My headcanon is that Toriel’s a partnering aromantic demisexual. She finds dates and acting all sappy to be really fun, even when she doesn’t feel any romantic attraction. (Dates mean spending time with someone she cares for and doing an activity they mutually enjoy! Cuddling and nuzzling and hugs feel good! And with her love of puns, she’s also probably got an equally deep love of cheesy pick-up lines.) But as much as she enjoys those things, sometimes she also gets tired or needs her own space, and has to take a break from playing like that for a while. Hence why in both Home and New Home, she and Asgore had separate rooms.
Since Frisk broke the Barrier, however, she’s been forced to realize that she maybe needs to work on herself and relearn how to be a friend and person, rather than a mother or hermit, before entering another relationship. She hasn’t been in the mood for flirting or sappiness in a long, long while. She’s been bottling up her emotions behind grudges, isolation, and caretaking for a while, and has some stuff to address and unpack at last.
i lowkey forget that percy's full name is perseus. and like. that name goes so hard. because it just sounds like this mf could kick your ass. like imagine you're a junior in high school and your teacher introduces a new student by the name of 'perseus jackson'. and before you even raise your head to look at the guy. you just know this mf could clock you.
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So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this
Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.
So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"
It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead
Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.