Now for Toriel. HOOOH boy.Ā
Toriel -Ā
A Mother who lost her children, and husband, and her kingdom.Ā
Someone who broke down, mentally, her children having died in her arms as some mixed amalgamation of one another.Ā
Their dust having spread across her very robes, of which she has since refused to ever take off ever again.
And her husband, the man she loved, slowly turning into someone, she could not recognize, someone scarred by loss and war.Ā
Someone she could no longer stand.Ā
And the very people she worked so hard to keep happy, would turn into depraved, awful creatures right before her very eyes.Ā
Far away from home, stuck in space, where they should have died yet somehow found a way to thrive, despite the odds, with no hope, no love.Ā
On this hunk of rock, she hadnāt much to feel good about anymore.
Toriel was a sweet woman broken by tragedy.Ā
She was someone who used to always smile, who always used to support others. Someone who loved her family.Ā
She herself was as strong as her husband, together they made a good team, and were beloved by their people.Ā
Beloved by their children, before their untimely demise.Ā
She is an incredibly lonely woman, who roams her territory within the Asteroid, often speaking only to sets of Echo Flowers, as the inhabiting monsters are often too afraid to ever speak to her.Ā
Sheās incredibly mentally unstable, often suffers from an intense form of depression, and paranoia, due to her years of feeling constantly alone without her family, with nobody to fill the void left by them.
And due to the trauma of her own children dusting in her very arms.
Ā - Overprotecting you to vicious extents, willing to even intentionally harm you to keep you home, and safe.
- Thinks she knows whatās best for you, but in the end, realizes sheās become the exact kind of danger she has tried so desperately to save you from.
Ultimately breaking down and letting you go.Ā
Realizing in her state, you cannot stay with her.
- At times when she can overcome her symptoms, she can be her kind, motherly self, although this rarely seeps through, but when it does, itās quite apparent.Ā
Makes you feel sad she isnāt like that more often.
At one moment her depression is subtle, perhaps not even visible, but at any moment, her sadness and anger can strike right back out into the open.Ā
Can ultimately not contain her unchecked emotions for all too long.Ā
- Has a personal garden of Echo Flowers to speak to so she doesnāt feel so lonely, just so she has something or someone to talk to. You can interact with these to hear her insane ramblings and remorseful words.Ā
- And of course, because she is still the motherly type and has that tenderness on the inside of her SOUL.Ā
She still tries to bake, sew, and write bad jokes in her journal.
- Still speaks to sans through a different door, as one of her only friends sheās had in years.Ā
- Sans is one of the only reasons sheās kept a shred of hope for all this time.Ā
- Frisk gives her hope that one day sheāll feel genuine happiness again.Ā