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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[paidinblood]

He didn't care if he died or not anyway. Kill him.

[lackinginfaith]

Kamui might be a little cruel about this, but he's right about one thing. Ambitious lost his will to live a long time ago. If there's something after this for him, maybe he can find that and remember his friend.

[paidinblood]

I don't mean it in a cruel way. I don't have any issue with him.

[Other than he's kind of weird and his face is really punchable? But that's petty.]

I'd want to be killed if I lost my important people too.

[...People. Not person.

Man that's fucking weird to say.]

[lackinginfaith]

That's why I said only a little.

[She shakes her head, though.]

I hope whatever happens when you're deleted works out for him. Better than burning him onto a CD or whatever they have in whatever time this is.

[bloodisthicker]

...Is there a way we could at least contact him and let him know...? Don't get me wrong, he's an absolutely terrible person, but it seems kind of cold to just sort of unceremoniously delete a person even if they want to die.

[lackinginfaith]

Going back in, I'd think, but...

[bloodisthicker]

...that's definitely something I'd like to avoid. I don't want to go that far out of my way for him.

[lackinginfaith]

That's true. I'm never going back into stasis again, either. But couldn't we put some file in instead?

[bloodisthicker]

I guess we could always just ask Glory to do something, because she's... better at these things than most of us.

[captainobnoxious]

... Was he really that bad? I've been wanting to talk to him since I learned about him, but Glory was always so against it.

Like, she got mad at me against it. Underlined words and everything.

[lackinginfaith]

He did run a murder exercise. But that was probably the part of her that came from those two. He was their mastermind, so of course they'd hate him.

[captainobnoxious]

[...............]

If it's really a matter of guilty conscience, then we can have Glory tell him of our decision beforehand. That way we won't be going back in. Think that could work?

[lackinginfaith]

If she'd do it.

[bloodisthicker]

...what Caren said, basically, but you know how we're standing up here and talking about how we want to end all of these, ah, "murdergames" forever?

...his group basically got to the same point, and then he killed the rest of them before he started his own simulation.

[captainobnoxious]

[oh.]

Well, that's stupid. I'm glad we're all sane here.

[....................]

Mostly sane.

[blastiarm]

...You won't lose them.

[He looks serious, for once.]

You definitely won't.

[paidinblood]

I know.

[...That was probably kind of upsetting to hear, wasn't it.]

I'll make sure of that.

[blastiarm]

[It made him feel weird?? He's not sure what that feeling was.]

Yeah. You don't have to worry about me though. I'm not gonna let anything or anyone kill me!

[...though it is good to know Kamui has his back.]

[paidinblood]

Good.

[I mean shit if that's going to stop him from worrying, but it's good to know--!]

[blastiarm]

Hey, c'mon, you've seen me in action! I'm the strongest human ever. I'll be just fine!

[what an idiot]

[notjustawriter]

....What happened to him, if you don't mind my askin'?

[lackinginfaith]

He wasn't the first to run a game. His own game was run by someone called Hilda, and he was there with someone he knew from before. Incendiary was the only person Ambitious cared about, and he was a victim one week.

After that, the other survivors got together to do what you did: confront the person in charge and get out. They wanted to make it so that none of this could ever happen again.

Am-- Archer disagreed. He wanted revenge to make every world suffer like he did, so as soon as Hilda was out of the way, he killed the other survivors. He started his own game after that.

[notjustawriter]

...Jesus.

[That's, uh. Awful.

Ambitious sounds like a great guy.]

And that was the game Ryuu and Mettaton were in before us, I take it.

[lackinginfaith]

That's the one. He was a bad person, and even he admitted it, but... if we delete him, he won't be stuck there. Those two made sure he suffered in there for what he did, and we don't need to join in on this cycle the people running games got stuck in.

[notjustawriter]

No, I don't think we need to.

He'll go crazy there, all by himself. If he ain't already mad. I don't know if he believes in an afterlife, but deleting him will allow him to move on.