Sans and Frisk operate on this fascinating axis of absolute knowledge versus pure potential. Sans knows all the possible timelines, he's seen the resets, he understands the mechanics of their world on a fundamental level. Frisk, as the player's vessel, carries the weight of choice and consequence without that meta-awareness. So when you drop them into NSFW scenarios, it's less about physical acts and more about the violation of that dynamic. Does Sans use his knowledge to manipulate? Is it a relief for him to engage with someone who can reset and forget, making intimacy strangely consequence-free? I've seen interpretations where it's a desperate grasp for connection in a meaningless loop, and others where it's a power play draped in apathy. The tension comes from whether Frisk's determined nature is a match for Sans' weary omnipotence or just another variable he's calculated.
The really compelling stuff I've read leans into the emotional bleed. Sans joking to deflect real feeling, Frisk's actions carrying a weight their expression doesn't show. It can get deeply melancholic—two beings trapped in different ways by the narrative's rules, finding a flawed, human messiness in each other. Sometimes it's outright dark, exploring coercion through foreknowledge. Other times it's surprisingly tender, the skeleton who's given up finding something to care about in the anomaly itself. The dynamic is a playground for examining consent, agency, and intimacy when one person holds all the cards, and the other holds the reset button.