#Side note: Sans and Kris also have different biology from their family

[descendant-of-truth]

I never noticed until just now, but why are there so many parallels between the skelebros' and Dreemurr siblings' rooms???

Papyrus and Asriel both have their room (or half the room) situated on the left, they both have a computer in them, and they're both vibrantly decorated to showcase their interests/accomplishments. They both have a picture on the wall near some piece of text - a picture that references their species in some way, at that.

(Asriel may not be a flower in this universe but he was a flower in Undertale so it's still relevant)

Their rooms are very tidy, and their beds both have some kind of pattern on the blankets. They've also likely been unused in quite a while, given that Asriel is at college and Papyrus rarely sleeps. You can tell a lot about them by looking at their rooms; Papyrus loves reading and action figures and racecars, while Asriel seems to love stars and flowers and is very successful in competitions.

Sans and Kris, though... their rooms are so barren. No decorations on the walls, no computer, a lamp on a dresser with nothing else on it. Their beds are more unkempt, to varying degrees. They've both got something on the floor they haven't bothered to clean up (Sans's socks, the stain on Kris's floor), and a seemingly random object that doesn't immediately seem like it would have a purpose to their characters.

In Sans's case, that object is the treadmill; he certainly doesn't seem the type to keep exercise equipment in his room. It's possible he put that there to mess with you, as Papyrus asks if Sans is pranking you when he sees you on it in the dark, but his comment on the treadmill itself is vague enough that you could argue whether or not it was always there.

Meanwhile, Kris has the birdcage on a wagon. I don't know what anyone thought its purpose was until the end of chapter 1, but I'm pretty sure no one guessed that it would be a mini soul prison of all things. (Still not sure what the point of the wagon is, though.)

That being said, both Sans and Papyrus have something similarly odd in the bottom-right corner of their rooms: the self-perpetuating trash tornado, and a box full of Papyrus's bone attacks. I don't know what it is about bottom right corners that are apparently a magnet for weird lore, but I thought it was worth pointing out.

Of course, this isn't the only instance of Kris's room that we see, because they also have two custom-made rooms in the Dark World:

The first is made by Ralsei, and it's more or less a mirror image of Asriel's side of their room. There's a few ways you could interpret this, but I think it's fair to say that it's representative of Kris looking up to their brother and wanting to be more like him. Sans may not want to emulate Papyrus, but it's obvious that he thinks the world of his brother, similar to Kris.

The second room has a piano and a giant stack of bath bombs, the latter of which Kris has a history of flushing down toilets as a prank. Sans is also a big fan of pranks, and he also owns a musical instrument (the trombone). In general, there are a decent number of small but noticeable parallels between Sans and Kris.

Likewise, it's fitting that Asriel and Papyrus have parallel rooms in this scenario, given that they were friends in Undertale - or rather, Papyrus was friends with Flowey.

I'm not sure what all these parallels mean in the long run, if anything at all, but it feels like something worth taking note of. I mean, two pairs of siblings across two games with correlating rooms and personality traits? There's potential there

#utdr #undertale #deltarune #skelebros #sans the skeleton #papyrus #kris dreemurr #asriel dreemurr #analysis #meta #Side note: Sans and Kris also have different biology from their family #Sans bleeds while Papyrus doesn't and Kris of course is a human in a family of monsters