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

[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.

[psychoh]

You c-can't be there every time. And that's all it takes.

[cherryblooded]

Between me and Sigrun, and my wife if she's [alive] available, we'll keep those two under close watch. Don't you worry about a thing.

[psychoh]

-- Oh, and everyone else too, right? They, uh, it seems like everyone's making plans.

You won't be alone in it. I guess th-that makes the difference.

[cherryblooded]

Suppose not.

It's Sigrun's world, so I'll allow her to be the arbiter on whether you're invited to visit or not.

[He personally would say no.]

[psychoh]

... Oh, no. I'll, uh, be pretty busy. In jail, I'm sure you'll be happy to hear.

[cherryblooded]

Probably for the best. [At least he's honest about it...] How long's the sentence?

[psychoh]

[shrugs] Death? It, uh, seems like that's how it'll go...

[cherryblooded]

Noble of you to want to go back for that.

[He definitely wouldn't.]

[psychoh]

No, nothing like that. I-It's just what's right, I think.

[cherryblooded]

Can't really argue there.

Well. Take care of yourself as best as you can. It was... nice talking to you, before the everything.