AU where Asgore gets upset because of how Toriel treated him.
GOOD.
YES.
I like this. I’ve always wanted Asgore to look back on Toriel’s treatment of him and know that it wasn’t right, and that anger towards the culprits of the deaths of their children maybe wasn’t the BEST reaction, but it’s far from unrealistic or nearly as outrageous as Toriel seemed to make it be.
Man, fuckin’ cosigned. I was over Toriel’s whole deal with that by the end of the game, for real.
Goatparents gotta goatparent. Gaster was on the verge of cracking through the whole conversation, but it was the physical contact that finally broke him. He was really not used to that kind of thing at all.
Little does Asgore know that the first skeleton is the reason the second skeleton is so traumatized about blue magic, haha. It’s a vicious circle!
Toriel is describing the process of gaining LV here, though she doesn’t conceptualize it like that. This would become the seed for Gaster’s eventual theories and beliefs about LV.
Sans perked up at Asgore calling his brother brave – he doesn’t remember why now, but for some reason it’s important to him.
Someone wanted more of younger Gaster with the goatparents, which seemed like a good opportunity to come back to an older idea I never got around to cleaning up, haha. I was actually tempted to make this an actual flashback but then it runs into that same tricky problem of not being able to see his face when him glowing is the whole point and yada yada yada
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