Alphys Appreciation Week by @fluffnflight
Day 3: True Lab
… Never mind her friends, I really have to wonder how the amalgamates came to forgive her after what happened. Did they try caring for her in return and let her know they don’t resent her somehow, even if she kept them locked away? Did, even in their state, somehow understand, or…?
It feels like some of the fandom tends to overlook the significance of this scene. Like… it’s just something that happened and then we move on to get the best ending. But I’ll be honest in my opinion; you don’t really, truly appreciate Alphys and her character arc until you’ve been to this part of the game. I can barely describe the kind of mixed emotions I felt when I saw this scene. It took weeks if not months to let it all sink in. To this day, I still can’t imagine the kind of traumatic guilt she went through and the kind of (permanent) damage that can do to a person, and I honestly feel the game can’t capture that in its entirety –for justified reasons, probably, but the subtext is there.
It really drives home a message that’s pretty unheard of (in my opinion) in creative works like these; you can make the biggest mistakes, but that doesn’t make you irredeemable. If you have enough of a conscience to recognize you screwed up and you have to face the consequences, you still have the chance to make amends, ad you will have your friends’ support. That you still matter, and that you are still loved. Tons of people have said all of this better than I have, but heck, what she says at the end of this level is basically that word-for-word message directed to the players.
(I hope Tumblr doesn’t kill the quality on this one.)
honestly just really like undertale 