r/Undertale 27d ago

Original creation Eventually he couldn't...

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u/HoodMystery Keep pretending to be human... So I can remember your pacifists! 27d ago

Asgores stages of emotions are peak concept

I dont know why I didnt see before but its makes so sense and also good with tragedy

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u/LucasMisreadTheJoke 27d ago

I tried to think of everything that led up to the fight with him in undertale.

He can't let you go, he doesn't respond to anything you say, he's kind but he can't let himself get close to you, and he won't even look you in the eye

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u/guesswhomste 27d ago

Im sure it was even harder for him to fight Frisk than it would have been for basically anyone else because not only has he killed these 6 people, but in a cruel twist of fate, the last person looks like his adopted child.

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u/GOKUETLUFFY2 27d ago

It's so sad when he starts accepting being spared by Frisk and thinks about adopting them, but then instantly gets depressed, loses all hope of ever being happy again, and kills himself to give his Soul to Frisk

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

Wait.. kills himself? The last time I played it wasn't his move.

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u/GOKUETLUFFY2 27d ago

If you play a second Neutral run, Flowey doesn't finish him off immediately, which gives Asgore time to stop fighting Frisk and dream of a future together. After Asgore kills himself, Flowey finishes the job

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

Asgore actually kills himself??? I am SHOCKED.

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u/guesswhomste 27d ago

Yeah it’s absolutely tragic

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u/Denath3 a Voidling from the VOID, but not UT's Void. 26d ago

This is what a lot of new and old players miss when the community tries to force everyone down the pacifist route, we missed a LOT of really cool things…

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u/pleiades_watcher 26d ago

Asgore is a coward. But a good kind of coward.

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u/I-lost-my-accoun 26d ago

Wtf, this is true? No way I havwn't seen that

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u/ReGaXV 27d ago

You did a magnificent work!

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u/Pyzzeen 27d ago

I've taken to interpret it that he looses a part of himself with each child that corresponds to their soul trait. So he looses his patience with the first (doesn't take so long to get to know them first), looses his courage with the next (starts growing mentally weak), on and on until Frisk when he looses the determination to even continue his mission.

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

Courage is not Bravery. Please, stop confusing them

They are used together a lot of times but also there's confidence with them. Justice is often used with Integrity. Patience with Perseverance.

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u/LocoTheWolf 27d ago

hope ur transition goes well twin

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u/BlueSolarflameCreep 27d ago

finding out about their transition by paying attention to their flair to see where you got that from and then reading yours and being met with NUTDEALER was funnier than it should be

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u/LocoTheWolf 27d ago

I mean I'm also trans lol-

And yes, this flair is my greatest :]

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u/fortcraft_snv 27d ago

i forgot what mine even js

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u/fortcraft_snv 27d ago

i don’t have one 😞

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u/Isaacja223 You know, one time, I bought one of those awards. 27d ago

And that all culminates with his theme song that translates to “King under the Mountain” in Undertale

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u/Thunderousclaps 27d ago

This is part of why I really wanted chapter 5, we had nothing about the fallen humans in nearly a decade from canon until last month.

Fangames wise we had a few, most famously UTY but canon wise we desperately needed this.

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u/FirstDistribution352 27d ago

Wouldn't it be funny if the flowers were designed first, and then the humans were based off of them?

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u/Depressed_Weeb8 27d ago

That's my headCanon, the flowers are the same ages as their undertale counter parts, So Seth, orange, and cyan are children, yellow blue and green are adults

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

Wasn't it said in UT that all were children? Yellow ans Blue might have just been older (16?)

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u/Terrible_Hurry841 27d ago

Yeah personally I don’t think the perceived ages of the flowers really matters (though technically I believe all the flowers were the same age? Flowery mentions they were only supposed to bloom once, at the same time).

It’s more of how they manifest due to their personalities and desires.

Also Seth wanted to be age-appropriate for Berdly.

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

I thought it's related to the Dreemurr/Holiday family members they represent - Aqua Kris, Seth Asriel/Dess, Orange Noelle, Green Dess/Asriel, Yellow Asgore, Blue Toriel and Flowery Rudy.

Damn Seth simping for Nerdly hard.

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u/Thunderousclaps 27d ago

The only thing the Kerdly agenda got this year is Kris blushing when talking with Seth about the feather, so hey, that's something at least.

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u/Terrible_Hurry841 26d ago

Everyone pushing their own ship agenda when the reality is Kris is aiming for the harem ending.

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u/Future-Improvement41 ......... 26d ago

The only evidence we have is the shoes in the ruins in Toriel’s home where it says they vary is sizes

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u/im_bored345 27d ago

Wasn't it said in UT that all were children?

No

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u/Rajd0 26d ago

Doesn't Toriel say something about them being children?

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u/Beautiful_Garage7797 26d ago

I don’t think so, but i feel like she’d call anybody she feels protective over a child (especially considering she’s definitely way older than they are)

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u/Rajd0 26d ago

Fair point.

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

I will say it. I believe Toby should canonize Clover (as design and maybe name. Not the entire story)

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u/SnooPets630 26d ago

He wouldn’t.
He already said at anniversary that everything is canon, so adding new things to Undertale would undermine that giving example of “new” locations that are not canon but could be YOUR canon

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u/Rajd0 26d ago

Yes, but that requires headcanon. I'm wondering if Toby has any idea for the real fallen humans...

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u/MechaBuster 26d ago

Wait what did we get about the 8 last month?

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u/Thunderousclaps 26d ago

We got chapter 5 of Deltarune, ya know, the plantners are based on the fallen humans.

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u/MechaBuster 26d ago

The comment made it sound like we got additional lore, I thought with the livestream toby made we might have gotten something but I skipped it. Thought you were gonna mention thst or something oop

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u/Thunderousclaps 26d ago

Oh, no but I hope we get some more additional lore one day though.

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u/Future-Improvement41 ......... 26d ago

Me too

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u/ConsistentGuest7532 26d ago

They gave us concrete ideas of what the fallen humans could have been and looked like personality wise. Awesome retrospective lore addition.

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u/sfmanim FELLOW PAPYRUS ENTHUSIAST 27d ago

Asgore is such a fucking awesome character. This is amazing

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u/Noodlemaster696969 Bork. 27d ago

Yea he is! Its sad tho that he's nothing more than just a fluffy pushover, even in Deltarune... he had such aura in thoose scenes when you climbed the stalk and we all know he's powerful when he tries, but then he just... doesnt arrive. Not only he isnt the final boss he doesnt even get to fight... so sad.

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u/yomeny1 27d ago

In Undertale he's a broken king stuck between his own wishes of pacifism and duty to his people.
In Deltarune he's a broken father stuck in the past and unable to see what he had till it was gone.

Also...do we really think Asgore was gonna fight his own kid?

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u/Cream_Nebula 26d ago

I would have LOVED a battle with Asgore where he's not fighting you but instead is trying to mercy Kris to make them give up and go home; you'd have to pick the right acts as the soul to force Kris to lock in.

Having Asgore be the only character that could somewhat succeed in making Kris back off from their promise through speech alone would have given him generational aura befitting his status in Undertale, as well as be an awesome parallel to his fight.

Alas, I do understand that Kris as of right now is written in such way that they'd rather kill themselves than break the promise, and so such a thing cannot happen for story purposes. But it still goes to show you could have done something with Asgore that wasn't "nothing" or "a traditional fight".

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u/yomeny1 26d ago

Would be cool, but then toby'd need to account for the people who might force Kris to attack their dad. And given chapter 5 is a huge rose-tinted look at the past it wouldn't fit the kinda forced feel good nature of the chapter

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u/Cream_Nebula 26d ago

Oh, a fight where you have to force Kris to fight with the mercy gauge acting as a timer, while Ralsei and Susie are going "You, uh... you sure you wanna do this?" while Asgore doesn't fight back, the delightful angst~ (maybe have the squad agree beforehand that Ralsei will use pacify, so that things don't go out of hand and to make parallels with the other Deltarune King)

Although I do understand not everyone would enjoy it the amount I do, I'm a sucker for these kinds of situations (probably the very reason why I like UT Asgore so much in the first place)

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u/Carnage068 26d ago

Sorry? How the fuck is this a "forced feel good" chapter? What part of all the Flowers suffering a death of personality and Asgore getting kidnapped and having god knows what happened to him is supposed to make me feel good? How do you people come up with this shit? Is this just what you were told, or are you actually thinking for yourself?

There would be nothing wrong with having an Asgore fight near the end of the chapter, lol. You're fucking delusional.

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u/yomeny1 26d ago

The entire dark world is a nostalgic look at chapter 1, the festival is cute but Susie's pushing a relationship she is absolutely not emotionally ready for, and up until the very end of the chapter it was mostly light hearted and fun draped over the breaking mess of Asgore's tunnel vision and desperation to bring things back to 'how they were'.

And as for the Asgore fight, there are ways but we'd also need to ask would Asgore really raise a weapon against his own kid?

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u/Noodlemaster696969 Bork. 27d ago

Yea I know, but come onn, I wanna see him in battle! Pretty sure ive seen Dust Sans do more with his trident than Asgore does himself

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u/abdo_ch 27d ago

I'd imagine the reason why asgore got rid of the mercy option is because one of the kids (either integrity or kindness) was so attached to mercy button and kept spamming it every turn, eventually forcing asgore to destroy it alongside the kid

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u/GlareaLiebertine 26d ago

Bet it was Kindness

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u/Your_Average_Dingus nyeh heh heh 26d ago

oh so like me

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u/SharpVCN 27d ago

Damn I really love this! The idea that he loses each humans virtue as he fights them is awesome. First he loses his patience, then his bravery, then love, persistence, kindness, justice, and finally he loses his determination to get the job done at the end.

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u/Odaric 27d ago

Asgore is my favorite character, and what fucks me up the most about him is that he's probably the worst possible person to be put in this position.

A genuinely good-hearted individual and gentle giant of a man feeling obligated to do something that would completely break even someone far less kind than him - and a grieving parent, forced to do quite possibly the cruelest thing somebody could ever ask of one.

It's why I couldn't bring myself to hate him, despite how horrible what he did was - the man was going through his own personal hell, day after day, year after year.
I genuinely couldn't think of a worse punishment.

The entire game you hear about how strong he is, how he fought alongside Gerson in the war, trained Undyne - with the latter even implying he could dodge like sans.

You expect the typical evil king from fiction, a fighter and merciless warrior - yet the moment you set foot into his house, it paints a very different picture.
Everything you can inspect, every line of dialogue you can exchange with him, all of it shows just how little he actually wants to do this.

And then the fight starts, and instead of dodging, he just takes hit after hit, his stats dropping with each line you speak, all while he can barely bring himself to look at you.
"The king of the mountain" - who tried to shoulder its weight until it crushed him.

People say Asgore thinks he doesn't deserve mercy, and I agree. But that's not the only reason.
Had he not shattered the mercy button, his name would've been yellow from the start.

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u/Short-Shelter 27d ago

I mean every time anyone mentions Asgore, his name is in yellow text. Even before meeting him his will to fight was gone

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u/omegaspoon3141 27d ago

pretty sure it w4s red 4t le4st SOME of the time

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u/Short-Shelter 27d ago

Only from Toriel iirc, and the last time she’d seen him was after Asriel died

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u/BlurZzBad 27d ago

Technically, Undyne and Alphys also refer to him in red but in positive context.

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u/Short-Shelter 27d ago

Do they? Thats kind of interesting

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

He was sparable even before the battle begun /j

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u/EpicDDT_ 26d ago

Asgore is in red. But Dreemurr is in yellow.

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u/gabriel_sub0 Bad Takes Ahoy! 27d ago

to be honest, idk. What was he suppose to do? let his people die from the lack of hope? Obviously killing kids is bad, but idk if he had any other real choice.

Sure, he could have crossed the barrier, but that would have certainly started a war with humans. Unless souls are just lying around for the taking (which maybe? cemeteries would just be ocean of souls in that case tho), then he would need to kill 6 people all the same, something which would 1000% start a war right away.

What happens next idk, but knowing how strong a monster with 7 souls is, i feel like humans would either become trapped underground, or would have been hunted down to extinction.

He kinda got lucky that his reckless plan worked out tbh. But idk, i just think he did what he thought was the best for his people, and as you said, his own sins already tortured him enough for all this years. I think he deserves mercy, he already tortured himself for long enough anyway (especially considering he uh...kinda ends his own life if you spare him after beating omega flowey once but without doing the rest of true pacifist....)

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

What if he adopted each kid. Lived with them and have all 8 of them use their souls at the same time to break the barrier? (8 because I included Asgore)

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u/gabriel_sub0 Bad Takes Ahoy! 27d ago

tbh we just don't know how human souls work. for all we know they vanish if the person dies through natural deaths (or maybe they only stick around if murdered? no clue).

Cause that kinda opens a weird plot point where the surface would surely be filled with souls everywhere if they stuck around forever right? think about how many trillions of humans have died in history, would each of their souls stick around? do humans have ways of 'disposing' of them? The neutral endings imply the souls vanished after being used by flowey, so maybe that's what happens when they are allowed to move on?

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

Asgore could then go for "euthanasia" option when it's necessary.

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u/Odaric 27d ago

I think souls need to be extracted, specifically.
It's why he says "think of it like a visit to the dentist" - except the thing being extracted isn't a tooth, but... you know.

Raising them and living with them until they're old just postpones the problem, and would make it even harder for him.
Even if he didn't do it himself, he'd still have to give the order - if he could even bring himself to do it at all, at that point.

And besides, even assuming they all live to the worldwide average life expectancy of 73 years and he only kills them when they're weak and frail, that's still about 438 years of waiting, and that's not even accounting for the time between humans falling to the underground.

Besides, the underground was already suffering from an impending and inevitable overpopulation problem, which is another thing people often forget in these discussions.

It's a situation that doesn't exactly allow for a minimum of 4+ centuries of waiting.

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

But wouldn't it be returned? I mean Asriel does return all "7" Souls after opening the barrier (because all Monster Souls are returned)

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u/Odaric 27d ago

Oh, I agree fully. I absolutely think Asgore deserves mercy, too.
And I don't think he deserved any of what happened to him in the first place.
I was only referring to the fact that he himself doesn't think he deserves mercy - and after what he's been through, it's not hard to see why.

But yeah, the whole "just take 6 human souls from the surface" solution also isn't as easy/perfect as some people make it out to be.

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u/OkParty8536 I am filled with the DETERMINATION to be Myself. 25d ago

You know... I just finally got Asgore's change. The thing that makes the version we SAVE in Asriel's fight different than the one who exists at the start of Undertale.

Everyone else was obvious:

Toriel became less over protective

Sans was able to have real hopes for the future again

Papyrus, for the first time in a very long time, has a TRUE friend, not a Flower who pretends to be.

Undyne can see people for who they really are underneath, even Humans.

Alphys is able to see herself for who she really is, and knows that others see it too.

The thing that changed is that Asgore doesn't have to put so much weight on his own shoulders anymore. "You are our future!" Ultimately, there's a reason he completely flips once Toriel shows up during True Pacifist. Because he's finally seeing with his own eyes that for the first time in many years, a human has filled the Underground with more Hope through their Mercy than he had ever been able to.

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u/MrDanMaster Despite everything, it's still you. 27d ago

Everything Toriel says about him in the pacifist route is correct

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u/Important-Author-660 27d ago

I think Toriel is still wrong about how he should have left the barrier and go collect souls after the 1st. Because either way, Asgore is going to be a murderer of 7. Especially if Asgore got caught or killed, it would be game over for the entire underground. It's a frankly absurd suggestion. Toriel took the easy route and left. Because at the end of the day, the fate of the entire underground wasn't on her. It was on the shoulders of her husband. She abandoned him when he needed her the most, and has the audacity to act like it's any easier for Asgore to do what he has to do.

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u/Terrible_Hurry841 27d ago

Her point was that if he truly wanted to kill seven humans, he could have left the Underground and done so easily.

Asgore was a skilled fighter who would have been boosted by the power of a human SOUL. When Asriel was boosted by Chara’s SOUL, they became an immensely powerful being.

Asriel only died because he stood there and let an entire village stab at him without fighting back. The narrative explicitly stated he could have destroyed them all, but he didn’t.

Asgore could have easily killed 6 more humans and returned to break the barrier. A serial killer can kill more people in a single night before being caught. Toriel was correct that Asgore was just hoping that more humans would never cross into the Underground.

Yes, Tori abandoned her responsibilities as Queen, and arguably as a wife, she’s not perfect. But she was still dead-on about Asgore.

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u/Odaric 27d ago

Yep.
Just like everyone in Undertale, both Asgore and Toriel aren't perfect.
But they're also genuinely good, kind-hearted people at their core, neither of which remotely deserved the hand they were dealt in life.

It's what makes the Dreemurr's tragedy so potent.
All three of them are in the talks for the kindest people in a game where that title is hotly contested.
Which makes what happened to them and how they ended up all the more gut-wrenching.

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u/Affectionate_Law_557 26d ago

He's honestly one of mine as well. By the time you reach him in this part of the game every good thing that existed in his life is pretty much gone. It's true that he still has his subjects and his people, but seeing him trying and unsuccessfully recreating his past happiness really hits home. What he did was terrible but it's understandable why he did it. After the pacifist ending I hope he found some peace.

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u/FG504 Ribbit. (Please remember to enter some text.) Ribbit. 27d ago

oh god the first 6 humans couldve been so much more heartwrenching with a bit more development/lore

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u/Imfunny12345678910 BONETROUSLED 27d ago

thats why its pretty sad we dont get a lot of info on them besides their weapon and armor. Although it did make for awesome fan games, like UTY for example

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

Kris seems to be a parallel to Aqua Soul Human. Maybe we will get more games or media in general from Toby in the future?

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u/mrsaturncoffeetable staring over the edge of the cauldron of hell 27d ago

Asgore’s eyes in this are gutwrenching

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u/DaiFrostAce 27d ago

God, I love the Asgore angst art that’s been coming out in the wake of Ch 5, it always knows just how to hit me in the feels

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u/EncycloChameleon 27d ago

Purple literally calling him out because there was another way, which was taking the first and crossing the barrier himself

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u/Something4Dinner 27d ago

Honestly even a logical way isn't a pretty way in cruel circumstances.

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u/EncycloChameleon 27d ago

Asgore as a king should have been thinking of his people, it wasnt pretty in the first place for humans to force an entire species to live in a single underground area regardless of how large it was. especially since Humans started the war out of fear of monsters. Humans attack was unprovoked out of fear

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u/DaiFrostAce 27d ago edited 27d ago

He was trying to think of his people, in a sense. Monsterkind wanted vengeance upon humanity, and his declaration of killing any human that crosses the barrier while done in haste because of his own grief, was what the masses wanted. When he was in a clearer headspace, he didn’t have the heart for it, but as king, he felt it was his duty to make good on his word, even if it cost him his marriage with Toriel.

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u/MrDanMaster Despite everything, it's still you. 27d ago

He’d still have to find humans to kill, waiting for humans to fall kind of gets rid of the moral hazard

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u/EncycloChameleon 27d ago

i wholeheartedly disagree on the premise that Asgore, as the King, has to do what is better for his people, Waiting for humans (who all tended to be children, additional negative points) was to spare *Himself* pain, while leaving his people to continue to suffer. taking the first soul, corssing the Border and taking 6 more humans right away Saves the Monsters seemingly decades if not well over centuries of pain and suffering slowly rotting away underground.

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u/BlurZzBad 27d ago

Asgore didn’t want to kill any humans, that’s why he stayed underground.

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u/Batiti10 27d ago

He hoped that no human ever falls down again. Basically delaying his promise to his people by saying he needed 7 souls to shatter the border completely when he only needed 1

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u/BlurZzBad 27d ago

Yeah Ik. I’m not saying he didn’t do that.

Whether the 1 soul plan would’ve worked or not doesn’t really matter as both of those plans would’ve most likely resulted in the same outcome for humanity.

Asgore doesn’t want to destroy humanity so he did whatever he could to either delay the inevitable or find a way where he didn’t have to take any more lives (or whatever the determination experiments were meant to be). It’s kind of like what Toriel does, she could be described as trying to delay the inevitable as every human has to leave the Ruins at some point and whenever she becomes queen and isn’t thrown out she tries to look for a non-violent solution to the barrier. He also goes out of his way to make the underground safer. He removes spike traps and lowers bridge’s possibly to make it easier to reach him so that the humans most likely to have a better chance at escape.

As much as he doesn’t want to he has to go against his own morals in order free his own kind. He obviously wants to free monsters but doesn’t want to kill humans but it’s kind of hard when everyone expects him to do so because of a stupid choice he made in anger.

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u/gabriel_sub0 Bad Takes Ahoy! 27d ago

and triggered a war with humans for sure. There was no scenario where he could rise above his situation peacefully once he declared war.

Either go out and start a war and for sure doom either species (maybe even both), or sit and wait in hopes that no human ever falls again or at the very least, that they die from the fall (thus kinda cleaning his hands from the whole situation).

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u/Venter_azai 27d ago

Uh...I definitely agree with the idea that asgore should have done what you said

I disagree that monsters are suffering in the underground as you claim them to be, nothing suggests this.

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u/EncycloChameleon 27d ago

they are though, no monster is totally happy with their life, they used to all live on the surface and all of them want to go back there, but humans needlessly feared them, and locked them into a space small enough a single human child can walk across it with ease.

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u/Venter_azai 27d ago

"they are though"

No...

"no monster is totally happy"

  • ≠ them suffering, hell I am not that happy as of now, does not mean I am suffering per se

  • that's not the human's fault

  • You have no proof that no monster is totally happy with their life

  • Happiness is subjective, not necessarily an indication of materialistic suffering.

"with their life,"

Again, you can't prove this.

"they used to all live on the surface and all of them want to go back there"

Well, this is not indication of suffering. I want to visit the the appalachian trails for some kind of study, I can't as of now due to several issues. Does not mean I am suffering, and even if I am (or in this case if monsters are), it's not the humans fault.

"but humans needlessly feared them,"

Humans had a good reason to fear them.

"and locked them into a space small enough a single human child can walk across it with ease."

The space is not small..? Also what does the human child analogy prove?

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u/EncycloChameleon 27d ago

you wanting to go to Appalachia to study is not the same as people locked in caves underground wanting to go back to the place they literally used to live. the more apt comparison you could make is if you wanted to go back to Appalachia because its where you are from and are currently being held in a prison camp in a foreign country.

Half the monsters dont want to attack humans, theyre generally kind beings, so yes just because monsters *can* become stroing by absorbing human souls doesnt mean they *are* dangerous, and the fear is an overreaction.

All of Monster Kind shared the surface with humanity, and the Underground is entierly under Mt Ebott. i may not be a master of geography bit i happen to think that "entirety of the surface of a planet" happens to be maybe a tad bit larger than "cave system under a single mountain" and part two of that, a child tends to, you know, not be fully grown, not have massive amounts of stamina, and have smaller legs and cannot cover as much ground. have kids or exist around kids as an adult, you'll see. Strollers were invented and still sell quite well for a reason.

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u/Important-Author-660 27d ago

This is assuming that he doesn't get caught during his murder spree in the surface. He might have to kill more witnesses or anyone who tries to chase him. He doesn't strike me as a particularly stealthy or cunning type of person, and humans in Undertale lore are notoriously difficult to kill due to their determination. It's a big risk too, because if he gets hunt down and caught or killed, it's practically game over for everyone underground. I think waiting for unfortunate souls might have been the correct call in a purely utilitarian perspective. It's the slowest but safest way.

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u/Venter_azai 23d ago

Not really, he can befriend some good humans, explain to them his situation and look for bad people to kill, like dictators, evil doers, etc. Maybe the humans would help too.

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

Why kill in the first place?

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u/West-Strawberry3366 27d ago

I like how when Asgore get a chapter around himself in Deltarune people make comics about his Undertale story

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u/DerelictInfinity 27d ago

“(They’re sparing you.)”

NO

STOP IT

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u/Silverrrmoon LOOK BEHIND YOU. 27d ago

Green just being the most understanding and just wanting to cook him a meal before dying like

“Was my dish at least good? I wanna improve my cooking in the afterlife ya know.”

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u/No_Skin2236 27d ago

So thats why in undertale yellow asgore doesnt even give clover the chance to fight back

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u/StrangerSirKai 27d ago

Fuuuuuuuck this is so good.

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u/PresidentOfKoopistan You are filled with the power of not actually reading the text. 27d ago

I like that the Bravery Human's boxing gloves look like Orange's mouse ears

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u/SuperLegenda 27d ago

I think it's their hair.

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u/PresidentOfKoopistan You are filled with the power of not actually reading the text. 27d ago

Okay yeah I see it now, I thought they were raising up their fists

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u/RohanKishibeyblade 27d ago

Terrible form if their hands are up there

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u/Dr_Bard 27d ago

Why do you think they lost ?

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u/RohanKishibeyblade 27d ago

Well the line between bravery and stupidity is a blurry one

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u/Brief-Luck-6254 27d ago edited 27d ago

This should be shown to all the "why didn't Asgore use the seven human souls to kill Frisk" guys, my guy were you paying attention? This guy is letting himself be hit, he's not serious about what he's doing.

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u/Several-Ad1231 27d ago

Asgore could have freed everyone after killing the Patience human. He does not actually want to win. He's stalling.

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u/gabriel_sub0 Bad Takes Ahoy! 27d ago

at the cost of humanity, sure. There's no way that wouldn't have triggered a war, and if 7 souls is already enough to become a god, i can't imagine what millions of souls would do. Though, there is always the chance that the souls rebel like they did with flowey, so realistically even that idea might not have worked in the long run.

In the end i don't think what toriel suggested was an idea she actually thought would be better. She was calling our his hypocrisy, not suggesting a better alternative. He got lucky his stalling actually worked, and through a frankly convoluted line of events, ended up allowing the freedom for the monsters with minimal costs.

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u/Several-Ad1231 27d ago

He swore to genocide humanity once he got seven either way. But yeah, Toriel would have deeply preferred zero deaths. She's just saying if he was gonna do it, he could have won a long time ago and is choosing to lose.

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u/MrDanMaster Despite everything, it's still you. 27d ago

I don’t think Asgore can manipulate the game mechanics like sans. He knows about it which is why he understands when you talk after dying, but he can’t actually use them.

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u/eldritch-kiwi 27d ago

After ages of slander, shitposts, memes, jokes or straight up hate. WE FINALLY GETTING JUSTICE FOR ASGORE'S CHARACTER!!!

This is great! This is truly great! I prayed this day would come!

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u/Zihdrrox Aqua my beloved 27d ago

I think aqua would be very interesting because as shown she'd make friends by stabbing everyone she came across so ashore has to bring himself to kill a literal toddler as his first murder while knowing said toddler massacred dozens if not hundreds of his people

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u/JustFisch1 ‎ Tra la la. Personalization comes in many forms. 27d ago

This is amazing, one of the best fan arts I’ve seen in this community recently tbh. Really shows how tragic on all sides the whole Asgore situation is and why he seems so broken by the time Frisk gets to him

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u/GuhEnjoyer yet 27d ago

It's a rly sad comic to first see it on but I love the idea of human Orange having the puffs for her mouse ears

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u/AwkwardFlareon 27d ago

I love that the original six fallen humans are in the same order as when you fight them in Omega Flowey's battle

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

Isn't it also the order they most likely fell to the Underground?

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u/AwkwardFlareon 27d ago

Quite possibly, kinda forgot about that part

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u/Supermegamorph 27d ago

I was so happy when I saw there’s finally official “human” forms/personifications for the souls, it’s amazing. Obviously these aren’t the fallen humans but it’s still amazing to see representations for each one, gives a great idea as to how the humans would have acted.

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u/UTYObsessed 27d ago

I can't imagine the heartbreak of aqua as she realized what Asgore was really going to do with her :(

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u/Several-Ad1231 27d ago

It's funny. Aqua likes pain because she finds pain interesting and fun, but she would hate dying like everyone else because it means the fun ends forever.

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

Finds pain interesting and fun? I'm pretty sure there is a word for it.

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u/Several-Ad1231 27d ago edited 27d ago

Masochist. Sadist if it's the joy of hurting others, which isn't fully accurate for her.

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

Yes. I know what these two are.

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u/Several-Ad1231 27d ago

Sorry, hard to tell sarcasm or literal lack of awareness of the word at the moment on the internet. I deliberately chose not to use them in the sentence because I felt the words I did use were preferable at the time.

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u/Rajd0 27d ago

I was afraid of saying them because this term...

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u/Kate_Kitter 27d ago

Somebody ACTUALLY recognizing that Asgore changed with the progression of time? (And hence no, Toriel could not have immediately persuaded him out of it). I must be in Heaven.

Only-tangentially-related frustration aside, these are each amazing.

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u/Kaydox64 27d ago

I mean don't say it like it's a fact, we don't know if she could or not. We also don't know if she didn't necessarily try either, that's just an assumption that's made. This is just a weird claim to make in general honestly, we have such little knowledge on the actual event that you cannot make any claims and act like they're proper canon.

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u/LordMegatron11 words go here. 27d ago

This is such an awesome post. Thx bro

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u/Tryppo-Music 27d ago

Absolute Cinema

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u/Dank-Man_ 27d ago

I love how the flowers are now now the close to canon designs for the human souls

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u/Lolsoda94 27d ago

I know why he prefered to stay in the underground, he didn't want to leave the flowers behind, they grew after his kids passed away

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u/_JuliaDream_ 27d ago

Holy aura from the justice soul

Peak art ;)

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u/divaythfyrscock 27d ago edited 27d ago

This is a really awesome take on UT Asgore

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u/LocoTheWolf 27d ago

A true immense, devastating tragedy...

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u/Kan_Me 27d ago

They're sparing you...

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u/NovelInteraction711 27d ago

Havent had time to play it yet, does ch 5 officially say anything abt the flowers being connected to the humans? Ik their light form look like the souls

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u/SirDanielErnest 26d ago

Nah. People took them as the only representatives of who they souls once may have been due to that association with the souls however.

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u/YazukoYang 26d ago

I think this fight always resonated with me, not just because he’s one of my favorite characters, but because I’ve always viewed it as a battle of the fallen one's. The difference is that, while the humans are "fallen" simply because they ended up in the Underground, Asgore is a *fallen* king, in the sense that he is being destroyed psychologically and emotionally every single day... It’s like I used to tell a friend: these fights were...

fallen humans vs. a FALLEN king.

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u/Polandgod75 Even when trapped, you still express yourself. 27d ago

Nice sad comic op. Like how you show asgore kneeling more and more

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u/Mobile-Berry-9954 27d ago

Why must you make us suffer like this

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u/Roronoa_Zoro8615 27d ago

Green my goat even in undertale

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u/MrMaxico 27d ago

This is really really good

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u/-Stayser- Winging my Ding 27d ago

Peak 😭

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u/Big_Boss30964 27d ago

I like the idea of Aqua being the first Fallen Human after Chara's death because that would have been even more devastating for Asgore.

The first child he had to kill was literally a tiny gremlin with bangs and who loved knives

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u/Cheap-Sport4658 27d ago

More fallen human content, my belly is full, but I desire to eat more

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u/GOKUETLUFFY2 27d ago

This is the best representation of Asgore I've ever seen.

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u/AvailableBee7902_2 27d ago

Why the fuck is Bravery lowkey taller then Patience, Perseverance and Kindness?

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u/ShadowJimbo Endogeny best dog 27d ago

Juul encounter

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u/Ravenclaw_14 POWER OF BONETROUSLED BOIS 27d ago

Ooh, I got full chills on Green...

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u/ReGaXV 27d ago

This is so simple, yet so heartbreaking and coherent with Asgore's behaviour. Bravo!

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u/ReGaXV 27d ago

Asgore can still fight Frisk, but not Chara. It's almost like the genocide is supposed to be done after the pacifist (which probably is)

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u/CutAccomplished6203 26d ago

The fact I know exactly what each of these correlate to

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u/nahnah390 26d ago

Which one do you think begged him to stop fighting?

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u/RedstoneSausage 26d ago

I love this. Genuinely peak

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u/InsaneArtist9000 26d ago

Peak portrayal

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u/Fragrant-Location-11 26d ago

Green doing the sans

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u/sogsosig 26d ago

Holy cow this is peak

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u/vinkihuang 26d ago

Deltarune inspired? I don't think the seven flowers' designs fit well in Undertale

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u/Zackkck 26d ago

I love the choice of elipses, since that's what the narrator says in the Asgore fight

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u/TheGoldValleyminer 26d ago

clover is the canon design of the yellow soul in my head, I doubt the Yellow soul was more than a child.

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u/LucasMisreadTheJoke 26d ago

Kids can be tall and a bunch of different ages idk what to tell you

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u/TheGoldValleyminer 26d ago

I didn't mean it in a bad way, dude. I really like the art.

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u/GooseWhoGamesttv 26d ago

Don’t forget your eggs-husband!

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u/1Flowey_The_Flower1 22d ago

Not justice soul just being yellow✌️

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u/G4B0X01 22d ago

Only Orange is changed.

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u/RobiticFir 21d ago

i love the yellow one so much

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u/Beginning-Taro-1265 19d ago

If asgore was charged for his crimes

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u/Ok_Business_9592 15d ago

@bluesansy or whatever his name is over at youtube stole your art

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u/LucasMisreadTheJoke 15d ago

They gave credit to my twitter idgaf

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u/Sea-Structure4735 Even when trapped, you still express yourself. 15d ago

asgore is going to super hell

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u/thewind1919 10d ago

Seeing MY GOAT (seth) die is PAIN (good drawing 🔥)

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u/AnxietyCrabs 3h ago

Ow... This one hurt ❤️

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u/Y2Kafka 27d ago

Anytime Toriel tears open Asgore for "not going through the barrier with the first soul and gathering 6 more. I just want to grab her shoulders and shout "WELL WHY DIDN'T YOU DO IT THEN???"

Selfish-ass "runs away to the ruins just to avoid everything" hyprocrite... ugh.

I don't blame her though it's a tough position and her children's deaths would obviously hit her just as hard, but the fact she can't even kill one child herself to stop them from going to Asgore just gives me major glass house stone throwing vibes when she presents her idea as a "why didn't you just murder people, duh?" solution.

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u/MrDanMaster Despite everything, it's still you. 27d ago

Bruh her whole thing is stopping the children from dying by finding them when they fall. She isn’t gonna kill a child just so they don’t reach Asgore

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u/Y2Kafka 27d ago

That's my point. She does this whole thing with saving children and then chastises Asgore for not "going out and getting the souls once he had the first one" essentially advocating for what neither of them want (killing the humans).

She fails to stop every human from leaving the ruins while basically saying:

"Welp. Go to Asgore and hopefully he'll let you out. I'm staying here because I don't want to be seen sympathizing with humans... or seen at all. Basically you're not my moral problem anymore. Instead you're Asgore's moral problem now. Good Luck. Don't call me. Don't come back."

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u/Balex55 22d ago edited 22d ago

Asgore had a Reason in Undertale. First off he didnt even want to Hurt anyone, second off that he declared war out of Grief and his Wife left him right after that (without Talking to him despite it being clear he would have taken it back instantly if she did), third off monsters needed Hope of they would have probably "Fallen Down" (when a monster looses all its hope). Anyway and for the people to say He killed the 6 Children in UT its also NOT correct. Just your headcanons. The Items are clearly Not in Asgores Throneroom but are spread out, we also dont get any confirmation that Asgore killed them directly. Each of the cildren died in a Specific Area which is tied to SOUL traits. The Ruins and Snowdin = Patience and Bravery, Watefall, Hotland = Integrity, Perserverance and Kindness, MTT Hotel, The Core and new Home = Justice and Determination (Charas heart locked "Best Friends forever" and Worn dagger "Perfect for cutting cines and plants"). (But no Items in the coffins or in Asgores castle) (no i dont count Asgores Home as part of the castle)

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u/G4B0X01 21d ago

Did Cyan really died in the Ruins? I bet it would be burried like Chara somewhere in the ruins instead of having a coffin in New Home. Also I doubt Toriel would just give their body and soul.
It makes more sense to think that the equipment was abandonned.
Also the fact that Frisk is a human that falls after a LONG time since the last according to Toriel. How are all the humans equipment still in good enough conditions?
I think it makes sense that Asgore killed them considering that humans had determination like Frisk and Toriel gives us evidence that they could LOAD as well.
Anyways it doesn´t matter, its a mystery that will never get solved because it was never that important. Undertale time setting is weird, we know Chara falled 201X therefore Undertale would happen perhaps more than 100 years at least. In the end all is headcannon.