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[foundationmods]

[The day dawns, one final time.

There's still silence, but there is a change in the world around them.

They know....if not everything, than enough.

They know his name.

The name of the one responsible for everything.

So, is it any wonder that they're all drawn, as if pushed, prodded, led.... to a door that now exists directly under the waterfall's stream?

It is a plain, white door, and yet....

Going in makes you feel as if there will be no turning back.]

Comments

[accessorytomurder]

...At the very least, I want Papyrus and Sans to be here.

[homeecspacecop]

Why?

[accessorytomurder]

You saw what he did to them. And... they're his family. Would you want to die without your family ever knowing?

[homeecspacecop]

I wouldn't want to watch someone kill my family in front of me, no matter what they did.

[accessorytomurder]

Then... is that the vote you're casting? Guilty and executed. One last... one last trial, settled in death.

Just like all the others, over and over and over again.

[le_mat]

If we execute him that will just empower the 'Concept of the Murdergame'.

[dereban]

... We'd make a full cycle.

Start with murder, end with murder. [And then, with dripping, over-the-top sarcasm:] Ahh, what a nice bookend that would fucking be!

[homeecspacecop]

Yeah! It is! I can't do this anymore, I can't keep being okay with someone just hurting everyone over and over again for years and saying it's okay and we should still save them! He made us go through this, this is what he deserves!

[accessorytomurder]

I'm not asking you to be okay with it! I'm asking you not to just... to just pick the quick and easy option because you're tired! We're all tired! We've all been hurt! But that doesn't mean we have to go back to murdering people to make things easier for ourselves!

[homeecspacecop]

[That's what it is, isn't it. He's just trying to make things easier for himself. He just wants things to be easy, wants to solve the problem quickly and never have to think about it again.]

... you're right. [He says, quietly.]

Sorry, I said something stupid.

[le_mat]

It's not okay. It'll never be 'okay... If he dies it still won't be 'okay'.

[homeecspacecop]

He did this to us, Ren! Why should we put everything we have into trying to save him? Why can't we just give up on him?

[le_mat]

If I had gone into the Palace like I was thinking of and came out like him, would you execute me?

[Not said like a gotcha or accusation, just a question]

[homeecspacecop]

No, of course not! But you aren't the one who put us through all of this!

[Ren's a good person.]

[le_mat]

But I could have been- I've had some nasty thoughts just like anyone else. I've considered how much easier it would be to hurt people to get what I want. I was offered power by something beyond my understanding back home and I was tempted.

Anyone can be a monster if the circumstances are right. We choose to be good people. We decide to be better- it's not some innate thing. Gaster made the choice to be like this- I don't want to spare him because he deserves it. I want to because I choose to not be him.

[homeecspacecop]

He hurt us, he did it on purpose, and it wasn't even for a good reason!

I can't do this anymore, Ren. I can't keep choosing to be better! Everything that's happened to me since I got here, everything that's happened to everyone, it's his fault! [It's too much for him, Ren. It's just too much.]

[le_mat]

[They're still in the UI, so he can't hug his friend. Dog, he wishes he could]

And that's your choice. I'll respect it. I don't LIKE it but... you're not a kid anymore. I won't treat you like one.

[homeecspacecop]

["You're not a kid anymore". He feels like he is. He doesn't know what to do, he's tired and overwhelmed and wants a hug or advice or someone to tell him what to do. But he has to make his choice all on his own.

He hates this.]

... right.