Eat Your Green Tasty Snakes
Parsnik
Parsnik (/ˈpɑːrsnɪk/) is a monster the protagonist encounters in Undertale, appearing throughout the Ruins only on Hard Mode. It is a stronger variation of Vegetoid, with snakes on its head.
Profile[]
Appearance[]
Parsnik looks slightly different from its normal counterpart. Its figure is now somewhat skinnier, and its face is different too: its mouth has a more snake-like look, while two white pupils can be seen within its eyes. On top of its head, it has wiggling snakes.
In Battle[]
Appears With[]
- Parsnik
- Migospel
- Astigmatism (unused)
- Whimsalot (unused)
- Moldessa (unused)
Attacks[]
- Multiple snakes pour from above and bounce about on the sides of the Bullet Board.
- Multiple snakes drop from above, disappearing at the bottom of the Bullet Board.
Strategy[]
- Choosing "Snack" causes it to make one of its usual attacks, with one of the bullets colored green. Touching the green bullets heal one HP and allows Parsnik to be spared.
- Choosing "Devour" when Parsnik is ready to be spared heals 5 HP and ends the fight.
Quotes[]
- Herssss [Neutral]
- Hisssss [Neutral]
- Don't Be Rude [Hiss]
- Eat Your Green Tasty Snakes [Snack]
- Ate Your Green Snakes [After Snack]
Flavor Text[]
- This cobrafied carrot has a headful of tasty snakes. [Check]
- Parsnik slithered out of the earth! [Encounter]
- Parsniks hissed out of the earth! [Encounter with another Parsnik]
- Migospel flutters in, carrying Parsnik. [Encounter with Migospel]
- Whimsalot and Parsnik appeared. [Encounter with Whimsalot; unused]
- Not only potatoes have eyes. [Encounter with Astigmatism; unused]
- Party from hell. [Encounter with Whimsalot and Moldessa; unused]
- Parsnik completely closes its mouth. It looks short and weird. [Neutral]
- Snakes play with a beach ball. [Neutral]
- Parsnik has a hissy fit. [Neutral]
- Smells like tasty snakes. [Neutral]
- Parsnik's snakes shift to change hairstyles. Mohawk. Ponytail. Undercut. [Neutral]
- Parsnik mishears you and fires a series of tasty snakes. [Snack]
- You tried to eat Parsnik, but it wasn't weakened enough. [Devour]
- You start eating snakes like they're spaghetti. You recovered 5 HP! [After eating greens or less than half HP]
- The snakes are wilting. [Low HP]
- Parsnik seems satisfied. [Spare conditions met; unused]
Trivia[]
- Parsnik's name comes from parsnip, a root vegetable that Parsnik resembles, and the suffix -ic, which parallels the suffix -oid in Vegetoid's name.
- Additionally, it is spelled -ik in order to reference the word snake, and humorous misspelling of it like snek.
- Its appearance is likely a reference to Medusa.