Underground

Background

The setting of the vast majority of Undertale, the Underground is a large region underneath the Surface of the Earth, which houses the kingdom of Monsters. The exit from the Underground is blocked by the Barrier, which was placed by the Humans ages ago. Humans access it, the protagonist included, by way of a hole in Mount Ebott. It is ruled by King Asgore, and formerly by his ex-wife as well, Toriel. Spanning several different climates, the Underground features the Ruins, the cold and wintery Snowdin, the wet and cavernous Waterfall, the blistery and barren Hotland, the technologically advanced CORE, and the Capital.

History

After the Humans defeated the Monsters in The War, the losing faction was banished into the Underground. A Barrier was erected to prevent the insiders from leaving, though outsiders could still freely enter. The monsters eventually accepted their loss and lived normal lives throughout the Underground.

One day, a human named Chara walked to Mt. Ebott and unfortunately tripped on a vine, causing them to fall into a pit and enter the Underground. Chara was discovered by Asriel, the son of Asgore and Toriel, and was adopted into their family. However, the human one day grew ill and eventually died from the illness, but wished to see the flowers in their home village. After Chara had died, Asriel absorbed their SOUL, becoming a powerful entity that was able to cross the Barrier, and picked up their corpse and carried it out of the Underground. However, the humans from the outside world attacked Asriel, under the assumption that he killed Chara, forcing him to return to the Underground with Chara's corpse where he succumbed to his wounds.

Since then, Asgore became vengeful for his son and plotted to escape the Underground and declare another war against humans. He declared all humans who fall into the Underground be killed and their SOULs collected; with seven human SOULs, the Barrier could be shattered. However, the brutality of this decision disgusted Toriel enough that she relinquished her position as queen as well as her marriage to Asgore.

Asgore continued to rule the land on his own while Toriel exiled herself into the Ruins. Over time, six more humans fell into the Underground, all of which Toriel tried to shelter and care for. However, they all eventually left the Ruins and were eventually killed, their SOULs collected by Asgore.

An eighth human, the protagonist, had then fallen into the Underground. Unlike the predecessors, the protagonist's Determination managed to carry them through many obstacles the Underground had presented, even managing to befriend or make an enemy out of many monsters. Eventually, the protagonist manages to reach Asgore, where he stands before the Barrier. One of few events occur depending on the protagonist's actions:

• On the Neutral Route, the protagonist and Asgore battle. The latter is defeated, after which Flowey intervenes and absorbs the six human SOULs. The protagonist defeats Flowey and is somehow transported outside the Barrier after the event, where they leave the Underground. Sans then calls the protagonist and tells them the fate of the Underground, which is either peaceful or grim depending on who was killed.

• On the True Pacifist Route, Asgore is stopped by Toriel and all of the protagonist's friends but are then ambushed by Flowey, who proceeds to absorb the six human SOULs as well as the SOULs of all the monsters in the Underground, reverting to his true form, Asriel. However, with all the SOULs Asriel gains compassion and ultimately loses the will to fight, instead of using their power to shatter the Barrier. Having returned the SOULs, Asriel leaves knowing that he will revert to Flowey and begs the protagonist to forget him, while the monsters are free to leave the Underground and live peaceful lives on the surface.

• In the Genocide Route, certain monsters try to stop the protagonist's murderous rampage while Alphys leads the evacuation. Upon reaching Asgore, the protagonist instantly defeats him with one blow and proceeds to destroy Flowey mercilessly. It is then revealed that the protagonist is under the complete control of Chara, revealing their true sinister nature, and proceeds to use the protagonist to leave the Underground and destroy the world.

General Information

Civilization Type: Post-Industrial Civilization

Name: Underground, Monsterkind

Origin: Undertale

Time Period: 201X

Timeline: Undertale & Deltarune Timeline

Language: English & Monster

Classification: Monster Civilization

Kardashev Level: Type 0

Age: Unknown (The civilization was first sent underground back in medieval time, although it the civilization's people predate written history)

Population: Unknown, likely 323 (The amount of monster SOULs seen in the ending plus Napstablook)

Territory: The Underground, at least 32,977 sq m (As calculated here)

Power Source: Geothermal Energy and Magic

Industrial Capacity: Unknown (They are able to keep up with the needs of its population both in term of food and technology, seemingly all from the lab in hotland)

Military Prowess: The Underground has several hundred combat-ready monsters and an unknown number of Royal Guards.

Notable Individuals: Asgore Dreemurr, Toriel, The Human, Undyne, Sans, Papyrus, Muffet, Alphys, Mettaton, Napstablook, W. D. Gaster

Codex Statistics

Grade: S

Dimensionality: 3-D

Dimensional Energy: 3-D

Tier: 10-B for most monsters. 9-C to 9-B with Boss Monsters. Unknown-A with every monsters SOUL absorbed along with the human SOULs, Higher with Magic

Attack Potency: Average Human level for most monsters. Bone level to Wall level with Boss Monsters (Asgore Dreemurr is stated to be the strongest type of monster. He easily defeated Undyne while holding back, where Undyne can suplex a huge boulder just because she can). Unknown-A with every monsters SOUL absorbed along with the human SOULs (Asriel Dreemurr with these powers had his check stats listed as infinite. Stated that the "world was ending" during his fight), 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)

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Technology/Abilities

Monsters AbilitiesWith All the Monster SOULS and 6 Human SOULSWith Determination

General Monster AbilitiesSans Unique AbilitiesToriel Unique AbilitiesAsgore Unique AbilitiesUndyne's Unique AbilitiesMettaton's Unique AbilitiesPapyrus' Unique AbilitiesMuffet's Unique AbilitiesNapstablook's Unique AbilitiesW.D. Gaster's Unique AbilitiesAsriel's Unique 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)

• Genius Intelligence
• Breaking the Fourth Wall (Aware of when Anomaly attempts to hack, directly winks towards the audience)
• Instinctive Reaction (In the form of personal domain Sans can dodge any attack under the fight system, even if he's asleep while one is actively breaking the rules of the personal domain requiring one to completely go agains the rules of the game to even hit him)
• Conditional Attacks (Sans can send out blue attacks, where blue attacks only inflict harm if one moves)
• Battlefield Removal (In the Dirty Hacker ending Sans removes you from the Undertale game making you unable to re-enter it)
• Clairvoyance & Information Analysis (Able to tell what the human's LOVE & EXP is at)
• Cosmic Awareness (Was aware of an anomaly messing with the time-space continuum, could tell how many times The Human died, and if the human has spared him before by the expression on their face, could tell from the look on the human' face that he already heard his speech beforehand)
• Telekinesis (Can throw the human's SOUL around)
• Teleportation (Teleported away after warning the Human of going any further with their genocide. Teleported and instantly destroyed a branch while the Human kept walking. Teleported in between the trees. Walked the opposite direction and ended up in a room ahead before the Human. Talk to the human while teleporting between two places. Teleported over to Grillby's with the human. Teleported into MTT Resort with the human. In his boss fight, teleports the human across different battle boxes)
• Status Effect Inducement (Creates a status effect known as Karma that negates invincibility frames, and adds extra damage, based on one's sins)
• Nullification
  • Meta Nullification: Able to lock his opponent in place so neither of them will be able to do anything.
• Spatial Manipulation (Can completely control the battle box, to the point where he can change it's size, move the player around in a falling action, and teleport around the areas and the type of battle box)
• Cartoon Physics & Air Manipulation
  • Low Potency: Could make a self-sustaining tornado out of trash.
• Gravity Manipulation (Makes the SOUL unable to float and can only jump around)
• Glyph Manipulation (Can create minature platforms)
• Energy Manipulation
  • Energy Projection (With gaster blasters)
• Bone Manipulation (Has an assortment of bones in his attack).

• Resistance to
  • Extreme Colds (As skeletons have no skin they are unaffected by the cold weather of Snowdin)
  • Extreme Heats (As skeletons they can casually sleep while in Hotland)

• Intimidation (Toriel has the locals in the ruins too intimiated 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)

• Weapon Mastery
  • Trident Mastery: Utilizes a trident in combat. Can quickly swap them between orange and blue attacks.
• Skilled in Hand to Hand Combat (Undyne initially fought Asgore as a kid and could not land a single blow on him. With Asgore training her on how to beat him)
• Immortality
  • Biological Immortality: Asgore will stay the same age forever as his child Asriel is dead and thus he has no one to transfer his SOUL power too.
• Existence Continuity
  • Limited
    • Reset Awareness: Asgore remembers killing The Human after their resets.
• Conditional Attacks (Asgore can swap between orange and blue attacks, where blue attacks only inflict harm if one moves and orange attacks only inflict harm if one is standing still)
• Fire Manipulation (Uses fire as a basis for many of his magic attacks)

• Skilled in Hand to Hand Combat (Trained by Asgore in hand to hand and weapons)
• Weapon Mastery
  • Spear Mastery: Undyne is a skilled user of a spear, being able to throw it with accuracy.
  • Sword Mastery: Shown to wield swords in combat.
• Weapon Creation (Undyne can create spears to throw at opponents or spawn underneath opponents)
• Enhanced Senses (Despite the human navigating in total darkness in waterfall, Undyne can navigate them perfectly fine)
• Sheer Will & Limited Standard Determination (Undyne can utilize determination to a limited extent, such as turning her body into Undyne the Undying, and refusing death for a bit in a neutral fight)
  • Regeneration
  • Type: Willpower Based Regeneration
  • Source: Biological Regeneration
  • Capabilities: Undyne through sheer willpower can regenerate her body while it's melting apart.
• Energy Manipulation & Velocity Manipulation (Can turn the SOUL green making the opponent unable to move, this extends to their physical body as they can not flee from fights).

• Resistance to
  • Extreme Heats (Resisted the temperatures of the MTT Oven which is stated to heat over 9000 degrees Fahrenheit)

• Body Control (Has extendable arms)
• Hacking (Could out-hack even Alphys)
• Flight (Mettaton is able to fly with their jet)
• Inorganic Physiology & Cyborgization
• Creation & Explosion Manipulation (Creates a large number of bombs, and mini versions of himself)
• Text Manipulation (Can turn his words into bombs)
• Energy Manipulation
  • Energy Projection (Can produce disco balls which fire lasers)
    • Conditional Attacks (The lasers from the disco ball can be made blue, where blue attacks only inflict harm if one moves)
• Technology Manipulation
• Time Manipulation (Can rewind time with attacks)
• Electricity Manipulation (Can shoot electricity out of their fingers. Can shoot electrical attcaks out of their SOUL)

• Enhanced Senses (Notices what The Annoying Dog does over the phone)
• Conditional Attacks (Papyrus can send out blue attacks, where blue attacks only inflict harm if one moves)
• Bone Manipulation (Uses bones for various attacks)
• Soul Manipulation (Thorugh turning one's SOUL blue, it is no longer able to float around and is restricted by gravity)
  • Gravity Manipulation.

• Resistance to
  • Extreme Colds (As skeletons have no skin they are unaffected by the cold weather of Snowdin)
  • Extreme Heats (As skeletons they can casually sleep while in Hotland)

• Helper Call (Calls her pet in to attack one)
• Animal Taming (Muffet uses her spiders apart of her attacks)
• Soul Manipulation (Can turn one's SOUL purple to entangle them in a strand of webs)
  • Thread Manipulation (While in purple SOUL mode, the SOUL is forced to move across a strand of webs)

• Undead Physiology (Noted themself to be a ghost)
  • Incorporeal (As a ghost they are incorporeal)
  • Invisibility (Can fade out and disappear completely)
• Water Manipulation & Acid Manipulation (Napstablook's tears are made of acid capable of damaging ghost)
  • Non-Standard Interaction
    • Metaphysical Interaction
  • Telekinesis (Can control the direction of their tears)
• Text Manipulation (Creates text as one of their attacks basically stating they do not want to continue the fight)
• Limited Empathic Manipulation (Those who lie down with them feel like garbage and can feel the entire universe)

• Genius Intelligence
• Cosmic Awareness (Shattered across all of space-time, can listen in on conversations while being outside of reality)
• Reality Separation & Omnipresence
  • Spatio-Temporal Lock & Aspatiotemporal Omnipresence: Gaster is shattered across space-time being everywhere and nowhere. The mere act of acknowledging his existence or saying his name causes one to be erased or all of reality to reset. Even for the brief moments he can enter reality merely acknowledging him causes him to be completely erased.
• Spatial Manipulation (Created a new room between two points that were previously right next to each other, and erased it afterward)
• Technology Manipulation (The Human's phone shuts down upon running into a follower)

Fused with Chara

Fused with the human Chara which should give him:

• Weapon Usage (Can use a huge assortment of weapons)
  • Knife Usage: Can wield and slash a knife in combat.
  • Firearm Usage: Can use the empty gun for combat.
  • Unique Weaponry: Can utilize ballet shoes in combat. Can use a torn notebook for combat. Can use a burnt pan for combat.
• Fighter's Intuition (Can use a glove to punch the enemy with)
• Immortality
  • Immortal Metaphysical Aspect: When a human dies, its soul remains stable outside the body.
• Absorption (Monsters and humans can absorb the SOUL as long as the person isn’t the same species as them)
• Invincibility Frames (It is stated that taking damage to one's SOUL causes the human to become invulnerable where attacks pass through them)
• Limited Dimensional Travel (Can forcibly enter into a FIGHT and can simply walk out of FIGHTs)
• Limited Spatial Manipulation (Huamns in their SOUL forms areable to visibly interact with the fight box. Such as moving it upwards and moving it over to the FIGHT comamnd).

• Resistance to
  • Soul Manipulation (Can survive attacks to their SOUL)

Six Human SOULS AbsorbedGod of Hyperdeath

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent.

• Additional Limbs & Body Control (Flowey shoots out parts of his body repeatedly as attacks)
• Battlefield Removal
  • Forced Teleportation & Application Based: Could send the human into areas where he needed to call for help from the human SOULs to get out of.
• Save and Load (Able to save and load at any period of time he wants)
• Plant Manipulation (Shoots out multiple large vines for attacks)
• Energy Manipulation
  • Energy Projection (Flowey shoots out a energy blast that instantly drops the Human's health to 0)
• Explosion Manipulation (Can drop bombs that cause explosions in a short radius)
• Fire Manipulation (Shoots out flamethrowers from his vine)
• Insect Manipulation (Could cause insects to come and attack).

• Resistance to
  • Soul Manipulation (Can take attacks to the SOUL, he's made up of the 6 human SOULs)

All previous powers and abilities to a greater extent.

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics
  • Superhuman Strength
  • Superhuman Durability
  • Superhuman Speed
  • Superhuman Reaction
  • Superhuman Lifting
  • Superhuman Energy Efficiency
• Flight (Flying during the fight)
• Weapon Creation (Can create swords for attacks)
• Transformation
  • Transformative Arsenal: Can transform into God of Hyperdeath.
• Timeline Creation & Destruction (Stated once he removed the human, he'd have the power to manipulate the timeline)
• Magic (Embodies all of the monsters, who are stated to be made of magic)
  • Curtain Fire
  • Mutli-Directional: Shoots out multiple fireballs that all wave around the screen. Shoots down multiple stars that each shoot out six smaller stars that travel across the screen. Then shoots a final gigantic star that shoots out dozens stars in all directions. Shoots down seven lightning bolts repeatedly on dual sides at fast speeds. Slashes with both of his chaos sabers to make eight different projectiles appear.
  • Rapid Fire: His upgraded shock breaker shotos out a multitude of lightning bolts following the opponent.
  • Multi-Directional & Rapid Fire: Uses a weapon that shoots out a rapid-fire of energy bullets before charging into a gigantic rainbow-laser.
  • Omnidirectional: The hyper-goner causes a massive vacuum that pulls in all projectile sand energy attacks into emerging into a massive white light.
• Immortality
  • Biological Immortality: Has Asgore Dreemurr's and Toriel's SOULs.
• Absorption (Absorbs the entire underground, the hyper goner attack causes a massive absorption)
• Lightning Manipulation (Asriel can shoot down lightning bolts from the sky)
• Energy Manipulation
  • Energy Projection (Shoots out multiple energy projectiles)
• Fire Manipulation (Asriel can shoot down fire similar to Toriel and Asgore's kind)
• Nullification
  • Meta Nullification: Destroyed all of the human's options.
• Destruction
  • Irreversible Damage: (Even after the human SOUL regenerates, they still struggles to even move.

• Resistance to
  • Soul Manipulation (Can take attacks to the SOUL, he's made up of every SOUL in the underground & the 6 human SOULs)

Flowey was injected with determination by Alphys, Flowey X's determination overrides even the human's, and Asriel Dreemurr is fighting for control of the timeline against a human at peak determination. Giving him, Standard Determination, Filled With Determination, Injected Determination, & Unnatural Determination:

Standard DeterminationFilled With DeterminationInjected DeterminationUnnatural Determination

These are the natural applications of determination users that they pertain even when one with greater determination exists.

• Sheer Will (Determination is the extraction from the human SOULs that give them the strength to persist after death, the will to keep living, the resolve to change fate The act of sparing in Undertale is defined as an aura of peaceful determination exuding from one's body and causing any enemy questioning the desire to fight to give up though this can only be done after an enemy is fully convinced)
• Existence Continuity
  • Reset Awareness: Determination users can remember resets.
• Limited Nullification
  • Power Nullification: A determination user can have their desires override other determination users desires for the world making them unable to do things like SAVE. However, this is only in reference to abilities that require a strong desire over the world to work.

These are determination users filled with determination, having the greatest amount compared to anyone else being at their strongest mentally and physically during this, where their desires for the world override other determination users.

• Sheer Will
• Reality Warping (Determination is described as the power to re-shape the world purely by their own determination and the ability to play God. Flowey attempting to take his own life instead wanted to live and due to this he kept reviving back to his previous "save point")
  • Time Travel & Timeline Hopping (Travels back to a specific point in time while hopping through timelines)
  • Save and Load
    • Memory Retention & Checkpoint-Based: Determination users have the ability to "SAVE", where they keep full memories of the previous encounters they've had.
  • Resurrection
    • Self-Resurrection
      • Resurrection of the Deceased: Determination users of this scale have it where even if they meet someone that makes them unable to use their SAVE File they will still refuse death itself getting all of their health back.
  • Subjective Reality & Creation (SAVE points are the manifestation of one's own determination. The Human can create “last dream” to heal themself)
  • Possible Fate Manipulation (Determination gives the user the ability to change fate itself, and events to allow them to live even outside of merely time traveling. Examples include Papyrus' special attack suddenly taken over by the dog, and Papyrus states that if special attack was used the human would've of died, Undyne's failure to capture The Human on multiple occasions due to Monster Kid bothering her or she uses random tactics such as letting a bridge's fall kill the human and not check to see if they died herself, and Napstablook showing up out of nowhere to save The Human during Mad Dummy)
  • Statistics Amplification (The Human used determination to continuously amplify themselves to have damage reduced from attacks)
• Users of this level of Determination can perform a True Reset which can do the following:
  • Reality Warping (The True Reset is a power allowing one to set everything back to a blank and neutral state where no one remembers anything even characters that can remember regular resets)
    • Erasure
      • Existence Erasure: Flowey notes that the True Reset has the power to erase EVERYTHING, to the point that it even erases the memories of those that could remember standard resets like Flowey.
    • Time Manipulation (The true reset rips everyone from the timeline and sends them back before any of the events of Undertale ever happened)
    • Information Manipulation & Data Manipulation (A true reset thoroughly erases all information in one’s file, resetting it back to 0. Chara with the true reset set a permanent flag that cannot be removed without non-canon hacking)

These are determination users that were injected with Determination during Alphys' true lab entries

• Sheer Will
• Breaking the Fourth Wall (Amalgamates can do things like put pieces of itself in The Human's inventory)
• Transformation
  • Shapeshifting: Amalgamates can freely change their shape and bodies even matching the color and texture of the object, and being the very battle exclamation icon.

These are determination users that have gotten their determination through unnatural means, such as Flowey absorbing the six human SOULs, or absorbing the entire Underground to regain his form as Asriel Dreemurr

• Sheer Will
• Time Travel & Timeline Hopping (Users with a greater amount of determination can use this to save and load through all existing timelines)
• Limited Reality Seperation (Reality Separation; Exist outside of reality as shown in the scene where Flowey X creates a SAVE File that the human is outside of within his SAVE File is the human’s original SAVE File which Flowey X comes out of)
• Erasure
  • Space-Time Erasure (3+1-D): Erased all inhabitants of the current timeline and a save file.
• Reality Warping (Flowey X re-shaped the world in his own image)
• Information Manipulation & Fate Manipulation (Flowey X re-wrote the history of the war between monsters and humans)

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Other

Weaknesses: The entire civilization is currently locked in the Underground by the Barrier, with only certain individuals being able to cross it by absorbing the Human SOULs though depending on the ending this weakness is removed. 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. The Human SOULs are still conscious to a degree and can break out of the control of whoever they absorbed in certain situations, however in cases like Asriel this weakness doesn't seem to apply. Their King, Asgore, is naturally depressed and will hold back against an opponent if he feels he's wronged them (this usually refers to human children). This overall harpens the morale of the Underground. If many of the underground members are killed, this will also lower their morale significantly making them naturally more pessimistic.

Civilization Members

Civilization Members

Asriel Dreemurr The Human Flowey Sans Undyne Asgore Dreemurr Toriel Mettaton Papyrus Muffet Napstablook

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.

Misconceptions

Higher LOVE = Higher Strength

This comes from the fact that one's health and stats increase when their LV goes up.

However, EXP and LV do not function how they do in a typical RPG.

EXP is an acronym for execution points which is a way of quantifying the pain one inflicts on others. When one kills someone, they gain EXP and when they gain enough EXP, their LOVE increases. With LOVE standing for "Level of Violence" which measures the capcity of someone to hurt another. The more one kills, the easier it becomes to distance themself. The more they distance themself the less they will hurt and the more easily they can bring themself to hurt others.

In essence this means that LV is not a measure of how much stronger one has grown in terms of physical stats, but how more willing one is to hurt others.

On top of this, the reason monsters become more easy to kill and hurt the higher one's LV is due to monsters weakening when they don't want to fight and one with more killing intent and crueller intentions will inflict more damage on them.

Thus higher LV does not actually increase one's strenght in the way it does in typical RPGs.

Codex Statistics Questions

• Q: Shouldn't the entirety of the world of Undertale constitute the multiverse?
• A: This looks fine on paper but has several issues, for one, the world of Undertale is actually never defined as the entirety of the multiverse at any point in the game. Asriel literally notes he doesn't care about destroying this world anymore and then proceeds to note that after he defeats Frisk and gains total control over the timeline. The statement clearly likens the world to the timeline. Sans' "you'll keep consuming timelines" statement is also referring to the fact that everytime you finish a route you restart and do another route, so technically yes you are "consuming timelines" but in the way one finishes routes in a video game, which is one by one. For the part that says "along with this, there can also be more than one file deleted after Chara destroys the world", there is no proof of being alternate game files or such, and there's no direct confirmation what they even do for the game. Initially from what Toby said, he wanted to make it where Chara would delete the game Undertale in its entirety so it is likely a leftover from that, which has nothing to do with number of timelines. There's also argument that a reset in Undertale doesn't leave a timeline behind but makes it disappear or merge with the new one too, as characters will have weird deja vus from past resets on previous scenes done.

• Q: Shouldn't Asriel be 2-C for threatening to purge the timeline?
• A: Asriel must defeat the human in order to gain control over the timeline, and only then will he reduce all of their progress to 0. Asriel does not enter his God of Hyper Death form until the point where it is stated that "The whole world is ending", which reinforces the idea that, when he used the Hyper Goner, he did not destroy the timeline. This is further supported by the fact that the Human is capable of dodging the attack, and even Napstablook was able to witness it from inside his own house. Taken together, these details suggest that the Hyper Goner, by itself, did not destroy the timeline. Rather, the actual process of ending the world and obtaining complete control over it occurs afterward, this takes into account that Asriel wanted the world and the Human's friends to forget about them so that it would lose control of the timeline. In fact, the point is for the human to help them recover their memories, since Frisk loses their ability to move their body or use their save file; that's why it's mentioned that saving the game is impossible.

Battle Records

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