Holy shit I just thought about something imagine that after Ceroba, Starlo and Martlet deliver Clover's soul they sometimes come individually to ask Asgore if they can see the soul and because Asgore saw how sad they were he allowed it and they just talked to the soul about how things have been going like when a character talks to a dead character on their grave god why am I like this
I've just been having Undertale Yellow thoughts and I'm just filled with specific angst thoughts on the endings. Because no matter what
Clover is alone.
Clover either drags their dying body to a wall to die with dignity, they're betrayed and killed by someone they thought was their friend after he killed Clover's chance to have a family, or they leave the underground empty and unable to connect to others (remember, LOVE means distancing yourself to more easily hurt others).
Sure, in neutral and pacifist, they briefly travel with Martlet and sometimes Ceroba, but they're either short lived or under false pretenses. Martlet tries so hard but ultimately does little to protect Clover, and Ceroba initially just tries to lead Clover like a lamb to slaughter. She does connect with them a little during the journey, but I feel like it's overshadowed by her plan to kill Clover. Clover at the end of a hard fight and betrayal is faced with an alcoholic widow begging them to kill her. That's rough.
I feel like in the pacifist ending, Clover's main reason to giving up their soul isn't because they really love the monsters, they're just extremely empathetic and care about the injustice dealt to monsters as a whole. The lines in the whiteout don't call to feelings of friendship or camaraderie that Clover experienced, but of how the monsters are suffering trapped underground, and they need Clover's soul to escape.
Frisk gets to end the Pacifist story with a loving family and all of monsterkind knowing their name. Clover's story ends in a tragedy as they can't connect any further with these people who might be the first in their life to care, and no one else would know as four monsters hold a funeral in private.
And ultimately how much does Clover's actions matter? Either they sacrifice themselves, or they have to kill everyone else to survive. There is no option between because Flowey is the arbiter of what happens and no neutral run is satisfying to him. He terrorizes Clover for funsies and then starts everything over again. Clover only gets the pacifist ending because of a whim from Flowey.
No matter what path is taken, Clover's story is ultimately a tragedy. They got to have some fun as a cowpoke, but it seems their story took more after The Great Silence than most other western media.
I drew it tonight, I'm not happy with the result, but it's still not bad).
UKR:
Намалював сьогодні вночі, результатом я не задоволений, але все одно непогано).
ENG:
At first it was a sketch in a my sketchbook, but one evening I came home and saw this. (my younger brother tore some pieces of paper from my sketchbook and colored some of its pages...-). it was offensive X(.
UKR:
Зпочатку це був просто скетч у скетчбуці, але одного вечора я прийшов додому і побачив це (мій молодший брат вирвав декілька папірців з мого скетчбуку та розмалював деякі його сторінки...-). було образливо Х(.
y'all... I love thinking of the fact that at the end of true pacifist in undertale... the coffins... the coffins for the fallen humans are empty... I think.. I think the souls returned to their bodies and Clover got to see their found family again and live with Starlo on the surface bcs nuh uh no way would Starlo let his deputy go back to a bad home(interacting with the couch in Starlo's house mentions something about bad memories so I think it's safe to assume Clover comes from a bad home) ughhh im thinking about him adopting clover and being the coolest fucking dad ever... dadlo gives me life ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️