[video - for the good of all of us (except the ones who are dead).]

[purpleknee]

Oh Abeegail, what am I to do? I need to help five people and fill them with hope so I can get something that makes me feel like I have a heart again! Because I don't have a heart inside my body, which apparently means far more to me than it does for most of the people in this stupid cave. Hmn? What's that Beeatrice, this trade is basically impossible for me without the thing I'm trading for? Right you are! How smart, and how quickly you realized it, you smart little bee.

[His faux enthusiasm drops and he glares flatly at the camera.]

Come help a witch help you to help himself help us all. I have healing magic and a temper. If you think this is cheating, I don't want to hear it, and I only want things that will actually help. I'm serious, I'm trying to be good, here.

...Oh, and it goes against everything else I'm trying to do here, but I should let you know that the bees I found can't make honey. Maybe if you tell Delight or someone they can, she'll believe you and the copies will be able to, I don't know. I don't really care.

[He's screwed.]

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[skelebro]

[The guy wants a filter, Sans will let him have it. The guy's entitled to keep everyone from knowin' his grievances individually and by name. So he can air 'em privately. And, hey. From one "heartless" guy to another, there might be some solidarity. Somethin' along those lines.

He can understand hurting family. Hating yourself for doing it. There's some lines you just don't wanna cross.

He listens. Digests it - figuratively, naturally, 'cause the guy don't have a digestive tract to speak of.]

Sounds a little like a SOUL. What we call it - the ability to feel things, to care. Back home, we call it a SOUL. There's ways to clear those benchmarks. Cheat the system. Make it so you don't have to feel a damn thing.

Not to say you can't still be a good person, if you just try. No real just about it, maybe. Harder than it looks, 'specially with those barriers in place.

[LOVE can block away everything, even the very worst of it.]

Question is: if you can't get this heart of yours, are you willin' to try anyway?

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[purpleknee]

[A SOUL, huh. He's heard of that before. Mostly when people talked about the dead, but even then there were other words more commonly used. Ghosts, memories... He supposed it was something more like his grandfather, who died despite his working heart and body. Just...gone one day.]

I am trying! Do you know how hard it is to just ask? And then everyone acts like I'm insane, or doing nothing, and it's frustrating all over again!