I'm going to level with you, Toriel. I really don't appreciate the assumption that I'm some kind of monster--[ah--he takes a beat]--Sorry, I meant, a monstrous person who doesn't care for the well-being of others. And the flippancy? If people can't see that I'm confident in a good outcome to all this, they might panic if they can't trust me. Also, that's just how I talk. [He shrugs. Maybe it's his Jersey shining through, or maybe Stan's rubbing off on him? Yikes.]
I can also safely speak for myself and the other scientists--we'd rather not have our experiments policed. Yes, bad things have happened and we ought to be careful not to repeat our mistakes or be reckless in the future, but... What the rest of you remember is the few times something blew up, not all our successes.
[He runs a hand over his hair. He doesn't know if she'd care about this or not, and what he's about to say certainly isn't an excuse, but...]
During the incident where the Mirrors came to our side, prompted by someone else's experiment, my Mirror came to our side, stole my research, and mortally wounded my twin. [...] When I was able to reach him, there was nothing I could do. And when I first arrived a year and a half ago, my recklessness got my entire family killed during my first event.
So... Yes, I am reckless and flippant, but neither preclude carelessness over the well-being of the people I care about. I really don't want to hurt my family or anyone else again.
That's why I tried working with that magic to make a ward to protect Monsters from the Underground from Bill, so we don't have a repeat of the disaster with Mettaton.
If something bad happened to you because of this, I am sorry, but I've already done all I can. [He shrugs again.]
I'M SORRY FOR THE TL;DR
I'm going to level with you, Toriel. I really don't appreciate the assumption that I'm some kind of monster--[ah--he takes a beat]--Sorry, I meant, a monstrous person who doesn't care for the well-being of others. And the flippancy? If people can't see that I'm confident in a good outcome to all this, they might panic if they can't trust me. Also, that's just how I talk. [He shrugs. Maybe it's his Jersey shining through, or maybe Stan's rubbing off on him? Yikes.]
I can also safely speak for myself and the other scientists--we'd rather not have our experiments policed. Yes, bad things have happened and we ought to be careful not to repeat our mistakes or be reckless in the future, but... What the rest of you remember is the few times something blew up, not all our successes.
[He runs a hand over his hair. He doesn't know if she'd care about this or not, and what he's about to say certainly isn't an excuse, but...]
During the incident where the Mirrors came to our side, prompted by someone else's experiment, my Mirror came to our side, stole my research, and mortally wounded my twin. [...] When I was able to reach him, there was nothing I could do. And when I first arrived a year and a half ago, my recklessness got my entire family killed during my first event.
So... Yes, I am reckless and flippant, but neither preclude carelessness over the well-being of the people I care about. I really don't want to hurt my family or anyone else again.
That's why I tried working with that magic to make a ward to protect Monsters from the Underground from Bill, so we don't have a repeat of the disaster with Mettaton.
If something bad happened to you because of this, I am sorry, but I've already done all I can. [He shrugs again.]