me when i remember ink probably had no idea what happened between timeline 9 to finding cross alone and with charas soul. they dont know where xgaster might be, and only know that hes alive because his soul half is still with them. they got out that it was a genocide that wiped out xtale but to what extent? cross never said that he explicitly killed them but neither does ink know if chara wiped them out either. sigh. no wonder he has find cross. mostly to continue the game but to also find out what happened to xgaster.
i am NEVER fucking forgiving jakei. i am NEVER FORGIVING ANYONE WHO SAYS THEY DONT LOVE EACH OTHER. its actually crazy. xgaster longing for ink in his darkest hour, begging them to come back, and ink desperate to find xgaster when he disappears from xtale, the last place where he was supposed to be found in. i am so upset.
thinking about this stupid ass panel again, and i think i might finally get what its saying but i might also be off my shit again.
while i had cried my eyes out about this when it came out, i suddenly realize that the meaning of xgasters words over ink, isnt him talking about ink, but rather, an internal response to galette's question.
"you really need like, a lot of friends"
(for what purpose [do i need a lot of friends for] besides convience, exactly...?) "you're not sufficiently persuasive."
he doesn't view ink as a convient friend.
he views having a lot of friends as convient.
because ink told him that having a lot of friends was convient.
xgaster doesnt have many friends. i dont think hes ever viewed toriel or asgore as true 'friends', and certainly doesnt care for galette's friendship either.
but ink has a lot of friends. ink has blue, dream, fresh(?), and more that are probably not even listed, (though im not including cross in this because ink says that their friendship with cross was genuine)
so... having a lot of friends is convient. i wonder where this could have been applied to...
and also, when is the only time that ink admits to having a friend, anyway?
I HATE HIM SO MUCH. WHY REMEMBER THAT??? WHY REMEMBER THAT THEY LIKE ICE CREAM AND CHOCOLATE??? Is it something so precious? Important to remember? To be known is to be loved and GOD he wants to say he doesn't care about them- that he doesn't, or even CAN'T, love them-
He wants to pretend SO bad that he isn't affected by his children, by Ink- He's perfected his poker face, trying to show he's... invincible. Incapable of feeling.
"[...] I'm not an emotionless being." "Emotions distract me." God damn goober. WHICH IS IT? I'm going to rip you apart and stitch you back together again to see if you're still the same ship.
oh my god not even errink is safe from this??? what do you guys DO in your free time??? cry and shit yourself when a decent ship is actually good??? fuck outta here, im NEVER posting my shit on tiktok yall crazy as hell.
THEY COULD NEVER MAKE ME HATE YOU XGASTER!!! THEY COULD NEVER MAKE ME BELIEVE YOURE A TERRIBLE DAD(he is)
i love you mr xgaster ur the best dad ever, ure just jealous that the xtwins think of asgore as their papa when in fact xgasters the one that tried to raise them, tried to make everything for them !!! trust trust 🙏🙏🙏🙏 he got robbed of dad titled its okay i understand pookie