A fic exploring Papyrus being the spechiel one, where Papyrus and Sans are experiments of Gaster a la of course. Shit goes down, the core fucks up, and them and Gaster+his team almost fall into the core. Que badass Papyrus powers saving them (of course making this not canon a la no people vanishing from existence). However this is at a price as, while Sans experiments focused on determination, Papyrus’ focused on the void itself. As a result, Papyrus is often called by the void, is compelled to merge with the void etc. He was always good at resisting it, but when he saves anyone and actually, very briefly, touches the void, it’s a lot harder. Que the team moving to Snowdin to help protect Papyrus while trying to figure what the fuck is up with him. Staring Gaster, Papyrus and Sans being little shits and talking in WingDings to confuse the fuck out of Grillby. But yeah, a different approach to the various experimental AU’s, where Gaster isn’t 110% evil and Papyrus is the angst source.
The second one, which of course has three parts because I cannot control myself, is the Papyrus = Gaster fic I’ve been vague blogging about every once in a while. It will have the similar pull to the void but it being Gaster and it being more hallucinations, confusion, temp amnesia, etc. for poor Paps. Frisk shows up, they make the happy, Gaster is able to briefly appear for Chara (where Chara was close to Gaster because fuck y’all) and yatta yatta. Papyrus, propelled by Gaster, tags along with Frisk and Sans does too and they have to deal with trying to get Frisk home + Papyrus having difficulties keeping himself as himself, as Gaster and the void shift, unknowingly trying to take his place. Stuff happens, they get to Asgore, Papyrus disappears, Frisk + Sans fight, they’re at the end part, Flowy tries to kill Asgore but is stopped by Sans, Papyrus shows up, a horrendous form of part him, part gaster, part void, and part the lost human souls. He is able to get Chara to temp leave Frisk’s body and he breaks through/disintegrates the barrier resulting in the loss of the other children’s souls into the void (or are they?), and Chara coming to in a flower of her own (cue flower siblings shenanigans), and resulting in a shut down of the SAVE and RESET function as Papyrus collapses, the void contained inside his body. That’s part one, part two is short with them experiencing the human world, Papyrus having nightmares, Skelebros looking after a kid and two flower kids, etc. It’s wonderful and happy only not. Papyrus giving in to the call of the void to return (aka go back to the core), everyone pulling FRIENDSHIP to rescue him, the lost souls coming back in a very different form, and the void finally leaving, only resulting in Papyrus suffering from having his soul mix fully with Gaster, which results in long healing (part 3) and yeah...