September Catch-All

[friendlyflower]

Who: Flowey & Emporio, Anasui, Akechi, Firoza, and maybe YOU!
What: Quests, discussing Theories, hearing stories, and rumors of a certain boy's birthday (aka-- I decided Flowey's birthday is on the Undertale anniversary, September 15th)
Where: Furnace Mountain, in & around Death Blood Murder Skull Town
When: Throughout September
Warnings: Potential Pokemon battling (violence/injury), Flowey's trauma (mentions of/themes of depression, depersonalization, guilt, child death, murder)

Comments

[consequerer]

It is around. I have not lost it, if that is what you are asking... but it is easier, yes.

I believe it is akin to a tether, of sorts? Much like how you do not see Polteageist far from their teapot. Unlike them, it appears I can stray further from it ... to a degree. Not far enough to be going on missions without it, unfortunately.

[ They hum a little though, thoughtfully, as they drift their way around the residence. ]

And what are your thoughts on how to handle the upcoming winter?

[friendlyflower]

Huh, neat! I wonder if you could change your tether...? Maybe find a new suitable mask... or host. [He's not suggesting they join bodies again. It didn't go so well the first time. But, ever the pessimist, he's wondering if the mask could break.

Surely it could be repaired? It likely wouldn't regenerate on its own, as if it were biological material... but then again, Pokemon are weird.

As for their question, he doesn't... actually know. As far as he's been able to read (when he can get into the Lum archives, and actually find what he's looking for), Grass-types don't suffer any type of mass extinction in Winter. But he's already struggling even just as the temperatures start to dip for Autumn's approach, and the potential increase in the amount of Ice-types proves worrisome.

He used to be fine in Snowdin, at least for a while. Somehow, he doesn't think bringing up the past around Chara will lead to any positive outcome, though.]

Get someone to build me a stupid roof already. Wear my handy new hat. Try not to die. You know, like always. I don't suppose you'd let your old pal Flowey warm up in your place?

1/2

[consequerer]

You dare trespass upon a private haunt? Supposedly there are ghost-types that have killed for less.

[ A haunting, empty gaze, all the lines of their body mere suggestions and oddly more jagged at the same time, as if akin to a creature with fur or feathers bristling, as if they haven't invited him over before. ]

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[consequerer]

[ But, like flipping a switch, they settle back with their usual smile. ]

Hahaha. Well, I suppose I will have to allow it so long as you ask politely.

[ They are hardly about to let him freeze. (What are the guildsmembers of Cheri supposed to do, though, when their residences are like this...?) A different tether, though... Like the ghosts of the Underground, then? Trading bodies or simply being without until they find the one that suits them best? It is a thought... ]

I do not believe I am that kind of ghost. Still, I have no confirmation for certain, or at least I have not yet read anything to that nature. It is a subject worth at least some exploration.

[friendlyflower]

[For a moment, it's like he's Asriel again and nothing changed. In lieu of fur to bristle, his stem stands up like an exclamation point out of alarm and his pupils dilate.

Then he bursts into laughter.]

Hee hee hee! So you really have gotten better at your creepy face!

[Has he ever consciously thought about the fact that his own evil smile is a simulacrum of their own? Maybe. Maybe not. He's too busy chuckling to put it on right now, anyway.]

Hmm... how about something cool instead of a boring old mask? Like a knife! [He does not know that Honedge exists at this point.]

[consequerer]

I would hope I have, all things considered.

[ Imagine not being better at creepy faces when you're an actual literal ghost now! ]

As for the knife ... I have a suspicion that even if it were possible, it would have to be something with some amount of existing significance to me.

[ The mask is literally their face. Probably not just any knife will do!

... maybe they should start carrying one around? ]

[friendlyflower]

Any old knife isn't good enough, huh? You need a real knife. ... probably won't be as good as what you can do already in this new form, though. Hee hee.

[The mask was their face, indeed. Flowey thought, honestly, they'd be eager to get rid of the last vestige of their humanity. He thinks about objects that are important to Chara. Chocolate... that one sweater they knitted for Asgore...

... the locket.

But that's long gone. It's not worth thinking about.

Or is it?]