[ There's another delay, because... Alberto can't respond. That's too raw. Some of it's over his head. But most of it's not. And he's been trapped alone in his room — or at least felt trapped alone, like he's felt trapped alone for so long before this, what feels like a lifetime ago now — all because of the snow, all because of fear people won't accept him for who he is... which may be a valid fear, all things considered, but it still has hurt in a new way. Reading all this now...? It's been a while since he's cried. So he just... needs a moment, cuddled up in bed with Sofia, both huddled in a blanket, hugging her close to him, rubbing his tears against her cheek-to-cheek as he kisses her all over her face against her will.
But at least she, for all her orneriness, has come to tolerate him, especially since being "trapped" together inside the past couple weeks since the sky started leaking. She accepts him, Asriel accepts him, even Chara accepts him — even when he does annoying things like make rubber chickens sing opera and makes dismembered fish corpses talk at them, Chara's always played along. Maybe they've all done bad things. Maybe the things Asriel and Chara have done are way worse — it pretty much sounds like it... and it sounds like their life was a hell of a lot more complicated than Alberto's lonely island life back home. But... back home was back home. And that's kind of their whole point in this conversation. The future is now.
He takes his time to compose himself, because for as transparent as he's being tonight, feeling at the end of his rope, there's gotta be a limit. He's definitely not admitting to crying and, naturally, his first deflect, even if it's only for his own private sake, is humor and levity. Asriel isn't too much — neither is Chara — just this moment. But it's a moment he's extremely glad for, too. ]
sounds good to me and things definitely will end up different here sounds like all that would be PRETTY HARD to repeat...!
i don't know about sharing a SOUL or dying or any of that stuff but i can cook some good food and i know lots of good human music and i'll always try to be a good friend and if we do stupid stuff for fun i know i wont let you get hurt if the humans try to hurt us, im learning how to fight, id stand up for you. if you wont fight back i always will. even if it's just fighting against bruno or flowey or whatever we wanna call it. ALL the bullies!! and that stuff is all part of having a soul and love and empathy and stuff like that, like you said, the stuff that makes a monster a person and not a monster-monster no matter what the humans think about monsters yknow??? or what we think about ourselves...
what we think about each other matters a lot. and im glad i met you and chara too. im glad we're all friends. lets try to be our best selves here and if we mess up then it's just like learning a new way to NOT mess up in the end so even if we're under thedogs at laest we're under the dogs together ha
becuz whatever happened back home... is back home... and we can't go back there. so we gotta fix it here and so far i think that just measn making cool fireworks and cooking pasta and eating pie and joking around and doing crazy stuff and coming up with silly nicknames like asrietto and mia cara and maybe signor vespa lol whatever we come up with together so that bad things dont happen. and if they do anyway...... well i guess it wont be the first time ha? we got this. forza!!!!
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Date: 2021-12-03 05:43 am (UTC)But at least she, for all her orneriness, has come to tolerate him, especially since being "trapped" together inside the past couple weeks since the sky started leaking. She accepts him, Asriel accepts him, even Chara accepts him — even when he does annoying things like make rubber chickens sing opera and makes dismembered fish corpses talk at them, Chara's always played along. Maybe they've all done bad things. Maybe the things Asriel and Chara have done are way worse — it pretty much sounds like it... and it sounds like their life was a hell of a lot more complicated than Alberto's lonely island life back home. But... back home was back home. And that's kind of their whole point in this conversation. The future is now.
He takes his time to compose himself, because for as transparent as he's being tonight, feeling at the end of his rope, there's gotta be a limit. He's definitely not admitting to crying and, naturally, his first deflect, even if it's only for his own private sake, is humor and levity. Asriel isn't too much — neither is Chara — just this moment. But it's a moment he's extremely glad for, too. ]
sounds good to me
and things definitely will end up different here
sounds like all that would be PRETTY HARD to repeat...!
i don't know about sharing a SOUL or dying or any of that stuff but
i can cook some good food
and i know lots of good human music
and i'll always try to be a good friend
and if we do stupid stuff for fun i know i wont let you get hurt
if the humans try to hurt us, im learning how to fight, id stand up for you. if you wont fight back i always will.
even if it's just fighting against bruno or flowey or whatever we wanna call it. ALL the bullies!!
and that stuff is all part of having a soul and love and empathy and stuff like that, like you said, the stuff that makes a monster a person and not a monster-monster no matter what the humans think about monsters yknow??? or what we think about ourselves...
what we think about each other matters a lot.
and im glad i met you and chara too. im glad we're all friends.
lets try to be our best selves here and if we mess up then it's just like learning a new way to NOT mess up in the end
so even if we're under thedogs at laest we're under the dogs together ha
becuz whatever happened back home... is back home... and we can't go back there. so we gotta fix it here
and so far i think that just measn making cool fireworks and cooking pasta and eating pie and joking around and doing crazy stuff and coming up with silly nicknames
like asrietto and mia cara
and maybe signor vespa lol
whatever we come up with together so that bad things dont happen.
and if they do anyway...... well i guess it wont be the first time ha?
we got this. forza!!!!