[You have to trust your partner. I'd never doubt you, Frisk!
They're trying to reconcile. Trying to do a little better. Be better at trusting, be better at opening up, be better at being there for each other. Be better at being honest. It won't work if Chara is suspicious right away. It won't work if Chara does what they always do, and analyzes and questions and probes and turns the words over in their head, picking through every possible fault before they dare accept it.
But Frisk says their help was on the other side of the glass, and it... well, it's odd, isn't it?]
We found you out in the hills, Frisk. There are no hills on the mirror side.
[How could a mirror possibly know that the Rabbit Hole was surfacing there? They couldn't scour each checkered square themself. Nor were there any mirrors on the walls outside the mansion, were there? If they had to look for the hole, instead of just... innately knowing somehow? If it had taken that much time between Frisk laying down their ultimatum and actually attempting to cross over, then it must have been because there was searching involved, right? So if they were looking, then wouldn't that mean somehow finding a place that doesn't exist, then sprinting from the nonexistent hills back to the mansion to jot something down on a pane of glass?
Unless... a mirror crossed over to this side, and nobody noticed it but Frisk? They could roam this side's hills to their hearts content, steal a communicator, send a text. But that's utterly self-defeating. If mirrors crossing over was in the equation, then surely Frisk's mirror would have switched with them, no Rabbit Hole necessary. Hard-pressed to think of a reason they wouldn't just do that - they'd surely relish the idea of their Real vanishing.
Unless Frisk refused to cooperate with their mirror? After what their mirror did to them, it's hard for Chara to fathom that Frisk would trust them more than anyone else. But... on the other hand, if they had crossed over to find the core, wouldn't they be unleashing their mirror on this side anyway? They'd be giving the mirror carte blanche to do as it pleased with their friends, whether they cooperated or not. So therefore, a moot point. If they're willing to do that, then they are willing to cooperate, after all. Surely a resident would have made some comment, as well, if mirrors were crossing over and roaming this side for days on end. That's not something that's supposed to happen, is it? Not unless an event opens the floodgates, grants permission.
Chara's brow furrows.
They look away.]
I don't believe you, Frisk.
[They cannot reconcile this gap. This contradiction. The logic does not flow.]
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They're trying to reconcile. Trying to do a little better. Be better at trusting, be better at opening up, be better at being there for each other. Be better at being honest. It won't work if Chara is suspicious right away. It won't work if Chara does what they always do, and analyzes and questions and probes and turns the words over in their head, picking through every possible fault before they dare accept it.
But Frisk says their help was on the other side of the glass, and it... well, it's odd, isn't it?]
We found you out in the hills, Frisk. There are no hills on the mirror side.
[How could a mirror possibly know that the Rabbit Hole was surfacing there? They couldn't scour each checkered square themself. Nor were there any mirrors on the walls outside the mansion, were there? If they had to look for the hole, instead of just... innately knowing somehow? If it had taken that much time between Frisk laying down their ultimatum and actually attempting to cross over, then it must have been because there was searching involved, right? So if they were looking, then wouldn't that mean somehow finding a place that doesn't exist, then sprinting from the nonexistent hills back to the mansion to jot something down on a pane of glass?
Unless... a mirror crossed over to this side, and nobody noticed it but Frisk? They could roam this side's hills to their hearts content, steal a communicator, send a text. But that's utterly self-defeating. If mirrors crossing over was in the equation, then surely Frisk's mirror would have switched with them, no Rabbit Hole necessary. Hard-pressed to think of a reason they wouldn't just do that - they'd surely relish the idea of their Real vanishing.
Unless Frisk refused to cooperate with their mirror? After what their mirror did to them, it's hard for Chara to fathom that Frisk would trust them more than anyone else. But... on the other hand, if they had crossed over to find the core, wouldn't they be unleashing their mirror on this side anyway? They'd be giving the mirror carte blanche to do as it pleased with their friends, whether they cooperated or not. So therefore, a moot point. If they're willing to do that, then they are willing to cooperate, after all. Surely a resident would have made some comment, as well, if mirrors were crossing over and roaming this side for days on end. That's not something that's supposed to happen, is it? Not unless an event opens the floodgates, grants permission.
Chara's brow furrows.
They look away.]
I don't believe you, Frisk.
[They cannot reconcile this gap. This contradiction. The logic does not flow.]
Tell me the truth.