@doodlebug-qt reblogged your photoset and added:

It’s just come to my attention that it’s very strange for Papyrus to apologize like that. In a world that they live in, with an individual like Gaster who has never apologized or comforted either of the skele-bros even once, it’s pecular that he would grasp the concept of an apology. You can see it in how surprised Gaster is and how he retracts after Papyrus returns the cube. He’s always so careful about what he teaches them and the ways and steps he takes to deny them even the slightest bit of affection that it stumps him how they know or can even understand the phrase, “I’m sorry.”



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I remember wondering about this when I first did the comic! And now I have an answer, haha. In that childhood period before they got the plates again…

Makes it kind of sad they’d later use these words to beg Gaster not to hurt them, huh.



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