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[Winter was now over and spring had just started. Minato kind of missed the snow, but at least the weather was cool and comfortable instead of being too cold. For a change of pace as he wandered outside, now that the space event was over, he decided to head to the Checkerboard Hills. He hadn't been there often. It was time to check it out again.

That is, if checking it out meant doing a once-over on the checkered patterns from dark to light, then ending up laying in one of the darker square patches, his comm device off to the side as he looked up at the sky.

It's spring here and spring at home. School would be starting again, if he were there and time progressed.

Were these questions even fair? Did he have too much time on his hands, playing around with or thinking about 'what if' in a place that may make him forget his existence here at all?]

..... Would you rather be dead at home or alive here?

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What do you want in that real sky?

[Since the sky could hold so many things and be made it up of so much too.]

Real stars?

[A cliché answer, maybe, but one that matters. It's important to have someplace real, instead of Wonderland's false projections. Maybe Shepard's world. That's a place full of stars.

They could be happy there.]

It doesn't have to be a question.

[They could have whatever they wanted, unless they weren't sure of that answer and gave it tentatively. In this scenario, anything goes. Having something constant like the stars was a perfectly fine answer.]

[It doesn't have to be a question. It wasn't meant to be, really, but they...messed that one up too. Good at that.]

Guess I haven't really thought about it.

[That's a lie. They've thought about it a great deal. A private fantasy, someplace special. But no one really needs to know the details, do they?]

There's time here to think about it.

[Since there was, at least, for now. If he could think of it that way.]

Is there something about home that you don't like?

No. I mean...

[Home's fine. It's scary, sometimes, but it's where - where someone like them could learn to be happy, maybe. If they weren't one last threat to someone else's happiness. If they weren't still one person who could ruin everything, and tear it all away.]

It's just not where I should be.

Why not?

[Minato thought that was interesting. He considered it that too and followed up with another question:]

What if home wants you?

There's other Frisks.

[Better ones. But they don't say it. Maybe somewhere out there, there's a Frisk who knows how to keep a happy ending happy. Forever.]

But don't you have the right to live too?

[Or live there? Now that he existed, he should be able to keep existing.]

[No.

But no one wants to hear that from them. No one wants to hear them say something like that when they should be better, shouldn't they? They should be better.

So be better.]

I can live somewhere else.

[What was it like then, to live somewhere where you didn't feel like you belonged or deserved to be there? The feeling though was familiar, but he didn't want to make this a comparison game.]

Wouldn't your friends miss you?

[That's what they thought, at first. That's what they thought, until calling Miss Toriel yielded nothing, no answer, no picking up. Until a whispered voice in an Echo Flower laughed, low and throaty, at the mere idea that anyone would miss you. You, of all people.

They'll find another kid, and instantly forget about you. They'll NEVER see you again.]

Someone else will come.

Someone else isn't you. You're you, and they consider you their friend.

[They existed now and their friends knew them for them, here and now. Those friends have more than likely seen them at their best and worst, and where were those friends? They were still here. With them.]

You mean something to them. To me, too.

[That's the nice thing about memory. It can rewrite itself to fill the gaps, if it so chooses. Another, better Frisk will come along, and that will be that. One who knows better than to be a threat to everyone else's happiness.]

There are other me's.

If you insist on making yourself superior based on your inferiority, then anything I tell you, you won't listen.

[But the words were already out there. And Minato wasn't going to take them back. Since the words were already there, then they could do what they wished with them.]

[They shrug, nonplussed.]

They're better.

[It's a simple fact, one they've long since accepted. There are better Frisks out there, ones who won't be a threat to anyone's happiness. Ones who made better choices from the start. Ones who never threatened or tried to hurt the people they love, who never made a callous cry for attention.

They're better.]

Do you always bait your friends like this?

[Just wondering.]

I guess.

[Just...Frisk being Frisk again. Manipulative and horrible. It's not really a surprise anymore.]

Just as long as you know, then that's fine.

[They had to have known what they were doing. What they were aware of. They were smart.]

I won't tell you what to believe. But I'm not here to enable you either.

[What? It's okay for them to be manipulative, to bait people, to ACT the way they do, as long as they acknowledge it? What does he want from them? Does he...he knows exactly how it is with them, how they can be. Calls attention to it. And he knows because he's older, because he's an adult, and he would know.

Adults always know what children desperately try to hide. They didn't mean to, but - but they must have, if he says so.

They must have.

Silence.

Silence.

Silence.

...]

Okay.

I can't fix it. Only you can.

[Minato wasn't going to tell them how. He had said as much as he could, but whether it was accepted or heard, that wasn't his prerogative. But then again, who was Minato to tell them anything either? He was only a teenager and nowhere near being an adult.

He did think again that they were smart. They knew right and wrong even if they might not admit it. It was up to them what they wanted to do from here.]

[Ha ha.

That's not true. Anomalies can't fix themselves. There's only ERASING the problem, ensuring it never existed. And that's a wrong, cruel, terrible thing to think. Selfish. When are you going to stop being selfish, Frisk?

The child shrugs.

* What a meaningful conversation.]

[Minato let the silence reign for a bit. Silence didn't intimidate him at all. He would've been fine with it the way it was, but that would only make the conversation even more meaningful.]

Are you quiet because you feel guilty, you don't want to face the truth, or you're upset at me?

[Or none of the above or all of the above. Whatever it was.]

Edited 2017-04-19 03:01 (UTC)

Messed up.

[Big surprise, right? Ha ha. It's what they're best at. Ruining things. Especially nice things.]

...sorry.

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