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?

Comments

[amygdalae]

Just don't actually kidnap him.

[Make it, like... a willing kidnap. Hell if he knows.]

[amygdalae]

...fix up this place, probably.

[If they're ever going to get started on anything, they need to secure this building, Glory and the portal. It needs to remain in their control or else everything will be for naught.]

It'll be good to be busy in the right ways. [Helps to keep his mind off... everything else he'd rather not dwell upon.]

[bloodisthicker]

...oh. Well, yes, I can certainly understand that end of things.

[...what do you even say to that.]

I... guess it's the sort of thing I wouldn't really get.

[pokexplorer]

[Equally awkward pause...]

Y...es. It previously served as the base for his organization, Team Plasma.

[It has to come out at some point, right? Well, he kind of wanted to admit to it at some point anyway to get all the truth out there, but there was never a great time for it...

Sooo he'll just look off somewhere that isn't right at Sigrun for his next bit.]

In addition to running the airship and all of the research going on within it, I was also the acting boss of Team Plasma.

[cherryblooded]

...Something to say, Norman?

[He heard from Caren that he's not Norman's favorite person right now, which works out fine for him. No big loss there.]

[cherryblooded]

Probably not.

I'm glad to see you alive and well, for what it's worth. What are your plans for after this?

[captainobnoxious]

[That sounds bad. But Colress is a good person.

... So she'll tug his limpy hair back to looking at her.]

So. Give me a list of your crimes. It sounds like you've been holding this in for a while, and I won't judge you by your past.

[When had she ever done that for anyone? As long as they've shown they've changed, as long as they're willing to change, Sigrun doesn't really want to do anything but help that light shine.]

[goodforsomething]

C'mon, you think I'd do somethin' like that?

[There is no right answer, and judging from Stan's grin he knows it.]

[goodforsomething]

Guess there's no way of knowin'. But those two...probably wouldn't wanna live forever in one.

[He nods over to wherever Mettaton and Ryuunosuke are.]

...you were all watchin' all that?

[amygdalae]

[Just have a quiet sigh from Bruce.]

...please don't get in trouble. The last thing either of us needs is to deal with the police from the sixties.

[goodforsomething]

[Stan shrugs.] Not what I would've done at your age. Or ever. It's the world's most fucked-up get outta jail free card!

Tell ya what, you come back with me. I'll find ya a good place to stay. Won't be home, but it won't be prison either.

[goodforsomething]

Hahahahaha! Don't worry, there's no extradition here!

[We assume, given the serial killers wandering freely]

[goodforsomething]

Heh, about the same. [Stan stretches, cracking a few joints.] It's gonna be good to finally get home.

[guess who doesn't know about your zombie apocalypse megs]

[amygdalae]

[It may or may not be the best assumption to make, Stan.]

Still, best to be careful.

[They don't want to get into trouble before they've even started.]

[goodforsomething]

Yeah, they're gonna freak out, if he's even on their radar. [Because it kinda sounded like he'd been murdering people for a while? Cops what are you doing over there] If there's nothin' he needs there, better to just never go back.

[amygdalae]

[Let's be honest cops in the sixties weren't really all that effective.]

I'm not sure how his situation back there is, but--best to be prepared for anything.

[psychoh]

... Wh-What would it be? [suspicious]

[psychoh]

[ah shit] J-Just, uh... Thinking. That's all.

[cherryblooded]

[...well then.]

Caren told me you were unhappy with my decision.

[That's probably putting things lightly.]

[psychoh]

[WOW FUCKING THANKS CAREN]

It's, uh, more concern than anything else, really. It's j-just, um, it's a little familiar to me. Too familiar. It worried me, a little bit.

[cherryblooded]

[...wow are you seriously comparing Cherryblod to you, Norman. He is legitimately offended here.]

Not killing people you don't want to lose is familiar?

[That seems like the opposite of what he does?]

[psychoh]

Ignoring the harm they do, always forgiving it... Protecting them, because you love them, and you think that's enough.

[a long pause]

I hope it is. For you.

[cherryblooded]

...I've done worse for worse reasons, you know. And for some reason, some of you like to think of me as a 'good person' now.

People don't change once they're dead.

[He doesn't know if Mettaton and Ryuunosuke will change. But they have the chance to, at least.]

[psychoh]

You're nice. [which, of course, is very much different than good.]

They don't hurt anyone, either. It's... It's the only way. Sometimes.

[cherryblooded]

They won't hurt anyone now. That's why they're being babysat and not just left to their own devices, because I'm not that stupid.