And that was the factor that had been changed, and it was enough that it made Papyrus's ethics almost unrecognizable. Giving up and stopping were two things that Papyrus didn't really do. That absence of hope had been hard to swallow.

Is that why he still feels so flat inside, despite knowing that this was more of a terrible accident than any personal betrayal?

"Yeah, I probably would have done the same thing, in your place," Sans says, more casually than it deserves. "It'd be more in character, anyway. I know I'm kinda..."

How does he say this without being an asshole about it? He doesn't meant to be, but its honestly just the truth, isn't it?

"...The stuff I ended up doing is pretty much everything you don't want to be, right?"