a mere purveyor 👁️👁️

something abt the way asgore loses his position in the Family and turns that energy towards nurturing his flowers. as a result he becomes as a father to the six color flowers, until the dark fountain grants them the approximate personhood to actually interact with him as children would, upon which point he becomes emotionally neglectful to them.

I've been getting a lot of chapter 5 critique in my reblogs and I wanna rumble for a bit bc this stuff is kinda all over my notifications page and I think people had a hell of a weird expectations from this chapter.

We were never promised an "Asgore chapter", and, frankly speaking, this isn't something Deltarune even does. No one calls the third one "Toriel chapter", it's just a chapter with a dark fountain in Toriels House, the same way this one is placed in Asgore's shop. Even the larger bits about the Dreemurr family we got in ch3 were what? Two scenes by the end of it? Frankly speaking, Asgore got the biggest amount of screen time and on screen development than any other lightner in his narrative position did (except Susie, since she is a main character).

Toriel slept through her entire trip to the dark world, Undyne was there for 10 frames and even Noelle, who got a bigger presence was mainly developed metatextually (either through snowgrave or the player having to make a mental effort and personally connecting the dots between her mother and the Queen / Noelle having a missing sister and her strange behavior in certain scenes.) Asgore, on the other hand, got a full arc that was thematically supported by the entire dark world we were in. The way his relationship with Flowery and "human" souls develops literally shows us the way his bond with his family rotted away in real life.