[He's never even seen 20. Never wants to. Can imagine it, though. The true point of no return.]
[Although, heh, that's contradictory. Because there's no such thing as a point of no return. It goes on and on, and that photograph he mentioned, where only one person was smiling--yeah, pretty definitive proof that 20 isn't a point of no return. It's a chapter break.]
they're gettin'...they're gettin' a little better about it. mine is. took a long time.
[It's slow, for all of them, for everyone in Wonderland. Every one of them is being dragged kicking and screaming toward...something. On the whole, maybe one could say things are getting better, but then something happens and suddenly everyone's three steps back. Someone says or does the wrong thing, or Wonderland comes up with a new event. It's always something.]
you learn habits as a kid and then they stick with you. damn near impossible to break.
[He certainly knows what that's like.]
no real way of knowing. [He shrugs.] you try to keep track and it's just impossible. memory's good, but it just ain't that good.
[No telling which tally mark is a Reload and which is a Reset. No telling where the flower ends and Frisk begins. No point in trying. And looking at all those tally marks gets kinda, uh, depressing.]
[His grin is bitter.]
they do. sometimes. no such thing as forever, but sometimes they leave it and it might as well be. probably feels like it. probably, heh. like i said--memory's good, but not that good.
[Sometimes they're gone for days, and by the time they get back nothing even feels real anymore. Or they leave it, give him time to think about things, think about all of it, and then the Reset hits and it all turns into mist.]
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[He's never even seen 20. Never wants to. Can imagine it, though. The true point of no return.]
[Although, heh, that's contradictory. Because there's no such thing as a point of no return. It goes on and on, and that photograph he mentioned, where only one person was smiling--yeah, pretty definitive proof that 20 isn't a point of no return. It's a chapter break.]
they're gettin'...they're gettin' a little better about it. mine is. took a long time.
[It's slow, for all of them, for everyone in Wonderland. Every one of them is being dragged kicking and screaming toward...something. On the whole, maybe one could say things are getting better, but then something happens and suddenly everyone's three steps back. Someone says or does the wrong thing, or Wonderland comes up with a new event. It's always something.]
you learn habits as a kid and then they stick with you. damn near impossible to break.
[He certainly knows what that's like.]
no real way of knowing. [He shrugs.] you try to keep track and it's just impossible. memory's good, but it just ain't that good.
[No telling which tally mark is a Reload and which is a Reset. No telling where the flower ends and Frisk begins. No point in trying. And looking at all those tally marks gets kinda, uh, depressing.]
[His grin is bitter.]
they do. sometimes. no such thing as forever, but sometimes they leave it and it might as well be. probably feels like it. probably, heh. like i said--memory's good, but not that good.
[Sometimes they're gone for days, and by the time they get back nothing even feels real anymore. Or they leave it, give him time to think about things, think about all of it, and then the Reset hits and it all turns into mist.]