[Okay. Easy, effortless, like it doesn't matter at all.
Exactly the ideal Chara should be striving for.]
No.
[They decline, face impassive. It wants to go back to pretending it can't taste anything.
It instead fiddles with its wrist, trying to pick apart a knot of red thread without tugging the sleeve up. Unties the friendship bracelet. Slides it across the table to Frisk. Makes it official.
Finishes the job.]
I have no desire to live with you any longer. It sickens me to see you claim a side of the room that has never belonged to you.
[Asriel's bed is on the right side, they'd once told Frisk in those gleeful taunting tones. Don't you think it hurts him to be relegated to the windowsill while a newer, better child takes his place?]
I will see if Toriel or Asgore will take me in, depending on if you'd rather I stay with the one who isn't next door or the one who avoids you.
[Too partial. Wait. Wrong, bad. Revise.]
...Or I will simply pick a room for myself. That would be the most efficient. I have a single backpack's worth of possessions; I can be moved out in an instant.
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Exactly the ideal Chara should be striving for.]
No.
[They decline, face impassive. It wants to go back to pretending it can't taste anything.
It instead fiddles with its wrist, trying to pick apart a knot of red thread without tugging the sleeve up. Unties the friendship bracelet. Slides it across the table to Frisk. Makes it official.
Finishes the job.]
I have no desire to live with you any longer. It sickens me to see you claim a side of the room that has never belonged to you.
[Asriel's bed is on the right side, they'd once told Frisk in those gleeful taunting tones. Don't you think it hurts him to be relegated to the windowsill while a newer, better child takes his place?]
I will see if Toriel or Asgore will take me in, depending on if you'd rather I stay with the one who isn't next door or the one who avoids you.
[Too partial. Wait. Wrong, bad. Revise.]
...Or I will simply pick a room for myself. That would be the most efficient. I have a single backpack's worth of possessions; I can be moved out in an instant.