Then how come... good things only happened when you suffered for other people?
[The barrier only came down when Frisk refused to fight back, didn't allow themselves to be afraid of or unhappy with the people who had harmed them. Became their best friends, solved their problems.
The barrier only came down because Asriel suffered for humanity's sins. Smiled and did nothing as he was beat to death by strangers. Endured countless loops of numbness, isolation, ennui. Sacrificed the ability to feel, to love, the right to be loved, all to undo the punishment humanity inflicted onto them all. Had nothing left, in the end, but an endless future of emptiness, all alone in a hollow mountain.]
Asriel suffered, and he's an angel.
[Chara suffered, and they're a demon, because there came a point where they decided they didn't want to suffer in silence anymore.
Why did the world teach them this, if it's not... how it's supposed to be?
Why did the body laid on a halo of golden flowers just look filthy and blistered and awful, not radiant or holy? Isn't that how saints are made? By sacrificing themselves for the greater good? Wasn't all that agony the least bit redemptive?
...If you kill yourself, you don't go to heaven, do you?]
Hell isn't supposed to be pleasant. Purgatory isn't supposed to be restful. You're not really repenting unless it's hard and painful, right?
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[The barrier only came down when Frisk refused to fight back, didn't allow themselves to be afraid of or unhappy with the people who had harmed them. Became their best friends, solved their problems.
The barrier only came down because Asriel suffered for humanity's sins. Smiled and did nothing as he was beat to death by strangers. Endured countless loops of numbness, isolation, ennui. Sacrificed the ability to feel, to love, the right to be loved, all to undo the punishment humanity inflicted onto them all. Had nothing left, in the end, but an endless future of emptiness, all alone in a hollow mountain.]
Asriel suffered, and he's an angel.
[Chara suffered, and they're a demon, because there came a point where they decided they didn't want to suffer in silence anymore.
Why did the world teach them this, if it's not... how it's supposed to be?
Why did the body laid on a halo of golden flowers just look filthy and blistered and awful, not radiant or holy? Isn't that how saints are made? By sacrificing themselves for the greater good? Wasn't all that agony the least bit redemptive?
...If you kill yourself, you don't go to heaven, do you?]
Hell isn't supposed to be pleasant. Purgatory isn't supposed to be restful. You're not really repenting unless it's hard and painful, right?