"Oh." It seems backwards to him, making scary things seem cute and cuddly on first impression instead of going right for cool, spiky, firey sorts of things... but there's no accounting for taste. And certainly most of the carnival people who saw him, back in Wismuth, had seen Papyrus - soft and cuddly skeleton - before they took note of his attire or changed attitude.

Maybe it makes a little sense after all.

"Well, then, mission accomplished!" Papyrus decides with a shake of his head. "Those do sound scary. You haven't noticed anything like that with your shoulder friends, have you?"