seriff: (c: what do you think)
Sans ([personal profile] seriff) wrote2015-11-12 03:01 pm
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[Sans nominally resides in a small two-bedroom apartment on the outskirts of Verens' usual Otherworlder housing district, but is pretty much never at home. Mail sent to that address is unlikely to ever see the light of day again. Mail sent to an Enforcers office with his name on has a marginally better chance of reaching him, if not of being read in a timely fashion. Mail sent to him via his brother had the best chance of all, but only while Papyrus was still around.

It's somewhat easier to track down him down in person: his current job involves patrol routes all over Verens, and when not frequenting diners or comfortable sunny benches he often even does it. He also turns up in Shaarnath from time to time - usually by himself, usually for the food. Still, he rarely shows up in the same place twice on a given day.

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despiteeverything: (strong enough to survive)

[personal profile] despiteeverything 2016-03-22 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
People died. That's not just a mistake.

[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....]
Edited 2016-03-22 18:01 (UTC)
despiteeverything: (a long day)

[personal profile] despiteeverything 2016-03-22 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[They said they were gonna tell him what happened to them. And they are.]

So I did.

I did it all again. I died a lot. But I didn't hurt anybody. Then I faced him again and he said... That it wasn't enough. That I needed to make friends.

So I did that too. I made friends with Papyrus and Undyne and Alphys and y- the other you. And then when I faced Asgore again everyone tried to stop him.

But um... Flowey had lied, sort of. He took the human souls again and everyone else's and- [Here they pause again, but it's different from before. They can't reveal Asriel. They promised.]

We fought again, but it was different. I helped him... Remember things. And... And he stopped, and he used his power to break the barrier. Then he let everyone go. He had to stay behind, but he said he was okay with that. Then Mom asked me to stay and Asgore asked me to be ambassador.

[They take a deep breath. Let it go. Square their shoulders and look determined, even with tears still shining on their face.]

I don't want to reset anymore. I told you that and I mean it. All I wanted was a family again, and now I have one. I don't want to lose that.

And that's what happened. [They look down and away.] You can still be mad. Or hate me. But that's the truth.
Edited 2016-03-22 18:42 (UTC)
despiteeverything: (hold precious things close)

[personal profile] despiteeverything 2016-03-22 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Frisk blinks.]

I-

[They don't know what to say. They'd barely had any idea what to really say up until this point. Now they have none at all.

Instead of answering, they turn, taking a few steps to meet the shore of the lake. Kneeling down, they poke at the water. It freezes where their fingers meet, and, fascinated, Frisk does it a couple more times, creating small discs of ice that float away.

At last they look up.]


Because we can't forget what we left there.

[Because it matters to us.

Because it matters to you.

Because you matter to me.
]
despiteeverything: (death by glamour)

[personal profile] despiteeverything 2016-03-23 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Whatever reaction Sans is expecting, it's probably not the one he gets.

'maybe sometimes it's better to take what's given to you [...] is what you have to do really worth it?'

Those words. They weren't in the same order or quite the same intentions behind them maybe. But Frisk knows them. Frisk whirls around to stare at him, breath catching in their throat as the snow dies away completely.

'well, if I were you, I would have thrown in the towel by now.'

A smile spreads across their face, a wistful and hopeful thing all in one. Unbidden, small yellow flowers peek out from around their feet, covered in frost as they are. Frisk shakes their head.]


I don't think I can. I didn't... get this far by giving up, did I?

[Especially not on people they care about.]
Edited 2016-03-23 04:55 (UTC)