Whaaaat? Who would wanna hurt Max? She's a marshmallow! [and she thought she was getting through to Chara.] Did they actually say they were gonna kill her? Or is this... More like a maybe thing? 'Cause maybe I can talk to them. I almost had a breakthrough before!
Well, they killed Alex, who attacked them because they'd threatened Max. [Dipper rolls his eyes.] Considering Alex was trying to kill them, I don't have that much sympathy for him. But Max doesn't deserve to get pulled into them and Mabel! Don't talk to them! You're not going to have a breakthrough, they're going to come try and break something!
[He whirls around, giving her an anxious look. How can he put this so that she'll know he's not exaggerating or just being paranoid?]
That's... pretty bad. Mabel gasps and claps a hand over her mouth, and suddenly she's replaying every thing she ever said to Chara. oh dear.
it should be fine, right? she didn't threaten them or hurt their feelings, so maybe...] They just... they seemed so sad and alone, Dipper. I guess I should've went to Frisk afterwards, but you know how weird Ford and Stan are right now, so I thought maybe they're just having a stupid twin thing. And I wanted to help them figure it out.
I mean at least Gideon had an ego and the love of the entire town before we put him in jail.
[but...] ...But he also never successfully killed anyone either, so... [hnngh.] Yikes.
They're definitely not actually twins, either. I think... I think Chara might be some sort of weird spirit thing, except solid for some reason? They keep talking about names.
[He frowns, looking away. More things to ask Frisk.]
I don't know, Mabel. I think they are sad and alone. But that doesn't make it okay that they're killing people. And I'm not sure how we can stop them for good.
Yeah, no. When they said, they were awful, I thought it was, y'know, forgivable awful things, not killing people.
[there was no real discussion of the weight of awfulness and can you really blame her for not jumping to murder sooner? those unicorns really messed with her head.]
I guess telling them that people don't stay dead around here doesn't work, huh? [hng. she scratches one of the scratch-n-sniff stickers in her scrapbook to keep her hands busy.]
Nope. They know. I think they'll just want to do it more. [He wraps his arms around himself.] We can take them. I know we can. I'm just not sure what to do after that.
Yeah, that's... kind of a problem here. We can't just send people back to their own dimension or put them in jail or whatever.
[she sighs. it's hard to believe they had LESS problem with Bill, but at least he was incorporeal and had to rely on deals.] Maybe Frisk or Sans know something that can stop them from hurting people. Or... [she flips through her scrapbook and gasps as she falls on one of her pictures, slapping her forehead.] Wait. Duh. It's so simple. Dipper, what about Regina?
I've been talking to Frisk. [He raises an eyebrow at Mabel.] What about Regina? Thinks she can turn them into a mermaid or something? [A beat.] Merperson.
[siiighs.] I guess we can use it to turn Chara into a hamster. We could get them a little hamster ball and everything. [she giggles] Little hamster person.
I'm hoping we won't have to. [Dipper tucks the potion away.] But it is an option. The problem is they can undo things. Like turning back time a few minutes. So we have to have a way to... keep them from doing that.
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[He whirls around, giving her an anxious look. How can he put this so that she'll know he's not exaggerating or just being paranoid?]
They're Gideon levels of bad, Mabel.
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That's... pretty bad. Mabel gasps and claps a hand over her mouth, and suddenly she's replaying every thing she ever said to Chara. oh dear.
it should be fine, right? she didn't threaten them or hurt their feelings, so maybe...] They just... they seemed so sad and alone, Dipper. I guess I should've went to Frisk afterwards, but you know how weird Ford and Stan are right now, so I thought maybe they're just having a stupid twin thing. And I wanted to help them figure it out.
I mean at least Gideon had an ego and the love of the entire town before we put him in jail.
[but...] ...But he also never successfully killed anyone either, so... [hnngh.] Yikes.
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[He frowns, looking away. More things to ask Frisk.]
I don't know, Mabel. I think they are sad and alone. But that doesn't make it okay that they're killing people. And I'm not sure how we can stop them for good.
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[there was no real discussion of the weight of awfulness and can you really blame her for not jumping to murder sooner? those unicorns really messed with her head.]
I guess telling them that people don't stay dead around here doesn't work, huh? [hng. she scratches one of the scratch-n-sniff stickers in her scrapbook to keep her hands busy.]
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[she sighs. it's hard to believe they had LESS problem with Bill, but at least he was incorporeal and had to rely on deals.] Maybe Frisk or Sans know something that can stop them from hurting people. Or... [she flips through her scrapbook and gasps as she falls on one of her pictures, slapping her forehead.] Wait. Duh. It's so simple. Dipper, what about Regina?
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[if only, Mabel. Once Upon a Time would be so much simpler.] Or at least make it hard to.
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I also have these. Containment field gun and a magic potion that turns people into animals.
[A beat.]
You can't use it on yourself, so don't ask.
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[siiighs.] I guess we can use it to turn Chara into a hamster. We could get them a little hamster ball and everything. [she giggles] Little hamster person.
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