soft angst. / accepting. / @yourbestfricnd
Their chest hurts at the sound —— he has a body now, a soul ( a gift. they never needed more than half. with chara still within them, two minds straining half a soul — it hurts, but it’s better than him being alone ) and a family and a future. But he is haunted by the same sort of guilt as them. They think of Toriel and Papyrus and despise themselves, in fits and spurts. They can only imagine how much worse it is for him.
So they reach for him, little hands grasping his paws and squeezing tight. He broke them once — an aspect of him is to blame for most of the broken bits of their body. They still remember the deaths, much as they wish they could forget — vines through chest and throat and eyes and hips. Fire enveloping them. Blood on the ground in their body out of their body. They dream of it, when the nights get bad. And yet they reach for him as easily as anything. Like they’ve never been hurt, and he never hurt them.
It wasn’t him, anyway. It wasn’t him. Even if it had been, they would still forgive.
“Well, I th - think you’re pretty great, s - so —— I guess I st - still lucked out, huh?” Their damaged throat hurts; the words catch. They swallow as they shift closer, tugging him into a hug. Like the first one, after everything, hands pressing against his back. When they speak again, it hurts less. “You’re my f - friend, Asriel. I love you. You m - make me HAPPY.”