you know my name [open]

[skelebro]

Who: Sans, Sans's double, and Y O U
What: Doubles. It gets bad. Responses from Sans's double will come from fibia.
Where: All over Hadriel
When: 1/16 - 1/25
Warnings: Things are gonna get messy. Since it's Sans, basic warnings for depressive mindset and self-hatred ratcheted up to 11. In the case of his double, threads may involve heavy manipulation, physchological abuse and cruelty, and of course your typical fare of potentials for violence and gore. Proceed with caution!



1/16 - 1/18; just the big time fucko; arm yourself because no one else here will SAVE you

[The crack and pop of flexing knuckles, and his skull rolls on his cervical vertebrae with a series of satisfying popping of air sacs. His phalanges pull in and out again, clenching into loose fists and then - back out. His smile is a fixed rictus, just the same as the monster from which his mold has been cast. The lights buried in his eyesockets glint coolly as he takes it all in - the rock of the walls and ceiling, the light of hte lamps, the staleness of the air.

He rolls his shoulders smoothly.

Tangibility. Weight. Resonance. What a beautiful fucking thing.

For a time, anyway.

He ambles about the city for a time. There's no visible difference between him and the Sans you might know. He smiles, he nods, he's pleasant. He stops to peruse the shops, and passes by the garage full of mopeds. There's no real obvious changes to any one thing as he passes, and he sure don't stop and loiter about long enough for him to have done anything but - you might notice a few changes. Maybe the bolts and bits of your moped are a mite loose, and kicking it to life will cause it to fall apart on the spot. Maybe that can of food you just picked up from one of the shops has had holes pocked through the bottom, causing its contents to leak out all over the shelves. Maybe a few cobblestones have been loosened to trip you up in the streets, or a shelf in a shop is rigged to topple the instant you pick an item off of it.

But it's probably nothing, right? Just a...coincidence.

Sans is a nice guy. He wouldn't put people in harm's way like that.

Right?]

1/19 - 1/21; FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT; you can't deny the prize, it may never fulfill you

His time here is limited. That much is pretty damn clear. In only a few days, he'll cease to have ever happened; a footnote in somebody else's story. And, heh, while the regular ol' Sans might be content with that, this Sans certainly ain't. He'll live forever, one way or another. He'll preserve his legacy.

It's just a way of making sure that people know what good old Sans is really capable of. The monster in question is doin' a real good job of avoiding himself. Afraid of what he'd find, most likely. Or maybe he knows that he wouldn't be able to stand to look at himself for longer than five seconds. Always hates what he sees in a mirror, that Sans. Too many flaws and not enough motivation to a damn thing about 'em.

So the next step, obviously, would be to lure the guy outta hiding.

He waits in a secluded corner of the city and waits for someone to pass by. Anybody, really, he ain't picky. Just take it one at a time, that's all he asks. And should someone be coming his way all alone, he'll tip his skull in greeting, smile patiently, talk 'em through their concerns that he might be the evil clone. It's doubtful that'll work, but that's just fine.

He's not looking for conversation.

[ooc: Sans's Double will be raring for a fight with this prompt. As his cast has dibs on actually killing him, I ask that you only pick this prompt if you're eager for your character to get Dunked. Though since this Sans has a good deal more than 1 HP, you're free to land a few hits.]

1/22; double trouble; the odds will betray you and i will replace you

By the time the real Sans drags himself outta his miserable little hole to check up on the stirrer of the chaos, the causer of the ruckus, the inciter of scurries, it's already approaching the End. That's all right, though. It's excusable. He's lazy. It's one of the defining points of a Sans.

He kicks a pebble across the ground with the toe of a slippershod foot and watches it clatter over the rock, his smile nothing short of utterly neutral.

"So this is me." For the first time, he appraises his double with an upraised supraorbital ridge. "A LOVE-hungry killer bent on destruction."

"You don't sound surprised." The words rumble in his doppelganger's lack of a throat, and his grin approximates a sneer.

"Why should I be?" A weary lift of Sans's shoulders, and he chuckles. "Always figured that's why a guy like me doesn't have it in him to give a damn. Why a guy like me takes it easy."

"You always take it easy." The admonishment should be laden with disgust, but it emerges lightly, like dispensing criticism upon an amateur writer for using too many semicolons.

"Yeah." The pair of skeletons eye each other warily. Sans smiles. And he smiles. "But it was always my choice to. Shit choice, sure, but at least it wasn't 'cause I couldn't."

His clone doesn't reply. There's the faintest stir of a spark in his gaze, a glint of something akin to a cold fury, but it dissipates in the same moment it forms. There's all matter of LOVE caked about his SOUL. He don't have to think about something like that. He's above that. But Sans reads it well enough, and they both know it.

He could judge him, but it'd just be redundant.

"LV 19," says Sans, the real Sans, heavily. "You've been busy."

"So you know what comes next," says the other. The words are conversational, almost companionable, as easily as if they might be discussing the weather. It is, after all - a beautiful day outside. There's no birds about, and certainly no flowers, but both of 'em know that, statistically, there's bound to be birdsong trilling out there somewhere, a few petals opening themselves to a sun's warming rays. There's bound to be a world where a Sans grins beside a Frisk who's surrounded by their friends, living happily on the surface, contented and unafraid.

"Yeah," says Sans.

"Only one monster in the Underground takes you to 20."

"Yeah," says Sans.

His eyesockets slip closed.

It's a beautiful day outside.

And with the charging roar of a Blaster and the bright span of bones springing into existence, the space between them erupts.

[ooc: This last prompt is a two-for-one deal. Characters can try and intervene, cheer from the sidelines, place bets, whatever you like!]

1/23 - 1/24; the real sans; if you take a life do you know what you'll give

[All right, all right. So he's maybe - maybe slightly concerned at this juncture. He was lucky enough to get outta that first confrontation with his life, and there's no guarantee that his double hasn't already gutted a few unlucky bastards.

He's gotta find him and cut him off before he does anything worse. It ain't like anybody he knows is handling this any better but god damn - he hopes voting Confusion in was worth it, that's all he can say.

Sans blips through the city with a remarkable speed and alacrity, popping into shops, houses, checking every inch of the place he can in search of his cruel, LOVE-happy self. Hope you haven't run into the asshole in the meantime and assumed that the real Sans is subsequently out to get ya, 'cause that would be real unfortunate for the skeleton with 1 HP. Just a real awful, terrible, no good thing.]

wildcard; try to hide your hand, forget how to feel

[ooc: Not a fan of the prompts? Hit me with whatever you like! I'll match prose or brackets, either one. Questions and concerns? Hit me at arcaneswearwords on AIM or over at arrpee or with a PM and let's discuss!]

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[fibia]

[Well, whaddaya know? He's going for the option behind door number three. A round of Blasters circling the building itself, firing off on all cylinders and blowing out the supports until, at long last, he feels the roof tremble as the structural integrity finds itself just - just horribly compromised.

And then he's on the ground again. Fires off a quartet of Blasters just to speed things along, and then shoves his hands into his pockets, phalanges curling around the hard pit of the Locket in his fist.

Don't much matter if they make it out of the building or not.

He got what he came for. Or something like that.]

[somuchlove]

[Chara was on the second floor when Sans attempts to bring the roof down on them. Only it's not an attempt. He really will kill them if they stay here.

There was a window. There's no other choice.

The glass panel shatters into pieces as Chara throws themselves through it. It's not the most graceful thing in the world they've done but Chara's never been one to go quietly into the night. They hit the ground with a nasty crunch but it's a fall that has yet to top the Fall. But it's far enough to keep them out of the range of the Blasters for now.

Chara doesn't know if Sans is still here or not. The sound blaring around them was blurring into one noise just like their vision. But they struggle to their feet regardless. The Real Knife is still in their hand, held there by instinct alone. Body was a broken thing, low on HP.

Still. Continue.]

* It...refuses.
* I r...refuse...

[They will not allow him to continue. Not like this.]

[fibia]

[Well, he sure was on his way out. Only they land like that, heavy and desperate, the whole of their body trembling like the broken, battered thing it is. The structure crumbles to dust (or Dust) with the low creaking roar of buckling supports, shattering rock, dulled and emptied and ground away.

A heap of detritus. Nothing useful.

He eyes them dispassionately as they strain to keep themself upright, Knife clasped in one hand.]

Nah.

[There's only one monster that takes you to 20. Anything else is just - a waste of his time.]

You're done.

[And in another moment, he's gone.]

[somuchlove]

[Chara only manages one single step towards Sans before their legs give out, a scream of rage turning into one of pain as they fall into a heap once again. It's probably the last thing he gets to see before he warps away.

They stay there, curled up as the dust coats them like before. It's not the same pain as when Chara Fell. Nothing was truly broken that Sans's gift couldn't fix, once they dragged themselves together long enough to dig it out of their inventory. It wouldn't be much, but it was enough to keep them going.

So why wasn't Chara getting up right now?

The urgency was there. Frisk and Asriel were in danger. Sans too. Chara knew better than anyone what LV 19 meant. Standing above the cauldron to hell there was only one way to go and that was down. And the real Sans had enough EXP to make that jump, the only one who had it. There was no doubt that it was this one's goal. And Alphys too...she probably had a double. Chara didn't know her but it's not like she didn't have any skeletons in the closet either. Maybe not as destructive as them, but they shouldn't count their chickens after this.

...they're not getting up, despite it all.

"You'd think everyone's learned by now, what happens to the people you claim to love..

Chara had refused to acknowledge that. It wasn't like they didn't know already. Asriel lost his life because of them. A wedge was formed between Asgore and Toriel because of them. Frisk's SOUL had been tainted because of them. Sans lost his family because of them. Papyrus and Undyne lost their lives because of them. Alphys and Mettaton lost everything because of them. The whole Underground went dark.

* Look at what you've done.

Sans didn't have to spell out what Chara told themselves everyday. Didn't have judge them when Chara already condemned themselves. After all, everybody knows that those who commit suicide don't get to go into heaven.

It really is just a punchline, in the end, isn't it? It's funny. It's so funny you can't stop laughing! And as much as they despise themselves for it, Chara can't stop crying.

* You can feel it beating, somewhere out there.

They lay there for awhile before surging back to their feet. No. Not yet. Not just yet.

It's not game over. There are many miles to go before Chara gets to sleep.

The Hot Dog tastes both wonderful and awful.

And then they start to walk.]