Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26347196-20160404183543

To make a full recap, I'll summarize things that each of the 6 main characters have to went through:

Toriel: She had to give a proper burial for Chara and live on banished herself inside the ruins. Later on, she found other 6 fallen children, all of which she failed to protect from Asgore's plan - until Frisk came.

Sans: The person who had been devoted so much to try to fix the abnormalties in the timelines, in which caused by Frisk/Flowey saving, loading or resetting the game entirely. For the most part, he has a better recollection of drifted timelines, meaning he must have remembered meeting the surface, the deaths of several people, might as well his brother, and, worst yet, the Genocide run. At this point Sans ultimately gave up and just go on with the timeline, no matter how horrible it may have become.

Papyrus: This happy-go-lucky guy can actually feel the stress in Papyrus's Neutral Ending. What it means is that Papyrus become the new leader of the underground, with chance of escaping the underground near to zero, people feel down, and living on the idea that Undyne, Alphys, Asgore and Toriel are on a vacation (without knowing they will never return).

Undyne: This girl can be depressed in certain neutral runs, such as the protagonist betraying her, either by killing her friends (disappearance of Asgore and Alphys, not to mention if you starts killing after befriending her).

Alphys: The amalgamate is the ultimate torture of her life, as her experiment failed, turned into a horrible disaster, and she was afraid to broke the devastating news to the families of the amalgamates, which resulting in her prolonging this torturous inevitable.

Asgore: Without the true pacifist route, he was at a complete dead end road. He had been waiting to get more human souls, and after getting 6, there's no way he can abort his plan. At the Asgore battle, if the protagonist kills Asgore, his plan failed and monsters remain trapped. If Asgore kills the protagonist, he will use 7 souls to break the barrier; however, he's already torn towards the fact that he has to kill another human.

So, which character is the most tragic out of all? Toriel Sans Papyrus Undyne Alphys Asgore  