[That's LOVE. He knows. He knows what that looks like. Remembers a haunted look on Frisk's face, those few times that there was only--one. One, or two. Enough to get to LV 2, maybe 3. Enough to ruin the ending.]
[He remembers thinking, who gets to LV 2 on accident?]
[He knows better now. It's not that simple. It's not even remotely that simple. It doesn't...ruin the ending, because these are worlds without Resets. There isn't an ending. There's just the future, everpresent on the horizon. And he can't remember what that's like. Even now, two years later, he's still waiting for it to happen again, because it will. It absolutely will. No one stays in Wonderland forever.]
[There were certain absolutes that are gone now.]
[Tim. Clem. And he's met other people here, people with a bit of LV under their belt, and it's--still completely foreign to him, how that can just happen. But it can. Different worlds, different rules. Are Tim and Clem irredeemable because of it?]
[Was Frisk irredeemable for a mistake?]
[He'll never get used to it, he thinks. Having his foundation torn out from under him.]
[Only that's hypocritical, isn't it? It's not a foundation if you're willing to excavate it yourself under the right circumstances. You can't call it some pillar of your being unless there's absolutely zero chance that you'll ever knock it down.]
it was hypocritical for me to even ask. considering what i've--i'm not even from that timeline, but it still--if the rest of them think it counts, if the mere capacity for it counts, then--then i'm--
[He can't, no. This has nothing to do with him, this is between Tim and Jay, this is something he had no business knowing about, and it would just make things about him, would be ridiculous to even say, but--]
[But Wonderland won't listen to any of his usual excuses or rationalizations.]
no subject
[That's LOVE. He knows. He knows what that looks like. Remembers a haunted look on Frisk's face, those few times that there was only--one. One, or two. Enough to get to LV 2, maybe 3. Enough to ruin the ending.]
[He remembers thinking, who gets to LV 2 on accident?]
[He knows better now. It's not that simple. It's not even remotely that simple. It doesn't...ruin the ending, because these are worlds without Resets. There isn't an ending. There's just the future, everpresent on the horizon. And he can't remember what that's like. Even now, two years later, he's still waiting for it to happen again, because it will. It absolutely will. No one stays in Wonderland forever.]
[There were certain absolutes that are gone now.]
[Tim. Clem. And he's met other people here, people with a bit of LV under their belt, and it's--still completely foreign to him, how that can just happen. But it can. Different worlds, different rules. Are Tim and Clem irredeemable because of it?]
[Was Frisk irredeemable for a mistake?]
[He'll never get used to it, he thinks. Having his foundation torn out from under him.]
[Only that's hypocritical, isn't it? It's not a foundation if you're willing to excavate it yourself under the right circumstances. You can't call it some pillar of your being unless there's absolutely zero chance that you'll ever knock it down.]
it was hypocritical for me to even ask. considering what i've--i'm not even from that timeline, but it still--if the rest of them think it counts, if the mere capacity for it counts, then--then i'm--
[He can't, no. This has nothing to do with him, this is between Tim and Jay, this is something he had no business knowing about, and it would just make things about him, would be ridiculous to even say, but--]
[But Wonderland won't listen to any of his usual excuses or rationalizations.]
i guess we're all murderers.