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

[ratingspoint]

You know, given that you're someone who's been yelling about how much we're going to backstab you all and willfully misinterpreting everything we say, you have no room to talk.

[Move the fuck on, Banner.]

[greatestcool]

[quiet "ooooooooooooooooooh" from the peanut gallery]

[penduli]

[ are all gingers (fake or otherwise) actually 12 year olds

srs question here ]

[greatestcool]

[all the ones you've been (un)fortunate enough to meet, apparently!!]

[amygdalae]

To be fair, you haven't exactly done anything to change my beliefs on that matter.

[But fine, he'll move on.

It's not like they're going to meet again after this.]

[notjustawriter]

....I don't know, they did both agree to Sigrun's conditions.

[Even the noodle.]

[amygdalae]

...I guess we'll just have to see how that pans out.

[Still waiting for that other shoe.]

[ratingspoint]

And to be fair, entrusting your fate to someone who wouldn't shut up about wanting to see you dead is a fundamentally stupid idea.

[amygdalae]

We both have had our fair share of fundamentally stupid ideas.

[Just saying.]

[ratingspoint]

Oh, I'm not denying that.

Just remember that you're also the one who's tried so hard to sympathize with every culprit in that pit so far - unless that was just for show? If it was, you're a better actor than I gave you credit for!

So either stop trying to take the moral high ground here and acknowledge that you don't have any, or admit that you lied when you spoke to everyone else during those trials. I've already said that I don't want to see you die, I don't know what else you expect from me other than that.

[greatestcool]

["OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH" intensifies, I'm so sorry about the peanut gallery]

[ratingspoint]

[...sweetheart, he loves you dearly but go play with glory for a bit or something, you aren't helping]

[greatestcool]

[WHEN HAS HE EVER HELPED yeah alright, alright, he'll sit]

[captainobnoxious]

[ryuu can "ooooooooh" for her sigrun can't do anything but snort at that

who is she snorting at?? who knows. tis a mystery]

[amygdalae]

[This really isn't the best time and place for this, Mettaton, but.]

It's not for show. I can sympathize, but that doesn't mean that I can forgive and forget. Those two aren't the same. But at the same time you're the one who's abused the trust others have given you - not once, but twice, even though you knew what it'd do for the people closest to you.

Perhaps I am a hypocrite for being the one unwilling to spare you after everything, but you haven't exactly done anything to redeem yourself at that point. Remember that they're the ones now who are letting you take the first step.

I'm not going to apologize, but I'll stop here and won't get in your way anymore, unless you give me reason to.

[ratingspoint]

You have no right to decide things like that if you can wholeheartedly sympathize with murderers, some of whom decided to murder because that's just what they do. That's the fact of the matter, sweetheart. Sorry if you don't like it. At least you admit that you're a hypocrite, though!

[Now. Back to what he was doing.]

[goodforsomething]

Oh my god - we don't all need to be best friends forever here, okay? Bruce isn't messin' with the buttons, he doesn't have to forgive ya just because other people do, let's just get the hell outta here.

[ratingspoint]

I don't care if he forgives me, he just needs to stop being a self-righteous-

[...For a moment he looks like he very much wants to say something profane.]

...jerk about it when he has no moral high ground. That's all!

[sleepingkogoro]

He's tired of this place, and I can't blame him. Once we're out of here he'll have a lot of time to relax and, well...it is possible he won't have to see you two ever again.

I don't think he'll mind that.

[goodforsomething]

[Stan opens his mouth, clearly wanting to argue about that. But he literally just said that they shouldn't, and frankly he'd rather they just get out of here and never have to see Mettaton or Ryuu again if they don't want to. Certainly he'd rather not piss off the two when they're still needed to escape.]

Just. Get us out.

[amygdalae]

[Thank you, Stan.]