Flowey

"I've done everything this world has to offer. I've read every book. I've burned every book. I've won every game. I've lost every game. I've appeased everyone. I've killed everyone. Sets of numbers... Lines of dialogue... I've seen them all."

## Flowey

Flowey is the main villain of the Indie game Undertale.

He was once a young Monster of a royal lineage until his best friend's plan to free humanity failed, he'd later come back from the dead after the royal scientist, Alphys, tampered with a power known as Determination.

## Backstory

Flowey is the spirit of Asriel Dreemur embodied in a flower after the plan of his best friend Chara, who at the time was dying, failed. Asriel and Chara were best friends even though they were from different species, Chara was a human, and Asriel was a Monster. Chara seemingly had a distaste for the human race but loved monsterkind, and so they developed a plan to die in order for Asriel to take their soul and kill 6 humans in the village nearby, thus gaining the SOULs needed to break the barrier.

As Asriel's family mourned their loss of Chara, Asriel promised them that he would carry their body to the nearby village so that they may rest in peace. Asriel took their SOUL, and much to the children's surprise, started sharing a body. Asriel states in the pacifist run's epilogue that Chara was the one to carry their own deceased body to the village on the surface and as they laid their corpse on the ground, they were attacked by humans who thought Asriel had killed the child. Chara then wanted to fight back, but their brother refused, resulting in his death. Asriel managed to return to the Underground but was wounded, and he died due to his severe injury on a flowerbed in the royal garden.

Several years later, The Royal Scientist, Alphys, was experimenting with a power known as Determination. (A power that is also used by the player *i.e* Genocide Frisk) While most of the experiment was a failure, one of the subjects was a flower Alphys picked from the King's garden, the combination of Asriel's dust on the Flower, and the mix of Determination caused Asriel to reanimate from the dead, and he took on the name of Flowey.

At the time, Flowey was able to control time just like the player, he used it to live every possible scenario but over time he started to feel empty, as he didn't have a SOUL, thus he was unable to feel anything. And so he devised a plan to take over the world by stealing the SOULs of fallen humans. Until one day, he met someone *peculiar...*

## Personality

Flowey is soulless. He feels no regret or remorse for anything that he's ever done and finds the pain of others enjoyable, no matter whether they are his friend or a foe. He does hold a soft spot for Genocide Frisk though, mistaking them for Chara, and can often be seen riding on their shoulder.

His physical form is very weak, being a flower as he is. He can easily be overcome if someone were to step on him, but he does have some strange magical abilities. He can fire bullets, surrounding a "player," and destroying them in only a few hits. If he can absorb souls, he becomes incredibly more powerful.

## Appearance

### Flowey has 3 forms, which are:

* Flower form: Flowey has the appearance of a conscious golden flower. His structure has a white androecium, six yellow petals, and a light-green stem. Flowey can contort his face to show various expressions and can mimic the faces and voices of other characters. Usually, though his expression is simply a smile.
* Omega/Photoshop form: After absorbing the human SOULs, Flowey transforms into a    grotesque, flower-shaped hybrid of plant tissue, human organs, and machinery. Consisting entirely of rendered images, Omega Flowey is stylistically different from anything else in the game.

The middle of his body has a contorted human face with two mandibles on the bottom and a TV monitor on top. The monitor either displays a laughing pixelated face. The face can also escape the screen when it laughs, as the mouth seems to pop out of the bottom. Around the monitor and face are 6 curved pipes, one for each soul that resemble the petals of Flowey's normal form, and the areas inside flash the colors of the souls when the protagonist is about to encounter one. The second row also has a floating pair of eyeballs inside of them. On either side of the main body is more pipes connected to long cactus-like appendages that perpetually move out from the body. Further down are more vine-covered cacti that have been shaped into arms, with three thorns on each hand acting as fingers or claws. Photoshop Flowey's new body resembles that of the DT Extraction Machine's structure, albeit now filled with teeth, gums, and eyeballs

* Hyperdeath form: Flowey's Hyperdeath form is achieved after he absorbs the SOULs of the fallen humans and also the souls of every monster in the Underground. This form has 2 stages:
	+ Stage 1: The sclerae of his eyes become black, his fangs become longer, and he now has horns. He wears a long, dark robe with white sleeves and the Delta Rune on the front, with a large collar and shoulder pads. This robe is similar to Toriel's. He also wears a locket similar to the Heart Locket.
	+ Stage 2: His body becomes more geometric, his horns are longer, and his teeth get sharper.     He has a pair of wings that continuously change color, and his lower body becomes sharp and heart-shaped.

While this form is not directly named, it resembles the Delta Rune, which looks like the "Angel of Death" from the prophecy.

## Abilities

As a flower, Flowey uses only three attacks: a five-bullet spread that slightly home in on the protagonist's SOUL, a large ring of bullets which surround the SOUL and cannot be dodged, and a vertical row of bullets which come from the side of the Bullet Board, from outside it. He can speed up the spread, although the limits of his attacks and speed are unknown. Getting hit by his attacks in his first encounter deals 19 damage per bullet. Before his battle as Asriel Dreemurr, the bullets deal 7 damage until 6 HP where it is 5.

Flowey is also seemingly able to transport himself anywhere into anywhere within the Underground, as he follows the player and can be seen once in a specific area if the player decides to backtrack.

## Trivia

* Flowey is one of the few characters that gets a voice line within the game (the other being Mettaton). Flowey says, "That's a wonderful idea!" at the end of the Ruins on a Genocide Route, plus three unused audio clips.
* The Official Undertale artbook mentions that Flowey was partially inspired by Face from the "NES Godzilla Creepypasta" written by Cosbydaf.
* Omega/Photoshop Flowey's technical canonical name is Flowey X, as revealed within the game's code. However, fans may use whichever name when referring to this form.