some random person: undertale is a game about mercy and understanding, and if you’re really a fan you should learn from that! violence is never the answer! you can talk yourself out of any conflict and it’s never necessary to fight back!
me: *thinks about papyrus who got killed for believing in a murderer, and about how undyne the undying and sans fight you, because they don’t want you to literally murder everyone they love, and how the game this portrays them as “the good guys”, and how they are more likely to get you to reset than papyrus* ahahah aha ah ahahh… yeah
Tag: IMPORTANT
About Sam / “So Sorry”
Hi, this is Toby.
It seems there’s been a lot of hate directed towards the character “So Sorry” and its creator, Sam. This is very disappointing to me, as UNDERTALE is basically a game about accepting and befriending people that are different than you. Everyone has the right to like or dislike anything they want. But there’s no reason to turn your dislike into a personal attack. Sam’s inclusion was a result of his honest support for a game he really cares about – which all of you care about, as well. And I accepted that inclusion. So, “So Sorry” is as much a part of UNDERTALE as anything else.
The reason I didn’t make a statement about this before was because I was worried that calling attention to the issue would just incite more harassment against Sam. However, it seems my silence may also have enabled harm against him, and for that I apologize. Just to clarify, potential harassment against Sam was also the reason I offered him a refund and asked him if he wanted to change his character to a different one. I promise I was acting without ill will in the way I perceived as the best for everyone.
Regarding everything else, I have talked to Sam and we are cool. That’s all I have to say. Neither of us want any hate directed towards the other. Or towards anyone, really. Please respect that.
#protect frisk 2k16
i’ve got… a few thoughts… about a thing… that i’ve been seeing a lot recently. i’ll try to keep this as low-sodium as i can lmao
undertale fandom as a whole is a lot more accepting of the idea of chara as a nuanced character with flaws and virtues like the rest of the game’s cast than it used to be. it helps that over the past six months a lot of evidence has been found supporting chara-as-the-game’s-narrator as a real thing. there are still plenty of folks who disagree, but there’s a lot more breathing room for folks who are into that reading.
(if you hadn’t played undertale or interacted much with the fanbase yet back in september/october, for the record back then us team chara folks legit needed our own term for chara-as-not-innately-evil because the evil chara reading was so overwhelmingly popular and the content we wanted to engage with was so difficult to find. we needed our own term so badly that people took my silly soft grunge/a softer world jokes and made them a thing – that’s where the phrase “soft chara” originated. some fun trivia for the day.)
so, before i get too sidetracked recounting Ye Olde Fandom History – my point is, there are a lot more people willing to believe in chara’s potential for goodness now, and thus willing to believe that the no mercy route isn’t chara’s doing.
this growing acceptance generally makes me very happy, but it also leads to the discussion of “so whose fault IS no mercy then?” and, uh.
spoilers: the correct answer to this question is not and will never be “it’s frisk’s fault.”
honestly just really like undertale 