i watched playthroughs of undertale back in the day but actually playing it now im just…hit really hard by how fucking bizarre it is that the fandom characterized sans as some sex god like…. hes just goofy and depressed
the disconnect between erotic and stoic fanon sans, and the canon sans who stacks dozens of hotdogs on your head.. incredible
no mercy bosses look so fun i wish i could nicely ask sans and undyne to fight me with all they got in pacifist route but instead its like those times irl when u feel ROWDY!! and u wanna RUFFLE FEATHERS!! AND GET MAD!! AND FUCK SOMEONE UP LIKE THE WILDASS BANSHEE THAT YOU ARE!!!!!! except you love everyone you know and everyone you know loves you and every relationship you have is built on gentleness and mutual understanding
absolutely nothing in a video game has set a tone as well as asgore smashing the mercy button at the start of his fight and thats just a fucking fact
Please elaborate. I want to hear more about what you think of this.
not to be serious about epic divorce man but like. the asgore fight is more or less the payoff of the advertised theme of undertale – “you don’t have to kill anyone”, and he does the most to challenge this theme, not just to the player but on a personal level, since the running motif of undertale’s monsters is that they don’t want to kill you either, but they have to or less they will never be free.
the scene beforehand, where small shock plays, is given additional context on replays and knowing how chara, flowey, asriel, and frisk all relate to each other – asgore is looking at someone who looks identical and acts identically to his child who, from his perspective, died of an illness that he could not prevent, and he has to kill them again
it is as equally “you cannot spare me” as it is “i cannot spare you”, which when juxtaposed against how asgore never uses attacks that are aimed at the player directly, creates the mood that is “neither of us want to be here but we have to be for there to be a future at all so someone needs to fucking die already” and its really fucking good
Undertale was full of raw ass lines and I’m sorry y’all are too chickenshit to acknowledge this because you’ve decided it’s cringy to like things
op is so right and here’s some evidence (not even a fraction of it all):
“I can’t go to Hell. I’m all out of vacation days.”
“Despite everything, it’s still you.”
“My brother’d really like to see a human, so it’d really help me out if you’d keep pretending to be one.”
“Don’t worry, my little monarch, my plan isn’t regicide. This is so much more interesting.”
“First, however, is as customary for those who make it this far… I shall tell you the tragic tale of our people. It all started, long ago… No. You know what? SCREW IT! WHY SHOULD I TELL YOU THAT STORY WHEN YOU’RE ABOUT TO DIE!”
“The more you kill, the easier it becomes to distance yourself. The more you distance yourself, the less you will hurt. The more easily you can bring yourself to hurt others.”
“If I were you, I would have thrown in the towel by now. But you didn’t get this far by giving up, did you? That’s right. You have something called ‘determination.’ So long as you hold on… so long as you do what’s in your heart…I believe you can do the right thing. Alright. We’re all counting on you, kid. Good luck.”
“I understand why Asgore took so long to hire a new royal scientist. The previous one… Dr. Gaster. His brilliance was irreplaceable. However, his life… was cut short. One day, his experiments went wrong, and… Well, I needn’t gossip. After all, it’s rude to talk about someone who’s listening.”
“You should be smiling, too. Aren’t you excited? Aren’t you happy? You’re going to be free.”
yeah yeah sans undertale jokes but “its a beautiful day outside, birds are singing, flowers are blooming. on days like these, kids like you, should be burning in hell” is extremely raw
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