With the joke from his brother aimed at the king, Papyrus stomped his red boot in an irritated manner. His brother really could not hold back the jokes for a single moment, but, the taller skeleton couldn’t complain. Sans was putting some effort into this, if some squinted enough, and really that was all he could ask for.

[i]"Wow! Thank you so much Mr. Papyrus! You're so kind and brave! Searching for your friend in this long forgotten realm! And yet you still take the time to guide a poor lost soul like me. I can't imagine anyone being that generous. My name is Chen! It's a pleasure to meet you!"[/i]

A big smile on his skull, he didn’t know what to say…of course the Great Papyrus would be recognized as being very kind and brave, right off the bat by the strange human! Of course!

Though, noticing a shift from the flower, he turned the pot slightly and caught a…a smile? There was…there was something about it and their new human friend that bothered him, some sweat dripping down his skull after a moment, but it was a smile…so, it couldn’t be all that bad, right? Flowey was even speaking to them again! That brightened up the skeleton’s already optimistic mood some.

One thing did bother the very great and cool skeleton, however, and that was the confusion over Frisk’s gender. On their date, Papyrus did show the small child the door to his room, with its various signs. ‘(NO GIRLS ALLOWED!) (NO BOYS ALLOWED!)’ The skeleton had pointed those out first, to the child, and in turn the child pointed to the last sigh. ‘(PAPYRUS ALLOWED.)’

Frisk’s gender was Papyrus; it was hard to refute that logic.

Well, there would perhaps be some time later to explain this all later, with Frisk helping to explain. Not catching any of the tension from the others, at all, the boot resumed it’s stomping at that bird pun, [color=coral]”BROTHER, HOW MANY TIMES DO I NEED TO TELL YOU...?!”[/color] But the shorter skeleton had already walked off, and their new human companion had a new pun for him to grit his teeth at. Finally throwing his mitts up in defeat, Papyrus took a few long steps back from the hole, unraveling the scarf from his neck and securing it on the plant…taking a running start, the skeleton jumped into the hole--!

Though plummeting was expected, the skeleton did not at all fall like the bunch of bones he was, as if gravity had decided to take it easy on the younger of the skeleton brothers. ‘NYEH HEH HEH’s echoing all the way down as his legs moved as if walking on air, Papyrus held onto the pot and flower carefully, as it off-set his balance some. Applying blue magic to the object in his hands mid-fall, it seemed to balance out somewhat, and easily he landed boots first in the flowers.

Letting his vision adjust back to the darkness in a way only a skeleton could, his eyes briefly glowed for a moment before realizing he had to catch up with the other two, who had already gone up ahead. Unraveling his bright red scarf off of the plant and back around his neck, checking Flowey a moment, Papyrus laughed brightly as he made his way along, [color=coral]“AND HOW ARE YOU, FLOWEY? I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, HAVE LANDED JUST FINE. BUT YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TOO JOSTLED BY MY GREAT MAGNIFICENCE…NOR THE ACTUALLY JUMP, AHEM…HAVE YOU?”[/color]