Undertale is an indie RPG game where you play as a human child Frisk who has fallen into
the Underground – a region under the surface of the Earth, separated by a magical barrier.
You set out on a journey to return to the surface, encountering plenty of monsters that
you can attack, pacify or subdue.
The game was critically praised for its story, characters and dialogue, so, it makes sense
that the game’s fan base has taken a likening to certain character ships.
It’s not all just whimsical thinking, either – the fandom is notorious for anti-ship
movements, with groups of fans attack others for their shipping preferences.
So today, we’re counting down these fanon romances with our list of the top 10 Undertale
Fan Ships.
10 Papyton - Papyrus and Mettaton The canon relationship between these two is
professional at best.
Papyrus owns MTT brand products, and in the Mettaton Ending, if Papyrus is spared, he
becomes one of Mettaton’s agents.
But that hasn’t stopped some fans from embellishing further to develop this slash ship with endless
fanfic and art.
That being said, despite what we mentioned a moment ago, there isn’t a whole lot that
IS canon to go off of when it comes to this ship, and it’s left some confused as to
why there’s such an enthusiastic fan base behind it, especially when there’s arguably
better matches for Papyrus.
But both do have similar traits at times – they’re both known to be proud individuals.
And Papyrus does seem to have an interest in robots, so perhaps it’s not entirely
beyond our imagination’s reach, is it?
9 Chasriel - Asriel and Chara Chasriel is a family ship!
And it’s semi-canon.
Asriel and Chara are adoptive siblings, and often, many players feel that their fates
in the game felt unfinished.
As one user on Reddit named colekern stated in a debate thread on the subject, “The
message of the game is all about letting go of the past, but it feels like you’re left
with unfinished business leaving those two behind because they’re both technically
alive.”
It seems unlikely that fans will get any sort of closure since the rumours about an Undertale
sequel have been kicking around for years, but fear not – many have taken the liberty
of writing fanfiction to elaborate on Asriel and Chara’s story, and there’s quite a
few pieces out there that are definitely worth a read.
8 Sanschup – Sans and ketchup Gotta love a good cargo ship.
There’s a handful of food-based cargo ships as far as the Undertale fanship is concerned.
This includes the likes Charalate, the ship between Chara and chocolate, and papyghetti,
the ship between papyrus and spaghetti.
This spawned from Sans like of drinking ketchup, which often occurred at Grillby’s.
Needless to say, this humourous cargo is one of the most popular ships – no one disagrees
when you’re having a laugh about Sans’ adoration of ketchup and his mishaps with
the condiment.
7 Papyrisk – Frisk and Papyrus The Papyrisk ship feels like a good point
on our list to talk a little more about some of the vicious anti-ship movements the Undertale
fandom endures.
One of the biggest reasons that this issue has arisen is because of the shipping that
concerns Frisk, Chara and Asriel, since all three of them are pretty young characters,
and that some shippers choose to write smut about them, sometimes taking things a little
too far.
Whether you feel that way about the Papyrisk ship, often it’s considered as a non-binary
ship, and is one of the more popular pairings due to Frisk’s flirt option upon meeting
Papyrus.
The two even go on a date (if you take the neutral route) but Papyrus states that he
just sees Frisk as a friend.
6 Guard 01 and Guard 2 I see two lovers staring over the edge of
the cauldron of hell.
Yep.
From somewhat controversial to straight up comical, the ship between Guard 01 and Guard
02 is another Undertale pairing that most of us can get behind.
These two are the Royal Guards, and are a mini-boss duo that you encounter in Hotland.
Their official tarot card is The Lovers.
Their sprites are actually named with the word bara, which is a misnomer of a Japanese
genre of artwork that is considered gay manga.
Also, popsicles!
5 Asgoriel – Asgore & Toriel This het ship is one of the only canon ships
in the game.
Except that Asgore and Toriel are divorced.
Initially, these two were married, were royals of their kingdom, and had a child named Asriel,
along with an adopted one, Chara.
After Chara and Asriel returned from the human world, the grief over what had occurred had
corrupted Asgore, eventually filling him with rage.
This led to his quest of wanting to kill seven humans and collect their souls in order to
break the barrier and declare war against the humans.
Toriel was not on the same page – she was disgusted by this notion, and left him.
4 Frans - Sans and Frisk Another non-binary ship, Frans is the pairing
of Frisk and Sans, who, as far as what’s canon is concerned, as just friends.
But some people have read their interactions as flirtatious.
When the two first meet, Sans introduces himself with a whoopee cushion.
When they meet up at Grillby’s, Sans ‘accidentally’ dumps an entire ketchup bottle on Frisk’s
meal.
Sans invited Frisk out to dinner at the MTT Hotel.
Read those moments as you will.
This is another ship that’s received quite a bit of backlash since Sans is arguably much
older than Frisk, so often, shippers will focus their fanfic or art on an older version
of Frisk, often making the character female, since there is no canon gender for Frisk in
the game.
3 Undyne and Alphys Alphys and Undyne are a femslash that’s
actually canon, and one of the only femslash ships as far as the fandom is concerned, too.
In the Pacifist Route, Alphys and Undyne are dating, whereas in the Neutral Route, it’s
just a crush.
During Mettaton’s quiz show, when you’re asked who Alphys has a crush on, one of the
correct answers is Undyne.
If the player is on a True Pacifist Route, Undyne will ask you to deliver a letter to
Alphys that’s a confession letter, and is quite passionate, which leads to you going
on a date with Alphys, although the character seems to be preoccupied with Undyne, mentioning
her many a time.
After the date, Undyne approaches you and says she regrets sending the letter, and when
she leaves, Alphys shows up and admits her feelings for Undyne.
This leads to some embarrassing roleplaying between you two that catches Undyne’s attention.
Needless to say, there’s a lot fans had to gush over.
2 Charisk - Chara and Frisk Why not ship the two human characters?
This ship is entirely fanon, and mainly derives from the similarities that players have noted
these two have.
IS there any canon evidence for this one?
Well, at one point, Chara calls Frisk “partner”, and the line “since when were you the one
in control?” which is often implied to mean Chara is the dominant character in the relationship.
But that’s about it.
Otherwise, this largely popular ship is adored primarily for how cute these two would be
together, along with the concept that they’re ‘soul buddies’ and connected.
They’re also mirror characters of one another – just look at their outfits, people!
There’s a lot of common ground between them.
And, to some, they just think out of all the other Frisk ships out there, Chara and Frisk
is “the least weird” since they’re both human kids.
1 Soriel - Sans and Toriel Why is Soriel number one?
They’re both adorable.
They both like puns.
They enjoy telling each other puns, which adorably irritates the other characters.
THEY GET EACH OTHER.
Or, at least that’s what the fandom has gauged from that interaction.
And fair enough, it’s a logical one; they mesh well together.
Considering that Sans is probably significantly older than we think, his pairing with Toriel
is one that could work well, and gives Toriel some much deserved love.
The two have a warm friendship in the game, and Asgore’s reaction to watching these
two interact always felt like he was jealous of their dynamic.
There we have it friends!
Which of these ships can you get behind?
Which of these ships do you absolutely hate?
Let us know all of your thoughts in those comments below!
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