Once deceased, Asriel's body turned to dust, which spread across the garden in New Home. Lethally wounded, the Asriel/Human returned to the Underground and died. The Asriel/Human fusion did not fight back but only fled. The villagers assumed that the Asriel/Human fusion had attacked and killed the human child. Asriel and his sibling shared control of Asriel's body after their SOULs had combined. Asriel absorbed their SOUL, and the human carried their own body across the barrier to their home village. Just before the human died, their last wish was to see the golden flowers of their village, on the Surface. He became their adoptive sibling and best friend.
With the power of souls, Asriel also takes three additional forms.īefore the events of Undertale, Asriel found the fallen human, who was the first human to fall into the Underground. Resurrected, Asriel takes the form of a golden flower with a face capable of morphing into grotesque shapes. While in possession of a heart locket to match his sibling's, his child form does not wear it in the game he only wears it in one of his two 'boss' forms. His fur is white, his ears long and floppy much like a lop rabbit's. He has a short snout with two small fangs poking out of its tip and a scruff of hair atop his furry head. He is a small child who wears green-and-yellow striped shirts and is seen in the game wearing dark blue trousers, possibly jeans. Now he eschews all violence once more, and while still empty is trying his best to be kind again.Īsriel is a Boss Monster, a goatlike, bipedal creature with large paws instead of hooves. Over a long time spent trying desperately to feel something, he hardened himself into everything he had died to prevent becoming, plunging himself into deep trauma and depression.Īt the end of the game, he has at last been broken out of his endless cycle. When he found himself resurrected without what seems to be one of his most defining traits - his ability to feel compassion - he was lost and terrified. He decided in the end that he would rather die than kill anyone, and ended up crumbling to dust in his parents' arms because of it. His kind heart could ultimately not bear the burden, however, and at the last moment he realized it was only the bravado of a child with too much responsibility on his shoulders.
Despite his young age, his devotion to his people was absolute, and he was willing to plan murder and the death of his own sibling to free them. He loved to play harmless pranks on his sibling, whom he trusted like nobody else. Little is known about Asriel in life, but he seemed to be a mischievous and cheerful child from a loving family.