pieces of themselves, combined with intent being literally everything because obviously

Papyrus, just completely done with Sans's sh☆t during an annoying argument, pops Sans's skull off and chucks it as far as he can into the forest. Completely apalled, it devolves into wrestling and taking each-other apart as thoroughly as possible until they're both helpless piles of bones still bickering on the ground. (Papyrus, through the magic of sibling bonds and also just making sh☆t up, knows what Sans is probably saying) Someone has to be called in to help put them back together. And find Sans's head.

Or, Papyrus pops his own skull off and chucks it. What does this accomplish? Nothing really. But it felt right at the time. But now he has to go hunting for his own head because he's still mad at Sans and won't accept his help.

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Hey wait. What if this was such a common occurrence that that's why Papyrus wears full body tights (if you interpret those as tights). So his bones can't be thrown around.

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The only times I incorporate Pap smoking weed is if Sans makes his own edibles that nobody knows about. He's incredibly put-upon and it's the only way he can get through the day without ripping his metaphorical hair out. He's been nitpicked by Alphys, had to listen to about 5 different peoples' problems, scrubbed mud out of the carpet that Papyrus tracked in, and now Papyrus is idly complaining about his day over dinner while letting crumbs fly everywhere. Sans just smiles while he takes another bite of those swedish fish he never shares.

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You know the "punishment" scenario where a parent catches their kid smoking, then makes them smoke a whole pack while they also smoke but pointedly looking "adult" and "cool" to try and make the kid feel ridiculous on top of how miserable the overdose will be?

I think of that sometimes when I also think of the headcanon that the energetic bros have way higher alcohol tolerance than the lazy bros. So for Classic and Fell, they try that and it backfires horribly as their little brothers drink them under the table effortlessly.

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L_egant Asshole: I think Sans has the lowest tolerance of all of them. Like, two beers and he's gone. Red has probably a more average tolerance, still on the lower side though. But Edge and Papyrus's limits are nonexistant.

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Acoustic Meatus: It's like that scene from lord of the rings when Legolas and Gimli got into a drinking contest.

*several beers in* Papyrus: HOW STRANGE…. I BEGIN TO FEEL A SLIGHT TINGLING IN MY PHALANGES sans: *falls off chair*

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Papyrus immediately dons a lampshade at parties before he's even started drinking. It's just the thing you do at parties, but there's only so many lampshades in a house, so he gets one early before they're all taken!

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Relating to the topic of height with the skelebros, I always had this scenario in my head that after Papyrus (maybe around 15-16ish years of age) finally finds peace with the fact that he will never grow taller, he grows around 2-3 ft in one night and doesn’t notice until Sans points it out to him.

Idk, I always thought it would be cute if they always had a height difference, even before Papyrus grew taller than him. Not to mention having Papyrus go through a terrifying growth spurt in one night would cause some amusing scenarios lol

Up through age 4, they're the same size. Age 5, Sans grows a little taller. Age 6, Sans is definitely outpacing Papyrus with 3 inches between them. Age 10, Papyrus is finally 4 feet tall. The gap is 7 inches. Age 16, Sans has reached his adult height. Papyrus has not grown at all, and his voice has not changed. But Papyrus is not disheartened! He's still a growing boy! Age 17, everyone (except Papyrus) is sure that Papyrus is just going to be a pipsqueak for the rest of his life. Age 18, Papyrus goes through all of puberty in a single night. Sans tucks him in as a squeaky lil boy and he wakes up Ａ　Ｍａｎ. He greets his brother in the morning with "SANS, I DECIDED TO GRADUATE PUBERTY" as if he planned for it to go this way. For all we know, he did. It's either the only time he's caught Sans so off-guard that he shouted and jumped out of his metaphorical skin, or Sans also treats this as just a perfectly normal Papyrus Thing: "proud of you, bro."

This feels so canon.