SANS IS NOT BLEEDING KETCHUP OR BLOOD.

It can’t be blood because Monsters don’t bleed. While it’s possible it’s ketchup I don’t think so.

He’s bleeding DETERMINATION.

We all know that in the true lab, a DTE was built to take DETERMINATION out of the human souls, but we never got to actually SEE what DETERMINATION concentrate looks like.

Let’s take a look at the ball game.



These are the colors of the six souls that died before. Each soul color is linked to a specific trait. Chara and Frisk’s soul are achingly similar, despite having completely different goals and perspectives. So what links them together?

DETERMINATION.

And what color is Frisk and Chara’s souls?

RED.

Determination has a very emphasized point in the game. Being able to persist after death(even for a short while), being able to influence the world, being able to go as far as manipulate SAVEs and time itself. Seeing as how the kids are all dead, it’s obvious that they didn’t have enough DETERMINATION(or a high enough concentration) to keep fighting, and we don’t know if they were even able to SAVE or not.

Flowey alone was able to do this until Frisk came along, and Chara was able to destroy the entire world once they had full control of Frisk’s body. Frisk was able to save everyone. Undyne was able to become The Undying.

and Sans is capable of manipulating time or/space. You see this in the game in all paths, even though no one’s sure how.

My theory: Sans and Gaster are a lot more involved with the DETERMINATION experiments than we believed.

Sans and Gaster’s connection is obvious(even if we don’t know just HOW they are fully yet) so I’m not gonna bother with that, instead focus on the True Lab logs.

We have no proof that Alphys made the blueprints for the DTE. There is nothing before leading up to it and nothing about it. Just “using the blueprints.” Where DID she get them anyway? And why is Entry 17 all in WingDings?

And why does the DTE not only look like Omega Flowey, but also have a vague resemblance to the top of a certain weapon we all know and link to Sans?

A concept design perhaps of one of Gaster’s plans that he never got to fulfill and moved on to use it in a different project?

While Gaster doesn’t get credit for naming the soul power, I wouldn’t be surprised if he died during or before his own breakthrough with it. While Sans, and maybe even Papyrus, were caught in the crossfire. Perhaps were even experiments themselves?

After all, Papyrus DID manage to last long enough to monologue even after you gave him a killing blow. Who knows what Papyrus was capable of if he wasn’t so nice and loving

EDIT: I saw this on my own dash nad realized I forgot a piece of my own evidence. My mistake.

Another thing about DETERMINATION with monsters is the fact that they melt.

For those able to get this room, first I’d like to say that Gaster looks a little… blobbish to me. Like he can’t keep a fully solid form with legs.

he also stretches out before disappearing.

As for Sans?

When he starts off, he looks fine.

But isn’t it a little odd that the moment he starts “sweating” he wants to call a truce to dunk you while your guard’s down?

Even more sweating as he prepares his final “attack”.

And once the final attack happens?

He dries up as he catches his reath and falls asleep.

NOT TO MENTION, WHEN HE DOES die…

He goes completely offscreen. We have no proof he turned to ash or melted or even disappeared with a final teleportation before dying.I know it’s fully implied to be sweat, but how do we know that he’s not struggling to keep his form, that he wasn’t trying to hold off from melting as he tried to finish you off for dealing with all that determination?

We all know he wanted to end this fight as quickly as possible, right from the first attack.





EDIT AGAIN: I’m so, so sorry for this dah stretcher. but a few nice tumblr people gave me something to add!

In the snail farm, you can call Papyrus before befriending Undyne and you get this piece of conversation

I have a feeling this isn’t some throw away gag