Some Nerdy Skeleton Made You Guys Some Spaghetti

[skelederp]

[Papyrus bursts out of the kitchen of the house of mouse with a giant plate of spaghetti.]

Attention everyone in this quirky establishment! In celebration of me occupying my mun's headspace.

I have decided to make you all spaghetti!

NYEH HEH HEH HEH~!

[Smacks the plate down on the middle table.]

Have at it!

For it is I, the great Papyrus that made you this DELICIOUS treat!

Comments

[trash0stars]

[Well, yours doesn't involve the screams of terrified neighbors, that's already an improvement.

Regardless, she'll just let out a sigh of relief and poke at the dish with the fork some more. She'll probably tell Undyne just enough to let a proper rivalry form, something about the student looking to surpass the master, and that she needed to duel him with glowing fettucine while dramatic music plays.

Sorry, Pap. She's still not that great of a conversationalist. At least she's here, though, instead of panning your pasta on the undernet.]

[skelederp]

[That's alright as long as you're eating his masterpiece. Leans in with his big derpy skeleton grin.]

Do you enjoy it??

Tell me it's the best!

1/2

[trash0stars]

[She tries it, chewing thoughtfully.

It's lukewarm, underseasoned, there's less sauce than she's fond of, and the noodles are still a little crunchy. And yet... this was Papyrus. Even if she mostly knew him secondhand through Undyne (and, debatably, Sans), internet forums, and one really awkward jog together, she still could taste that it had as much love - actual love, not LOVE - poured into it as everything else he did.

It wasn't Mew Mew 2, sold out to the highest bidder and made as cheaply as possible to sell merch--ahem pardon her

She smiles, doing her best to make it sincere. Sincere smiles are still hard.]

It's fantastic, Papyrus. You might need to watch out or Undyne will think you're trying to se--

2/2

[trash0stars]

[Okay, she has to cut that off there. There are some lines not even trash crosses, and that's one. Pardon that choking, it's not because of the spaghetti, honest!]

--surpass her!

[Good save. Good save. #nailedit]

[skelederp]

[Papyrus gave an enthusiastic nod. Then pauses as well at that.]

A-Ah, yes well!

I would not like her to feel troubled at the possibility that she can't beat me at a thing!

That certainly would be well... Sweaty.

[trash0stars]

[oh my god papyrus

oH MY GOD PAPYRUS.

Are you doing this on purpose? Because now the ex-royal scientist is as red as a tomato.]

Y-yes, sweaty. That'd be... bad?

[Except she's a fish. Do fishpeople sweat? Man, she needs to do a science with Undyne sometime.]

Uhm. So!

[Man, Papyrus, why'd you have to get her thinking about sweaty Undyne now she's mentally flailing and the conversation went all awkward.'

The... barely-functioning conversation.]

[skelederp]

[HE HONESTLY HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE'S IS DOING, SEND HELP.]

Well yes, I mean when something is worrisome you sweat right?

[Honestly he's skeleton and he sweats somehow. It must work on the logic of magic or science magic or something like that idk.]

And when you sweat it's embarrassing and you need to get a hanky, it's really troublesome!

[trash0stars]

Well, there's a lot of kinds of sweating! Like when you're worried, or when you eat something really spicy, or when you've been doing motivational jogging with your Undyne-approved motivational trainer, or when you get really excited because the newest Nendoroid figmas have been announced and they have Mew Mew's alternate costume that she only wore in the finale...

[OH GOD SOMEHOW IT'S GETTING MORE AWKWARD WHEN THEY TALK MORE? HOW IS THIS HAPPENING.]

[skelederp]

Oh... Oh, you're right!

There are different kinds of sweating!

Many indeed!

But luckily for me I keep my sweating to a minimum, it must be because I am so cool!

[Papyrus... You're really not...]

[trash0stars]

Well, the lack of skin helps a lot, too.

[Thank you for derailing her before she kept going, Papyrus. Thank you. Though, uh, that was a bit of a faux pas, wasn't it?]

I mean, not nearly as much as your coolness?

[skelederp]

[No problem, even though he just did it on his own method of rambling on about nothing. But that's just his way of dealing with any other social situation so c'est la vie.]

Ah, yes I suppose that would help a bit.

But the without sweat still helps with the constant appearance of looking cool AND being cool.

[trash0stars]

But being sweaty can be a good look, too!

[NOT LIKE THAT]

I mean, uh... if you're really sweaty, that would show you're really hard at work! Like, the guards in Hotland? They sweat a lot.

[NOT LIKE THAT]

[skelederp]

Oh. Hm.

Yes, you may have a good point.

After all being sweaty will show how vigorous you are at work you were and how despite the perspiration you are enduring the hardest elements!

And everyone will see how you put your bestest of efforts into your work!

Then all will admire your talents, like I the great Papyrus!

[trash0stars]

[And maybe more than your talents if you're as buff as the gua--damn it, self]

Plus, you know, sweat is just the body's way of cooling down when it gets too heated up! So it's important to have. Just... only your own.

[Getting someone else's sweat on you is gross unless it's Undyne's DAMN IT, SELF curse you internal monologue, you aren't making this less awkward.]