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02 [video]: trials and tribulations
Name: Katsuragi
Date: July 2-ish
Format: Video
[ Yakoâs going to just to go ahead and cut straight to the point. ]
After Litha, did everyone have the same dream again? Of the city being destroyed?
If itâs not too much to ask, Iâd like to know what you remember from it. It might be important to confirm the details we can recall.
Date: July 2-ish
Format: Video
[ Yakoâs going to just to go ahead and cut straight to the point. ]
After Litha, did everyone have the same dream again? Of the city being destroyed?
If itâs not too much to ask, Iâd like to know what you remember from it. It might be important to confirm the details we can recall.
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[His, included. Once he'd recovered from the dream's effects, he went back, and checked - his was still whole in the waking world.]
And! There was a maze around the city, one that only activated when you tried to return. I got stuck in a labyrinth... and found a minotaur skeleton, a dead one.
[As most skeletons are.]
I touched it to check on it, and... I think I got its Cwyld spots, I don't remember much after that.
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I didn't run into that maze, although that might be because I didn't try to turn back [ Though it's only her voice, Yako's frown is almost audible. ]
You were infected by the Cwyld ... but in the same places as the minotaur was? [ She's just making sure she understands this correctly. ]
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I touched a clean spot on its shoulder, but I guess it was close enough. The shadows leaked up my arms, and all through me, in a pattern like the minotaur's skeleton...
[After that, he got hungry and angry, and... things go very vague indeed.]
The maze seemed a lot like those tunnels in the first dream. If you didn't go there, it didn't go to you... But if you did, and tried to return... it locked you in.
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Do you mean the tunnels that showed memories of the past?
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But no, I mean the tunnels in the cave. Super way down, with the quiet waterfalls. They kept moving so you couldn't climb back up... Thank goodness it was only like that in the dream.
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[ And if he's telling her about it, well, he's obviously experienced it himself. ]
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[In a way, it felt just like home.]
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Yeah ... I almost ran into one of those.
It's strange, since it seemed like the witches were pretty confident that the cave was safe.
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And, I guess, there's a lot the witches don't know, yet.
[They know way more than him about the world, and their magic, and all of that. He's not dismissing them entirely. But it's enough to worry him about what they'll be able to figure out about returning people to life - or their homes.]
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[ Her voice is slightly worried. One might assume everyone would be united against a big common threat, but ... there's no way to be sure of that. There had been people willing to help Sicks extinguish the whole human race, after all, even if that seemed to be against their own interest. The Cwyld might seem a freak magic occurrence, but is there the possibility of a conscious will directing it, encouraging it to grow?
She wonders. ]
Miss Nessie said they'd be calling a meeting to address some of these things more openly. It doesn't seem like a lot of people want to talk about it.
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[Bad enough to be growing claws (and maybe more), after all those warnings that monsters have tremendous - and sometimes unthinkingly violent - tempers. He likes himself, and doesn't want to change all that much. But the bright side of waking up here was being on the surface of a whole world, able to see the sky and go exploring if he so likes. If this world is even more dangerous than the one he's come from... If the Cwyld was hiding on purpose, or if someone's helping it hide...? Brr.]
If there's nothing we can do about it, why spend time worrying... when we could find things to smile about, instead? Sometimes that's all you can do.
[He talks like he's quoting someone, echoing sentiments from back home. Their kind of monsters have had generations of a certain learned helplessness from being so utterly sealed within the caves. Some aggressively optimistic sorts - like Undyne - take a more proactive approach to things, but quiet forced smiles are the norm in Snowdin.]
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That's just circular logic though, isn't it? [ Yako answers, voice firm, but friendly. ]
Perhaps it's true that there's not much we can do about it now ... but I think it's wrong to accept it's always going to be that way, or that 'not much' is the same as 'nothing.' [ Her voice is kind, even taking a stance against Papyrus's own, or at least the words of whoever he'd heard such a thing from in the first place. ]
Finding something to smile about isn't a bad thing. But isn't it more important to ask why we want to keep smiling in the first place?
gagtag aside, i love this and i've been trying to match it, but perfectionism struck
[Papyrus trails off in a flustered stammer, frowning unseen. Something about that hits close to heart, in a way that's hard to describe.]
Does that really sound that... hopeless??
[That's not his brand at all, and what a terrible thought, that maybe he's just doing a busier smilier version of what he's trying to avoid.]
oops i meant to tag this back for days but the gagtag distracted me...
Ah, well, I didn't mean it that way...! [ But, well, what did she mean after all. ] What I just meant to say is ... People see things differently. Everyone must have their own ideas about what the best way to approach any of this is. And those ideas aren't right and wrong, but they're driven by what that person believes.