you don't have to answer this if you don't want to but i just wanna say that growth spurt and AFR are exactly what i was thinking of as good examples of "asriel comes back" AUs when i left those tags on your post haha! i love those specifically because they're among the few that don't erase his trauma and his time as flowey as now being a permanent part of who he is. if, instead, you just revert him back into the same sweet little goat boy he used to be, i feel like you remove the entire point of his story and everything that's interesting about the canon ending and what we see in the alarm clock dialogue.
yeah exactly!!! i think afr and growth spurt are some of the few post pacifist aus that really do asriel justice i love them SOOO much. i have my own au but its more like. asriel never died so now hes just flowey dealing with looking like asriel cuz he still reacts the same way to trauma. but anyway afr is so good its by far my favorite au i drew these like. two years ago i think after reading it. afr asriel is the character of all time i love them SO much i really should draw them again soon. theres just something really special about the way her character arc is written i stayed up literally all night with a migraine to finish reading it cuz its written so well
