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Who: Asriel, Kyoko, Frisk, Toriel, and an open prompt
When: August 27-30th
Where: Various places
What: Asriel watches a home movie, attempts to deal with feelings, and tries baking with Kyoko
Warnings: Undertale spoilers, slavery and abuse mentions

"Call me maybe - Cookie Monster version" (Watch on YouTube)

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[Asriel feels lost in the memory for a moment, an aching sadness spreading over them - as well as a warm fondness for days long past. The hand on his stirs him out of it, and he gives a small smile.]

Mm, sometimes. Usually when it was dad and me. Dad always gave us our own spots in the garden where we could plant our own flowers. Sometimes Chara got frustrated that theirs weren't growing as fast as mine or dad's.

[Chara got frustrated over a lot of things, for unexplained reasons.]

Though most of the time, we'd just stay out in the garden and talk about all kinds of different things.

[gainedlove]

[Frisk nods, their eyes lowering. They remember those odd spikes of frustration at the oddest moments, and while Frisk learned to predict them they didn't always know exactly what brought them about.]

...did they tell you about th' Surface much? I know they...never talked about before they fell much, but...um.

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... Sort of. I always had a lot of questions what the surface was like, and the way Chara described it... I always wondered why they'd leave something like that.

But sometimes, Chara would get really upset or quiet sometimes and me, mom, or dad could never figure out why. Chara wouldn't say why either. I think wherever they were on the Surface, it wasn't a happy place for them.

[Asriel was too naive at the time, or maybe just too afraid to know the answer. The Surface was where all monsters wanted to go - it was a place of wonder and hope for all monsterkind. To hear that it wasn't as perfect as everyone dreamed of...

Well, it foolishly got them killed in the end, didn't it?]

... I wish I would've asked more questions back then.

[Maybe it would've saved Chara? He doesn't know. Maybe if he'd done things this way, maybe if he tried to reach out to them a little more... he wouldn't be sitting here watching his memories of their family play over and over.]

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[Chara...hadn't ever told them much, either. Only little snippets, and that only because the filter of mind-to-mind made things bleed over so much easier. Vague ideas of pain, of anger, of not feeling like there was any place safe...some of it had resonated with Frisk's own memories. Others...not so much.]

...yeah. They never told me, neither, but...I could sorta guess. I don't think they wanted anyone knowin'. It...it hurts sometimes, thinkin' 'bout that stuff.

[Frisk wraps an arm around Asriel's back, squeezing him as support and comfort for them both.]

...'s not your fault.