I found myself focusing on Toriel's deep feelings of guilt for having so badly mishandled herself after Asriel's and Chara's death...imagining herself as one who believed she no longer deserved happiness, who deserved instead to die alone in the Ruins forgotten by everyone. I imagined her gradually remembering that she was a person capable of enjoying things--enjoying being with others, enjoying taking care of a child, enjoying the company of someone she was attracted to. I didn't quite know it, but I was writing _me_ into Toriel. She was my first model of who I wanted to be as a woman. #Undertale