FV Open RP post

[spaghettimonster]

This is a catch-all thread for fabulae_victoriana shenanigames!

I'll match whatever style you start with. I prefer to use [brackets] with some joking commentary and thought process descriptions.






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[spaghettimonster]

My brother, jack of many trades...

[What do professional punsters even do? That Snowdrake seemed to have some kind of plan, before...]

Nobody knocked! If they don't knock... They can't hold it against anybody.

[But let's shuffle out of here.]

[bonedoggle]

master of none?

[Yes, let's]

[spaghettimonster]

[Why are all the hallways full of the smell of pancakes?]

How would I know? I'm not a punster. Or a scientist. You're not a master sentry. I can tell you that much.

[bonedoggle]

[It's a mystery.]

well, in all honesty, i never really put my all into the sentry job. it was just somethin' i did to help us get by.

[spaghettimonster]

I know you didn't! All those breaks. Those times you just loitered in the forest by that mysterious door...

[Don't think he's forgotten about that, Sans. It was quite the mystery that plagued Papyrus for ages.]

[bonedoggle]

i wasn't loitering, i was talking to a friend.

[spaghettimonster]

A friend shaped like a door???

[You don't have to tell him if you don't want to, Sans. But please make up more plausible stories if you're going to fib about it.]

[Besides. Leaving your station to socialize in the middle of your shift... well, okay, the dogs do it too. Did it. But they were actually in the royal guard. That must carry some kind of perks.]

[bonedoggle]

yes, papyrus, a friend shaped like a door.

[The good thing about being human, is Sans can deliver some truly flat looks.]

[spaghettimonster]

[Wowie, that sure is an unimpressed expression, Sans. Admire how obvious it is when Papyrus rolls his eyes, now that he has eyes!]

I followed you a few times! I didn't see any friends.

...Unless your friend was a ghost. Sans, are you friends with a ghost???

[bonedoggle]

you didn't see any because she was on the other side of the door.

[spaghettimonster]

One of the spiders?

[Everybody knows one of the groups of spiders has been stranded in the Ruins for... a very long time. And that Muffet's decided to do something about it. But Papyrus didn't know they were much for conversation.]

[bonedoggle]

no, it was, uh, queen torial.

[A sheepish look crosses his face.]

we mostly just told knock knock jokes to each other.

[spaghettimonster]

You... skipped work... to tell knock knock jokes... to the missing queen.

[This makes even less sense than Sans' decreasingly mysterious past as a scientist.]

How did that start???

[bonedoggle]

i was tellin' knock knock jokes to myself one day when she, uh, answered one of them.

[Okay, so maybe he did loiter at that door the one time. BUT THAT WAS THE ONLY TIME.]

[spaghettimonster]

[HOW THE STORY CHANGES WITH JUST A LITTLE PRESSURE. Is somebody's conscience feeling a little guilty?]

I should have known. Bad jokes are addictive, aren't they?

Even when you didn't have an audience... you kept telling them.

[bonedoggle]

i was just bored and needed somethin' to pass the time...

[He knows Papyrus will just ask why we wasn't doing his job, but, what are you gonna do.]

[spaghettimonster]

You could stop any time, right? That's what they all say...

['Because it's Sans and he's a master slacker' is a perfectly good answer. There's no need to ask.]

[bonedoggle]

yeah?

look, i dunno why it bothers you so much, papyrus.

[spaghettimonster]

Because!

You made those jokes when you didn't want to talk. Which was all the time! Distracting me. Changing the subject.

They're just... not very funny, when I think of them like that.

[bonedoggle]

well...

things are different now, though.

[spaghettimonster]

[He glances down at the back of his hand, with all its brown skin and tiny hairs and such. Thinks of the many times they've talked, on or past the edge of tears, hugging and going through things left unspoken too long.]

Hoo. You can say that again.

[bonedoggle]

they're better.

and i'm not just sayin' that, i feel like a weight's been lifted off my shoulders.

[spaghettimonster]

[Sans, your brother is making the most kawaii expression. He doesn't even have an icon kawaii enough to express it! But his whole face lit up at that.]

You're not? Really???

[bonedoggle]

[They can make kawaii expressions together.]

really.

[spaghettimonster]

Oh my god! Sans!

[Papyrus grabs at Sans to hug him, pick him up and spin him around in a circle. It's just a little hard to do as quickly, without the easy hold that a skeleton has.]