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lime green drama queen ([personal profile] slapfight) wrote2016-09-10 08:29 pm

[community profile] futurology CONTACT POST

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[voice; un: METTATON]

[personal profile] ex_mettacrusher33 2017-09-10 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's late when the call comes in. This shouldn't be surprising: dramatic late night calls are Mettaton's usual M.O.

He'd say it's because he feels the quiet of night helps him get his thoughts together or feel less judged, but... Really, there's just something aesthetically pleasing about late-night confessions.]


You awake, Peri-pie? [Of course she is. She doesn't sleep.]

[personal profile] ex_mettacrusher33 2017-09-11 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Pft. Oh, Peri. If this were a few weeks ago, he might have it in himself to be offended. Instead, there's only a soft chuckle on the other end of the line, followed by what sounds like quiet rumbling.]

Do you remember Percy? The Zymandis agent, not the camper. [For Peridot, this is a very important distinction.] ...about how you felt about him?

[personal profile] ex_mettacrusher33 2017-09-13 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
...

How did you feel about George?

[personal profile] ex_mettacrusher33 2017-09-13 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah.

Hahaha... So, even Peridot figured that one out before Mettaton, eh? Considering the response to that network post, everyone else did, too.

...

There's a bit more rustling on his end of the line before he bothers to respond.]


I thought he was going to get us all killed. That after bungling his first mission, he'd sell us out the first chance he got.

[personal profile] ex_mettacrusher33 2017-09-17 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[...]

"But after Percy" what?

[personal profile] ex_mettacrusher33 2017-09-19 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah. But after Percy was murdered, she means. She was a part of the crowd that found him, wasn't she?

So. After she watched him die.

There's a bit more rustling as that rumbling gets louder. It's fairly obvious now Mettaton is laying next to something that's purring.]


I can see that with George. [In hindsight. After being proven wrong about him, again and again.] But Percy was violent. He had no mercy.

Where is the line?

[personal profile] ex_mettacrusher33 2017-09-20 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
[...Maybe it's just seeing what they do when they're given an opportunity to understand.

Something about that hits and rattles the center of his core. It feels familiar. He's quiet on the other end, his silence overtaken by tiny purrs, as he tries to place the feeling.

It's what Frisk did, isn't it? Despite the fear, despite the unknown, they knew the only thing to do in the face of potential cruelty and destruction is... nothing.

It's to wait. To have mercy instead of retaliating. To offer patience to the storm and wait for it to end, to see if it ever will. Because even if it doesn't, at least you stalled it for everyone else.

...no, that last bit doesn't sound like Frisk at all. There wasn't any stalling. Why does that...?

Whatever. Finally, he laughs. It isn't joyous, but it's understanding.]
Yeah. I guess so.

[...]

Thanks, Peri-darling.

[personal profile] ex_mettacrusher33 2017-09-25 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
You're really selling me on this, aren't you?