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A lea (pronounced like "lee") is an open area of grassy land. I didn't feel like drawing a lea, but hopefully you can imagine one as you listen.
You know what? I'm proud of myself! This is a good piece of music, and it's proof of how far I've come. I would not have had this much phrasing and dynamic variation a month ago, and I feel like I did a decent job balancing the instruments. True, there are some things that could be improved on, but that's why practice makes progress!
I am taking this as a win. Neither perfectionism or imposter syndrome is bothering me right now, which technically means I've surpassed the expectations I had set on myself. I look forward to seeing even more improvement as I continue forward.
#my music#this only took me 3 hours#this is proof my music history class is coming in handy#my dad came up with the title#because i still can't title things#practice makes progress#beryllineart
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Butterscotch or cinnamon?


If Majora's Mask Link fell into the Underground- 1
There is no way I'm not celebrating the Legend of Zelda's 39th anniversary, but I'm not sure if I'll have the time to do the art I want, so I made sure that I at least had this comic up. I have rough plans for several others (including one with Bremen's Mask and the Canine Unit, heh heh). Of course, I'm terrible at drawing Link, especially his hair, so it might be a bit difficult.
I find it funny how similar Frisk and Link are. Both are left handed, both do not speak, and both have the choice whether or not to fight.(Link can wear the stone mask to become invisible to monsters, another comic idea I'm looking forward to.)
You know, I used to play Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker on the Game Cube. We don't have a Game Cube anymore, of course, but we can still play Wind Waker by putting the disc in our Wii and plugging in the Game Cube controller. I really wish that Nintendo would just release Wind Waker and Twilight Princess on the Switch. Goodness knows, people would buy it.
Anyways, I might do some more Zelda art today, but if I don't, I can at least say I celebrated.
#the legend of zelda#majora's mask#undertale#link#toriel#holidays#reasons to celebrate#tatl#comic#undertale comic#loz ut crossover#wait a second#it's also national caregiver's day#this is the perfect way to combine the holidays
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I want my music to sound better
Okay, let me explain. I compose my pieces on Musescore, which I love, since I am a violinist and was trained to read music on paper with clefs and sharps and all that jazz. But the sounds that come with Musescore just... no. Especially the strings (except the harp sounds really good, what's up with that?)
So I've been looking into DAW (digital audio workstation)s for a while, but there's quite a learning curve. I finally downloaded one, but it didn't have any actual instruments so I had to do even more work to get VSTs, plugins, whatever they're called, only for me to still not know how to use the instruments I got.
Then I found out that Musescore accepts VSTs/plugins. Musescore lets you use those nice instrument sounds! So now the only learning curve is finding out how to use the mixer and all those plugins (plus I have to find some decent sounding ones for my purposes).
The first version of the song above uses the basic Musescore sounds. The second one uses some external plugins. Other than that, they are exactly the same. I don't have one I like more than the other because the Musescore instruments are pretty bad, but I know their quirks and how to make them do what I want. I don't know those things with the plugins, but hopefully I will learn, because I want my music to sound better, you know?
#beryll says stuff#my music#whoops#i think i used the cinematic strings for the violin#which is a bad idea if you want fast notes#i told you i don't know how to use plugins#i'm excited that there's a way to get past musescore's limitations though#eventually i'll learn how to use an actual DAW#i stopped composing for a while purely because the instruments weren't good enough for the music#i'm excited to be composing again#i'm glad for the staccato style stuff because i'm cooking up a song in a hollow knight style#and with some tweaking the staccato works very nicely
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Do you have any OCs ? ^^

I'm limiting myself to five. I don't have any Undertale OCs, I've just got some aesthetic au versions of existing characters (Steamtale Gaster is my favorite) but I've got lots of D&D style characters. I'm a big fantasy fan, and making fantasy OCs gives me the chance to create fantasy worlds at the same time.

Tamal is my D&D bard (with potential to become a bardlock). His dad sacrificed him to eldritch beings a while back, so he doesn't have a face, and he wears his skull mask at all times. However, he does like music and singing, even if he can get a bit tongue tied in front of people. This is the character I will be playing if I can get over my social anxiety enough to join a D&D group.

This is technically two characters combined into one, also known as a 3/2 character. This is my character design practice character, because I have a lot of trouble making my OCs visually interesting, so she's going to (hopefully) look a lot different later on. The basic story idea is that the girl is sick of being sheltered because she's a noble, so she runs away from home in the hopes of becoming a soldier/knight. Somehow she finds a magical sword who can talk, but he doesn't want to fight. He wants to study to become a wizard. Eventually he agrees to teach her to fight so he doesn't get left out in the middle of nowhere, but their conflicting interests lead to amusing shenanigans.

This is the Shakespeare therapy bot, also known as Will, Willy, Bill, Henry, or Romeo, depending on who you ask. It used to be a repair bot on a starship, but one day it started trembling uncontrollably for an unknown reason. The crew started off by just cushioning the bot to stop it from rattling, but eventually they dressed it up like a Shakespeare character because they needed something to occupy their time. It is not intelligent (it's about as smart as a parrot or a dog) but it can communicate using phrases from Shakespeare sonnets and plays. The captain doesn't like the bot or the attachment the crew has to it, but he's got debilitating anxiety/depression, and eventually it becomes his emotional support animal except it's a robot.


The Goblin King is a character I made purely to kill off in a comic. Then I gave him a backstory and now I feel bad about it (and I've been procrastinating ever since). Anyways, there's this prophecy that the person who kills him will be the hero who saves the land, and you know, he doesn't want to die, but he also wants his daughter to grow up in a world that is safe, so when the hero does come, it's kind of bittersweet. Also, the goblin with the birthmark and earring is his daughter grown up, she did not like losing her dad. I made him look too youthful, I was trying so hard to make him look small and cute. His battle music sounds good so far though.

Oh my gosh, this guy, this guy is hilarious. I love him so much! Basically I was drawing a bunch of random characters and I drew a shy skeleton in a wizard's outfit. My dad saw it and said it looked like a necromancer, and my brother suggested giving him a rose because he was a nec-romance-r. So I did, and thought, "Hang on, I can take this one step further!"
So meet the Neck-romancer, a former vampire who was turned into a skeleton due to a misunderstanding. See, he advertised his services as a vampire date-for-hire by calling himself the "Neck-romancer," but a couple of people didn't get the joke and hired him to help with a ritual, thinking he was an actual necromancer. Since he didn't actually know anything about necromancy, he bungled it all up and was turned into a skeleton. (No idea what happened to the other guys) Thankfully, vampires are resilient creatures and he remained able to live life as normal, albeit as a skeleton. He lost a lot of his vampire powers too, though now he can be in the sunlight without turning to ash, so that's something.
Now he's a merchant who sells wares from his wagon. I plan to have him appear to sell magical items to the Undertale gang in my Undertale plays D&D campaign, but he also exists in the goblin king's universe because he's way too awesome to use just once. He's a huge fan of puns and wordplay and still calls himself "the Neck-romancer," even though him being a skeleton in wizard robes leads to even more misunderstandings. I don't have a good reason for why he started wearing the robes, but I do know they're comfortable.
Anyways, those are some of my OCs! Thank you for your question, it was really nice to have an excuse to ramble about them! Sorry if it was a bit long, I couldn't choose just one though.
#original character#my ocs#answered ask#dungeons and dragons#dnd bard#tamal duskbringer#goblins#vampires#robots#thank you so much for the ask!#beryll#beryllineart#the neck-romancer
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February 17th is Random Acts of Kindness Day, so here are some random acts of kindness from the Deltarune gang!
#holidays#reasons to celebrate#deltarune#susie deltarune#noelle holiday#lancer deltarune#roulxs kaard
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Portrait Studies 1

UUUUGGHH! Listen, they're good. I know they're good. I'm just such a perfectionist that my brain won't stop telling me "Oh, that eye is shaped wrong, you should fix it," and "The mouth doesn't go there, why does it look like that?" and I know. That is why these are studies, because they are meant to help me improve, and believe it or not, it's not possible for my hands to draw things perfectly. Perfectionism is both a blessing and a curse.
Perfectionism aside, I had a really fun time drawing these, and plan to do more. Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Danny Kaye, Agatha Christie maybe... lots of people I can choose from. And now I really want to watch a Hitchcock film.
Both of the photos were just pulled from Google, by the way. I think they're both on Wikipedia.
#my art#art#portrait#portrait study#doris day#gene kelly#these took me forever!#smile lines are so hard#there's this combination of shading and linework that's hard to get right#it's way too easy to get someone smiling to look old instead#all parts of the face are hard to draw#i may be trying to prove to myself that i am capable of drawing faces#practice makes progress
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Happy Valentine's Day!








We shared pick-up lines in my ASL class today, and I just love pick-up lines that are actually insults. I was busy today, which is why the art is late and pretty low quality, but it's funny!
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Character categorization
Okay, so there’s this thing, I don’t know if it’s a character trope or just something that I do obsessively, but I love things where a character is a fraction of a character (person maybe?). (0/2 is not a character, 4/2 is multiple characters, and there’s a spectrum in between). I’ll make a separate post explaining better what I mean (once I have made art that works to highlight my arguments), but the basic idea behind it is that characters have degrees of humanity and personality and wholeness that can be expressed in fractions.
Silent protagonists tend to be half a character to me, as well as robot characters (of course it depends on how they are written, but evolution from one half of a character to two halves of a character is my favorite thing about robot characters).
I'm really using the word "character" loosely, it's just that sometimes a character who is categorized in the 2/2 area isn't always human and I don't mean literal human but idk, humanity is an important part of characterizing these characters into regions but there are exceptions, especially since "humanity" is something that can have multiple definitions, Death from Discworld is probably the best example of a 2/2 character whose humanity is a bit odd. I swear I will make this easier to understand in the future it makes sense in my head.
The things these characters strive for is integral in categorizing them. Half characters tend to be passive and strive for less, two halves is a “normal” amount of striving, three halves is my favorite because it introduces the most conflict, and I don’t feel like figuring out what a four halves character would strive for (since a 4/2 "character" is usually made up of multiple characters, though it's often still a single unit).
Now, I’m not saying these fractions are about how complete a character is or how well it’s written. It’s more about how much of a unit the given character is… look, I know I’m not explaining this as well as I should, I am a pretty visual thinker and this is just a way for me to categorize characters (especially my OC’s, who always end up being 3/2 characters). I’ll try to make it understandable when I expand on this, but I really wanted to say something because I noticed that the Long Quiet from Slay the Princess is all of these fractions at once and I’m kind of obsessed with symbiosis, parasitism and relationships when it comes to characters. I guess you could say these fractions are a measure of dependence, independence, consciousness and humanity… I don’t know, it makes sense in my head.
Here are some examples of characters and where they fall on the fraction line. (Note, this is not a rating system, I often find 3/2 characters much more interesting than 4/2 characters because the conflicts that happen to 3/2 characters speak to me.)

#character analysis#poll#there is a type of character that is a mix of 4/2 and 0/2#it's called a mob or a cult#4/2 characters are from when having characters as a group makes the group greater than the sum of its parts#there's a reason I chose halves instead of quarters#honestly this fraction thing is partly a measure of how characters are perceived#listen#I wrote a 10 page essay on the science of magic systems and how it applies to the laws of our world#this sort of thinking is practically part of my identity#I have to categorize and understand things#And if there's a formula i can make that's even better#plus it was either this or a rant about my favorite poisons#especially atropine which has cool berries
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The colorful highlight thingies change suddenly around 22 seconds because my computer shut down and I hadn't saved for a while. Whoops. I literally updated Krita just to see if the timelapse would finally work because Krita does not like recording timelapses. Finished piece below.

It's not great, but it's not bad either.
#rose#flowers#my art#beryllineart#timelapse#art process#yeah i can't draw flowers or glass#though that didn't stop me here#i'm not unhappy with this piece#i did not use a reference because i didn't feel like browsing google#probably would have been useful though
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Motivation troubles

I'm not really liking making art right now, so I wrote down the things I wanted to do and things I didn't want to do. I suggest this for people experiencing burnout or art block, it actually felt really good to write down my current limits. I'm a bit tired of comics, which I didn't realize until I actually wrote down how much I didn't want to make comics right now.
Today it seems I wanted "things made out of glass" and "color experiments." Are those decorative pebble thingies made of glass? I don't know. I just know I like them.

Also, funny thing, I don't want to draw Undertale stuff, and I think that's because I can't stop thinking about medicine in the Underground. I'm taking a medicinal plants class right now, and it makes me wonder what medicines and medicinal plants (as well as fungi, synthetic compounds, etc) would actually be available to the monsters of the Underground. So, once I go down that rabbit hole to a satisfactory degree, I'll feel like drawing Undertale stuff again. Also, I will most likely subject people to that ramble, but it'll be an educational ramble... hopefully.
Also, I kind of want to tag this with #undertale but I'd feel guilty if I didn't have Undertale art, so here's some doodles I did a few days before I started this blog. Also a random map I did a long time ago (maps are something I really need to work on).


#my art#random stuff#doodles#artistic burnout#glass#night sky#moon#undertale#maps#i want to draw but i also don't want to draw#i like how that glass pebble thing turned out#i started undertale yellow yesterday#and got addicted to six-shooter#also i think i want to draw hollow knight stuff too
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I'm at a weird state of mind where I hate my art, but I'm at a really good state mentally and drawing does make me happier instead of making me discouraged? Like, how is that possible? Hopefully this just means that I'll eventually look back on these sketches and like them (or see something good in them.)
Why are robots so freaking hard to draw?
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Play Outside Day
Okay, okay, so, my New Year's Resolution is to learn how to draw better backgrounds. I am really, really bad at backgrounds/ environments/ landscapes/ whatever you call them. But if I learn how to do them, I'll have a lot of really good knowledge and skills that I don't currently have.

The only problem is, I've never had fun drawing backgrounds. I know that a world can have as much complexity and interesting stuff as a character, and can be very important for stories, but it's just not fun for me. I didn't even try on the landscape up above because I just didn't want to do it. So, learning to have fun is the first step.

Huh, who would've guessed that references are useful? (This is based off a picture from a book.) I rarely use them in my art and that is a huge mistake. This piece is kind of funny because of how blurry it looks. It feels like my glasses are off even though they are on. It was just meant to be a monochromatic thumbnail, but I wanted color.

Foreground, middle ground, background... what are those? I feel like I'm a complete beginner again, and in some ways, I am. I just hope that I can improve and not become discouraged. I love drawing characters, but my characters deserve settings to explore, and I've been denying them that for too long.

Happy Play Outside Day (Feb 1st)! Also World Read Aloud Day, Take Your Child to the Library Day, Ice Cream for Breakfast Day, and the day Willy Wonka opened up his Chocolate Factory for the five kids with Golden Tickets.
#holidays#reasons to celebrate#new years resolutions#drawing backgrounds 2025#my art#beryllineart#environment art#background art#it's really hard to convince myself that i can't (and shouldn't) be able to do it perfectly first try#wish me luck
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Backwards Day




I literally almost did this last night. I had my hand on the soap, ready to pump it onto my toothbrush. I'm very lucky I didn't.
This is my way of celebrating National Backwards Day (partly because I'm sick right now and don't feel very creative). It is also National Hot Chocolate Day and Eat Brussels Sprouts Day. Guess which one I'm going to be celebrating?
#holidays#reasons to celebrate#comic#beryll#it's pretty backwards to brush your teeth with hand soap#it's been a while since i posted
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The Cost of Mercy




















This is my 100th post, I wanted to do something special and I liked this idea. It was not originally going to be this long. (20 pages! Wow!)
Because this took me half a month to create, I think I'll probably do a little "making of" post just to discuss how the end result differed from my original plans for this comic. I wish I could say I have a backlog of art to post, but I don't, and this comic might have given me burnout.
Ughhhh, my stupid brain has been telling me non-stop how "talentless" I am and how all of my drawings look terrible and that made making this comic an uphill battle. But I did it, and I hope that eventually I can feel proud of it. In the meantime, I think I need to do a couple of art tutorials so my brain actually acknowledges that I've been improving.
(Update: took a break between page 10 and 11 which improved my mental state, I still feel it's important to acknowledge that time of low self esteem and how I pushed through it. Also, I learned what a pen stabilizer was on page 12.)
I deserve a small ramble about this comic, right? Actually, it's pretty much as long as the comic itself, so you have been warned.
Yeah, so, this was inspired by my Susie vs. Lancer comic. In that, Susie does not admit her vulnerability to herself in time and that leads to her making a mistake she regrets. I wanted to show Asriel showing false vulnerability (my headcanon of him being an actor coming into play here) and creating a betrayal similar to Susie's, only this one was on purpose.
"But Beryll," I hear you say, "doesn't Asriel think Frisk is Chara? Why on earth would Asriel kill his best friend?" Well, besides the fact that a) Asriel is both a god of hyperdeath and a LV 9999 maniac b) he's already killed Frisk dozens of times in this battle alone and c) the image of black silhouettes on a red background with a glowing white sword is too cool to pass up, I have a little interaction I couldn't fit in the comic that should explain things.

That's my way of reconciling the whole "I thought you were Chara" thing when Chara and Frisk do not physically look alike at all. Remember, Flowey's genocide dialogue in the Ruins says, "I have a plan to become all powerful. Even more powerful than you and your stolen soul." Meaning that he knows this human physically is not Chara come back to life, but something in their mannerisms or something is so similar to Chara that Flowey convinces himself that they are. And in this comic, Asriel was so desperate for Chara to remember him that he takes Frisk's soul for himself, in the hopes that when they are reunited Chara will come back as well. (And he had to get up close and personal because of the soul's annoying tendency to crack before he can take it, also, glowing white sword. That's why I don't show the heart as broken on page 4, even though that would give the off the "dead" vibes more clearly.)
And now we come to the part where he says, "Hey, remember that time you wanted to kill all of those humans? Want to try again?" I think Flowey has been holding on to the whole "kill or be killed" mentality because he thinks it was his fault that he and Chara died. He fears being weak and being a coward, which is why he became a sadistic LV 9999 psychopath. Again, the whole acting headcanon thing that I rambled about in a different post.
Asriel's last memories of being with Chara are of feeling Chara's anger towards the humans, and when they finally reunite, he can't accept that, as a ghost, Chara learned to let go of that anger, having realized their own mistakes and realizing that it was their anger that got them into trouble. But Asriel has been holding on to that anger that wasn't even his own, all because he believes that it was his fault that they both died, since he fought against that anger.
So yeah, Asriel and Flowey's strongest emotions are actually guilt. Flowey's got a bit of survivor's guilt because he was brought back, albeit as a flower. But most of the guilt comes from convincing himself that it was his fault he and Chara died. That guilt causes him to reject all of the positive emotions that come his way and hold on to the hurt for so long that he hardly realizes it's there, causing that empty feeling that he thinks is a lack of emotions. But if he ever managed to actually let go of his guilt, he would realize that he actually can feel emotions. I have never believed that soulless = emotionless, given the way Flowey acts.
I just want to say, when Asriel resets in this comic, I'm definitely imagining a thing like when Majora's Mask Link plays the Song of Time, where all of the souls are leaving him like Link's items leave as he falls through the void, finally waking up as Flowey. Also, from a mechanics standpoint, Asriel has access to several save files when he's got Frisk's soul. He can reset to the moments after he got Frisk's soul, to when Frisk took away his control over resets, and to when he was first brought back as Flowey. He can't go further back than that because he can't go back to a time he didn't have that power. The only reason he can go back further than the moment he stole Frisk's soul is because of the enormous amounts of determination from all of the souls he has, both monster and human.
Okay, now I want to talk about the ending of the comic. All sweet and nice because Flowey's finally learning to let go of some of the things that made him evil and mean, right? I'm writing this ramble halfway through drawing the comic, so I'm assuming how that ends. (Also, if it's not clear, Frisk has forgotten their entire time in the Underground before. To them, this is the first time they've been down here.)
Well, that leads me to wonder, how will Flowey act since he has decided to be nice and stuff? Honestly, I don't know how the boss battles would go, but I think he and Frisk would develop a genuine friendship. He would hang around places he's pretty sure have save points, maybe give some tips and share a joke or two. Basically, imagine something like what he does for Clover in Undertale Yellow.
But, because we can't have happy Flowey, let's give him a new source of guilt. Now, Flowey lives in fear of Frisk finding out what he did, how he preyed on their sympathy just so he could kill them and steal their soul. He's been acting nice now, and enjoying their friendship, but he can't convince himself to fully commit to it (acting headcanon mention three) because he's afraid he might lose that friendship. Which is why, when Frisk chooses to hug and forgive Asriel, he refuses both, since he remembers what happened last time they hugged (on page 4) and he doesn't feel he deserves forgiveness when they don't even remember the truly horrible things he did. (Again, I'm not completely sure what the boss battles would have been like.) <Actually, I've taken a few days since writing this ramble and have figured it out but will discuss it in a future post.
But Frisk is a determined kid, and after they watch the sunset with everybody (and decide to live with Toriel of course) they go all the way back to the Ruins where this happens.

I hope you are noticing the parallels between Frisk and Chara that help defend Flowey/Asriel's confusion, because I worked hard on integrating that. They are very much alike.
So, that's the end of my ramble. I guess a long comic needs a long ramble, huh? Despite my brain's attempts to convince me otherwise, I actually really enjoyed making this comic. If you did read this whole thing, good for you! I'm not the best at explaining these things in an understandable manner, so I know it might have been hard to read.
Also, January 16th is/was Appreciate a Dragon Day. So here's Douglas, who guards my things while I do art. (I did 6 pages today, so Douglas got plenty of work in.)

#asriel dreemurr#chara#frisk#flowey#comics are hard#beryllineart#I can't draw hugs or backgrounds or night skies or tears#tune in next time for when papyrus actually blasts you on a genocide route#or somehow kills you on a neutral route#<<that's a joke#mostly because i am legitimately not sure how on earth that scenario would happen#comic#undertale#undertale comic#my art
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I couldn't figure out any actual titles for these pieces...
These songs are all different from each other. I don't really have a specific style to my songs, and these were just me having some fun. I hope you can have some fun listening to these too. I do have one I'm currently working on that sounds great so far, but it's still not done.
#my music#i'm considering writing a song with lyrics and singing to it#not pop music though because i don't like pop songs#help i can't title anything!
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Rambling about Asriel/Flowey
Lots of headcanon stuff and personal interpretation here, but I think Asriel enjoyed acting. You know, before he died. And I bet he was good at it!
This is a looooooong post, and I uh... don't explain my reasoning as well as I could because I kept going off on tangents, but uhhh, it might be interesting? I don't know, this all came from me trying to decide whether Asriel or Flowey would be more of a dice goblin (it's a D&D thing). Anyways, you have been warned....
Let's start with the first and most obvious reason. Flowey's ability to mimic others. He can imitate voices really impressively, and he does this in the game, imitating Toriel's voice with an echo flower. He also calls you using a voice you've "never heard before" in the elevator. This voice is the same as Asriel's adult voice, not his child one, which is interesting to me. He thinks you're Chara, why the heck would.... wait, look at Tape 4. "I... I don't like this idea, <Name>. // Wh.. what? N-no, I'm not... //... big kids don't cry." Maybe Asriel/Flowey is using his older voice to show Chara that he's not that little kid anymore, that little kid who was too cowardly to go through with the plan of killing the humans. He looks up to Chara and so this is his way of telling them that he's grown up? I don't know, I may be reading too much into things.
Talk about a rabbit hole... I just wanted to talk about Asriel/Flowey's acting skills. Anyways, Flowey is really good at pretending. He's done hundreds of resets, befriended people and killed them hundreds of times, and yet no one really seems to notice. I may be giving him too much credit since he can reset and all, but come on, it must be really hard to pretend you're meeting someone for the first time when you know every detail about their lives.
That's not a good argument. I've got a better one. Flowey doesn't freak out when you take away his ability to reset. Instead, he does his best to shift the unease to you, taunting you about Toriel's death (if you killed her), taunting you about the other human's deaths, and always stating the "kill or be killed" phrase. He does his best to make you feel uncomfortable about the choice you made, whatever it was.
"You'll die and you'll die and you'll die." "Somebody is dead because of you." "You kind of remind me of myself." "I know what you did." "Enjoy that power while you can." All of these pieces of dialogue from after Toriel's fight are an attempt to make you not want this ability to reset, because Flowey wants it back. And he acts so nonchalant about it too, like come on. He was a god, and suddenly he's mortal again and not in control for the first time in a long time. There is no way he is not furious over losing the ability to save and reset. And later in the game, he makes that clear. But right now, he's hiding any fear or anger he has and making you unsteady on your feet with his acting skills. He's taking control of an unexpected situation (much like a good actor might, improvising when different outcomes than expected are thrown their way.) He's cautious, because you're the one person in the Underground who a. he doesn't know and b. has the ability to reset. And yet he still gives these awesome speeches perfectly designed to make you uneasy because he's a drama queen who can't help himself.
He's bluffing with no cards (aka no real advantage) and you need to be a good actor to bluff successfully.
Okay, so Flowey's good at acting. He's had lots of time and lots of resets to practice. But I think his acting ability actually comes from Asriel, and this is where I get into major headcanon territory because I only have the tapes to go off of and my own wishes for Asriel and Chara's sibling relationship.
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Imagine this. You're Asriel, and you just helped your sibling poison themself. Buttercups nearly killed your father, a big, strong boss monster. And now they are killing your closest friend in the world. They smile at you and say it's not that bad, but you know that they must be in pain, so much pain that the smile leaves their lips as soon as it arrives. But you smile back, pretending that you're fooled by their weak reassurance. And you stay there, pretending that you're not worried, that this is all just part of the plan, until they let out their last breath.
Only then does the mask break, the mask you've been wearing ever since you agreed to this stupid, stupid plan. You hid your doubts and you hid your tears because this was Chara's plan, and they only wanted what was best for everyone. They were going to free everyone. But now, with no one around, you whisper in a shaky voice, "I don't like this plan anymore." The truth is, you never did. But you never told them that because of that look in their eyes, that look that told them they'd come up with another idea, with or without you. And if there's one thing you know, it's that the two of you need to be together.
As you stand up and take the soul, you force yourself not to cry. If anyone alive were in this room, they would think you didn't care that your friend, your sibling, is now dead, but you care so much that it hurts. But big kids don't cry. Big kids aren't cowards. You know you aren't a big kid, not really, but you have to act like you are. You have to pretend you still believe in the plan that you never believed in anyway. You have to, otherwise...
You might not be able to go through with it.
...
Hey, maybe the reason Asriel idolized Chara so much was because Asgore kept saying Chara was "the future of humans and monsters." That same thing could have given Chara a savior complex where they thought they had to sacrifice themself for the good of everyone, because honestly, how can a child save humans and monsters? They felt responsible for something that was completely out of their hands and roped Asriel into it because he trusted them (or at least acted like/ convinced himself he did) and I realize Asgore's not the sole reason for either of those things, but come on, talk about putting a kid under pressure! I might have heard this from someone else but I don't know who...
Okay, so part of the "Asriel is good at acting" stuff comes from comic ideas I had of Asriel making Chara laugh with little skits and impressions after they fell into the Underground and were frightened and confused. I didn't really do a good job of explaining how any of this necessarily makes either Asriel or Flowey an actor. At the very least, I think I've shown that both Asriel and Flowey are able to mask their true feelings, fool others into believing certain things, and pretend to be something they're not. And that sounds like acting to me, but honestly, that's my opinion, and I don't know much about these things so whatever you want to think is fine.
Oh, oh, I just thought of this. During the Asriel boss fight, he gets increasingly desperate to keep you and breaks his character as the god of hyperdeath, in control and all powerful, to his real self, a scared little kid who just doesn't want to be left alone again. He tells you to just let him win because he truly has no power, and he knows that. He did a pretty good job of acting like he did have power though, not gonna lie... Same sort of thing Flowey did in the beginning of the game after you beat Toriel. I love when things go full circle like that.
And now I'm really done. I promise.
#asriel dreemurr#flowey#undertale#character analysis#ah yes let me go into a psychological dive through a fictional character's head#at 2 am when i should be sleeping#idk this might explain why i write flowey the way i do in some of my comics#especially the dnd one...#man I love flowey#sorry there's no art but i'm sick right now so drawing is hard#text post
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No, you do NOT want it to snow whenever you want Noelle, trust me.
Also, Dess calls Noelle "Elly"? Oh my heart, that's just the cutest thing!
#noelle holiday#december holiday#deltarune#deltarune newsletter#snowgrave#snowgrave deltarune#snow looks an awful lot like monster dust#i love how that bit was about angels#given the importance of the angel in the deltarune
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