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Let's talk about Toriel.

Toriel is a grown woman, a mother of two. She teaches kindergarten at the local school, and volunteers at the local church as part of the choir. She is recently divorced. Her oldest child has recently gone off to college, and her youngest is:

Adopted from a young age

A different species

Known for pulling pranks and otherwise causing trouble, sometimes to great expense (e.g. bath bombs in the toilet)

Despite this, Toriel loves her youngest child as though they were her biological child. She checked out a "how to care for humans" book many, many times over the course of parenting Kris. She drives them to school each day, makes sure they're fed and cared for, and is clearly invested in their social life given how excited she is to learn that they've made a friend. As a newly single mother, she's doing her best.

But let's talk about her being newly single, shall we? She recently divorced her husband, Asgore. Unfortunately, Asgore has not accepted this. Toriel is being stalked by her ex-husband; he keeps giving her unwanted bouquets of flowers, and showing up wherever she goes. He even lampshades this, as though it's funny, when he pops out from hiding in the bushes near the church, after knowing that she would be there. Every time he does this, Toriel responds with obvious discomfort and anxiety, and makes an excuse to get away as quickly as she can. Asgore's behavior seems goofy and "well-meaning," but he is clearly ignoring his ex-wife's boundaries and actively disrupting her living her life by showing up where he knows she'll be, uninvited and unwanted.

So Toriel is recently divorced, with one child off to college, and another child who is clearly not doing well (despite Toriel's best efforts) still at home. She is being stalked by her ex-husband, but in such a way that it comes across as "friendly" or "kind" to everyone else, meaning she can't really make a big fuss about it or she'll look like the bad guy.

Then a new guy moves to town. He's friendly, he's funny, and they hit it off immediately. And unlike everyone else in town, this is a friend that doesn't have a connection to Asgore. (Rudy was Asgore's friend first, after all; it's not as if Toriel can really open up to him about how much his best friend is really putting the ass in Asgore.) This is someone that she can open up to, someone that she can confide in, someone that she can let a little loose with. Because she can't let loose at school, around the children; she can't let loose at church, in front of the wider community; but with a friend, in her own home?

And Sans is non-judgmental. Sans likes her jokes. As mentioned, Sans doesn't know Asgore, so he's not going to be inclined to brush off Toriel's concerns or discomfort because "well he just really loves you" or "he's just being kind." (Not to mention, Asgore also trauma dumped to Sans a bit, making Sans visibly uncomfortable as well, so Sans might even be more inclined to hear Toriel's side.) Sans knows about responsibility, given that this version of Papyrus seems to have issues of his own, and therefore perhaps Sans can relate with Toriel on how it is taking care of someone when you love them, but you don't exactly know how best to help them. Finally, Toriel has someone in her corner, someone who can understand, who she can have fun with.

Toriel isn't one of the main characters, and she's a grown woman and a mother (figure) at that, so I feel like it's easy to dismiss her side of things. Was it great that she was drunk when Kris came home, or that she and Sans continued partying even after Kris tried going to bed? No. But Toriel is a person, a whole entire person with a life outside of being Kris' mother. She's allowed to not always be on her best behavior, and she's allowed to make and spend time with a new friend when she, too, is pretty isolated as a result of her divorce and clearly stressed with the fact that Asgore is stalking her. ("Trying to win her back" is not, it turns out, an excuse for stalker behavior.) Toriel even tells Kris that the house feels lonely now that it's just the two of them, meaning that she, too, has been plagued with loneliness just like the main cast, and that Sans is, perhaps, her Susie.

Toriel is not an awful, uncaring mother because she got a little silly drunk with the first friend that is truly hers since her divorce. She's just a person. And she's allowed to be a person.

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!! DELTARUNE SPOILERS !!

Deltarune rant up ahead!! Read at ur own risk!

..It's basically just me spouting random stuff anyways

I'm going insane actually what the HELL was all of that in ch3 & 4....

I cannot even comprehend nor could I even predict the insanity of what was to come

I have so many things to say but oh my god. What hit me the most was chapter 4, especially at Noelle's house

Kris literally like. Gets the soul out of them and the first thing they do is drink chocolate milk I'm absolutely crying

It hurts me so bad that they seem to love playing the piano and when we control them we strip them away from that. They just want their life back :(

And don't even get me STARTED on the near ending of chapter 4..

"The place where it rained" I'M GOING INSANE???? I HATE THIS???? IN UNDERTALE IT'S "It's raining somewhere else" AND NOW IT'S THIS???

DON'T PLAY WITH ME RN BRO. AND SANS' LIKE, MOTIF THERE IS GONE TOO BC HE ISN'T PRESENT (well until after that)

It sounds so much lonelier,,, and after all the stuff Kris had been through that day,,

This game hates me so much I'm gonna cry

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MY SHAYLA

We love an aroace king.

Ink -> @/comyet

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alot of famous people rn are getting cheated on but i know mr sans undertale wouldn't do that shit can i get an amen

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DELTARUNE!!!!! TOMORROW!!!!!!

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DELTARUNE!!!!! TOMORROW!!!!!!

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Finally posting them!

This is Reverie (any pronouns will suffice), my drink/goldenvial shipkid! Misty little gremlin, they're either sleeping or causing chaos.

Reverie is a dreamwalker! They can wander into people's dreams and watch/interact in limited capacity. They're more interested in being nosy than really helping though, taking after Ink's "no interference" policy. Sometimes they'll give you a hand though, if they like you! (They probably don't.)

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crushes you with my fist

?!?!?!;

Crushes YOU with my fist💥💥💥💥💥 /silly/aff

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AWGGHCGHJKK ILYT 💗💗💗💗

"I love you , I'm glad we're friends"

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BLOOD WARNING !!!!! ‼️‼️‼️‼️

Dream belongs to Jokublog

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I'M CRYING

@rinky-dinky-dink's boys

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GRGRGEHRHBRHEHEHEBBEEBEBBEBEBBEBEBEHEBEHEHHEWHHW!!!! WAHAAHHAHH!!! SILLYTSHDILGLTLS

Do I know how to render? Not really! But here we are!

Late birthday gift for @peach-flavored-cyanide

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I HATE INK I HATE GOLDENVIAL I HATE MEADOWVERSE

MEADOWVERSE CANCELLED!!!!! GONE. REDUCED TO ASHES!!!

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killerdust beloved

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Art collab with @rinky-dinky-dink !

I had a of fun drawing our sillies dancing together with you! <3

Progress shots are on Rinky’s account!

Reverie belongs to @rinky-dinky-dink

Dev belongs to me!

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Hi the Life (Reapertale Toriel) roleplayer here.... Teehee....

Being so fr rn idk HOW me and Apple cook something like this up but like half the server is living for it LMFAO

some highlights from the Violet Banquet's first run, in no particular order:

happy meat

Crossbones hitting on Life

Ace 🎩

everyone is either drunk, unhappy, both, or completely oblivious. so it's been fun

Star Sugarplum can do whatever he wants forever ✨

Villain Dream Drama Queens

PUNCH BOWL ROULETTE

Villain Dream meet-up (derogatory)

obligatory murder mystery

🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

Dream is not taking a break at this party

Ink is a wet cat

creations vs creators

go off, Papyrus!!! 👏

Dusttale Sans and his three weed-smoking girlfriends

they left him...

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Not me reblogging this after the TealCake art.... /silly

A fun fusion of Kiwi and Glucose!

Glucose belongs to @ozkarrzen

Kiwi is mine!