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[mettatonvevo]

[When the video clicks on, at first only Mettaton is visible. After a few quick seconds, however, it becomes obvious that he is standing in an empty room. There is nothing remarkable about it in any way, shape, or form. It has four walls, all stark white, and one wall with a window and one wall with a door. All in all, with how utterly unremarkable it is, Mettaton looks almost comically out of place.

The look of empty sadness on his face is the only thing that matches the room.]

Wonderland, have you ever felt an absence? As if one day your heart is whole, the next, something important in your life, something you always thought would be there, is gone?

[He means both literal and figurative in his case, but he knows he's in the minority on that front. He turns to look out the window, facing away from the camera.]

It's like a piece of you is missing. Like you'll never be quite full ever again.

[He pauses. He doesn't want to speak this into reality, even as the reality bores in on him as bright and biting as the walls around him.]

I'm sure that those of you that knew her will understand my feelings when I say that... Alphys is gone.

[His voice crackles with static.]

And I don't think she is coming back.

((ooc: Mettaton will mostly be staying in what was Alphys's old room on the second floor next to his if you're looking for an action thread for the rest of the day.))

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[thecourier]

Didn't know 'er, but... that feelin'? Know that.

[And all too recently. Just when he feels like he might be moving past it, it hits him all over again.

He still hasn't moved out of the rooms that Evelyn left, and the longer he stays there, surrounded by everything that made the place so very hers, the more he finds he doesn't want to.]

So... sorry t' hear it.

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[mettatonvevo]

[He saw this man's post on the Network a little bit ago. Brief... but extremely painful. A lot of people here loved Evie. Even though he didn't know her all that well himself, it's not hard to understand why her loss would hit so hard.

He smiles in sympathy.]

I'm sorry for your loss as well. I think it's been a difficult month or series of months for a lot of people.

[Toriel, Chara, now Alphys... countless others leaving. Evie, of all people, after 6 or so years...it's a lot.]

[thecourier]

[At the time, there had been little else to say. He could say more now, talk about her in detail... but he isn't going to. What he'd have to say about her isn't for public consumption.]

Uh... thanks. [It's the first time he's not answered a 'sorry' with a sharp rebuke. Even as much as he still doesn't want to hear it, there's enough civility in him to know that now isn't the time for that argument.

Besides, he said it first.]

Yeah, seems that way. Gotta wonder if it's leadin' up to somethin'.

[mettatonvevo]

It certainly feels that way when Wonderland loses so many people so quickly. There's no way it could be connected to that declaration of war but...

[His voice softens just a tad.]

I can't help but be grateful that Alphys won't have to be here for it. She was never suited for that sort of thing. I'm glad she's safe from here, even if I still wish she was here.

[thecourier]

[Dan frowns minutely. No way it could be related... but what if it could? He wonders if mass exits have come before large problems before, but it's a big ask to try and track something like that.]

Yeah... know what y' mean. 'S a real two-sided feelin', ain't it.

[mettatonvevo]

It is. To miss someone so fervently while knowing that they're better off not here... it's an odd mixture of selfishness and selflessness.

[He shakes his head.]

I've never done well with selflessness, myself.

[He looks to the device and smiles.]

I suppose in my grief I forgot my manners. My name is Mettaton. What's yours?

[It's a much more subdued introduction than he usually goes for, but he's not feeling up to his usual theatrics right now.]

[thecourier]

It's, uh... Dan. Dan Palmer.

[It's just as well that Mettaton is feeling subdued, because this conversation could very well go an entirely different way if he wasn't.]

Nice t' meet y'. Even if the circumstances 're shit.

[mettatonvevo]

[He gives a gentle chuckle at that.]

The feeling is mutual, Dan. How long have you been here in Wonderland?

[thecourier]

Ah, shit, gotta be...

[How long had it been? He doesn't really keep track, having never really kept track of time in his life in general, so he takes a moment to think about it before he gives a tentative ballpark figure.]

Guessin' at two an' a half years. Give or take.

[mettatonvevo]

Oof. I'm almost on two years myself. It's... quite the bizarre feeling, to be quite honest. Knowing so much of our lives have been spent here rather than home.

[It's a bit of a somber thing to say but it's true. It always weighs on him, especially so now.]