[Any other time with any other person that might've- no. No it would never be comforting to call what happened mistakes. Even if they could go back. The idea just made something inside them squirm. It does pull them out of the worst of their grief, though they remain in a little cocoon of self-loathing.]
Wh-when I got to Asgore, he destroyed the Mercy button. I couldn't... No matter what I did he wouldn't listen. I died a lot. But at the end I did it anyway. I didn't want to hurt anybody anymore.
But then, Flowey killed him instead and took the human souls and- [Their throat closes and the sleet falls harder than ever, hard enough Frisk jumps off the tree branch, trying to shake themselves off, even as ice forms at their feet, marking their steps. At last they turn yo face Sans.]
We fought. [They refuse to elaborate.] We fought until the human souls fought against him too, and escaped.
I spared him too.
[The sleet slowly starts to morph into the more peaceable snow.]
He was so confused. He'd kept saying the world is kill or be killed. But then he said I'd shown him different, and if I could do it all without killing anybody, he'd show me how to get an ending where everyone would be happy.
[They hadn't known, at the time, whether to believe him or not. But they'd wanted to... So....]
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[Any other time with any other person that might've- no. No it would never be comforting to call what happened mistakes. Even if they could go back. The idea just made something inside them squirm. It does pull them out of the worst of their grief, though they remain in a little cocoon of self-loathing.]
Wh-when I got to Asgore, he destroyed the Mercy button. I couldn't... No matter what I did he wouldn't listen. I died a lot. But at the end I did it anyway. I didn't want to hurt anybody anymore.
But then, Flowey killed him instead and took the human souls and- [Their throat closes and the sleet falls harder than ever, hard enough Frisk jumps off the tree branch, trying to shake themselves off, even as ice forms at their feet, marking their steps. At last they turn yo face Sans.]
We fought. [They refuse to elaborate.] We fought until the human souls fought against him too, and escaped.
I spared him too.
[The sleet slowly starts to morph into the more peaceable snow.]
He was so confused. He'd kept saying the world is kill or be killed. But then he said I'd shown him different, and if I could do it all without killing anybody, he'd show me how to get an ending where everyone would be happy.
[They hadn't known, at the time, whether to believe him or not. But they'd wanted to... So....]