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Name: Vanitas
Date: 11/2
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As so many people ask questions, advertise, or whatever on this thing I figure I have nothing to lose doing the same.

You see I have a particular problem. A pest problem. I'm looking for creative ways to rid myself of this little bug that seems super intent on sticking around. Normally I wouldn't bother with something like this but my usual methods of getting rid of unwanted things?

Well. It's not working.

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[Boy, can Papyrus relate to the pest problem, even and maybe especially with confirmations that the pest in question is a person. Even if almost every detail of the situation is different, from what he reads.]

I'VE READ AND REREAD YOUR ACCOUNT...
AND IT SEEMS TO ME, THE PROBLEM IS...
HE KEEPS TRYING TO BE FRIENDS WITH YOU IN HIS WAY. INSTEAD OF BEING FRIENDS IN YOURS?
WHICH, WOW! HOW INCONSIDERATE CAN HE BE?
NO WONDER YOU'RE REJECTING HIS FRIENDSHIP ENERGIES.
HE SHOULD TRY CONNECTING TO YOU ABOUT THINGS YOU LIKE.
MAYBE A GOOD NO HOLDS BARRED SPAR, WHERE YOU YELL AT EACH OTHER, WOULD DO THE TRICK?

In a sense you're not wrong, I suppose. I don't want his friendship. Friends aren't something that I need.
He believes that this is the key to "making things right" when this won't work because we were never friends in the first place.
We were once one singular person.
Friendship won't fix a broken existence. It won't make two halves whole.
A bond would connect us, but it would only be more of the same - a connection that pales in comparison to being COMPLETE.
Who knows though. Maybe we will spar and I'll beat him into the dirt since words don't seem to work.

WE'LL HAVE TO DISAGREE ON ONE POINT...
FRIENDSHIP IS A UNIVERSAL NEED!
EVEN IF HE'S NOT WHO YOU NEED FRIENDSHIP FROM.
I THOUGHT MAYBE YOU WERE BEING FIGURATIVE, ABOUT BEING VERY LATE DIVIDED TWINS.
BUT YOU'RE NOT, HUH?
IT SEEMS LIKE IT MUST HAVE TAKEN A STRANGE MAGIC, TO DIVIDE YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE.
HAVE YOU ASKED THE COVEN IF THEY KNOW A WAY TO DO IT?
MAGIC TO MAKE TWO PEOPLE INTO ONE...
OR TWO HALVES BACK INTO ONE.
THEY HAVE SOME CRAZY MAGIC ALREADY.

I've managed this much without things like friendship. If I haven't needed it before now, I don't think it is going to make much of a difference.
But no, I was being very literal. The "magic" used I don't think can be replicated here.
HOWEVER, now that you mention the coven, that idea might have some merit.
Maybe the same sort of magic doesn't exist, but there could be another kind.
That could be worth looking into.

THAT'S WHAT I USED TO THINK, ABOUT SEEING THE SKY.
WHO NEEDS THE STARS, I TOLD MYSELF. GLOWING ROCKS IN THE CEILING, THAT WAS SKY ENOUGH FOR ME.
BUT I WOULD MISS IT IF I LOST IT NOW.
MAYBE YOU DON'T THINK YOU NEED FRIENDSHIP... BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T HAD IT YET!!
NYEH HEH HEH.
EITHER WAY! I SUPPORT YOU REACHING OUT TO ASK THEM ABOUT THEIR MAGIC.
WHO KNOWS, YOU MIGHT FIND A HELPFUL ANSWER!
OR MAKE A FRIEND WHILE SEEKING THE ANSWER OUT.

I said that the idea to ask them has merit. So I am going to follow up on that.
Who knows what sorts of different magic they got so I GUESS I can at least thank you for that.
Cherish it because I don't thank people. Ever.
But that being said, I don't need speeches about friendships.

MAYBE YOU ONLY -THINK- YOU DON'T NEED FRIENDSHIP SPEECHES...
BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T HAD THEM?
WAIT, NO, YOU SAID YOU'VE GOTTEN LOADS OF THEM, FROM YOUR OTHER HALF.
WELL, OKAY! I'LL GIVE YOU A BREAK ON THE SPEECHES.
IN EXCHANGE FOR CHERISHING MY HIGHLY COVETED, LIMITED EDITION THANK YOU.
BUT, I WONDER...
IF THE COVEN DOES HAVE ANYTHING LIKE THAT...
WELL, IF THEIR MAGIC FOR BONDS MEANS ANYTHING,
IT PROBABLY WOULDN'T WORK UNLESS YOU BOTH WANT IT.

I've gotten them not just from him. There have been others too.
Anyway, I figure that it might not work if he doesn't want it as well.
Though if that's the case does it HAVE to be him? Is he even needed in the equation?
Perhaps there might be another method.

UHHH...
I DON'T KNOW. WOULDN'T HE HAVE TO BE IN IT, WHEN YOU'RE HALFSIES?
UNLESS YOU FIND ANOTHER HALF PERSON. TO COMBINE WITH.
BUT THAT SEEMS MESSY.
I MEAN, WHAT NAME WOULD THAT COMBINED PERSON USE? A MIX OF BOTH?

There is a method I didn't previously consider.
The other half might not be needed. Wouldn't have to be in on it.
All I need might be someone willing. Someone with enough Light.

UH... HUH.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S A STRANGE THING TO SAY!
STRANGE AND A LITTLE OMINOUS.
ESPECIALLY SINCE IT WOULD MAKE A ONE AND A HALF PERSON...
AND FINDING SOMEONE WITH ENOUGH 'LIGHT' MIGHT BE THE TRICKIEST PART.
AEFENGLOM IS HALF NAMED FOR THE CLOUDS.
YOU MIGHT HAVE TO GO LOOK FOR SUNNIER SKIES, IF LIGHT'S THE SECRET INGREDIENT.

Ominous, perhaps, but not so much strange.
Where we come from, everyone is comprised of both Light and Darkness.
I am the Darkness that he once held and he is the Light.
So if it can't be my other half, it would have to be something that can replace this missing component.

OH, SO IT'S A DIFFERENT SORT OF NORMAL... EVERYONE FROM YOUR WORLD WOULD HAVE IT.
IS ANYONE ELSE HERE FROM YOUR HOME?
AND... OH NO!
IF YOU'RE BOTH SUPPOSED TO HAVE BOTH, BUT DON'T...
ARE EITHER OF YOU GOING TO GET SICK??

My other half will be fine, believe it or not.
His condition is better than my own for reasons I'm not getting into.
There are other people here from there, of course.
Though I have little reason to want to seek them out either.

WHEW! IT'S A RELIEF HE'LL BE FINE.
I HOPE YOU'LL BE FINE TOO.
BUT, I DON'T KNOW. IF YOU'LL FIND ANYONE ELSE MADE OF 'LIGHT.'
PEOPLE BACK HOME SAY... MONSTER SOULS ARE MADE OF COMPASSION, LOVE, AND HOPE.
NOT LIGHT OR DARKNESS.
AND MONSTERS DON'T EVEN HAVE MAGIC HERE, SO WHO KNOWS!

[ There's a pause, if only because "I hope you'll be fine" is just so strange to read. No one actually cares about that, right? ]

I'll just have to find out. Or maybe there's something else other than just Light.
Though I can't say I've heard that of monsters. If that's what is supposed to make your existence, then what do they say humans are made of?

THEY SAY...
THAT NOBODY KNOWS.
HUMANS DO TERRIBLE THINGS TERRIBLY OFTEN. SO THEIR SOULS AREN'T -JUST- THOSE THINGS.
I'M SURE THEY DO HAVE SOME...
BUT THEIR SOULS ARE SO POWERFUL. WAY MORE POWERFUL THAN MONSTER SOULS. THERE MUST BE OTHER STUFF IN THERE, TOO.

More powerful, you say? Now THAT'S interesting.
Oh don't get me wrong. Humans really ARE capable of some pretty terrible things.
However I believe that just about anyone is, depending upon the situation.

WELL... YOU'RE NOT WRONG.
MURDER... ARSON... JAYWALKING...
EVEN MONSTERS COMMIT ALL SORTS OF CRIMES. PLUS OTHER, NOT ILLEGAL BUT VERY RUDE OR HURTFUL ACTIONS.
BUT THE SOUL PART IS REAL!
HUMAN SOULS LINGER AROUND AFTER DEATH. AND MAKE, AND BREAK, MAGIC BARRIERS.
MONSTER SOULS JUST SORT OF... DISINTEGRATE. WE'RE BAD AT DYING. OR VERY GOOD AT IT.

Jaywalking...
Why wold you WANT to linger after death?
Doesn't that seem sort of pointless?

NO WAY!
I MEAN, I WOULDN'T WANT TO LINGER FOREVER.
ESPECIALLY NOT WITHOUT A BODY...
THAT SOUNDS EVEN WORSE THAN LIFE AS A GHOST.
BUT WHO DOESN'T WANT TO HEAR FINAL GOODBYES, FROM DEARLY DEPARTED LOVED ONES?
I KNOW I'D WANT TO GIVE THEM, IF I COULD.

AND, MORE THAN THAT...
THERE'S THIS BARRIER, BACK HOME, THAT TAKES SOUL POWER TO BREAK.
HUMAN SOULS WERE THE ONLY ONES POWERFUL ENOUGH TO DO THE TRICK.

I wouldn't recommend it, no.
There are some people who can at least sense ghosts, right?
All that aside, what is that barrier for? Why did it need broken?

WELL, SURE. ANYONE CAN SENSE GHOSTS!
WHEN THEY'RE NOT INVISIBLE.

AS FOR THE BARRIER...
IT TRAPPED MONSTERS UNDERGROUND.
A WHOLE KINGDOM, IN A SINGLE MOUNTAIN, FOR GENERATIONS...
TALK ABOUT A HOPELESS PLACE.
THE BARRIER NEEDS BREAKING SO EVERYONE CAN GO FREE!
AND NOT JUST KIDNAPPED BY MIRRORS TO ANOTHER WORLD.

So that's what you want then?
To break out and be free?
To interact with humans?

I MEAN,
EVERYONE WANTS TO BE FREE.
OR THEY'RE INDIFFERENT TO IT. BUT, WOULD LIKE THE OPTION!
I THINK I'M SET ON HUMAN INTERACTION.
IT HASN'T BEEN ALL IT'S BEEN CHALKED UP TO BEING.

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text, un: CoolSkeleton95 - a couple hours later

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