UNDERTALE DAY 7

[prismaticbleed]

 

undertale take 7.

today has been a rough day. tonight has been wrenchingly terrible.

i'm going to stuff my digital pockets full of sandwiches and go fight mettaton.
that should help us pick up our vibe a bit, cheer up some. wish us luck,


i love this guy. he's having way too much fun in this battle, i can't stop smiling.
he's so freaking CUTE.

but oh my lord this boss fight is incredibly tricky. i keep dying dude.

ohh this bit with the phone calls is so sweet

"knock 'em dead, darling."

oh love i hope i did that fight correctly. when he lost his arms i got genuinely worried, sure that leg line was fantastic but still.
i survived with 1 HIT POINT. i dont know how. but i did.


oh alphys. sweetheart.
her face just crumpled and it hurts, to see her looking so resigned and tired.

"I lied to you. A human SOUL isn't strong enough to cross the barrier alone. it takes at least a human soul... and a monster soul." WHAT?????

If you want to go home... you'll have to take his soul."

WHAT NO I'M
I CAN'T KILL THE FLUFFY GUY ARE YOU KIDDING
WHAT

ohhh dear lord this game is killing me.

i
she won't open the lab door,
i have to go back,
i've gotta talk to him.


...
my heart cannot take this house.
you know what was the worst for me so far? the santa claus outfit.
that is one of THE most powerful flashbulb memories we have, period. it's one of the only things we can clearly remember from childhood.
and it's what i immediately remembered when i saw that in the bureau-- the feeling of being a child at christmas, with our father playing that timeless part.

i absolutely cannot harm a single hair on this guy's head.
oh my lord. how is this even going to end.

and the kid. this missing kid. the fact that toriel lives alone now. what is going on?


"the underground was full of hope."


down the stairs i go.

this music.

this backstory.


oh. oh.
that's why his father is in the garden.

and now i really understand why the monsters despise humanity so.

"king asgore will
let us go
give us hope
save us all."

"aren't you happy?
you're going to be free."


oh this corridor is beautiful.

...SANS?
WHAT?

"execution points" oh dude. "a way of quantifying the pain you have inflicted on others."

when you have enough EXP, your LOVE increases.
wait wait THAT'S an acronym too???
"level of violence.
a way of measuring someone's capacity to hurt."
oh ouch.

"the more you kill, the easier it becomes to distance yourself. the more you distance yourself, the less you will hurt. the more easily you can bring yourself to hurt others."
...hello, dream world.

oh ahahaha! paulstretch time!
that's one gorgeous musical effect though. wow.

...

"but you. you never gained any LOVE. 'course, that doesn't mean you're completely innocent or naive. just that you kept a certain tenderness in your heart. no matter the struggles or hardships you faced... you strived to do the right thing..."

oh god
this is
sans this is exactly what i need to hear as my own person, thank you,

"...you refused to hurt anyone. even when you ran away, you did it with a smile. you never gained LOVE, but you gained love. does that make sense?"

"now. you're about to face the greatest challenge of your entire journey. your actions here... will determine the fate of the entire world.
if you refuse to fight... asgore will take your soul and destroy humanity.
but if you kill asgore and go home... monsters will remain trapped underground.
what will you do?"

"but you didn't get this far by giving up, did you? that's right.
you have something called "determination."
so as long as you hold on... so as long as you do what's in your heart... i believe you can do the right thing."

thanks bro. thank you.

"we're all counting on you, kid."

...


...god.
this game.


oh dude. wait.
i quit and restarted so i could screencap this and he knew, and,
"i suspected something like this.
you're always acting like you know what's going to happen. like you've seen it all before. so... i have a request for you. i kind of have a secret codeword that only i know. so i know if someone tells it to me... they'll have to be a time traveller. crazy, right? anyway, here it is...
i'm counting on you to come back here and tell me that. see you later."

okay now that was cool.


off i go now. to the room.


...
holy shit.

holy shit the coffin room.

...wow.
that just... the weight of this just... didn't even hit me until now.

wow.

...

oh my gosh the throne room is full of flowers.

dude turn around already i'm about to cry


...aaaaaand my hand went straight to my mouth.
he and toriel have the same expression.


"when you're ready" dude i don't think i'm ever going to be ready but,
i,
through the door.


holy what that barrier is something else.


"anything you want to do is important. even something as small as reading a book, or taking a walk... please take your time."

dear lord i can feel the weight of death on my shoulders right now,



i
i'm gonna go back and hug undyne or something okay


i need healing items anyway, as many as i can carry,
that's about it...

...
god how is this even going to end, i'm so excited but this game is doing funny awful things to my heart and it's gorgeous but it's terrible and i don't want to fight mister dad guy he's too sweet, but,
we'll figure something out.
we'll figure something out.


i'm taking asgore's advice.
i'm kicking around snow and talking to papyrus on the phone. it's making me smile.


...
back so soon?


HE
HE JUST
SHATTERED MY MERCY OPTION

i have no idea what to do here


i'll do this tomorrow.
i can live one more day.



see you then.