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By: Metta World Peace
Published: Oct 30, 2023
Lately, a lot of people have been asking me, “How do you feel about this situation with Israel and Gaza? I’m sure you know people on both sides.”
And I tell them, “I know Israeli Jews, and I know American Jews. And both have relatives, friends and loved ones who were raped, tortured and killed Oct. 7.”
Hamas has inflicted terror on innocent Israelis — more than 1,400 of whom were murdered in a single day of savagery not seen since ISIS’s horrific attacks in the 2010s.
Yet every day, new painful details of rape, mutilation and torture continue to emerge. 
Hamas’ terrorist attack on the Tribe of Nova music festival was heartbreaking.
It was something straight out of a movie and would have been America’s worst mass-shooting event of all time had it happened on US soil.
At least 260 young people were butchered (60 were killed in the worst such shooting in American history, at a 2016 Las Vegas festival).
Having grown up in Queens’ Queensbridge projects, I’ve lived through many traumatic events, but I’ve never seen anything like this: 80% of bodies were tortured, including electrocuted, burned alive, limbs cut off, eyes gouged out and, again and again, the targeted rape of women and girls.
Captors referred to very young girls they kidnapped as “concubines.”
Hamas took at least 222 hostages from many nations, including America, into Gaza, where evidence has already emerged of continuing sexual abuse.
As someone who has dedicated my post-NBA career to ensuring people get the mental-health support they need, I cannot fathom the mental-health crisis this terrorist attack has inflicted on Israelis.
What’s happened in Israel isn’t war; it is inhumanity.
There were mass rapes so brutal they broke their victim’s pelvises — women, grandmothers, children.
A baby was cut out of a pregnant woman and beheaded; then the mother was beheaded.
This must be unequivocally condemned. 
Let’s now talk about what’s happening on the other side of the border, where I also know people who are living in fear after Hamas decided to put its own brutal agenda ahead of the interest of the Palestinian people. Gazans too are being terrorized by Hamas’ barbaric actions.
I know Palestinians who live in fear of those same terrorists, and we must have empathy for the children in Palestine who have been hurt.
We are all human, and empathy is an essential value of the human experience. 
We must also recognize there is no moral equivalence between terrorist killers and the innocents they destroy so brutally.
Everyone must have the courage to say this when mobs of antisemites are marching through America’s college campuses and the streets of cities around the world, chanting “gas the Jews” and tearing down pictures of kidnapped Israeli children.
As an activist myself, I know firsthand there is a better path: a path toward peace and love that does not start with justifying terrorizing innocent civilians.
Pro-Hamas rallies have taken place in my hometown of New York under the guise of promoting peace.
These rallies, unfortunately, have done nothing to promote peace; instead, they justify terror against innocent civilians.
The participants displayed a concerning lack of condemnation for Hamas.
While freedom of expression is crucial, it’s essential to distinguish between advocating for peace and supporting groups that refuse to condemn atrocities against innocent civilians.
Responsible activism should unequivocally denounce all forms of terrorism.
These rallies failed to live up to this basic standard.
If you can’t condemn harming innocents amidst horrific images of Jewish babies in cages, then you need to check yourself.
If you want to help Palestinians, the best way to support them is by first supporting tangible steps toward peace by freeing Gaza from Hamas and letting the Palestinian people decide their own future without being controlled by a repressive terrorist organization.
Free Gaza from Hamas and its injustice once and for all.
Only then will we have a chance at peace.
Metta World Peace, born Ronald William Artest Jr., is a former NBA player who played for 19 seasons and won an NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers. He is a staunch advocate for mental health, even auctioning his championship ring to benefit mental-health charities.
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Reminder that concubines are sex-slaves, referred to euphemistically as "those whom your right hand possess."
https://quranx.com/Hadith/Muslim/USC-MSA/Book-8/Hadith-3432/
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (Allah her pleased with him) reported that at the Battle of Hanain Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) sent an army to Autas and encountered the enemy and fought with them. Having overcome them and taken them captives, the Companions of Allah's Messenger (may peace te upon him) seemed to refrain from having intercourse with captive women because of their husbands being polytheists. Then Allah, Most High, sent down regarding that: " And women already married, except those whom your right hands possess (iv. 24)" (i. e. they were lawful for them when their 'Idda period came to an end).
https://quranx.com/4.24
And [also prohibited to you are all] married women except those your right hands possess. [This is] the decree of Allah upon you. And lawful to you are [all others] beyond these, [provided] that you seek them [in marriage] with [gifts from] your property, desiring chastity, not unlawful sexual intercourse. So for whatever you enjoy [of marriage] from them, give them their due compensation as an obligation. And there is no blame upon you for what you mutually agree to beyond the obligation. Indeed, Allah is ever Knowing and Wise.
https://askimam.org/public/question_detail/17032
One question that still remains is whether slavery still legally prevails anywhere in the Islamic world and whether it can be successfully implemented in this age… Firstly, the prisoners have to be captured in 'Jihaad' in the true sense of the word… According to Islamic Law, captive female prisoners are also part and parcel of the booty. One fifth of the booty has to be first distributed to the needy, orphans, etc. The remaining four-fifths should then be distributed among the soldiers who participated in the war. The distribution can only take effect after the booty is brought into Islamic territory. The Ameerul-Mu'mineen (Head of the Islamic State) remains the guardian of the female prisoners until he allocates them to the soldiers. Only after a soldier has been allotted a slave girl, and made the owner of her, will she become his lawful possession. After she spends a period called 'Istibraa', which is the elapse of one menstrual period, it becomes permissible for her owner to have relations with her.
Islamically, they're fair game by the terrorists.
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I'm not surprised by Hamas brutality. But I was surprised by the scale of their attack. Not to this degree. Wiping out entire communities, messing with nuclear power, the most powerful country in the region, a country with a trauma, great trauma from the past, with a memory of the Holocaust and all the Nazis did in the past century.
They opened the gates of hell on the Palestinian people. This is how irresponsible this group of people are. They are willing to actually sacrifice many Palestinian children, the entire Palestinian people and use them as fuel to just achieve their ideological agendas, their religious agendas. They are careless. They don't care for the human life.
We have to separate between what so-called Palestinian cause and Hamas cause. Hamas cause is a sick one. It's coming from the pit of hell. And they need to be removed from power.
This is my message. As an ex-Hamas member, as a son of one of Hamas founders, that enough of this. If we don't stop them now, the next war is going to be deadlier. And only god knows what will happen next if Hamas is not finished as soon as possible.
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iamthecrime · 1 year
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Mad respect to Soft Kill the band!
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lascenizas · 1 year
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The Last Movie I Watched...
Untold: Malice at the Palace (2021, Dir.: Floyd Russ)
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Woooo I’m watching the Malice in the Palace doc and the amount of dogwhistles that were used by the media while talking about the incident… Jermaine O’Neal made a point when Hockey Players have been doing this for decades, and when they do it they are immediately labeled “thugs”. Not saying they should’ve been out there fighting but its interesting how the media discussed it
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African American celebrities and their African Ancestral doppelganger
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Lol I don't look like no African LoL.
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radical-revolution · 8 months
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Buddha's Words On
Loving Kindness
FROM KARANIYA METTA SUTTA
This is what should be done
By one who is skilled in goodness, And who knows the path of peace:
Let them be able and upright,
Straightforward and gentle in speech.
Humble and not conceited,
Contented and easily satisfied,
Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.
Peaceful and calm and wise and skillful, Not proud or demanding in nature.
Let them not do the slightest thing
That the wise would later reprove.
Wishing: in gladness and in safety.
May all beings be at ease.
Whatever living beings there may be;
Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none, The great or the mighty, medium, short or small,
The seen and the unseen,
Those living near and far away.
Those born and to-be-born -
May all beings be at ease!
Let none deceive another,
Or despise any being in any state.
Let none through anger or ill-will
Wish harm upon another.
Even as a mother protects with her life
Her child, her only child, So with a boundless heart
Should one cherish all living beings;
Radiating kindness over the entire world:
Spreading upwards to the skies, And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and unbounded,
Freed from hatred and ill-will.
Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down
Free from drowsiness,
One should sustain this recollection.
This is said to be the sublime abiding.
By not holding to fixed views,
The pure-hearted one, having clarity of vision.
Being freed from all sense desires,
Is not born again into this world.
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mahayanapilgrim · 6 months
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Loving-Kindness
This is what should be done By one who is skilled in goodness, And who knows the path of peace:
Let them be able and upright, Straightforward and gentle in speech, Humble and not conceited, Contented and easily satisfied,
Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.
Peaceful and calm and wise and skillful, Not proud or demanding in nature.
Let them not do the slightest thing That the wise would later reprove.
Wishing: In gladness and in safety, May all beings be at ease.
Whatever living beings there may be;
Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none, The great or the mighty, medium, short or small, The seen and the unseen, Those living near and far away, Those born and to-be-born - May all beings be at ease!
Let none deceive another,
Or despise any being in any state.
Let none through anger or ill-will
Wish harm upon another.
Even as a mother protects with her life Her child, her only child, So with a boundless heart Should one cherish all living beings;
Radiating kindness over the entire world:
Spreading upwards to the skies, And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and unbounded,
Freed from hatred and ill-will.
Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down Free from drowsiness,
One should sustain this recollection.
This is said to be the sublime abiding.
By not holding to fixed views, The pure-hearted one, having clarity of vision, Being freed from all sense desires, Will not be born again into this world.
Metta Sutta
The Buddha
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river-in-the-woods · 1 year
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How to practice Metta
Mettā means benevolence, loving-kindness, friendliness, amity, good will, and active interest in others (Wiki)
The benefits of metta meditation
Aside from the incredibly positive feeling of love and connection that metta brings, it can also benefit one’s magical pursuits.
- Protection: The feeling of love and amity generated by metta meditation can be overwhelming, pacifying or plain repulsive to negative entities. Metta can’t replace a proper banishing when one is troubled by harmful magic/spirits, but prolonged practice does have a cleansing and vitalising effect on the practitioner that makes them more resilient to magical and spiritual harm.
- Healing: When metta is generated strongly, it can provide a great sense of peace and connection to the world that generally aids in healing one’s mind and body. This cannot be a substitute for the use of medicinal and psychiatric treatment, but it can act as a great embellishment.
- Cultivation: Kindness and generosity are cited as necessary qualities for spiritual attainment across cultures and religions, and this is no different in Buddhism. Compassion is a prerequisite for enlightenment, and metta meditation is one such way to cultivate this.
- Ritual work: Metta can be done prior to workings that bless, heal, pacify and unify. This puts one in a more beneficial state of mind to facilitate these workings and produce greater merit.
How does one generate metta even for those they hate?
To do this, first we must understand interdependence. Everything we are, everything we have, came from someone or something else. The parents that bore you, the people who raised you, the house you live in, the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the laws that govern your country.
Every being is part of the so called web of life - we all exert some influence upon that web, and therefore upon the lives of countless beings beyond our perception.
Since all beings are interdependent, then it becomes clear that we should wish for everyone to be free from the five poisons: attachment, aversion, ignorance, pride, and jealousy.
If your enemy were to be liberated from the five poisons, and filled with happiness that is free from sorrow, they would have the wisdom and compassion to never harm you or anyone else. Likewise, if every being that exists is freed from the five poisons, suffering itself would cease to exist.
Since sentient beings are caught up in the cycle of rebirth, we meditate upon the idea that all beings, at some point in a past life, were kind and generous to us, and that through repeated negative circumstance and karmic habituation, they have become blind to their benevolent nature and thus cause harm to other beings.
The Four Immeasurables
So, the aim of the practice is to generate metta for all sentient beings, without exception. Whether it’s beings you love, hate, don’t know or don’t care about. Metta is about unconditional benevolence for all. Of course this is not an easy thing to do, but, that is the way to do it properly. One gets better at generating metta the more they practice.
A common way to begin is to recite the Four Immeasurables:
May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness May all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering May all being enjoy pleasure that is free of sorrow And may all beings exist in equanimity, free from attachment and aversion.
The source of your metta
However, since it is difficult to feel genuine love and compassion for all beings without exception, we can start with the beings we do care about.
Imagine someone in your life that you love and trust without fail. Whether it is a parent, teacher, friend, relative, spirit, deity, or otherwise. It can even be a fictional character you admire for their virtue and heroism, if that puts you in the right state of mind. But preferably it would be a real person who you know and love.
Visualise them resting comfortably in your heart, and remember your fondness for them. They are held gently in your memory, an overflowing spring that never runs dry. Through their love and devotion to you and others, they are the reason you understand what compassion is at all, and it would be a blessing indeed if every being had the honour of knowing them the way you do.
Rest in this state of loving kindness. Identify with it as much as possible.
That precious person’s metta is your own, and it is important that you recognise it as your metta. You are not a mere vessel that channels the benevolence of another source. Through experiencing metta, you become its source. You are that benevolence and it is inseparable from you.
Then, when you’re ready, let it radiate out from you. It should feel relaxed and effortless, as if you are a sun and your very nature is to shine. Everything and everyone this energy touches is purified, blessed, and returned to their most harmonious state. In the pure expanse of metta, all obstacles are dissolved, all negative entities are pacified, and all beings benefit.
To conclude the meditation, dedicate the merit accumulated from this practice to all beings.
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officialhouseguest · 6 months
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just stopping in the tag to let everyone know that despite having basically negative basketball knowledge (or knowledge about sports in general basically) i managed to guess metta world peace correctly on the masked singer because of celebrity big brother… never say BB isn’t educational
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Also while we're here, I know that if you talk to Hilda(post abyssals? Maybe?) She'll whisper you something you'll need in the future or something like that and, um. Hilda-
As for Deena's dad we are all just collectively ignoring what the main dev is saying on it and it's glorious. Did someone say something? Must've been the wind.
But anyhow, as for the types, Normal, Ghost, and Psychic are kicked out and Arcane is placed down instead. So back to 7.
The Hilda response will actually be after the main story and back at the Hidden Village, but it's kind of funny that the conversation before that was literally "I know that you're the King of Monsters now and the world is finally at peace, you're effectively immortal because of your mother Nara, and you have a army of Nexomon and humans by your side...But, it's always great to have a backup plan in case something bad happens, right?" That's definitely something that would've made the MC nervous right off the bat.
Yes, I also ignored JV's "lore drops" before I even knew the Discord channel existed, but it's fun to think about how much of a moral conundrum Ulzar and the N1 Protag would've gone through in-game when they had the chance to see Nara's son. Of course, they probably assumed it's some kind of genetic memory mumbo-jumbo or whatever secret Nexomon magic she has access to as Omnicron's kid; but Deena would just calmly explain that she doesn't have to explain everything that goes on in her body but assures them that her kid is a testament to humanity's best and will eventually unify both their species once he's of age...Then she's internally banging her head against a wall wondering how humans can be so smart but so stupid!? (A question that definitely popped up more than once in her lifetime, I'm sure of it :)
While I don't know how the Arcane-type will work in N3 besides the theme of magic (ie. witches and psychics) is already on a slippery slope, but it was also somewhat confirmed that there's going to be dual-type Nexomon as well. Either way, I'm sure the Abyssals' creator (Metta or bust) is going to have a field day with all the new combinations to either insult his siblings with "stronger" descendants (hc the main element Abyssals) or create another host of mutants to mess with the main cast for the fun of it.
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The Quest for Buddhism (111)
Buddhist cosmology
Brahmaviharas - The heart of compassion [Part1]
The heart of compassion is the basis of Buddhism. “May all living beings be blessed (Bhava: Sabbhe-Sattar. Bhavantu)”. 
In the Tevijja Sutta, "The Threefold Knowledge" in the Digha Nikaya (DN) or "Collection of the Long Discourses", a group of young Brahmins consulted Lord Buddha about the methods to seek fellowship/companionship/communion with Brahma. He replied that he personally knows the world of Brahma and the way to it, and explains the meditative method for reaching it by using an analogy of the resonance of the conch shell of the astamangala:
A monk suffuses the world in the four directions with a mind of benevolence, then above, and below, and all around – the whole world from all sides, completely, with a benevolent, all-embracing, great, boundless, peaceful and friendly mind … Just as a powerful conch-blower makes himself heard with no great effort in all four directions, so too is there no limit to the unfolding of this heart-liberating benevolence. This is a way to communion with Brahma.
The Buddha then said that the monk must follow this up with an equal suffusion of the entire world with mental projections of compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity (regarding all beings with an eye of equality).
In the two Metta Suttas of the Anguttara Nikaya (AN), the Buddha states that those who practice radiating the four immeasurables in this life and die "without losing it" are destined for rebirth in a heavenly realm in their next life. In addition, if such a person is a Buddhist disciple (Skt: śrāvaka, Pāli: sāvaka) and thus realises the three characteristics of the five aggregates, then after his heavenly life, this disciple will reach nirvana. Even if one is not a disciple, one will still attain the heavenly life, after which, however depending on what his past deeds may have been, one may be reborn in a hell realm, or as an animal or hungry ghost.
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仏教の探求 (111)
仏教の宇宙論
��無量心 (しむりょうしん) 〜慈悲のこころ(その1)
慈悲のこころは仏教の基本である。「生きとし生けるものが幸せでありますように (巴: サッベ-サッター・バーヴァントゥ・スッキータッター)」というのが、その基本となる精神である。
長部 (ちょうぶ、巴: ディーガ・ニカーヤ/DN)の「三重の知識」、三明経 (さんみょうきょう、巴: テーヴィッジャ・スッタ)に、若いバラモンの一団が梵天 (ぼんてん, 巴: ブラフマー) との交わり・友交・交信を求める方法についてブッダに相談する場面がある。ブッダは、梵天の世界とそこへの道を自ら知っていると答え、そこに至る瞑想法を法螺貝の共鳴になぞらえて説明した。
僧侶は四方の世界を慈悲の心で満たし、次に上、下、そして周り、つまり四方から完全に、慈悲深く、すべてを包み込み、大きく、無限に、平和で友好的な心で全世界を満たす・・・ちょうど、強力な法螺吹きは四方で大きな努力なしに自分の声が聞こえるように、この心を解放する慈悲を展開するのに制限はないのである。これは梵天との交信への道である。
そして、ブッダは、僧侶はこれに続いて、慈悲、同情の喜び、平静 (すべての存在を平等な目で見る) の心の投影を全世界に等しく充満させなければならないと述べている。
増支部 (ぞうしぶ、巴: アングッタラ・ニカーヤ/AN) の二つの慈経(メッタ・スッタ)では、現世で四無量心 (しむりょうしん、梵: アプラマーニャ, 巴: アッパマナー) を放ち、「失わずに」死んだ者は、来世で天界 (梵天界:ブラフマー・ロカ) に生まれ変わるように定められていると述べている。また、そのような人が声聞 (しょうもん、梵:シュラーヴァカ、巴: サーヴァカ、仏弟子のこと) であり、それによって五大要素の三つの特性を実現すれば、その仏弟子は天上界の後に涅槃に達することになる。弟子でなくても天寿を全うし、その後、過去の行いによって地獄に生まれ変わるか、動物や餓鬼に生まれ変わるかである。
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ABOUT:
NAME; Printy Osseus
NICKNAME; Kiddo, Kid, Brat, Empty Monster.
AGE; 19 years old
BIRTHDAY; October 23th
RACE; UNKNOW
GENDER; NONE (She/Them)
HEIGHT; 1,50 CM
STATUS; ALIVE.
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BACKGROUND:
VOID created Printy with the objective of having a daughter to care and love for. But things didn't go so well.
For not being created in normal way, Printy end up not having a SOUL of their own. For most part of her life Printy had to rely on Lisa(JT), Gina(PT), Jeffrey(PV), Angela(IT), George(BR) and Leopold(KD). They had to give part of their SOUL essence to Printy so she could, not only live normally, but also be able to feel emotions too.
When VOID wasn't able to look out for Printy, he left her in the care of the Dreemurr's. There she could play and be part of a bigger family, of course VOID took care of her the best he could, while being the personal royal scientist of the king and queen.
Things changed when Chara fell into the RUINS and came to live with the Dreemurr's, her and Asriel became friends really fast, and then the other became her friends too. One day, in one of the humans SOUL check up with Printy and the others, Chara started to ask "why should I give part of the essence of my SOUL to them? why can't you just make a SOUL for them in the same way you made them?".
A few year later on the others stopped sharing their essence with Printy, one by one. Leopold was the only who keep sharing their SOUL with Printy, but being the only one sharing started injuring him. The others notice, and with that Chara was able to convince them to confront Printy.
Before they could confront them Printy took Asgore SOUL with only Chara and Asriel seeing it. Later on they told Toriel about who tried to hide it was Printy fault, but Chara was able to tell everything to every single monster in the underground.
The day they finally confronted Printy was a tragedy it ended with Printy taking Leopold, Jeffrey, George and Lisa SOUL, Toriel hiding away in the RUINS in hope of finding some peace of mind with the kids. They were all only 15 years old, kids in the middle of a war about to happen when VOID decide to disappear with Printy and the only source of power and food for the underground.
Now Printy is alone with her father in a cold place, with only the screaming voices of her friends in her head.
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PERSONALITY:
Printy used to be a cold heartless person, when not consuming the essence of SOUL of one of her friends.
After the "SOULS tragedy" she became more emotional and sure of what they really want. Than is free all monsters and humans from this miserable world by finding a new and better place to live on.
She somewhat kind to other and care a lot about her new friends, but have problems with expressing love to the one they care the most, but get very embarrassed when VOID or Charlotty joke with her about the oblivious crush on Muffet, Metta is only one who can stop them from killing them from embarrassment.
CAN and WILL a meltdown in case one of their friends get hurt and stay in the edge of death.
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CURIOSITIES:
-Incredibly she likes spice foods and sweets, and sometimes both at the same.
-Her favorite pie is snail pie, that was the first pie Asgore cooked for them when she first visit.
-Knows how to cook but don't really need to eat, but do anyway (none of the other need too, expect VOID).
-Their scarf was a gift from Leopold than later on was modify by VOID so he could keep a eye on her when they go to another AU.
-The lost limbs was Lisa fault.
-Almost every time Chara and Printy was in the same room they would be at each other throat all of a sudden. Asriel would be the only one able to stop them.
-Printy was the first one and the only one (along with Chara) to have a matching necklace with Asriel. They don't use it anymore, don't feel worth to wear it.
-Before Frisk appear Printy didn't really care about taking their SOUL in the others universes. But now they are family.
-Even with Asgore SOUL to keep the others SOULS still, they will casually take control when Printy is unconscious.
-The other half of their face turned black a few days later after the "SOULS tragedy" because of Asriel fireballs.
-They are consider a amalgamate by the others for not being a monster or human.
-Have a whisper flowey as a pet.
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