Toriel/In Battle

In Battle
Choosing Act and then trying to talk to Toriel does nothing; the protagonist is unable to think of any conversation topics, and eventually realizes that talking to her won't help the situation.

The player has two main choices for getting past Toriel:
 * Spare her.
 * One Froggit from earlier warns the player that they may have to repeatedly try to spare someone even if the "spare" text color is not yellow.
 * Missing attacks has a similar result to sparing her.
 * Eventually, she will stop fighting and will only talk. The option to "Flee" will disappear. Continue sparing her to win the battle.
 * Kill her.
 * Another Froggit says that monsters can be spared if their HP is low enough, however Toriel is not one of these monsters; attacking Toriel when her HP is low will deal significantly more damage than usual and outright kill her. Toriel additionally goads the player into attacking her, which combined with the above may trick pacifist players into unintentionally killing her.
 * If Toriel is killed this way, she 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.


 * The player can flee from Toriel, but this will not let them leave the ruins.
 * If the player dies during the fight, Toriel will put her hands over her mouth in a shocked expression before the "Game Over" screen appears.
 * If spared, Toriel will hug the protagonist and she will be near the patch of golden flowers at the beginning of the ruins.

Attacks
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 (less than 3HP), Toriel will stop an attack in progress and begin to purposefully avoid endangering the player further. She will only use one weaker attack in which the raining fireballs move away from the player's soul. However, it is still possible to die in this fight taking a high damage attack before entering critical health. If the player does die from her, Toriel gasps in horror for one frame before the screen turns black and the player's soul shatters.