I talked a bit, many toots ago, about how I remained a little distant from Toriel when I first played #Undertale. I liked her--who couldn't?--but she was still a slightly distant figure. Later I figured that was because I had deeply ambivalent feelings about my own mother, whom I ended up distancing myself from, and that ended up affecting my attitude towards the eerily similar Toriel. But as I started to write "Crouching Toriel, Hidden Cougar", I started finding myself warming to Toriel in quite a different way, and sympathizing deeply with her struggle to build a new life after all her trauma.