This is one of my favourites scenes in not just Undertale Yellow but Undertale in the general.
The pure rage that Clover experienced in this scene is incredible. You can tell exactly what he is feeling. Anger towards Asgore for causing all of this. Anger at himself for letting himself to be distracted from the mission. Anger towards the Monsters for going along with this. Anger towards Ceroba for betraying him. Maybe even Anger towards the humans who had unjustly sealed the Monsters all those years ago.
What I want to know is what would have happened if all of that anger manifested in a jump in LV which resulted in a Big Shot.
One of these days I'll expand on this, but HOLY CRAP I cannot imagine the betrayal Starlo must've felt if you kill Ceroba in Flawed Pacifist. This guy, this monster who idolized humans and was so ecstatic to see one that he had them join his posse, killed his best friend. And, just, that's gotta hurt MORE than when she git married to Chujin, because despite his broken heart, she was at least THERE. She was ALIVE.
Here she's not.
Despite her willingness to die, Starlo hates you once you kill her. And part of it is how close they were before she was killed. The other part is the fact you basically betrayed him. You had no inclination to kill anyone beforehand. Heck you probably didn't even SHOOT anyone (unless you were me and was pissed at Axis).
All that training, all that bonding, the fact he stopped you and gave you that Deputy badge, said that he was PROUD of you. Suddenly all down the drain because now his best friend is gone. I cannot even fathom how that must've felt. Like no wonder he sees you less than dirt, you killed his friend and broke his trust. No longer are you his Deputy, even if you wanted to go back to the Wild East. Actually that would likely be a bad idea, he just would not like you around.
Also it's such an interesting contrast of, "yes you're safe in the law, but personally I do not want to see you again." Just, hoough love that!
Have no idea how to end this, so, yeah holy crap Starlo absolutely hates you in Flawed Pacifist
UT-Anomalous has 4 Different Flawed Pacifist Endings. The Normal one, The Chara one, The Flowey one, and The Best friends one.
Here's how you get them.
NORMAL: Treat the Papyrus fight like UT's Asgore Fight. Whittle him down and then Spare. You get a phone call like always, with Chara and Flowey giving you a goodbye. You get a Deter Cutscene from this ending telling you you probably could get a better ending, like normal UT's Flowey.
CHARA: Don't whittle Papyrus down too much, then spare. This allows you to bring Chara with you. The phone call changes to just Flowey giving you a goodbye. You then get a different cutscene where you see Chara and Frisk on the surface, and Chara tells Frisk they could have probably done more, and then asks Frisk if they can still load their save. This brings you back to the menu to continue.
FLOWEY:Whittle down Papyrus, then FIGHT. This allows you to bring FLOWEY with you. The phone call changes to Chara being conflicted, but forgiving Frisk. Giving them a sad goodbye. The cutscene is then Flowey telling Frisk the same thing Chara tells them in the Chara ending.
BEST FRIENDS:Load your save after any Flawed Pacifist ending, then Fight Papyrus again, and Spare. You then get a cutscene where Deter TRIES to attack again, but since you already know what Deter;s going to do, Frisk, Chara, and Flowey stop Deter before they can attack Papyrus, and tell Papyrus to put the Human ESSENCE's back into Safekeeping. except for Azreal and Emily's, who they ask to be returned to them. Papyrus then let's you leave peacefully as thanks for saving his life. you then get a cutscene with Chara and Flowey telling frisk the same thing they say in their Respective endings, locking you out of trying to fight Papyrus again after loading your save. You are then LOCKED into needing to do Pacifist unless you Reset.
So, I've done a Pacifist, I've done betrayal kills, I've done a neutral where I killed everything but bosses, I got up to Zenith Marty on Geno and then watched the ending on YT.
But it seems I'm still missing a few things. Apparently killing Ceroba in Pacifist triggers a Flawed Pacifist ending with extra dialogue, an Asgore fight, and I don't what else.
And it seems that Axis apparently killed Integrity and absorbed their EXP, but aside from their comment in Geno about "neutralizing a human" and a couple spoilers, I know nothing about it.
So I have one more ending to get, and I need to look up info on Axis vs. Integrity.
the thing that impresses me most about UTY is that the writing challenge the devs had to contend with was ABSURDLY difficult and yet they somehow pulled it off. how do you maintain Undertale's overall tone and let the protagonist "win" when the space you're writing in forbids you from leaving the middle of this venn diagram?
it feels impossible but they just did it anyway. hats off to them.
In thay case, CocoaPowder would definitely work in Flawed Pacifist. Seeing a more cynical Clover build a relationship with recently revived Chara while also dealing with his spoiled relationship with Starlo would be interesting.
As for Desert Sanctuary, canonically their relationship definitely isn't romantic but it could create some interesting scenarios.