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Part 3 of Deltarune Drabbles
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2023-06-10
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Destined/Doomed

Chapter 2: Doomed

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I... this is what I want... isn't it? To please you. To see you bare your heart and soul to me. For you to want me as much as I want you.

I see it, etched into the very fabric of my world. The insistent hand of a higher power nudging us together, never explicitly stating but only suggesting... suggesting that this is how things should be. That this is what's best.

And yet, something about it feels...

Why does this seem to be the only choice? Why does reality itself seem to contort so readily to make this happen? Is this... truly what I want for us? O-or am I being tricked into thinking that way...?

...it is blasphemy, I know. The prophecy must come to pass, and if that should make me a puppet to providence, then I am ready to accept that... that is something I came to terms with, long ago.

But just because that is what I want... or what I think I want... that should not condemn you to the same fate. It... it would be no better than trapping you in a cage, keeping you from the light you belong to, the life you were always meant to live. How can I expect you to accept such a barbaric covenant? And how could I ever be happy, watching you languish in our unhappy matrimony?

That is not love. Even I know this, naive and needy as I am.

And so, when the time comes and our quest is over, I shall release you from this, the arrangement you never consented to. And when I do, you must fly at once, and never look back. Destiny will not be so easily thwarted, but I have faith that if anyone can do so...

You must forget me. Leave me in the dark, where I belong. Let fate punish me as it will for daring to want what I cannot have.

For that is my doom.

Notes:

Hello again! Thanks for taking the time to read these, as insubstansial as they might be :p

This was orginally supposed to go into the Menagerie, aka where my Ralsei headcanons go to die, but almost immediately after writing the first part, "Destined", its mirror image immediately popped into my head, and this strange paired drabble was born. Essentially, it riffs on the idea that Ralsei is entirely aware of his fate, AND that on some level knows things about his world he shouldn't (like how there are hit points and cutscenes and such), AND that the entire game world of Deltarune seems to be conspiring to bring Kris and Ralsei together in some rather romantically-coded situations... which he then intuits as them being together as part of his destiny.

And then the question became, what does he do with that information? Does he lean into it, believing that it has to happen regardless of how he or Kris feels about it? Or does he fight it because he knows that's likely not what Kris wants? How do you even... choose between those two equally-horrifying things?

If you're me, you don't apparently lol.

This is actually a really interesting idea which potentially has much more mileage in it, so I may return to this soon in a more fleshed-out piece with actual dialogue and stuff. Not least so we can see what Kris would make of all of this...

Anyway, thank you again for reading! See you in the next one :)

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