Will you just chill out? Dia’s sick of being demonized just like you are, and he’s been through untold amounts of stress ever since Pathos died…he almost completely snapped too…I get he killed your friend, but wouldn’t you want to kill the God of your world too? Don’t you hate them too? I’m sick of all the drama that’s happened lately, and so is everyone else, so can you two just settle your differences already and stop vagueing one another? And besides, I’m sure the rat will be okay soon…

* { we did stop. }

* { i understand where you’re coming from – and believe me, i’m damn tired of drama too. }

* { it’s just – scary. i want to trust him and i know flaps is going to want to try and get to know him, and i don’t want to stand in the way of that, but i just. }

* { we’ve been stabbed in the back by so many people nowadays???? it’s like, it just keeps happening. and i’m terrified that it’ll happen again, and maybe even worse, and i won’t be able to do jack shit about it because the asshole directing this all wants it to happen. }

* { like, i understand that he was under a lot of stress, i get it. but i’m fucking terrified of anything else happening and i took that out on him, and i guess it wasn’t right of me. i’ll. apologize later, i guess. i was tired and stressed and keyed up last night and i still am but it’s not much of an excuse. }

Is Flaps’ timeline still out there somewhere? Does he want to go back to it, and would you let him if you had the ability to do so? If you had to go back to your world, or die, or never see Flaps again…would you give up your happiness for his?

* well – i might as well answer this one now, runi left it for me

* my timeline actually is still out there! perfectly intact, post-pacifist, all that. I’ve been keeping an eye on it for as long as runi and i have been joined.

* it’s…. restarted a few times, but never before the end of the line. the last save made was just after busting the barrier, so things just kinda…. roll back to there whenever frisk kicks the bucket.

* as for my happiness – i’m actually perfectly happy not being involved with my timeline anymore. There’s more that I can do in the void as far as helping people go, and…. well. i wouldn’t be around a lot of the people i’ve grown close with, either. and i don’t want to lose any of that.

* my timeline’s done really well without me, and i’ve done fine with not interfering, so…. i’m really happy where i’m at.

But aren’t we obligated to bring harm to bad people, especially when no one else can or will? Bad people get off scot-free all the time and never change, and if we have the power to rectify that even in the slightest, don’t you think we ought to do so?

* { you aren’t obligated to do anything. }

* { yeah, it’s not right that people doing bad things get off scot-free, but you kinda have to look at the big picture a little more? }

* { most of what you guys do is just to pester and bother and piss them off. and where do you think that leaves the rest of us? >_> }

* { you can’t actually DO anything. not unless the higher-ups clear you for it. and usually everything that ends up falling into the clear category is just stuff that aggravates, and pesters, and all the other things. it makes a bigger mess out of something that could have been handled far better. }