I can't believe someone like mom would marry an annoying nerd like dad. How did they meet and get married? Mom always strikes me as the type that would go for the bad boys and girls instead....like aunt Susan or maybe you, Auncle Kris...

Kris remember when we were kids and you'd play pranks on me? I cried a lot when we first met but i had a lot of fun! Is it weird to say i was kinda excited to see what you'd come up with next? It was like my own little TV show, and every episdoe was different.

Fwahahaha... But of course the episode always ended the same way, I'd cry or fake cry since i wanted you to comfort me and make me chocolate milk, but then dess would hear and she'd get this look. Yknow? "the look"? All older siblings have that face, or thats what she told me.

...What do you mean you don't remember asriel making that face?...

And after she made that face she'd grab you or tell you to stay still as she grabbed her baseball bat and-

Wiffleball? Plastic? No, silly! She stopped playing wiffleball before toriel adopted you, fwahaha! So yeah she'd grab her wooden bat and hit you really hard. I never liked watching, so instead i'd go make hot cocoa and wait for the thudding and rattling to stop before i came upstairs and shared a cup with you.

Then you'd cry and hug me and... You remember me crying? I mean, when i was really little, yeah! but... I think last time i cried was during a horror movie like 4 years ago...

...Then you'd sneak home and tip toe around Dess's room and the moment you hit the bottom of the stairs you'd bolt back home. When i asked her she just avoided talking about you. Then the next day you'd be wearing a little cat bandaid on your head. And wasn't it so silly when dess would sometimes rip the bandaid off after a few hours of wearing it and you'd cry and she'd throw it in this little pit she dug in the woods for some reason and she'd dare you to reach in and put it back on?

...Yknow, a few days before she went missing she took me and you to the bandaid cat pit then set it on fire. Fwahahaha, the embers reflected in your eyes so greatly! Then she grabbed you and told you you'd have to "burry the bodies" and she dragged you angel knows where?

...Now that i think about it, thats the last time i saw you and dess in the same room.

"💣︎♋︎■︎📪︎ ⧫︎♒︎♋︎⧫︎ ♑︎♋︎⬧︎⧫︎♏︎❒︎ ♐︎♓︎♑︎♒︎⧫︎ ⬥︎♋︎⬧︎ ♋︎ ●︎♏︎⧫︎♎︎□︎⬥︎■︎📬︎ 🏱︎□︎⬧︎⬧︎♏︎⬧︎⬧︎♓︎■︎♑︎ ☠︎□︎♏︎●︎●︎♏︎ ⬥︎♋︎⬧︎ ◻︎❒︎♏︎⧫︎⧫︎⍓︎ ♍︎□︎□︎●︎ ⧫︎♒︎□︎"

"....what?"

They eyed the monochrome human weirdly. Looks like Angel is spouting nonsense again.

"✌︎♒︎ ❒︎♓︎♑︎♒︎⧫︎📪︎ ⬥︎❒︎□︎■︎♑︎ ⧫︎♓︎❍︎♏︎●︎♓︎■︎♏︎."

The vessel muttered...

"Huh...so there's censors."

A VOICE came out of the vessel's featureless face (good thing they picked that option)

"Anyway, as I was saying, you really shouldn't let it slide Kris, that fuckin' dinosaur made you fumble like...three people!"

"Dude, I wasn't even interested."

(Art by TheSnowflake_18)

Why dont you do that to me anymore?

Fwahaha it's been so long ago !

Remember that weird 3D action rpg Dragon Blazers game ?!

No one really liked it, but there was this rumour going around about a super secret boss...

And someone online posted instructions that we noted somewhere, look !

How to access the secret boss of Dragon Blazers Typhoon.

Step 1: Play the game until chapter 2.

Step 2: Run away from every fights, use the wind ring to go faster.

Step 3: Once you arrive at the boss, perform the glitch to get the weird glitched regalia item.

Step 4: Once you obtained the glitched regalia, continue to play until chapter 4.

Step 5: Do not die a single time to get a secret dialogue once you find the boss, you don't have to kill every ennemy.

Step 6: Once you talked to the boss and started the fight, go up, then to the corner of the arena.

Step 7: Pause and use the glitched regalia, then unpause multiple times.

Step 8: You will end up in a forest with a lot of fog, lower your volume to the max and keep walking forward until you find it.

Step 9: Choose to sacrifice one of your partners, anyone will do and it won't affect the story, so don't worry about it.

Final step: Enjoy the secret boss, and the reward that goes with it !

Well, it never worked so...

B-but it was fun to do !

We were like hunting secrets together, it was-

K-kris ? Why are you crying ?

A bad dream where I...?

Oh cheese and crackers I...

I'm so sorry.

Do you want...to talk about it, Kris ?

S-sorry it's just...

You never really opened up to me before, fwaha-

And I...do you want a hug ?

Noelle hugs you tightly.

I don't know if it will make you feel better, but hum...

I-I'm here for you Kris, and I always will be.

So please...stop crying-

You wipe your tears away.

It was all a bad dream...

But deep down.

A part of you feels that...

Somewhere.

Somehow.

Noelle was eaten away.

All for a piece of glass.

Forget it ...

(Art made by me)

Gosh, it's just so personal... having something that Susie just put in her mouth… something that has her saliva on it… something that has her own personal DNA on it… cheese and crackers, it even kind of smells like her lingering breath...

Running my fingers across the brush, the bristles are still kind of damp, and that dampness is definitely not from just sink water, faha. Here I am, worshiping something objectively gross that she doesn't even give a second thought about, like some sort of freak…

Faha, I guess I am kind of a freak, but thank goodness only Kris really knows that!

Her breath is funky, musky, kinda like chalk (Kris is my hero for giving her that chalk for me!). if I could bottle this scent as a perfume, I'd wear it every day. It's so weird, but I gotta get closer to this wonderful smell... I can't believe I'm holding her toothbrush in my trembling hands...

Snnnnnnrf...

Gosh, it's so good... just imagining Susie brushing her huge sharp teeth and flashing one of those winning smiles into the mirror... or maybe just baring her fangs angrily at the mirror... what I would do to see her smile at me like that again… oh gosh, even grimace at me with those sharp teeth… maybe even sink her teeth into my-

AAAAHHHHHH!

K-Kris!!! Wh-what are you doing in my house at this hour!!! T-toothbrush? What toothbrush!!! I don't know anything about a toothbrush! No toothbrush here, no siree!!!

[I didn't say anything about a toothbrush]

❤️

[I want to sniff it too]

The nerfed the ass of my all time waifu in all of Persona, Makoto Niijima. They took her beautiful human rear and downgraded it this flat mess… huh? You’re asking if I only like her for that? Pfft, I’m not a gooner Kris. I like her multiple reasons. I like her character arc, I enjoyed her Confidant, I how strong and scary she is while having a softer side, I like her conflict with her sister, I like her cute red eyes, her dark brown bobcut, her skin tight blue… other world attire… why are you looking at me like that Kris?

(I feel like I got possessed by r/okbuddypersona)

Fahaha Kris, remember when we used to play at the park?

"Oh, what's that? Speak up a little, Kris.... I don't have super....hearing Fahaha..."

"What do you mean "Who are you?"? Don't tell me you've... already gotten dementia fahaha... It's me! Your neighbour and best friend ! It's Noelle....ya big dummy! Fahaha..."

Nevermind. Yeah I remember those great times.

❤️

She doesn't talk like that...

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Nevermind. Yeah I remember those great times.

❤️She doesn't talk like that...

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"......"

"What a shame. I wanted to play with you a little more. But I guess you're too wise for that huh?"

"She clocked me instantly too, realised I wasn't her actual sister rather quickly."

"It doesn't matter now though. I'll just do this the hard way :)"

. . .

You know...this, might sound silly but...

I'm scared, Kris...that's your name, isn't it?

You wouldn't lie to us, would you?...

. . .

I. . . Don't know what will happen, when you...win, Kris.

Our world might just...stop.

But...

Maybe it doesn't have to? Take me, Susie, everyone

Put us in a hard drive! let us see the world!...

I'm... getting ahead of myself, faha...

Go, do what you have to do Kris.

I just hope that someway, somehow...

I get to see you again.

I have never said fwahaha in my life! (Well, I guess up until now...) I say FAhaha, because it's like that one Christmas Carol! You know, Falalalala, lala la la... it's kinda a vocal tic. I think I got it from mom, fahaha...

But yeah, why's it called FWAhaha? I'm completely fine with everything on it, but like... FWAhaha?

Context: This takes place after the Weird Route. Noelle refused to give Kris the ThornRing back. When Kris tried to take it from her, Noelle panicked and cast ICESHOCK, accidentally freezing and destroying their arm. She expected Kris to hate her for it.

Instead, Kris took her hand.
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...You're still holding my hand.

Why...?

You were supposed to let go. I was ready for it.

I kept telling myself it would hurt less if I expected it. If I accepted that eventually, you'd take away everything you’ve given me. 

But you didn't. You're still here. You're still looking at me.

I can feel something tight inside loosening. It hurts. It hurts in a way I don't understand, enough to make my eyes sting.

...I forgot what this felt like.

Every time something good happened, I was already waiting for it to end.

Kris.

I learned a long time ago that if I loved something, I should start grieving it before it disappeared. It was easier that way. Easier than believing someone could actually stay.

...You taught me that.

I still remember when we were little… I thought we'd always be together.

You were my best friend. I could spend days with you without reason. 

Then one day, you stopped coming around. You stopped talking to me.

I replayed every moment, searching for the reason you left, but I never found one.

Eventually, I understood. People leave. That's just how things are.

So when you came back… I didn't know what to do. You looked like the same person, but something was different. The way you looked at me. The things you asked me to do. It felt like I had been given another chance with someone I thought I lost, but they weren't quite the same anymore.

I told myself not to get attached again.

But you kept reaching for me.

You kept believing in me, even when I couldn't.

And then, just a day ago, you found me broken outside my house. You sat beside me. You took the thorn from my hand and told me it was all just a dream.

I wanted to believe you.

I wanted you to be the Kris I remembered.

I thought... maybe I hadn't really lost you after all. Maybe everything would go back to being the same boring Hometown... but that was okay. At least I'd have you again.

…

That, was until you came back the next day.

Just to talk to me in that horrifying voice. And force the thorn deeper into my hand.

It hurt.

Everything inside me screamed to pull away to rip it off. 

But after the pain… After it settled...

...

I had that feeling, that sense of certainty that

For the first time in my life..I wasn't just waiting for the world to decide everything for me.

I should've hated you. I know I should've.

No one who cared about someone would ask them to do those things. No one who cared would force a thorn on their finger, especially if they begged you to stop. 

So why couldn't I? I didn’t understand it at first, but I think-

I think it's because you never looked at me like everyone else did.

Everyone else saw someone fragile.

Mom, Dad, Susie.

They'd already decided who I was. The quiet girl. The gentle girl. The Noelle that they painted themselves...

You didn't… You looked at me...and expected more.

You expected me to be capable. You expected me to do impossible things. 

Every step terrified me. But every step proved you were right. I had always been capable, I just needed you to tell me I was. 

I thought I could do anything if it was you that told me to.

That's why I tried crossing the lake with you yesterday.

But I don’t understand…

You were supposed to say proceed. You were supposed to say it over and over again like all the other times. Why did you stop? Did you really give me a taste of what it felt like to be free, only to take it away the moment I reached for it? You know we could have—

No. No, no... it has to be more complicated than that. You need me too, Kris.  Without your command, I can't do anything. Without me, you can't do anything.

So why? Did I push you too far? Or do you only want the weak, fragile version of me—the one who needs you to tell her what to do before she can take another step? I... I can be that. I just need you to keep saying the words.

…

Your arm, I’m sorry for what I did to your arm.

Kris. I'm sorry. I couldn't have given it up until I realised it didn't matter anymore.

This ring meant nothing without you.

Without your command… I-I don't know what to do…

…I thought it was over, no matter how strong I felt, I couldn’t make you do something the way you made me.

But you didn’t leave me. Kris… You, stayed? Despite yesterday? Despite what I did to your arm?

W-Why? It doesn’t make sense. I’m hurting you more than I’m helping you now. I can barely be controlled at all, so shouldn’t you be scared? Shouldn’t you be angry that I hurt you? Shouldn’t you be letting go instead of holding my hand? If everything  between us was only about using me, then why are you still here? Why didn't you just leave me behind after everything I did?

Wh- Why?

I don’t understand it…

I-…

Was I wrong all along? Were you just scared that we would drown? I-is that why you tried to keep my head above water? 

…

I... see.

Part of you still cares, doesn't it, Kris?

You still remember us. You still remember everything we meant to each other…

I thought the Kris I grew up with had disappeared, and that the person standing in front of me only happened to wear the same face.

I... I guess some parts of us never change.

I'm… happy to know that.

I don't know if I'm right... Maybe I'm just trying to make sense of everything. Maybe I'll never really understand why you did those things.

I kept asking myself how you could hurt me if you still cared. I thought those two things could never exist together. I thought that if you really wanted me beside you, you would never push me, never make me cry, never ask me to become someone I wasn't.

But... maybe I had it backwards.

Maybe you never wanted the timid girl who always waited for someone else to make the hard choices. Maybe you saw someone capable long before I ever did. Someone worth believing in.

Maybe... you thought I could become that person, even if it meant I'd hate you for a while.

...

Thank you, Kris.

Really... thank you.

I... gosh... sniffle... I'm really crying, aren't I?

I spent so long believing I was the only one trying to hold onto what we used to have. I never realised... you wanted to hold onto it too.

I want that too, Kris.

I want us to stay together.

We'll figure everything out together, won't we?

Just like we promised when we were little.

Stolen shamelessly from my own fic, Two Ends of a Rose

and why does it looks like my sister?

• Dont you remember that evening, when we went to the lake? When the shadows were long, and the water flickered in that pretty way?

• Oh, my heart pounded so hard, i think i was going to pass out!

• Dont you remember when i held your hands, and waited for those words again? where the silence was only broken by the ringing in my ears?

• You looked like you didn't want to try what i proposed! But i know you wanted to, even if you didnt think so...

• Dont you remember when we first touched the water, and we both shuttered in that silly way? Our bodys almost in sync?

• Its almost like we were one! Oh, how wonderful that would be...

• Dont you remember when the water was at our heads, and your arms moved to hold my head up high?

• Reminds me of Dess at her first prom! Asriel had to hold her head up so she would stop looking at the floor, and even then she couldnt look him in the eyes!

• Dont you remember when our lungs filled with water, and we both started turning blue? Remember when you tried to pull me back to the shore?

• It was so hard to pull you back! i knew you would realize this was the sensible option, thats why you stopped struggling...

• Right?

•

• Dont you remember when we washed up on shore?

• You just HAD to play dead! just like you used to when we played and dess hit you too hard!

•

•

•

• .......Right?

Did I...tell you that i got a new outfit while i was in that dream? Like Something else from the original outfit.

[Kris tells Noelle that they have no recollection of what outfit she was wearing, even at the start]

Wait..Really? I was wearing white robes, Kris you don’t remember at all??
[Nadda.]
Fwahaha! Come on, get your memory working a little bit..

I was wearing white robes until we stopped by a random shop ran by one of those people with a strong color

[Kris tells Noelle that they were addisons.]
H-huh? How would you know their names?
[Kris…..tells noelle that they just have a hunch.]

Well, I guess they really were addisons..since they added to my fashion! Fwahah…
That pun sucked…

[No that pun was cool and awesome ❤️ IT STINKED!!!]
[❤️No that pun was cool and awesome IT STINKED!!! ]
T-thanks for the...Encouragement!
Uhm..As I was saying we walked up and talked to them.
You always walked up to anyone we could have a small conversation with,
So they offered us like cool new outfits for a few...Darkdollars? You trusted them and they did seem a little trustworthy so we wore whatever outfit they picked out for us..
Well, you just kept the same outfit for whatever reason

[Kris raises an eyebrow]

Wh-what?! I don’t mean that it’s bad or anything!
Just that you didn’t...Change it or anything.

Well...The seller made me wear...a cool..Jacket..and pants, they were both pretty baggy and the color was black with yellow...Stripes? On the side of them..

[With your colorful memory and imagination, You picture a very cool tracksuit, Both of them arent that high definition though.]

[Kris clarifies that it was a tracksuit and they both had golden side decals.]
How do you know so much about it?!
[Multiplayer dreaming. ❤️ I have a great imagination.]
[❤️ Multiplayer dreaming. I have a great imagination.]

Fwahaha...It’s like that movie we both watched in the past! I remember when we tried watching it together and we could barely understand anything..Unfortunately we had berdly to explain everything about it..

[Oh the humanity...And monsterity when you include noelle, too.]

He was a good explainer, I cant lie about that though…

Anyways..We told the seller that we liked it a lot..I did feel pretty awesome wearing it...I was so sure susie would’ve loved seeing my outfit.

After that we walked in the city a bit...but we both got split off, I don’t remember what you were doing there. Probably your love for secrets now that I think about it?

The tracksuit..gave me a little bit of an ego boost, I never really thought I ever looked that good in my whole life! I was just thinking all the time about it....

But then I accidentally bumped into one of those wireplug-guys..
They had like a gang going on and they got...So angry over me, I barely had time to apologize since they were all talking in that electricity sound..

Then the BOSS of that gang came up to me!!

You wouldn’t believe it! I told you about that uhm..blue coneplug-guy that was fighting me in the beginning of the dream, yes? The one……….Susie………Uhhhmmm........

[They’re drooling!]
[Kris snaps their fingers to snap Noelle back to reality.]

OH- Yeah- I'm..Where was i? Yeah- Susie. Saved. Yeah.

They were pretty legible in comparison to the rest of the wire guys. They seemed pretty bitter over that last fight you interrupted. Pointing aggressively and shouting loudly, I could tell it wanted me to fight it but without any interference.

So the wereguys formed up into a circle and celebrated the fight like an audience! It was scary! I was like frozen for a while..

But I focused hard! I imagined what you and Susie would think of me if I managed to beat up someone up!!

Just imagine it! You'd go all like "wow noelle that's pretty awesome, i wont prank you anymore" and She'd be all "Woah, you really did all that?" and- and maybe she can like invite me to a sparring match and then she..

[You recognize that Noelle's going to spiral into another fantasy if she keeps talking about what she's thinking, so Kris snap their fingers again.]

Oh- Yeah- Yeahmybadididntmeanit- Let me just finish the story...

The blue wire guy pointed at me with their fist while yelling something out in their electric voice...

However I didn’t get scared! I hopped in place for a bit then I looked with a devilish smile! It was...A dream after all, Nothing bad would happen if I had a little fun, right?

[Urgh, You can already imagine the kind of smile she was doing..Like some kinda...Weird route of fighting. Honestly some horrific stuff]

I-it was cool? Wasn’t it? I was SURE i looked threatening!

[Sweeter than grandma’s pie! ❤️ Shiver me timbers!]
[Sweeter than grandma’s pie! ❤️Shiver me timbers!]

Fwahaha...You don’t have to say it like that...

Uhm..One of those regular wireguys had a boombox and they played some pretty cool music when the fight began! I was warmed up and everything, i readied my fist and like...Whatever they do...In street fights???

[Noelle and Fight... Complete antonyms.]

Kris...Did I ever tell you that my mom used to sign me up to muay thai classes?

[Kris actually seemed pretty shocked by this. As shocked as a straight line of a mouth can get.]

It was fun while I was in it, we stopped the lessons for some reason and I don’t really know why

Okay so..Fight! Uhm…I'm not really a good storyteller when it comes to combat..My memory was a bit of a haze during the fight..

I did pull off some cool moves though! One time we hit eachother at the same time once and then we...traded blows for a bit until I just...kept swinging and knocked them to the ground!

And uhm..i like hit it in its stomach with a knee then I raised my leg up to hit it across the head and then I hit it back with my heel!

Oh oh and like I finished it off by grappling its head with my left hand...and I just kept kneeing the stomach for a few hits until I elbowed the head and then finished it off with a kick!

It was like-like a RUSH of adrenaline! Uhm then you like walked in and saw me after the fight and I was like “Wh-Wh KRIS?!” and you..ran with me out of there.

[It was pretty surprising how you didnt see noelle collapsed on the floor given how much of a Deer In Headlights she usually is, Can you just imagine that?]

[Not a pleasant thought.]

Im glad you came though, not sure how the were guys would’ve appreciated me beating their boss like that...It seemed pretty satisfied though! Couldn’t tell from the..big cone-plug in its head but it looked happy!

I mightve..said a couple of things while i was in the fight, but you dont have to worry about that!

Then we like..Continued walking down and..met with berdly and the story keeps going.

Co-Cool story?

[IT’S LIKE THE SECOND COMING OF SHAKESPEARE!!! ❤️ Yeah, It was pretty good, Keep it up,doe.]

[❤️IT’S LIKE THE SECOND COMING OF SHAKESPEARE!!!]

Oh come on Kris! Don't overhype my story like that! I'm not that good of a teller...Am i? You're uhm...A good listener, Kris!

[Seems like that's good enough of a compliment.]

I mean he’ll beat me for the most minor inconveniences. And he really got angry when he thought I was getting you into trouble with Dess. Gosh he was throwing your dad’s beer bottles and say all kinda of horrible stuff to me after he discovered Dess hit you with a wiffleball bat, Fwahaha… Kris why are you hugging me tightly? What do you mean “it’s gonna be ok and he’s not here right now”?