creepyknees:

tiny-smallest:

babycharmander:

creepyknees:

babysitting with asgore

(flowey originally got his name from asgore during a past run, and kept it out of remembrance for who is father used to be)

Yes mister I-killed-literally-everyone-multiple-times-because-I-was-bored, you sure have a right to judge someone for something like that.

I don’t think the comic was setting Flowey up as someone with the moral high ground; I think Frisk was just saying that it was okay for Flowey to be severely pained and upset over the man his father turned out to be, hence “my feelings about him are mixed, too.”  Frisk is acknowledging the goodness of Asgore with that sentence while also acknowledging the pretty horrifying at the same time.

Children look up to their parents more than anyone.  If this comic series is about Flowey gaining his (for lack of a better phrase) humanity back, then it stands to reason that he now suddenly has to deal with the fact that his father murdered six children, at least one of whom was murdered in retaliation for Asriel’s death, and if circumstances were different, may have even murdered his own sibling, the one who Flowey was closer to than anyone else until Frisk came along. That’s an agonizing realization.  And he’s definitely looking at this from that point of view; “Good dads aren’t supposed to hurt kids.”  Not good people.  Good dads.

I don’t think Asgore is morally bankrupt (that would, in fact, be Flowey for 98% of the game) but he also has some very heavy things to answer to, more than just about anyone else. and both the in-game characters and the players are allowed to decide how far their forgiveness of him goes.  This comic is exploring how far Flowey is currently willing to extend forgiveness and is more of a character study than a callout comic for Asgore’s sins.

i love this commentary! this comic received mixed responses (as i’d expected) but i think this explains my thought process behind it well