Toriel

Toriel is a Boss Monster and the guardian of The Ruins, and is a major character in the story. She is a driving force behind many of the demo's events.

Appearance
Her appearance is that of an anthropomorphic goat. She wears a large, blue dress and is occasionally seen with her reading glasses. Her eyes in her big sprite have a slight red tint to them.

Personality
Toriel is a very kind, motherly monster who genuinely cares for the protagonist and their well being. Many of her recipes use snails as a primary ingredient, as her favorite food is snail pie. She is also able to bake other things quite well though, as shown when she bakes a cinnamon-butterscotch pie for her and the player.

Main story
Toriel saves the player from Flowey, healing the damage done by Flowey. After introducing herself she guides the player through the first few rooms of the ruins. She encourages the protagonist to deal with monster encounters by talking to them.

She gives the player the Cell Phone as they separate the first time in order to keep in contact with one another. Toriel goes further into the ruins, telling the protagonist to stay where they are. She calls them frequently, and is about to call again when she finds the protagonist at her home. Surprised, Toriel shows the protagonist their new room in her home and leaves to finish with the pie she made to celebrate the protagonist's arrival. She leaves a slice of the pie in the protagonist's room when they go to sleep.

Toriel is eager to care for the protagonist, but eventually they ask about leaving the ruins. She leaves for the exit, and as the protagonist follows her, she tells them that she will destroy the exit to prevent them from leaving; Toriel has cared for other humans, and when they left her home, they all died because of Asgore.

Boss battle
Toriel tells the protagonist to go upstairs, but they refuse and continue to the exit. She blocks the protagonist's way and fights them, telling them to prove they are strong enough to survive.

The player has two main choices for getting past Toriel: The player can flee from Toriel, but this will not let them leave the ruins.
 * Spare her.
 * Missing attacks has a similar result to sparing her.
 * Eventually, she will stop fighting and will only talk. Continue sparing her to win the battle.
 * Kill her.
 * On a neutral run, when Toriel is at low HP, attacking will deal significantly more damage than usual. Toriel tells the protagonist not to allow Asgore's plan (which involves taking the human's soul) to succeed.
 * If her guard is lowered from sparing her, attacking once will kill her. She tells the protagonist that they are just as cruel as the monsters outside, and dies laughing.
 * If the player killed every other monster in the Ruins, then attacking once will kill Toriel. She realizes that she was keeping the monsters outside safe by attempting to keep the protagonist trapped, and dies laughing.

If spared, Toriel will hug the protagonist and she will be near the patch of golden flowers at the beginning of the ruins. If the protagonist has befriended Sans the skeleton, he reveals that he is friends with Toriel, though they do not know each other's names nor have they seen each other in person, as they communicate with a door between them. Toriel asked Sans to protect any humans he found: Sans remarks that if he didn't make that promise to Toriel, then the protagonist would have been killed (it is not clear if Sans would have killed them himself).

Toriel is revealed to have been the Queen of the monsters, who was the mother of Asriel and the adoptive mother of the first human to fall into the Underground.

Neutral endings
If Toriel was spared, she will return to rule over the Underground after Asgore's death, bringing in a new policy to treat any humans who enter the Underground as friends: if the player killed anyone then Undyne (or the other monsters) will revolt, forcing her to return to her home in the ruins, but if the player killed nobody then the monsters will accept her policy, abandoning the plan of destroying the barrier as the six collected souls disappeared.

If the player killed nobody and befriended Undyne, then Toriel will be a teacher in addition to being the Queen. If the player also completed the date with Alphys, then Toriel will be checking on Alphys' work (something that Asgore never did), though in the neutral ending she remains unaware of her true experiments.

If the player killed Toriel, Sans may mention the recent absence of his friend in his phone call to the protagonist, suggesting that she may have fallen ill - Papyrus interrupts him at this point. If Papyrus was killed, Sans continues, revealing that he knows the protagonist killed her.

Pacifist ending
Toriel appears just as Asgore and the protagonist prepare to fight, using her fire magic to knock Asgore off his feet. She tells the protagonist that she came to stop them from killing Asgore to leave, as it would be wrong to take one someone's life to gain the freedom to leave the Underground. Toriel introduces herself to the protagonist's other friends, and she recognises Sans' voice as her friend. After she stops Undyne and Alphys from kissing, she tells the protagonist that while they may have to stay underground, they may enjoy spending time with their new friends.

Toriel, along with the protagonist's other friends, is binded by Flowey's vines. When Flowey tries to kill the protagonist, Toriel is the first monster to intervene, using her fire magic to block Flowey's bullets. Her soul - along with every other monster's - is eventually absorbed by Flowey, allowing him to become Asriel once more. During their battle with Asriel, the protagonist reaches out to save their friends' souls, Toriel being among them. Asriel uses the souls to destroy the barrier before releasing the souls, and gives Toriel (as well as the other close friends) the knowledge of the protagonist's real name: Frisk. Asriel asks Frisk to take care of Toriel and Asgore, as he does not want them to see him returning to being a soulless flower.

Toriel does not remember much about what happened with Flowey, and she remembers nothing about Asriel. She tells Frisk that they are free to go through the Underground to talk to more of their friends. Meanwhile, Alphys upgrades her cell phone, allowing her to send text messages to Frisk as well as access to the internet, and she learns about smileys, ASCII and cat videos. Alphys also tells her about her true experiments, leading to Toriel firing her from her position as Royal Scientist.

Frisk leaves the Underground with Toriel and their other friends. As the others leave Frisk to begin their lives on the surface, Toriel asks Frisk what they will do now: In the credits, Toriel is shown welcoming the Monster Kid to a school, having presumably become a teacher. Asgore is shown nearby in casual sun-wear and trimming a hedge, implying they have reconciled to at least some degree.
 * If Frisk decides to stay with Toriel, she remarks that they would have never left the Underground if they made that choice earlier in the ruins. She takes their hand as they walk away together.
 * Frisk may tell her that they 'have places to go'. Toriel understands and is not terribly upset to hear this. Before she leaves Frisk on their own, she tells them that she will 'see [them] around'.

What happens after the credits depends on what Frisk decided to do:
 * If they stayed with Toriel, there is a scene after the credits where Toriel brings a slice of pie to Frisk's room.


 * If they went on their own, the screen after the credits shows Toriel and Frisk's other friends together in a photograph.

Battle
Also see: List of Bosses Toriel has two primary attacks, a sweeping motion with her hands that covers the top half of the box, and a volley of fire balls that stream from the top to the bottom, with a blazing effect on the bottom border..

As the player's health reaches critical levels, Toriel will stop an attack in progress, and purposefully avoid hurting you. She will only use one weaker attack where fireballs move away from the player's soul. However it is still possible to die in this fight, by losing all of your health before entering what is considered critical health. Sparing her repeatedly will result in her using her weak attack (even if the player is not in critical health) just before she stops attacking entirely.

The Protagonist
Toriel geniunely cares for humans who fall into the Ruins, and the player character is no exception. Toriel is very protective of the player. As the other humans who left her care were killed by Asgore, Toriel tries to keep the player in the Ruins.

Asgore
Asgore is Toriel's ex-husband, Toriel left him after the death of their son Asriel and the first Fallen Child because she disapproved of Asgore's plan to use human souls to break the barrier and restart the war between humans and monsters - and even more than that, his unwillingness to truly dedicate himself to this plan. Because of this and Asriel's death, Toriel no longer uses the Dreemurr family name. It is implied that they remain apart in the Pacifist Ending, and she still appears relatively hostile to him before and after the final battle.

Flowey
Toriel does not seem to know Flowey very well, but doesn't have a terribly high opinion of him after catching him attempting to kill the player and knocking him away with a fireball. Flowey calls her an 'old hag'.

Trivia

 * If the player kills Toriel during a playthrough and starts a new file, the next time they face Toriel in battle and attempt to talk to her, the text box will say "You thought about telling Toriel you saw her dead. But.. that's creepy."
 * Before you fight her she says "... wait. ... why are you looking at me like that? Like you've seen a ghost. Do you know something that I do not? No... that is impossible."
 * Her physical aesthetics appear similar to that of Falkor the Luck Dragon, from the fantasy movie The Neverending Story.
 * Toriel's name appears to be a pun on tutorial, as she teaches the player about how the game works.
 * If you type "Toriel" for the character's name, the response becomes "I think you should think of your own name, my child" and prevents you from using the name.
 * When Gerson is asked about Asgore, he reveals that Toriel once wore a flower patterned muu-muu, which lead other monsters to compliment her by saying "nice muu-muu". Toriel assumed everyone was calling her a cow, so she never wore it again.