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ifyoulovethem) wrote2017-02-18 01:24 pm
ifyoulovethem) wrote2017-02-18 01:24 pm
Ahalpuh Application
Player Info
Name: Swirl
18 or Older?: Yes
Contact:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
swirlingflight
Player Type: New
Invited By: N/A.
Character Info
Name: "Flowey" (the flower zombie remnant of Asriel Dreemur)
Canon: Undertale
Canon Point: Before the player character falls in the mountain.
Age: Simultaneously about 11 and 500, thanks to time travel bullshit. He looks like a yellow flower with a face.
History: Here are his two wiki entries, but I'm planning to take him from prior to the human's arrival in the underground. The highlights:
200X - Asriel is born to Queen Toriel and King Asgore, the rulers of the monsters sealed within the mountain for millennia.
201X - A human falls in the underground. Asriel finds them and brings them to his parents, who adopt the human child as their own.
201Y? - The fallen human kills themself with Asriel's aid and, as he agreed, Asriel absorbs their soul and takes their body through the barrier to their home village. The humans there attack him, and he is gravely injured by the time he returns under the mountain. He dies.
2ZZZ (long enough that most of the main characters don't recognize Queen Toriel) - Dr. Alphys' experiments with DTE result in a sentient, moving flower. Completely by accident, the flower has Asriel's memories. The flower discovers the ability to rewind time, and uses it a lot.
Personality: Flowey the Flower is the broken remnant of an open-hearted child who cared deeply about everyone he met, who died full of grief and guilt, certain that his refusal to murder meant he and his best friend died for nothing. He woke again after death, but as a soulless flower. As a flower, he's perfectly capable of feeling annoyance, fear, and anger... but not joy or love, much less empathy or compassion. Other people no longer feel real to him, not compared to how he felt as a young boss monster whose best friend called him "crybaby."
In that first awakening, he spent a while with each of his parents, trying to heal and feel but failing, before his inability to love them overwhelmed him. Between his guilt at being alive in a world without that best friend, and his disgust with himself for being such an empty imitation of the person he was, he tried to kill himself. But between the DTE in his flower body, and his fear of dying without a soul, was enough that he gained access to a strange power to rewind time. Not far enough to be himself again, but enough to be a living flower.
Even despite not feeling anything for people, the flower version of Asriel went around helping people. Partly because it's what Asrield would have wanted to do, before, and partly because his powers made it so easy to. He could turn back time to keep others from making mistakes, and fix their lives "flawlessly." As a child with the ability to mess with reality on an unprecedented scale, he began to think of himself as much smarter and more imaginative than he was.
His emotional distance from other people only became worse with his ability to rewind time; with it, he's been able to undo his mistakes, yet see others do the same things over and over again. With too many resets, people became like videogame characters to him; playthings that would do as he pleased, if he could just find the right way to push them. He was still full of feelings of guilt for not following through with the human's plan, and betrayal at how they tried to pressure him into killing people. He eventually adopted the cruelest interpretations of his best friend's words: Sweet little caring Asriel died because he cared too much to protect himself. In this world, it's kill or be killed.
By now, Flowey is nasty and sarcastic, saccharine just long enough to laugh at people for falling for his tricks... unless there's a more interesting gambit to get from pretending longer. He's lonely, unable to get comfort from friends or family despite trying for quite a few timelines, stewing in his frustration and guilt and betrayal for a very long subjective time. And he's killed (nearly) everyone he could find enough times that even that's boring.
If he suddenly gains a soul (and a body, with hands), he won't immediately recognize the difference in his feelings. Old habits die hard, and he may have reset enough times to live for centuries as 'Flowey' than 'Asriel'. Unless someone presses those emotions on him, they'll only slowly work their way back into him. And that will distress him, to start feeling for people again even as he's forced to kill them... or himself, and drive himself mad.
Sample:
dear_player banter with Chara-possessing-Frisk
Flowey's account of his own past, as told in a freeform game completely off Dreamwidth:
* Once upon a time...
* A pair of monsters named ASGORE and TORIEL ruled the underground, as King and Queen.
* Their people were trapped, with no expectation of escape...
* But they all lived peaceful lives.
* There hadn't been a human in their world since they were sealed away, and almost nobody was old enough to remember that.
* There were no humans, no war, no murder.
* They were trapped but content.
* Then...
* One day...
* A human climbed Mount Ebott, stepped into the wrong cave, and fell into the underground.
* A young monster found them, and worried for them, and brought them home to his parents.
* He and his parents welcomed the small human, a child close in age and height to the young monster.
* They adopted the human!
* They praised the human and their son for being such fast friends, and talked about living together.
* They painted pictures about a beautiful future, when humans and monsters could finally live together in peace!
* And, you know.
* Those parents were none other than Asgore and Toriel.
* And that young monster was none other than THEIR SON, THE PRINCE.
* ASRIEL DREEMUR.
[Flowey snickers.]
* All those ideals, all that kindness, offered to a hurt and angry human child who felt loved for maybe the first time in their life...
* They couldn't just accept it.
* They felt like they had to pay these people back!
* And, with the right plan...
* They could pay everybody back what they deserved.
* See, the human got a bright idea, too.
* The BARRIER trapping the monsters underground was really strong!
* So strong it would take seven human SOULs to break it!
* But.
* With a HUMAN SOUL and a MONSTER SOUL...
* Anybody could pass through the barrier.
* Once.
* And it had to be a single person!
* Believe me.
* The prince and the human tried holding hands to get through it.
* But that didn't work.
* The only, obvious solution... was for the human to die.
* ...
* So the human convinced the prince to help kill them.
* To take their soul.
* To go through the barrier. To kill the humans who had hurt them and caused them to hide in the mountain.
* And to free monsterkind.
* ...
* It didn't work.
* Humans can kill monsters with incredible ease.
* It's amazing they bothered to seal them in the first place!
* And the prince died.
* Asgore and Toriel's children were dead in the same day.
* They scattered the prince's dust on a flower growing in the throne room.
* Because he cared so much about going to the surface, where that flower came from, that it must have been important to him?
* Hee hee hee...
* It wasn't.
* But.
* As luck had it...
* A crazy scientist decided to experiment on that flower!
* A flower, with a dead monster's dust and the WILL TO LIVE...
* ...
* Who even knows who I am.
* But I remember being that prince.
* Being ASGORE'S SON.
* A monster soft and stupid enough to trust anything a human said :)
Monster Choices: Nymph, Chimera, Werecreature (lion), Vampire, Naga, Merperson
Name: Swirl
18 or Older?: Yes
Contact:
Player Type: New
Invited By: N/A.
Character Info
Name: "Flowey" (the flower zombie remnant of Asriel Dreemur)
Canon: Undertale
Canon Point: Before the player character falls in the mountain.
Age: Simultaneously about 11 and 500, thanks to time travel bullshit. He looks like a yellow flower with a face.
History: Here are his two wiki entries, but I'm planning to take him from prior to the human's arrival in the underground. The highlights:
200X - Asriel is born to Queen Toriel and King Asgore, the rulers of the monsters sealed within the mountain for millennia.
201X - A human falls in the underground. Asriel finds them and brings them to his parents, who adopt the human child as their own.
201Y? - The fallen human kills themself with Asriel's aid and, as he agreed, Asriel absorbs their soul and takes their body through the barrier to their home village. The humans there attack him, and he is gravely injured by the time he returns under the mountain. He dies.
2ZZZ (long enough that most of the main characters don't recognize Queen Toriel) - Dr. Alphys' experiments with DTE result in a sentient, moving flower. Completely by accident, the flower has Asriel's memories. The flower discovers the ability to rewind time, and uses it a lot.
Personality: Flowey the Flower is the broken remnant of an open-hearted child who cared deeply about everyone he met, who died full of grief and guilt, certain that his refusal to murder meant he and his best friend died for nothing. He woke again after death, but as a soulless flower. As a flower, he's perfectly capable of feeling annoyance, fear, and anger... but not joy or love, much less empathy or compassion. Other people no longer feel real to him, not compared to how he felt as a young boss monster whose best friend called him "crybaby."
In that first awakening, he spent a while with each of his parents, trying to heal and feel but failing, before his inability to love them overwhelmed him. Between his guilt at being alive in a world without that best friend, and his disgust with himself for being such an empty imitation of the person he was, he tried to kill himself. But between the DTE in his flower body, and his fear of dying without a soul, was enough that he gained access to a strange power to rewind time. Not far enough to be himself again, but enough to be a living flower.
Even despite not feeling anything for people, the flower version of Asriel went around helping people. Partly because it's what Asrield would have wanted to do, before, and partly because his powers made it so easy to. He could turn back time to keep others from making mistakes, and fix their lives "flawlessly." As a child with the ability to mess with reality on an unprecedented scale, he began to think of himself as much smarter and more imaginative than he was.
His emotional distance from other people only became worse with his ability to rewind time; with it, he's been able to undo his mistakes, yet see others do the same things over and over again. With too many resets, people became like videogame characters to him; playthings that would do as he pleased, if he could just find the right way to push them. He was still full of feelings of guilt for not following through with the human's plan, and betrayal at how they tried to pressure him into killing people. He eventually adopted the cruelest interpretations of his best friend's words: Sweet little caring Asriel died because he cared too much to protect himself. In this world, it's kill or be killed.
By now, Flowey is nasty and sarcastic, saccharine just long enough to laugh at people for falling for his tricks... unless there's a more interesting gambit to get from pretending longer. He's lonely, unable to get comfort from friends or family despite trying for quite a few timelines, stewing in his frustration and guilt and betrayal for a very long subjective time. And he's killed (nearly) everyone he could find enough times that even that's boring.
If he suddenly gains a soul (and a body, with hands), he won't immediately recognize the difference in his feelings. Old habits die hard, and he may have reset enough times to live for centuries as 'Flowey' than 'Asriel'. Unless someone presses those emotions on him, they'll only slowly work their way back into him. And that will distress him, to start feeling for people again even as he's forced to kill them... or himself, and drive himself mad.
Sample:
dear_player banter with Chara-possessing-Frisk
Flowey's account of his own past, as told in a freeform game completely off Dreamwidth:
* Once upon a time...
* A pair of monsters named ASGORE and TORIEL ruled the underground, as King and Queen.
* Their people were trapped, with no expectation of escape...
* But they all lived peaceful lives.
* There hadn't been a human in their world since they were sealed away, and almost nobody was old enough to remember that.
* There were no humans, no war, no murder.
* They were trapped but content.
* Then...
* One day...
* A human climbed Mount Ebott, stepped into the wrong cave, and fell into the underground.
* A young monster found them, and worried for them, and brought them home to his parents.
* He and his parents welcomed the small human, a child close in age and height to the young monster.
* They adopted the human!
* They praised the human and their son for being such fast friends, and talked about living together.
* They painted pictures about a beautiful future, when humans and monsters could finally live together in peace!
* And, you know.
* Those parents were none other than Asgore and Toriel.
* And that young monster was none other than THEIR SON, THE PRINCE.
* ASRIEL DREEMUR.
[Flowey snickers.]
* All those ideals, all that kindness, offered to a hurt and angry human child who felt loved for maybe the first time in their life...
* They couldn't just accept it.
* They felt like they had to pay these people back!
* And, with the right plan...
* They could pay everybody back what they deserved.
* See, the human got a bright idea, too.
* The BARRIER trapping the monsters underground was really strong!
* So strong it would take seven human SOULs to break it!
* But.
* With a HUMAN SOUL and a MONSTER SOUL...
* Anybody could pass through the barrier.
* Once.
* And it had to be a single person!
* Believe me.
* The prince and the human tried holding hands to get through it.
* But that didn't work.
* The only, obvious solution... was for the human to die.
* ...
* So the human convinced the prince to help kill them.
* To take their soul.
* To go through the barrier. To kill the humans who had hurt them and caused them to hide in the mountain.
* And to free monsterkind.
* ...
* It didn't work.
* Humans can kill monsters with incredible ease.
* It's amazing they bothered to seal them in the first place!
* And the prince died.
* Asgore and Toriel's children were dead in the same day.
* They scattered the prince's dust on a flower growing in the throne room.
* Because he cared so much about going to the surface, where that flower came from, that it must have been important to him?
* Hee hee hee...
* It wasn't.
* But.
* As luck had it...
* A crazy scientist decided to experiment on that flower!
* A flower, with a dead monster's dust and the WILL TO LIVE...
* ...
* Who even knows who I am.
* But I remember being that prince.
* Being ASGORE'S SON.
* A monster soft and stupid enough to trust anything a human said :)
Monster Choices: Nymph, Chimera, Werecreature (lion), Vampire, Naga, Merperson