Temmie

Temmie
Origin
Origin	Undertale
Creator	Toby Fox
First Appearance	Undertale
Characteristics
Species	Dog/Monster
Gender	Female
Pronouns	She/Her
Sexuality	Unknown
Age	Unknown
Birthday	Unknown
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Ethnicity	Unknown
Status	Alive
Alignment	Neutral Good
Archetype	Minion/Underling
Occupation	Varies
Time Period	201X
Language	English, Monster
Combat Style	Magical Combat
Homeworld	Earth
Relationships
Affiliations	Underground
Enemies	Humans (Formerly in True Pacifist Route)

Temmie is a species of monster in the Underground. They appear as a unique enemy in Waterfall, residents of Temmie Village, and the vendor of Tem Shop.

Name Meaning

Their name is based off the designer of most of the monsters in the game, Temmie Chang.

Appearance

General Description: Temmies resemble both cats and dogs, with cat-like ears on top of their heads and dog ears on the sides. They have shoulder length black hair and wear blue shirts.

Variations: The Temmie Shopkeeper has gray hair and wears a striped blue and yellow shirt instead of a plain blue shirt.

Alternate Forms/Disguises: This character does not have other widely recognized alternate forms.

Personality

Erratic Speech: All Temmies share an erratic manner of speech, often excluding letters, mixing lower and upper cases, and making inconsistencies. Bob speaks in perfect English. The Temmie Shopkeeper speaks in fluent English when the human refuses to sell an item she wants. Regular Temmies in-battle speak in somewhat proper English when denied Temmie Flakes.

Finds the Human Adorable: In battle, Temmies find the human adorable and refer to them as such despite attacking them.

Finds Muscles Disgusting: Temmies find muscles disgusting, evident by their negative reactions to the human flexing. When Aaron appears as a result of the "Flex" option, Temmies are so put off that they flee on sight shortly after.

General Information

Name: Temmie

Origin: Undertale

First Appearance: Undertale

Company: N/A

Creator: Toby Fox

Actor: N/A

Gender: Female (The species likely varies but this one is specifically female)

Sexuality: Unknown

Pronouns: She/Her

Handedness: Unknown

Age: Unknown

Birthday: Unknown

Time Period: 201X^[1]

Timeline: Undertale & Deltarune Timeline

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Temmie Village (Underground)

Story Role: Enemies

Legacy: Local Legacy (Temmie Village and the temmies are known of but it is hard to find their village)

Influence: Personal Influence

Language: English & Monster

Ethnicity: Unknown

Classification: Monster

Species: Dog/Monster

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Monster Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Unknown

Occupation: Varies (Each Temmie has a different job, one of them being a shop owner)

Combat Style: Magical Combat

Affiliations: Underground

Enemies: Humans (Formerly in True Pacifist Route)

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status: Alive in True Pacifist Route and some Neutral Routes, Deceased in some Neutral Routes and Genocide Route (Is killed by The Human in some of the neutral routes and the genocide route)

Alignment: Neutral Good (The Temmie species is regularly nice dogs with some of them willing to give The Human equipment for their journey)

Potential

Type(s) of Potential: Fixed Potential
Level of Potential: Fixed
Description: Shows no notable potential statements or feats.
Limitations: Nothing notable.

Archetype: Minion/Underling

Codex Statistics

Grade: B

Tier: 10-B, Higher with Magic

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Power Source: Magic

Attack Potency: Average Human level, Higher with Magic (Monsters enact in SOUL battles against humans due to humans in their physical forms being far stronger than monsters^[2]). Can ignore conventional durability with attacks to the SOUL (As they are attacking the SOUL; which is the very culmination of one's being^[3])

Durability: Average Human level, Lower if not wanting to FIGHT or cruel intentions (Monsters weaken when they don't want to fight^[4] and one with more killing intent and crueller intentions will inflict more damage on them^[4])

Striking Strength: Average Human Class

Lifting Strength: Average Human Class

Travel Speed: Average Human Speed

Attack Speed: Transonic (Can keep up with The Human, who can maneuver and dodge around the Greater Dog's barks, a sound based attack^[5])

Reaction Speed: Transonic

Stamina: Unknown

Range: Standard Melee, Several Meters with Elasticity

Intelligence: Below Average Intelligence (Temmie speaks extremely broken English)

Knowledge: Journeyman level (Capable of casually using different attacks in a FIGHT)

Powers and Techniques

Irregular Physiology (Monsters physiologies show they are mostly made of magic^[2], noting that humans have a "physical form"^[2], along with having their SOUL directly attuned to their body^[2])
Magic (All monsters are made of magic and can use and express themselves through magic^[2])
- Curtain Fire (Monsters can use their magic to make bullet-pattern cards^[2]. Monsters are able to develop a large sum of magical attacks to overwhelm the opponent^[6])
- Creation (Monsters can make weapons^[7], clothes and even food from magic)
- Personal Domain & Battlefield Removal (When one encounters a monster they get into a fight^[8], a FIGHT is an encounter in a monster's personal domain allowing them to fight humans, this has various rules such as turn-based combat^[9])
Limited Spatial Manipulation
- 3-D: Monsters can at times^[10] influence the battle box^[11])
- Transmutation & Healing (Monsters can turn their attacks into healing projectiles^[12])
Absorption (Monsters and humans can absorb the SOUL as long as the person isn’t the same species as them^[13])
Non-Standard Interaction
- Metaphysical Interaction: All monster attacks in Undertale are to the SOUL^[14].

Resistance to
- Soul Manipulation (All monsters bodies are attuned to their SOUL thus they are effectively taking hits to their SOUL whenever attacked^[4])

Elasticity (Temmie can elongate her limbs)

Equipment

Nothing Notable

Other

Standard Tactics: Temmie will force her opponent into her personal domain before attacking their soul directly.

Weaknesses

Monster Weaknesses: All monsters are weak to an attack with killing intent behind it and if a monster doesn't want to fight, they are weakened greatly^[15].
Unique Weaknesses: Prone to forgetting her own attacks.

Explanations

Monster Check Stats

Monster's check stats are quite dubious for a couple of reasons:

Monsters like Glyde give off the implication that monsters are the ones listing their statistics.
Mad Dummy has a defense stat listed of -40 but notes because they're a ghost physical attacks will fail. One could say the -40 comes from the fact that the dummy's body is that weak, however, the regular Dummy's check stats just has their DEF as 0, there's really no reason why the Mad Dummy should have far lower DEF stats especially during a pacifist route.
Characters like Napstablook have a defense stat listed but you actually aren't lowering his HP he was just lowering it for you to be nice.
Toriel's stats are listed at 80 ATK and 80 DEF, the same as Asgore's stats. Yet in one of the endings Unydne with her strength as stated by Sans literally threw Toriel out of the castle. Despite Undyne's stats being 7 ATK and 0 DEF. This would also imply characters like Papyrus are stronger then her as he has an 8 ATK and 2 DEF, and while she does admit Papyrus is pretty tough, it's never really implied to be that Papyrus is stronger then Undyne. Royal Guard members are also shown to have higher stats then her through this logic.
Undyne the Undying has stats of 99 ATK and 99 DEF yet due to Mettaton's Invulnerable Body, they have a defense stat of 999.

On top of these, genocide route has the check stats differ too with confusing changes, while the human's killing intent is a reason behind this, some characters have their defense stats raise such as Papyrus'. There's also inconsistencies even in these routes, for example The Human at a level 3 killing intent one-shots Toriel^[16] yet The Human at level 13 can still only chip damage Asgore^[17].

It should also be noted, the argument that Toriel sent Asgore flying with her fire, has an issue it was an off guard hit^[18] which it has been shown off-guard/betrayal kills can one-shot monsters as they lowered their guard^[19].

Magic vs. Physicality

Monsters are mostly made of magic while human beings are mostly made of water^[2] making humans with their physical forms far stronger then them^[2]. However humans have lost the ability to use magic by proxy^[2].

Monsters bodies being made of magic has their body physically attuned to their SOUL^[4]. Due to this, monsters that don't want to fight have their defenses weaken^[4] and one with more killing intent and crueller intentions will inflict more damage on them^[4]. This is due to a monsters SOUL being made of love, hope, and compassion^[20].

Monsters bodies being made of magic also makes it where they do not possess enough physical matter to take concentrations of determination^[21].

In the Undertale 10th Anniversary Livestream Gerson reveals that humanity once had magic too but creating the barrier that separated humans and monsters caused them to use up all their magic^[22].

Battle Records

None.

References

↑ Undertale Intro
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 ^2.7 ^2.8 Undertale Library Blue Book "While monsters are mostly made of magic, human beings are mostly made of water.
Humans, with their physical forms, are far stronger than us.
But they will never know the joy of expressing themselves through magic.
They'll never get a bullet-pattern birthday card..."
↑ Undertale Flowey the Flower First Encounter
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 ^4.4 ^4.5 Undertale Library Orange Book "Because they are made of magic, monsters' bodies are attuned to their SOUL.
If a monster doesn't want to fight, its defenses will weaken.
And the crueller the intentions of our enemies, the more their attacks will hurt us.
Therefore, if a being with a powerful SOUL struck with the desire to kill...
Um, let's end the chapter here..."
↑ Undertale Greater Dog Fight
↑ Undertale Genocide Route Sans Boss Fight
↑ Undertale Asriel Dreemurr Fight
↑ Undertale Toriel's Tutorial
↑ Undertale Genocide Route Sans Fight
↑ Undertale Lesser Dog Battle
↑ Undertale Aaron Battle
↑ Undertale Vegitoid Battle
↑ Undertale Waterfall Plauqes "If a monster defeats a human, they can take its SOUL. A monster with a huamn SOUL... A horrible beast with unfathomable power."
↑ Undertale Route Genocide Sans Fight
↑ Because they are made of magic, monsters’ bodies are attuned to their SOUL.
If a monster doesn’t want to fight, its defenses will weaken.
And the crueler the intentions of our enemies, the more their attacks will hurt us.
Therefore, if a being with a powerful SOUL struck with the desire to kill...
Um, let’s end the chapter here...
↑ Undertale Toriel Fight Genocide Route
↑ Undertale Asgore Fight LV 13
↑ Undertale True Pacifist Asriel Pre-Fight Cutscene
↑ Undertale Toriel Fight Betrayal Kill
↑ Undertale Library Dark Green Book "Love, hope, compassion... This is what people say monster SOULs are made of.
But the absolute nature of "SOUL" is unknown.
After all, humans have proven their SOULs don't need these things to exist."
↑ Undertale True Lab
↑ Undertale 10th Anniversary Gerson in the old ruins

Versus Threads

None.

Catgeory:Dead Characters

[1] Undertale Intro

[Undertale_Library_Blue_Book-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 ^2.7 ^2.8 Undertale Library Blue Book "While monsters are mostly made of magic, human beings are mostly made of water.
Humans, with their physical forms, are far stronger than us.
But they will never know the joy of expressing themselves through magic.
They'll never get a bullet-pattern birthday card..."

[3] Undertale Flowey the Flower First Encounter

[Undertale_Library_Orange_Book-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 ^4.4 ^4.5 Undertale Library Orange Book "Because they are made of magic, monsters' bodies are attuned to their SOUL.
If a monster doesn't want to fight, its defenses will weaken.
And the crueller the intentions of our enemies, the more their attacks will hurt us.
Therefore, if a being with a powerful SOUL struck with the desire to kill...
Um, let's end the chapter here..."

[5] Undertale Greater Dog Fight

[6] Undertale Genocide Route Sans Boss Fight

[7] Undertale Asriel Dreemurr Fight

[8] Undertale Toriel's Tutorial

[9] Undertale Genocide Route Sans Fight

[10] Undertale Lesser Dog Battle

[11] Undertale Aaron Battle

[12] Undertale Vegitoid Battle

[Undertale_Waterfall_Plauqes_SOUL_Absorption-13] Undertale Waterfall Plauqes "If a monster defeats a human, they can take its SOUL. A monster with a huamn SOUL... A horrible beast with unfathomable power."

[14] Undertale Route Genocide Sans Fight

[15] Because they are made of magic, monsters’ bodies are attuned to their SOUL.
If a monster doesn’t want to fight, its defenses will weaken.
And the crueler the intentions of our enemies, the more their attacks will hurt us.
Therefore, if a being with a powerful SOUL struck with the desire to kill...
Um, let’s end the chapter here...

[16] Undertale Toriel Fight Genocide Route

[17] Undertale Asgore Fight LV 13

[18] Undertale True Pacifist Asriel Pre-Fight Cutscene

[19] Undertale Toriel Fight Betrayal Kill

[Undertale_Library_Dark_Green_Book-20] Undertale Library Dark Green Book "Love, hope, compassion... This is what people say monster SOULs are made of.
But the absolute nature of "SOUL" is unknown.
After all, humans have proven their SOULs don't need these things to exist."

[21] Undertale True Lab

[22] Undertale 10th Anniversary Gerson in the old ruins

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