flowey's warning has always been ridiculously hilarious to me bc it technically just implies he's waddled up to sans like "hiiii i'm the one ruining ur life. also im God. capital G, xoxo" n got his ass absolutely flattened back into the dirt
flowey U are so embarrassing i love u so much
but yknow. if there's one thing flowey's picked up from sans beating his ass over and over, it's how to serve boss monster Cunt
Yeah, accidentally killed Starlo/North Star in my Undertale Yellow run, I was trying to lowwr his HP like how you can do in undertale to let monsters spare you, but.. he was like half hp and died immediately... yeah exited out there quickly.. too bad there wasn't any special dialogue for exiting after killing a boss like there is for Toriel in Undertale.
Yeah, I know it's the wrong background but I was too lazy to draw one so I just took an image from the game in the dunes area.
Here's one without the dialogue and one with just Clover
i dont know abt yall but i personally never trust flowey when he says he has No Feelings...
there's a kind of religious romanticism in monster culture that wants to believe souls contain your compassion, but humans explicitly disprove that, making monsters question whether a soul even requires those qualities to exist in the first place.
flowey adheres to the traditional monster belief, and given how monsters emphasize this idea of love, hope, and compassion being integral to the wholeness of a monster's soul, he probably internalized that and thought his absence of such qualities meant he was different. broken.
flowey may emphatically insist he has no emotions or compassion whatsoever, but that simply doesn't align with the reality we observe. i mean, hello??? the guy is EXCESSIVELY EMOTIONAL. HIGH OCTANE EMOTIONAL. HE EXPRESSES A LOT OF EMOTIONS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE GAME!!!
flowey is also an incredibly unreliable narrator, especially when it comes to himself and that's really just a direct result of the immense trauma he's been through.
it's no surprise flowey would latch onto this idea of being "soulless" as a way to explain his new, jaded worldview. if he has no soul, no real emotions, then it rationalizes why he feels so disconnected, so incapable of caring about anything or anyone anymore.
but the reality is, flowey isn't truly so devoid of all love and feeling. what he's experiencing (to me) is more like a self-imposed emotional numbness, a defense mechanism to shield himself from further pain.
his "soullessness" is less an objective state of being and more a way of framing his loss of hope, his inability to feel the same compassion he once did. he clings to his lack of soul as an attempt to explain and validate his despairing worldview in a reality that no longer includes chara, the one person he truly cared about.
and honestly.... if flowey truly was so bereft of all the compassion he had "as asriel", like he so adamantly claims, how would we reconcile that with moments like this?
seems pretty compassionate to me.
and while we're on the subject, i must say that asriel's request for us to view him and flowey as separate people is unhealthy and should NOT be taken at face value, just as we ought not believe many of the claims flowey has made abt himself. this scene to me just seemed like asriel was trying to absolve himself of the guilt tied to his actions as flowey, which isn't necessarily a narrative we should support. to read them separately would be a disservice to flowey's arc and development.
in a sense, asriel is right, in all his innocence he could never behave the way flowey does. yet another aspect of flowey is that Anyone under comparable circumstances could become Him, even one as kind and gentle as asriel
and though flowey doesn't fully believe or accept it (just yet), the game does a brilliant job of reminding us that despite EVERYTHING, it is still him.