#I love versions of uf where they're not too far off from ut. esp when papyrus is still very papyrus but trying hard to be Villaincore lol

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There had been this silly idea I'd wanted to write as a fic or a comic a while ago, but never got around to it, so I'm making it a post.

Underfell, of course. Papyrus wants to impress Undyne, tries his best to prove he’s cut out for the position as her Lieutenant, but she doesn't take him seriously at all. He’s strong, no doubt about it, but he bends rules and shows obvious reluctance to do things he needs to as a Guard. She gets it, she does, but he’s just...too soft.

She gives him increasingly time consuming tasks on top of his daily work to "test him", but really, she's just keeping him, and all of his suggestions and offers, out of her hair. Eventually, though, one of them gives her an idea.

Asgore had off handedly mentioned building some sort of torture chamber to get information out of particularly stubborn traitors, so when it's one of the things Papyrus mentions, she snags it. Agrees with him, and gives the go ahead to convert his shed into a "torture chamber". Surely that will keep him busy.

And sure enough it did. Only for a week though, but hey, not too bad considering she's pretty sure that kid doesn't even sleep. He's excited to show her, adding it's not completely finished, but he's quite proud of how it's coming along.

She thinks she's humoring him more than anything, even a little curious what someone like Papyrus would consider torture. Strapping someone to a chair and making them watch anime? Of course, once they get there and he enthusiastically throws the door open, her jaw drops.

The shed seems weirdly bigger on the inside than it looks, and the whole thing is meticulously set up into "sections", a large "tool wall" set up along the wall next to the door. The...devices? in each section look like they could give Jigsaw nightmares, and the whole thing is starkly contrasted by Papyrus standing in a clear spot, hands on his hips, watching her with obvious excitement.

He quickly continues on in his rambling, talking about how he'd designed this and that himself, how the pieces for this had been a bit tricky to find, so he'd had to improvise, mentioning a few of the missing things he needs to complete it. And everything functions of course, he's done significant testing for maximum efficiency!

She has no idea what he means by that and does not want to ask. She still didn't make him Lieutenant right away, but she definitely wasn't quite so worried about him being too soft for it anymore.