[And that's blunt, and it's likewise a bit too quiet, and there's a pause before he continues.]
...Dr. Alphys wanted to die, you know.
[He hates talking about this; it's obvious from his tone. But he's going to do it anyway, for once.]
She thought she'd done something unforgivable. I knew...about parts of what she did. Not everything, I don't think anyone but Asgore knew everything.
I knew she thought she deserved to die, though. I was pretty terrible to her anyway. We were...mutually kind of bad to each other, but...
[Mettaton is the reason Dr. Alphys is dead.]
There's a difference between dying in battle and just throwing yourself in front of people claiming that you deserve to die. I can handle one of them. I'm not going to tolerate the other.
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[And that's blunt, and it's likewise a bit too quiet, and there's a pause before he continues.]
...Dr. Alphys wanted to die, you know.
[He hates talking about this; it's obvious from his tone. But he's going to do it anyway, for once.]
She thought she'd done something unforgivable. I knew...about parts of what she did. Not everything, I don't think anyone but Asgore knew everything.
I knew she thought she deserved to die, though. I was pretty terrible to her anyway. We were...mutually kind of bad to each other, but...
[Mettaton is the reason Dr. Alphys is dead.]
There's a difference between dying in battle and just throwing yourself in front of people claiming that you deserve to die. I can handle one of them. I'm not going to tolerate the other.