Poor baby. So little idea why this is happening, so quick to assume it's because they did something wrong, and so many old habits and beliefs they will need to unlearn if they're going to make it through this.

It doesn't help that their current opponent is one of the mentally weirder monsters in Undertale. The Vegetoid seems to have a sort of selective intelligence; it can speak a little, but it doesn't seem to be aware of this fact, and denies it every time it's spoken to.

It's smart enough to understand that a hand on the stomach can indicate hunger and that vegetable-shaped bullets resemble food, but not smart enough to realize that white bullets hurt people, and that its violent behavior can scare people away from touching ANY of its bullets, even the beneficial green ones.

Put all of this together, and it leaves Frisk in a dangerous position. The only way to placate the Vegetoid peacefully is to accept its "meal", but the thought of doing that brings up memories the poor kid doesn't want to relive. Especially not when their HP is low, and they don't yet know that they can self-resurrect.

Also, on a meta note, THAT RIBBON. I knew that ribbon was going to be trouble the moment I started adding it, and sure enough, I have nearly forgotten to put it in almost every panel where it appears. Heaven help me.

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The work-in-progress preview for page 44 of my Undertale fan comic, Just Cause, is ready! Here's one of my favorite panels:
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Page 43 is done! If you want to read the comic from the beginning, you can see all the published pages of Just Cause here.

Poor Napstablook - they're so sad, but they can't even cry without making people want to vacate the room. And poor Frisk, who very much wants to vacate the room, but is hampered by their barely-developed social skills.

The kid can be a bit two-faced at times, but to be fair, honesty is hard for a child who's afraid they'll be punished for telling the truth. Especially when that punishment could be death. For them, in a situation like this, lies and truth are more a matter of survival than morality.

And now, on top of everything else, they've got a voice in their head that isn't theirs. Let's hope it's friendly.

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The work-in-progress preview for page 43 of my Undertale fan comic, Just Cause, is ready! Here's one of my favorite panels, with no context. :P

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Page 42 of my Undertale fan comic, Just Cause, is finally ready! You can read the comic from the beginning here.
 

Poor kid. Video game logic is confusing and cruel when it suddenly applies in real life.
 
Fun fact: I actually completely rewrote the script for this scene before I started drawing it. The first version felt too much like a cross between filler and an overview, and didn't reveal enough about the world for my taste.
 
I think this version does a better job of introducing Frisk to parts of the world they hadn't previously known about, and revealing bits of their mindset and past.
 
It also introduced me to the dilemma of how to show that a character is holding their breath, haha. *Resorts to spelling it out*

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I'm a little more than halfway done this giant monster of a page, and the work-in-progress preview is finally ready.

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For everyone else who wants a sneak peek, here's one of my favorite panels. And you thought real-life non-magic flies were bad!
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​The next page is ready! You can read the comic from the beginning here.

Page 40 of Just Cause is here! *Party blower noises*
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​Poor Frisk. They're not the most optimistic of emotionally battered little kids, so Toriel's motherly behavior confuses them deeply, and it's all to easy for them to jump to the worst possible conclusions.

When I was first writing this scene, I ran into a bit of a dilemma: if they'd been left to their own devices, Frisk's fear and desire not to upset Toriel would've kept them in that room until she returned, which would have brought the plot to a standstill and prevented some key scenes.

That being the case, I needed to give them a bit of a push, so... Flowey to the rescue!

(Seriously, Toriel, was it really worth leaving them alone?)

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In the upcoming page of Just Cause, Toriel is attempting to mother the deeply confused, emotionally battered, and less than optimistic random human who just crash landed into her life.

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