Mabel Pines chose love over fear and bet the whole universe on the word of a con man and won.
Mabel Pines didn’t get the summer romance she was looking for but in the end she was okay with that because she learned to love herself.
Mabel Pines thinks that every woman she meets is beautiful, including herself, and if you don’t understand how radical that is you’ve never been a twelve-year-old-girl.
Mabel Pines met a creature she idolized and it told her she wasn’t good enough and she punched it right in its smug stupid face.
Mabel Pines was terrified of growing up because of everything she might lose, and the narrative didn’t blame her or break her for feeling that way.
Mabel Pines cared more about friends and family than magic and mysteries and not only did the narrative validate that, her scrapbook ended up being the most important object in the show.
Mabel Pines is glitter and sweaters and cheesy pop songs and blurry group selfies and the biggest smile in the crowd and she’s also so, so, so much more.
This isn’t a “your fave could never” because those are weird and needlessly combative, but look, I know what kind of narratives girls get. I thought that my fave could never. And then she fucking did.
Them: boi if you don’t
Me, an intellectual: male, if you do not refrain
I just finished fasting from food AND technology for 12 hours (9am- 9pm), yay! … I’m hungry.
You know what type of villain I love? The villain who’s introduced very clearly and unambiguously as the bad guy. Probably fights with the protagonist from time to time, talks about their evil plans, makes all their intentions known. Then something occurs that forces them to team up with the protagonist (mutual enemy? Protagonist is the key to world domination? Attempting to earn a favor?) and they team up making it clear that they are only helping the protagonist so they can further their own ends and that two of them are gonna be arch enemies again just as soon as the villain gets what they want!
Except the villain just kinda
Forgets about it
And continues to pal around with the protag’s team with no clearly defined motive other than they seem to like it here.
And any time team protag asks about it they just get defensive and dodgy answers from the villain who’s “still working on the ultimate evil plan just not right now shut up okay I’m allowed to have other interests too.”
Until team protag just stops questioning it and lets their villain stay, who seems to have somehow converted to good at sometime during their stay with team protag and no one is entirely sure when how or why it happened.
This game is very important to me! It helped me get through a lotta stuff, helped me grow as an artist and a person, helped me stay determined. Never expected a video game to make such a big impact on my life, but here we are.
I’m not very good at speeches, so i’m just gonna say this: thank you, Toby, and thank you, Undertale. Happy
AngelMihe 