These cartoonish sunflowers have brightened the field in Tokyo, as well as many visitors, after workers created a smiling expression on them by removing pistils on their surface. According to metro.co.uk, among the nearly 20,000 sunflowers in the field, there are only a few that are able to smile. Can you spot them all?
One of the first character interactions we see in Undertale is Toriel unknowingly attacking her son to save a human child she does not know. She leads the human through the Ruins by their hand to keep them safe (from dangerous monsters like her son) and prepares a room in her house for them to stay in (like the one her son lived in). We can call her “Mom” and she will let us (Flowey watches us the entire time.) She attacks us so we don’t leave (the Underground is full of dangerous monsters (like her son)), but when we make it out, Flowey is there to criticize what we’ve done (we’ve taken his mom) (we’ve killed his mom) (we RESET to save his mom) (our mom). She doesn’t know who he is. He put her to bed when she’d passed out on the floor and left a glass of water on her table (someone has to take care of these flowers).
Sprites of Asgore watering the flowers bizarrely named "notpiss". Did people think it was piss during playtesting??
UPDATE: According to many sources, this is due to the fact that MANY people assumed Asgore was pissing on the flowers in Undertale.. it seems Toby had one mission with these sprites..
The fact that Flowey, thorny jaded little shit that he is, never has a single bad thing to say about Papyrus or the things he did for him.
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[Image Description: Screencaps of Undertale characters talking. The first image shows Sans talking to Frisk. He says: "a flower appears and whispers things to him. flattery... advice... encouragement..." The rest of the images all show dialogue said by Flowey. First, he says: "Are you trying to start the Flowey Fan Club? Because if you want to join that... You'll have to talk to Papyrus." Then, he says: "He's one of the better characters to mess around with. Took me a long time to get bored of that one. ... Yeah."
Next, he says: "What? Papyrus's favorite food? It's that oatmeal with the dinosaur eggs, idiot. ... Hey, why am I the only one who knows the answer to this stupid question!?" Finally, he says: "This... ribbon? Who cares who gave it to me? I haven't lost the right to be snug, have I!? Hee hee hee. You're jealous!" End Image Description]
Many thanks to @mushroomjar for the image description.
i don't have the energy to make a full explanation right now, but the more i think about it, the harder i lean towards seeing chara's relationship with the dreemurrs as something more like a mediaeval, fairytale style ward/protège rather than a realistic adoption situation.
because we've seen toby do that relationship in deltarune with kris, and the difference between those two portrayals kinda seals the two as separate for me. there's this... perpetual othering of chara, both as a human and as part of the family (asgore and toriel will both go out of their way to NOT call them their child. as in call asriel their son, and then call chara "someone" or "the human i knew" within the same sentence, it's so interesting), that, if you interpreted them as their full on adoptive parents like in their deltarune versions, it would make them extremely neglectful ones, in a way that was definitely not intended by the story.
i think they were in a very loose, grey kind of familial/non-familial situation. gerson does refer to asriel and chara as "their children" after all, and though we can disregard the account of asriel's death by the monsters in new home as unreliable (the whole point of the segment is that they didn't realize what was going on, after all), gerson is thee single most trusted source of information on asgore and toriel that the game offers us, so disregarding his opinion as misinformed feels a bit like cherry picking personally. however, there is a very clear void between them, likely also caused by 1) chara's implied abusive past 2) their differing species, and the pressure of monsterkind being confined to the underground weighing on chara. maybe they tried to be a family and failed. maybe they never tried at all. who knows! however chara saw the dreemurrs, though, they clearly respected and loved them, and they were loved and respected in turn. so i think that's what mattered to them the most :']