thinking about how the extra area added on to a pacifist run of undertale, the true lab, is about alphys's past mistakes. how it ends with the story reaffirming that, despite the pain she's caused, the thing that matters is that she has now made the choice to do the right thing. she's still worthy of her friends' love.
thinking about how undertale doesn't expect the player to get a pacifist ending for the first time. how it's more likely than not that the player will kill toriel the first time they battle her, how lots of players don't initially figure out how to end undyne's fight without killing her, etc. what it expects — not even expects, really, but hopes — is that the player, if they care enough, will use their canonically acknowledged power over time to make up for those mistakes.
no matter how many neutral runs a player has done before committing to the pacifist run, the thing that matters to the characters, to the story, is that you've chosen, now, to do the right thing.
compared to alphys, the player honestly gets off lightly, in that you're the only one (other than flowey) who really remembers any harm you might have caused. and any direct guilting the game could have done about it is long past at this point.
instead, as undertale often does, it makes its point via parallels: alphys caused harm, and she knows it. she has committed to being better. in doing so, she has unlocked for herself a better ending to her story. and she deserves it. she's forgiven.
those structural narrative parallels are all over undertale, if you know where to look. and that's one of the things that makes it so fuckin' good.
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💗UNDERTALE: ACT TO FLIRT FULL RELEASE!💗
Happy (Belated) 9th Anniversary, Undertale!
💗 Everything is now available... including the long-awaited Heartbreak route!
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HOLD ON A FUCKING SECOND. WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE. HOW DID NO ONE MENTION OR NOTICE THIS BEFORE? I just got one of the fangamer undertale sticker sheets and discovered…
MEMORY HEAD, THATS A FUCKING SKELETON FACE.
ITS A FUCKING SKELETON
GUYS. WHY HAVENT I SEEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THIS? THIS CAN BE CHOCKED UP TO “oh well there’s a lot of inaccuracies on the stickers that relate to the artstyle and creative freedom given to the artist who made them.” BUT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND.
TOBY.
GAVE IT THE GO AHEAD
HE WOULD HAVE HAD TO APPROVE OF IT FOR IT TO EXIST.
These are NOT the same features. This was INTENTIONAL. They didn’t copy the sprite and make it cutsy. They intentionally switched features around and gave it the appearance of a skeleton. Toby knows how to indicate a skeletal structure in sprites, this was not done in the memory head sprite. HOWEVER.
IT IS DONE. IN THIS STICKER.
WE KNOW TOBY LIKES HIDING LORE IN PLACES, AND I KNOW MERCH ISNT CANON. IM NOT SAYING IT IS.
BUT
HE HAS CONSISTENTLY USED “NON CANON” MATERIAL TO HINT TOWARDS LORE IN THE PAST.
take the tweets for example. Not canon. But he uses them. Spamton sweepstakes, not canon. But he used them. MERCH. Not canon. BUT HE USES THEM.
Toby cares enough about the integrity of his game to remove frisks name from all the merch to avoid spoiling people, (despite the fact anyone buying undertale merch probably already knows) so why, would he allow this to happen. IF IT WASNT ACCURATE ENOUGH FOR HIM TO ALLOW IT.
and ONTOP OF ALL THAT.
Why choose memory head as a sticker? Why make merch of it at all? Out of all the amalgamates, why choose that one? You could’ve made a sticker of another character, there’s definitely enough to go around. More than what’s displayed in the stickers.
but memory head. Was chosen. AND UNLIKE ALL THE OTHER STICKERS WHERE THEY FOLLOW THE SPRITES OR REFERENCE THE EXISTING CANON BEHIND THE CHARACTER (aside from a few miscolouration examples, like mad dummy being red instead of tan and Froggit being green instead of white)
we know toby likes to acknowledge the fandom, he’s written Papyrus practically swearing on the inside of the “cool dude” shirt that I haven’t seen anyone talk about yet.
(it literally has him saying “FUNK!” Angrily, as if to imply swearing.)
I’m just saying guys.. we have fresh meat I haven’t seen anyone address yet…
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lets make a bet shall we?
just a little something I made inspired on (one of) the genocide ending(s) on undertale red and yellow! a mod that you should totally check out if u like cocoapowder,,(its me I like cocoapowder)
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