papyrus's first lowercase lines! there will be a lot more of these in the future, if it's hard to read, please let me know and i'll write a transcript :)
let it be known that the only reason he's been speaking in all caps at all is because he's more focused on being angry at sans than he is making a good impression. especially because he doesn't WANT to make friends. also mettaton is absolutely living for the drama even if it is a bit awkward
papyrus thinks mettaton is stuttering because he doesn't want anything to do with him. but it's Actually because he's trangenda
also i want to warn y'all know, the timeline of this comic is probably gonna shift around a little because i'm trying to find a comfy spot to put it in deltarune's story. as of writing this, this is about a week or so before the events of chapter 1.
i'm just gonna call this au papyrune for now man i have no idea what i'm doing or how they're gonna leave the dark world when they get to it. just fuckin' roll with it man, okay
i'll be drawing this comic in my simpler style, since my refined style takes far too much work. also, this takes place sometime after chapter 2
You ever want to bring up that Papyrus absence feels weird and creepy and scary but you can't explain why and every utdr theorist refuses to acknowledge Papyrus in a serious manner so you gotta die thinking about it I guess
click for better quality! closeups (and design notes!!!) below just in case!
finished with my designs for mettaton and papyrus for deltarune!! i'm thinking about making an au where they just go through their own dark world shenanigans together, drawn in a simpler style (because good fucking lord). and with that infernal tv. something like that, man, i dunno!!!
thank you to @paintedhen for inspiring my mettaton design - the way they draw him changed my brain chemistry. can't see a dark world mettaton any other way now <3
first up for closeups and notes: papyrus!
papyrus is very quiet and shy, due to having grown up as a weird kid iykyk. papyrus's isolation and fear of his ridicule escalating are what caused he and sans to move towns. now, he worries about being too much.
in the dark world, he has a bit of a ralsei arc, where he starts tentative, but feels more of himself as time goes on. he has to learn to speak up and be his full, unfiltered self before he can truly move forward.
the jacket he wears is reminiscent of sans on purpose. he looks up to his brother, and it's the only muted color on his dark world palette, as opposed to his light world design, where the only remarkable colors on him are his bright red scarf and shoes. in the dark world, he's brighter, but he still carries that heavy self-doubt inside of him. in the light world, he's mostly subdued, but still carries his quirks with him everywhere.
next up, mettaton!
he used to live on his parents' snail farm before moving in with napstablook, hoping to make it as a small-town star. faintly, of course.
he meets papyrus through a sans setup (blooky helped. kind of. not really, they just did whatever sans suggested). due to being pre-robot transition, he has extremely low self esteem. he still goes by they/them in front of his cousins, but he's since confided in papyrus about using he/him. he cycles through fashion phases like the wind, but he doesn't view his own inconsistency as a negative thing. there are so many different ways to be beautiful, and he likes most if not all of them. he just doesn't think any of them suit him.
his body is based on an ipod shuffle, and a turn table of course (the record player's needle is based on box mettaton's arms!!!). mettaton can get rather easily distracted by positive attention, and after a while it starts getting to his head. not enough to outright abandon papyrus, but definitely enough to wander off from time to time.
his cape is intentionally designed to look both like his sheet-ghost-form, and his NEO wings from undertale. mettaton can equip many different kinds of cannons as his weapons, but i forgot to draw them here ToT
his cape-wings also drop pink rose petals when opened!
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