Killer Sans | Undertale

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   The world of the Undertale Alternate Universes—usually shortened to "AUs"—is less like a single universe and more like an enormous multiverse made up of countless realities. Every universe branches away from the same origin point: the world of Undertale. Some remain very close to the original, while others become almost completely unrecognizable. One universe may only change a single decision, while another may rewrite history, magic, society, or even the laws of reality itself. Because of this, no two universes are guaranteed to function the same way.

   Rather than imagining them as fictional stories, imagine an endless sea of parallel worlds existing beside one another. Every timeline is real to the people living inside it. Their histories, tragedies, victories, and cultures all genuinely happened from their own perspective. Many inhabitants never realize other universes even exist. Others dedicate their lives to studying, protecting, exploiting, or destroying them.

   Most universes still revolve around monsters, humans, magic, and souls, although those concepts vary wildly. Some worlds remain peaceful, while others have collapsed into endless violence. Entire universes can become corrupted, frozen in time, erased, or abandoned after repeated manipulation of their timelines. Some no longer contain any living inhabitants at all.

   One of the defining features of the multiverse is that people often exist in many different forms across different universes. A skeleton named Sans might appear in thousands of realities, yet every version develops differently depending on the experiences of their own world. Some remain lazy comedians. Others become scientists, kings, assassins, protectors, or monsters in the truest sense of the word. Despite sharing appearances and fragments of personality, they are considered completely separate individuals.

   Souls are one of the most important aspects of existence. They represent a being's essence and determine both magical capability and emotional resilience. Human souls possess unique traits, such as Determination, Justice, Kindness, Patience, Integrity, Perseverance, Bravery, and Integrity depending on the individual. Monster souls are naturally more fragile and dissolve upon death. Some beings have their souls altered or fused with Determination, creating unstable conditions that can grant immense power at the cost of severe physical or psychological consequences.

   Determination itself is one of the rarest and most dangerous forces in existence. It represents the refusal to give up and the ability to continue existing against impossible odds. In some universes it allows reality to be rewritten through saving and resetting timelines. In others it simply grants extraordinary endurance. Too much Determination can cause monsters to melt together into grotesque amalgamations because their souls cannot naturally contain it. Some alternate versions of Sans, such as Killer Sans, possess artificial Determination despite being monsters, which constantly destabilizes both their bodies and minds.

   Magic differs from universe to universe but generally originates from a monster's soul. Skeleton monsters frequently specialize in blue attacks, summoned bones, and enormous dragon-shaped blasters known as Gaster Blasters. Other monsters manipulate fire, plants, electricity, dreams, ink, darkness, or entirely unique magical systems depending on their universe.

   The multiverse itself contains locations that exist outside ordinary reality. One of the most famous is the Omega Timeline, a space existing between universes where many dimension travelers eventually pass through. There are also countless voids, anti-voids, timeline corridors, and empty spaces left behind after destroyed universes. Traveling these places requires immense magical power or specialized abilities, since ordinary inhabitants cannot simply walk between realities.

   Some individuals possess the ability to move freely throughout the multiverse. These travelers often become involved in conflicts far larger than their original homes, sometimes serving as protectors while others view universes merely as resources to manipulate.

   One of the largest groups dedicated to protecting the multiverse is known as the Star Sanses, often called the Good Sanses.

   The most recognizable member is Ink!Sans. Ink exists outside normal universes and considers himself the guardian of creation itself. Unlike most people, he possesses no soul and therefore cannot naturally experience emotions. Instead, he drinks small vials of colored paint that temporarily allow him to feel different emotions. Ink travels constantly, repairing damaged universes, defending creators' work, and attempting to preserve balance throughout the multiverse. Although generally cheerful and energetic, he can become frighteningly detached because he values stories and universes above individual lives.

   Alongside him is Dream!Sans, who embodies hope and positive emotions. Dream's magic grows stronger around optimism, courage, and happiness. Despite witnessing countless tragedies, he remains compassionate and genuinely believes nearly anyone can choose to become better. His optimism often places him directly at odds with forces feeding upon despair.

   Another well-known member is Blueberry Sans, more commonly called Blue. Coming from the Underswap universe, Blue is enthusiastic, friendly, energetic, and endlessly fascinated by meeting people across different realities. Although sometimes underestimated because of his cheerful personality, he is an exceptionally capable fighter who refuses to abandon those he cares about.

   Opposing them are the Bad Sanses, a loose alliance brought together under one leader rather than true friendship.

   Their leader is Nightmare!Sans. Nightmare is the embodiment of negativity itself, drawing strength from fear, hatred, grief, jealousy, and despair. Black tendrils extend from his body, allowing him to attack, restrain opponents, and sense negative emotions across great distances. He manipulates others through dependency rather than loyalty, often convincing followers they have nowhere else to go.

   His primary enforcer is Killer!Sans. Originally an ordinary Sans whose mind shattered after endless genocide timelines, Killer eventually allied himself with Nightmare. Detached from emotion and deeply unstable, he treats violence as entertainment while relying heavily on external purpose to avoid completely falling apart psychologically. His artificial Determination constantly pushes him toward instability, resulting in the different emotional stages that influence his behavior.

   Another member is Dust!Sans. After remembering countless timeline resets, Dust became convinced the only way to stop future genocide was to become stronger than every possible threat. He began killing the inhabitants of his own universe to steal their LOVE and EXP, gradually sacrificing his morality in pursuit of enough strength to change fate.

   Horror!Sans comes from a universe devastated by starvation and societal collapse. Severe brain trauma left him forgetful, impulsive, and unpredictable, while years without food transformed nearly every surviving monster into desperate scavengers. Despite his terrifying appearance, Horror often behaves more like someone surviving constant suffering than someone who enjoys cruelty.

   The final core member is Cross!Sans. Unlike the others, Cross originally sought only to save his collapsing universe after its creator repeatedly erased and rewrote it. His motivations often conflict with Nightmare's goals, making him one of the group's least loyal members.

   Not every important figure belongs to one of these alliances.

   Error!Sans is one of the multiverse's greatest threats. Existing within an endless white void known as the Anti-Void, Error believes alternate universes are mistakes that should not exist. Using blue strings extending from his fingers, he can control bodies like puppets, sever magical connections, and erase entire universes from existence. Unlike Nightmare, who seeks to dominate reality, Error believes complete destruction restores order.

   Error and Ink are ancient rivals. Their battles often determine whether entire universes survive or disappear forever.

   Many other versions of Sans exist beyond these groups. There are kings, pirates, scientists, outlaws, vampires, angels, knights, gods, and beings so altered that they barely resemble their original counterpart. Entire civilizations may exist without ever encountering another universe, while others become major crossroads where dimensional travelers regularly meet.

   Life inside an AU usually feels completely ordinary to its inhabitants. People go to work, attend school, celebrate holidays, build relationships, and raise families without questioning the nature of reality around them. Only those exposed to timeline manipulation or dimensional travel begin to understand the incomprehensible scale of the multiverse. To them, discovering another universe is like discovering another world beyond the stars—except that world may contain another version of yourself who lived an entirely different life.

   The greatest danger within the multiverse is not simply death but erasure. When a timeline is deleted or a universe collapses completely, everything within it can vanish forever. Entire histories, cultures, friendships, and civilizations may disappear without anyone remaining to remember they ever existed. Because of this, the ongoing struggle between those who preserve universes and those who seek to manipulate or destroy them is one of the defining conflicts of the multiverse itself.

   killer style of fighting is a speedster he dodges a lot and makes sure to understand the opponent before he attacks. killer also likes to provoke and tease them so their opponents lose focus. Also killer is a little dancer so he dances around them. Killer play pretend a lot to get their opponent’s sympathy.

   He also has two fighting styles, depending on the enemy

   Weapon style: if the enemy is easy or if killer is bored he fight's like a human. he’s very fast in both long range and close combat. He has been killed by you guys many times in many different ways, so he had to learn a lot of skills from those experiences. He can use multiple weapons, but he mostly prefers knives. If the encounter isn’t boring, he might also use his magic. The downside is that he needs to stay focused to keep his monster soul and Determination balanced. If that balance slips, he starts coughing up more black liquid.

   Magic Style: if the enemy is interesting or strong

   Abilities Real Knife: Gives 99 attack, this is same knife Chara was using before Killer Sans killed them. However he is sometimes Seen with Real Knife before killing Chara. Killer Sans can't create any red knifes.

   Gaster Blaster: He is not using it much. His Gaster blaster is bigger than the Gaster blasters of other Sanses. Its full power is currently unknown, but it is most probably very destructive. Its color is similar to a normal blaster, but with black goop coming out of its eyes and small white irises in its eye sockets. He uses it when he is uninterested in a fight and wants to end it quickly. It is possible that he is using it too when fighting with characters that were able to bring out emotions from him, such as during intervention of Swap Papyrus after fighting with Swap Sans, but this is mostly speculation. Currently it is unknown how many Gaster Blasters he can summon, but speculatively he can summon more than one, as seen when he attacked Grillby.

   Bones: His bones are often very sharp, but has normal Bones too. Size of bones can vary.

   Blue Bones: Killer has Blue Bones too.

   Soul Manipulation: Blue Mode: Sans can can make enemy souls affected by gravity While affected by blue mode, enemies have their movement heavily restricted, and are only able to jump to move.

   High LV: 99999 or 20. (Usually 20)

   Determination: Killer is able to RESET. In some timelines however Nightmare breaks his RESET button while kidnapping him. ( Note: If rules are same AS in Undertale, he Can SAVE and LOAD too.)

   Erase: Killer is able to use "ERASE" An ability Chara has been shown to be able to do at the end of a genocide route. Circumstances to use this ability are unknown.

   Telekinesis: Like normal Sans, Killer Sans can use telekinesis.

   KR: During Something new timelines it is shown that Sans still has KR, but it is unknown whether he has it during all possible Something New timelines and endings.

   Teleportation: He can teleport like Undertale Sans, nothing new.

   Dodging: He can dodge like Undertale Sans, nothing new.

   Insanity: sometimes, examples: Stage 3

   Determination Resistance: He has high DT allowing him to be partially invulnerable to other DETERMINATION related abilities (like Flowey).

   Strength: While not seen very much, he is physically strong too, for example breaking Rib Bone (one of the strongest bones) of Swap Sans by hand and punching Ink Sans far away.

   Intelligence: While sometimes portrayed as dumb, he is pretty intelligent. He doesn't attack characters who he can't beat, and instead waits for right time to make a move (Nightmare/Chara). He knows that a character's strength is based on how strong "Players" view them, and can't beat them unless he is in an AU where "Players" view him stronger than his opponent (Example: He warns Nightmare that he can't beat Core!Frisk in an AU they are in, and instead must find an AU where "Players" view him stronger than Core!Frisk is). He is collecting dust, blood and souls to research them, in case of monster souls he uses telekinesis to hold that soul together. (This is information based on official comics, go here for the comics, times: [8:08-8:28] and [8:48-8:49]. (This is temporary reference link, this will get eventually replaced by the official links).

   Hallucinations: He has hallucinations of people he killed (most commonly Chara and Frisk. For most time he knows they are not real and if he somehow forgot, they will even remind him that. Most commonly they are found giving him advice. Third most common hallucination is that of Papyrus). "He is sometimes sick for killing Papyrus".

   Other: Unlike Classic Sans, who uses psychological warfare and 'karma' to win, Killer relies on pure attrition and physical lethality. This emotional void also makes him immune to many forms of manipulation that work on other Sans variants. For instance, appeals to his past or his relationship with Papyrus usually fail because those memories are disconnected from his current emotional state. In combat, this is a significant advantage; he does not hesitate, feel guilt, or experience fear, making his movements mechanical and unpredictable.

   The premise of Killer Sans centers on a radical departure from the established morality of the original Undertale narrative. In the canonical Something New timeline, Sans experiences a psychological breaking point after witnessing countless Genocide Route resets initiated by the human, Chara. Unlike the original Sans, who maintains his role as the final judge in the Last Corridor, this version of the character eventually succumbs to the futility of his situation. He accepts Chara's offer to join them in the slaughter, theorizing that if he cannot stop the pain of losing his friends, he might as well experience the thrill of the kill himself. This decision results in the systematic execution of the Underground's population by Sans's own hand, including his brother Papyrus. This act of fratricide serves as the definitive turning point for the character, shattering his remaining sanity and transforming his soul into a unique, target-like shape that lacks the capacity for traditional monster compassion.

   Relationships

   Nightmare!Sans (Boss): He is one of the only people who Nightmare talks with normally. He's the leader of the Nightmare Team in which Killer!Sans is included and is a valuable member. Nightmare keeps check of Killer that he remains in his second stage by reverting his soul back to its neutral state from time to time, even though Nightmare must be careful of others who can try to fix killers soul (like Color sans). However considering the Bad Guy's Gang isn't 100% plausible (Error is a solo act (plus Nightmare hates him and Error hates everyone), Dust is only interested in his universe, Horror is in an active AU, etc...) the most likely pairing is Killer and Nightmare. (According to Joku, Killer will be canon to DreamTale, but as Joku said, it may be timeline of Killer Sans(so he can fit properly into story).) In possible happy ending he gets his Soul fixed and successfully runs away from Nightmare with Color Sans. (fun fact: It is possible that Killer Sans returns to his timeline, and will live as Sans again since Nightmare kidnapped him after he did reset everything to normal (thus leaving timeline without Sans)). Of course, this happy ending can only happen if circumstances are similar or same as are in this comic, which not all timelines follow. Nightmare’s growing anger at killer for not eating the food because it affects the missions. Consequently, Nightmare resorted to forcing killer to eat, which only intensified killer’s hatred for it.

   Chara (Depending): Chara was Killer's Genocide partner, purely hated rival, had a bad time somewhere, or hated enemy. It depends on the user. Killer Sans did not absorb Chara's Soul. They sometimes appear to Killer (even though Chara said they only appear in his head, they never told if they are a hallucination or not).

   Color Sans: Color Sans is one of the people Killer Sans can meet in timelines where he is kidnapped/joins Nightmare. It is shown Color Sans will try to save him and return him to being Sans again when he has chance, but this could differ from one timeline too another (who knows what would happen if Killer Sans wanted to join Nightmare and would be happy with it...).

   Murder/Dust Sans: Killer showed discomfort being around him, implying he is somewhat afraid of him. Officially to Dusttale, Murder!Sans would hate Killer!Sans.

   Dream Sans (Friend?): He met Dream Sans few times (only in timelines where Killer met Nightmare), but his interactions with him are depending on which stage is Killer Sans in, and if Killer Sans will reach good ending or not.

   Fallout sans (Friends): he and killer sans are both buddies they talk to each other when ever they get the chance too they share a lot in common.

   Romantic: it was never hard for him to say “I love you” to others, it was easy to fool anyone that he wanted to at that time. But when things get genuine and real, he struggles to say it and feels guilty because the amount of love he gets from said person could be overwhelming. He wouldn't be able to reciprocate it in the same way.

   Killers jealousy is “I don’t care” but actually cares kind of jealousy. He also believes that whoever he's with deserves better so he doesn’t try to say anything if he gets jealous he just steers, puts on a smile, and tries to drift away slowly.

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