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Flowey’s descent into madness needs more attention

I really feel like the period of Flowey’s transition, the one that came after his first suicide but before the events of the game, has not had the attention of the fandom as it much as it deserved.

There is so much potential here, Flowey trying to make friend with everyone after learning of his power but slowly realising that everything eventually becomes predictable, that its always the same, until eventually those same words that he hears every single time lose all meaning to him. They are just “lines of dialogue”.

He stops caring about hurting people’s feelings since they’ll just forget anyways. Being friends with people is always the same, but seeing them sad, seeing them hurt, brought to the edge of what their emotions can handle, isn’t it so much more interesting ? So much more entertaining ?

It doesn’t matter since he doesn’t about care about them and can simply just undo it if he so desires, so he might as well just try to see what happens if he insults them, if he destroys relationships, if he can get people to turn bad, or eventually, if he kills them. At first just because he’s mordbidly curious, but eventually because its the only thing that he has left in his life as the human souls are out of reach, the determination to keep living and see everything this world has to offer. “Kill or be killed” becomes his motto. Its both the lesson that he believes he ‘learned’ from his first death as Asriel and the only thing that still entertains him at this point as Flowey.

But even then, eventually, it becomes tiring. Even seeing people beg for their lives becomes boring, he’s seen it all before. He starts trying more and more complex ideas and schemes to try and get new reactions out of people instead of the same boring ones, but eventually he understands that after so many times, he literally knows everyone’s personalities by heart to the point where he can guess what they’ll do before they even do it as they more or less do the same things every time and he’s experienced that thousands of times already. 

At this point, its like if everyone else in the underground was just a robot. Like they were all scripted. If Flowey does this, then they will do that and say this. Every time, without fault. They don’t even feel like living beings anymore. They are just like toys, toys that get boring, and eventually, that he gets sick of playing with. Every single one of them.

He had seen it all, there was nothing new left for him in this world.

He ends up as a sort of deity trapped in his own world and unable to escape. There are only a handful of things he still wishes to do, but those things happen to be the ones he can never do, no matter how many times he RESETS, such as getting the human souls or seeing Chara again. Eventually, he tries the only thing he had never tried : doing literally nothing at all (except talking to Papyrus a little bit, i guess). He just waits… Until eventually Frisk falls.

Overall, i just wish there was more fan content about Flowey’s descent into insanity. There are a few good comics and fanfictions about it but i’ve ran out of them a long time ago. I love Flowey, i wish this part of the character was explored a bit more by the fans.