"OK, so if we manifest your paint personalities, you get a SOUL." Matcha swished her tail. This was not going to be easy. Lynx looked at her in her mind. "Matcha, I think we have to take the paints literally to make it." "Nonsense, Lynx. We just need the attributes." Lynx watched on as the paint components mixed into a single heart. 

"O, it worked." Lynx was pretty surprised. "Yes, because the ATTRIBUTES make up the personality, not the paint itself Lynx." Matcha smiled and transferred the SOUL into the new owner. "Right Ink. Can you feel anything?" "I... I don't know? I've never really had natural emotions, so I don't know what to feel." "That's confusion." Lynx pointed out. Matcha nodded. 

"So, if I show you this..." she showed Ink a small cat. "AW!!!! I WANT IT! GIMME!!" Ink squealed. Matcha checked out 'JOY'. 

"Hey Cat, I told you to put the shirt back, did y-" Nightmare looked at the two, Ink was cuddling a small kitty while Matcha watched him. "Yes, she did. I made sure she folded it." "O...K...?" Nightmare slammed the door closed. 

"Matcha, I feel... weird..." Matcha looked up at him. "!! W-what..." Lynx looked at the screen. "H-he's... crying..." she didn't understand. She took control and examined the paints. "I think it's the blue-" "I... I looked at my sketchbook and flipped to the page Flowerfell... I-I looked at Frisk and my heart throbbed with this... pain... like a void I can't describe..." Lynx froze. "You can feel empathy!" she looked at the page. The picture of Frisk really was heartbreaking...

"I d-don't... think... I can get... used to THIS feeling..." Lynx cupped his cheekbone. "Ink, you have empathy now, you can feel love and mercy and kindness! You can finally be the Creator you were meant to be!"

Ink looked away. "I-it's... really... painful... this feeling..." He flipped to other pages. "U-Underfell... Flowertale... Geno... I... I made these tortures? W-why did I not stop?" he asked. "You didn't have the feeling of empathy back then, you couldn't understand what they could, you didn't have the ability to feel what they felt. You just didn't have the attribute." Lynx sat next to him. 

"C-can Error destroy these AUs...?" Lynx looked at him. "What?" "I-it hurts to see them suffer... I... I don't want them to suffer... I... I want them to be happy..." Lynx looked down. "Then change their tales." Ink shook his head. "N-no... with my new emotions I might screw up the tale and make it even more painful... Lynx, you can connections to Nightmare and indirectly Error. Please, contact him. He HAS to destroy these AUs, the people there are suffering too much! We can't let them suffer a second longer! They... they can have a peaceful, kinder life in Heaven, can't they?" 

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Lynx cupped her head. "Ink's mercy... it's not what I had thought... he can feel empathy, but he feels the other AUs suffer too much." Error looked at her. "Ink loves his creations, why would he want me to take them down?" "He doesn't want them to suffer, Error! They are going through unspeakable tragedies! He wants to save them...." 

Error looked away. "So, he's not thinking of Balance... but of suffering?" "He hates Flowerfell and Flowertale now... their stories are broken, and he wants you to destroy Darkness!Dream, Shattered!Dream and the other broken Dreams and Swap!Nightmares." Lynx hugged herself. "Ink's empathy is going to be the death of their AUs..." 

Error sat next to her. "I get it. Ink feels the way I feel now, but a different chapter. I want the place to be Balanced, he wants to stop their suffering, isn't that a win-win?" Lynx shrugged. "I don't know... He... I don't..." Error sighed and got up.

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"I... I can end their suffering, right? I can save them, r-right? I can save them..." Ink stroked the smooth paper. His hard work. Years and years of crafting, only to realize, he was making a torture room. Ink sat down and looked at each world. "Maybe... I can..." he gasped, seeing one tale: B-daTale. 

"Lynx's AU... why is it so... wrecked...?" he entered, only to find dust, dust upon dust upon dust. He found strange items too, a locket with 'BFFs' on it. A cute sketch of what seems to be good Nightmare, and a... crown? He wasn't sure.

"My... best friend... Nighty..." Ink read the words on the innocent drawing. It had LYNX in crude writing on it too. "Lynx's best friend, hum... !!" he gasped. "I can do what Lynx said... I can change their tale!"

He painted, painted and painted and kept painting, paint, paint, painting and just kept painting. 

"I... I got it!" he gasped. 

"I just need to transfer the broken AUs."

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"Where is this?" Shattered!Dream asked. "Welcome to your new home!" 

The name read Mercy!Lynx, AU Foundations.

"The feathers?" Darkness!Dream looked around. 

"This is an AU for all those who are suffering, hopefully I can actually make this happy." Ink looked around. He had gotten a very sad, lonely Nightmare who had no Dream and no nothing. 

"BROTHER!!" Shattered and Darkness Dreams went to hug him. Nightmare chuckled, giggling at them. "I've got brothers!" 

Ink sat down and made new notes. "E-Error... and Nightmare... and..." he looked up. "Lynx, good news for you."

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Lynx sat down in front of Horror, who looked at her hungrily. "May I?" he held an axe in his hand. Lynx froze. "HA!" Horror chopped a taco in half. "Share a taco with you?" he roared with laughter. Lynx giggled quietly.

"LYNX! EVERYONE!" Ink barged in, his new SOUL thumping with joy. "Lynx, I made a new AU, Error can destroy the old ones without having to hurt anyone!" Lynx looked at him. "Wow, really?" Ink nodded, looking at Error. "Error, come on, I got something for you!" he walked in front of Error, but stopped. "O, yeah, Haphephobia." Ink stood there. "Error, as I now feel feelings and empathy, I give you the privilege of destroying the empty AUs. I transferred the people into the new one, so now it's just one AU!" Error looked at him, crashed, rebooted, looked at him, crashed again, rebooted, looked at him, crashed a third time and rebooted. "FOR REAL??????" 

"Yes? For real?" Ink sat on the coffee table. Lynx saw the other Bad Sanses and Dream Sanses come in. "W-what's happening?" Dust asked. Lynx told them the whole thing.

"Yiper-doodle-kanny-hectre-what??" Blue spat out. "Yes, a new AU, one AU, no X-event, nothing." Cross looked down. "That means..." Lynx petted him. "Yeah, you get to build a home without foraging other AUs. Ink may not be able to revive the dead, but he made you a splendid replacement!" Cross looked at Ink. "So he just needed a SOUL. Nice." 

Ink looked at them. "Everyone, let's move to your new home!" Ink made a portal and they all stepped through.

"Wow..." Blue looked around. "All the AUs... In one place..." Dream exclaimed. Ink placed his paintbrush down. "Yes, and from now on, no more creation of AUs. I fail at making truces, but consider this a gift from me to you." Ink said. He sketched a draft of the new idea he would add into this big AU. 

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Error took out his strings and ripped up the old, unwanted AUs. 

He heard someone else ripping. 

"H-hello?" 

"Error..." 

"L-Lynx...?" he asked. The person didn't respond. "Lynx, I know you're here around me, stop laying hide-and-seek!"

"I am not that cat." 

O snap...

It was Fate...

"My son worked very hard on these AUs, why throw them away?" 

"Actually, miss Fate, your son has made the biggest AU of all time, fitting each and every creation he has made in his entire lifetime. Whereas YOU should stop forcing his own job onto him and let him feel free." Matcha spat at her. 

"Why I never-"

"And since your son can feel feelings, don't make him do something he wouldn't want to do. He as a being has a right. You are a being too, so YOU have a right too, where's YOUR right?" Matcha sat in the air.

"I... I've never thought of that..." Fate looked away. "Well, you should. You are a being, Error is a being. Ink is a being. Even the voices could be beings." Matcha smiled. Man this princess knows her words.

"Right, right... Carry on then."

Lynx smiled and hugged Matcha. 

"Finally, Ink has changed for the better. 

He can see the colors of the rainbow!"

(A/n): I'm going to use this for a homework. Entry for AlysaKimera competition btw.