Whats Up With Sans?

[Lux]

I'm fully aware that it's just the way the game goes with the whole judgment thing, but howcome Sans never gets involved with us while we're playing? Let me explain this a bit better.

While going through the Pacifist route, Sans states that he'll "keep an eye-socket out for us." However, no matter how nice you are to everything Sans will never actual be there to protect you. He pretty much just watches you die over and over. He could talk other monsters out of hurting you, or just be more helpful in general and actualy be there when you need it. I'm also aware that if Sans did help us, the game would probably fly by much faster. But, honestly. He couldn't help us even one time?

Durring the Genocide route, Sans also just sits there and watches you kill everything. He has the power to stop you from killing his friends and his brother, but he doesn't get involved at all and just lets you destroy everything. It's only once you've killed everyone durring the end of the game that he gets involved with you. I don't know about you, but wouldn't you want to do something if your sibling was about to die? Wouldn't you want to try and stop the bad guy from hurting innocent people?

Again, fully aware this is just the way the game goes, but I couldn't help but become curious about Sans's option of just sitting there watching you instead of doing something when he has the power to. Is he just too depressed about the whole reset thing to even care about trying?

[Dani]

Originally posted by Lux:

Is he just too depressed about the whole reset thing to even care about trying?

Yep.

[Xan42]

I believe one of the reasons he doesn't attack you for majority of a genocide run is because of the promise he made to Toriel. I believe it's one of the reasons he didn't attack you while you were at a lower LV.
But, as you suggested, I think the main reason is because he knows you have the power to load the game. Why bother trying to save Papyrus when you'd just load the game over and over until you killed him? This reason for his apathy applies to any run as well. Why bother accomplishing ANYTHING (like getting to the surface) when you're just going to undo it all by loading or resetting?
It's also probably why he doesn't help you that much even during a pacifist playthrough. What help could he provide to someone who can cheat death and is able to try any challenge over and over again until they succeed? And why should he help you when you're just as likely to kill him in the next timeline now that you've been nice to him this time?

[cola_collie]

Originally posted by Lux:

I'm fully aware that it's just the way the game goes with the whole judgment thing, but howcome Sans never gets involved with us while we're playing? Let me explain this a bit better.

While going through the Pacifist route, Sans states that he'll "keep an eye-socket out for us." However, no matter how nice you are to everything Sans will never actual be there to protect you. He pretty much just watches you die over and over. He could talk other monsters out of hurting you, or just be more helpful in general and actualy be there when you need it. I'm also aware that if Sans did help us, the game would probably fly by much faster. But, honestly. He couldn't help us even one time?

Durring the Genocide route, Sans also just sits there and watches you kill everything. He has the power to stop you from killing his friends and his brother, but he doesn't get involved at all and just lets you destroy everything. It's only once you've killed everyone durring the end of the game that he gets involved with you. I don't know about you, but wouldn't you want to do something if your sibling was about to die? Wouldn't you want to try and stop the bad guy from hurting innocent people?

Again, fully aware this is just the way the game goes, but I couldn't help but become curious about Sans's option of just sitting there watching you instead of doing something when he has the power to. Is he just too depressed about the whole reset thing to even care about trying?

The reason sans only stops you in the end of the genocide run, is that he knows that you have the power to reset time and even when he kills you you're just gonna come back stronger. He only fights you in the end because he finnaly gets the courage to fight. (I think he doesn't really want to stop you, he just wants to punnish you for your actions.) He doesn't save papyrus because he knows that he can't truly stop you from killing, because you will just reset after death. That he knows about the resets is also a main part of his charcter and the reason why he doesn't really cares annymore about the world he lives in. That's also the reason why he doesn't help you in the pacifst run, because he knows that you can't really die, wich lets him think "I don't really have to care about it"

[revolver ocelot]

well buddy what about resetting? it may or may not be that he is the one resetting the game to see you trying and about the killing part he can just reset everything it could that he has the power that "you" have the power to reset beacuse lets admit it sans has already godlike powers teleportation,telekenises those are kinda godlike powers i would add time travel but some people think it is not but in short i think that sans the one that controls the game and just plays around we do not know hes tale so it will be hard to judge everything i guess we need to KETCHUP with life or even we MUSTARD get better education and wait for more answers

[Cirno]

https://soundcloud.com/user-659196683/r34-undertail-sans-sexyskeleton-cute-nsfw-asrm

[Myth]

I believe its because that sans knows that if you make it past ASGORE that you will ERASE everything due to the following lines: "You'll keep consuming timelines, over and over, until... well take it from me kid, you need to learn when to QUIT." and "Guess thats it huh...? just... don't say i didn't warn you"