[Shit. The stories don't align. They don't align. Just kinda - kinda radically, drastically, insurmountably different from the way he remembers it happenin' but hey. Maybe that's just a bonus side effect of rememberin' a thing that didn't happen. They didn't talk about this. Not at any kinda supreme length, no.
This is -
Heh, well. It's just another one of those things that ends up on him, ain't it? He doesn't talk about this, not any of it, and instead he shoves to the posterior and compartmentalizes it and stashes it somewhere no one will ever look, just 'cause he he don't wanna think too hard on how it did and didn't alter him.
You don't look into the eye of a hurricane and come out unscathed. You just, uh, don't.
Alphys is learnin' this the hard way, assumin' she hasn't already.
He puts out a hand onto her shoulder, steadying-like, supraorbital ridges vee-ing down slightly in what, on him, approximates a look of concern.]
Hey. Look. Alph. This ain't your fault, all right? This ain't on you. This is - [His grip adjusts slightly and he chuckles, hollow and mirthless.] I mean, hey. If it's on anybody, it's on him, right?
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[Shit. The stories don't align. They don't align. Just kinda - kinda radically, drastically, insurmountably different from the way he remembers it happenin' but hey. Maybe that's just a bonus side effect of rememberin' a thing that didn't happen. They didn't talk about this. Not at any kinda supreme length, no.
This is -
Heh, well. It's just another one of those things that ends up on him, ain't it? He doesn't talk about this, not any of it, and instead he shoves to the posterior and compartmentalizes it and stashes it somewhere no one will ever look, just 'cause he he don't wanna think too hard on how it did and didn't alter him.
You don't look into the eye of a hurricane and come out unscathed. You just, uh, don't.
Alphys is learnin' this the hard way, assumin' she hasn't already.
He puts out a hand onto her shoulder, steadying-like, supraorbital ridges vee-ing down slightly in what, on him, approximates a look of concern.]
Hey. Look. Alph. This ain't your fault, all right? This ain't on you. This is - [His grip adjusts slightly and he chuckles, hollow and mirthless.] I mean, hey. If it's on anybody, it's on him, right?