(always)

*You leave Gribbly's and continue onward. The snow abruptly cuts off and becomes a rocky road with a river nearby.

Frisk: 'Chunks...like a game.'

*Your battle system does seem akin to a stylized RPG.

Frisk: '...Back then, when I first tried to get a drop on Toriel, do you think I stopped from my own will...or the barriers.'

*...I don't know.

Frisk: '....'

*Is being in control that important to you?

Frisk: 'It's the most important thing. Without control your will is dependent on another, it's no different than being a slave. And I refuse to be a slave.'

*...You are awfully intense about this subject.

Frisk: 'Damn right I am. I kill because I want to, I'm cruel because I decided to be cruel, I'M THE ONE IN CONTROL! Not some fucking wall made by old farts.'

*Is that why you pushed me to submission?

Frisk: 'Yeah, and because you were and still are a big baby. Eww, they killed some fucking frog and I didn't so I'm soooo much better and-'

*You're hyperventilating.

Frisk: 'That's not a word.'

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*Calm down, take deep breaths.

Frisk: 'I'll do whatever I want!'

*You decide to take deep breaths.

Frisk: '...It's kinda nice.'

*...Frisk, you are a horrible person, aren't you?

Frisk: 'Tch, here we go again, goody-two-shoes-"

*For a while, I've been focusing on the horrible. Seeing you as this unstoppable force. I never stopped to remind myself that despite it all, you're still a person as well. Losing control scares you, doesn't it?

Frisk: '...'

*You won't prove anything by following the barrier's will. The only way to be truly free is to stop this killing.

Frisk: "Pff, so what, I can be your friendship slave?"

*No, so we can have the most amount of options of what to do when trying to find a way to destroy the barrier.

Frisk: '...Flowey said they had a plan for god-like power.'

*And if we follow the Barrier's will that plan may never come to be.

Frisk: '...'

*...You don't have to stop forever. Once the barrier is destroyed you can kill fully knowing that you're the one who's in control. But until then all you're doing is being its puppet.

Frisk: 'Heh, like you'll let me kill even a fly.'

*Oh, I won't, So don't delude yourself, I haven't forgiven you for a single thing you've done. The moment the barrier is broken I'll rip off your tongue so you can choke on the blood. And when we come back I'll bang our head against the ground for so long that our brain will leak out. I'll keep going till I drive you mad, until you're nothing but a voice in the back of my head that screams and cries about memories years old. Forever broken and forgotten.

Frisk: 'Hmph, Papyrus wouldn't like hearing that.'

*...Some people don't deserve to be saved.

Frisk: '...That choking on your own blood thing is metal as fudge. I'll use it on you after we finish this stupid alliance.'

*You can try.

Frisk: 'Oh, I certainly will.'

*We smiled.