[They hesitate, trying to shape their answer carefully.
They still don't know how to hope. Can't really bring themselves to just trust in Frisk and think trust is enough to overcome anything at all. They don't know that the temptation won't rise. They don't know that they'll be the arguing voice, mocking and calling them out for insisting the world is just a playground they can shape for themself, sculpt and nudge and ply until every answer is perfect and everyone loves them as much as possible.
Maybe they'll have given up so thoroughly they'll be the temptation. Maybe they'll be what whispers that it can't hurt to try one more time, to see the one ending that still has yet to be seen. You already know how to get this ending, right? You can just go back and get it again, once you've seen what there is to see. Nobody will ever have to know what you've done. Things can be right back to normal.]
Toriel. Asgore. Undyne. Sans. They couldn't remember, but they still... knew some things. We've never been on that side of a RESET before, but maybe you could, too. Even if it's only a gut feeling.
There has to be something here important enough that it can survive the trip back. Or... what's even the point, right? Why are we here at all?
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They still don't know how to hope. Can't really bring themselves to just trust in Frisk and think trust is enough to overcome anything at all. They don't know that the temptation won't rise. They don't know that they'll be the arguing voice, mocking and calling them out for insisting the world is just a playground they can shape for themself, sculpt and nudge and ply until every answer is perfect and everyone loves them as much as possible.
Maybe they'll have given up so thoroughly they'll be the temptation. Maybe they'll be what whispers that it can't hurt to try one more time, to see the one ending that still has yet to be seen. You already know how to get this ending, right? You can just go back and get it again, once you've seen what there is to see. Nobody will ever have to know what you've done. Things can be right back to normal.]
...We don't know. We really don't know at all.
[Chara is a memory, in every sense of the word. A footnote, a mumbled aside, more of a prop than a character in the story. But they are also the one who remembers. Who does not let their knowledge ever be RESET away. Could they be blasé, tell Frisk to leave the hard work to them, let them find a way to tap into a determination so strong it remembers Wonderland, or find an erasure so absolute they never come back and lend Frisk the extra bit of power to send things dialing back again?
They don't think so.]
Toriel. Asgore. Undyne. Sans. They couldn't remember, but they still... knew some things. We've never been on that side of a RESET before, but maybe you could, too. Even if it's only a gut feeling.
There has to be something here important enough that it can survive the trip back. Or... what's even the point, right? Why are we here at all?