Papyrus (Character)

Papyrus is a fictional character in the 2015 role-playing video game Undertale by Toby Fox. He is introduced as a comic relief and acts as the second main boss of the game in the area Snowdin. He wants to capture humans in order to become popular and become friends with everyone even if it is a human. He is one off the most popular characters in the game along with Toriel, Flowey, Undyne and Sans.
History and appearances
In Undertale
Papyrus is a skeleton wearing a white shirt with red marking (a reference to what the Starman in the video game with heavy inspiration of Undertale, Earthbound also known as Mother in Japan has on his chest), black sleeves with red cloves, black trousers with blue pants with golden stripes across his pants and red boots. Unlike Sans, he has two outfits in the game including his dating outfit which he calls his Cool Dude outfit and his jogging outfit which displays Jogboy. Prior to the events of Undertale, he had moved to the settlement in Snowdin from an unknown location with his brother Sans. Sans is basically the opposite of Papyrus since he's lazy, doesn't want to capture any humans and even shown to be depressed (evidence by the genocide route of the game) because of what he thinks that when Frisk crosses the barrier, they'll reset the events of their journey, which affects him more than anyone else in the game apart from Flowey.
Papyrus first appears in Snowdin, after Sans hides Frisk behind a lamp that's shaped like themself, Papyrus checks on Sans, ignoring the lamp that sans hid Frisk in, he complains to Sans about him being incredibly lazy by not doing his work of capturing humans, making puzzles for them and his bad puns, he tells Sans that he'll become popular after capturing a human, he'll be apart of the Royal Guard and that he'll have lots of friends and that he'll bathe in the shower of kisses every morning. After he leaves Sans to calibrate the puzzles, he later finds Frisk alone along with his brother, though confuses them as a rock at first, is excited about the fact that the human is there and proclaims that he'll capture them.
After Frisk fake hits Undyne and her house gets burned down, Undyne will join Papyrus whenever Frisk calls Papyrus,
When Toriel Interrupts Asgore's fight with Frisk, Papyrus meets Toriel for the first time though he confuses her as a clone to Asgore at first and gets annoyed by Toriel and Sans for their bad puns, he also states that this is the worst ending possible, after every main Undertale Character except Mettaton, appears on screen together, Papyrus reveals to Alphys that Flowey told him to call everyone except Toriel. When Flowey kidnaps Papyrus and the gang, before Flowey kills Frisk, all of them stop Flowey from harming Frisk, but Flowey absorbs all of the monsters souls except Napstablook to form into Asriel. However if you spare him, Papyrus will reveal that he was actually afraid, but is glad that Frisk is becoming a better person, he also doesn't mind that he didn't capture you and he also talks about getting out of the underground and Asgore like normal and will ask if they want to hang out with Papyrus. (This will abort the genocide route if the player chooses this) When Frisk talks to Sans in Waterfall will say that he is glad that Frisk didn't kill Papyrus but doesn't ask Frisk if they want to go to Grillby's with him due to every monster in that town apart from Papyrus, Sans and Monster Kid evacuated from the town.
In Deltarune
Although Papyrus doesn't appear in Deltarune Chapter One, his brother Sans told Kris that they can come to his house and meet his brother.
In other media
Papyrus has been the subject of many fan works and projects, being featured in numerous games, creations, and video game mods most famous of which is Undertale: Disbelief Papyrus which is about what if Sans fought against Frisk in Snowdin and that Papyrus actually was the one to see all of his friends die in the Genocide Route
Development
In the Undertale Art Book, it's revealed that Papyrus was going a creep who wears a fedora and have no redeeming qualities, his favourite show was going to be My Little Boney (a reference to My Little Pony). This was changed to Papyrus being more friendly because a mean spirited character wouldn't fit the game and it's lesson on to be kind to others.
In Toby Fox's Twitter page, Toby Fox said that Papyrus was originally Times New Roman
He is one of the characters who does not normally use the default font in his dialogue; rather, it is usually displayed in a uppercase Papyrus unlike Sans, he always uses this font and it's always Uppercase when talking even if he's serious, speaking of Sans, he is often paired with him and is also named after a font of the same name.

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