hi lee! ik itās been a long ass time AND IM SORRY (life got a little too much š) BUT ANYWAY HOW ARE YOU?? i hope youāre doing well!! and im gonna ask a small questionā what would redās reaction be to meeting classic sans?
oh em gee. clover. i donāt even know when this is from and iām so sorry. i just checked my inbox . that is so on me.
thank you for the ask i miss you!!!!!!!!! and you NEVER EVER have to apologize for being busy. brother i am always busy. thank you for sending this ask. ily.
i am doing okay!!! getting back into the swing of things!!!
OOOOOOHH i have thoughts on this.
1) i think of this as similar to those trends where people āmeetā the young version of themself, the one that hasnāt gone thru a life altering event that changed them fundamentally as a person. you see the version of you that no longer exists, that no longer can exist, but that you existed as some time ago. knowing you can never go back, thereās no way to go back, and that you envy them endlessly for having the luxury of not having lived everything youāve gone through yet, it builds a sort of resentment inside. i think red would resent classic for not having to have lived redās life. heās part of the group that would say āwhy me? why was i the one that that happened to?ā
2) which brings me to my second point: red would resent classic bc he represents a life that red can never go back to, but also because red was the one that lived his own life. red would fall down the classic eleanor shellstrop (good place mention!) rabbit hole of āthat meant she was always capable of change, i just wasnāt worth changing forā type deal. there always existed other universes where red didnāt live through the hellish underground, but red didnāt get to live those. those were saved for other versions. and red was always the one that had to live in mafiafell. and heād resent classic for not having to live thru mafiafell.
3) he would enjoy having his own company. he would resent classic, internally, despite himself, but he would enjoy having conversations with someone who is, for all intents and purposes, himself. their minds work so similarly, one of them can start a sentence and the other could finish it without missing a beat, almost like he were going to say that exact string of words before the other did. iāve read a couple slash reader fics where red and classic exist in the same timeline (bc of some fuckup with a machine) and the convenience makes getting the machine back up and running significantly easier. iāve personally considered writing fics like that!!!! and itās not off the table for me.
4) red: āhuh.ā
classic: āāhuhā yourself.ā
red: āi jus did.ā and then they laugh together. itās definitely more of a āi am you. so i get you.ā moment. red just canāt ignore the resentment he feels. but he doesnāt mind classic. i get the feeling heād enjoy the company of horror tale sans slightly more. more of a level playing field. but specifically the horror tale sans from Fur a Good Time, Call⦠by popatochisp on ao3. love him (iāll tag the fic, definitely read it!!!!)
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i loved this ask. i love answering questions like these, and clover, thank you so much for asking these questions. theyāre so fun to answer. <3 i love u an i miss u.









