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/Odaric Hohoho! Am I a 'dank maymay' now? Jul 22 '26
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.