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HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU?!

You are overjoyed at the sound of a new voice, you are drawn into the nostalgic delights of an old favourite, you are captivated with curiosity about a new game, entertained by the eventuality of your participation AND YET--

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You're here, though.

[Another step forward, their smile softening.]

You're - you're in Wonderland now. Do you...

["Do you remember?"

But he wouldn't, would he? No. Maybe that's just too much wishful thinking. But he's here now, sound and whole, and maybe that means now - now he can finally get that second chance. For real, this time.]

Is... is that what the Surface is called?

[He's. Confused. Really confused. His smile drops a bit and he starts looking puzzled now, stepping towards Frisk a bit.]

How did I get up here? I was still in the Ruins when you all left.

No, it's - this is a different place. Kind of like...another world.

[It upsets them a little that this is the first time a lot of monsters will be seeing the sky, in a world that isn't even theirs. But their heart is so full they can't bring themselves to be properly flustered about it. They grin, widely.]

Time's frozen back home while you're here. You're really, really here!

[That last bit bursts out of them in their exuberance before they can contain it. He's really really here.]

[Frisk looks so... happy, and he wants to be happy too, but even if time was frozen back home, even if there weren't any real consequences to being here, there was still a matter of the... other thing.]

Frisk, don't.

[Don't get your hopes up. Don't get excited he's here. Please.]

I don't know how any of this is happening. But you... you all just need to leave me.

Why? Asriel, you're here - like a lot of people from back home! You don't need to worry, okay? You won't - you won't turn back, unless, um, unless I guess you want to? Is that how it works?

[That's probably not the most sensitive question. Frisk plows ahead eagerly.]

You can be free.

It's okay.

[Now he's the one trying to smile, trying to look... happy.]

It'll be okay, Frisk. I told you. As long as you're far away from me, Flowey can't hurt you anymore. I promise.

N-no, but - there's no place to go here. We just...we stay here. None of us change, or age, or anything. You can be you. And you don't, um, have to worry anymore.

Wait, what're you talking about? What is this place?

[He isn't about to go back so quickly, not... not until he's sure. Not until he can finally face everyone with certainty. His parents...]

Frisk, what's going on?

It's...it's not the Underground. Or the Surface we know. We just kind of...end up here.

[They want to reach out, hug him tightly, but...but that might be creepy.]

It's called Wonderland. And it's...it can be home. If you want.

[He'd spent all that time in the Ruins thinking everyone was living on the surface. That everyone was happy. But now he's here and Frisk is here and this is an entirely different world and he isn't sure what to think.]

Who... who else is here? I still don't understand - did I do something wrong? Did everything not go back to how it was?

It's not your fault! It just...um, it happens. Some people come from the bad timelines, and some people come from good ones, but - but Sans is here, and Papyrus, and Alphys and Undyne and -

[They didn't mean to leave them for last. But looks like that's how it happened, and they hesitate before the name spills out, the true name - ]

- and Chara.

[So everyone did follow them here, wherever 'here' truly is. He'd tried to set the world back to how it was after using the souls, aside from the barrier, of course. But maybe something went wrong. Maybe it's some effect of that power, maybe--

...

Ah.

Asriel suddenly turns very, very serious.]

Chara's gone, Frisk. You know that.

They're here now. This place, it, um...it takes people from all over. And - and Chara's -

[Well.

Chara's complicated.

Frisk doesn't realize they're wringing their hands until their nails dig into the heel of their palm, and they quickly drop both hands to their sides.]

They were with me. Back home. The whole time.

[Ha... not enough of the soul's residue had left him, it seems. He still feels a building anxiety in his chest, taking a small step back. He barely even realizes he does it.

But as Frisk goes on, his expression darkens - literally. Asriel's eyes go entirely black, the corners of his mouth spreading over his cheeks like a vine being pulled apart. The pitch of his voice turns higher for just a moment, just a brief moment, and his head turns downward.]

Chara's GONE.

[Frisk jerks back at the abrupt nature of the shift, that splitting blackness horribly reminiscent of the cruel, floral abomination that glared at them and taunted them and mocked them for their pain and their pity.]

They're - they're not. They were never gone! They were with me, the whole time!

[The smile keeps spreading across his face before he finally snaps back to reality, clutching a shaking claw over his muzzle and taking a few deep breaths. It'd... happened a lot, over the past few days. Don't lose control. Don't become Flowey again not now, not now--]

Sorry. Frisk, I'm sorry, I...

[He sighs again, closing his eyes. His mouth returns to normal, the life comes back to his expression. And when he speaks again, his voice is normal.

The claw lowers.]

How... what do you mean, Frisk? Chara's... how?

I fell on their grave.

[They're still quaking from that abrupt tonal shift, lower lip quivering. And the words rush out, unbroken, an unfiltered stream of their racing consciousness.]

I fell on their grave when I landed Underground and I think they, I think they were still there after everything, and we were together the whole time, from the very first moment. They - they helped me, and sometimes they didn't, but we're - we're friends now, in Wonderland, and it's okay now, it's okay!

[It's okay now.

Isn't it?]

I... I remember. The bad timelines. I remember when it wasn't really you, but... them.

[It's something he doesn't like thinking about. That had all eventually gone really, really badly.]

They took your body. They'd killed everyone. They tried to kill me too but I don't remember what happened after that.

But I thought it was just those timelines.

N-no. It...it wasn't. They did help, a lot of the time. Not always during the bad times.

Sometimes the bad times were me, too.

[Hugging themselves again, arms wrapped tightly around their middle. It's always painful to admit it aloud.]

[With that, Asriel just... laughs quietly. Though there's no real humor in the situation. During those timelines, he'd... encouraged them, to do those bad things. He'd helped them, clung to them like a stubborn weed. He wanted everything to be destroyed.

And it all backfired, in the end.

Neither one of them were free from guilt, were they?]

Frisk... can I ask you a question?

...yeah. 'Course you can.

[They're a little scared to answer, but...well, they owe him this. They owe him a lot.

It's not easy to think about Chara and...and everything related to them. But if they're going to do this, they have to start with the truth.]

When you were trying to SAVE me.

...that wasn't. You, was it?

I, um...

I don't know, honestly.

[The overlap between Frisk and Chara is a perplexing question, even on a good day.]

I always figured that it was them helping me at the end. Knowing the names of all your attacks and, and everything.

Oh, wait you actually--

Oh.

You saw all that.

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