DEAR DIARY... WELL, THIS IS KIND OF AWKWARD, BUT... I HAVE NEGLECTED WRITING IN YOU FOR SOME TIME NOW. I HOPE THAT YOU WILL FORGIVE ME, BUT I KNOW THIS IS A SERIOUS OFFENSE. EITHER WAY, AFTER THE HUMAN KNOCKED ME OUT, I WAS APPARENTLY UNCONSCIOUS FOR A LONG TIME.
ALPHYS IS QUEEN NOW, AND SANS IS RULING ALONGSIDE HER. TO BE HONEST, I NEVER WOULD HAVE EXPECTED TO SEE SANS WORK SO HARD AT SOMETHING, SO I'M KIND OF GLAD THAT THAT'S HOW IT ALL WORKED OUT. THEN AGAIN, NO ONE HAS SEEN ASGORE IN A LONG TIME, AND UNDYNE AND METTATON ARE GONE, BUT... EVERYONE SAYS THAT THEY WERE TRUE HEROES. THEY WERE FORCED TO LEAVE FOREVER, BUT THAT THEY HELPED SAVE THE UNDERGROUND AS THEY DID IT. THAT'S AMAZING! I MEAN, BEING A HERO IS KIND OF UNDYNE'S THING, BUT I WOULD HAVE EXPECTED METTATON TO JUST... I DON'T KNOW, BE A TV STAR, NOT A HERO.
OH, I FORGOT TO TELL YOU! I'M ALSO A ROBOT NOW! AT FIRST, I HAD A PRETTY BORING BODY THAT LOOKED A LOT LIKE METTATON'S. I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT HAPPENED. I JUST SORT OF WOKE UP AND I WAS A ROBOT ALL OF A SUDDEN. BUT ALPHYS WAS ALREADY HARD AT WORK BUILDING ME A NEW ONE, AND NOW I KINDA LOOK A LOT LIKE I USED TO NOW, WHICH IS COOL.
EITHER WAY, I CAN'T HELP BUT FIND SANS AND ALPHYS EXTREMELY CUTE. I NEVER QUITE IMAGINED SANS AS THE TYPE OF PERSON TO HAVE A GIRLFRIEND, BUT I GUESS A LOT OF THINGS CAN CHANGE IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE AS STRANGE AS SANS AND ALPHYS ARE. EITHER WAY, THEY SEEM TO BE SPENDING PRETTY MUCH ALL THEIR TIME TOGETHER. IT IS HONESTLY KIND OF STRANGE TO NOT CONSTANTLY HAVE SANS AROUND.
ALTHOUGH TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST, I THINK HE MIGHT ACTUALLY BE FOLLOWING ME AROUND A LOT AND IS JUST LESS OBVIOUS ABOUT IT. EITHER WAY, THINGS ARE PRETTY COOL, OTHER THAN A LOT OF MONSTERS NOT BEING HERE. THE DOGS ARE GONE TOO. THAT'S REALLY SAD, ACTUALLY, BECAUSE I LIKED THE DOGS. BUT I GUESS THEY WENT WHEREVER UNDYNE AND METTATON DID. ANYWAY, NOBODY IS QUITE AS CHEERFUL AS I REMEMBER THEM. SANS SEEMS TO BE MAKING LESS PUNS AND SMILING A LITTLE LESS, WHICH IS ODD. IN FACT, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, IT SEEMS LIKE HE SHOULD BE HAPPIER THAN HE WAS BEFORE. HE SAYS HE IS HAPPIER THAN HE WAS BEFORE. SO IT SEEMS STRANGE THAT HE ISN'T SMILING AS MUCH. BUT HE'S ALWAYS BEEN STRANGE.
ANYWAY, DESPITE EVERYTHING, THINGS ARE PRETTY GREAT DOWN HERE! THERE ISN'T A ROYAL GUARD, BUT ALPHYS SAYS THAT SHE'LL FORM ONE IF IT'S EVER NEEDED, AND THAT I CAN BE THE CAPTAIN! THAT'S AMAZING! CAN YOU IMAGINE, ME GUARDING SANS AND ALPHYS! I CAN! I DO, ALL THE TIME!
ANYWAY, A GIRL MADE OF FIRE OPENED A NEW GRILLBY'S NEAR NEW HOME, AND SANS AND ALPHYS SPEND A LOT OF TIME THERE ALONG WITH THIS STRANGE ROBOT THAT I DON'T RECOGNIZE. IT'S KIND OF ANNOYING, BUT THE ROBOT NEVER GETS ALONG WITH ANYONE BUT THE FIRE GIRL, SO I'M GLAD THAT HE STAYS OUT OF THE WAY MOST OF THE TIME.
EITHER WAY, I SUPPOSE I SHOULD WRITE ABOUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED TODAY, TOO! WELL, UP TILL RECENTLY, THE FIRE GIRL HAS BEEN LIVING WITH US, AND SHE'S TRYING TO MOVE OUT NOW THAT THE BACK ROOM OF HER RESTAURANT HAS BEEN COMPLETED, AND SHE WANTS SANS AND ALPHYS' HELP PACKING. RIGHT NOW SHE SEEMS TO BE YELLING AT THEM. AND THAT IS ALL THAT IS GOING ON. I... MADE SOME SPAGHETTI! SANS HAS BEEN HELPING ME WITH COOKING, AND I THINK I'M DOING PRETTY WELL! BUT NOBODY HAS EATEN IT. POOR EVERYBODY.
I AM RUNNING OUT OF THINGS TO SAY, SO I WILL STOP. I DON'T SEE WHY I SHOULDN'T. BUT I AM STILL WRITING FOR SOME REASON! I CAN'T STOP! AAAAAAH! OH. WAIT. I'M RunnInG oUT Of ink. I haVe GOt to go. GoodbYe!
Daily log #0001, day 1 of the second year of Queen Alphys' reign.
Well, this has been interesting. Alphys suggested that we all start writing some sort of diary or log, and as stupid as that sounds, since I can do it just by thinking about it, I figured, "what the hell, why not?" So anyway, things are... weird. They have been for a long time. I'm in something like Mettaton BOSS version 5.75.01, and that nerd has been updating it what seems like every day. It's pretty cool, though. It really does feel just like my old body. Same height, same body shape, and it even has more powerful magic now. So as annoying as it is to have to be worked on all the time, it is improving, to be honest.
Anyway, nobody else is going to read this so I might as well be frank. He he he...
Golly. Things have been turning on their head recently. I mean, really on their heads. I'm feeling things. I'm actually feeling things regularly now. I don't know if it's this body, or the same effect that happened back with Alphys when she touched me, or if maybe it's all the monster SOUL shards floating around in the air, but one way or another I'm feeling emotions again. Sure, I'm not my old self, but I want to be. That never happened when I was a flower. When I was a flower I didn't miss anything, but now I do! It's a step in the right direction, anyway. I really don't know what to say, or who to thank.
Oh. That's another thing. I feel the need to thank someone. My empathy is coming back.
I guess I'm only partly a psychopath. But things still aren't perfect. Smiley trashbag is still just as annoying as ever, and even if his brother isn't quite as bad, he's still IMPOSSIBLE to deal with. On top of that, even though I appreciate everything Alphys has done for me, she's still completely insufferable. I can't stand how much of a nerd she is, and how she constantly forces me into conversations that I JUST DON'T CARE ABOUT. And Fuku, she just... well, she just... Fuku is OK, I guess.
But other than her, everybody is driving me nuts. And I can't kill any of them either, since Alphys has still probably got her finger on my self-destruct button, and, as Sans constantly reminds me- "no resets!"
That piece of crap. Anyway, now that the pointless updates are gone, where were we. Oh, yeah. Sans is sitting on the couch with Alphys sleeping in his lap, and he is refusing to help Fuku pack. God, he invites her into his house, but he isn't gonna help her leave. Whatever, I guess if you want something done right, you've gotta do it yourself.
Dear fucking diary.
Fuku Fire here, with the daily announcements, because apparently Alphys wants us to keep track of how things are going for the future, because apparently when we're gone, people are going to want to know. I'm pretty sure she doesn't realize that Flowey is just keeping them internally. Besides, does she not realize that she's literally the only one here who ages? I'm gonna be around forever, or up until somebody kills me, and so is Flowey and Papyrus and Sans, so why does it matter? We can just tell people how things were.
But I guess the Queen can't be perfect, can she? Whatever. One way or another, things have been going pretty good. The Underground's population is back up, nearly to 300, which is impressive for just one year. The population has more than tripled since the Human bit the dust. I guess without Mettaton to entertain them, the monsters turned to... other ways to pass the time.
Freakin' geniuses, eh? Well, one way or another, the Underground is no longer a shadow of its former self. In fact, it's more of a projection of its former self. It's like, despite losing everything, we were somehow able to build it back up. Sure, the emotional wounds are ones that will never be healed, but we're all doing our best to see the bright side of things. It's a pity that we ran out of DETERMINATION after we revived Papyrus and Snowdrake, but that's the way life is. Death is death, you know?
Kinda pissed at Alphys though. I get that she missed Undyne and Mettaton, but Mettaton already had enough statues, and isn't 150 feet tall a bit overkill? I get it, she's the queen, but we have more important things to do than sculpt massive statues of fish and robots. Just NEO's wings alone took over 50 days and 10000 GOLD, and those are JUST THE WINGS! Granted they were a bitch to build, but nonetheless, she needs to get control of herself. Undyne was a true heroine. I get it. But EVERYONE KNOWS IT. There's no need for her to go overboard like this.
Anyway, she did do one good thing. I couldn't have possibly opened a new Grillby's location without her help and funding, and now business is booming.
Which is a PROBLEM, because I had to CLOSE it in order to MOVE! And I need SANS' help to move because HE has blue magic and therefore HE can pack my bags in FIVE MINUTES, when it would take me DAYS. And yet ALPHYS is SLEEPING IN HIS LAP, and he is REFUSING to wake her up, meaning that I can't GET OUT OF HERE to reopen HIS favorite resteraunt!
Damn it, I swear, if they weren't so cute together, I'd be so furious right now.
Oh, wait, looks like Flowey's coming to help me out. I guess after Sans, a robot is the next best thing. I don't get why Sans and Alphys don't trust him. They're always saying "you watch out for that guy, he may seem nice, but he's really a psycho," or "I t-trust him, but..."
But nothing, Flowey is a great guy. See ya never again, diary.
yup, i'm actually writing something. betcha nobody coulda seen this comin'. but it's happenin'. alphie is off doin' her queen stuff, and it's my day off, so i figured i might as well get started writin'.
see, she said she wanted us to write diary entries from now on, and as little sense as that makes, what she wants she gets. ya wouldn't think i'd be so intimidated by that tiny little lizard, but dammit i am. anyway, she's great. she may have been slackin' 'till pap woke her up this mornin', but i gotta hand it to her, the second she got off my lap she was workin' like a dog, just like always. being the queen of all monsters is a full time job, and she sure does treat it like one, that's for sure. anyway, fuku's furious at me for not helping her pack, and i'm pretty sure flowey is too for some reason.
i never saw that one comin', let me tell you.
but ignoring that, this place is the real deal. everything is goin' just as good or better than is was before, other than... yeah, all of that. i know i should be greivin' and everything, but i just... can't. i feel so great. not great like before, but great like... like nothing i've ever known before. i was just a little baby before the barrier went up, and i don't remember what my parents were like. asgore's told me that my father was a war hero, but i didn't really care about that.
my only chance to be happy had flown out the window when the barrier went up, and now... well, it flew back in. i mean, i never would've expected.
damn it, i feel terrible. everyone lost someone but me. i lost papyrus but now he's back, and after alphie and me hooked up, it's been like nothing ever went wrong. it makes me feel bad to be so happy, but i am. despite everything that happened, i'm happy. for once in my life, i really am happy.
heh heh heh.
i really am a freak, aren't i? well, one way or another, alphie really is great. if there was one thing i did do right, it was keeping her intact that first day. can't imagine where i'd be now without her.
Dear Diary.
Today was wonderful. I know it shouldn't have been, but it was. Undyne's statue is finally complete, and it's ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. On top of that, Fuku is moving out of the house, so I can finally get some personal space. Sans can't seem to get tired of her, but I do. And so, to be honest, I'm glad she's leaving. And oh my god I'm flipping out. Sans is treating me like a wife, and I love it. I mean, obviously we're two different species, but we're no racists here! I mean, sure, maybe he never said anything about getting married, but I know he's thinking it!
Ok, maybe he's not. BUT I AM. The Underground needs a King and it is going to get one, no matter what it takes! I mean, obviously it's kinda his job to take the initiative, but that doesn't mean that I can't push it along! Seriously though, we've been living together for a year now, he needs to get off his ass some time! But I can't stay mad at him. I mean, he's seriously the only reason I'm Queen, the only reason I'm successful as Queen, and the only reason I'm alive! We need to make some serious steps forward in this relationship.
oh my god did i just put all that on paper.
Ok, ok, ok. Calm down, Alphys, nobody is gonna read this until I'm loooooong dead. So it's not a problem.
THAT'S NOT EVEN WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE WRITING ABOUT. So instead of making a fool of myself, I am just going to calm down, take some deep breaths, and write about something people are gonna care about in the future.
MEW MEW KISSIE CUTIE 2 IS TRASH.
Ok, how about something else. So, the Underground is doing great. The CORE is running at over 99%, almost all of the Underground has been rebuilt, and almost everyone is happy. In fact, even the Monster Kid has mostly calmed down since I started building Undyne's statue. You just can't argue with a 150 foot tall pomer-granite statue. No humans have fallen, but we can't expect that to happen any time soon, and nobody really wants it to. Despite everything the Human did, our hatred for them as a race has gone down quite a bit. Maybe it was what Undyne and Mettaton said. That the Human was going to kill the other humans too, and that they were proving the rest of their race wasn't like that.
Flowey disagrees, of course. It's always "kill or be killed," but you can't expect much more from a sociopath and psychopath. Even then... whenever he mentions anything about killing humans, there's something in his tone. Like he's remembering something, maybe?
This probably deserves more attention. Let me explain. Recently, more and more, Flowey has been doing things... that a sociopath shouldn't be doing. He's been actively talking about other peoples' emotions, and even if he doesn't realize it, he never did that before. He uses the phrase "I feel," which seems like some sort of subconscious way of revealing that something is changing inside.
I'm thinking that maybe, somehow, he's regaining his emotions. If he is, this is wonderful. It's INCREDIBLE, in fact. Papyrus had his emotions from the moment he was revived, but that was because Sans specifically took care to get every last fleck of dust and particle of SOUL, causing him to be over 99% intact after the transfer. But ASRIEL's SOUL is gone, and so he shouldn't be able to. Yet somehow, it's happening. I don't really understand, but I guess that's how everything goes. I'm no expert, but who cares? I'm sure he's remembering Chara, and that is what means something. So, one way or another, things are going well.
And as far as I'm concerned, I'm pretty damn happy.