[Mettaton's focus glazes over. His smile drops. His lips part; he raises a pointer finger.]
...Wait. How... How old is—
[Mettaton was just about to ask how old a baby is (to be tortured?????), but not because he doesn't understand babies. He's just suddenly... flabbergasted. He stammers, and his voice is no louder than a mumble when he next speaks.]
So that actually happens to humans... Being treated so horribly...
[The movies and their war-hardened, traumatized human protagonists... are real......]
2/2
[Mettaton's focus glazes over. His smile drops. His lips part; he raises a pointer finger.]
...Wait. How... How old is—
[Mettaton was just about to ask how old a baby is (to be tortured?????), but not because he doesn't understand babies. He's just suddenly... flabbergasted. He stammers, and his voice is no louder than a mumble when he next speaks.]
So that actually happens to humans... Being treated so horribly...
[The movies and their war-hardened, traumatized human protagonists... are real......]