[Wasn't just them. Not just Frisk, not just Chara.]
[He wondered, sort of. Remembers staring at reports, numbers, comparing it side by side with what memories he could retain. Something about it all seemed...weird. Very little that the anomaly did was understandable from a purely moral or logical standpoint, but the Erase...the fact that there was evidence that the world had been erased, and then had come back. A sinking feeling in his ribs when he first saw all the timelines ending, and then confusion when it became apparent that it had happened before. That it had possibly happened several times.]
[He dies, and then shortly after that, everything ends. Not just ends--ceases. Stops existing. And when something stops existing, it's not supposed to ever exist again. Everything with Gaster drilled that into his skull.]
[So...how? And why? If Chara and Frisk both clearly wanted to Erase everything...why bring it back? How was it even possible? And why did the Reset bring everything back to the same starting point as always, instead of rolling back to any other point in time? Well, jeez, now he's wondering if Frisk and Chara were asking themselves that same question. Erase the whole world and start over completely from scratch, and maybe that actually would allow them to save Asriel once and for all. But it...doesn't. It's just the same loop, the same few days, over and over.]
[That's actually really weird, isn't it? That's all--he never really thought about how weird it was. Too caught up in the existential dread and sheer misery of it all to ever look at it with complete objectivity.]
[But Frisk cuts themselves off. A mention of something else, a long pause, and then they stop. And he thinks he knows why. Something Dipper mentioned once. Something he himself has considered. Something he has very carefully avoided ever thinking about too deeply, because you can break plenty of times, you can see the way the world works and break over and over, but there are some things that you really can't come back from.]
[Some scientists think the world might be one giant computer simulation. What a fascinating thought, right?]
for the same reason you don't want to dig for the doctor anymore, right?
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[He wondered, sort of. Remembers staring at reports, numbers, comparing it side by side with what memories he could retain. Something about it all seemed...weird. Very little that the anomaly did was understandable from a purely moral or logical standpoint, but the Erase...the fact that there was evidence that the world had been erased, and then had come back. A sinking feeling in his ribs when he first saw all the timelines ending, and then confusion when it became apparent that it had happened before. That it had possibly happened several times.]
[He dies, and then shortly after that, everything ends. Not just ends--ceases. Stops existing. And when something stops existing, it's not supposed to ever exist again. Everything with Gaster drilled that into his skull.]
[So...how? And why? If Chara and Frisk both clearly wanted to Erase everything...why bring it back? How was it even possible? And why did the Reset bring everything back to the same starting point as always, instead of rolling back to any other point in time? Well, jeez, now he's wondering if Frisk and Chara were asking themselves that same question. Erase the whole world and start over completely from scratch, and maybe that actually would allow them to save Asriel once and for all. But it...doesn't. It's just the same loop, the same few days, over and over.]
[That's actually really weird, isn't it? That's all--he never really thought about how weird it was. Too caught up in the existential dread and sheer misery of it all to ever look at it with complete objectivity.]
[But Frisk cuts themselves off. A mention of something else, a long pause, and then they stop. And he thinks he knows why. Something Dipper mentioned once. Something he himself has considered. Something he has very carefully avoided ever thinking about too deeply, because you can break plenty of times, you can see the way the world works and break over and over, but there are some things that you really can't come back from.]
[Some scientists think the world might be one giant computer simulation. What a fascinating thought, right?]
for the same reason you don't want to dig for the doctor anymore, right?
maybe it's for the best.