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Chara Dreemurr..? ([personal profile] achievementhunter) wrote in [community profile] solnet2016-06-17 10:12 pm

And They All Lived "Happily" Ever After.

Greetings, fellow soldiers.

[The feed opens up to a view from the very edge of the bridge. Slim legs dangling over the edge, at the very precipice of everything.

It's a nice day today. The water's sparkling. A light breeze has small waves kicking up on it's surface, barely distinguishable from the quality of the video format. Even so- it's pretty.]


It's been a while since our last game. I'm sure most of you are busy with the flurry of activity this month has sparked, however- indulge me for a few minutes.

Consider it a question, more than a game.

What would a 'happy ending' look like, to you?

[personal profile] justribbing 2016-06-17 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He'd be lying if he tried to say he hadn't wished some things happening around here were just a bad dream he could wake up from, but that's pretty morbid.

About what he expected. ]


ever wonder why it stops there?
i mean, happy endings, what, the resolution of the main conflict mean there's nothing left to say?
makes a guy wonder.
so, hey.
can't help but notice something's still missing ever since you jacket.
any eta on when i'm getting that back?

(NOT SENT)

[personal profile] justribbing 2016-06-17 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
too bad your parlor trick can't reverse what happened to it huh?

[ His thumb hovers over the button that would send it, an open door to things like not without major repercussions and but oh yeah, you can't anymore and guess that's bad news for you and good news for the rest of us.

Sans deletes it, because that isn't who he wants to be anymore. Less the judge, more the royal fool, maybe. ]

[personal profile] justribbing 2016-06-17 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
maybe it's good for 'em to see somebody else go through something like or worse than their own experiences.
learn from them, or i don't know.
by seeing your happy ending, hope ain't lost for them, either.

[personal profile] justribbing 2016-06-18 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He isn't taking the bait of that honesty barb. To defend now would just be asserting there's something wrong after all. ]

me? don't need much. i'm a simple skeleton of simple needs.
seeing a happy smile on my bro's face, knowin' frisk can do regular kid stuff like complain about homework.
i'd be content with ok.


[ Or just getting through the day. That works too. ]

[personal profile] justribbing 2016-06-20 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ His next reply is quick, abbreviated in comparison: ]

...no follow up questions?

geez, i must be losing my touch.

[personal profile] justribbing 2016-06-20 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
count on me to leave a thing half-finished, c'mon.
tori still wants to teach kids and, y'know? that's a beats out the ruins.
then there's her kids, and since you're here and all...

[personal profile] justribbing 2016-06-20 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
thought I'd stick to the kids that stuck around.
aiming too high sounds like work, let's keep it real simple.
think it's getting into the weeds a little?

[personal profile] justribbing 2016-06-20 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
yeah, you're right, better keep it to what we've got.
see, there's no question what might make my bro happy.
frisk's gonna take a little more guesswork.
tori? she'll enjoy running a school.
question is if that's the kinda life you wanna live. that whole 'not living' option? I ain't a fan.

[personal profile] justribbing 2016-06-20 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
guess I learned early on that I can't go comparing 'em with other people.
like my brother.


[ Or Chara.

Even if the two human kids seem every bit as lonely and abandoned as Papyrus was. Kids trying to make it in a world bigger than them, bigger and emptier, in heart if not in sheer space. ]


not really.
because it ain't about that anymore, kiddo.
pretty sure you want it to be over about as much as I do.

[personal profile] justribbing 2016-06-22 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
yeah? thought it might be more than one.

[ They're treading over more familiar ground, now, or he thinks. Never entirely safe to assume a damn thing, so the question, he thinks, is at least a step in a better direction.

Not the best one, but he doesn't have what it takes. ]

[personal profile] justribbing 2016-06-22 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
hell if i know. if school on the surface is anything like ours, they'll get to try a lotta stuff before they settle on anything.
what about you, kiddo?


[ He thinks back to another person's dream. Gardens and pictures on the walls. The occasions he spoke with the King and the times he didn't notice him slip through long-closed doors, giving himself an unofficial tour. ]

you sure like reading. drawing, too. right? or were those your brother's?

[personal profile] justribbing 2016-06-22 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ heyyyyy would you look at the time. ]