HE SETS HIS SIGN IN THE SKY | JUNE CATCH-ALL

[the_obedient_servant]

Who: Chara + CR, both old and new.
What: Chara reveals some memories, fights their repressed conscience in their dreams, is one haunted ghost and goes spelunking. Plus other stuff!
When: Around the month of June.
Where: All over.

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SATOKO - I DON'T LIKE THIS PLAN ANYMORE (cw for suicide, manipulation)

[the_obedient_servant]

[This memory arrives during one of their sessions in the school, when Chara reaches for something... an apple, maybe?

It starts in their bed, with Chara laying on their death bed, their family standing by them. Their father, Asgore, a large goat man with golden hair and a golden beard and an embarrassing hawaiian shirt, rumbles out words that seem to strike an accord with Chara as they stare bleary eyed up at the last faces they will probably see before they die for the final time.]

C̵̳͉̮̮͓̮̓̿̆̒͝ͅH̶̙̹̩̓͐̃̉̽̽́̽̚̕͠Ā̴͉͙̯̘̓͜R̴̨̢͉̼̹̟̠̠̻̦̲͙̪͔̀̈́͜Ā̴̧͎̦̹̖͔̰͉̘̌͋̓̍̃̈́̈̋̅͆̚͘͠͝, you have to stay strong. You, alone, are the future of humans and monsters alike. Stay determined... You will survive this... you are strong enough to survive this, I promise. [The memory glitches out when he says their name, almost as if the memory itself has been tampered with. But the Chara on their death bed doesn't even seem to notice. Toriel, their mother, dressed in more regal and mournful clothes than the King who stubbornly clings on to hope, looks at Asgore with something that almost seems disapproving, but she lays a hand on his arm anyway.

It's their brother that is important here. And so, he speaks up.] Um. Can I have a moment with them...? It won't take long. [He sounds unsure, like he almost doesn't want them to agree. But they do, and it's just the two of them.

He approaches them, hesitant, a batch of flowers in his hand.] I don't - I know, I promised I'd help but I don't like this plan anymore, Chara... It's really hurting them, we... can't we just go back to the way things were before?

[It's the first time Chara speaks up, less feeble than they pretend to be. The agony is killing them, but they know how to stomach pain.]

...You promised. [They heave a cough, feeling like razors in their throat.] ...It's what they want. We'll save them all. It's what princes, what heroes... do.

Don't you want to be a hero, Azzy?

[He looks at them, tears brimming in his eyes as he plucks the flower petals off, getting a handful and handing the poison to Chara.

Chara takes them, and swallows them whole. Radiating from their dying soul is a determination to save everyone, to be the hero that they all need. More than that, is the agony they've spent their dying days in, having chosen one of the most excruciating ways to die.

It's deserved. It's repentance. They are the only hope for humans and monsters, as a human who lives in their number. And as a human, they deserve only to suffer.

The memory fades shortly after that, with Chara clutching their forehead.]

i'm so sorry, both for the delay and. this

[loopsbian]

[ one moment, they are studying together, doing the work of arcane scholars no matter what she might like to call it. and the next, they are elsewhere. far away. in a memory.

satoko, to her credit, says nothing. she watches chara's memory in solemn silence. she watches asgore, and toriel, and "azzy." a childish nickname for someone that matters far more than she'd imagined. (it's hard to imagine any room in chara's heart for anyone past frisk, after all. like imagining a world where rika came second.)

she watches chara embrace death. she understands, for a moment, their dream - of hope, of rebellion, of punishment and suffering.

when the memory fades, she is the first to speak. ]

...your father was a goat? I'd no idea.

[ it's not the most important thing she saw, of course. but of all things, it's what she's gotten stuck on. it's a bit of a surprise, that's all. ]

i love her so much

[the_obedient_servant]

[They glance up from rubbing their head, brow furrowed. That's certainly a reaction to the memory of their suicide being broadcast. Still, they do let out an amused huff at that, and smile.]

...Do I need to point out that they're not my biological parents? [Their smile strains somewhat at the mention of that. It's not as if being their biological child would have made Chara's life easier... well, not quite true. If they were born a monster, their life would have been infinitely more pleasant. Their death would have been at the hands of whoever would replace them, and they would exist in a loop of suffering.

The difference between the Chara who died on this sickbed and the Chara that stands before Satoko, is that the child who died still lived under the delusion that anything in life is fair. And more than that... that the good guys can ever truly win, that redemption exists, that they had a choice and they were making it.

Monsterkind would never be free. Never permanently. The least Chara could do was ensure that humanity joined them in that damnation when they put both out of their misery.]

...He killed six children after I died. My father did, I mean. Asriel backed out at the last minute of our plan - when the humans of my village were actively killing him - so all of my work was for nothing. My father declared war on humanity in a fit of vengeful rage, regretted it immediately, and was too spineless to admit to such, so he simply let his people live on believing he would save them all when really he was just waiting for someone strong enough to kill him and free him from the burden of ruling. Every child that followed me underground died under his orders, because they weren't strong enough to defeat him.

Hardly my family anymore.