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

[greatestcool]

I guess you could say I never graduated!

[RYUUNOSUKE]

[lackinginfaith]

I can see why. [groan] Culprit-greeting was exactly like this the other times, I don't know why I expected any different.

[greatestcool]

I'm sure it could be worse!

[lackinginfaith]

That's true, I could have used it.

[greatestcool]

That would've been awful, huh!

[HE SOUNDS LIKE HE'S TRYING NOT TO LAUGH]

[lackinginfaith]

Go ahead, it's not like I haven't seen anything else as stupid in the course of this excursion.

[greatestcool]

[OH GOOD HE'LL JUST LAUGH FOR AWHILE THEN, ALRIGHT]

[lackinginfaith]

[g r o a n .]

You do this regularly.

[greatestcool]

Sorry, I can't help it! I have a great sense of humor!

[NO YOU DON'T]

[lackinginfaith]

I'd say more "disturbing." Though that's not much of a surprise.

[greatestcool]

Well yeah, you really should've expected that!

[lackinginfaith]

I can see why you and Mettaton are friends. He drove me up the wall every day, too.

[greatestcool]

We weren't really close while the murdergame was happening, surprisingly! I guess sometimes stuff like that happens, even in a small circle of people like this.

I'm really glad I've gotten to know him better. Ah... Sorry, that's a bit insensitive, isn't it?

[He doesn't sound too sorry, but that's not a shitty joke either. More like he opened his mouth without thinking.]

[lackinginfaith]

It's not like anyone else isn't here hasn't been just as bad. I am glad to know everyone... well, most people, even though your idea of bringing us here in the first place should never have happened. Something like that.

[greatestcool]

I'm not going to apologize for bringing you here because I'm genuinely not sorry. I'm not going to lie about it.

...With that said, I know it was wrong. And maybe I should have died. I could say "at least you've met these people, you wouldn't have otherwise" but that just makes it sound like I'm trying to make what I did okay. It isn't.

It's a complicated thing is what I'm trying to say, I guess.

[lackinginfaith]

I'll give you one thing. Some things are going to be better off now. Like you said, it's a complicated thing.

...For the record, I don't like you either, but I'm glad they saved you two.

[greatestcool]

You were sick of death, huh? Well, I'm glad Mettaton's fine. That's the most important thing to me.

...And I guess I'm glad I get to stick around for a little longer. Maybe I'll see some more cool stuff before I die for real.

[lackinginfaith]

Like clothes to steal off dead people?

[greatestcool]

Oh come on, I never did that! And I don't plan on doing it in the future either!

[lackinginfaith]

Okay, sure, raiding their closets. Because that's different.

[greatestcool]

Of course it is! I stole your accessories before you died anyway!

[ryuunosuke]

[lackinginfaith]

Everything that comes out of your mouth does a very bad job of making things not worse.

[greatestcool]

Some of it's intentional, you know!

[.......but only some.]

[lackinginfaith]

Case. In. Point.

[greatestcool]

At this point I think I'm just intentionally pissing everyone off because it's easier for us all that way.

[is it good that he's honest about it or just really dumb???]