Tag: snail rebubbles

the memories ARENT completely wiped tho. almost every major character mentions that they feel like they know you after a reset. sans might be able to piece more stuff together from the deja vu if he thinks about it? theres gotta be some very vague feeling there at least. maybe i just wanna say that because i dont think sans would be THAT depressed if he just knew resets were happening and felt nothing from it in the slightest. definitely doesnt remember literally everything tho, thats just silly

doge-w-a-bloge:

saveloadreset:

First of all, he doesn’t get more depressed as time goes on. His behavior changes only marginally as runs go, and mostly in response to Frisks’ expressions. He’d grow less happy as resets become more common, in that case. And he doesn’t. His mental state remains the same on the tenth run as it was on the first run.

Hm. I’d agree he’s in a better position to make sense of his feelings, since he understands time travel. The thing is, people usually write Sans as if he has some strong connection between the timelines and ability to make sense of it, well and beyond other monsters. I’d argue that he doesn’t even know MORE than any other monster, that Undyne is probably the monster that remembers the most. Make the most sense of the impressions he has? Sure. But ‘memory’ is a strong word for the things that monsters have after resets or LOADs, especially considering how many people consider Sans to have near-total recall.

And anyway, is he that depressed? Like I get that people like to give Sans a lot of existential angst and that’s a fine headcanon, fine but the closest we get to seeing him ever really looking and sounding tortured is, uh, either after everyone he knows and loves is dead or when we’re in LOST SOUL mode, and he seems to be talking about a completely unrelated event.

Anon, you realize that depression doesn’t necessarily need to be triggered by a severe event to *be* severe itself, right? Sometimes it just starts as a screwy chemical imbalance in the brain, that on a good day makes it hard to give shits, and on a bad day makes every downward turn in life twenty times more demoralizing than it’d otherwise be.

I’m just saying, Sans can be depressed without it all being related to timeline angst. He doesn’t show existential despair over the existence of resets outside of NM (where, everyone is dead, at the hands of an unstoppable entity – a really fucking bad enough situation to deal with without having a case of the badbrains on top!), and, like saveloadreset says, whatever he’s talking about in the Lost Soul fight seems likely to be more related to the workshop, Gaster, etc, than to anything Frisk’s done.

THIS THIS THIS THIS

Does Sans remember previous timelines or what? Like when you do neutral , pacifist , or genocide?

saveloadreset:

That’s a pretty common misconception. He seems to be vaguely aware of how SAVING and LOADING functions, and there’s some evidence, between his awareness of Papyrus having died in prior runs and the preservation of the True Pacifist photograph in his workshop, that there is some sort of continuity between the resets that he has access too. 

However, he doesn’t seem to actually personally remember anything. He asks us ‘not to tell the other sanses’ that we were never friends, referring, presumably, to the now-orphaned and soon-to-be-made timelines, with their own version of Sans. 

This line only makes sense if his memories are wiped and if he is as unaware as any other character, brought back to ‘zero.’ The main difference seems to be the fact that, he has some physical continuity, doesn’t he? The photograph hints that Sans can, at the very least, transmit some form of limited data across timelines. Enough to print a photograph, at least, and perhaps a little more. How much more? Well, I dunno, but I feel like he would behave a differently if he was aware of prior runs in any great detail. 

What he says, warning you not to touch Papyrus after you have killed him in a prior run, also hints that he may have some awareness of prior runs … Or that there’s something in Frisks’ expression as they look at Papyrus that sets him off. 

But, does he remember them? Nah. He says it himself in the Kill-All fight, doesn’t he? That the reason he finds it hard to try is that, one day, everything is going to be reset, and “We’ll just end up right back here, without any memory of it, right?” He includes himself in that statement, doesn’t he? He doesn’t remember.

I am more ready to accept that Sans uses tools, ‘readings,’ to figure out things about prior timelines than simply ‘remembering’ them. Persistent memory across timelines, however, seems to be limited to Asriel, Frisk and Chara, with that growing somewhat fuzzy around True Reset. Most of Sans’ knowledge seems to come from intuition, expertise … and perhaps other was related to how that mysterious photo persists across timelines.

Here’s an idea: If professors are upset about students acting like “consumers” (i.e. requesting certain accommodations in their education), maybe those professors should be lobbying to abolish tuition and establish universal free higher education.

Because, guess what? If you make someone PAY for their education, then yeah, they’re a consumer. You can’t charge someone tens of thousands of dollars for something and then ridicule them for treating it like a transaction.

steinpratt (via brutereason)

doge-w-a-bloge:

beforuskanaya:

hmm. more fic where alphys is the first to find out abt thhe chara+frisk combo instead of sans

#if anyone she’d probabl be the first to figure it out #she’s seen the tapes. probably more where that came from too #she’s smart she’d be able to recognize the signs, alphys
working up the nerve to talk to frisk about it. dropping hints that
frisk doesn’t need to keep secrets from her. she understands #and if there’s anything they need to talk about she’s here for them #fck i really wanna wri te t his now #GOD DAMN IT

doooo it. i will be one of the first ones to read it and be grateful forever

IT’S HER AREA OF STUDY!!!!!

prokopetz:

writebastard:

prokopetz:

Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Star Trek seem to experience bizarre malfunctions with such overwhelming frequency isn’t just an artefact of the television serial format. Rather, it’s because the Federation as a culture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles,
tooling around in ships packed full of beyond-cutting-edge tech they
don’t really understand. Endlessly frustrating if you have to fight
them, because they can pull an effectively unlimited number of bullshit
space-magic countermeasures out of their arses – but they’re as likely
as not to give themselves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie in the
process. All those rampant holograms and warp core malfunctions and
accidentally-traveling-back-in-time incidents? That doesn’t actually
happen to anyone else; it’s literally just Federation vessels that go off the rails like that. And they do so on a fairly regular basis.

So to everyone else in the galaxy, all humans are basically Doc Brown.

Aliens who have seen the Back to the Future movies literally don’t realise that Doc Brown is meant to be funny. They’re just like “yes, that is exactly what all human scientists are like in my experience”.

madcap-ian:

“…And her terrifying renegade Pearl…”

One of Pearl’s coolest screen moments in my opinion along side Garnet’s powerful little line right there. So my backgrounds aren’t the best and there is a part of me that thinks I could’ve done better with it, BUT I’m honestly satisfied af with this. I’m pretty sucky with bg’s in general but this one came out pretty decent. I hope I did the whole scene some justice.

Enjoy~!