That's the funny thing. Everyone seems to think that I'm better off without them.

[They smile, but it's mirthless, a pained twist of one side of their mouth.]

I'm going to be ruined either way, Chara. If you think this is any worse than what I've lived with before, then I guess all that talk about not needing someone perfect was just that.

Talk.

[Because the moment Frisk gets ruined, as it were, everyone leaves. The moment Frisk stops being something familiar and immediate, no one has any clue what to do with them. They're cast off. Left to the wayside. Abandoned.]

For the first time, I'm - I'm trying to do something about it instead of letting it all happen because it's what I -

[It's what we deserve.

We all get what we deserve in the end.]