Blumenasyl - Deltarune Chapter 5 UST

The flowers are dying.

Asgore Dreemurr is a character in the 2015 video game Undertale developed by Toby Fox, and its 2018 spiritual sequel Deltarune. The king of the Underground, he is a special type of creature known as a Boss Monster and serves as the penultimate boss of the neutral route. Having previously killed six other humans as part of a plan to break an ancient Barrier created to entrap the Underground's denizens, he intends to take the protagonist's soul as the final one, freeing the monsters and getting revenge on the humans for killing his son, Asriel. He was created by Toby Fox, with support from artist Temmie Chang. Asgore has been generally well received, praised for the execution of the battle between him and the human, particularly him preventing the human from sparing him by destroying that part of the menu user interface. The moral dilemma of killing humans to help the monsters, as well as the similarities between the musical themes of Asgore and his wife Toriel, have made him the subject of commentary. Asgore first appears in the game Undertale, serving as one of the game's antagonists. He and the monsters he ruled had been driven into the Underground, a cave beneath the fictional Mt. Ebott, millennia ago by hostile humans, and trapped there by a magical Barrier. Before the events of the game, he and his wife Toriel had two children: Asriel and an adopted human. The human, who had fallen into the Underground, has the default name Chara, but can be named by the player. Both were ultimately killed by humans following an ill-fated plan to cross the Barrier. Asgore, seeking revenge on humanity, began to reap the souls of humans who had fallen into the Underground, with the intention of using their power to destroy the Barrier. Unwilling to fully enact his plan, Asgore chose to wait and ambush them one by one rather than exit the Barrier with a single human soul and immediately claim six more. Toriel, angered by his hypocrisy, decided to live alone in the Ruins.
Asgore is unseen for most of the game, though other characters, such as Toriel, warn the protagonist about him. Other monsters are more positive about him, including Undyne, who he helped on her path to becoming the captain of the Royal Guard. Asgore also works with other characters, like Alphys, the Royal Scientist, who helps the human get to Asgore's throne room, though warning that Asgore and the human will inevitably have to fight one another. When the human eventually meets Asgore, he is anxious to fight, doing so out of duty to the monsters rather than any personal desire to kill. During battle, he destroys the Mercy menu option on the user interface, preventing the human from sparing him and forcing them to fight to the death. Unlike other monster encounters, the player must fight him, though his health will not lower to zero upon defeat. At this point, Asgore accepts defeat, and the human can choose to either kill or spare him, having rebuilt the Mercy menu option. If spared, he will be moved, and decide to not break the Barrier, and instead become part of a family with the human, though he will accept death if killed. In the former option, the character Flowey, who had served as an antagonist in the beginning of the game, returns and kills Asgore instead before turning to fight the human.
After fighting Flowey, the player can either kill or spare Flowey as well. After the credits, Flowey instructs the player how to get the best ending. Once these conditions are fulfilled, either from reloading an earlier save or starting a new run, the human's encounter with Asgore will be interrupted by Toriel and other characters. Eventually, it is revealed that Flowey got these characters together, using their combined souls to reveal his true form, Asriel, who was resurrected as Flowey, lacking a soul, and becoming unable to feel empathy. During the fight, the human is able to rescue the souls of monsters Asriel took, including Asgore. After making Asriel stop fighting, he breaks the Barrier, allowing Asgore and the others to go outside of the Underground. In the Genocide route, a separate story path in which the protagonist sets out to kill all monsters in the Underground, the player is strong enough to immediately kill Asgore in one hit.
Asgore also appears as an NPC in Deltarune. In this parallel universe, taking place in a more standard town environment, Asgore has gotten a divorce from Toriel, while Asriel is still alive. He was formerly the town's chief of police, but had been fired for unknown reasons. He owns a flower shop named "Flower King", a reference to his role in Undertale. He is depicted as a loving and somewhat goofy father figure of Kris, the game's main character.

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