trusthell | Week 3.

WEEK 3
Another week has passed; two more Survivors are gone. Pearl and Caren both had someone to fight for, someone worth killing for; perhaps it's for the best to hope that somehow they've found peace despite not being able to collect on the Kingmaker's incentive.

Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; there aren't any bodies to be found on Sunday morning. That doesn't mean the night passed easily, though - it seems another piece of your personal puzzle may have fallen into place while you slept...

Following that spiral staircase up to the second floor will reveal something strange; those stairs definitely lead far higher than you remember, up to a previously inaccessible third floor. Go ahead and explore as much as you like; consider it your reward for a job well done.

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[OOC: Welcome to week two of Trustfell! Save your threads for coins and the coming week's activity check; don't forget to check in to this week's activity check and submit your memory regains!

The text and calling posts are still active, for the sake of contacting the jerk who's keeping you here, to be used at your leisure!]

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[...Well, he doesn't really know what to do with anything that just left Cherryblod's mouth, if it's any consolation; he likes the implication that he's the most important person here, definitely. But otherwise that's just kind of- ]

Oh my god. Are you going to get over here and hug me or not?

[Not only does he get over there and hug him, first he gets over there and stands up on his tip-toes to lightly kiss Mettaton's forehead. It's kind of weird, considering - metal - but you know who doesn't care one bit, that's right, it's Cherryblod.

Then it's hugging time.]

[It's also kind of weird considering that Cherryblod is just...getting feelings all over him? There are a lot of feelings, and Mettaton is usually pretty solidly in the "I hate feelings, they make me feel weird" camp, but that doesn't mean that wasn't strangely nice anyway, and while he's still not the most comfortable thing in the world to hug on (because, again, metal) it's decidedly less awkward this time around.]

[Cherryblod thinks feelings are pretty great, especially affectionate feelings he can spill all over his favorite people.

He lets go after a bit, still smiling and looking a little bit less like he might cry at any moment.]

Thank you.

Don't mention it, sweetheart - and thanks for telling me.

[...And thank you for not crying. He's admittedly a bit used to tears, but they're never pleasant.]

Well, you've been good to me. And I trust you.

[If you can't trust your relatively amoral robot son, who can you trust?]

If you ever need anything - anything at all - I'm always here for you.

Oh, I know.

[And he does; it's a little flippant, but he genuinely does know that.]

I probably owe you a few secrets of my own by now, don't I?

You don't owe me anything, dear. But I'll keep them if you'd like to share.

[He kept Caren's pretty well until it was revealed by a bucket of water.]

Unless I did something really interesting during that period of time everybody's forgotten, the ones that are most likely to be used against me here are probably that I regularly murder people on live TV and that I abandoned my family for personal gain.

[...HE SAYS, LIKE HE'S DISCUSSING THE FUCKING WEATHER OR SOMETHING.]

That's it.

[It had to be family, didn't it - but no, Mettaton's too young to have kids and he definitely doesn't have a spouse, so while that does get a frown it doesn't trigger Cherryblod's super high judgment.

If there were kids involved then there would be Words, young man, but as it is he gets a pass.]

I see. I won't tell anyone.

Well, someone already knows about the televised murder, and Dr. Alphys and I are apparently joining you in the "people that somebody here thinks are just as bad as the Kingmaker" category.

Apparently that's just going to be the go-to insult around here.

Is that better or worse than 'disgusting' and 'pure evil'? Which I also got.

[Again - not that he blames her, at all.]

...Well, it's not like they're all that wrong with the comparison in my case. If I'm bothered by any of it, it's because they dragged Alphys into it.

That's not fair to anyone. She doesn't control what you do - attacking her is just low.

[...he's awfully defensive of her for someone who abandoned his family, thinks the person who still thinks Alphys is basically his mom.]

[...Cherryblod, oh my god, Alphys is most definitely not his mom- ]

Oh, but she doesn't stop me from doing anything!

As though that's not insulting to both of us at the same time. Really.

[Look, when you say 'creator', he doesn't picture Mettaton's actual situation.]

Really. Would that even work if she tried?

Are you kidding? She's terrified of confrontation.

[Although that's...probably not what was meant by that.]

And no, she can't order me around or anything. I guess she can try? But that doesn't mean I have to listen.

She has ways to shut me down if that becomes necessary, but we agreed from the start that there wouldn't be a way for her to do that remotely. She has to approach me for it, and if I don't want it, then she's out of luck.

[...He probably means 'in this body'. Right. That makes sense.]

Good. That'd be more power than I'd ever willingly give to another person. ...Probably why I'd make a bad familiar.

[Not that witches can remotely shut down their familiars, but they've got a pretty strong degree of control if they want to use it.]

[It makes total sense!]

Oh, no, I totally agree with you there! I can't imagine allowing something like that, that's just asking for it. And besides, if Alphys could do things to my body remotely, there's no saying that no one else could figure out how to, either.

Right. You're much too sensible to allow that.

['Sensible' and 'Mettaton' should not really go together.]

Of course!

[...lbr it's more like he's a control freak and it just worked out in his favor this time]

...Right, did you come in here for actual music? [Which would not be what he was playing.] I can get out of your way.

You're fine, sweetheart! I came here because it's more familiar than anything else in this place. Instruments aren't really my thing. I know a little bit, but I'm not as practiced with them.

Maybe I'll change that while I'm here.

There's not much else to do, so you might as well pick up skills. If you can find someone to teach you, I'd be happy to learn myself.

Maybe we could play together.

[...Oh. c: ]

...I'd like that a lot.

[...]

You're nowhere near pure evil, you know. And anyone who wants to think you are can go through me first.

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