#normally i don't brainrot over toriel but this is getting to me

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maybe I'm late on this realization but I'm working on a Toriel thing and writing about her friendship with Sans and it occurred to me that if Toriel had gone through with destroying the Ruins doors to keep Frisk from leaving, she likely never would have been able to talk to Sans again.

can you imagine? maybe she didn't think about that when she went to destroy the doors. imagine she had gone through with that, and then realized afterward—how am I going to talk to the guy through the doors again? how utterly devastating that realization might be, because I get the feeling Sans was something of a lifeline for her. she has the human child, but she lost that man through the door who told her funny jokes and made puns with her and made her feel like maybe life was still worth living. and now she has to wonder if the choice she made was worth it.