Toriel

Toriel is the second major character the human encounters in Undertale. She saves the human from Flowey and guides them through the Ruins. Toriel is a kind monster who acts as a protective mother for the human. She employs tough love on the human as well as Asgore. She cares for children and was excited to become a mother. She enjoys cooking and bakes butterscotch-cinnamon pie as well as her favorite, snail pie. Toriel has a playful side and loves puns and bad jokes and she even keeps a journal of puns. Toriel is said to be intelligent and dreams of becoming a teacher. She has already prepared a curriculum for the human by the time they reach her home in the Ruins. In the True Pacifist Ending Credits, she stands outside a school and, in the Family Ending of a Neutral Route, she starts her own.

Toriel Dreemur
“ You wish to know how to return "home," do you not? Ahead of us lies the end of the RUINS. A one-way exit to the rest of the underground. I am going to destroy it. No one will ever be able to leave again. Now be a good child and go upstairs. „ ~ Toriel
Origin
Origin	Undertale/Deltarune
Creator	Toby Fox
First Appearance	Undertale
Characteristics
Species	Monster
Gender	Female
Pronouns	She/Her
Sexuality	Heterosexual
Age	Unknown
Birthday	Unknown
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Ethnicity	Goat
Status	Alive
Alignment	Neutral Good
Archetype	Protector, Guardian
Occupation	Teacher (At the end of the True Pacifist route)
Time Period	201X
Language	English, Monster
Combat Style	Magical Combat
Homeworld	Earth
Relationships
Affiliations	Underground
Enemies	Humans (Formerly in True Pacifist Route)

Name Meaning

Toriel's name is a play on the word "Tutorial" as she even serves as giving a tutorial to the world and its mechanics.

Appearance

General Description: Toriel is a Boss Monster whose head resembles a white-furred Nubian Goat, structured with floppy ears and tiny horns. She has a pair of visible fangs and long eyelashes, and her irises have a dark red tint. She has an anthropomorphic body with paws at the end of her limbs.

Clothing/Outfit: A long purple robe with white sleeves and the Delta Rune on the chest.

Accessories: Reading glasses, seen when reading a book on snail facts.

Personality

• Mother Figure: Toriel is a kind monster who acts as a protective mother figure for the human. She expresses her love through words and actions. She cares for children and was excited to become a mother.

• Tough Love: Toriel employs tough love on the human and Asgore. Such as forcing them to fight her to prove they can survive in the Underground and shooting Asgore with a fireball to stop him from fightign the human.

• Hobbies: Toriel's hobbies include baking, reading, writing puns, bug-hunting, and tending to flowers. She enjoys baking Butterscotch Pie and Snail Pie. She has read many books in her home and has a journal full of puns. She enjoyed puns even before meeting Sans.

• Intelligent and Intimidating: Toriel is said to be intelligent and can come off as intimidating when she is serious. She is meticulous in her goals and was often referred by her title when she was queen.

• Teacher: Toriel aspires to be a teacher. She offers instructions on puzzles and prepares a curriculum for the human. In the True Pacifist Ending Credits, she stands outside a school, and in the Family Ending of the Neutral Route, she starts her own.

Relationships

The Human

Toriel extends her nurturing nature to the human just as she has to other humans who have fallen into the Ruins. She attempts to keep the human there, believing it is for their own safety—knowing that Asgore has killed the other humans who left her care. If the human spares her, she reluctantly allows them to leave, offering a parting hug before they go.

If the human kills her during a Neutral Route, she uses her final moments to warn them about the dangers ahead, calling them "my child" before turning to dust. If she is killed after she stops attacking, she hysterically laughs and claims the human is no different from the monsters outside the Ruins before dying. In the Genocide Route, she realizes that by keeping the human in the Ruins, she was not protecting them—but rather protecting the rest of the monsters from them.

If the human calls Toriel "mom," she is surprised but states that if it makes them happy, she wholeheartedly approves. Flirting with her on the phone in the Ruins leads her to assume the human is joking; if done again, she becomes uncertain how to respond. If the human flirts with her after calling her "mother," she becomes uncomfortable and calls them an "interesting" child, a remark she also mentions in the epilogue.

If the game is reset, Toriel remarks that speaking to the human feels like "meeting an old friend for the first time," and notes that she experiences this feeling with most fallen humans.

Asgore

Asgore is Toriel's ex-husband. The two were once exceptionally close, winning first place in the '98 Nose Nuzzle competition and being openly affectionate with one another. During their marriage, Toriel's nicknames for Asgore included "Fluffybuns" and "Gorey."

Toriel left Asgore and New Home after he declared war on humanity. When they are reunited in the True Pacifist Route, she criticizes his plan for freeing the monsters but still believes he deserves mercy, even though she considers him "terrible." When Asgore asks if they can reconcile or at least be friends, Toriel declines. While she appears civil when discussing the future of the Underground after the fight against Asriel, once they are on the surface and everyone else has left, Asgore wonders if he should leave—and Toriel glares at him, prompting him to go. However, in the ending credits, she does not object to his presence while he trims the bushes, hinting at a growing tolerance or gradual forgiveness.

Asriel

Toriel was Asriel's mother. Little is known about their relationship, but she always wanted a child and raised him alongside Asgore. She wished the best for Asriel and allowed him to befriend the first human. Even when the first human poisoned Asgore, Toriel was furious but did not hold a lasting grudge against them. After leaving New Home, she never spoke of Asriel again.

Chara

Toriel took care of Chara as her own child. She spent time with them, teaching them how to cook pies and knit. Chara bonded closely with Toriel, adopting her habit of saying "Greetings." After their death, Toriel refused to leave their body in the basement, instead burying them properly in a field of golden flowers.

Flowey

Toriel despises Flowey, referring to them as a "terrible creature" for their attempt to kill the human. She remains unaware that Flowey is Asriel.

Sans

Sans and Toriel do not meet in person until the end of the True Pacifist Route, as well as in the Family and Exiled Queen endings, where they become good friends. Their friendship began through jokes exchanged through the door between the Ruins and Snowdin. At some point, Toriel entrusted Sans with protecting any human who left the Ruins. They continue to bond in the epilogue, texting each other as the human backtracks through the Underground.

General Information

Name: Toriel Dreemur

Origin: Undertale/Deltarune

First Appearance: Undertale

Latest Appearance: Deltarune Chapter 5

Company: N/A

Creator: Toby Fox

Actor: N/A

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: She/Her

Handedness: Right-Handed

Age: Unknown (Predates written history and states she's over thousands of years old)

Birthday: Unknown

Time Period: 201X

Timeline: Undertale & Deltarune Timeline

Homeworld: Earth

Residence

• • Undertale: Ruins (Underground)
  • Deltarune: Hometown

Story Role: Supporting Protagonist, Boss

Legacy: City-wide Legacy (All of the locals of the ruins know of Toriel)

Influence: Event Influence

Language: English & Monster

Ethnicity: Goat

Religion: N/A

Classification: Ex-Queen of the Underground

Species: Monster

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Monster Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Unknown

Occupation: Teacher (At the end of the True Pacifist route)

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 (Toriel is a caretaker that wishes to help all humans, going as far as to destroy the entrance to the underground to prevent them being killed by Asgore, along with not wanting to harm The Human when she wants the human to prove to her that they can travel to the underground, to the point that she will actively have her magic sway away from the human in order to not kill them)

Protection Level: Metropolitan Protector (Toriel is the caretaker of the ruins, protecting all who live within its city)

Potential

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

Archetype: Protector/Guardian

Codex Statistics

Grade: A

Tier: Likely 9-B, Higher with Magic

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Power Source: Magic

Attack Potency: Likely Wall level (Potency) (Pushed back Asgore while he was off-guard. Was going to destroy the door to the ruins), Higher with Magic (Monsters enact in SOUL battles against humans due to humans in their physical forms being far stronger than monsters). Can ignore conventional durability with attacks to the SOUL (As they are attacking the SOUL; which is the very culmination of one's being)

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

Striking Strength: Likely Wall Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength: Unknown: True Class

Travel Speed: Average Human Speed

Attack Speed: Transonic (Can tag The Human, who can maneuver and dodge around the Greater Dog's barks, a sound based attack)

Reaction Speed: Transonic

Stamina: Very High

Range: Standard Melee, Tens of Meters with magic attacks

Intelligence: Unknown Intelligence

Knowledge: At least Master level (Shown at the end of the True Pacifist route to become a professional teacher, has lived for thousands of years and pre-dates written history)

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Powers and Techniques

General Monster AbilitiesUnique Abilities

• Irregular Physiology (Monsters physiologies show they are mostly made of magic, noting that humans have a "physical form", along with having their SOUL directly attuned to their body)
• Magic (All monsters are made of magic and can use and express themselves through magic)
  • Curtain Fire (Monsters can use their magic to make bullet-pattern cards. Monsters are able to develop a large sum of magical attacks to overwhelm the opponent)
  • Creation (Monsters can make weapons, clothes and even food from magic)
  • Personal Domain & Battlefield Removal (When one encounters a monster they get into a fight, 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)
• Limited Spatial Manipulation
  • 3-D: Monsters can at times influence the battle box)
  • Transmutation & Healing (Monsters can turn their attacks into healing projectiles)
• Absorption (Monsters and humans can absorb the SOUL as long as the person isn’t the same species as them)
• Non-Standard Interaction
  • Metaphysical Interaction: All monster attacks in Undertale are to the SOUL.

• Resistance to
  • Soul Manipulation (All monsters bodies are attuned to their SOUL thus they are effectively taking hits to their SOUL whenever attacked)

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics
  • Superhuman Strength
  • Superhuman Durability
  • Superhuman Speed
  • Superhuman Reaction
  • Superhuman Lifting
  • Superhuman Energy Efficiency
• Intimidation (Toriel has the locals in the ruins too intimidated to talk to her. Can intimidate an enemy into leaving the battlefield)
• Immortality
  • Biological Immortality: Toriel will stay the same age forever as her child Asriel is dead thus she has no one for her SOUL power to flow into)
• Nullification
  • Power Nullification: Nullified Flowey's magic attack.
• Healing (Healed the human's wounds. Healed the human's wounds when Flowey had them at near-death)
• Telekinesis (Moves her magic attack away from the human)
• Fire Manipulation (Toriel utilizes fire magic in battle)

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Notable Techniques

• Fire Magic: Toriel's primary means of attack. She will either make a sweeping motion with her hands and cause a large trail of fireballs to appear and chase her opponent, or cause a volley of fireballs to rain from the sky and burn up the ground around her foe.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Toriel will attack with fire magic against her opponent.

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.
• Unique Weaknesses: Will naturally hold back against children, and even purposely miss attacks at times when she notices they're about to die.

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 yet The Human at level 13 can still only chip damage Asgore.

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

Magic vs. Physicality

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

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

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

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.

Songs:

III Fallen Down Heartache

Battle Records

1 - 2 - 0

VictoriesLossesInconclusive

• The Human - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: The Ruins
  • Note: Toriel has a special animation if she kills the Human.

• Pacifist/Neutral Route Human - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: The Ruins

• Genocide Route Human - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: The Ruins

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Versus Threads

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