Video; YOU WILL BE SCHOOLED HERE

[boneafide]

[The video starts up, and look! IIt's Papyrus, back to normal and definitely not a traumatized king!

To those who have never seen him before, well… He's a skeleton!! A very loud one. He's shouting while gesturing grandly to himself when he starts:]

HELLO, EVERYONE! IT IS I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS!!

Now, you may think to yourself, "WHAT HAVE I DONE TODAY TO BE BLESSED WITH A VIDEO OF THE GREAT PAPYRUS??" The answer is simple!! Be here and have magic jewelry!!

"BUT WAIT!!" You wonder!! "WHY HAS HE DECIDED TO GRACE ME WITH HIS PRESENCE!!" Another simple answer!! I've decided I'm going to teach those here who don't know what certain things are what they are!!

[Starting with the kitchen, Papyrus points at the large refrigerator.]

This is a refrigerator! Also known as a "fridge!" You put food inside of it, and it keeps it cold so you can eat it later!

[To demonstrate the point, he opens the fridge, and inside are six containers all with the word SPAGHET written on them, in Papyrus' hand writing.]

-And before you ask why you would want cold food… you don't! Unless it's meant to be cold. But then you just take it out, put it in the oven or boil it, and it's good to eat again! Usually I use a microwave, but sometimes nothing beats a good ol' bucket of oven-heated pasta!!

Next we have… cameras!!

[And with that, Papyrus holds up a cute looking instant polaroid camera.]

With this, you can take a picture of something, and it prints it out on paper you can keep! I'd demonstrate, but this is Olivia's, not mine. People use it to take pictures of their friends or themselves, so you can always relive the memories of the past!! Unless you want to forget them, in which case, do NOT get a camera, and instead get alcohol!!

Moving on to this!!

[It's deodorant.]

EVERYONE WHO ISN'T USING THIS, NEEDS TO USE THIS.

[One brief moment of staring hard at the communicator later, he continues.]

Now, there's many, many, many, many, many…. many things I still need to go over, so listen up!!

[He turns his communication jewelry to face down at the pile of "modern" objects he's collected in front of him. Said pile includes things like:

a cellphone, a selfie-stick, a scrap of paper with the word "ANIME" on it, an umbrella, hair curlers and straighteners, an mp3 player, a box of spaghetti, and various drawings of things like cars, televisions, airplanes, to name a few.

Perhaps your character even sees something there not listed… ]

Anything you see here, you can ask about, and I will explain it to you!! I will be your educational guide to the future and wonder of modern technology!!

Comments

[boneafide]

I've been told I do that before, and I'm okay with that!

[hiddenlights]

Hnn. You're a strange one.

[But then so is he, so he ain't gonna judge too hard]

[boneafide]

I've learned that that isn't always a bad thing.

[hiddenlights]

[Well--]

You may be onto something, there.

[boneafide]

I am always onto something!!

[ That's a lie. ]

Would I be called the GREAT Papyrus if I wasn't smart and wise and brilliant??

[hiddenlights]

I guess that depends. Did you call yourself the GREAT Papyrus, or did someone else come up with it?

[boneafide]

My brother came up with it!

[hiddenlights]

[Your brother, huh.]


Yeah? And why's that.

[boneafide]

Because he loves me!! And I'm great, obviously!

[hiddenlights]

Lucky you.

[He and his brother had just reached the point where they could tolerate each other before he'd ended up here. At least they're not trying to kill each other anymore?]

[boneafide]

I am lucky.

[ He won't deny it. ]

Even if I complain about him sometimes... I still miss him.

[hiddenlights]

[There's a faint pang in him as he wonders - distantly - if things could ever be like that for he and Kharg, whether time and circumstances would allow it. But there's no point in dwelling on that now, and he says nothing of it]

Yeah, well. You'd better hope you get sent home soon then, I guess.

[He manages to say it with only the smallest taint of tension in his voice]

[boneafide]

Oh.

[ Papyrus pauses. He hadn't thought about it like that. He's always wanted Sans back at his side, but he never thought about it as HIM being the one to go home. ]

I... don't think I want to go back.

[hiddenlights]

[It's a difficult response to understand, at least for someone like him who is so very keen to leave]

Oh yeah? And why's that?

[boneafide]

Well, then I'd be leaving behind Ban and Koltira. And as much as I miss my brother... I think he can take care of himself a little better than they can. But my ideal place would be somewhere where all four of us were together! So I could take care of all three of them!

[hiddenlights]

Hnn.

[that tells him something, in a way. That getting too close to anyone here is probably a bad idea. Something to bear in mind.]

I guess it's unlikely they'd let people go back with you, even if you wanted to. All that preserving the timelines rubbish. So you'd have to stay here.

[He can't have that. Not for himself.]

[boneafide]

I guess... then I would have to stay here. I wish my brother could come here, then. And maybe Frisk, too! But they are also a very important embassador, so it would be okay if they had to stay on Earth.

[hiddenlights]

Don't you have things you should get back to, yourself? If you're as important as you say you are.

[boneafide]

...

[ Yeah. Technically, yes. But also technically no. ]

I don't know.

[hiddenlights]

[Flatly]

You don't know.

[boneafide]

Well, my world is certainly missing "this" me!

[hiddenlights]

What do you mean, this me.

[boneafide]

I mean about the "me" that's here and the "me" that's not! There are a lot of other "me"s out there- across time and space, of course!!

I think it's okay that I'm here. And I'm sure the other "me"s are out there accomplishing things I can't do because I'm here, and I'm here accomplishing things they can't there!

[hiddenlights]

[...well, that sounds confusing. He's not even going to try to get his head around that.]

Yeah, well. Whatever, I guess. If you're okay with being stuck here then good for you. I, on the other hand, wanna leave at the first opportunity I get.

[boneafide]

[ trying to explain time travel and alternate realities is like that... ]

Do you miss someone at home??