Flowey

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Flowey
Character Information
Also known as	Asriel Dreemurr (Real Name)
Age	13 upon death 16-18, including time resetting as Flowey
First Appearance	Prologue
Relationships	PAPYRUS (Creator) Frisk (Unwitting accomplice) Chara (Former best friend) Toriel (Former mother) Asgore (Former father) sans (Mortal enemy and annoyance)
Themes	Here we go again. According to Plan The Seeds Of Friendship The Secret's Out Victory Lap Season Finale You're GARBAGE! Checkmate mus_victory mus_reboot mus_edge mus_persist mus_ascend mus_monster
Gender	Male
Voice Actor	EmmyKat (Flowey) SlickSlack (Asriel)

“	Aw, don't look so glum, buddy! You should be smiling, too. Aren't you excited? Aren't you happy? YOU'RE going to be free...	”
	— Flowey, Part 50

Flowey the Flower is the main antagonist of Inverted Fate. In his capacity as Asriel, God of Hyperdeath, he was responsible for accidentally creating the alternate timeline in which the story takes place. Nonetheless, the fact that he was able to do this intrigues him; it leads him to try a vastly different strategy, introducing himself to Frisk as a friend, and roping PAPYRUS into his plans as well.

Profile

Appearance

Flowey (Classic)

Flowey looks identical to his canon self; that is, a sentient golden flower with six bright yellow petals, a light-green stem, and the ability to contort his face into various grotesque expressions.

"Redesigned" Flowey

After absorbing the six human SOULs, his appearance is permanently altered to "conform to the new timeline", having more detailed stem and petals, and an wider grin that shows off both rows of teeth. Additionally, his eyes are now further apart and vertically wider, and the tips of two vines/roots are seen near his main body. He retains his previous overall color scheme and ability to contort his face. This is also the form he would revert to, had he given up the SOULs he has.

"God of Hyperdeath" form

Upon absorbing the monster SOULs as well, Asriel chooses to use take on this new appearance. While retaining the black sclerae, longer fangs, robe and Heart Locket from the previous timeline's Hyperdeath form, much of it is now altered to his own liking. He now has black hair, with jagged bangs (known as the "emo hairstyle) covering part of his face, black gauntlets on both of his hands and a purple cape.

Personality

Flowey is a highly intelligent and manipulative individual, whose scheming holds no regard for the safety and well-being of anyone besides himself. He displays a lust for power, and a willingness to go to great lengths in order to achieve his goals. Flowey can display hypocrisy at times. Most notably when he describes Sans as "shady and untrustworthy" to Frisk and even Papyrus, even though he himself acts as such. He is not that good of a friend or ally, as he exploits off of Frisk's dire state after unintentionally resulting in the amalgamation of Undyne and Mettaton in order to get the human SOULs for himself.

History

In canon Undertale, Flowey was the result of Asriel Dreemurr's dust being scattered over a bed of golden flowers, one of which was subsequently injected with determination by Alphys. In the history of the rearranged timeline of Inverted Fate, however, the flower vessel was a creation of Papyrus, during his and Undyne's determination experiments. This led Papyrus to trust Flowey fairly quickly once he revealed himself to him, much to Flowey's amusement (and confusion).

Main Story

Flowey is first seen at the beginning of the Ruins, where he mocks an unknowing Frisk not remembering the previous timeline. Once he realizes this, he quickly uses it to his advantage, telling them that they're a new friend. He tells Frisk in later that he knows a way to break the barrier without anyone getting hurt, and persuades them to exit the Ruins. Flowey also tells them of their power to SAVE and LOAD, telling them it's like a game.

Flowey appears again in Snowdin Forest, helping out Frisk and unknowingly Papyrus deal with some troublesome teens bothering a snowman. Once Flowey tells Papyrus of his plan to break the barrier peacefully, Papyrus joins in. Flowey also meets Sans here, remembering the countless battles between them in the previous timeline. Sans tries to crack a joke at Flowey, but he runs away, making Sans skeptical.

The flower makes sporadic appearances afterwards trying to hide from Sans. Flowey helps out Frisk in Fort Aquarius. But once Frisk reveals their name, he gets furious at them because they thought they were Chara this whole time. Nonetheless, he continues to help Frisk and Papyrus out, as they are a vital part to the plan.

He continues to try to keep a low profile through Hotland, but that is quickly impossible to do because of the trial, where Sans and the snowman share the reveal of Flowey's existence. Flowey wrecks one of Undyne's robots in anger, and tails behind Frisk as they go throughout the Core. As he watches Frisk fight Mad Mew Mew, he finds out that his assumption of Frisk being with Chara to be true.

In New Home, Flowey becomes furious at the fact that Toriel adopted a new human child, and never bothered to clean up his former room. This backfires however, because of this Papyrus puts the pieces together and finds out that Flowey is Asriel. During the Toriel fight, Flowey snatches the container holding the Mage's SOUL when it falls off to "protect it from the fire", leading to Toriel trusting him and heading off with Sans. In the end, Flowey proceeds to absorb the Mage's SOUL along with the other human SOULs, and begins to set his plan into motion. He only needs the beliefs and presence of every monster in the Underground before him to achieve his ultimate ambition... Aswell as having Frisk finishing their victory lap.

True Lab Arc

Flowey does not make a physical appearance until the very end of the True Lab Arc where he is seen in A Very Special Message, having what he considers a friendly chat with the human SOULs, gaslighting them into submission by stating because of him... their deaths will finally have purpose. He proceeds to exploit each SOULs weaknesses, such Patience dying before seeing what the world had to offer and Kindness wishing for their "mom's" happiness in their final moments. He then addresses Chara, claiming he was truthful in that things would be different this time around and once Frisk and Papyrus reached the end of their victory lap, his best friend would finally see the truth.

Victory Arc

During Frisk and Papyrus' Victory Lap, several monsters express excitement and gratitude for their upcoming freedom, some of which state to have spoken with Flowey prior to the former and latter's return to New Home. Flowey has offered ominous-sounding promises of never forcing smiles again and endured a vendor's odd desire to profit off his likeness, even going so far as to Sans and keep up appearances. Though at the end of Chapter 60, he gives the skeleton a small spook by glitching the area around him, much to Sans' shock and confusion.

Once Frisk and Papyrus reach the barrier with Mettaton and Toriel already there, Flowey makes his first real physical appearance after absorbing the human SOULs in Chapter 61, where he is sporting a new sprite design, (or as he calls it... a new look for a new beginning) Still playing the nice guy, Flowey conveys in no longer having to hide and mingling with the monsters waiting around New Home, even claiming to have made a few friends along the way. However, as happy as he is to see everyone, he believes there still someone missing amongst the crowds. At that moment, Asgore arrives and later, all the other main monsters do as well in which a heartfelt reunion scene plays out.

Flowey is silent during the reunion for the most part, occasionally speaking to stop Toriel from tearing Asgore a new one and to tease Frisk for their lack of political knowledge. However, his mask begins to crack when the human reveals to the Dreemurr's their SOUL fusion with Chara and has Mad Mew Mew split their SOUL to seal the deal. In that moment, Flowey finally has all he needs and after some poor wording choices from Chara, he finally reveals his true colors.

Flowey ensnares every monster in New Home with his vines, absorbing all but the ones present in the barrier while leaving Papyrus untouched for the time being. His mask dropped, Flowey basks in the afterglow of his victory, speaking out against Frisk, Papyrus, and even Chara. He admits to have fooled himself into thinking the former was his former best friend but soon realized how wrong he was as 'Chara was never one for sentiment' before turning to the human in question, expressing bitterness for never talking to him or revealing they were alive. He claims to misunderstand Chara's distrust as fear that he might destory this world as he did the last. However, he assures them that's not the case and attacks Asgore and Toriel with pellets to show he won't kill them even if he could. He later does the same to Sans when Papyrus tries to plead for his creation to stop. Flowey then unleashes the full force of his twistedness toward Frisk, stating all of this was their fault and despite everything they went through together... he NEVER cared about them.

He laughs at Frisk, calls them garbage and shoots pellets at them, beating them down to one HP before using his powers to permanently split their and Chara's SOUL, leaving both SOULs smaller and with ten HP each. Flowey confines Chara's SOUL while getting ready to attack Frisk again, but is thwarted by Papyrus with a blaster attack which Flowey stops from happening again by threatning to kill the ensnared monsters. Papyrus backs down but encourges Frisk to ignore his creation's words and that together... they can still fix this before it goes too far.

Frisk, Papyrus, and a now-separated Chara engage in a one-sided battle against Flowey with the former group trying in futility to free their friends from his grasp and the latter taking delight in the situation through any and all means such as launching more pellets at the captured momnsters and taunting his unwitting accomplices as the "battle" progresses. He keeps most of his focus on Chara, expressing resentment in how they've grown so fond of another human despite hating the species entirely and beliving Frisk turned them against him. As this goes on, Flowey reveals some harsh truths toward Papyrus, blaming the skeleton for his lack of love and telling him that all this happened before, much to Mettaton, Alphys, and Undyne's disturbance. He further twists the knife in with Frisk, keeping them at one HP while fake attacking them every time. He proudly thanks them for helping him get here so easily and mocks them with past issues with Lilac, causing them to FIGHT him for the first time to which he laughs when the hit deals no damage.

At the end, Flowey reaches his limit after Chara rips him a new one and ensnares his best friend with vines next to the other monsters. Realizing all hope is lost, Papyrus surrenders to Flowey's wrath and gives up his SOUL with a slight glimmer of hope that his creation will break the barrier and that Frisk can escape this danger. When Chara also pleas for Frisk's safety, Flowey is shaken up but laughs it off in the end. Once Papyrus is captured and Frisk flees the battle, Flowey snatches away any hope of escape, absorbing the monsters in the main cast and ascending to his true form once again.

Flowey, now the newly ascended Asriel Dreemurr, keeps his promise and so much more in the end, breaking the Barrier and leaving the Underground a distorted greyscale mess, sparing Frisk's life and sending them back to the start of the Ruins, and bringing his best friend back to life, keeping them next to their "FAVORITE TOY." As the God of Hyperdeath takes his first steps on the surface after a hundred years, he begins to set his plans into motion, changing the environment around him to a similar grey as the Underground, influenced by the idea that when he's done... he and Chara will be friends again.

Null Arc

(TBA)

Rift Arc

(TBA)

Gallery

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Trivia

• Flowey is one of the only 4 characters who remember the last timeline- the other 3 being Chara, while Frisk and Mettaton have hazy deja vu of the past timeline.
• Asriel is aromantic and asexual.