[your best friend] intensifies (open)

[wilt]

Who: Flowey and YOU!
When: B1: D1-6!
Where: Outside of his festive Children's Entertainment Booth!
What: Just you and Flowey, meeting each other and making friends!
Warnings: Flowey is (SPOILER) not nice.


[ Back here, after signing his contract, Flowey’s gone and raided the performer’s storage (which he had to burrow to find over and over again). He’s made dozens of balloon animals. Perhaps in one of his years resetting, he did it to stave off boredom. How he does it with no arms, absolutely no one can guess. “HOWDY! - ｆｌｏｗｅｙ” Is written on each and every indistinguishable bipedal animal that could resemble an annoying dog and he’s handing them out with a happy greeting! ]

“Howdy! You’re not the ugliest person on the planet, but you better hope he doesn’t die! Nice to meet you!”

“Howdy! You look like a mistake only the chaos of the universe could make, pleased to make your acquaintance!”

“Howdy! You’re kind of like Rapunzel, but instead of letting your hair down, you’re letting everyone down in your life! It’s so good to make new friends!”

“Howdy! I’m Flowey. Flowey the Flower! I’m an experiment gone wrong and I’m still less of a mistake than you! Have a nice day, happy to finally say hello!”

[ Do you… come up and get your custom insult?

Or do you defend the honor of someone he just insulted? ]

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[textsfromhotland]

[That is... not quite the response she expected from what's basically her own Frankenstein's monster.]

You d-don't... you're okay with this?

[wilt]

I'm fine because I get to get it all back. I'll even tell you a secret.

Because I didn't have a soul, I was emotionless. I tried doing all the positive things I remembered, like who I was as a person. But I didn't feel any good from it. So I tried the whole gamut. Being strange, being aggressive, being... cruel. I could reset time back to the start, so I tried finding the one way I could feel again.

I hurt you a lot, even if in your case, I wasn't the one doing it to you directly, as you remember.

Then the human-- Frisk, came down. Something happened to your Frisk. I don't know what it was. Frisk is a really good person-- they wouldn't kill anyone, no matter how much they were hurt in return. That's the real them. Maybe something happened to them in the ruins in your timeline that changed them. Maybe something happened like-- I became 'alive' again through determination you injected into me.

Maybe something happened to Frisk in the same way for your world. They got poisoned with something.

...

But you don't want to hear nice stories about the person who killed Undyne. But she is alive, you know. There's a timeline where she's okay and happy and she loves you as much as you love her. Er, rather, it was always that way... and you were a dumb, stupid coward?

[ He is Flowey, after all. ]

So, uh, she can come here.

Yep.

[ * You get the feeling Flowey has run out of things to say... ]

[textsfromhotland]

[This is the most Flowey has ever said to her. And he's not even her Flowey.

It's a lot to take in.

She always believed in multiverse theory, because it was a comforting thought that there might be a version of her out there that was genuinely happy. An Alphys who didn't stand in the waterfall every day, each time getting a little closer to the edge. An Alphys that had told Undyne her true feelings. An Alphys who hadn't made the same horrific mistakes she had.

...Two out of three ain't bad.

She removed her glasses to wipe her eyes.]

Y-you know, you did hurt me a lot, but... I guess I deserved it? I did something really awful to you. I didn't even know how awful it was. A-and even if you can fix it, that doesn't make it okay. S-s-so, uh...

[She gulps in order to stop tripping over her words. She joined the carnival with the sole intention of running away from her problems. She thought she would have at least a year before she'd have to think about them again. But now she's staring one of her biggest mistakes in the face, and he's not leaving, but he's also not... as bad as she thought he would be.]

I-I'm sorry. For everything.

[wilt]

... Don't apologize to me.

[ His tone is soft? But a little bit mad. It sounds like a scolding from someone who (presumably) knows better. ]

If it weren't for you, I would have been dead. Dead-dead. And sure, having no feelings really SUCKED for a while, and taking it out on monsters didn't do me any favors, and no matter how it ended, as long as the human didn't kill me, I was fine. What you did that was 'awful' to me? Was nothing compared to the awful I did to everyone else! You don't even have the capacity to remember all the terrible things I did outside of your timeline!

[ Something pulses. It's frustration trying to break free. ]

And now I have a second chance to regain everything I used to be-- my real monsterhood! And none of that would've happened if you hadn't brought me back to life, so...

[ The emotion goes from frustration to gratitude, but it's not strong enough yet. ]

Without you, I would have been dead. No second chance. As tiresome as waiting was, as much harm that I did, I can become myself again and live again! I didn't...



Want to die...

[ Give him a moment, he sucks it up. ]

It's really important you know who I am, but not yet. It'll just hurt you more right now. Come to me when you think you're ready.

[textsfromhotland]

[Alphys can hardly believe what she's hearing. Her Flowey only ever appeared to her in order to hurl (well-deserved, as it turned out) verbal abuse, to trip her up with a well-placed vine, or to leave threatening letters in her mail. This Flowey- he was the same Flowey, wasn't he? Just from another timeline? This Flowey seemed almost... grateful? After everything she did to him, too.

The Ringmaster must really be a miracle worker.

It makes her think, too. If Flowey can change, who says she can't, too? She can be a better monster. Own up to her mistakes. She had a whole year to do it, didn't she? And she could start with this.]

T-then.... please! Let me help you! I'll g-get you anything you need! And you can get back to normal even faster!

Just... let me make it up to you?

[wilt]

[ He sighs. He should know better than to ask Alphys for favors, but the truth of the matter is, unless he has people trying to force emotions out of him or trying their best to trigger them, this was going to be a difficult journey. He's lucky enough his amalgamate of feelings now could work together and function...

Almost like a person. ]

My contract with the Ringmaster. I signed to get my soul back, but the clause was that I had to regain all my feelings one by one.

I'm trying to force out every single one that I can, but-- a bunch of them must be negative. If I learn all the positive ones fast, I'll be back to my original personality, but then have to experience all of the negative ones next. And if it's vise versa, I'll be acting more Flowey-ish.

Whether it's good or bad, that's all the help I need.

[textsfromhotland]

Your feelings...?

[Well. Alphys certainly has a lot of feels. The problem here is that most of them are negative. Does Flowey want to learn crippling depression and self-loathing?]

Well, uh... I can help with some of them! And I know a guy! His name's Papyrus, he's the most positive guy I know! I bet you could get a lot of good feelings from him!

[To balance out the "feels like garbage" he'll probably regain from her.]

[wilt]

Alphys.

[ Just staring her straight in the eyes. ]

I can't have only happy emotions to get my soul back. I'll need your help too. If you feel too bad about it, maybe work with me first and then I'll work with Papyrus, or something.

[ Though he could certainly earn enthusiasm if she got him to watch a good anime. His final boss fight? All about that stuff. ]