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entranceworks2016-05-21 12:32 am
vitaelamorte) wrote in entranceworks2016-05-21 12:32 am
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He's had no idea, the amount of times she's died, thinking that this child is going to go on to kill everyone else in the Underground with nobody to protect them. She has no idea either.
All she knows is that she told him not to keep a promise that might end up hurting him, and he's gone silent.
She's about to break the silence herself, when he finally speaks up, and... ah. 'The kid'. He knows them, then. Knows they're the reason she mentioned not having to keep that promise anymore. Even though he already kept it anyway. Kind of, of course. Because, just as she'd feared. Her request had gotten him killed when he attempted to fulfill it, right?
Now it's her turn to go quiet- not for as long as him, but. It's definitely noticeable.]
It... is alright. You do not need to apologize.
You could not have known what was going to happen.
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[Damn. Damn, he has to tell her more, doesn't he? He has to get into it, all the stupid, complex crap he hates talking about. How Frisk isn't the Frisk she'll be familiar with. How Chara...god, Chara's here, and she might not even recognize them. And how is Chara going to react to all this? And how will Frisk react?]
[Frisk will be devastated.]
[Damn.]
nah, it's...
hold on. gonna come around. kinda stupid to keep this bush between us, yeah?
[He heads to the end of the hedgerow, stepping gingerly over some flowerbed, then approaches her slowly, hands in his pockets. By now he has himself back under control, his expression giving nothing away.]
hey. heh. you're...a lot taller up close, huh?
...
there's...something you gotta know. don't really know how to explain, but...
it went different for me. went different for frisk, too. they came outta the ruins and...everything was fine. they were good. didn't hurt a single monster. not a single one. i kept an eyesocket on them, as often as i could.
[He rubs the back of his skull, unable to keep the regret from his face. Why does he get the good ending? Why does he get the good timeline when two of the most important people in his life get the worst one?]
it all went well. they got past asgore and freed us all.
guess that...doesn't really change what, uh. what happened where you're from. everyone here, the underground that we come from? they're all...kinda different from each other. in the one i'm from, and the one frisk is from...
[He shrugs again.]
we lucked out, i guess.
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I... I see. Frisk had mentioned something about other timelines, but. I was not aware that anyone but them would be from a different one. I was not even sure if they were telling the truth, if they were just lying, or perhaps using it as some kind of coping mechanism, deflecting blame onto other imagined versions of themselves.
[...Trying to keep things light and jokey isn't really an option anymore, is it? No, she supposes not.]
...If that's the case, then. I may have been too harsh on them... but...
[She pauses, bringing a hand to her face- tracing the cut that they had left there. It's gone, of course- no trace that she had been torn asunder and turned to dust, but. She remembers how it'd felt. To be struck with such an intense attack. The emotions- or rather, the lack of them, behind it.]
No... they still... they still did it. They killed me, for no other reason than to watch me die. Not even Asgore could lay claim to such a grisly and pointless reason to take a life. Going to another timeline and acting like it did not happen... it does not change what they did. They did not deny it...
[Not entirely convinced. She wants to be- to be able to hold them to the same standards that she held Asgore to. No amount of regret on his part would let her forgive him for what he had done. But at the same time... he is not a child. She cannot possibly hold them to the same standards, but...
She does not want to get close to them. She does not want to leave herself open, and vulnerable to them again. She does not want to make the same mistake twice.]
Still... I am glad that at least somewhere out there, things could have gone better.
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["Deflecting blame onto other imagined versions of themselves." God.]
[He watches her try to talk through it, watches her remember. Watches her reach for a nonexistent injury. He has to resist the urge to do the same, to raise a hand and trace a line across his chest.]
yeah. doesn't...change it.
[He really is lucky. Not just because of his timelines, but because of his...situation. He has countless timelines behind him, has had more than enough time to get used to all of this, to put some distance between them, to realize that only the current timeline matters. He can't let past timelines influence him. Can't let the fact that the kid has killed him more times than he could ever count affect how he treats the kid here and now.]
[It's never quite easy to get over dying, but once it has become commonplace it lets you be a bit more objective about things. Or maybe it's just that he finds it hard to care anymore.]
yeah, heh. somewhere out there.
...
frisk's...not so bad, though. they're trying real hard to make up for any bad stuff they've done. not gonna ask you to...give them another chance or anything. not after what you've been through.
[She doesn't have the luxury of distance.]
but they're...i dunno. they're trying.
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[They had called her 'mom', when they first saw her. Seemed heartbroken when they realized the situation. Acted heartbroken, at least.
...Now she feels kind of guilty for thinking that. Tries to push the guilt aside. What she saw at the Ruins' exit... She still has no real proof that creature isn't lurking somewhere inside them. They had seemed like a perfectly normal child up until then, after all.
Can't forget it either way, though. Even if they really are normal, and she could forgive them... she could not be their mother like they want. A child does not deserve a Mother who's been woken by nightmares of them killing her. Does not deserve a Mother that's afraid of them.]
If they have changed, then... I am glad to hear it. But still. I believe I am going to keep my distance for now, if I can.
[She hates that she's afraid of them. That she's placing her own safety above the wellbeing of a child who may need guidance and help... but she simply can't haelp it.]
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[This is stuff he's had to contend with for...god knows how long.]
good thing about this place is...heh. we kinda have all the time in the world. we're stuck here and time is kinda...almost frozen for us. like a dream or something.
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[...Are they sure this isn't the afterlife? She's been assured that it's not, but it really sounds like it might be.]
That may be something of a mixed blessing, I believe. But it is certainly better than the alternative. Perhaps with all that time I will be able to help out Chara.
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tori, uh...chara might...they might not be the same kid you remember. the years can change a person, yanno?
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[He wouldn't be telling her this if they hadn't already done something. Acted in certain ways. Made Sans feel like he needed to warn her about them. She's not really surprised to hear it, but. It's still disappointing.]
Whatever it is they have done in my absence... Please try not to hold it against them. They have had a very difficult life. They have never truly learned love and compassion. Were never given a chance to.
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heh. don't...worry. i won't.
[It's not a lie. The present is all that matters. He's not gonna hold their history against them. But history doesn't change the fact that at the end of the day, you make choices. Frisk, Chara, both of them. Doesn't matter. There are reasons, just not good ones. Never good ones.]