Papyrus (Undertale Film)

Papyrus is a character in the Undertale 2025 film. He is the brother of Sans, and lives in Snowdin. His main motive is to capture a human so he can become a member of the Royal Guard, and finally have friends and popularity.

Appearance
Papyrus is a tall skeleton, with a skull more lengthy than his brother, though not by much. Being skeletal, His face is the same as a standard skeleton's with his mouth simply moving up and down as he talks. His eyes are empty orbits, which lack eyebrows. His eyes express emotions by having the edges of his orbits bending up and down, expressing anger, sadness, and more. He has eyeballs which show at times, via popping out cartoonishly, when he is experiencing strong emotions.

For most of the film, he wears his "battle body," an outfit that he created for a costume party. It consists of a white chest plate with gold trim, coquelicot gloves with a golden trim, blue briefs with a golden belt, and knee-high coquelicot boots. A symbol that resembles that of Starman from the MOTHER series adorns the chestplate. He also wears a short, orange-red cape.

Halfway through his date with Frisk, he changes into his "secret style": a backward orange-red baseball cap, a white t-shirt that reads "Cool Dude," (which originally just said "Dude", but he added "Cool" to it to improve its style) small blue shorts with buttons, red gloves with striped orange-red trim, knee-high socks, and red sneakers. He also wears basketballs on his shoulders, likely Mettaton's MTT-Brand FashionBall.

During Frisk's "date" with Alphys, Papyrus arrives wearing a red sweatband, blue shorts, and a white t-shirt that reads "JOGBOY," with pink hearts on the pauldrons. He still wears his boots, gloves, and scarf.

Personality
Papyrus is a flamboyant skeleton who presents a confident, charismatic image of himself. He works hard and, despite his brash personality, is kind at heart. He is optimistic, brave, and considerate. He is also occasionally oblivious and nonobservant (Or, as residents of Snowdin would say, "Stupid"), but can be cunning at times, as seen when he uses reverse psychology to trick Undyne into befriending the protagonist.

Papyrus believes in others just as much as he believes in himself. He has so much faith in his abilities that he waited outside of Undyne's house all night and begged her to accept him into the Royal Guard. Seeing his persistence, Undyne offered to train him, but instead gave him cooking lessons.

His favorite food is spaghetti. He likes to cook it from time to time, though many characters (Frisk included) outright say that he is terrible at it. One of the reasons for this is because Papyrus never ate spaghetti himself to complete the chef's guidebook to cooking by tasting their creation before serving. However, despite everyone's disliking of it, he continues to cook it, believing he will improve more and more on it. He also loves puzzles and japes, as shown by the numerous puzzles he prepares for Frisk as well as his collection of "complex tomes about puzzle creation." Though advanced puzzles may seem cerebral, Papyrus also enjoys children's books and is somewhat childish with the decoration of his room. He also collects action figures.

He has some unexpected skills besides cooking however, such as consistently high-caliber artistic prowess from things such as: being able to paint a rock formation to look exactly like a bridge, creating a snow sculpture to look just like himself but with musculature, to the various puzzle designs he creates for the protagonist. He also has a photographic memory for phone calls, and the ability to perform physics-breaking acrobatics. He also is immune to pain, which Undyne confirms as he jumps out of her window during her date with Frisk, saying "He can't get hurt. He's got no nerves."

Papyrus also watches Mettaton's TV shows, and admires Mettaton so much that he would move to Hotland, despite it being a region that he hates.

Papyrus is implied to have a deep loneliness as he wants to join the Royal Guard in order to be popular, and therefore, loved. Papyrus is shown to not get nearly as much positive attention (or any attention for that matter) from the people of Snowdin compared to his much calmer and more amiable brother, Sans. This is further implied by their mailboxes in which Sans's is packed with junk mail, while Papyrus's mailbox has only emptiness. Papyrus exclaims to Frisk that he has never come across someone who is so much like him in taste, passion, and skill. He further exclaims that he "DOESN'T EVER WONDER WHAT HAVING LOTS OF FRIENDS IS LIKE." clearly projecting his lack of said friends. This desire to be favored amongst the crowd runs so deep that Papyrus will change his opinion on something on the spot just to gel in with the majority, like with his opinion on Grillby's. And this desperation for a true friend leads Flowey to easily manipulate Papyrus into calling the protagonist's friends to the barrier room.

Abilities
Papyrus has a special "Blue Attack" which turns Frisk's soul blue, thus increasing gravity for her heavily, making jumping harder for her. He also has the power to summon magical bones that fly at his targets. Standard white ones hurt when they hit someone, while blue ones only hurt when the person moves through them. If they are standing still, they deal no damage.

Differences from Game Character

 * In the game, Papyrus is oblivious to how people, including Frisk, find his spaghetti. However, in the film, he is aware Frisk finds the spaghetti awful, but is not upset by it, appreciating her honesty, which he thinks is her passion for him wanting to become a better chef.