#floweralsei

Flowsei is fine, actually.

Flowery's dialogue and mannerisms put him in his early college years.

Ralsei is presumably the same age as the rest of the Fun Gang, who read as late highschoolers.

That puts a one to three-ish year age gap between them.

Personally I'd put Ralsei at about 17 and Flowery at about 19. That's not exactly the huge age gap people make it out to be, and it's a fully canon compliant reading of both characters.

I think this fandom just needs to accept that some things are up to interpretation. Flowsei might be really weird and gross within YOUR interpretations of the characters, but there are plenty of readings where it isn't. Block the tags and move on if it makes you uncomfortable, you are responsible for curating your own fandom experience.

I'm not even the world's biggest flowsei fan but some of y'all are acting like it's the most horrible thing to ever happen and it's a little ridiculous.

Also. Be fucking for real right now.

Do we really think this sprite would exist if they weren't supposed to be at least kinda close in age???

- Ralsei appears as a teen to fit in with the teen heroes, we have no idea of their actual age or if Light World age even applies to them.

- Flowery appears as a college age dude because he's trying to be relatable to the adult Asgore by invoking the image of his best friend from college.

- Since the flowers were all created for the bouquet at the same time, they would actually all be the same age; they appear and act different ages based on their personalities and desires as "humans", but again they don't fit into conventional real world boxes.

- In a meta sense, Ralsei's appearance is based off the younger Asriel from Undertale and Flowery's vibe is partially based off the older college age Asriel of Deltarune. They look like that because they're both partial expies of the same character from different games/universes, not because that's their actual ages.

- Shipping adult Asgore (who is old enough to have a kid in college) with a "college student" would also be problematic in that case (plus the flowers are also kinda like his kids as well) but I haven't seen discorse about that?

- tl;dr we have no idea how Darkener ages actually work and it's heavily implied special Darkeners like Ralsei and Flowery can choose how they look in Dark Worlds so their appearances are based on the people they're trying to appeal to instead of their actual age, therefore arguing against the ship because of a perceived "age gap" is silly.

"Whose every step is followed in love."

And who follows Ralsei throughout the WHOLE chapter???