However, I am in need of more royal guards. Still, Papyrus seems more masculine than Sans, if only because Sans is so neotenous (basically, cute) and therefore more feminine in comparison.You know with a careless act of heroism like this, I'd punish you severely. they aren’t muscular) makes evaluating Papyrus’s masculinity tricky. The simple and stylized nature of Undertale sprites, as well as the inherent limitations of applying human body standards to just humanoid skeletons (i.e. Judging by Lord Laharl’s Vassal’s extrapolation of skeletons without clothes, while Sans is fairly broad-shouldered, his waist-to-hip ratio isn’t so impressive as Papyrus’s. Impossibly so, in fact: he’s so V-shaped because of his impossibly small pelvis. Though his ‘battle body’ exaggerates it, Papyrus’s body is nonetheless impressively V-shaped. Still, Papyrus’s skull (as well as jaws: see above) are much more square-shaped than Sans’ (though the sprites are ambiguous), which looks more masculine.Ī V-shaped body, with a wide chest, broad shoulders and a narrow waist/hip area, is highly masculine and a male physical ideal. On one hand, Papyrus’s face is six pixels taller than Sans’, but Sans’ face is 20 pixels wider than Papyrus’ face at their respective widest points. ![]() Male skulls and faces are generally longer (technically, taller) and wider than those of women, and bigger in general. Thus, on canon sprites alone, it’s impossible to tell if Papyrus is more masculine on the matter of zygomatic bones. This is true of most fan art, too: even in more realistically-styled art Sans’ zygomatic bones are minimal. If Papyrus’s zygomatic bones were bigger than Sans’, he’d be more masculine in that regard, but Sans doesn’t seem to have zygomatic bones at all. It’s unclear whether Papyrus even has zygomatic bones, though: some interpret the slight bulge around his smile as a cartoony cheek-bulge 3, while others 4 interpret it as zygomatic bones. Male zygomatic bones (cheekbones) are bigger (more “massive”) than female cheekbones, and as a consequence, cheekbones are more prominent on highly masculine flesh-and-skin male face. (That artists often exaggerate Sans’ eye socket size just adds onto this) ![]() Yet, Papyrus’s vertical eye sockets aren’t really comparable to the narrow ones of models of masculinity he’s more masculine in this sense purely because he’s not as big-eyed and so “cute”. Relative to Sans, Papyrus’s eyes are small, and Sans’ eye sockets are huge and somewhat more feminine, neoteny-wise. In Papyrus’s sprite, it’s unclear whether he has brow ridges, and most fan artists don’t depict him with significant ones, if any. (Conversely, big eyes are feminine, as well as neotenous, or basically “cutesy”, from having small brows) Rather, it’s a byproduct of a hormonally-determined trait of heavy brow ridges, which makes the eyes look a little smaller. Small (technically narrow) eyes are not, in themselves, a masculine trait. 2 Indeed, the face of Papyrus’ battle sprite is tilted slightly to the right, assuming his face itself isn’t asymmetrical like a flounder’s.īased on the best extrapolation available (e.g., artistic intuition) Papyrus’s jaw isn’t especially big (in width or height) though it is pretty broad and square, and so masculine. A sprite with a frontal view at a useful resolution would help for this, but, alas, such a sprite does not exist. Some fan art depicts Papyrus with a large mandible and chin, others with a small chin 1, but it’s ambiguous within the sprites themselves. One masculine trait is a large, broad, square lower jaw (mandible) and chin, as well-illustrated by the Lantern Jaw of Justice trope. Thus, it’s possible he’s not that manly, objectively speaking, but just manly in relation to Sans. ![]() One should note that Papyrus is not being evaluated on pure manliness, but, rather, in comparison to Sans. However, it’s hard to tell just how much more masculine his appearance is: the sprites are simple and stylized, and some details are ambiguous. In some ways, Papyrus’s skull and body are, biologically speaking, manlier (more masculine) than Sans’.
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