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::When the video feed turns on, a pink flower shirted Asgore is clearly somewhere very sunny. There's also a number of potted plants set up around him. Some low, long boxes as well. Tall purple fountain grass, tomato plants just going into flower, low sweet potato vines, fuzzy green lambs ears, large clumps of blue false indigo and dusty purple lavender, and even a little trellis with the beginnings of some golden honeysuckle clamoring up the sides. Asgore is sitting on a low, wooden bench with a pot of bright yellow coreopsis in his lap.::

So... I am something of a gardener. And I putter around the gardens here. It is probably my favorite hobby.

::Asgore picks up the coreopsis off of his lap to hold it out to the camera just a bit::

These coreopsis, for example, are quite hardy. Such a beautiful yellow color, they'll flower for months if you care for them well, and they are a favorite with butterflies, and they also provide seeds for birds in the fall. Such a wonderful little plant.

::Asgore pulls the pot of flowers back from the camera, and sets them down on the ground next to him. He looks back into the camera. Somehow it all feels a bit like the Queen of England giving her annual Christmas message.::

I find a great deal of comfort in tending to a garden. I have slowly been... moving a few things, now and then, to the roof... during those long stretches between events. Spring is such a busy season for a gardener. Seeds to plant, seedlings to transplant, vegetables to stake, vines to train, there's so many little things to do. But, I'm glad to do it. I have made this little corner of the roof to... create a comfortable space. And I would like to welcome you to it. If you see a ripe tomato, please take one, although they will not be ready for a few weeks yet. Cut a flower or a spray of lavender, take a sprig of spearmint or peppermint or apple mint, just leave some for anyone else who wishes to visit and enjoy the space. There is a bench. It is quite sturdy.

::Asgore looks around a bit, trying to find something else to comment on.::

The sweet potatoes will not be ready for several months, yet, so please do not dig them up prematurely. I think that is everything. Please enjoy your time in the Roof Garden.

::Asgore stands up to shut off the camera feed, and after a few moments of just a wall of bright pink Hawaiian shirt, the feed goes off::

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::The video reply you get shows Asgore looking closely into the camera, narrowing his eyes at this sudden exchange::

Excuse me but... are you... Grendel?

The one and fuckin' only. This is my less pretty face.

I was unaware that you could transform. You have some very interesting facial hair when you look like this. You might consider growing it out a bit more. I find a full beard to be more... regal.

Well, I can't really transform. It's a glamour. Magic y'know? My kinds gotta hide from the regular human folk where I'm from.

[He snorts. ]

Hey, the soul patch is pretty damn popular right now. ['Right now' being the mid 80s, so not really.]

::When you say the phrase 'soul patch' for some reason Asgore looks uncomfortable.::

That is called a 'SOUL patch' ? That is an odd term... a... very... odd term.

I don't really... hm. Does it... Is it your SOUL?

[Gren lets out a laugh, because wow- WOW. ]

Holy shit, Asgore, you're something else. Nah, man, it's not my soul. It's just a name the mundies made for it. Like...fuckin' music soul or something I think. Metaphorical, like.

Oh, uh, so then you also do not absorb SOULs, do you? Just... to ask for no particular reason.

What?

[He blinks, confused. ]

...Yeah, no. I don't absorb souls. That's...a really fuckin' weird question.

Ah, well, you dd say that you were a Fable and not a Monster in the same way as myself.

I was just... very surprised to see a monster-type person... so cavalier in discussing SOULs, I suppose.

...Yeah, fair cop. But nah, we don't eat souls. Except maybe some of the witches? Fuck knows what those creepy bastards do.

[He's not a fan of witches, but they're necessary. ]

It's more uh, a human term. Like soul music?

Ah, yes. Humans can be so very careless with all sorts of matters. That is probably it.

Well, yeah. They got a lot of that cultural appropriation bullshit going on.

I'm not sure what that is, but alright.

It means when people take a culture that's not theirs and do shit with it like they have a right to it.

Ah, so... would a... Monster who watched very many human animes... and designing cute stories based off of them be doing a cultural appropriation?

Nah I think you're okay there. You're just writing stories, right? It's not like you're dressing up as one and doing their like...celebrations and shit, right?

[Asks the monster masquerading as a human. ]

Oh, this was mostly about my former royal scientist who was very into the human anime. She did have me dress up as a very strange character from her Kiss-Kiss Cute Kitten anime for Halloween one year.

I-

[No. Give him a second. ]

Well. Uh. So long as you enjoyed it, I guess? Whatever rocks your socks, man.

We were required by the rules of this place to go Trick-or-Treating, to appease a... candy-devouring spectyre that, if it were not given an appropriate amount of sugary treats would... well I cannot remember correctly but I doubt it was very kind. So, it was... a fresh experience for me, although I cannot say it was entirely enjoyable.

That's a really fucking weirdass way to celebrate Halloween. Is that a thing here? Like it's an actual being we gotta make offerings to? Or was it a one-off thing?

Oh, it was a one-time thing. I believe. An 'event.' It involved, I believe, two children from another world where there was a candy-eating spirit.

Oh. You know, it's really fuckin' depressing that that is a reasonable explanation for that kind of shit.

[video of a large, dad-shaped goat]

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Video - Beard Talk with Asgore Dreemurr

Video - Followed by Best Booze with Grendel

Video - They do a crossover where Grendel teaches Asgore how to make a Hot Toddy

Video - It would be glorious.

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sorry was on hiatus

tis never a problem!

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