@rad_art_baby@pioneer_ten i think they wanted papyrus to feel taller than the player in undertale, and this height accomplishes that, because frisk is tiny. but kris is taller than frisk, meaning characters who are scaled to feel much taller than kris end up being a lot taller than UT's taller characters
@JimsTweets my automatic understanding was that this was sort of a "pinch me im dreaming" moment where he had to know if this was real by taking something else physically through into the normal world