[It's always different with the both of them, because they're the ones that are like no one else. Anomalies, humans, fallen children with red SOULs. Too much determination for their own good. Even when Frisk wanted, needed, wanted that silence, that peace after death, it was never...well, they could never stop. They were never in that emptiness, that void, for very long. Asgore's voice rumbled in their direction, and then they would be awake again, back at their SAVE point. There was never a choice. They can't remember if it was one or both of them that made that happen, or if it was simply an inherent factor in who they were, anomaly, that made giving up in that sense a physical and metaphysical impossibility. Thing could fling themselves a line of bullets all day if it suited them, relatively speaking, but they'd always come out the other side. Intrinsically, permanently, forever determined. Will that be how it always ends? Will they live on the surface for years and years and find themselves dying of old age and wish for an end to it but see their SOUL splinter into fragments and be greeted by that familiar memory, that familiar tug forward to proceed? There was never an option there. Nothing but RESET and CONTINUE.
And if they CONTINUE, where do they go after death? Can they? Or do they simply start at that point in time all over again, relive their death by kidney failure or cardiac arrest or whatever it is old people die by, because they can't bear to effect a RESET?
You're good to them.
Yeah, they're real nice to all of them. Are they good to Papyrus when they're taunting him for his happiness? Are they good to Mettaton when they're talking about LOVE and EXP, explaining the way by which his world is built and the means through which monster lives are measured? Who are they good to, exactly? Certainly not to Chara. Certainly not to themselves.]
It's okay. It'll pass.
[It'll pass.
Everything passes.]
I guess I...never really realize how much I look up to you. How much I...need you until you're gone. I'm not me. Not really. I'm just half of a whole. Waiting for you.
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And if they CONTINUE, where do they go after death? Can they? Or do they simply start at that point in time all over again, relive their death by kidney failure or cardiac arrest or whatever it is old people die by, because they can't bear to effect a RESET?
You're good to them.
Yeah, they're real nice to all of them. Are they good to Papyrus when they're taunting him for his happiness? Are they good to Mettaton when they're talking about LOVE and EXP, explaining the way by which his world is built and the means through which monster lives are measured? Who are they good to, exactly? Certainly not to Chara. Certainly not to themselves.]
It's okay. It'll pass.
[It'll pass.
Everything passes.]
I guess I...never really realize how much I look up to you. How much I...need you until you're gone. I'm not me. Not really. I'm just half of a whole. Waiting for you.