#honourable mention to burgerpants. he couldn't come to my blog he's all out of vacation days

[zosonils]

who are your top six undertale characters?

oooohghgh this one is hard [except my number 1 y’all know exactly who the fuck is up there lmao] but here we go

6. mad dummy/mad mew mew - bit of a niche pick but mad dummy has always been one of my favourite minibosses and her return as mad mew mew in the switch and xbox ports cemented her as a character who i really love. she’s completely fucking unhinged in the best way possible AND she’s a trans icon to boot literally what more could you want. i’ve seen her referred to as maddie sometimes which is really cute?? i love you maddie

5. alphys - i’m one of the probably like 5 people who found her constant status updates endearing/funny rather than annoying and i’m entirely okay with having bad taste. i think she’s a pretty good depiction of a character with severe social anxiety/self-esteem issues, and it’s really interesting to take a bit of a dive into her psyche through the true lab [which is one of my absolute favourite segments in any route of the game and which you can literally trace every pixel of my taste in horror back to, by the way, so i appreciate that alphys gave me that even though the whole scenario is supremely fucked up]

4. frisk [and/or chara] - yeah the human kids have pretty much no personality save for what you give them as you play but that just means i can make up whatever i want and i have already gotten ludicrously attached to my funky little interpretation of them. i know it’s cheating to kinda put two characters in the same entry but i’ve kinda mentally gone Do Not Separate Them so there you go. i will refrain from dumping out my entire truckload of completely made up human meta here but they’re good kids trust me

3. undyne - genuinely she’s such a cool character both in-universe and from a meta standpoint stop fucking sleeping on undyne you COWARDS. i love how much range she has as a character, depending on where you are in what route she can go from the single most genuinely threatening presence thus far to a socially awkward complete dork to a hero whose will to save monsters rivals even yours at your best and it never feels out of place. her hammy demeanour makes her one of the most entertaining characters in the game, her big sister energy is really sweet, and she canonically smooches her girlfriend. undyne is so fucking powerful. stan undyne

2. sans - something something funny bone man go dodo do do but sans is legitimately a really good character. he’s funny as fuck, every time he shows up on a run where papyrus is alive i instinctively relax because hey hey that’s my cool buddy sans, the snippets of information about him hidden throughout the game/code [like his singular hp and heavily implied knowledge about/memory of resets] all serve to make him such an interesting character to deconstruct. he’s also incredibly well-written as a character with really, really severe depression, in a way that hits a little close to home if i’m being honest. my otp is sans and a fucking therapy session

1. papyrus - Y’ALL KNEW THIS WAS COMING PAPYRUS IS SO FUCKING GOOD AND I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. this skeleton is an autistic aroace king, let’s put those facts right on the table where everyone can see them, and he manages to be both the funniest and most heartwarming character in the game in my opinion, often at the exact same time. the sole reason i don’t plan on doing a genocide run is because i know god damn well i won’t be able to kill papyrus after he shows me nothing but compassion without it legitimately taking a toll on my real life mental health. he has so many subtle moments of hidden depth to explore [my personal favourite is that he’s the only character in the entire game who can never, ever kill you under any circumstances, to the point of dealing 0 damage when necessary, but just getting into that would take all night], but even at his most mysterious he’s such a genuinely and wholeheartedly loving and loveable character. papyrus fucking RADIATES good vibes, it’s nearly impossible for me not to go :) when he’s on screen. papyrus believes in me. i fucking love papyrus