#swap!baggs

[swapsomnia]

[wishingstarinajar]

The Megalosomnia bug bit me after @thedoctorbang created a Swap version of Baggs so I *HAD* to draw them both. I'm so damn weak for Swap!Papyrus, fudge...

Baggs: @mmishame Sax: @thedoctorbang

[deathisnotyourdestinysparrow]

Hey, @megalommi !!!

I made an alternate version of your boy. I hope that’s cool!

First thing’s first though, I would like to preface that I came up with this guy before seeing this. It looks like I wasn’t the first person to have an idea like this! Props to that anon.

Now, with that out of the way—

Say hello to my alternate version of Swap!Baggs, AKA Nodd!

His dream was to become captain of the Royal Guard. But now, that’s out the window.

After Gaster vanished, Papyrus became the Royal Scientist, but it was obvious that he wasn’t happy in his position. He kept pushing Sans further and further away, and Sans, in turn, steadily became more and more worried. One day, he breaks into the lab to confront him, right as Papyrus is about to perform The Experiment. Instead, Sans and Papyrus have a fight, ending with Sans forcibly taking the experimental “treatment” himself, just so Papyrus couldn’t. At first, it almost seems like there was no effect at all, and the experiment was a failure. But over time, Sans discovers he now has different magical abilities, and an inability to sleep. Sans elects to keep this a secret from Papyrus. He then uses his newfound influence to remove Papyrus from the position he hated, and instate himself as the new Royal Scientist. Despite his inexperience in the field, he’s a quick learner.

Papyrus is more than a little confused about this new development, and a bit suspicious. But he knows everything about Sans. He’s a little blue ball of sunshine, and he’s always been terrible at keeping secrets, ever since he was a baby-bones. He would never lie to his bro, right?

Pap does figure out the truth eventually. He feels conflicted about the power his brother now has, and more than a little concerned that he felt the need to keep secrets from him, and opts to go into hiding while he searches for a cure. Sans has tried several times to find him, to explain that he wasn’t trying to hurt anyone, least of all him, but he’s always failed. He’s thought about getting some… “volunteers” to aid in the search, but he’s afraid that will only complicate things. Besides, he doesn’t actually want to control people. Does he?

As tensions start to run high in the underground, especially in the cities where things are most crowded, Sans changes his name to “Nodd,” and starts offering free “counselling” services to the stressed monsters of the underground, as well as performing a relaxing hypnosis act on night-time TV as a way to keep the populace calm and in check. He also helps to keep Asgore relaxed and clear-headed, so that he can make smarter decisions for his subjects. And sure, maybe not all of those decisions are really made by him. But Nodd’s careful not to overstep too many boundaries. It’s a lot to juggle, and he runs himself ragged daily to keep up with it all.

But it’s okay. Everyone else is relaxed and happy, and the underground is relatively peaceful. That’s all that matters.

He does want to escape the underground, of course, but that's not his main goal. He just wants to maintain the peace. He knows that being released from the underground would disturb that peace, as there would most likely be a struggle against the humans, and a push for everyone to move out to the surface. But he also knows that being free would be better for everyone in the end, including himself. So really, whether everyone gets out or not isn't his concern. His only objective is to keep everyone happy, as childish of an ideal as that is.

On a pacifist run, he serves as a place the player can return to, to quickly relax and get full on HP. He also provides advice, if asked. But if you ask him for advice on something, or someone, he deems too dangerous for a human like you to be fighting, he’ll convince you to walk back a good long way through the underground, to someplace safer, and you’ll have to walk all the way back. He won’t flat-out try to hypnotize you into giving up, though.

On a genocide run, he tries to stop the player in the kindest way he knows how: by putting them to sleep, forever. But ultimately, he fails because he doesn’t have the heart to do it. He couldn’t use his power on you even if he wanted to, simply because he can’t. Stop. Crying.

On the surface, he works at a children's sleep clinic.

So, like… the inspo for this guy hit me outta nowhere like a freight train. I was trying to make a purer, sweeter, non-bastard version of Baggs. Or at least, less of a bastard. Sort of like an Anti-Baggs? Dunno if I hit that mark or not.

Not that I don’t like bastards, though. I love me a good-old-fashioned bastard boy. I just also like sweet little angel babies sometimes, too.

I also wrote a short X-Reader fic about Nodd, because why not. You can read that here if you want.

[swapsomnia]

he just wants to relax n doesnt understand why its so much to ask

[swapsomnia]

very lana del ray sad girl

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he found the perfect shirt for himself

[swapsomnia]

its hard to get along sometimes, but Sax & X still remain friends somehow.

X created by/belongs to Chewy.

[swapsomnia]

happy birthday eve to Doctor Slack! Sax & Slack banter often, & Slack is always looking to push the old man's buttons, but you bet your ass Sax will bake him a cake every year regardless

Doctor Slack belongs to my buddy Solara.