My Left Hands Nerves Are Going Haywire Again

may i get more sans chronic pain headcanon lore pls

Absolutely!!!

Sans has chronic pain because his SOUL is weaker than normal and has to work harder to keep him up and about, due to the way he was created (Read here for context on that). Since monsters are made of magic, and their SOULs create that magic to keep them physical and healthy, a SOUL that creates less or weaker magic leads to a monster with less physical strength, or in severe cases like Sans, general chronic pain.

If/when he overexerts himself (which is easy for him to do, since his tolerance threshold for exercise and just general exertion is lower than most monsters) the pain gets worse, as the SOULs sort of self-regulation tactic to get him to stop doing that so it can recuperate. Essentially, when he does anything that's too strenuous, his SOUL downs him so that it can rebuild its magic stores again. He can push through that pain if he needs to, but if he does it'll be twice as bad afterwards, and he'll take twice as long to recover.

Ironically, teleporting takes less magical exertion for him than walking long distances does, which is why he likes to use his shortcuts to get most places. (Teleporting is easy for him because he's very practiced in it, and doesn't take a lot of magical energy unless he's going really far, versus walking, which takes the energy of moving all his limbs and joints and his equivalent of breathing and heart rate etc etc; essentially, walking is a lot more moving parts compared to just 'taking a shortcut')

He also gets migraines because he has really awful vision in his right eye; He can only see light and movement in that eye, which puts strain on his brain (does he have a brain?? Whatever the skeleton magical equivalent is) that leads to migraines. Could probably be mitigated if he wore an eyepatch or sunglasses or something but he's got an issue with trying to present like he's 'normal' because he doesn't want people to perceive his weaknesses and possibly take advantage of them (he has a general distrust for most people).

Similarly, he would probably benefit from a wheelchair or similar mobility aids, but since Papyrus just carries him around most of the time why bother. (plus, then, it's seen as more of a cute sibling dynamic rather than dealing with pitying glances from strangers)

Papyrus also has pain & vision issues, also because of the way he was created, but not as bad as Sans, and he deals with it differently. But that's a topic for a different post! (here's Papyrus Vision too though, since I made it anyway)

I hope you enjoyed this little ramble! I had fun writing it! Feel free to send in more questions if you have any :)

That time Heisenberg stabbed Ethan with a rusty fencepost

Thanks to this one fic project that needed a pornographically detailed list of Ethan’s most memorable injuries, I've spent some time trying to figure out exactly what Heisenberg stabs him with when they first met. Working mostly from a free-camera version from youtube, I settled on calling a metal pipe with a square profile.

Tumblr: I was wrong. The reality is so much worse.

Having cracked the game files and installed my own free-camera mod, I tracked down the original asset for this thing, and, well...

No, really, this is it! Check out those matching cross-bars if you doubt me.

FWIW, it isn’t actually a spear. Those semi-mangled crossbars flag it instead as a spear-headed fence-post. (This may not be a distinction that Ethan would find very comforting after being stabbed with the thing, but there it is, regardless.)

In fact, if you poke around the cemetery area just outside the castle gate, you can even find the fence it presumably came from.

Look in on the cemetery near the church from the lane leading up to the Duke's shop beside it, and this is what you'll see.

It's not a perfect match (in fact, it's even worse viewed from the opposite side, because someone has clearly stuffed up the textures on different sides of the same asset). I'll also note that if you go back to this fence again after meeting Heisenberg, you won’t find any suspicious gaps in it where a post was recently ripped out. So I’m going to just go ahead and assume this particular piece was lying in a pile of surplus scrap in the cellar somewhere, and Heisenberg did not, in fact, drag the thing all the way there from well outside the whole damn building. I mean, at that point, you’re just showing off.

The fence post is, admittedly, pretty hard to get a good look at in the actual game. Unlike all the other crap Heisenberg already has levitating around him in this scene, the fencepost doesn’t appear at all until Heisenberg stabs Ethan with it. It actually seems to emerge at speed from between a couple of barrels at the back. But if you’re enough of a lunatic to play around with the various slow motion/rewind settings that came with the free camera mod, you can get a decent shot of it in flight, cleaning up any remaining doubt that this is the same asset that was used in game.

It even freaking spins in the air as it moves. FTR, yes, it does go in pointy-end first. And the whole fucking spearhead ends up buried in poor Ethan. (Please feel free to insert your own dick-joke here.) Those paying really close attention might even note that the blood on Ethan's shirt is present even before the spear hits him, but that's just going to be virtual-stunt-coordination having a normal one.

I can offer you no similarly definitive insight into why Heisenberg would think stabbing Ethan with this thing was a good idea. I can’t even tell you if he knew for sure that it was Ethan Winters he was talking to at this point (maybe he's just playing dumb, pretending not to recognise him. Or maybe he legit didn't know that Ethan himself had made an appearance until Miranda told him. Sure, he's already got that whole conspiracy board, but finding real pictures of this Ethan-guy is surprisingly hard.) But whether Heis was already testing out Ethan’s ‘interesting body’, or whether he’d just generally assumed that anyone who could survive a full lycan assault on the village wouldn’t be too seriously inconvenienced by a little stabbing, hoo boy was this one way to make a first impression.

I’m not even sure which of these losers is the bigger idiot here: the one who imagined Ethan might still agree to work with him even after inserting a very convincing imitation-spearhead into his intestines, or the one who never thought to seriously question how he keeps shrugging off injuries just as exciting as this one.

They probably deserve each other.

i like water

Minesweeper

April 7th 2025

Got a tetanus and rabies shot. Felt like dying, but we persist

Drew a singular picture, couldnt get myself to animate

Reviewed trigo, started reviewing circular geometry

(4 hours and 6 mins in total)

👑 I rlly like to imagine him more princely than he ever is in the actual game

unrelated. tell me why. I wake up to an entire winter wonderland outside. and unplowed unsalted roads. it's april it's litrally april what the flip

big lights giving me terrible headaches so i shifted to using my lamp and some painkiller

anyway i got terrible sleep- slept at 5 am and wake up by 7.30, im so exhausted and nauseous but eh wtv, the exam doesn’t wait for anyone.

i’m gonna be off my phone all day now (hopefully) cuz even looking at the phone increases my headache :(

okay time to solve papers, bye

have a nice day my loves 🌸

💌

Now give blanket to canon accurate Flowey

... No more nice Flowey...