Okay. So I am at least 3 minutes into papyrus's fight and no blue attack. This is my 6th pacifist so I'm not sure what's going on. I've never been able to finish a genocide cause I refuse to kill papyrus. Why won't the blue attack happen? Is it part of the game or a glitch?
Papyrus fight glitch or something
undertale
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For the stuff, you can go for two strategies :
- Cloudy Glasses and Torn Notebook. They have a low defense and attack power, though the invulnerability they offer is really useful during this battle, as she's attacking really fast. You can buy both of them in Gerson's shop in the Waterfall.
- Old Tutu and Ballet Shoes. If you are a bit more comfortable with her patterns, those items will bring you the best attack and defense at this level of the game.
For healing items, try to avoid using your Butterscotch Pie and Snowman Pieces, because they will really be useful later. Just stock as much Cinnamon Bunny (from Snowdin Village's Shop) as you can, as it will heal 22 HP. You can also use the Abandoned Quiche, which heals 34 HP. Though it's an hidden item :
In Waterfall by using flowers to reach the room to the right of the second flower puzzle room.
There is also the Sea Tea, an item which will heal you only 10 HP, but will increase the speed of your heart for the rest of the battle. You can buy it in Gerson's shop.
Now, the best strategy for this battle is to learn the patterns. The more you will fight her and remember her attacks, the easier it will become.
There's no definitive in-game/canonical evidence as to which brother is older.
It's obvious that they both care about each other, however the Wiki entries for Sans and Papyrus just list them as 'brothers', and everything in-game pointing one of them being the older sibling is circumstantial at best - most likely played this way so as to leave it up to the player's own interpretation/head-canon.
Some parts of the story points to Sans being younger:
- Papyrus encourages & cajoles Sans for his laziness:
IT'S BEEN EIGHT DAYS AND YOU STILL HAVEN'T... RECALIBRATED. YOUR. PUZZLES! ... YOU GET LAZIER AND LAZIER EVERY DAY!!!
- Papyrus - Sans admires his brother
my brother's a real star....
- Who encouraged him to take a job as a sentry:
...he's the person who pushed me to get this sentry job.
- Sans
Other pieces of the story point to Sans being older:
- Sans has a 'real' job & takes care of his brother/pays the bills
- Sans reads Papyrus bedtime stories and gives him presents
Sans cares for and admires his brother. He reads him bedtime stories and gives him presents under the identity of Santa.
- Undertale Wiki
There are some other fan-theories & explanations out there, for example, that they are as old as the creation dates of the fonts the characters are based on: Comic Sans and Papyrus, but again, as these are just fan-theories and aren't confirmed in-game in any way.
Finally, it's worth mentioning that the developer of the game - Toby Fox - has also previously tweeted that Papyrus might use the Japanese word 'Aniki' (i.e. 'Older Brother' or 'Superior' in Japanese):
Papyrus would definitely use "aniki." i think. what's your take.
- Toby Fox. September 10, 2015 (Internet Archive)
Again, this isn't covered in-game and Toby has since deleted this statement. Thus it shouldn't be interpreted as 'Word of God' (TV Tropes). Even if the statement hadn't been recanted, there is still enough evidence to point either way in game, thus it would still be open to interpretation.
Until (and if) we get another source of official canon material (such as a second game, comic, movie etc) that builds upon or embellishes the story, we don't have the evidence to say which brother is older than the other. It's ultimately up to you to decide.
Best Answer
Have you attempted either the FIGHT or MERCY option during your fight?
In my experience, many return players remember choosing to flirt with Papyrus as the trigger for the second phase of the fight. However, the Flirt dialogue isn't enough to progress the fight to the second stage - he won't do a blue attack until you've attempted either FIGHT or MERCY then SPARE, so if you continually select ACT or ITEM (like the Flirt or Insult dialogues) menu options the fight will stay on the red soul phase and never progress.