Trains are just really big cars. They're both big metal things fueled by burning.
[Aren't they? You shovel coal into trains. Or maybe they're electric now, if they're still around at all? They must still be around. You could hear a distant train whistle on quiet nights on the surface, they remember, in that silent little backwater village. It's weird that he wouldn't know that. It's so - it seems like the kind of thing he'd know. He'd... they really do believe he knows everything, don't they?]
Alphys could definitely build one if she felt like it. Then she could be every kind of engineer.
[Would make a better use of her time than... well, no, that's bitter. Asriel's not a flower right now. Don't be like that.]
I've built something, too. I built that potato gun that one time!
[It's the sort of thing that should end with a period, not an exclamation mark. It's just a stupid juvenile weapon. They shouldn't be proud of it. They should be set against proving him right about anything, even something neutral like making a good engineer. Again, their face goes redder. They start knitting again, just so their hands are doing something, just so they don't look pleased or bashful or uncertain or... whatever they are?]
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[Aren't they? You shovel coal into trains. Or maybe they're electric now, if they're still around at all? They must still be around. You could hear a distant train whistle on quiet nights on the surface, they remember, in that silent little backwater village. It's weird that he wouldn't know that. It's so - it seems like the kind of thing he'd know. He'd... they really do believe he knows everything, don't they?]
Alphys could definitely build one if she felt like it. Then she could be every kind of engineer.
[Would make a better use of her time than... well, no, that's bitter. Asriel's not a flower right now. Don't be like that.]
I've built something, too. I built that potato gun that one time!
[It's the sort of thing that should end with a period, not an exclamation mark. It's just a stupid juvenile weapon. They shouldn't be proud of it. They should be set against proving him right about anything, even something neutral like making a good engineer. Again, their face goes redder. They start knitting again, just so their hands are doing something, just so they don't look pleased or bashful or uncertain or... whatever they are?]