ok, so. you know how i told you i was a time cop? this is relevant to that. well. i'm not a time cop, that was bullshit. i just study it. anyway, think of time as a line.
[he helpfully draws a line. on a piece of paper.]
we usually call that a timeline for short. [yes, he is making an excuse to pun at a time like this.] a timeline is just stuff that happens in time overall based on people's actions. there's more than one timeline, an' the stuff that differs from it can be really big or really small.
[he draws some branching paths on the initial line, but they all stay parallel of each other]
time just goes on no matter what. that's normal. anyway. in one of those branches, it's likely that you went undying. since wrath talked about time and diverging branches, so i'm pretty sure she knows about timelines.
[he could stop there. the existence of varying timelines is enough for what undyne asked. he stares at the paper he drew the lines on.]
but there's probably a reason she knows your differing path more than anyone else's here. recently, in the underground, time's been... different. i don't remember when it started, but there's been an anomaly in the-- uh, in time and space. [he's trying to keep it simple for his current audience.] timelines jumping left and right, stopping and starting... it's been a mess. time just resets. i dunno what first caused it.
[and that's not even a lie, since the human's first appearance doesn't coincide with how far back sans remembers the resets happening. there's no way they spent that long in the ruins.]
the point is-- with our time just going back and forth like that, it's likely you've gone undying even in a recent time, and you just don't... remember it. no one remembers resets. some people get a sort of deja vu, and i can usually tell when it happens, but.
[but that's getting way too close to sans admitting resets made him give up which undyne probably won't appreciate, so he just shrugs.]
long story short, there's a good chance you've done that whole shtick before because time in the underground is messed up. the end.
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ok, so. you know how i told you i was a time cop? this is relevant to that. well. i'm not a time cop, that was bullshit. i just study it. anyway, think of time as a line.
[he helpfully draws a line. on a piece of paper.]
we usually call that a timeline for short. [yes, he is making an excuse to pun at a time like this.] a timeline is just stuff that happens in time overall based on people's actions. there's more than one timeline, an' the stuff that differs from it can be really big or really small.
[he draws some branching paths on the initial line, but they all stay parallel of each other]
time just goes on no matter what. that's normal. anyway. in one of those branches, it's likely that you went undying. since wrath talked about time and diverging branches, so i'm pretty sure she knows about timelines.
[he could stop there. the existence of varying timelines is enough for what undyne asked. he stares at the paper he drew the lines on.]
but there's probably a reason she knows your differing path more than anyone else's here. recently, in the underground, time's been... different. i don't remember when it started, but there's been an anomaly in the-- uh, in time and space. [he's trying to keep it simple for his current audience.] timelines jumping left and right, stopping and starting... it's been a mess. time just resets. i dunno what first caused it.
[and that's not even a lie, since the human's first appearance doesn't coincide with how far back sans remembers the resets happening. there's no way they spent that long in the ruins.]
the point is-- with our time just going back and forth like that, it's likely you've gone undying even in a recent time, and you just don't... remember it. no one remembers resets. some people get a sort of deja vu, and i can usually tell when it happens, but.
[but that's getting way too close to sans admitting resets made him give up which undyne probably won't appreciate, so he just shrugs.]
long story short, there's a good chance you've done that whole shtick before because time in the underground is messed up. the end.