A gjenganger could have several reasons to return from the
afterlife. Murdered people could seldom sleep peacefully in their
graves. The same went for their murderers. People who had committed
suicide often came back as gjengangere, because Christian
tradition held that “self-killers” were fit neither for heaven nor hell.
At other times, people came back from the grave because they had left
something undone. Most often they needed someone to help them do this,
before they could finally be at peace.
The biggest difference between modern ghosts and the gjenganger is that the gjenganger in the Scandinavian tradition took on an entirely corporeal form. It normally had no spectre-like qualities whatsoever. In older traditions the gjenganger
was also very malicious and violent in nature, coming back from the
grave to torment its family and friends. In the way they acted, and in
the extensive precautions their relatives took to make sure they stayed
in their graves, gjengangere are more akin to eastern-European vampires than modern-day ghosts.
so, like, forget “sans is an irish revenant.“ you know who the REAL semi-obscure european folklore walking corpse zombie dude in undertale is?
murdered (well, angry mob’d)
unfinished business (”There’s just one thing left I want to do. Let’s finish what we started. Let’s free everyone.”) (”There’s something I have to do. […] It’s time for monsters… To finally go free.“)
bodily remains (monster dust)
thoroughly corporeal (moreso that when he was alive)
Safety is more important than not looking like a total dork!
I know this one’s a bit different from the previous comics since it’s post-pacifist speculation stuff rather than things we know happened in canon. But I do really like the idea of Frisk going back to get Flowey and the whole Floweypot AU deal, and I wanted to explore how that might actually work within the context of the previous ones. And still wanted to do a happy ending!
I like this. It’s accepting Flowey for what he is, on his own terms, and an acknowledgment that Frisk’s situation would be really weird and kind of isolating.
I do think it’s worth noting that Toriel’s arguably had more than two kids (three counting Frisk, though it’s possible to leave instead of staying with her, and nine counting all of the fallen humans) but…
I cannot remember the last time I saw a piece of American media this sincere.
It’s so passionate and 100% unafraid to be that. The most powerful thing that happens is a ten-year-old shooting rainbow laser beams all over the universe. The world’s best mom and dad parent you and make you feel better. Everyone loves the autistic lizard who cannot slow down her torrential speech about her special interests. You win by trading LOVE for love. There is no snark and snobbery, no deliberate ironic detachment. It’s just real.
And then you come back out into the “real world” and you look around and everything is so pale and distanced by comparison.
So you just want to go back. Over and over and over again. And you’re even tempted to do (or watch) violence to this world you love because you want more of it so badly and that’s the only way to see something new. And then you realize that’s exactly what the ten-year-old with rainbow lasers is actually screaming about and why he’s doing it.
Every time you’ve loved something and didn’t want it to be over, that’s the same thing you’re struggling against. This time, and every other time you’ve felt that way, that’s what he’s feeling, and why he’s fighting you. He just wants more of this game so badly he’s willing to do it all over again for even just a little bit more. You get it. You feel like that about this too.
He says you’re the only one who still understands him, and why he wants to do this over and over. And it’s true. You are, in fact, literally resonating with his feelings. You also want to see it again, and you want to see more, and differently, and yet it feels like the world is ending– in the past you wanted to see the finale, but now you don’t want it to end.
But even if you both want it to go on, even if you want to let him win, you aren’t in control of what’s going to happen anymore. The battle proceeds automatically. You have to endure it and then accept when it’s over. You can’t just let him win so you have a reason to play it again.
In the end you have to give in and let everyone go, but it hurts that it’s done. Everyone please love the Flowey who asks you not to reset, all right? Because when you’re sad for things to end and you want to replay, that’s how he feels about it, too, but he won’t make you do that. And you’re the only one who shares that feeling, and you’re even leaving him behind. And he’s letting you go.
here are almost all of the assets used by flowey, minus photoshop flowey, because that’s a whole other beast. some of these faces are actually used exclusively by photoshop flowey on the tv screen, but i decided to include them on his stem anyway.
DETAIL NOTES:
flowey has six petals (normal golden flowers only have five)
flowey’s stem is normally bent a little
when he morphs his face, he can also make it much larger than his body
COLOUR NOTES:
the outermost part of flowey’s face is a very pale yellow (#feffdf) while the very middle is an extremely pale blue (#fafefe)
flowey’s petals and the yellow stripes of asriel’s sweater are the exact same colours (#fff200)
flowey’s stem and the green of asriel’s sweater are the exact same colours (#9bfd71)
For a character that supposedly can’t feel anything, Flowey sure is expressive!
honestly just really like undertale 