It wasn't all acting. [And there's a dark undertow there that could sweep Sans away if he let it, because Sans's thoughts go to the last time he saw Mettaton--to Mettaton giving his life to buy Alphys just a few more moments of time to evacuate as many as she could. That wasn't acting. But he shouldn't be thinking about this. He shouldn't be thinking about this because he's trying to figure out what's happening with Papyrus, and he shouldn't be thinking about this period.
Papyrus has perfect recall now. Think about that instead. Don't think about the things he might remember from the personality swap. Think about it as a concept. Correlation isn't causation, Papyrus isn't wrong, but even if it's not an A causing B or B causing A situation, there can always be unknown variable C at play.] I guess it's not as simple as running diagnostics, huh? [Probably more like a black box neural network. Even if you can see the inputs and the outputs, figuring out how everything's hooked up between those two points...
Well. If it's emotions, then--Sans's hands go to his wings, combing through them like he can smooth away his own nerves.] It's not, right? [Sans is hoping it is that simple, even if he knows it isn't.]
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Papyrus has perfect recall now. Think about that instead. Don't think about the things he might remember from the personality swap. Think about it as a concept. Correlation isn't causation, Papyrus isn't wrong, but even if it's not an A causing B or B causing A situation, there can always be unknown variable C at play.] I guess it's not as simple as running diagnostics, huh? [Probably more like a black box neural network. Even if you can see the inputs and the outputs, figuring out how everything's hooked up between those two points...
Well. If it's emotions, then--Sans's hands go to his wings, combing through them like he can smooth away his own nerves.] It's not, right? [Sans is hoping it is that simple, even if he knows it isn't.]