At what point did you and Flaps realize the futility of trying to make everyone happy, and the importance of looking after yourselves first? I applaud your progress…what made you two try so hard in the first place? How did you two become aware of other voidspaces and timelines?

* { well – we realized that first bit fairly recently. he hit rock bottom, and he just…. couldn’t get back out of it. it’d always been easy for him to bounce back, but it never bounced, and it took us a couple months to realize that Hey, That’s Kinda Bad. }

* { the original decision was his, though – i was dormant for a long while. i only started waking back up once he started leaving the space. but he had known about all of that before he even found me in this particular space. }

Naw, we wouldn’t be bored. We love hearing stories and background knowledge! At least, some of us do…you haven’t told that story yet, have you? I’m still relatively new here…

* { iiii do not think i have, now that i think about it. }

* { i guess it doesn’t make sense now that i look back on it, but. it is what happened. }

* { i uh. i’m gonna put this under a readmore, i think, just. just in case? }

* { so – i was, about. 12, i think, when undertale came out in my universe. timeline…. whatever. you know. }

* { now – to back this up a bit, uh, my family is. was? fairly wealthy. they worked in the computer industry – both worked with a company that was geared towards trying to find ways to make virtual reality more realistic and immersive. }

* { anyways, uh – most of my stuff was set up with a lot of this equipment at my asking, i loved the idea of really getting into my games and i did it with every game i really could. and things worked fine, they never gave me anything that had been deemed unsafe, you know. }

* { but when i got my hands on undertale, i started hearing about like… hidden files. hidden NPCs in the game – the mystery man, the followers, you know. gaster and his group. }

* { and i started to try and get the character name to BE gaster, but each time i tried the game would just reject it. }

* { i started getting into the code to try and force it, for a while, and it worked! and i was happy, but. we did. manage to find the grey room, while using that name, and… }

* { all i can remember past that is blacking out and waking back up with frisk back at the beginning. }

* { we went through things, made it to the end, i figured maybe things would be fine – but when they exited the area past the barrier i just got. yanked out and away. stuck in the void, stuck in a room, all alone. }

* { i’ve been here ever since. }

That’s not necessarily true, Runiel. Flavor text just has to narrate what’s going on in the present moment, right? You could still remember some of the knowledge required for your job, but temporarily stop learning new OOC knowledge. Although it may be temporary, isn’t a respite from it better than none at all?

* { not really. once it wore off it’d just. be pretty crushing, you know. it’s a lot to have lifted from me – but at the same time it’d be a lot to be throwing back onto me later. x= }

Part of the reason you’re so stressed is because of all the power and knowledge you have, right Runiel? Would you accept a magic anon that removed some of your powers, or made it so that you wouldn’t have to be aware of OOC knowledge? That way, you wouldn’t have to stress about the future. Ignorance is bliss.

* { as nice as that would be, anon magic is only temporary. it wouldn’t do me any good in the long run. }

* { besides – i’m still the flavor text. the knowledge i have is needed for me to be able to do my job. }

Ah, I see…you still don’t understand words, and still can’t talk…but that’s alright. I’m just glad you’re doing better than before…I have a little treat for you, if you’d like it. (*The anon walks over to Flaps, and places a slice of butterscotch cinnamon pie in front of him.) Enjoy!

* [Ooooo. He does a BIG sniff…. And he snaps it right up! Delicious. He’s doing some real happy purrs now….. What a happy dragon.]