Alphys

Alphys is the tritagonist the 2015 indie-game Undertale. Alphys makes her first appearance after Frisk enters Hotland. She is the Royal Scientist who works in the Lab located in Hotland. Alphys has a crush on Undyne, the leader of the Royal Guard.
==Appearance==
Alphys appears to be a yellow reptile-like monster and is almost the same height as Frisk. She is seen wearing a white lab coat and glasses. Afterward during her date, she is wearing a black and white polka dot dress, which she also wears on other special occasions.
==Personality==
Alphys is a nerdy, shy recluse with a fondness for human anime and manga. She is very insecure, worrying about what other monsters think of her. Her failed experiments with Determination that involved the creation of the amalgates contributed to this, as she was filled with guilt, told nobody, and became depressed. She has a crush on multiple characters (some mild, others more serious), but struggles to communicate her feelings. She deeply cares for other monsters, as evidenced if Frisk follows a Genocide Route but aborts it in Hotland; after hearing Undyne's last words and evacuating the monsters, Alphys, whose resolve is strengthened, becomes their ruler. Even after people discovered her failed experiments with determination, they treated her as a hero, much to her surprise. She mourns the loss of her friends, then says that she really should have killed Frisk when she had the chance.
==Biography==
===Past===
Little is known about her personal history, except that she became the Royal Scientist after the original one, W.D Gaster (who she is implied to have been an assistant to), mysteriously “fell into his creation” and disappeared. To obtain the title, Alphys would grant the wish of a ghost and grant him a robotic body to inhabit, before lying to Asgore that the robot had an artificial SOUL powering it. Said ghost would soon become the famed TV star Mettaton. 
During her tenure, she would be ordered by Asgore to experiment with a substance called Determination, most abundantly found in human SOULs. She would first test the substance by injecting it into a small flower in Asgore’s garden, before using it to revive monsters who had fallen down and were dying.
Unfortunately for Alphys, while the Determination did revive the monsters, their bodies couldn’t withstand it and they melted together into the amalgamates. Unbeknownst to Alphys, the Determination injected flower would also revive Asgore’s son, Asriel into a soulless form, in which he would adopt the name Flowey. Horrified at what she’d done, Alphys would hide the amalgamates from the rest of the world and went to Waterfall, presumably to commit suicide. Fortunately, she would meet Undyne there and the two became close friends.
Aside from her good friend and presumed soon-to-be girlfriend Undyne, Alphys is shown to have several good friends, apparently being a sister figure to the duo Bratty and Catty, as well as being acquainted to Sans. She’s also Mettaton’s best friend, who despite appearances cares for her deeply. 
===In Undertale===
==== True Pacifist ====
Right after Frisk leaves the Ruins, Alphys would soon begin monitoring their movements through hidden cameras and start desiring a friendship with them. As such, when Frisk enters her lab, Alphys introduces herself and explains that after watching their adventure, she wants to help them. However, just as she can proceed Mettaton bursts into the room, who challenges Frisk to a killer game show. Alphys signs the right answers to them, angering Mettaton who embarrasses her by asking trivia on her favourite anime.
Regardless if the answers are correctly answered or not, Mettaton leaves, allowing Alphys to upgrade Frisk’s phone and give them her phone number. 
==Gallery==
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Alphys_sprite.png|Alphys's overworld sprite
==Trivia==
* Her name is an anagram of the term "shy pal", fitting most of her shy personality. She may also have been named after the term "alpha" (which is rather ironic, considering she does not consider herself to be one at times until the other monsters crown her as the new ruler in one ending).
* Several of the Neutral Endings are very vague about Alphys's fate, with some not even mentioning her. Usually, in endings where Undyne or Mettaton is killed, Alphys disappears, nowhere to be found by other characters. Many of these endings imply that Alphys had somehow died. For example, if Frisk killed Toriel, Undyne, and Mettaton, but not Papyrus, Sans, not wanting to upset Papyrus, will lie to him about them, plus Asgore and Alphys going on vacation. Given that he listed Alphys among characters who are confirmed to be deceased; this implies that Alphys may have died too.
** In the True Lab, Alphys implies that she might not come back, not because of the Amalgates killing her, but because she worried that she might be too afraid, to tell the truth, and would run away or do something cowardly, which may be committing suicide. Given that Alphys is nowhere to be found in some endings where Undyne or Mettaton is killed, she may have done one of these.
* The True Lab reveals some of her personality traits.
* Before the protagonist enters the True Lab, there is a note in the bin that reads "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID." Flowey may have written this to sadistically push Alphys into revealing her secrets.
* According to Entry Number 20 in the True Lab, Asgore found a cute teacup that looks like Alphys.
*In the pacifist ending, Alphys appears to take 9999 damage when she gets kissed by Undyne. Considering she is a monster, she would most likely have died from this. However, this may be for a comedic gag, as she survives.
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