[It's too late. He's already excited. He's fanning his hands in front of himself like he's trying to dry something off of him, too filled with nervous energy to consider that that's a terrible look on him.
This man's work inspired him!! Well... he inspired the people who made the cartoon that survived to fall Underground and THEN inspired him, but!! Without Mr. Andersen, there wouldn't have been the musical! Mettaton never would have felt that visceral connection of understanding, that he knew what Ariel was feeling and how he wanted so badly what she wanted and--]
Exact- But that's- Yes!! Yes, exactly, that's the entire point of ART!! To- to transform your chosen media and allow your work to transcend into something even GREATER than yourself! It create something so touching, so moving and powerful than it'll be remembered far longer than your own life, it's-- It's about living! Not through your own life, but through the lives of everyone you have ever touched, it's--
[He clasps his hands together and places them to his mouth, then takes a breath he cannot possibly need or have any use of.]
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This man's work inspired him!! Well... he inspired the people who made the cartoon that survived to fall Underground and THEN inspired him, but!! Without Mr. Andersen, there wouldn't have been the musical! Mettaton never would have felt that visceral connection of understanding, that he knew what Ariel was feeling and how he wanted so badly what she wanted and--]
Exact- But that's- Yes!! Yes, exactly, that's the entire point of ART!! To- to transform your chosen media and allow your work to transcend into something even GREATER than yourself! It create something so touching, so moving and powerful than it'll be remembered far longer than your own life, it's-- It's about living! Not through your own life, but through the lives of everyone you have ever touched, it's--
[He clasps his hands together and places them to his mouth, then takes a breath he cannot possibly need or have any use of.]
I love you.