Some of them...? Oh, wow. [That part gets a little more sincere wonder, even if the existential dread of it all is still underlying. The scale of things isn't exactly heartening for Papyrus, not the way it is for Sans. But that piece draws his attention somehow.
Like photos and books that people still see and read after the creators - or subjects - have fallen. History underground isn't the most popular subject, since it invariably dwells upon their captivity and loss... but it's the most popular with the elderly, those who are realizing that all they know is about to be forgotten, if people don't stop and listen. He's stopped and listened to Elder Puzzler more than a few times, and taken to the more classical schools of puzzle-building in part because of a solidarity of that fear.]
Is there any way to tell which ones are... already gone?
sad headcanons ahoy
Like photos and books that people still see and read after the creators - or subjects - have fallen. History underground isn't the most popular subject, since it invariably dwells upon their captivity and loss... but it's the most popular with the elderly, those who are realizing that all they know is about to be forgotten, if people don't stop and listen. He's stopped and listened to Elder Puzzler more than a few times, and taken to the more classical schools of puzzle-building in part because of a solidarity of that fear.]
Is there any way to tell which ones are... already gone?