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solnet2016-07-05 03:55 pm
souldeterminant) wrote in solnet2016-07-05 03:55 pm
Entry tags:
- az | pokemon | crau,
- colin starfury | original | crau,
- death | discworld | ou,
- ermac | mortal kombat | crau,
- flowey | undertale | ou,
- frisk | undertale | ou,
- maka albarn | soul eater | ou,
- minako arisato | persona 3 portable | ou,
- norma beatty | tales of | ou,
- papyrus | undertale | ou,
- sanji | one piece | ou,
- sans | undertale | ou,
- steven universe | steven universe | ou,
- undyne | undertale | ou,
- yukio okumura | ao no exorcist | ou,
- zuko | avatar the last airbender | crau
♥ text;
[Sometime during the afternoon, a simple text makes its way onto the network, no picture or video attached.]
I'm back from vacation.
Don't worry. It was boring.
-Frisk
[None of which is, precisely, a lie. Thankfully, considering Frisk is just about the worst liar they know.]
[But it's good to be home.]
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You've been thoroughly missed.
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I know.
[They know.]
private;
Can I talk to you?
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Whatever's on your mind, I'm at your disposal.
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...
[Their voice is rough... but determined.]
It was bad. Wasn't it?
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[Colin's expression is calm and collected, no sense putting more weight on Frisk's shoulders than they're already dealing with.]
When you've had a chance to recover, to settle in, we'll need a longer talk about details. Right now? Your family needs you. All of them.
1/3
[Were Frisk any less naturally inclined to stoicism, that single word would have sent them flinching. Not because Colin is cruel, but because he doesn't sugarcoat the truth. They're thankful for that. It confirms what... they'd already figured out. What they already knew.]
[What's impossible to ignore, really, when you awaken folded into trembling smell of faux and bones instead of golden flowers; when your SOUL finds the magnetic gravity well of itself and the termination of all else; when a mother of magic yet again has no body to bury, stolen by dust, by a king in the mountain, by a queen in the shadows. When you look into the face of someone who once told you don't kill, and don't be killed, and know that you have disappointing news for him either way.]
[Frisk died.]
[That's fine.]
[--it's fine.]
2/3
['All because you MADE them love you.']
[...]
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[There's something in Frisk's tone like they want to say more, talk about the details now rather than later, but they're not dumb. They know that they should appreciate their family still standing here just as much as their family appreciates them being back.]
[In a lot of ways... they're really, really proud.]
[In some others, they're afraid. Because they started their confession to Sans in a frozen pocket of time, once long ago, when the only weapon they feared was the little gardening dagger at their side. As it turns out - they're not done yet.]
Colin... I didn't mean to hurt them.
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[He may not sugarcoat the truth, but neither will he accept someone taking on what they shouldn't.]
I know you didn't. Whatever you believe... Any pain you caused was minimal, compared to what they did to themselves.
Everyone makes their choices. Everyone touches everyone else, with or without the presence of another, no matter how special they may be.
Chara needs to see you. Sans needs to see you. Undyne needs to see you. And Toriel really needs to see you. Each of them has a lot to talk about.
Whether they will is up to them, but all of them made choices in your absence, and those choices are important.
[He smiles, hoping to reassure Frisk.]
I'll be here whenever you're ready for the big talk. Till then, you've got choices of you own to make. And no matter what you choose, they'll be the right ones, unless you know in your soul they're wrong.
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[Because it doesn't make sense to them at first; how could their loved ones inflict more pain on themselves than what Frisk did to them? Frisk got sick. Frisk decided to keep it to themself, rather than call Sans or Toriel or anyone else, until it was nearly too late. Frisk made Sans lead them on to that hallway of shadows, where he very well could have been the one to perish, to scatter into a swath of dust before even reaching the portal. Frisk...]
[wishes they could all forget it ever happened.]
[But they stay silent, even if they can't quite understand what Colin is trying to get at yet. All they know is that he's right about one thing. Chara, Sans, Undyne, Toriel... Asriel.]
[They're not sure how to fix this. They're not even sure if it's still broken, really. Part of them keeps thinking it never should have been in the first place.]
[That might be why Colin's offer of the big talk is somehow a relief. They trust Colin; they're sure he must have been keeping an eye on their friends and family in their absence. If only they could have his same confidence in their ability to make the right choices - their track record, after all, has more than its share of marks.]
[But they know where they can start.]
This was wrong.
[Spoken like a self-reminder - reminding themself that dying is, in fact, a terrible thing.]
... I'll be more careful now.
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The latter? Well, I can help there. I've been teaching Chara how to fight. Kid seems to hate me, part of the fallout of all this. But they want to learn how to fight.
I'm willing to teach you as well, if you think you need to learn.
[A beat.]
Also.. they had to fight you. Just... so you're forewarned.
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[That's one way to think of it.]
[But Frisk doesn't linger long enough to chew on that bit of info, when the next one drops with all the grace of a plummeting elevator. Frisk tenses, peering into the camera with an anxious glint in an otherwise stony expression. Their mouth draws into a thin line.]
[Not at his offer to teach them how to FIGHT. They already know the answer to that one, deep down.]
[What does Colin mean, their Partner had to FIGHT them? They were gone. Checked out. On vacation. More than that, they would never --]
[... Frisk doesn't like where this is going.]
How?
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[Colin looks right at the screen, letting it hang in the air for just a moment.]
If you want me to tell you, I will. But it's probably not my place, and once you hear things, you can't unhear them.
I will absolutely tell you, but you have to ask me to tell you first.
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[dragging, twin-snap tension, rigid bones clamped around their fingers notbeating]
[- some of it. And enough experience to know that the Queen plays for keeps. Player 1 has left the game. Enough experience and a flavor of red on the periphery of their memory, but they don't really ca]
[They want to know how Chara fought them. Because they're partners, it's us, blades marked with the same patterns of dust. "Training" sessions that have proven, time and again, that there really aren't many differences between all the kids with knives.]
[Colin looks right at the screen. Frisk looks right back.]
No.
[Whoever - whatever Chara fought, it wasn't them; not what mattered. They would have known. They're sure of it. That's all they need to know.]
But thank you. I'll remember that.