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This is a doodle I made of pia and their older brother before…yknow..

Pias Brother is 7 years older than them btw :P

It's her!

Don't worry, kid, she's friendly, really.

She isn't the person I told you to NOT believe.

So...you can trust her!

You might not understand this slang, but she's quite the goat, actually.

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Well...when you go to the surface again...just make sure to call the police on your brother.

*sighs*

Anywayyyy...did you find something new around there?

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I mean, heh, this must have a reason, right?

Maybe you fell by an accident???

Hmmmm...pffft, this sounds kinda boring, to be honest...

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Be careful while you walk around there, because there might be...something that can harm you.

Don't trust it, even if it sounds friendly...I mean, you can't trust someone entirely, can you?

Anyway...I'll TRY not to be annoying in your journey, it's just cool to be a tricky being.

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Hm...well, it's kinda confusing to explain the whole deal of this, but...you can say that we're some silly talkative helpful voices that know some things that you MIGHT don't know yet.

Of course, of course, we also don't know ENTIRELY how this world works, but...that's something we'll try to find out together, right...Pia?

Hm..."Pia"...that's new...

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I can't say I know EVERYTHING about this place, kid, but me, along with other people, can try to help you to find a way to get out of this place...if you don't change your mind in the future, of course.

AHEM.

Anyway...what's your name, little kid?

And...what happened for you to fall in this place?

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What do plants and humans have in common?

...they both release gas.

Summary

Killer: concerned, but not appealing.

Dust: hell no.

Ccino: seems nice

Why does Frisk care about reversing this?

Are they emotionally connected to the plant stuff? Is it destroying something they love? Do they just wanna help the monsters? Are they just tired of wading through vines like they’re in a cursed jungle gym?

Why is this their mission?

Are they chosen? Accidentally linked to the monster seed somehow? Is this like... a "you broke it, you fix it" moment?

How does being seeded work? (That’s what she said.)

Is this like a magical birthright? Does every magic human have a seed? Can a seed be removed, activated, corrupted, stolen?? (insert dramatic anime gasp) Is having a seed dangerous or a gift? Do people treat "seeded" humans differently??

What’s special about a “seed soul”?

Can they grow things from nothing? Do their emotions affect plants? Like, do sunflowers cry when they’re sad? Are their bodies more... fertile? (not like that—like magically??). Or is it just a magic battery and the plant stuff was a side effect?

Why plants though??

Magic could’ve caused any number of apocalypses: fire, rot, void, bugs, frogs—WHY PLANTS? Was it symbolic? Like “life” growing out of sacrifice? Or is it ironic? Like humans nuked the world with their own magic and now nature's taking it back? Did the war mess with nature’s magic and cause plants to evolve into aggressive, invasive species?

Was the plantification of the world intentional or a tragic accident??

Like, did someone try to make a magic forest barrier and instead they just overdid it?? Was the sacrificed person’s seed so powerful that it corrupted the entire planet’s plant life?

Why is there a seed in their soul???

Who put it there? Was it always there? Is it symbolic? Biological? Magical? Did the gods go gardening in human souls one day for fun??

Again, I CAN WAIT, TAKE YOUR TIME TO ANSWER 🙏🙏🙏

Why does frisk care?

The plants make their life so difficult, can barely move outside, and people barely get protein since animals are hard to find if they aren’t herbivorous.

Why is it their mission?

They want to make their family safe, and without the overtaken plant world, their family can be safe again and eat healthily. They didn’t know they were going to be able to do this. They learned about this opportunity in the snowdin library. They originally went to the mountain for a different reason..

How the fuck do seeds work?

Magic humans are born with them. Souls were checked at birth a long time ago to know if one is magical or not, but that practice has been forgotten, so now, magic humans don’t even know they’re magic. Frisk only knew because their magic healed their fall and they were able to heal floweys torn petal.

Why are seeds special?

It allows humans to manipulate plant life, they can’t affect them with their emotions. They can grow plants in places plants can grow or have grown, and can heal/destroy existing plants.

Why plants?

I like green.

Was it an accident or on purpose?

A HUGE accident. They only meant to put the barrier on the monsters, not the whole world…and they may or may not have accidentally started a genocide started by the first seed broken but whatever-

Why is the seed there?

The first human to inherit magic from a monster used their magic to create a “seed” and placed it in their soul, so anyone of their blood line will carry on their “gift” of being able to control plants.

I don’t know if all of these are set in stone, but mostly.

Ima yap about the world building :3

SO, the world has been plant dominated ever since the war. The reason for this, is because magic wielding humans have this thing referred to as a “seed” in their soul. So to cast the barrier for the monsters over the mountain, they impaled the soul of a willing magic wielding human. The seed released enough magic to cast the barrier, and the magic was so strong, it also opened other humans seeds which caused a chain reaction blah blah blah- and eventually the magic caused plants to grown from the open seeds and spread to other plants, making the world in basically a plant version of an ice age. In the mountain, it’s almost impossible to keep an area free from vines and weeds, so their solution is to just not except for the areas that are important. (The center of hotland/the core and lab, and the castle thing asgore is in. Except for his throne room but that’s for another day.) so, snowdin is full of many “snowy” trees, overwatered plants, and the houses are covered in vines except the insides. Waterfall is full of plants that can only live in very wet climates, like seaweed, ..and I can’t think of others, but mostly sea plants and plants that is impossible to overwater. In hotland, almost all plants are dead and rotting. Dead trees, wilting vines, and is actually the place with the least plants. In the castle/new home, the place is devoid of ANY plant life. But when you get to the throne room, the place is filled with vines, weeds, flowers, and asgore sitting on his throne covered in vines, he doesn’t get up unless someone comes into the throne room. The only reason this is, is because the souls he keeps has open seeds, having plant life thrive where it shouldn’t. And asgore is so just not caring for the cleanliness of his throne after toriel left, does nothing about it. So uh. Frisks goal is to still leave the underground, but the main goal of the game is to have frisk escape with monsters, combine a human and monster soul, and open the monster souls seed to undo the affects of the human seed. The monster seed will remove plant life where impossible, and make unnaturally long and big plants get smaller..the best way I can put it is miraculous ladybug when ladybug fixes everything at the end of the battle.

There are horror tones to it though. But that’s for another day.