Frisk went to try and find Asgore, they needed his help with a project of theirs. When they didn't find him neither in the living room nor in his bedroom, they assumed that he was surely in the garden.
And indeed he was. When Frisk peeked their head around the corner, they saw the old king watering his flowers while whistling.
The human child took a moment to listen to Asgore's little song as he had not noticed them yet. It was pretty nice. It was that same melody that played when they put an umbrella on that statue in Waterfall.
I still don't get why you did that.
"Why not ?" They thoulked.
Chara didn't dispute it, they knew arguing with Frisk about things like this was pointless.
"You seemed to like that song anyways." Frisk pointed out. Chara did not confirm not deny the accusations.
The old boss monster appeared to be quite talented, Frisk could only wish to be able to whistle the way Asgore did.
Wait. You never learned how to whistle ? Chara wondered after hearing Frisk's thoughts.
Frisk nodded as a response. No one had ever taught them this.
Its not that difficult, you should try it. Its fun.
Frisk took a few steps back, moving further away from Asgore and back into the house as to not disturb him. Chara assumed that this meant they were going to follow their advice.
Once they considered that they were far away enough, Frisk tried putting their lips close to each other leaving only a small space for air to flow through and tried blowing through it. The attempt had no results.
They tried a few more times before Chara felt the need to intervene rather than watching Frisk comically failing to find how to whistle.
No no no. That's not how you do it.
The corporeal human seemed to get a bit impatient, either that or they were somewhat frustrated by their failure to do it on their own.
"Well then how do you do it ?" They asked.
Try rolling the inside of your lips back a little bit.
Frisk did as suggested but the result was not any better than last time.
"Its not working !" They complained.
Calm down, you are blowing too hard. Try to focus on getting the right shape for your mouth first.
"What do you mean the right shape ?" Frisk wondered if Chara could provide them with more detail.
Try to form a small "o" with the open part of your mouth and close the rest.
"I've been trying to do that the whole time !" They complained again.
Well you haven't been doing it well enough then.
"Im trying okay ? Its way harder than it sounds." They explained.
Its not that difficult. Chara honestly responded. They had been taught by the Dreemurrs when they were alive.
"That's easy to say for you." Frisk told them before making a few more unsuccessful attempts.
This is going nowhere, its not gonna work if you keep doing it like this. Your lips are placed all wrong.
"Im just doing what you told me to do." Frisk answered. They were trying to indeed, but they were struggling to do so. Whenever they tried on getting one part positioned correctly, the rest ended up moving too much which Frisk had to correct and so on. They just couldn't do it right.
You can fight a god and make it out alive but you can't manage to find how to whistle ?
Chara was a bit baffled at Frisk's continued failures, they were usually pretty good at figuring out this type of things but here they were just cringey to look at.
"Hey !" Frisk told them after hearing Chara thinking about them as 'cringey'.
Sorry.
Frisk stopped. They took a few seconds for themself before coming up with an idea.
"You know what ?"
What ?
"Show me" Frisk told their friend.
Show you ?
"Show me how you do it." They responded.
With those words, Frisk sat on the couch and let their body go. Chara caught the hint and took control of it before getting back up.
After taking a couple seconds to focus, Chara whistled a bit. It was a classic tune for children.
"How ?" Frisk asked, unable to understand what they did wrong that Chara apparently did right.
Look at how im placing your tongue and your lips, then try to do the same thing. Chara told Frisk.
They both stayed in that position for a few seconds, afterwards Chara started slowly whistling again.
Got it ? They asked.
"I think so." Frisk answered.
Chara let go of Frisk's body, which almost made them trip as they weren't hadn't prepared for it.
They tried to replicate what Chara had done before, they were pretty confident to have done it right until the moment they tried it and it failed like always.
Ughhh, not like this. Frisk's strange companion was starting to get annoyed as well.
Frisk was about to answer but as soon as they opened their mouth, they felt it closing again on its own, then they were surprised to feel themself turning around and to hear their own voice whisper :
Do not move.
They had figured that now was probably not the time to complain about Chara taking control of them without asking first. However they had thought about it hard enough that they were pretty sure Chara must have heard it. Despite this, Chara didn't react to it and instead continued to talk with Frisk's voice.
Im going to do it, then im going to give you back control without moving a single muscle. You do not have to do anything at all. You just need to stay in that same exact same position and blow. How does that sound ?
It did seem that Chara had gotten quite sick of this situation and wanted it over with. Not to lie, Frisk did as well. They agreed to the proposal by thoulking a nod.
When they once again gave Chara full control, they put Frisk in a stable position before mentally asking if Frisk was okay with this one. The other human once again agreed to terms and Chara began whilstling again, only for a couple seconds though.
Afterwards, they kept Frisk's tongue in the same position and waited for Frisk take take back control, which they soon did.
Without moving a finger, Frisk tried blowing… And actually made a sound ! It worked !
After doing it two more times, Frisk decided to try and move their tongue a tiny bit to make a different sound, however as soon as they did, they no longer got any sound at all.
They quickly decided to go back to how they were before, but when they did so it didn't work anymore either.
No. just put it back to- Chara interrupted themself with a mental sigh (Frisk wasn't even sure how sighing was possible without a body, but apparently it just worked.)
You know what ? Im done. I give up.
Frisk wasn't satisfied with this, after all of this mess they still couldn't manage to whistle properly. Having managed to do so a coule times only by getting Chara to do all the work for them was not what Frisk was aiming for.
"Come on, this was close !" Frisk tried to convince their partner that they were making progress, hoping that they would accept to keep trying just a little bit longer.
However, it appeared that Chara's patience had ran out. They weren't ever that patient of a person anyways.
I heard that.
"Am I wrong though ?" Frisk questioned.
Chara didn't answer directly and instead took the chance to address another subject that had been on their mind for a long time.
By the way, can you help me find something to do while you are sleeping ?
Frisk was weirded out by that question for a moment before realising that this must indeed be quite the problem for Chara. Having to wait for them to sleep and wake up every day must be painfully long from their perspective.
"Sure, i'll try to find ideas by the end of today." Frisk promised them. "Im not forgetting about the whistle thing though." They quickly added. If they were making Chara a favor, now was the time they wouldn't have the right to complain about it.
...Thanks. Was all Chara said, they didn't acknowledge that second part of Frisk's sentence but Frisk could tell that they just made the deliberate choice to not answer it. Frisk took that as a "I'd rather not but fine whatever." kind of message. Chara didn't contradict them when they thought that, it must mean that they were right.
Instead of wasting their time the way they had been so far, Frisk did what they should have probably done much earlier. They went back to the garden and tapped on Asgore's shoulder.
"Howdy Frisk, how can I help you ?" The old monarch wondered.
"Can you teach me how to whistle ?" The human child asked.
"Of course." The boss monster's smile grew larger.
As it turned out, Asgore was much more methodical than Chara as a teacher. He gave them step by step instructions and corrected every time they made a mistake by explaining to them what they did wrong and how to fix it.
This didn't prevent Frisk from messing it up however, they did so plenty of times and Asgore had to reexplain the same steps multiple times as well as showing examples by replicating said steps by himself.
By the end of it, Frisk still wasn't able to whistle properly but they had managed to make a couple different sounds over all of their attempts so that was already something at least. They decided that it was good enough for now and that they would try to practice some more on their free time. They had spent enough time on this mess for today.
Chara on the other hand, wasn't all that happy about this development.
Why so ? Well they could already tell that if Frisk was going to randomly attempt to whistle once in a while for the next few days or weeks. they were very quickly going to get sick of it.