[What else. There's always an else. There's always supposed to be an else with him. He convinced two kids that he knew everything, and he convinced them too damn well to ever suggest otherwise.]
[It's exhausting. It's exhausting trying to figure out what they expect him to know, it's exhausting trying to know it all, it's exhausting playing catch-up, trying to explain that he doesn't know this or that thing and being told he must be lying. And it's all his own goddamn fault. He did this to himself. He has no one else to blame.]
[Chara will never believe or trust him, but sometimes he lets himself forget that Frisk is the same way.]
[He scrubs at his face, bone rasping against bone.]
it used to belong to the old royal scientist. but it was different then. bigger. there was more of us. i don't remember all that much from back then. just some moments, some stuff that happened. stuff we were working on. the layout completely changed after...everything. so. nothing from back then is really relevant to how the lab is now, except for a few things alphys must have found.
[Blueprints and who even knows what else.]
this is the same thing chara was so afraid of, isn't it?
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[It's exhausting. It's exhausting trying to figure out what they expect him to know, it's exhausting trying to know it all, it's exhausting playing catch-up, trying to explain that he doesn't know this or that thing and being told he must be lying. And it's all his own goddamn fault. He did this to himself. He has no one else to blame.]
[Chara will never believe or trust him, but sometimes he lets himself forget that Frisk is the same way.]
[He scrubs at his face, bone rasping against bone.]
it used to belong to the old royal scientist. but it was different then. bigger. there was more of us. i don't remember all that much from back then. just some moments, some stuff that happened. stuff we were working on. the layout completely changed after...everything. so. nothing from back then is really relevant to how the lab is now, except for a few things alphys must have found.
[Blueprints and who even knows what else.]
this is the same thing chara was so afraid of, isn't it?