Frisk opens their mouth to bite back and say that monsters weren't dangerous to humans at all, but they deflate at the last question. "Yeah. Situation's kinda... complicated." They sigh, listlessly skewering some lettuce from their salad. "Hypothetically, monsters have the ability absorb human SOULs and get ridiculously powerful. That's why people were so afraid of them. But the catch is that without that power, they're wet tissue paper to anybody with enough killing intent. Hell, a single kid was able to take out more than thirty monsters in a few days down there. But despite that fusion thing never actually, you know, happening, humans got paranoid and decided to get rid of the monsters. There wasn't a single human casualty in the war, that's how one-sided it was.
"Thing is, though, things got super screwed up down in the cavern once a human fell down and got adopted by the royal family. They somehow got through the barrier with the prince a little while later, but both of 'em got killed by a human village up above. That was kind of the breaking point for the king. He snapped, declared a war on humanity, and decided to collect seven human SOULs from anybody else who fell down to shatter the barrier. I don't think he expected to be able to actually follow through on that, but when another kid fell down, a kid just weak enough that he could kill 'em... the dude understandably flipped out and disappeared for parts unknown, leaving his wife who was NOT on board with the plan at all in charge. She tried to calm people down, but...
"Shit happened. Primarily that previous thing I mentioned about a single freaked-out kid who got enough killing intent to slaughter all of those monsters. It got... bad, after that. The queen had to section off a village on the border of the cavern as a human safe-zone because everybody else was clamoring to murder the next human who fell down. Then some tapes about the adopted kid went public, at least the parts that made them out to be super terrible because the person who released them has a serious hate-on for humanity, and everybody wanted blood. As luck would have it, I was the next unlucky kid to fall down.
"So... yeah. I admit, breaking the barrier without turning around public opinion would be a hugely dumb move since it'd get all the monsters killed. Which is why I had to be Charmer McCharmypants the entire time I was down there, to try and make people see reason. I was actually about to be put on trial for some crap the person who got all the hate going framed me for, which was probably going to be my big chance to turn everyone around."
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"Thing is, though, things got super screwed up down in the cavern once a human fell down and got adopted by the royal family. They somehow got through the barrier with the prince a little while later, but both of 'em got killed by a human village up above. That was kind of the breaking point for the king. He snapped, declared a war on humanity, and decided to collect seven human SOULs from anybody else who fell down to shatter the barrier. I don't think he expected to be able to actually follow through on that, but when another kid fell down, a kid just weak enough that he could kill 'em... the dude understandably flipped out and disappeared for parts unknown, leaving his wife who was NOT on board with the plan at all in charge. She tried to calm people down, but...
"Shit happened. Primarily that previous thing I mentioned about a single freaked-out kid who got enough killing intent to slaughter all of those monsters. It got... bad, after that. The queen had to section off a village on the border of the cavern as a human safe-zone because everybody else was clamoring to murder the next human who fell down. Then some tapes about the adopted kid went public, at least the parts that made them out to be super terrible because the person who released them has a serious hate-on for humanity, and everybody wanted blood. As luck would have it, I was the next unlucky kid to fall down.
"So... yeah. I admit, breaking the barrier without turning around public opinion would be a hugely dumb move since it'd get all the monsters killed. Which is why I had to be Charmer McCharmypants the entire time I was down there, to try and make people see reason. I was actually about to be put on trial for some crap the person who got all the hate going framed me for, which was probably going to be my big chance to turn everyone around."