#flowey is tremendously disillusioned about his parents by the time we meet him but he is CRUEL to toriel | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

carlyraejepsans · 2 months ago

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sometimes i think about toriel in that first run when flowey finds her in the RUINs, having her dead son return to her for comfort, broken and helpless, and being unable to provide for him in the one impossible way he desperately needed, "fixing him" "making it okay" the way only his mom should've been able to do.

flowey kills himself after she fails. you ever think about that? cause i think about that. you're gonna tell me she didn't notice? that she was cheerfully oblivious as things failed to get better and he grew more desperate and more hurt and more hopeless, as she failed him like she once did and always will fail him? you're gonna tell me that didn't eat her alive? didn't keep her up at night? didn't break her back into all those tiny little shards of herself she'd glued back together and swept under the carpet by sheer force of will?

do you think she gets nightmares about it, still?

#i think she does. i know it does. give her nightmares that is. even across timelines #flowey is tremendously disillusioned about his parents by the time we meet him but he is CRUEL to toriel #he is the dull blade she twists inside herself every day but BOY does he love helping her twist it #it borders on sadistic it. it borders on revenge #they are both so alike and different that her method of grieving is illegible to him.#his mom tried to replace him. and when he came back she couldn't fix him. he needed her to fix him so bad and she failed #it just know it's something he tore into her about after he started killing. with asgore he could play it off as utilitarian.#emotional manipulation to try to force his hand and get to the SOULs #but not with her.#undertale #toriel #flowey

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