[Cheerfulness with regards to puzzle-solving would be another thing that doesn't strike Mettaton as necessarily odd.
What it hadn't occurred to him to think is that there even might be a trick to getting out of the mirror hall - again, he wasn't really trying to get out! - but. Heck if he's going to allude to that.
A smirk and a cocked brow. A "hm!"]
Not your first strut through puzzling entertainment, dear?
[Falling-then-rising inflection on "puzzling" - a vocal flourish as he's settling down tonally into emcee-mode - enough to feel satisfied he's sounding sufficiently assured to cover up his curiosity.]
You have your ideas - surely you've happened by a clue or two to help you pin them down?
[It's actually more like 75% inflected as a question.]
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What it hadn't occurred to him to think is that there even might be a trick to getting out of the mirror hall - again, he wasn't really trying to get out! - but. Heck if he's going to allude to that.
A smirk and a cocked brow. A "hm!"]
Not your first strut through puzzling entertainment, dear?
[Falling-then-rising inflection on "puzzling" - a vocal flourish as he's settling down tonally into emcee-mode - enough to feel satisfied he's sounding sufficiently assured to cover up his curiosity.]
You have your ideas - surely you've happened by a clue or two to help you pin them down?
[It's actually more like 75% inflected as a question.]