Take Initiative.

[trustharder]

It seems things have been resolved - peacefully, if more than a little awkwardly for most parties involved. However, there's still work to do here, isn't there? Ryuunosuke shrugs after a long moment; tips his head up a bit. "Hey, Glory? Let everyone up." And apparently that's all it takes, though what that actually does isn't something that happens all at once - rather, panels slide out from the wall, forming a staircase up to that balcony they've been standing on. Mettaton doesn't really wait for the others to join them; he just leaves back through that section of wall they entered from, calling something back over his shoulder. "We've got another room to work from back here, darlings, this shouldn't take too long to work out." >Follow?

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[ratingspoint]

[SIGRUN, OH MY GOD.]

...Well. I guess we're still dating, then.

[Woman, you keep kind of springing the WE'RE DATING revelation on him, what does he do with you.

...Other than date you.]

[captainobnoxious]

[You're the one who loves her, Mettaton. Remember that. This is the one you accepted.

That said:]

If you don't want to though, we don't have to be! That's just my feelings. When I was thinking about stuff I kinda realized that I pulled you into a lot? I mean, I know if you minded it any you would've just said so, but still. If you want to still be dating, then we're dating.

[look, she's trying not to be all about her]

[captainobnoxious]

No, no, just... tell me that I'm always gonna feel a good kind of weird when we're like that. Because I did. And I'm pretty sure he did too. It was a nice kind of different.

[happysweets]

Of course it is! You're close to each other, swaying back and forth, and it's like you both are the only people in the whole world, right? That's what slow dancing is supposed to feel like.

[captainobnoxious]

[when she says it like that it 1. makes perfect sense and 2. makes her want to forfeit]

... Yeah, that's it, I guess. I haven't danced with him in a long time though, you know. I'll tell you how it feels if I get a refresher.

[ratingspoint]

[Yes, yes, he chose this, he knows.]

Of course I would have said something if I minded! But I like that sort of thing when it's with you. And that's what I want, for us to still be doing that.

[...]

...I'm always going to love you, whether we're dating or not, though.

[captainobnoxious]

[oooooooh

oh there's the punchy feeling

love. what a four lettered curse.]

I love you too, you asshole. [There. She said it.] But that's good! Because, well, you know, with pigtails alive and all, we already kind of started up that best couple competition again, and she has date challenges she's gonna think about that we have to beat her and her boyfriend in.

So the first step to winning is dating. And we're dating. So that's good. [...] That's really, really good.

[ratingspoint]

[...

so can he just kiss you or something right now or

because that is looking like a feasible course of action right now]

[captainobnoxious]

[well she's not gonna say no to kissing him why would she do that

but she also doesn't really want to do it here

so she's gonna let him go enough to put a hand on his face]

Later, Mettaton. I need everyone to still think I'm even a little responsible when it comes to you. And maybe you'll stop looking up at the sky enough when we're in my world that you can spare a kiss or two for me then. Okay?

[ratingspoint]

[He ain't even mad, just amused.]

We'll see. No promises, though.

[...]

It would have been easy for you to send me back to the Underground, after all this. ...Thank you, for not doing that.

[captainobnoxious]

You say that like it even crossed my mind to send you back there.

[Look at that, you offended her.]

Your place was always going to be with me, sweetheart. I wouldn't have let it be any other way. So no thanks needed, just... be good and enjoy yourself. I want to make sure you and Ryuu are happy enough that nothing like this ever crosses your mind again.

[... You know. Give someone a home. A reason to stick around and not do something murder related. What she'd been trying to do and apparently succeeded for the most part these past few weeks.]

You know how tough my world is from all my stories anyway. Can't say there's a better place for you two.

[ratingspoint]

[That just gets a noncommittal noise out of him; just...give him a second to think that over. Dismiss the parts he doesn't know what to do with, keep the rest. Find something to say.]

If we're able to come and go between worlds as we please, I might ask to go back once. You or Cherryblod would come with me, of course; it wouldn't be for very long.

I...have someone I need to see. Just to verify that I'm all right. They probably don't want anything to do with me anymore, but...

[captainobnoxious]

... I'd like to meet your cousin too.

[She might've been thinking that, if they can between them as they please, she would... well, she'd go to the Underground and find his cousin. But if he's already gonna do it, alright then.

Her plan included asking them to come to Dalses after some proper cheer-wooing but still.]

And I dunno. They might. I'd write a letter to actually give them this time, though, instead of destroying it.

[ignorantly]

I think my legs still hate me... [ He makes an attempt at standing up... and manages to not fall over? His legs are a little shaky still, but otherwise functioning. ]

[ratingspoint]

...A lot of what I have to say to them is better said in person, anyway.

[...god we are just going to cheer-woo the shit out of them, aren't we]

[captainobnoxious]

[we are. and if there is anyone who can cheer-woo effectively it's your girlfriend, mettaton]

... If you think Cherry might be a little more welcome, you can take him, but I do wanna meet your cousin sometime. Napstablook, right?

[... god she hopes she said that right it's simple enough but god.]

[ratingspoint]

That's right. And...no, it'll be fine if you go - I've arranged for all humans to be personally seen to by me, so you shouldn't be given any trouble. It isn't a bad thing, either; I made that ruling back before all of this.

[You know, before he was really able to process that humans kind of suck a lot where he's from? Murdergame might have fucked him up a little on the humans front.]

[captainobnoxious]

Well then, your... royalness, don't mind if I join you then! I'm excited to see where you grew up at.

[It sounded pretty, and from the paintings he did it looked nice too. Those Echo Flowers are gonna get some fucking mileage by the time she's done with it too.]

... So is anyone gonna be bothered if I like, I don't know, hold your hand while we're there or something? Better to be all business, or... you know.

[Can they actually be their kind of frankly gross selves.]

[lackinginfaith]

Well, he yelled at me to shut up during that last trial. [shakes head] He's still a mess, but at least "she" didn't come out in there. And I'm starting to think he's standing up to her, at least on some level. He's going to need some help from someone better equipped than us.

[lackinginfaith]

I won't either. But this is important.

[ratingspoint]

Why should they? They'll be answering to me if they are, after all.

[...who the fuck lets a 19-year-old rule anything, this is a terrible idea]

[amygdalae]

[Well, at least it looks like he will recover in time. Bruce doesn't quite come closer, but he does shift a little bit, possibly hovering around for a second until it looks like Shizaru will be fine.]

It should wear off completely in a few more hours. [Bruce just has a better headstart because of his condition, although he is impressed that there was something that was actually able to keep him under for so long. He should look into it when he could.] Just rest and keep yourself hydrated, and it should be fine.

[amygdalae]

It is. [Well, at least to him. He can't speak for anybody else.] I don't want to think about any of this actually being real.

[lackinginfaith]

You mean one of these exercises being run in real space?

[amygdalae]

It could very well be possible. Obsverant, for one - we don't exactly know what happened to them after winning their own game.

[And considering Ambitious ran their own game followed by Mettaton and... his partner, who honestly knows.]