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ᴀ̶s̶ʀ̶ɪ̶ᴇ̶ʟ̶ FLOWEY the FLOWER! ([personal profile] wilt) wrote2017-10-24 12:54 pm

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PLAYER
Name: Owl
Contact: [plurk.com profile] rowlet
Other Characters: Junko Enoshima

CHARACTER
Character Name: Flowey Asriel
Age: Countless resets that would make up a ton of years, but reverts back to a child’s body when restored to his full being.
Species: Flower/Goat-based monster.
Canon: Undertale
Canon Point: Post-Pacifist route
Character Info: Flowey and Asriel
Personality:
Flowey is a worst case scenario of saving yourself only to fall victim to a fate worse than death— life without a soul, human or monster.

Flowey has the ability to reset time, so in order to comfort himself, he went to see his father after his death, but felt no love towards him. He reset time, and believed his mother would be the one to make him feel normal— she wasn’t. He reset numerous times in the Underground, interacting with people in different ways, doing their fetch quests, playing the game. Nothing made him feel anything. Eventually the doldrums was enough to start acting colder… more callously towards people in the game, eventually leading him to torture and kill in the underground, resetting over and over again until he was sure he got every last reaction out of them.

But that’s not the whole of Flowey— how he became this way was important to the tale.

Flowey was once Asriel Dreemurr, prince of the Underground, when one day, a child fell into Mt. Ebott. He helped them back to his feet, tended to them, brought him home to his family, and eventually, that’s what Chara became. A family member. While Chara had questionable tendencies bordering on cruel, Asriel thought nothing of this, as he’d never known a human before, and held him dearly as his best friend.

Chara came up with a plan one day. You see, Chara hated humanity so much that they were willing to give their life to slaughter the village they came from, and from then on, as long as they weren’t stopped, all humans. Poisoning themselves with buttercups with Asriel in on the plan, he expressed that he wanted Asriel to take his soul and lead him to see the yellow flowers one last time. Asriel grew more scared as the plan went on, and with Chara’s death, took him to the world of humans. Though Chara compelled him to kill, Asriel merely took the wounds that the humans inflicted on him, unable to find the golden flowers, and descended back to the underworld, where he died as dust.

Alphys, Asgore’s scientist, is the reason why Flowey was brought to consciousness at all. And so, with Asriel mind and memory, and all the bitterness towards humanity that Chara had taught him, after all the time loops, Another child fell into Mt. Ebott. This one, Flowey vowed to either side with or destroy depending on “the player’s” actions.

Flowey himself will be regaining his emotions slowly, but he’s sarcastic and bitter to a point that one might infer he does have feelings— just negative ones. This is true for most of the game, where he turns into Asriel and gains the compassion of all monsters and six humans into his heart, keeping up a fight for a while until he is SAVED by Frisk. After that, Flowey’s personality became null and but somewhat compassionate, telling the player not to play the game again because ‘everyone is happy’ and you have nothing left to do.

Asriel, on the other hand, is a cinnamon roll who has the sweetest, most trusting personality, who wants to do the best for everyone. Gullible as he is, he’s grown a lot to understand the outside world, his crimes, his pain, and the truth of Chara. Whether he is forgiven, comforted, or not, he returns all the souls to the monsters (and to the dead humans, as well)

At first glance, Flowey's kill or be killed attitude is rotten to the core, and definitely goes against the entire moral of the Undertale story, as you're able to spare any monster within the game, no matter what. He delights in cruelty and does what he can to mess someone up, including stalking them just behind the screen, to taking advantage of people who don't know about him (Papyrus) to gather all of his enemies into one setting to take their souls. He's not nice, he's not pretty, he's the result of a soul being peeled from someone's core and run through life over and over again. His boredom resulted in cruelty. His cruelty resulted in a constant pain for everyone in the game.

Flowey's innocence is debatable, especially on the fact that he couldn't help that Chara was manipulating him, or that he considered suicide and attempted before he realized he had the ability to reset and went on to become a monster out of boredom. However, he was totally able to resist the urge to do anything evil, he just was desperate to feel something, anything, that he resorted to those tactics. He still has inherent emotions like anger, "evilness", and fear (as soon as he learns genocide!Frisk intends to kill him), but they're not at the capacity that a normal person would have. He is honestly bereft of a soul, which he intends to get back, piece by piece, at the Lost Carnival.

When the game is beaten, he cannot be saved for real. There's no way to bring Asriel's soul back, so therefore the protagonist cannot resurrect him back into his true form. After the credits and if you open the game after a true pacifist ending, he'll implore you that everyone is doing okay and you shouldn't take their happy end away from them, meaning he is still on his own,

Asriel can be found before the game is ended permanently, back at the start, before he reverts into a flower again. He still has lingering traces of love and empathy, but he goes back to a flower as soon as you finish the game (and credits, dubitably).
Abilities:
Flowey has numerous abilities! One of his most prominent ones that will be removed upon arriving is the fact that he can reset to an earlier save point, making it so that he can bend time to his will. This means if he dies, he can’t undo his past mistakes from an earlier Save File, which will be annoying given his first gain.

He can send out pellets in a bullet hell fashion, and can be really good about it. He can control a number of thorns and branches and use them to wrap himself above other things and move kind of like a creepy crawler. He can also clip through dive under dirt, floors, and other such things and move around that way. He no longer has six human souls, so he can’t do his maximum effort, but he’s still a difficult flower to fight because he sends them out in waves and scatters, meaning unless you’re great at dodging, you’re bound to get hit once or twice. He can surround someone with bullets and close in on them for an attack, but he can be stopped before the attack is finished by someone intervening.

CARNIVAL
Soul Colour: Surprisingly? A subdued purple, for his Dreemurr ancestry.
Ideal Jobs: Magician, Scout, Bouncer (wide-spread— his thorns go everywhere!), Showman (for children, mostly)
Relevant Experience: As a magician, he can use his powers to do acts with the other Undertale characters, relevant to dodging and theatrics, as a Scout, his underground teleportation allows him an advantage, his wide range and occasionally non-lethal attacks makes him a good security guard, and Children’s Entertainment… well, he looks the job and would be willing to act for it thanks to desperation.
Reason for Joining: Flowey wants to become Asriel again, full stop. Being empty and having no feelings, he would plead with the Ringmaster to regain them one by one, eventually settling on a contract that allows him to gain one random feeling/piece of his soul until he becomes Asriel again, starting with the first. In exchange, he’ll work any job given to him, relentlessly. If he’s chosen for three or four, then he’ll take them all.

SAMPLES
Here.

“Hello, everyone! Welcome to Flowey’s Fun-test!”

With only his sass to back him up, he’s acting with a lot of restraint to not do the thing, in front of his fellow workers or his audience, which was mostly comprised of children. He knew the job was going to be difficult, but life was going to be difficult if he couldn’t follow the rules for like, a year. His sardonic smile perked up into a child-friendly one. With one vine, he pulled down a cord and up lifted a curtain— with a brain-teaser on it!

“You can see me in water but I never get wet. What am I?”

”The inside of a ball!”
“A duck.”
“Underground cave!”
“Hydroman, the superhero! He covers himself with air!”
“Nothing, that’s a trick question!”


What was with these smart-alecks…? Or dumb-alecks. One of his bosses was looking on from the sideline, so he kept up the grin and bore it.

“C- Come on kids, what’s the answer?”

”A mermaid!”
“A bubble! It’s definitely a bubble!”
“It’s STILL Hydroman!”


There it is, what ticked him off. Faster than he could shut his mouth:

“It’s a reflection, you morons! Don’t quit your daycare!”

With the sound of kids crying and getting mad, Flowey glanced over and saw himself being written up. Oh boy.