Board Thread:Warrior's Pub/@comment-35680048-20190809141123/@comment-34942931-20190811155329

Just gonna leave a little more information in here to further support my claim. The scene in grillby’s Doesn’t show any real sign of timestop and if anything it seems more like it’s played for a Gag. I mean, come on, a spotlight literally shines down on the two of you and everyone goes still. Couldn’t this just be out of them not wanting to interrupt? Besides, I believe everyone in the bar has a good opinion of Sans. They like him, so maybe they’d want to hear what he has to say as well. I know that Grillby’s flame head stops flickering but...he’s a fire elemental. Who’s to say he has no control over that? He probably stopped it because a flickering fire makes noise, and maybe he wanted to hear or not be rude.

As for the fight, well, sorta already covered this. It’s just teleportation. Every time Sans teleports you in game you are met with a black screen and suddenly you’re there, with it saying that it’s a shortcut. In the fight, you’re met with a blank screen, and suddenly you’re somewhere else, with a new set of attacks coming at you, implying that you’ve been forcibly moved. Sans doesn’t need to prepare his attacks either so he wouldn’t even need time stop to set them up. His first attack makes that very evident, as he just pulls it out right away.

And, while this probably doesn’t support my case, the only characters that have actively stated to be able to mess with time are stated to have DETERMINATION, which Sans doesn’t and cannot have due to the fact that he is a monster. Ultimately there’s a lot more proof that it’s just forceful teleportation when the things that so far support time stop can be easily explained.