"I know," they answer quietly. "You've never enjoyed hurting people. You never wanted to. You just... you keep being put into situations that push you into it." And isn't that a fun, delightful quirk of fate too? Isn't it just so zany, the way the world takes the most good kids they know and railroads them toward pushing back, then uses that exact reaction to tell them that they're not good anymore? Don't think of it as really me, or I'll never be deserving of love! If you can't be an angel, then why even exist at all?
"Please don't pick," they mumble, knowing full well that, too, is rank hypocrisy.
"I don't want this to be something you flagellate yourself over. I don't want you thinking that this is because of you. It was Chara, not Frisk, who was LV19 and hungry for more. It was Chara, not Frisk, who used a SPELL. It was Chara, not Frisk, who made you think we wanted you to disappear. All you did was put a shirt. You said it yourself: your only crime was wearing a costume." They don't blame Asriel for the plan, after all. His only crime was picking flowers. He's not guilty of anything else - it was another party entirely who had control when he stepped across the barrier. Frisk, surely, can understand. You're not a bad person because a bad person took you over for a little bit, right?
"If you're already over this... if you've moved past it... then it's important to me that you remain over this, Frisk. I don't want to drag you down again. I don't want my inability to move past where I started to hurt you or sabotage the growing up that you've done."
no subject
"Please don't pick," they mumble, knowing full well that, too, is rank hypocrisy.
"I don't want this to be something you flagellate yourself over. I don't want you thinking that this is because of you. It was Chara, not Frisk, who was LV19 and hungry for more. It was Chara, not Frisk, who used a SPELL. It was Chara, not Frisk, who made you think we wanted you to disappear. All you did was put a shirt. You said it yourself: your only crime was wearing a costume." They don't blame Asriel for the plan, after all. His only crime was picking flowers. He's not guilty of anything else - it was another party entirely who had control when he stepped across the barrier. Frisk, surely, can understand. You're not a bad person because a bad person took you over for a little bit, right?
"If you're already over this... if you've moved past it... then it's important to me that you remain over this, Frisk. I don't want to drag you down again. I don't want my inability to move past where I started to hurt you or sabotage the growing up that you've done."