Going through the Papyrus fight peacefully will allow the user to spare Papyrus giving the player the option to RESET however if you spent enough time trying to fight Papyrus before going through the fight peacefully you'll instead get 2 options, FIGHT and RESET similar to the FIGHT and SPARE options after photoshop flowey. (At some point Flowey will have told Papyrus about resets, saves, and determination) Still not dealing fatal damage, when he lowers you to 1 hp he captures you and puts you in the shed (now with bars spaced close enough together to keep you locked in) with a note saying that he doesn't want to believe he was wrong about you but he can't let you go knowing that you would continue your killing spree and that if you change your mind he'll be waiting for you to reset. Unlike Sans dodging attacks, Papyrus makes use of his powerful bone attacks to block your attacks. He only fights if he thinks it's necessary to stop you from continuing your murderous rampage. Papyrus is trying to find the good in you, not trying to beat you into submission or capture you. Basically he's harder than Sans and does more damage. No makeup, no daydreaming of being a member of the royal guard, and he puts a lot more power into his attacks which he also makes more complex now with gasterblasters too. Papyrus is fully focused on the fight and is serious. Basically if you're determined to kill Papyrus you're not going to find any end in attacking him. Papyrus criticizes Sans for napping for hours and hours every night which Sans calls sleeping but Papyrus has a bed and Sans reads him bedtime stories so it's implied that while Papyrus does sleep he doesn't sleep very long and since he's so energetic he'd be able to keep up the fight unlike Sans who falls asleep. I believe Papyrus would be determined to save you from the evil in yourself even if it meant he had to get rough with you but his kindness would still prevent him from killing you.īefore you encounter Papyrus you're faced with an assortment of complex puzzles laid out by the great Papyrus in order to help you remember the good times you had with everyone before.

Papyrus may still believe there's good in you by the end of the Genocide run but he wouldn't be able to let you continue onward knowing you killed all of his friends. Papyrus isn't putting his all into his attacks and doesn't have any desire to hurt you and only uses his regular attacks so as such his attacks are slow, weak and not very complex compared to how they could be but despite this his attacks are still relatively fast, powerful, and complex meaning Papyrus has the potential to be MUCH stronger of an enemy.īut how can we make Papyrus fight seriously? By putting his fight at the end of a hard mode Genocide route. He never gets to use his special attack which has been hinted to potentially be the gasterblasters. He has literally 0 killing intent and as such his attacks aren't nearly as strong as they could be but yet he still does quite a bit of damage. He stops fighting after he lowers your health to 1 and can't lower your health to 0. He's clearly not putting his all into the fight and is distracted by what will happen when he manages to capture you. Papyrus puts on makeup and talks throughout the fight. In Undertale Papyrus fighting you is probably the least serious fight in the game for a few reasons. I've seen many AU comics and stuff where supposedly Sans dies first and Papyrus no longer believes in you but we all know that's not what his character is actually like since he still believes in you after you kill him but what if Papyrus felt the need to get serious in a fight against you. I haven't seen many ideas related to 'hard mode' posted here other than things like Senior Jumble and 'what if X character absorbed a human soul' or 'gaster/Chara fight' so I'm here to propose another possibility.