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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2, 1/21; it's shittalking time

[kairotic]

[Y'know, she'd be more inclined to call this period the time of her life, if it wasn't, well, the only time in her life. But goodness, what fun this has been so far. Getting to run people down, ruin some lives here and there... just great. So when she sees him, poking around a corner, there's a... hesitancy.

She's already spoken to the real Sans. Besides, at least they can tell who's who.]

Setting a t-trap for a certain special someone? Why Sans, I'm awfully f-flattered.

heck yea

[fibia]

[With LV 19 crusted around your SOUL, you don't have to worry much about what other people think of ya. Sans swings around to grin at her, widely, lifting his shoulders in an irreverent shrug.]

Someone's gotta get him to give a damn. Not like he's gonna wriggle his way outta his hole for my sake.

claps

[kairotic]

[She snickers, low and irrelevant. It's not that funny, but pleasantries are pleasantries and old habits die hard.]

So you're just p-planning to wait here and attack someone until he comes to defend them? Too bad the real Alphys didn't come by. Then again, at this point, she'd probably be happy if s-someone put her down.

[After all the people she's talked to, her real self won't have anyone else to turn to.]

[fibia]

Y'know he will, sooner or later. That's the problem with places like this.

You can't keep yourself in one spot without getting attached.

[He knows what the real Sans is like, heart and SOUL. Metaphorical heart and weakling SOUL, but the sentiment still stands. He did his best not to care, as he always does, but it's just so much harder when time progresses in a linear fashion.]

[kairotic]

[The double grins, laughing just a bit.]

You sure have got him pegged. At least I don't have to worry about dragging out my real, considering she'd rather hide in the caves and get eaten than see me face to face.

[Which leaves her plenty of time to do what she needs to.]

Honestly, I don't even have a lot of work to do here. She's done such a good job of ruining herself here already.

[fibia]

Just gonna air her dirty laundry and move on, right?

[See, they just both know each other so well. Ain't that thrilling and exciting for everybody involved? Just a couple of dirty, dirty schemers with targets that do such great work completely desecrating their own lives that the doubles themselves barely gotta do a thing. Nice job takin' things easy.]

Heck, what do I even say to Frisk, huh? Ain't like they could hate him anymore than they do already.

[kairotic]

Obviously. I've barely had to do any h-heavy lifting. Her potential is what they're all afraid of now. She'll do the r-rest on her own.

[Because she will. Sure, she could kill her once, let herself wreck havoc for a week- but the real goal is the long term plan. Setting her up for not just one death, but more, until erasure. Until the end.]

Oh man, I found Frisk pretty early on. You should've s-seen the look on their face when I told them about the amalgamates. They outright ran from me by the end of it.

[fibia]

[That earns a laugh, a hearty, thoroughly amused chuckle. That's cold, and that's what makes it kinda brilliant. Kinda really, obscenely brilliant. Fucking ruthless.]

Oh my god. And I bet they liked her well enough to start with, huh? Man, that kid's gonna have zero friends when we're done with 'em.

[But hey, ain't that for the best?

That way no one's gonna miss 'em.]

[kairotic]

None of them are. The only reason they even s-spend time around each other is because they can't find anyone else more pathetic.

[I mean, honestly. Misery loves company.]

You know as well as I do that it's not g-good enough to just knife them and get it over with. It has to last. Long after we're gone.

[fibia]

That's my thinkin' exactly, buddo.

[It'd be altogether entirely too easy to cut the ties and be done. Nothin' anyone couldn't do, nice and easy. They ain't here to be mindless flashes in the pan. They're here to last long, long after all their kind is dead and gone.]

We're here to do what they don't have the guts to do on their own.

[Guts. Get it?]

[kairotic]

[She snickers at the pun, but it's put together and small, much unlike Alphys' typical snorting-tier laugh. He's still a Sans, though. And a better one, in her opinion.]

Really, I think we're being quite g-generous. Doing all the heavy lifting of those truths about themselves for them. They could even be thankful.

[Not that the real Alphys would be. But, haha. Whatever.]

And yet! Nothing from t-them. Typical laziness, I w-would say.

[fibia]

Well, y'know. They're very intelligent cowards.

[That's a thought good ol' Sans has rattled about in his skull time and time again; he's simply vocalizing it. Clearing the air. Puttin' those grievances out there.

Someone's got to.]

So maybe it'll require a bit of effort on my part; can't complain there. We ain't long for this world anyhow. Might as well enjoy the ride.

[kairotic]

Smart enough to hide, at least. But n-not to evade us.

[Damn right someone does. She's not just going to sit by and let Alphys get away with this. And when she's done, a bunch of other people probably won't, either!]

Get anything g-good so far? Reactions, drops, crying?

[fibia]

I dropped a building on a kid.

[He says it evenly, amiably, like it ain't no thing. Which - it wasn't nearly as much as killing 'em, but a creature like that - death is practically its own form of MERCY. And he ain't a creature of MERCY.]

Kinda hilarious.

[kairotic]

Holy s-shit.

[She actually laughs. That's. Holy fuck.]

You've been busy, then. Goodness. One of o-ours? The little Determination duo?

[fibia]

[He grins, chuckling idly, as he nods his confirmation.]

They were lookin' for a FIGHT. I obliged. Broke 'em in more ways than one, even.

[kairotic]

[She lets out another snort, because goodness, wouldn't she love to do that.]

As always, you g-get to have all the fun. Alphys hasn't even built any weapons here. It's such a shame. But I don't need to tell you how t-to do your job.

[She has words, theories, science. That's always been better for doing damage, in the end.]

[fibia]

[Nah. She don't. She could conceivably build somethin' up on her own in the time allotted but - that'd take a lotta effort for somethin' that could be accomplished with pretty words.]

Hey, hey. You'll have your Fun.

[She's already having it, by all rights.]

Take advantage of the chaos. There's lots of it.

[kairotic]

Oh, you d-don't have to tell me twice.

[She intends on leaking out every bit of it.]

Found out anything fun about anyone, b-by the way? Any pieces of gossip to share?

[fibia]

Chara's down a Locket, if you were wondering.

[Coupled with a loose gesture at the decent crack in his skull, spiderwebbed down the ossein of one supraorbital ridge.]

So, y'know. They're wide open.

[kairotic]

Really.

[Well that will certainly knock their DEF. But she has... another idea.]

Are you going to use it? Then again, what even g-gives them all that DEF from it, anyway? I'd be curious to study it.

[fibia]

[Hey, why not? He's got plenty of DEF, and he's got big, big plans to go out with a bang. So he digs the thing outta his pocket and casually wings it in her direction, easy and underhanded.]

Be my guest. They won't know what hit 'em.

[kairotic]

[It takes a lot for her to reign in her excitement as she snatches it from the air, catching it by the chain to let the pendant dangle by her face. Perfect.]

As always, you are w-wonderful, my friend.

[The dynamic duo. Even now.]

I'll let you know how it goes.

[fibia]

Assumin' I'm still around by the end, sure. Though I expect everybody else'll know how it goes first.

[They always did work real good off each other. And hey, the refusal to become a self-perpetuating loop of continuous self-loathing and self-dismissal helps them actually make more of an impact than their real selves ever did.]

Best of luck, buddo.

Give 'em hell.

[kairotic]

[She pockets it, and gives him a mock salute. This is better than she could've hoped.

Now, she has some work to do.]

You too. See y-you when I see you.

[And with that, off she goes.]