#undertale rambles

“Despite everything it’s still you.” And the song Undertale has comforted me more than i could ever describe.

ITS WILD HOW MUCH STUFF PEOPLE ARE MAKING THIS ANNIVERSARY! Even if it’s less popular than before the current fandom is just beautiful, and i can’t wait to see more, even for the canon characters with the deltarune chapters.

Anyway. I made a butterscotch cinnamon pie :D to celebrate. It turned out really good.

@bigoltrashpile

Okay, so I was gonna post this in an Ask but like...there was no room and this was turning into like four Asks, so I tagged you instead because I HaVE fEElinGs about this lol

I see everyone discussing why humans be so weak and my general thought is two part. The first being fairly important, they don't know. As far as it looks, the war was soooooo long ago, no one remembers. How would they know they could beat the monsters?  Yeah, some probably try but even though canon says all monsters could barely beat one human (and yes the Soul does genocide at one point), the Soul dies a lot too. Via one monster. Not only that, I doubt most humans would know to attack with their Soul magic, they’d probably use guns, etc, and whose to say stronger monsters can’t defend against that because no matter what I equipped playing, it took me awhile to not get my ass kicked, and that includes a No Mercy and Genocide run (which I never finished because Undyne is ridiculous. RIDICULOUS). To me it stands to reason they can defend themselves.

Second part, not all mages are equal. It says the seven strongest sealed them, so maybe not all Souls are equal which would mean some human Souls can be beat. And I’d like to think in the darker verse, monsters have 100% consumed human Souls, why wouldn’t they (and it says in Canon that Asgore took a human Soul in so like, there’s that)? Whatever they need to do to defend themselves from humans and even each other. Since we don’t actually know too much, I would even go with humans have weakened over time and only the strongest Mage descendants were able to go through the barrier. 

Another weird thought, is if humans still had magic, why aren’t they using it? True, we don’t actually know about the current world outside the barrier but I would consider it the modern age, so to speak, since it says 20xx. So, maybe the magic has died out, maybe the only way for humans to use magic is in the barrier and once broken only monsters (creatures of literal magic) can still use it. Hence why the humans kind of fall in line and are scared after, and why in many interpretations Frisk loses her abilities once the barrier is broken.

For one the most obvious example of this is him declaring all humans are to be harvested for their souls after Asriel and Chara pass, but there's smaller instances I don't think people talk about enough

Him telling the siblings and specifically Chara that they're the future of humans and monsters wasn't done to scare them, quite the opposite, but it really isn't something you should say to them anyways. That put a LOT of pressure on them and if he hadn't put such a thing on them, they might not have went through with their plan in the first place

Another one that literally NO ONE addresses is the fact that when they get to the surface, he asks Frisk, a small child (I headcanon them to be around 4 to 6 yrs), to be the ambassador of humans and monsters. Dude, that's a CHILD!! You can't put that kind of responsibility on their shoulders! I'm surprised Toriel doesn't point that out either, you'd think she would!