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[kanene-yaaay]

Secrets Plans, Silent Screams and Great Discoveries (Papyrus x Reader)

Warnings: None, really! Just some playful tickles with Ler!Papyrus and Lee!Reader. About 3.000 words.

Kanene’s notes: YEAH I REALLY DID IT LET’S GOOOOOOO. It only took like 6 years of knowing undertale to gather the courage to write this so. Never give up from your dreams I guess. Sdfgjukjhgfbn. Haaaaappy day everyone! Wish you a very lovely and great week :D

[~*~]

"THEY HAVE NO BONES!"

You snickered, hardly reacting at your friend’s natural loud tune besides pausing the documentary so you could give the skeleton at your side your entire attention. After a few months of friendship - full of shenanigans, laws of physics being broken or unnaturally bent, spaghetti and strangely enough a sock in the corner of your living room that for some reason couldn’t be moved from the floor?? - it became easier to notice the tells of when something has been eating the monster’s mind. A certain way that his eye sockets kept jumping from one side to another, a slight ‘tap tap tap’ of his gloves patting his femurs in a quick pace, the way his body kept swaying on the couch, as if Papyrus was physically stopping himself from doing something. All of these showed that something was about to happen soon.

Good thing this time it was just a random shouted sentence. You don’t think you could take another surprise spar slash training slash self defense class slash friendship special attack from Papyrus. Your poor body was still recovering from the last one from Undyne.

Still, the question had been sudden enough that, after all of your surprised snickers dried out and no further context was given, every single memory and knowledge about human basic constitution and anatomy fled from you (a human) and your mind (a, and it’s important to emphasize, very human like mind who has never been anything but a part of the homo sapiens sapiens species even since it existed) and all the parts of the human body that had no bones were immediately forgotten. 

Under Papyrus’ excited and expectant smile (when did you begin to notice the difference between each of his smiles, again?), you freezed and stared back at him with a default blank expression.

Staring.

Silence.

More staring.

Ayyy. That is some very productive interaction you’re having right there.

With no hesitation he met your eyes with an equal unblinking gaze, lowering his back enough so you both would be at the same eye level. You held this for a few seconds before averting your eyes to the television, realizing that the match could go forever since he was a skeleton and didn’t need to blink. 

The screen was still frozen on the exact frame in which the narrator amplified a hair strand in order to explain how proteins and activated genes made it possible for human hair to be found in different shapes, colors and forms. Somehow you felt like Papyrus wasn’t asking about hair. What had been the subject before this, again?

“NYEH” 

Allured by the sound you turned around only to find Papyrus’ face a few centimeters from yours, which immediately resulted in a yelp as you pushed the skeleton away, closing your eyes with a surprised bark of laughter that only grew stronger with the other’s triumphant shout.

“ONCE AGAIN THE GREAT PAPYRUS WINS THE DIFFICULT NON BLINKING HUMAN GAME WITHOUT BREAKING A SWEAT (EVEN THOUGH WE SKELETON MONSTERS DON’T HAVE ENOUGH SWEATS TO BREAK!)” He was quick to adjust himself back to his upright pose, red cape flying in a heroic manner behind him, moved by a mysterious wind that you stopped to try to comprehend a long time ago. “NOW, AS A PRIZE FOR MY AUSTONING VICTORY YOU, HUMAN FRIEND, MUST HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND THE MYSTERIES OF HUMAN ANATOMY.”

“Of course, Papyrus. But, huh, you know, if you’re curious, feel free to ask anything, you don’t need to win any game for it.”

Your smile was big and warm when he looked back at you with focused determination. It was hard to not smile when in the company of such a sweet, funny monster. You’re glad you both ended up becoming friends.

“OF COURSE.” He blinked, eyelights growing big and fuzzy on the corners and, before you could take a good look at it and wonder what it meant, Papyrus jumped to stand. “NOW HUMAN, I SHALL GO DO… SOMETHING! SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT AND TOTALLY UNRELATED TO YOUR PREVIOUS WORDS, OF COURSE. I WILL SEE YOU SOON.”

“Ah, okay.” Confused, but still more than used to Papyrus sudden appearances and disappearances, you began to stand from your comfy spot on the couch, trying to not think too much about how you expected your fun hanging out would last longer than this and about the sadness that suddenly filled your soul. “Do you want me to open the window so you can-”

But before you could even finish the sentence the Mascot of Monster Kind backfliped himself behind the couch. Your couch. The couch was right behind both of you and as it seems not very close to the wall if a three foot tall skeleton was able to simply backflip his way to hide behind it. That couch, exactly. 

…

Well, both him and Sans had been in weirder places, though.

(You would never, ever forget the time Papyrus simply asked Sans to come over your place for a movie night over his phone and then in the very next second you heard strange a sound in your closet only to open it and find the older brother cramped inside one of your forgotten shoeboxes making jokes about skeletons on your closet and walking a mile with no shoes or something like that.) 

However, even if able to do amazing things, monsters could be quite fragile and that was one of the reasons that made you basically throw yourself on the furniture to try to see if your friend was fine, an offer of grabbing some monster candy on the tip of your tongue before Papyrus own - surprisingly quiet - musings interrupted it. 

“The Human Once More Prove Themself To Be A Master In Improving Their Friendship’s Power With Nice Words And True Flattering… But Nyeh! The Great Papyrus Will Not Be Defeated! They Don’t Even Suspect That With This Hang Out And My Questions About Humanity I Created The Perfect Scenario For Both Acquiring Knowledge and Having An Amazing Bonding Experience. The Nice Human Friend Won’t Even Realize How Much Strong Our Friendship Will Be Until They Get Sweeped Out Their Feet With How Much Amazed With My Friendship Skills They Are. After That Nothing Will Prevent Us From Becoming Best Friends! Nyeh he he!” 

Oh my god. One of your hands fled to your mouth.

“My Awesome Bonding Plans Never Fail.” He wiggled, confidence oozing from his tune as he adjusted himself better on the tight place, a glimpse of something being caught by your gaze before disappearing again. Was that a kind of book? “Except, Of Course, For When They Do.”

Be still my heart.

With all of your will and determination, you held the urge to scream after witnessing such a sweet scene. 

Carefully, very carefully you turned back to face the TV, sitting calmly on the couch. A huge wave of fondness flooded your entire being as you waited for the tall skeleton to get out from his hidden spot with an expression full of serenity, as if your soul wasn’t babbling and shaking on your chest, overloaded with cuteness.

It didn’t take long before the spot on the couch right beside you was filled again.

“HUMAN! THERE IS NO NEED TO FALL IN DISPAIR, THE GREAT PAPYRUS IS BACK.”

“Great to see you around!” Smile. “So, you were asking?”

[...]

So. That-

That is not what you were expecting.

Warm phalanges started tracing the shell of your ears, quickly following the path to the skin behind it, careful and delicate swirls and scribbles dancing on every inch of skin, trying to understand how it connected the shoulders to the head. A series of chills ran across your spine, spreading fastly an uncontrollable, giggly sensation that made your lip quirk with a hint of a smile.

Ok. That tickled. A lot.

“HUMAN!” Your body immediately tensed, the flight or fight instinct bubbling just under your skin, wondering if the skeleton realized what just happened. Were monsters ticklish? Wait, was Papyrus ticklish? That thought made a mischievous quirk of lips expand wider in your expression, battling fiercely against the tingles that had just gotten just a tad harder to ignore under those wide attentive eyesockets. You couldn’t tell if the mirth shining on them was playful or just happy. “THERE IS NO NEED TO BE SO TENSE. THE GREAT PAPYRUS WOULD NEVER UNFAIRLY ATTACK HIS FRIENDS!”

His words did nothing to alleviate your questioning! Attack?? Like a tickle attack? Did he know he was tickling you? But Papyrus wasn’t exactly a subtle guy, he would have said something if he knew about your ticklishness, right? Should you attack him back right now? Could this be counted as a friendly monster spar?

While your thoughts ran a mile per hour in your head an accidental mishap happened, both of his hands momentarily slipping and tickling the underside of your jaw, fishing an unexpected yelp and a squirm that led to you almost scrunching up your neck in reflex.

That made him stop. Papyrus squinted his eyes at you, hands hovering just a little away from the skin, but for all the ghost feeling of phalanges trailing on your ears and somehow spreading all across your neck continued he could very well be continuing his research right now.

Hm. Perhaps agreeing to help him understand better the human body wasn’t the smartest of the ideas.

You tried to ignore the way your face began growing hot and butterflies started to wiggle their wings excitedly on your stomach, a reaction that only grew stronger when a fire of recognition lit on the skeleton's expression, a triumphant ‘AHÁ!’ floating in the air. 

“SO! Papyrus!! I’m glad that I was able to help. That was a very educative research so what if we stopped right here and continued to watch the documentary no-”

“NYEHEHE!” His loud, carefree laughter cut your babbling, a gloved hand patting your shoulder in a comforting manner. “FRET NOT, MY DEAR AND VERY SQUISHY HUMAN FRIEND! A FINE AND UNDERSTANDING SKELETON MONSTER AS MYSELF WOULDN’T HOLD YOUR INCREDIBLE, QUITE EXTREME TICKLISHNESS AGAINST YOU!” ‘Extreme Ticklishness’ If the skies wanted to send lightning to strike you right now that would be the perfect moment. “NOR WILL I LET THIS NOT SO SMALL AND IGNORABLE DETAIL PREVENT US FROM HAVING OUR ULTIMATE FRIENDSHIP MOMENT!” 

He scooted closer, hands open in your direction. Every word and gesture screamed amusement and yet true honesty. His chest poofed with his next sentence, his cape once again flying around. “DON’T WORRY FRIEND HUMAN, YOU CAN TRUST YOUR VERY ADORABLE WEAKNESS WITH ME.”

Papyrus looked full of hope at you and your melting face. 

Shit-

You needed to look away. If you continued to stare at the playful shine in his eyesockets or the way his smile was so big and hopeful you knew you wouldn’t be able to…

To…

…Damn you and your weakness for this monster. How could you say no to him in this situation?

“Alright.” You slumped in defeat, trying to not show how much giddiness and excitement were dashing across your nerves at saying those simple words, tingles starting to spread again on your tickle spots, butterflies now throwing a party and flying non stop on your stomach. “Go ahead.”

Afterall, it was just a bit of tickling, right? A little bit of it. You could take this. For Papyrus. For education. You definitely could endure a few seconds (or minutes, or hours-) of a tickly research, right? Yeah. Yeah, you could! For the friendship power! You aren’t even that ticklish, afterall!

His phalanges, once again, began trailing your ears, intertwining the light, maddening scribbles with a light tapping as he moved across your cheeks, leading to an unstable grin to form again on your features, the beginnings of an onslaught of titters jumping impatiently in your throat.

No. Nope. Not ticklish at all.

Shivers accompanied his movements as he followed the underline of your jaw, the tracing now escaping to your chin and neck, each new tap tap tap tap of the tip of his phalanges leaving a trail of tingles and bouncy feelings awake on its way.

You could take this. For Papyrus. He was being so incredibly, horribly and unbelievably soft with every touch of his that you could, you definitely could just not start giggling uncontrollably like a teenager in love from those cheesy animes you and Alphys liked to watch. Did his mindfulness make everything even more unbearable and your giggles gigglier? 

Yes. But you were not. going. to. break.

“HUMAN!” You let out a puff of air that sounded too much like a snort but of course it wasn’t one because you were not being affected at all by this research. “THE DOCUMENTARY MENTIONED ABOUT YOUR MANDIBULA BEING ABLE TO HELP YOU TO HEAR BETTER. DOES THAT MEAN THAT EVEN WITHOUT BONES YOUR EARS STILL NEEDS THE HELP OF ONE TO WORK WELL?”

“Y-yeah?” It took everything in your soul to not become a mindless puddle of titters and actually sum enough brainpower to answer him, even though you couldn’t stop how much higher your voice became with such predicament. “Actually, w-we snk- hahave little bones in o-our ears to hehelp with re-ressonance and hearing.” 

“NYEHEHE! I KNEW IT! EVEN THE BONELESS PART OF A HUMAN CAN REALIZE THE MAGNIFICENCE OF WHAT IS TRULY IMPORTANT IN LIFE: CALCIUM!”

Oh my god, he began scribbling his way to your collarbone, taking his precious time to outline every single inch of the sensitive skin. Your wiggles were an inevitability now.

“YOU MAY GIGGLE AND SQUIRM ALL YOU WANT, CUTE HUMAN! BUT THE GREAT PAPYRUS WON'T BE STOPPED FROM HIS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH. NOT EVEN BY YOUR INCREDIBLY ENDLESS TICKLINESS, NYEH HE HE!

“....EVEN SO. IF YOU COULD STOP WIGGLING SO MUCH, THAT WOULD BE VERY APPRECIATED!”

It wasn’t even that strong of a tease. More like a poke of lighthearted fun between friends than anything, however it still made your cheeks bloom with warmth and titters uncontrollably spill from your lips, yelps and high pitched squeals being quick to follow the symphony.

“I cahahahan’t!”

"NO WORRIES! YOU CAN TRY AGAIN! I BELIEVE IN YOU!! HERE, I WILL EVEN SHOW YOU A PIECE OF MY AWESOME KINDNESS AND BE EXTRA, EXTRA GENTLE!"

“Nonono!” You tried to protest but it was already too late, his determined drumming began teasing from the nape of your neck to the tip of your shoulder blades with no mercy, quickly making their way across them and getting dangerously close to your ribs. What was the point of this research again? “Pahahapys, come on!”

“GASP!” He said that out-loud, sounding delighted. And, if you could open your eyes and stare at his smile without immediately breaking in louder laughter you would be able to watch how his face got brighter with mischief. He almost bounced on the same place with excitement at how lovely your reactions were and how cool his nickname (His own nickname! Given freely from a friend! A human friend!! His plan was working!!!) sounded between giggles. “OH NO, HUMAN! YOUR CUTENESS LEVELS ARE UNSTOPPABLE RIGHT NOW! THEY COULD EVEN GET ALMOST AS HIGH AS MINE!! HOWEVER, I, PAPYRUS, HAVE NEVER BEEN DEFEATED IN A BATTLE OF CUTENESS, AND NEVER WILL BE! PREPARE YOURSELF! FOR MY ESPECIAL TICKLE ATTACK!!"

“Wait, wait, wait!” Your voice failed when suddenly your sides were tazed unmercifully, fishing more noises than just titters and giggles for the first time. Your wiggling became stronger, your body trying to escape from the horribly, awful tingly shocks but being skillfully chased and attacked by someone who seemed talented in chasing and tickling dodgy targets. “But why!”

“WHY THIS, YOU ASK? YOU SEE, SQUIRMY FRIEND!” 

You opened your mouth to protest against such an unfair nickname but suddenly there were fingers rubbing circles on your ribs and scratching the space in-between them, being careful to give each bone an equal, especial attention and nothing more than a mix of a wheezed screech and quiet sorts were escaped from your mouth. 

“AS THE MASCOT OF THE MONSTERKIND I SPENT PRODUCTIVE NIGHTS AND DAYS LEARNING ABOUT HUMANITY AND THEIR CULTURES SO THAT I COULD MASTERFULLY EXPRESS MY COOLNESS FOR THEM IN THE FULLEST.”

You were trying very hard to pay attention to Papyrus’ words, however, that task, once so simple, only grew at each second harder and harder since your adorable, nice and totally fucking unmerciful friend - that was SO paying for that - found a rather delightfully weak spot right in the middle of the path that connected your side and your belly. And now he was taking his precious time to give to that ticklish spot plenty of scribbles, pinches and pokes, attentively watching your reactions to see which ones brought the best squeaks and made such a beautiful laughter ring happier.

“AND, OF COURSE, AS THE DIRECT DESCENDENTS OF SKELETONS IT WAS VERY CLEAR FOR ME THAT YOU ALSO WOULD HAVE YOUR OWN WAY TO BATTLE YOUR FRIENDSHIP TO EACH OTHER’S SOULS IN A BONDING (AND HOPEFULLY NOT HARMFUL) ACTIVITY. AND I WAS RIGHT! AS ALWAYS! OR AS MOSTLY OF THE TIME. BUT ALWAYS IN THE BEST TIMES!”

A curious hand gave your knee a squeeze, fishing more protesting high pitched giggles. Your own hands latched on the gloved ones, holding his wrists and attempting to push the offending squeezes away with no real heat or strength. A couple of scribbles found their way to the ticklish skin under the spot and a soft ‘nyehehehes’ followed the wobbly squeals created by such discovery.  

“THAT WAS HOW I DISCOVERED ABOUT YOUR TICKLE FIGHTS! WHICH GAVE ME THE PERFECT IDEA TO INCREASE MY FRIENDSHIP LEVELS. JUST ACCORDING TO KEIKAKU.”

And, just like that, plenty of weak wheezes, ringing laughter, uncontrollable titters, wobbly crackles, sneaky yelps and quiet snorts dutifully followed every squeeze, scratch, drumming, pinching, poking and any and every form of tickle attack that you could ever imagine, each of them hopping across your sides, armpits, belly, knees, ribs, neck and even your spine with both careful, soft tickles and horribly unmerciful attacks that, in the end, equally left you with a gigantic smile from ear to ear plastered on your face, leftover tingles still teasingly tingling and remanent giggles still giggling in the air.

You closed your eyes, taking greedy gulps of air, hands still holding Papyrus’ wrists.

“WOWIE! YOUR CUTENESS LEVELS REACHED THEIR HIGHEST RANKS TODAY! THE ADORABLENESS OF YOUR SMILE AND THE PRECIOUSNESS OF YOUR LAUGHTER WERE ALMOST AS CHARMING AS MINE, HUMAN. YOU MUST FEEL VERY ACCOMPLISHED. AFTER ALL, IT’S NOT EVERYONE THAT CAN BE THE SECOND COOLEST.”

More giggles.

“Papys?”

“YES, FRIEND HUMAN?”

“Hohow high can your cuteness lehevels get?”

Papyrus froze, beads of sweat forming on his skull as your hold got stronger. 

“ER, YOU SEE, FRIEND… THEY ARE AS HIGH AS THEY CAN BE, OF COURSE! NOTHING LESS THAN EXPECTED FROM A COOL MONSTER AS MYSELF. NO NEED TO TEST IT OR RUN YOUR OWN RESEARCH.” 

Subtly, he tried to pry his wrists from your grip, more magic sweat appearing on his face when his efforts proved to be unsuccessful.

“Mm hm. Papys?” 

Papyrus’ hands mirrored your hold, arms tensing in preparation for the sparring that would sure happen.

“..... YEAH?”

You opened your eyes, a dangerous glint of playfulness shining in them. 

“Run.”

[~*~]

Random extra stuff and original bullet points of this fic (that has been changed as I wrote the fic because I can’t follow sht xD):

- Papys wants to know more about human's ears ("HOW CAN SOMETHING BE SO EFFICIENT AND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH BONES!")

- He ends up discovering human's tickliness and continues to accidentally tickle them. ("NO WORRIES, DEAR HUMAN! THE GREAT PAPYRUS WOULD NEVER UNFAIRLY ATTACK HIS FRIENDS")

- But as time pass by and the reader continues to titter and squirm ("YOU MAY GIGGLE AND SQUIRM ALL YOU WANT, HUMAN! BUT THE GREAT PAPYRUS WON'T BE STOPPED FROM HIS EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, NOT EVEN BY YOUR INCREDIBLY ENDLESS TICKLINESS, NYEH HE HE! EVEN SO. IF YOU COULD STOP WIGGLING SO MUCH, THAT WOULD BE VERY APPRECIATED!

"I cahahahan't!"

"NO WORRIES, HUMAN! YOU CAN TRY AGAIN! I BELIEVE IN YOU!! HERE, I WILL EVEN SHOW YOU A PIECE OF MY AWESOME KINDNESS AND BE EXTRA GENTLE WITH YOU!")

- Then he get hit by a wave of playfulness and decide to truly be mischevious with the reader and be like:

OH NO, HUMAN! YOUR CUTENESS LEVELS ARE UNSTOPPABLE RIGHT NOW! THEY COULD EVEN GET HIGHER THAN MINE'S!! HOWEVER, PAPYRUS HAVE NEVER BEEN DEFEATED IN A BATTLE OF CUTENESS, AND NEVER WILL BE! BE PREPARED! FOR MY ESPECIAL TICKLE ATTACK!!"

- Needless to say, his plan backfired. Reader got even more adorable. Oh noooooo. Papyrus loudly complains about that with plenty of teases, tickles and fake-sad 'nyohohoo!'"

~~

* Also, yeah, Papyrus definitely noticed you peeking at his hidden spot behind the couch but he thought that would be impolite to show that he noticed since you were trying very hard to not make any sound so he just acted as his great, natural self!

* “your body trying to escape from the horribly, awful tingly shocks but being skillfully chased and attacked by someone who seemed talented in chasing and tickling dodgy targets.”  yep that was def a reference about Sans and I personally headcanon Papyrus as a gigantic tickle monster that can AND will tickle his gremlin of a brother sdfrjukjhghyg

[suyunpeside1]

[damagecompilation-a]

i finished the chainsaw man puzzle i got for christmas im truly salt of the earth

[shackld]

would it be gay to say i love @serpentsexile so much cuz idk if thats gay im not gay but if i was-

[elmentalwish]

this whole interpret/associate gameplay thing they have going on is just making me feel like im in a da.ngan.ronpa game im ngl

[canisaureuss]

YOU ARE EXACTLY THE KIND OF PATIENT I NEED --                                    ONE WITH AN UNQUENCHABLE THIRST FOR LIFE.

independent jackal / dr. leila cleo from honkai impact. adopted by mak / kai.

[anemchy]

i think about eula’s voice line about sucrose way too much

[watchmakr]

I FOUND MY POCKETWATCH

[dspirmic-a]

me: logins to be a troll and poke the simps before logging back off

the simps: still going

me: sighs as i log back in

[suprsonic-a]

so anyway i love you guys say it back

[dominihilist]

nothing is more of a confidence killer than doing that dumb hsr relic scorer thing and seeing all your relics you have being D/C tier

[cntrldvil-moved]

also the anime really nailed the emptiness in her eyes :) brain empty no thoughts :)

[damagecompilation-a]

i wonder what he sees up there

[shackld]

i really wish i hadnt heard the words "baddy daddy" in ptn and yet...

[elmentalwish]

“I don’t need protecting, I can do whatever I want,” Zhiqiong mutters around a cough she’s trying incredibly hard to smother behind her arm as she goes trekking into the depths of the Chasm once more.

[canisaureuss]

dont ask me what happened to my activity i cannot say