Chapter three: Dark
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Frisk is suffering. I can see her getting crushed under the weight of the memories she regains, silently screaming in pain and begging herself to ask for help from outside. Yet she chooses to ignore these pleas, disinclined to share her burden with her friends. She never intended for the Dreemurrs to discover her issues, but how does one keep such a secret from those they meet every day?
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I apologize. My thoughts about this matter nearly had me skip the formalities. You wish to know who I am, correct? Yet I believe you already know the answer to that. Forgive me if I am mistaken.
I am the being behind the Door. The Door that leads to…somewhere else. Yet at the same time, I am…someone else.
In time, you will understand. Unless you already do, of course.
Well, in any case… To avoid misunderstandings, I believe I should inform you that I am not responsible for Frisk's suffering. In fact, I am the one attempting to stop it. While it may seem that I am completely detached from the world she and her friends live in, I am still very much present.
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I should make an important fact known. There is a way to alleviate, possibly even remove Frisk's pain, but assistance is needed. This is why I summoned Sans…but as you noticed, I was being somewhat rash and inadvertently scared him away. Now, my objective is to find someone who would be willing to cooperate with me.
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Ah, of course. There is one last thing I need to tell you.
Currently, I am standing here, in my part of this…world – which seems to be some sort of…reflection…of reality. Sometimes I glance over to the other end, the one behind the invisible border that separates my side from…the Entity's. This Entity is the one responsible for both Frisk's amnesia and her suffering. It uses its power to have the upper hand in our battle over Frisk's memories.
Indeed, the Entity uses these memories – especially the dark ones – to torment the Human, creating vivid hallucinations and inducing the fear that almost continuously corrupts Frisk's mind in an attempt to break her will. It wishes to see her suffer.
Why, do you ask? Why does the Entity wish to see Frisk suffer? Why would it take her memory, only to return it in the most vicious way possible? To that question, I have the answer: the Entity itself is…corrupted. It has been in its current state – a similar state to the one I am in – for an extended period of time. During this time, it saw many things. It watched when the king committed six acts of homicide. It knew of his plan to destroy Humanity. It watched how the rest of the Underground cheered when he revealed this.
It saw the Flower's misdeeds, not even forgetting the instances where it caused a Reset. It saw how every other Monster attempted to kill the fallen Humans themselves. It saw the general hatred for Humans that rose in the Underground.
Seeing all these events transpire over such a long time have somehow turned the Entity into what it is today. It is not the Entity's fault that it is the enemy. It became bitter because of the connection it has got to the Underground. The…negativity that appeared had…infected it. Whether this happened through supernatural means or 'regular' mental torture is uncertain. Watching those you love commit such…crimes…is not to be taken lightly – even if the Entity itself does not care for Humans very much.
Then, Frisk entered the Underground for the first time. And with her arrival, hope began to return. When the Entity saw this, it already carried quite a bit of malevolence. Malevolence that – partially thanks to its jealousy – is now primarily aimed at Frisk herself.
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I made sure to avoid following the Entity down that path. Part of the reason why I succeeded was my more direct link to the physical world. This link – links, actually – gave me better access to the more positive sides and events of the Underground than the Entity. The negative side was still very much in my view, but I did not allow it to affect me. It was difficult, but I was able to do it.
Perhaps it may seem inconsistent to you that the Entity still has the advantage. After all, hope and positivity has been returning to the Underground over the years after Frisk's first departure. Of course, corruption such as what the Entity has suffered is difficult to purge, but that is not the reason for its superior strength. The negativity in the Underground was never its weapon against me in the battle. It was merely the cause for its hostility.
It is the Entity's exceptionally powerful determination that allows it to keep me in this corner. I can still use my influence to help Frisk, but it is not enough to match the Entity's power. And as far as I am aware, there was only one source of determination that possessed the power to exceed the Entity's. That source was Frisk when she was seven, whose determination even gave her the ability to survive the onslaught from the self-proclaimed god of Hyperdeath at a certain point in time. Even the Entity would never have been capable of such a feat – not as easily, at least.
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But now, Frisk's Soul produces less determination than it did nine years ago. It is still impressive – even for a Human – but she no longer possesses the motivation she once had. A possible explanation for this is the current lack of events that generate such motivation.
In any case, I should continue to ask for assistance. The Entity's power makes this place dark. And unless my vision is somehow failing me, it is still getting darker.
Huh, I don't recall writing this ch—
You know what, I'm not even going to finish that sentence. I suppose it'd be too cliché.
That, and I'm not entirely sure if/how it'd fit…
Have a good day.
~F