i can undoom her from the narrative

like textually shes obsessed with these weird battery-powered christmas reindeer doll thinigies and places them all over her house, she owns at least three katana (black one in the bedroom, the kitchen one, and one she keeps on her person that she used to slash the office diaper guy's briefcase), has a secondary obsession with heart-shaped objects (???), preserves her daughter's arts and crafts project (snowflakes) by bronzing it. shes also fucking batman apparently, the scary reindeer ninja woman who eradicated crime in hometown and makes the car-benchpressing undyne look like a chump. and she has ice powers in the light world or smth bc she drops the temperature of rooms with her sheer presence.

ralsei: kris needs me to be a princess?

cuptain: no, just "darlings." they can be any ge-

ralsei: i'd do it for kris! i'd change my whole gender for kris if they asked! haha!!

cuptain: you don't need to do that-

ralsei: it will be strange being called "she" and "her," but i'll get used to it!! for kris!!!

cuptain: one of the other darlings is rouxls.

His eyes remain firmly fixed on "reality," and he's disinterested in and neglectful of his "perfect family" more or less from its inception. At best, he's "playing along." When Asgore fantasizes, it's about the Light World. Unreal scenarios, sure – parading their body through the streets, getting back with his ex-wife, skateboards with Azzy – but never the Dark World itself. Everything he does, he does in order to capture and kill the Knight, after which he intends to leave the Dark World.

And it sucks! It makes the Seven-Colored Flowers miserable (and we see way more of them than Asgore; our sympathies align naturally with them over him). It doesn't make Asgore happy either, and it certainly doesn't help him fulfill his equally-implausible nostalgic visions of being big hero copman again.

open house, prismacolor on black paper, 2025

and then in season 3, he’s often in cars (the drive from the Katabasians’ Council to the Gulch, from the radio station to the ruins of Gulch and from there to his dad’s cabin, and once again from his family home to the Grand Aquifer) but all of these times he’s being driven around. not onceeee is he himself behind the wheel. and that, on one hand, is obviously due to the position of power/authority and thus comfort that he’s now occupying—now he has people to perform these kinds of services for him. butttttt i also think that it shows that the reins aren’t fully in his hands and in actuality he’s really not as in control as he’d like to think he is.