ROSE: Your attachment to my comatose body is unexpectedly charming, as well as slightly sinister.

ROSE: She isn’t going to do anything.

ROSE: She isn’t coming back from where she’s gone.

TEREZI: YOU N3V3R KNOW

ROSE: Yes, I suppose that’s true.

ROSE: Anything can happen, you can’t see the future, etc. etc.

ROSE: Except I can. I can see the trajectory the story needs to take, and thus I know the trajectory it will take.

ROSE: And resurrecting my meat puppet would not only be difficult to the point of being worthless, it would also be extremely lame.

ROSE: Not that it would be out of character for this story. We live and breathe on the stupefyingly mind-numbing, and the mind-numbingly stupid.

ROSE: But then we begin to veer toward dissolution, yet again.

TEREZI: 1F WH4T YOU'R3 S4Y1NG 1S TRU3

TEREZI: 1F 4 STORY H4S TO B3 COMP3LL1NG TO B3 C4NON

TEREZI: DO YOU R34LLY TH1NK D1RK 1S TH3 TYP3 TO T3LL 4 COMP3LL1NG STORY

TEREZI: H1S T4ST3 1N 4N1M3 4LON3 1S CONC3RN1NG

TEREZI: 1 D1D 3NJOY TH3 ON3 4BOUT TH3 HORS3S THOUGH

ROSE: I don't think that counts as "anime."

ROSE: But that's why we're here, isn't it?

ROSE: To steer this story the right way.

TEREZI: 1 GU3SS

ROSE: But you're not enthusiastic.

TEREZI: S1GH

TEREZI: PL4Y1NG W1TH 4 WHOL3 WORLD L1K3 1T'S SOM3 K1ND OF SQU34KY LUSUS TOY DO3S SOUND L1K3 1T H4S 1TS MOM3NTS

TEREZI: 1 M34N

TEREZI: MY FR13NDS W4NT3D TO RUL3 YOUR L1TTL3 WORLD 4S P3TTY TYR4NTS 4FT3R W3 WON TH3 G4M3 OURS3LV3S

TEREZI: BUT DO YOU TH1NK TH4T WOULD'V3 B33N FOR TH3 B3ST FOR YOU 4ND 4LL TH3 OTH3R M4MM4L14N W31RDOS ON YOUR PL4N3T >:/

ROSE: It didn't happen because it didn't happen.

TEREZI: 1F 1 H4V3 TO H34R ON3 MOR3 T4UTOLOGY FROM 31TH3R OF YOU 1 4M GO1NG TO MOV3 TO TH3 WOODS 4ND PL4GU3 YOUR N3W SOC13TY 4S 4 H3RM1T BOG MONST3R FOR3V3R

ROSE: See, that's more the spirit.

ROSE: Become as myth, Terezi Pyrope, the troll under the bridge you were always meant to be.

ROSE: The village chalk supplies would be ravaged.

ROSE: Townsfolk will tell their children scary stories of the terrible dragon hiding in the woods.

ROSE: If they're not good, she might emerge from the swamp and moralize at them.

TEREZI: JUST B3C4US3 YOU'V3 3L3CT3D TO 4B4NDON TH3 CONC3PTS OF "GOOD" 4ND "B4D" 3NT1R3LY DO3SN'T M34N 1 DON'T ST1LL H4V3 MOR4L R3S3RV4T1ONS

TEREZI: BUT TH1S 1SN'T 4BOUT TH4T

TEREZI: 1'M T4LK1NG 4BOUT TH3 B4S1C 4B1L1TY OF 1NT3LL1G3NT B31NGS 1N 4LL R34L 4ND HYPOTH3T1C4L PL4N3S OF 3X1ST3NC3 TO G1V3 4 SH1T

TEREZI: 1 DON'T G1V3 4 SH1T

TEREZI: 4ND HON3STLY 1 H4V3 4 H4RD T1M3 UND3RST4ND1NG WHY YOU DO

TEREZI: WH3R3 D1D TH1S COM3 FROM

TEREZI: YOU D1DN'T DO MUCH "WORLDBU1LD1NG" WH3N YOU FUCK3D OFF FOR 3ONS 4ND L3T CH3SS P3OPL3 BU1LD YOUR PL4N3T

ROSE: That approach failed.

ROSE: Without an organized antagonistic force, the planet became fundamentally unsuited to relevance.

ROSE: Its dissolution was inevitable. And our fellow victors couldn't – or wouldn't – see.

ROSE: We only know of one way to perpetuate canon for sure. To play and defeat the game, and continue the life cycle of the genesis frog we cling to parasitically.

ROSE: This, obviously, has destructive consequences. Ones we spared the Earth by coming here and starting from a blank slate.

ROSE: Now it is protected, in the steady hands of a duly-elected ruler, sure to have a boring and uneventful perpetual term in office.

TEREZI: BL4H BL4H BL4H BL4H

TEREZI: SO YOU F33L B4D 4BOUT HOW MUCH YOU GUYS W3R3 B1G T33N F41LUR3S 4ND W4NT 4NOTH3R FL1P OF TH3 CO1N

ROSE: No, I don't feel "bad."

ROSE: I don't need to bargain with the past, or question it.

ROSE: Everything that happened brought us here.

ROSE: An imperfect mechanism, to be sure.

ROSE: Rusting in points, barely functional in others, occasionally relying on the labor of strange clowns.

ROSE: As the sheer number of doomed universes our actions in the game spun off should show, we barely understood the design at the time.

ROSE: Truly, we stumbled through the tape of the finish line ass-first, cheating all the way.

ROSE: But there was no table of judges waiting to adjudicate our performance by holding up little placards with numbers on them.

ROSE: We are the observers, and we are the judges.

ROSE: We won, and to the victor go the spoils.

ROSE: If you want a hand in making the rules of this new world, then don't storm off.

TEREZI: YOU'R3 TRY1NG TO L34D M3 TO 4CC3PT YOUR MOR4L FR4M3WORK

TEREZI: WH4T 1F NO ON3 SHOULD CONTROL 4 UN1V3RS3

TEREZI: 4LL W3 FOUGHT 4G41NST W4S MONST3RS WHO CONV3RT3D POW3R 1NTO CONTROL

TEREZI: 4ND NOT 3V3RYTH1NG W3 LOST F1GHT1NG TH3M W4S 4 M1ST4K3

TEREZI: TH3R3 W4S 4 LOT S4CR1F1C3D FOR TH3 1D34 OF "GOOD"

TEREZI: WH4T'S TH3 PO1NT 1N CONT1NU1NG TH1S STORY 1F TH4T W4S M34N1NGL3SS

TEREZI: 1F LORD 3NGL1SH W4S JUST HOLD1NG UP TH3 WORLD

TEREZI: 1F 1T T4K3S 4CT1NG L1K3 H1M TO K33P 1T 4L1V3

TEREZI: WOULDN'T 1T B3 B3TT3R TO JUST L3T 1T D13