Asgoriel

Asgoriel is the relationship between Toriel and Asgore from the Undertale fandom.

Canon
Toriel and Asgore were married and the royals of their kingdom. They had one child called Asriel and an adoptive child called whatever the player chooses as the human's name (Chara). However, when Chara died and Asriel took them to the humans' world. They were severely injured by the humans. They could easily have killed all of them, but they didn't fight back. They staggered home and died in front of Asgore and Toriel. Usually kind, patient and peaceful, Asgore was filled with grief which later turned to rage. He wanted to collect seven human SOULs in order to break the barrier and to declare war against humans. Toriel was disgusted by this and left him. After that, Asgore's anger melted and was replaced by sorrow.

At the end of Undertale (Pacifist Route), Asgore still misses Toriel. However, Toriel doesn't return the feelings and even refuses to be friends with Asgore.

At the end of the pacifist route, however, they must have reconciled to some degree, since he now cuts hedges in front of Toriel's school.

Why People Ship This
Asgore as a character doesn't get the love he deserves, he is a very sad and complex character who just wants to be with his wife and to get his children back. Asgore is actually a very peaceful character who went against his own rules and sacrificed his own happiness for the hope of his subjects. His wife Toriel ran from him and left him after their children died- when he needed her the most. He had good intentions but perhaps the wrong method, he knows what he did was wrong, he would do it differently if he could but as far as we know, using human souls is the only way to break the barrier. Toriel mentions that Asgore could have absorbed one soul, crossed the barrier and collected more, That would not work. Asriel crossed the barrier with one soul, got attacked then died later. The same thing would have happened to Asgore. Asgore would avoid fighting and even if he did fight back, he's outnumbered. Sometimes throughout the game, it is mentioned Asgore wants to destroy humanity. He said this when his children were killed by the humans- this is a very reasonable response when you are very sad and angry. When people are upset, they often say thing they don't mean. Asgore doesn't mean what he said and he never planned to. Why would he want to destroy humanity in the first place if one of his very own children was a human. He also says "I do not want power. I do not want to hurt anyone."

In the battle with Asgore, he destroys the mercy button ONLY because he thinks he doesn't deserve mercy. He fights to provoke you and make you attack him, he also avoids looking at you because it will break his heart even more to take another soul from a human, same reason why he avoids talking. Asgore is the fastest and strongest monster in the underground- he has more than a thousand years experience of fighting, but his attacks start off slow and he doesn't allow you to miss an attack, why?Because he wants you to kill him, he wants Frisk to live a happy life on the surface (he's even willing to kill himself for Frisk to go home in one of the endings!) and because he can't forgive himself nor does he believe he should be allowed to live. When Asgore attacks the player, he immediately stops attacking if the player's health is on 1, he gives you the chance to heal. At the end of the Pacifist route in the fight with Asriel, Asgore says "This is my duty." when you fight him. This tells us he was forced to do what he did, if he backed away from his duty, what would happen? The underground would lose hope, he would be considered selfish and a revolution would have begun. In some of the endings when Toriel becomes queen, she is overthrown because she wants everyone to treat humans with respect. There are characters worse than Asgore. He only takes human souls to destroy the barrier, he tells you he doesn't want power or to hurt anyone.

• Undyne wouldn't care in the slightest for a human, in the fight with Asriel, she even says "Well, some humans are OK, I guess!" which does imply that she doesn't exactly like humans. In some of the endings, she is " more vehement on destroying humanity."

• Sans pretty much apathic of everything due to his knowledge of resets and spacial magic. He will let the player kill anyone apart from Papyrus. Sans is also willing to kill any human, he has mentioned that "You'd be dead where you stand" which is obviously a threat and if it weren't for Toriel, he would have tried to kill you. Speaking of Toriel, she asks Sans to protects you, but not once does he do that.

• Flowey... I don't really have to go into details for this, do I? In short, he wants power and wants to kill everything

• Asriel (in terms of the boss fight) wants power and wants to control everything, willing to kill you many, many, many times.

• Chara. Chara is an interesting character. Chara is not evil- they only kill because they don't have a soul meaning they can't feel love or sympathy or anything, like Flowey. I know lots of people hate Chara. Chara, just like Asgore, should be forgiven.

Asgore is not a bad guy. He is not perfect. How can people forgive most of the listed characters but not Asgore. If you forgive them you should be able to forgive Asgore. We think that those who cannot forgive and hate Asgore (*cough* Soriel shippers *cough*) are the true monsters. Asgore is a big, cuddly, goofly, fluffy, softie who means no harm. Toriel shows signs of missing him (read the next paragraph) and Asgore has missed her for years. We want both Asgore and Toriel to be happy. This is the reason why we ship this.

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Why Asgoriel Has Evidence of it Being Canon
This is something that more than half of the Undertale Fandom are too blind to notice. Asgre and Toriel getting back together post-pacifist '''is canon. '''There is evidence that they still love each other and do get back together. Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale itself, has also confirmed they get back together. I will get to that later though.

Let's start with Toriel's home within the Ruins. Toriel's home is a replica of the house she used to live in with Asgore, this is symbolic to show that Toriel misses Asgore, but it gets better. Toriel's room has a specific flower on top of a bookshelf, that happens to be Asgore's favourite flower. That flower is obviously there to remind her of him as well as the house but let's keep going. When interacting with one of the drawers in Toriel's home, it says "Inside the drawer are some flower seeds and some broken crayons.", now who do we know is a gardener and loves flowers? King Fluffybuns Asgore! That drawer is right beside what would have been Asgore's room. Again, those flower seeds remind Toriel of Asgore- even if they've just been left there. Let's keep going because there's a lot to talk about with Toriel's home and connections to Asgore.

Toriel's room has three bedrooms, one of which would be Asgore's and the living room has three chairs at the table, obviously one of those chairs is for Asgore. Why does Toriel need three bedrooms and three chairs? Because she still misses Asgore. Toriel also owns a book that contains the history of monsters, it is symbolic that the page the book is opened on happens to mention Asgore.

Now get ready for a really sad detail between Home, New Home, Asgore and Toriel that not many people notice.

Toriel's home within the Ruins has many plants but the majority of them are dead or show little life including the tree outside the house, why is this? Isn't it obvious? Mr Fluffybuns Asgore isn't there for the problem, Toriel's house doesn't have a garden either. Let's go back to Asgore's favourite flower for a second, that flower is the only flower that still shows strong signs of life and guess what? It's symbolic to show Toriel's love for Asgore is still alive and strong.

Now let's talk about a detail of Toriel. Toriel continues to bake Asgore's favourite pie, she knows this is his favourite and she continues to bake it because it reminds her of him, she wants to remember him and their love. New home shows obvious signs of Toriel's absence and Asgore desperately wanting her back. Asgore has kept photo albums, scrapbooks, Toriel's reading chair and other things that remind him of her.

When it comes to Toriel and Asgore eating, Toriel has pie but no tea to go with it and Asgore has tea but no pie to go with it. Asgore attempts to make Toriel's pie because it's the closest he'll get to her as he is unaware of her whereabouts. After so long, Toriel continues to remind herself of Asgore and Asgore continues to remind himself of Toriel because they still love each other.

So in summary they miss and still love each other. It is confirmed that Toriel still holds Asgore in her heart.

So why does Toriel refuse to be friends with Asgore when Asgore asks if they can be friends? There's two explanations to this. One of which is yet again symbolic to say they are still more than friends, I know not many will trust the symbolism there but for the other explanation, remember when I mentioned Asgore said something he doesn't mean because he's very angry and upset? It's the same case here with Toriel, she is still very upset with Asgore which is reasonable. Onto the fight with Asriel Dreemurr, when it comes to saving the lost souls of Asgore and Toriel, they are together and their attacks are together which shows an obvious connection between them, but did you notice, when saving the characters you save Asgore and Toriel together, Sans and Papyrus together but Alphys and Undyne separately? That's because of the character's relationship.

Asgore and Toriel's love relationship is still strong

Sans and Papyrus' brotherly relationship is still strong

But Alphys and Undyne's relationship is not strong because they only just entered a relationship, they're only starting to love each other. For the ending when the characters look at the sun, Asgore stays a little longer after everyone leaves, this could be to show what Asgore mentions when you spare him "My wife and I will take care of you as best as we can", before Asgore walks off screen, you are shown what Frisk's new family will be if the player chooses to stay with them. Going back to that quote, this foreshadows that Asgore and Toriel will get back together and raise Frisk. The vendor, Gerson further foreshadows Asgore and Toriel raising Frisk by talking about Asgore being Frisk's father, "But Asgore doesn't have a child. So he's been stuck at

the same age... and probably will be forever. Huh? What if the child is a human...? What? Nah. That wouldn't work. So if Asgore's your father, he'll definitely outlive you.". Another thing that implies Asgore and Toriel raising Frisk is when Asriel asks you to "take care of mom and dad for me, OK?", this

is pretty much telling us Asriel wants Frisk to help Asgore and Toriel be happy together again. Going back to the ending though, before Asgore walks off screen he asks if he should do something, Toriel doesn't say anything mean or rude but just stares at him, but look closely at the facial expression, she's not angry- she's just calming down. Toriel does not make that face anywhere else is the game, only here!

As soon as she has calmed down, she can accept Asgore.

Fanon
Most Asgoriel shippers like to think that Toriel and Asgore get back together after the events of Undertale. There are also some people who only ship Asgore during the events before Undertale.

Its biggest rival ship is Soriel. Asgoriel shippers point out that Soriel has no canon proof, usually think Toriel and Sans are friends, and that Toriel and Sans are more than a thousand years apart of age. We know this because The people of Snowdin refer to Sans and Papyrus as young adults while Gerson said that Asgore and Toriel were at the battle of Humanity a thousand years ago.

Asriel Dreemurr
Asriel was the son of Toriel and Asgore. His name is the combination of Toriel and Asgore's names.

Chara Dreemurr
Chara was the adopted child (of unknown gender) of Toriel and Asgore.