[Something got through to them. They move, shifting their position, hug their knees. They look so worn out. More worn out than a kid should look.]
[He's quiet again while they speak. This is new. He's never heard any of this before. They so rarely open up to him at all, especially not this much. He had no idea they were carrying this around with them; and if they are, it means Frisk is too.]
[He mulls it all over after they're done, thinking.]
i dunno. i'm not sure asriel's a much better judge than me.
[He's met the kid. Asriel's not exactly an authority on good and evil.]
"not the greatest person" isn't the same thing as "the worst person."
[It's kind of semantics, and either way, it's one of those things that you can understand objectively, but still take it deeply to heart. Yet another way Chara is like him; because he can take any negative thing anyone has to say about him, unless it's coming from one specific person.]
[If Papyrus said something like that to him and meant it, how would Sans react?]
could you even let them go? i mean, was it even possible? because frisk told me that it wasn't really up to them. they kept coming back, kept sticking around, even when they didn't...want to.
[They never had a choice in staying Determined. Even the Resets themselves seem to either have been a concerted effort between the two of them, or beyond them both entirely.]
[Which begs some unpleasant questions that he's been deftly not thinking about.]
chara, it's not like...it's not like frisk is dead. they're not gonna die. they'll come back from this. it's, uh...it might take awhile, after the actual extraction. but they should get their usual level of determination back and be back to normal.
[Ostensibly.]
you haven't ruined anything. you made a bad mistake and someone got hurt. it's kinda telling, though, isn't it? this happened because you wanted to hurt yourself. funny, how stuff like that ends up hurting not just you, but other people too.
[It's not really funny at all.]
either way...you're here. the world didn't end, and you're still part of it. and...frisk is still gonna need you when this is over.
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[He's quiet again while they speak. This is new. He's never heard any of this before. They so rarely open up to him at all, especially not this much. He had no idea they were carrying this around with them; and if they are, it means Frisk is too.]
[He mulls it all over after they're done, thinking.]
i dunno. i'm not sure asriel's a much better judge than me.
[He's met the kid. Asriel's not exactly an authority on good and evil.]
"not the greatest person" isn't the same thing as "the worst person."
[It's kind of semantics, and either way, it's one of those things that you can understand objectively, but still take it deeply to heart. Yet another way Chara is like him; because he can take any negative thing anyone has to say about him, unless it's coming from one specific person.]
[If Papyrus said something like that to him and meant it, how would Sans react?]
could you even let them go? i mean, was it even possible? because frisk told me that it wasn't really up to them. they kept coming back, kept sticking around, even when they didn't...want to.
[They never had a choice in staying Determined. Even the Resets themselves seem to either have been a concerted effort between the two of them, or beyond them both entirely.]
[Which begs some unpleasant questions that he's been deftly not thinking about.]
chara, it's not like...it's not like frisk is dead. they're not gonna die. they'll come back from this. it's, uh...it might take awhile, after the actual extraction. but they should get their usual level of determination back and be back to normal.
[Ostensibly.]
you haven't ruined anything. you made a bad mistake and someone got hurt. it's kinda telling, though, isn't it? this happened because you wanted to hurt yourself. funny, how stuff like that ends up hurting not just you, but other people too.
[It's not really funny at all.]
either way...you're here. the world didn't end, and you're still part of it. and...frisk is still gonna need you when this is over.