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How many Frisks does it take to

                                     keep a Chara away from a Sans?

.. One, Two, Three. 

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Now that, was a little disgusting. A little bit pathetic. It wouldn’t take long to get bored of this pup. 

“I don’t like these.” He spears the origami buttercup with a root, tearing it across the middle until the petals fall apart. “You should take them apart, and then stop forever.”

“I-I…yes? n-no! I…I only think they’re pr-pretty. You’re pretty.”

He stumbles over the words, eyes wide with the horror of realizing he might have committed some offense. Ears perk forward as his nose drops, half hiding his face in the fluffed fur. 

“I’m…I’m s-sorry. I can m-make other things, if you d-don’t like these.” 

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Fallen

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chara and frisk

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✿ @dalishfreckles

“Disgusting.”

It wasn’t disgusting, not really, but he observes the origami flowers with apparent disgust anyway. They must have taken hours- maybe days to fold. Maybe months.  He might have considered some beautiful if he cared at all for beauty.

A root lifts to tip a folded buttercup against the side of the stall, still mulling at the thought of knocking them all over. Though it would certainly take more time to sit and watch them all be undone. He releases the flower with a glance to its crafter.

“Is this what you think we look like?”  His tone is crisp with offence, petals bristling as he eyes the pup with decisive malice. 

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✿ @truepaciifrisk

It would happen soon. Any second, the fading essence of hundreds of souls would leave him nothing but an empty, golden flower.  Hooves stamp at the patch of flowers. Tears run softly down his cheeks. His choking sobs echo draftily through the empty empty empty tunnel. 

They would all be passing into the surface now, to face their new lives together.  He would be down here, lonely and empty and golden. At least now he needn’t cling to Chara’s worldview. He has kindness, now. Justice, and bravery, and patience. He has integrity, and perseverance, and nobody to share them with. 

He wipes at his tears, but only dust comes away. Rubbing off from his face, his paws, his empty empty lonely soul. He does not hear an approach over his own sobbing.

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He flomps weakly to the ground, and immediately clings to the dirt. It brings comfort, to be rooted, but already he craves the sensation of being plucked again.  Sepal flutter in an imaginary breeze as he offers the stranger a polite snarl in return, snapping at the air to show off his teeth. He pulls himself a few feet backwards when he’s done.

“You pluck all the flowers you see, then, do ya? Or just the ones that bite?”

That was hardly an expected turn of events. Jolting his hand back and  releasing the flower from his grasp, the man shrunk back; confusion and shock sculpting his features. A talking flower? No, flowers could not and did not speak unless they were that of the echoing variety which this one was clearly not. This creature was a monster. Familiar somehow, but undoubtedly a monster he in actual fact, have yet to actually meet.

        ” T e e t h. . ? … M y,  ��✡📬 … “

Gaster brought himself up close to the flower, face to face and smiled wide.

      ” Y o u r ‘ e   a n   i n t ☜ r e s t i n g   o n e .         P ✌ r d o n   m y—   C L U M S I N E S S.”

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i rly miss writing flowey so like this for a starter !!

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Undertale children

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death by buttercups? but why?

(undertale spoilers)

one of undertale’s many big unanswered questions: why would chara choose a slow and painful death over a plethora of easier options? it can be inferred from the game that death was a necessary part of chara’s plan. why did it have to be such a gruesome death, though? because there is no solid answer given in undertale, in this post i’ll speculate based on the facts.

INFORMATION ABOUT BUTTERCUPS

according to the wiki:

Poisoning can occur where buttercups are abundant in overgrazed fields where little other edible plant growth is left, and the animals eat them out of desperation. Symptoms include bloody diarrhea, excessive salivation, colic, and severe blistering of the mouth, mucous membranes and gastrointestinal tract.

according to softschools:

Some types of buttercups are incredible toxic and even simple touching of the plants leads to irritation and blistering of the skin.

according to rightdiagnosis:

The buttercup plant contains a toxic compound called protoanemonin. The plant is most toxic while it is flowering with the sap being poisonous portion of the plant. Poisoning by eating the plant is unlikely due to the fact that skin contact is quite painful.  

the symptoms of buttercup poisoning include:

Abdominal cramps

Blistering

Bloody diarrhea

Contact dermatitis

Pain

Swelling

Kidney irritation - if large quantity eaten

Kidney damage - if large quantity eaten

Salivation

Vomiting

Ulceration

BUTTERCUPS INSTEAD OF CUPS OF BUTTER

suffice to say, the symptoms sound horrifyingly painful. chara chose this despite having already seen the effects on asgore.

or maybe it’s more accurate to say they chose this in light of seeing the effects on asgore. immediately after asriel finishes recounting this story, it’s implied that chara told him to turn off the camera so they could tell him their plan.

the next time the camera is turned on, asriel expresses his dislike of chara’s idea.

perhaps through the use of manipulation tactics, chara eventually convinces asriel to “go get the flowers”.

WHY WAS IT NECESSARY FOR ASRIEL TO GET THE FLOWERS?

why couldn’t chara just get the buttercups on their own? 

the most obvious answer seems to be one of the symptoms caused by handling buttercups: blistering of the skin. asriel is covered in fur, so he’d be less likely to be affected by this, and even if he was, it wouldn’t be very noticeable. 

but this begs another question: why did chara care if their hands were blistered when they would ultimately have a lot worse issues to deal with? if chara just wanted to die because they were suicidal and that was it, why wouldn’t chara just find some flowers on their own?

well, what if chara wasn’t suicidal at all? it’s true that chara’s death was the result of a suicide, but that doesn’t mean chara necessarily wanted to stop living. after all, they didn’t jump into the underground – they fell. after they died, chara intended for asriel to absorb their soul. it was never chara’s desire to simply stop living, but to be reborn as part of something much stronger. the plan was always described as something that chara and asriel would do “together”. 

for one reason or another, chara may have wanted to keep the fact that their death was intentional a secret.

another reason chara may have asked asriel to get the flowers was to manipulate him into following through with the plan to kill the humans chara hated so much. @jazelock​ put it elegantly:

… my theory immediately upon watching that tape was that it was another manipulation tactic to prevent [Asriel] from backing out later. Psychologically, what you’d want to do to ensure cooperation from a reluctant participant in a plan of your devising is to make it seem as much the other participant’s idea as possible. So, make them be as active a player and give them what looks like as much agency as possible.

If Chara had picked the flowers themselves or simply asked Asriel to come along or picked them together with him, that makes Asriel still a tag-along-er. But by having Asriel go get the flowers himself, it means Chara makes him act out the part as if he’s independently helping of his own free will, without coercion. (Of course, this isn’t what’s actually going on; he is being coerced. But it’s the psychology of performing the action as if he has free will.) This way, Asriel would feel like it’s as much his plan as Chara’s, and therefore have more personal investment in ensuring it succeeds.

so making asriel get the buttercups would save chara’s hands from blisters while also causing asriel to feel directly responsible for their death. there’s also the chance that asriel had to feed the buttercups to chara himself, as chara wanted to avoid handling them.

WHY WOULD CHARA WANT TO KEEP THEIR SUICIDE A SECRET?

why else would chara refuse to irritate their hands if not to keep the fact that they had consumed buttercups a secret? in new home, the monsters never describe chara’s sudden illness as something intentional. this leads me to believe that all the monsters were none the wiser to chara’s plan.

what were the benefits in keeping it a secret from everybody but asriel? my belief is that, if chara could make it look like they died from natural causes, the monsters would be more sympathetic towards them. it would make the dreemurrs listen to chara’s final wish – a wish chara knew no monster could possibly grant. they asked “to see the flowers from their village”. this would give asriel the excuse he needed to absorb chara’s soul and leave the underground without having his motives questioned.

WHY DIDN’T ANYONE NOTICE THAT CHARA’S SYMPTOMS WERE SIMILAR TO ASGORE’S?

it’s very likely that asgore actually experienced completely different symptoms. while humans have physical bodies, monsters are made mostly of magic. it makes sense, as a result, that asgore may have become ill in a very different way. this also makes it possible that chara may have thought they were in for much more manageable symptoms.

A SLOW DEATH

besides looking like a natural death, the slow death caused by ingesting buttercups would give chara plenty of time for monsters to realise they were dying and for chara to share their last wish. 

as asriel’s act of getting the flowers was what caused chara to die, his guilt may have been what pushed him to continue on with the plan and absorb chara’s soul. had chara simply killed themself with the knife they apparently had access to, it’s likely that asriel wouldn’t have felt responsible enough to justify absorbing chara’s soul and hurting humans. if it a was quick and relatively painless death, asriel wouldn’t have been given enough time to dwell on it. how could asriel say no to their dying best friend?

the death itself must have been horrific. chara was confined to their bed and the game suggests that they died there.

it seems that chara’s mouth and throat would have been blistered. they would have thrown up often and had bloody diarrhea. they would have suffered unbearable cramps and pains until their kidneys began to fail. all this, while stuck in their bed. toriel and asgore would likely have had to clean all this up over and over throughout the course of the day that chara suffered in this way. asriel, too, had to watch his best friend and adoptive sibling die in a way that monsters could probably never imagine. monsters don’t bleed or use the bathroom.

TO SUMMARISE THE SPECULATION

although chara may have been suicidal, that is not necessarily the case

chara didn’t want to stop existing, they just wanted a stronger body that could destroy humans

it’s possible that chara’s symptoms and asgore’s symptoms were very different as human bodies are physical and monster bodies are magical

chara needed asriel to feel involved in the plan

they probably knew an easier death would be too impersonal for asriel 

since asriel got the flowers, he probably felt responsible for chara’s suffering

the guilt asriel felt as a result probably drove him to go through with the plan to absorb chara’s soul

perhaps chara wanted their death to look like a natural one so that their plan couldn’t be discovered by the monsters

the time it took for chara to die would only serve to increase asriel’s guilt 

asriel probably couldn’t say no to their dying best friend

as it turns out, a death by buttercup poisoning may have been the perfect cover for chara’s plan.

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Fun Fact: The word “goat” translates to “get” in Swedish, and “kid” [the proper term for a young goat] translates to “killing”. Put those together. “Get. Killing.”

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✿ @turntailed

Admittedly, he didn’t have a clue what he was doing. Digging through all these files, all this boundless information and he had no way to interpret it. But he could learn in other ways. Learn what would do something interesting by doing it, know which switches would kill him by dying to them - Oh, so many new and wonderful ways to die. He could mine his young soul out of all the data the True Lab had saved, by knowing what failed every other time he tried. Last time the big green button had fried the system. So this time, he hit the bigger, greener button. 

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Flowey evolution

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[ hiatus notice: i’ll be venturing into the spirit wilds from 22nd to 30th december. i don’t plan on bringing my laptop with me but i’ll have mobile access, so will be reachable on im. ]

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“Don’t be so hard on yourself! You gave me all this power - when I rule the Underground with it, it’ll be all thanks to you.”

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[ i’m really bad at starters so um plot call i guess ? [ like this and i’ll jump on im or ask to brainstorm and write starters from there.

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Am I Actually Being Ignored Or Do I Just Think That I’m Being Ignored Because I Have An Exorbitantly High Need For Attention: An Autobiography