Toriel

Toriel is the guardian of the Ruins area. She is a motherly figure who literally takes your hand through the first part of the story. Her favorite food is snail pie. She is the UnderTale Caretaker.
== Profile ==
Toriel's head resembles a white-furred Nubian Goat with long droopy ears and short horns. She has a pair of visible fangs and long eyelashes; her irises have a dark red tint. She has a anthropomorphic body with paws at the end of her limbs, and she wears a long butterfly bush purple robe that displays the Delta Rune on her chest and is occasionally seen with her reading glasses on.
== Personality ==
Toriel is a kind monster that acts as a protective mother for the protagonist. She employs tough love on the protagonist as well as Asgore. She cares for children and was excited to become a mother.
She enjoys cooking and bakes butterscotch-cinnamon pie as well as her favorite, snail pie.
Toriel has a playful side and loves puns and bad jokes and she even keeps a journal of puns.
Toriel is said to be intelligent and dreams of becoming a teacher. She has already prepared a curriculum for the protagonist by the time they reach her home in the Ruins. In the True Pacifist Ending Credits, she stands outside a school and, in the Family Ending of a Neutral Route, she starts her own.
At the end of the Ruins, Toriel tells the protagonist to prove that they are strong enough to survive and fights them in a test of strength. She can be killed or spared; if spared, Toriel lets the protagonist go but tells them not to come back.
Sans tells the protagonist during their rendezvous, that he and Toriel have been friends for a while, bonding over their love of jokes and puns. Neither of them knows each other's name or face, as they communicate through the door that blocks off the Ruins.
Sans also says that Toriel asked him to protect any human that left the Ruins. He remarks that if not for that promise, the protagonist would be "dead where [they] stand."
=== True Pacifist Route ===
Toriel reappears just as Asgore and the protagonist prepare to fight, interrupting it with her fire magic, much like she does with Flowey at the start of the game. She explains the motive of her arrival was the realization that the protagonist would have to take a life to leave and that she had been trying to prevent such a thing from the beginning.
As the protagonist's friends come, she introduces herself to them and recognizes Sans' voice immediately. She tells the protagonist that while they may have to stay Underground with all their friends, they will live a happy life regardless.
Flowey then appears. Having absorbed the human SOULs, he binds Toriel and company with 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 monsters', is eventually absorbed by Flowey, allowing him to become Asriel.
During the protagonist's battle with Asriel, Toriel appears as one of the Lost Souls.
==== Epilogue ====
After the fight against Asriel concludes, she learns the protagonist's name, "Frisk." She tells them that they are free to go through the Underground to talk to more of their friends. Meanwhile, Alphys upgrades Toriel's phone, allowing her to send text messages.
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.
* If Frisk decides to stay with Toriel, she says that none of this would have happened if they remained with her at the beginning of the game and that it was for the best that they decided to leave the Ruins. She then promises to take care of Frisk for as long as they need. Like in the Ruins, Toriel takes Frisk's hand as they walk offscreen together. After the credits, Toriel brings a slice of pie to Frisk's room.
* If Frisk says that they "have places to go," Toriel says that she will see them later. After the credits, Frisk and their monster friends are shown together in a sepia photograph.
In the credits sequence, Toriel welcomes Monster Kid to a school that she opened and teaches at. The school door is adorned with the Delta Rune without the triangles that represented the monsters trapped Underground.
== In Battle ==
== Relationships ==
=== The Protagonist (Depends on Choice) ===
Toriel cares for humans who fall into the Ruins and the protagonist is no exception. She tries to keep the protagonist in the Ruins, as Asgore killed the other humans who left her care. If the protagonist spares her, she lets them leave the Ruins, but not before giving them a parting hug.
If the protagonist kills her during a Neutral Route, she uses the last of her strength to give them a warning about what lies ahead and calls the protagonist "my child" before she turns to dust.[12] If the protagonist kills her when she offers mercy, she says that the protagonist is like the monsters outside the Ruins.[13] In the Genocide Route, she realizes that the protagonist is dangerous and laughs hysterically before she dies.[14] The death sprite for Toriel is the same in a Genocide Route and on a Neutral Route if the protagonist kills her after she is spared thirteen times.
If the protagonist calls Toriel "mom," it surprises her, and she states that if it makes them happy, then she heartily approves of it.
Calling Toriel on her phone in the Ruins and flirting with her makes her assume the protagonist is joking, if they do it again she is unsure what to make of it. If they flirt with her after calling her "mother," she becomes uncomfortable and calls the protagonist an "interesting" child. She also mentions this in the epilogue.
If the game is reset, Toriel says that talking to the protagonist is like "meeting an old friend for the first time" and also says that she feels this way about most fallen humans.
=== Asgore (EX Husband) ===
They were once extremely close, winning first place in the '98 Nose Nuzzle competition and were open about their affection for one another. During their marriage, Toriel's nicknames for Asgore included "Fluffybuns" and "Gorey."
Toriel left Asgore and New Home after he declared war on humanity. After they are reunited on a True Pacifist Route, Toriel criticizes his plan for freeing monsters but still believes that he deserves mercy, even though he is "terrible." When Asgore asks if they can be reconciled or at least be friends, Toriel declines. While she appears to be civil with Asgore when she speaks to him about the future of the Underground in the aftermath of the fight against Asriel, once they are on the surface and everyone else has left, Asgore wonders whether he should leave too, and Toriel glares at him, prompting him to leave her and Frisk alone. However, in the ending credits, she does not mind his presence while trimming the bushes, hinting a developing tolerance or gradual forgiveness.
=== Flowey ===
Toriel calls Flowey a "miserable creature" as she fireballs him to protect the protagonist. She is unaware that Flowey is Asriel.
=== Sans ===
Sans and Toriel do not meet in person until the end of a True Pacifist Route and the Family and Exiled Queen endings, where they both have become good friends. They started their friendship by telling jokes to each other through the door leading to the Ruins. One day, Toriel entrusted Sans with protecting any human that left the Ruins.
They continue to bond in the epilogue and text each other as Frisk backtracks through the Underground.
==List of AUs involving Toriel==
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==Gallery==
==Trivia==
*Toriel's name is a pun in the world: Tutorial. She wants to be a teacher, which is why her name is a pun.
* Some players nicknamed her "Goat Mom" due to her motherly nature.
* Toriel is based on Toby Fox's mother.
* Toriel is a parody of the video game industry lacking motherly figures.
* Amusingly, when Papyrus meets Toriel on the True Pacifist Route, he thinks that Asgore shaved and cloned himself, referring to Toriel as "Asgore's Clone". It seems unlikely that Papyrus is right.
* As revealed in the True Pacifist Epilogue, the monsters (or at least most of them) didn't know that Toriel returned to the Ruins after she left Asgore.
* In the Ruins, after Toriel gives Frisk a cell phone, they have the option of calling her "Mom", much to her surprise. They also have the option to flirt with her, which will make her assume that they are joking. Flirting with her a second time will leave her not knowing whether Frisk's flirting with her is pathetic or endearing. If Frisk flirts with her AFTER, calling her "Mom", Toriel will be even more baffled, calling them an "Interesting Child". She will also tell Sans about this in the True Pacifist Epilogue.
* "Dreemurr" doesn't seem to be Toriel's maiden name, as evidenced by her angrily calling Asgore "Dreemurr", and her request to not be called "Dreemurr".
* Toriel seems to have a fascination with snails, as evidenced by her cooking "snail pies" and reading books about snails.
* Prior to the events of Undertale, Toriel has never met Undyne or Alphys, as seen prior to Asriel Dreemurr's fight on the True Pacifist Route. Toriel has befriended and talked with Sans through the locked door at the end of the Ruins and Sans has told Toriel about his brother, Papyrus.
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