text | 002 - Another Emphatic Welcome

[spaghettimonster]

Name: Papyrus | Username: CoolSkeleton95
Date: Aereuer 2nd
Format: Text

HELLO MIRRORBOUND, NEW AND OLD!
IT IS I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS.
THE ONE AND ONLY TURNBONE EXTRAORDINAIRE!!

(BY WHICH I MEAN, I'M A SKELETON TURNSKIN.)
(NOT A CREEPY NECROMANTIC ATROCITY...)
(BUT A PERFECTLY COOL AND HEALTHY LIVING SKELETON!)

I'M HERE TODAY TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS.
AND NOT JUST ANY LIST I WROTE AHEAD OF TIME...
YOUR QUESTIONS!!!

CONSIDER THIS AN OPEN INVITATION, TO ASK WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND.
NO WORD WILL GO UNACKNOWLEDGED!

(SOME THINGS, I WON'T ANSWER. BUT I'LL ANSWER THAT I'M NOT ANSWERING THEM.)

THOSE OF YOU NEW TO THIS PLACE... THOSE STILL FEELING LOST AND ALONE SOMETIMES...
I'M SURE I DON'T KNOW THE DEPTHS OF YOUR FEELINGS.
BUT! I WILL DO ALL I CAN TO REASSURE YOU:
YOU'RE NOT ALONE!

PAPYRUS IS HERE FOR YOU.
WE'RE ALL HERE TOGETHER.


[ooc: If the capslock is too much, let me know and I can drop it when tagging you. It'll still be happening IC.]

Comments

plus side, emet-selch can look forward to some kind of welcome basket in the guest room

[spaghettimonster]

[Of all the people for this negative Nellie to recognize him, Mettaton was not the first way that Papyrus would have guessed... but then, who else? Doctor Alphys is great, but he wouldn't call her affable or sociable. And Mettaton is the latter in spades. But who would have thought the robot would be going around telling other people about him? It's enough to make him flutter.]

I MUST BE, I'M VERY AFFABLE.
EVEN IN OTHER TIMELINES, IT TURNS OUT!

BUT I GUESS I CAN'T CONVINCE YOU ABOUT MY THOUGHTS.
NEITHER OF US CAN PROVE ANYTHING, UNTIL IT HAPPENS.
AND EVEN THEN, IF YOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT US FORGETTING,
WE WON'T KNOW ANYTHING'S BEEN PROVEN.

...EVEN IF EVERYTHING'S UNCERTAIN, AND TEMPORARY,
AND MAYBE ALL TO BE FORGOTTEN,
I WANT TO LIVE LIKE IT'LL TURN OUT WELL. AND BE HAPPY, THAN NOT.
SO THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION FROM BEFORE.
MAYBE I WON'T SUCCEED AT PIERCING MY GRIEFS.
BUT THE SORROWS I CARRY, AREN'T SO BIG THAT I DON'T TRY.

oh no, it's so sweet of him....

[unsundered]

Some things, across variations of a world, are immutable.

[Be they affable monsters or inexplicable demises: some things just don't change. Emet-Selch sighs before sending the rest.]

Yes, it seems we're both quite immovable in our views....

With uncertainty the only given, you may continue on your fool's path of unwarranted optimism. And I will continue being sensible.

...Well, for what it's worth, I hope that nothing comes along that's finally able to pierce such determined delusion.

[From his vast sample size of two, Emet-Selch has decided that monsters from this particular world are naive, obnoxious, and kind. A trying combination, but not one that he despised.]

[spaghettimonster]

THANK YOU!
I HOPE SOMETHING COMES ALONG TO PROVE THINGS AREN'T COMPLETELY TERRIBLE.
AND PIERCE YOUR DISMAL SENSIBILITIES.
IN THE NICEST WAY.

[Getting literally stabbed by good cheer probably wouldn't help Emet-Selch out. Probably.]

IF YOU HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS, I'LL BE HERE!

[He's gotten more replies on this than most of his posts on Undernet... The novelty of skeletons for people from other worlds seems to be a real attention-grabber.]