In A World Where So Much Queer Rep In Big Media Is Overly Sanitized And Watered Down To The Point Where

in a world where so much queer rep in big media is overly sanitized and watered down to the point where it's respectful but terribly boring as character writing due to writers being terrified of getting criticized for "bad queer rep", toby fox making a trans man who's a self-obsessed, fame-drunk, vainglorious trashy pop star (and also a tyrant in the king mettaton ending), a bi character who straight up accidentally turned a bunch of monsters into horrifying melty abominations and then locked them in her basement and didn't tell anyone about it for literal years before she learned that hiding from her mistakes was killing her and came clean, a lesbian who starts the game as an intimidating school bully and in whose first big moment we see her slam the main character against a wall and threaten to eat their face before she learns to open up and connect with and trust others, a trans woman who tries to kill you twice in the game and is always delightfully mean to everyone until she gets some understanding and the body she needs to be happy, a traumatized nonbinary kid who hated their own species so much they killed themself just to get their revenge and free monsters in death, and a nonbinary cat who has been through so much shit and is so nihilistic that at this point, if push came to shove and all looked lost for the heroes, they would be content to sit back and let the world end- i'm being totally serious. toby fox making those kinds of queer characters, making them messy and imperfect and scarred and letting them grow as people but still do terrible things as part of that process, that constitutes HEROISM

Headcanon time!!

Sooo I've been thinking. What if after he became a flower, Asriel's voice didn't change? It's not like flowers are normally capable of speaking, so the only reason this particular flower can is because of magic (and determination, sure, but we have no idea what would happen to a random flower that doesn't have a dead person's essence. maybe it wouldn't become alive in the first place. so yeah, magic it is). And since the flower had Asriel's essence, when the kid was reborn in this new form, the magic made his voice sound the same as when he was alive a monster. Because — I'm reminding every single one of you — Asriel and Flowey are the same person. So why would the voice be different?

Anyway, time passed. My personal headcanon is that he started to use the name Flowey very early in the timelines when he was still helping people, but it was like an alias. Later, when he started doing bad things (not kill-everyone-i-once-loved bad but what-if-i-ruined-someone's-whole-life bad), "Flowey" became an excuse. Because "Asriel" was associated with kindness and all that stuff and he didn't want to ruin that image for himself. And it helped that by that time he was good with voices, so he made a voice for this villain to add more differences between "Asriel" and "Flowey"

And then one day he killed someone (I'm thinking either Toriel or Asgore). And was like "Oh well, Asriel Dreemurr is truly dead now. I destroyed him with my bare vines. Just look how bad and irredeemable I am!" And if he's very much not Asriel anymore (again, according to Flowey himself, not to me), the "villain" voice became permanent. And after some time, he got so used to it that it was harder to do his previous voice that the new one

BUT!! In the moments of extreme emotions, when he "breaks the character", he uses the Asriel voice!! Like at the end of No Mercy run when Flowey begs not to kill him, the voice clip changes to Asriel's!! I think it's not intentional, he just slips. Yeah, you could say he was trying to address Chara's better judgment and make them remember he was their best friend so they'll spare him, and that's definitely an option! I think he does an impression of Asriel in the Pacifist when he's calling you! But not in No Mercy. He's too terrified to make any impressions

Fun fact!! This headcanon came to me when I was listening to Undertale the Musical, the No Mercy (nope, I'm not saying the other word) Package specifically. And there, in Floweytale, I kept hearing some sort of really fast transition from Asriel to Flowey when he says "Nowadays it's all the same". Like.... WHY? The voices aren't even similar and yet I still hear that every time I decide to suffer and listen to that Package. But ok, it gave me an idea for a headcanon (and a heart attack when I first heard the word nowadays in a much more Asriel than Flowey voice), I'm not complaining

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GUYS!!!

Y'KNOW WHAT I REALIZED???

Do you remember how Flowey is convinced Chara did all the killings in No Mercy? I think he was projecting harder than we thought! I'm sure he's convinced Chara experienced the same things he did after their resurrection. Rebirth >>> doing good things >>> getting bored >>> becoming worse and worse >>> Whoosh!! No Mercy!!

This sounds so obvious to me rn I can't believe I didn't realize it sooner. I mean, Chara is supposed to mirror the Player. So if you do the No Mercy after countless neutral routes, Flowey has his proof you've killed before but not to this extent. If you do the No Mercy after a True Reset, I think he just assumes you've done a lot of neutral routes but he just doesn't remember them. Because he knows you are able to erase his memories after you reset

So yeah, Flowey thinks Chara did all the killings not because they are evil or something but because they walked the same path he did

After all...

...they're still the only one who understands him.

Please tell me I'm not the only one worried about Susie's desire to impale/stab herself

(screenshots from here and here)

Yeah, I get it's a joke. But it's implied Susie has a bad home life, and she didn't have friends in Hometown before the events of the game. So I can't stop thinking about how much of this joking is actually a joke and how much is her wanting to self-harm

there is a FANFIC in my BRAIN and i cannot WRITE IT. chaos and destruction.

there is an IMAGE in my HEAD and i cannot DRAW IT. hatred and rage.