strawberrycowtime

Sorta. He's not the Flowey we know with Asriel's dust imbuing it, he's just the exact same flower without all that. Like, it's gotta be the same Flower, right? There's a ton of golden flowers in Undertale, but exactly one that looks like that.

Exactly one golden flower in Undertale and Deltarune that has a white center. When playing Undertale it seemed like just a choice to make Flowey stand out, but when you kill him in the neutral run the Flower just returns to normal.

With all the knowledge we have now about how flowers have dreams and a form of consciousness even in the light world, it makes me wonder if Flowery was actually influencing Flowey a bit the whole time. Like the Your Best Friend motif, is it actually just straight up Flowery's? Did Asriel pick the name "Flowey" because of some sort of vague influence from the flower its, or rather himself?

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Dr. Ryland Grace was arguably the perfect backup candidate for his mission. Stratt got that right. He had no children, no life partner, no family, not even a dog. All he had was his students and that was enough for him, but that made him replaceable.

Right?

Not only were Grace’s wishes completely ignored, his life and his value as a person was undermined. Simply because he had no one but his students to care for his wellbeing, because he wouldn’t have someone at home waiting for him to come back.

Aroace people deal with similar treatment simply because romance and sex are seen as essential to the human experience, completely disregarding any and all other types of connection. One’s inherent value as a person is not lost when they choose to live life without romantic or sexual relationships. One’s value is simply in existing.

Aroace people know this well, which is why so many have become so attached to Ryland as a character. Many of us see his way of life as the end goal for ourselves, so any one of us would have been seen as just as dispensable, by Stratt and by society as a whole.