[And that's...surprised, but it's mildly so - there's no shock or revulsion in it, just a general sense of "Well, I don't know what I expected" and a brief pause as he tries to get his thoughts together with regards to that.
Perhaps part of it is just that he lacks any genuine comprehension of "the mob" or exactly what said mob even does; it's not the number that's throwing him, because at first that just sort of makes logical sense. A thousand people is...well, okay, it's a lot but spread over a hundred years like that - that's only, what, ten a year?
...And as soon as that thought hits, Mettaton kind of has a moment - he's usually pretty comfortably at self-awareness zero, but once in a while something strikes him just wrong enough for him to realize that whatever just crossed his mind was probably very, very wrong in some way, and this is one of those latter times.
Most people go their entire lives without killing one person, right? That's why this is fucked up.
Right.
Okay.]
Well...I can say in all confidence that I don't hate you for it. Especially if it was so long ago... It's not like you were doing this right before you arrived here.
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[And that's...surprised, but it's mildly so - there's no shock or revulsion in it, just a general sense of "Well, I don't know what I expected" and a brief pause as he tries to get his thoughts together with regards to that.
Perhaps part of it is just that he lacks any genuine comprehension of "the mob" or exactly what said mob even does; it's not the number that's throwing him, because at first that just sort of makes logical sense. A thousand people is...well, okay, it's a lot but spread over a hundred years like that - that's only, what, ten a year?
...And as soon as that thought hits, Mettaton kind of has a moment - he's usually pretty comfortably at self-awareness zero, but once in a while something strikes him just wrong enough for him to realize that whatever just crossed his mind was probably very, very wrong in some way, and this is one of those latter times.
Most people go their entire lives without killing one person, right? That's why this is fucked up.
Right.
Okay.]
Well...I can say in all confidence that I don't hate you for it. Especially if it was so long ago... It's not like you were doing this right before you arrived here.