I gotta get this out of the way, the timeline is different for this au.
Sans is an older teen/younger adult, and Papyrus is a small kid. Just saying this cuz I wanted y'all to know.
Also since Gaster is alive and well, and also Sans and Papyrus's parental figure (not their biological dad); he's like- Basically caring for the boys a lot. Alphys is basically the main royal scientist, and because Gaster's situation didn't happen, his old 'followers' still work as scientists and help people out. They also advised against Alphy's DT research for monster who'd fallen down, until they were certain that only a small amount would work instead. Soooo those goopy amalgamation guys are all okay.
Paperbag Sans
Long ago, when Sans still worked with the core and the royal scientist, something changed.
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There was a huge breakthrough with the core and how it powered the underground, and the royal scientist WD Gaster decided it would be best to observe this new test up close. Sans followed suit, the other scientists very keen on keeping everything stable from a distance.
That's when it went wrong. One slip, and Sans fell in the core. Gaster and the others did EVERYTHING they could, to pull him out. His entire body was black and burnt when he came out, his face entirely riddled with cracks. Gaster was no better, having directly dove in after him; his face cracked on both sides, hands now with a fresh hole in the middle of both palms.
It took months in the med bay for Sans to recover, and when he did his HP had lowered from 20 to 1. Sans refused to expose his body or face to the world, and was sent off to live with his little brother Papyrus; Sans barely leaving the house.
In solidarity with the incident, a new dress code for all royal guard and scientists was in order, and Gaster was let off to care for Sans and Papyrus at home. It was like this for a long time, quiet and uneventful..
Until a human fell down again.
EDIT: Made the general outfits! Only these parts are universal for all monsters, the rest is their unique clothing preferences. Sans is the one of the only ones whose attire is more unique, because of his insecurity.
The back of Papyrus's shawl is more cape-like, and longer; meanwhile the front half is the same height as standard.
Scientists shawls act more like lab coats, and the King (and queen though not anymore) wear theirs like cloaks.
Royal guards have armour plates attached to theirs, for better protection.
sonic sona, smartypants 15 year old with an attitude, and also lots of emotional baggage to hide in themselves forever (also they're super short so they get mistaken as a younger child a lot)
okay so like it's fine if nobody agrees with me, but i have two things to say about petscop
one: rainer aka daniel, originally meant for petscop to be a kids game, but later turned it into an exposé against marvin and all the horrible shit he'd done
two: i believe that by the real life logic of peoples brains suppressing trauma, and paul having literally no recollection of care, on top of care calling herself paul and behaving like him.. i think that care and paul are the same person, that is to say, that the trans allegory is definitely there. it's just care transitioning into paul, and their brain blocking out their previous trauma. i'm guessing the whole game that paul specifically experiences, is maybe a metaphor for confronting trauma and finding out the truth about marvin.
like again, y'all can disagree and/or share your own theories on the story in the comments; but i believe that care is paul, and that the game itself was an exposé against marvin by rainer (aka daniel, mike's big bro, hence why he'd want to do so in the first place; since marvin is implied to have killed mike)
(weird grubby 'guardian' i was talking abt in tags under the cut btw, just to separate it from lore talk):
first christmas party au redraw! super proud of reaper, still can't fucking draw papyrus for shit
buddy boy's dancing to hypnotic data (also yeah, he's got a mullet)
normal + simplified versions of our sys bc why not- (i just wanted to experiment with the simplified versions)
zargo is transfem converted from transmasc btw, but her pronouns are she/he (because she still likes using he). also-also, zargo's become more humanoid now, but he's still a cannibal.
anyways yeah, the four of us
pressure oc ZP1D4R who acts kinda like a spider sometimes-
also he eats people, he like snuck into the blacksite and ate a few guards and scientists. then they locked his ass up and sebastian freed him later, but he stayed at the blacksite bc he wanted to roam around, and also keep the pAInter company
yeahh...
i never used tik tok, but i want y'all to know to not fall back into the brainrot.
don't let it consume you, don't thank that orange bald toupee wearing shart, just delete it and use another app.
it aint worth it vro-