i've made up my mind over and over; keep pressing rewind [open]

[determinedest]

Who: Frisk and YOU
Where: All over the mansion
When: 2/04 - 2/08
Rating: PG-13 for Bad Thoughts and implied suicide attempt
Summary: * If you DO end up erasing everything...you have to erase my memories, too. I’m sorry.
The Story:

[* There is one last thing.]

                          [* One last threat.]

                                                      [* One being with the power to erase EVERYTHING…]

                                                                                                                       [* Everything everyone’s worked so hard for.]

[* You know who I’m talking about, don’t you?]

[* That’s right.]
[* Despite everything...]



[* It's still YOU.]

Comments

[determinedest]

Waterfall?

[It's a vague guess at best, and it falls woefully short. Waterfall might've been wet, but they've never...in all their long lists of deaths, all the various ways for their SOUL to shatter, drowning was never one of them. They might have fallen from a bridge, wind tearing at their hair, to land, again, on a patch of golden flowers in the garbage dump (there's a cruel joke nesting there, they know there is), but they'd never been at risk to actually drown.]

...this doesn't make sense.

[Repetition of a fact everyone already knows. Their phone pings, softly, and they glance vaguely its way. It's Sans.

(Again, maybe?)]

Maybe...maybe it's one of the others. Other people who know about how time works.

[fulllifeconsequences]

I mean... we know a lot of time travelers, but do we know any who live underwater?

[Max, Dipper, Sans... uh...

Nope. None of them live in a pineapple under the sea.]

Either somebody's got a secret we definitely would never have guessed, or maybe... Wonderland is trying to trick us?

[Maybe they're the only ones experiencing resets, so they think this event is their fault. Maybe everyone's experiencing something different. Maybe they're actually crazy, and there isn't water there at all, because water should spill into an open room instead of staying put. Maybe they're seeing things and none of this is real. Can they really be sure that this is real?]

[determinedest]

How? And...what would it be trying to trick us about?

[Then again, it's...not like they can know for sure, that they know every possible time traveler in the mansion. There could be plenty of others lying low, who aren't as forthcoming about their secrets as Frisk and Chara and Dipper and Sans might be. As Max tried not to be.]

It could be anyone. Anyone who has a special power they never told anyone about.

[And yet, they sound decidedly uncertain. They know a RESET when they feel one, and it's...not very fun at all, being caught on the receiving end of one, ha ha. It's unpleasant, not being the one in control, isn't it?

...

This is what they put everyone through.

They suppose KARMA really does catch up to everyone, in the end.]

[fulllifeconsequences]

What's the point of keeping it secret in a place like this?

[What's the point in hiding what you are at all? Behold, the demon that comes when people call its name. Why pretend you don't have a special power, when that special power is the only part of you that people are willing to acknowledge at all?]

Wonderland will drag it out eventually. And then it'll be a big dumb surprise, like, oh, hey, one of us can only time travel while their house is mostly filled with flavorless jello! At least if people weren't keeping secrets, we'd know what we're supposed to do with this... antigravity water?

[They snort, shake their head. Part their lips, almost say something else, but the world cuts it short. The world shudders to a halt, and with all the jarring suddenness of reloading a state, dives from one frame to another.

Reset.]