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Character Name: Asriel Dreemurr
Series: Undertale
Timeline: From toward the end of a Pacifist run, before turning back into Flowey.
Canon Resource Link: wiki page
Character History: * Asriel is a character that is not known about until the end of the game, even though he's one of the very first characters you meet. Instead, you meet 'Flowey', a tiny flower with a face that acts as your tutorial before his true intentions are quickly revealed.

Let's start from the beginning.

Long ago, a war broke out between two races: Monsters and Humans. After a long battle, the humans were victorious, and had sealed the monsters underground with a magical spell - one that could only be broken by acquiring seven human souls. Knowing that this was impossible in their current predicament, the monsters had settled in their new home, though they were not happy.

Many years later, the King and Queen of the monsters had a child.

Asriel is the son of Toriel and Asgore Dreemurr, making him the (former) Prince of the monsters. A undiscernible amount of time ago, in the year 201X, the very first human fell into the Underground following the monsters' banishment. Injured by its fall, Asriel had heard the human's cries for help, quickly coming to their aid. A long trek back to the Dreemurrs' home, and a few healing spells later, the human had been adopted into their family. Their name was

Chara.

Not much was known about Chara, aside from the fact they'd come to the mountain with the intent to disappear, and that they had despised humanity very strongly. Asriel did not pry about what any of that meant for the human, but he became very sympathetic towards his new friend.

Asriel and the human had grown very close. Prior to their meeting, Asriel did not have many, if any friends in the Underground, and he and Chara often played together, becoming... siblings, of a sort. They shared a room, drew pictures together, and even wore matching lockets with Chara, bearing the phrase - Best Friends Forever.

Chara had given the rest of the monsters hope as well, that they would all work together to leave the Underground, and finally make peace with the humans above. Well... until the day Chara and Asriel had tried to bake their Dad a butterscotch-cinnamon pie. And Asriel had mistakenly used the golden flowers - buttercups - instead. Asgore became very ill, and Chara, reading up on the monsters' history, had gotten an idea. Chara would use the flowers to poison themselves, and Asriel would take their soul to the surface, crossing the barrier and gathering the seven souls required to break it.

They would not tell their parents. They wouldn't tell ANYONE.

Asriel had been the one to gather the flowers. Asriel sat by Chara's bedside as they passed away - This is all just a bad dream... - And Asriel had begged them, pleaded with them to get up, that he didn't like this plan, that they should try something else. But it was too late. Asriel had absorbed the human's soul, and had allowed Chara to take control enough to pick up their own empty body to the surface, back to their village, to lay it upon a bed of the golden flowers that grew there.

The humans, only seeing a monster carrying a child out of the Underground, had quickly become violent. But Asriel refused to fight. Even as the humans ripped them apart, dealing blow after blow after blow, he'd refused. Asriel picked the body back up, and stumbled back into the Underground, all the way back Home before he'd promptly collapsed into dust that had spread all over the Throne Room.

The King and Queen had lost two children in one night.

One thing led to another. Asgore, furious upon what had occurred, declared war upon the humans. And Toriel, disgusted with Asgore's actions, had taken Chara's body deep within the Ruins to be buried there, shutting herself off to the rest of the Underground and leaving her son's remains behind, back in the Throne Room, where the first golden flower had bloomed.

Sometime later, the new Royal Scientist, Dr. Alphys, had begun experimenting with a power known only as Determination, working with different vessels that would be able to harness that power in a safe, stable manner. One of the vessels had been the golden flower - the first flower to have bloomed in the Throne Room. When seemingly nothing different had occured, the flower was abandoned, and Dr. Alphys had moved on.

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Asriel woke up.

He isn't sure how or why but he's in the Throne Room, alive, and he can't feel anything. His arms and legs are gone. He's lower to the ground, and Chara is still gone. This is where he's found by Asgore, soon after his own desperate pleading, and time passes between the two of them. Asriel continues to try to feel anything at all, but his soul was still gone. He's become the golden flower, and he can't feel anything - physically or emotionally. So he rushes to the Ruins, seeking out his mother, to see if she would be able to help more.

If anyone could make him feel anything again, it's her.

But more time passes. And it's nothing but the same. And Chara is still gone for good.

A world without love was a world he did not want to exist in. So Asriel finally gives in and attempts to take his own life again, resolving to leave the world behind once more.

But at the last moment, he panics. This isn't what he'd truly wanted. He wanted to live, to CONTINUE. And it's with this desire that Asriel had woken up again, back in the Throne Room, the world Reset upon his demand. He could SAVE, he could LOAD, he could RESET. He'd had DETERMINATION, and had soon after taken on the persona of Flowey. Flowey the Flower.

It's unclear of just how many Resets he had lived through, but Asriel had done it all - saved everyone, killed everyone. Read every book. Burned every book. Lines of dialogue, script, code. After repeating the world's course countless times, he'd gotten bored with himself.

Then came the children.

Over time, one after another, the King had managed to gather six souls needed to break the barrier. And it's with the seventh that Asriel feels something... familiar. Their SOUL is the same as Chara's. And as that human arrives, Asriel learns that his abilities have been dampened - overpowered by the human's will, their desires for their world. For most of the journey, he just spectates, he follows. Or if the human is committed to destroying everything, he'll help, tearing through the puzzles and opening doors for them.

Sometimes that human would spare everyone.

Sometimes he'd work with that human, and the entire Underground would fall. Though he can never remember what happens at the end, after they'd he'd killed D-- Asgore. He can remember panicking, a knife being raised, begging for his life, then.

It Resets again.

And the human saves everyone. Flowey collects the SOULS and becomes an abomination, tearing apart and warping the game's code to suit his own needs. But the human wins out and the SOULS rebel, and he's left defenseless. Sometimes they kill him at the very end. Sometimes they let him go, and the human is left to their business until they meet again. He gives them advice at the very end, that there are still a few monsters left they need to become better friends with. There are still things to do before they can have their True Ending.

Sometimes, when they've done everything, met everyone, befriended everyone, he can achieve his true form again. Not the floral abomination that dragged them into his personal void this time, no. His real, true form. The ultimate being! The GOD of Hyperdeath!

This time, he takes all the monsters' SOULs with him.

This time, he's going all out, because if he doesn't, the human will get bored. They'll leave again. They won't want to play with him anymore. He doesn't want that. Not again.

But even at the end of that, he hears them one last time. If it really was them. Chara. They SAVE him, and he agrees to break the barrier. The human souls, and the monster souls he had absorbed all go free, and Asriel simply leaves the human - Frisk - to wait by Chara's grave. He'll turn back into the flower, and the rest of the monsters can live happily on the Surface.

Except Frisk comes back. They talk to him, though he begs for them to leave. He talks about what had happened, becoming Flowey, how Frisk had reminded him so much of Chara that he could not see the difference until the very end. And he admits a truth - that maybe Chara wasn't as great of a person as he'd originally thought. That maybe... Frisk was the type of friend he'd always wanted.

He's happy he'd gotten to know them. But they need to leave. His dialogue runs out. He's stuck looping one thing - 'Don't you have anything better to do?' - because it's what it would take for them to go. Nobody needs to deal with Flowey anymore. They're happy.

And he's there for awhile, the SOULs' essence slowly draining from him. He can feel himself becoming more and more empty, and just before he can change completely back...

His experience turns Wonderful.

Abilities/Special Powers: Asriel is a special kind of species in their universe known as a Boss Monster, though compared to either of his forms upon collecting the human souls, he isn't that much stronger. Even when he had been a flower, he still could only bend the rules of battle a little more than usual.

However, Asriel's resurrection at all depends on the Determination the golden flower had been injected with. He can SAVE, LOAD, RESET at will, just like a human. He can still absorb human souls, and in his current form, he likely knows a bit of fire magic from his parents as well. Whether or not these abilities are still valid in Wonderland... he'll find that out.

Third-Person Sample: That last, flooding feeling comes and he's ready. He just wants it to be done with. He'll change back into Flowey while everyone else goes free on the Surface, and they'll all just forget about him. That's how it's meant to be.

Only... now he's on the Surface. Wait. No, no, this isn't right. Did something go wrong? Did Frisk somehow bring him up here anyway? All these flowers are so different than the ones he's used to and something about all of this just feels wrong. It doesn't even feel like the same world anymore. But that isn't possible.

...is it?

He tries to tap into that remaining power, if there's even anything left. But he's still here, still in this strange universe and he almost wants to cry but he's starting to forget what to felt like to be sad. That'd be appropriate, wouldn't it? Wake up in a field of flowers to just turn back into one. Maybe this is what's supposed to happen.

Then nobody can find him ever again.

First-Person Sample: Howdy! Um. I don't really know what's going on, but the flowers here are nice. I'm not used to seeing so many. Or, uh. Being here at all. It's really bright. I kinda have to squint just to type this, haha.

I think there's been a mistake. I really need to go back home now, ok? Monsters aren't supposed to be on the Surface. I know I'm here already, but I shouldn't upset the humans.

I really hope I didn't screw up again.

...

Please?