Character name: Undyne Character canon: Undertale Canon point: Immediately after the end of her boss fight in the No Mercy route.
Physical Description: Six feet of pretty blue scales and muscle mass, well-built with a surprisingly nice figure for someone who isn't even a mammal. Dark red hair, green eyes with yellow sclera and cat-like pupils, sharp teeth and nails. Fingers and toes are webbed, has fins instead of ears. Left eye covered with a patch at all times, likely missing or nonfunctional due to old injuries. She appears to be able to make the eye glow when she chooses to. No canon age given, but I headcanon her as roughly twenty-seven years old.
About the Character: As per the backstory of Undertale, humans and monsters once lived peacefully together on the Surface, only for humans to declare war upon discovering that a monster could potentially claim a human's soul for power. In their fear of this possibility, they defeated monsterkind thoroughly and sealed the few survivors underneath a mountain via a magic barrier that could only be broken by the power of seven human souls.
One day long after the War ended, a human child fell through the Barrier and was adopted by the royal family. At first, there was hope that this might represent a chance to reunite peacefully with humanity, but these hopes were shattered when both the child and their adoptive brother died in a misguided plan to try and free monsterkind, leading the king to declare that he would kill any human who fell into the kingdom.
Undyne is a character who has grown up long after that fateful event, in a kingdom deeply shaped by tragedy but still trying to survive. Six humans have already died, their souls claimed by the king... and now a seventh has fallen.
She cares greatly for the people and is an extremely passionate, hot-tempered woman, first coming to King Asgore's attention as a young girl by challenging him to a fight. Under his tutelage, she became a skilled fighter and rose to claim the position of Captain of the Royal Guard. Though Undyne fights for her king and her country, she may have to question whether they're truly doing the right thing after her fight is over. If she survives it.
It would not be inaccurate to say that Undyne is, at heart, a hot-blooded shounen protagonist in fish monster form.
Unfortunately for her, she turned out to be from a somewhat less forgiving genre.
While there are happier timelines, this version of Undyne is from a timeline where the player of Undertale, the seventh fallen human, choose to kill every single monster they could hunt down in their journey across the Underground, culminating in using their power to erase their entire world.
Full of righteous fury and faith in her cause, Undyne attempts to defeat them... only to be killed herself, after a great battle. On coming to PhanRift, she will have to cope with the memory of her death, meeting human beings in a hopefully less hostile context, and her newfound painful knowledge of the limits of heroism.
Character abilities: Monstrous nature- All monsters are born with the ability to use magic, which is linked to the soul. Like any monster, Undyne can sense the soul of a sapient being, and is capable of using this power to CHECK them (seeing various details about them and their nature) or to FIGHT them (by pulling out the soul and attacking it directly). In addition, they are themselves beings of magic, which means that they're based more on energy than biology. They are thus unaffected by diseases or poisons that would harm a human, although by the same token they are far weaker to attacks that contain negative emotions.
Green magic- A more advanced ability than the normal magic every monster is born with, green magic is the magic of shielding and healing, and gains its' power from the virtue of kindness. Undyne is extremely skilled with it, and can make shields not only to protect herself from oncoming blows, but can also form them around opponents to hem them in and keep them from escaping, although this does have the side effect of making them harder to hit. Though she does not do so in canon, we can assume that this level of skill with green magic means that she can also heal others.
Water magic- The ability to summon and control water. Many monsters in Undertale are shown to have various types of elemental abilities, especially ones linked to their own appearance, such as snowy monsters having ice magic. This kind of affinity is apparently commonplace enough that fire magic is regularly used in home cooking, according to Undyne herself. Undyne is a fish monster living in the extremely watery area of Waterfall, a location in which multiple enemies have some variety of water magic, so I believe that she likely has at least some degree of ability in it herself.
Strength- This is a woman who literally suplexes giant boulders in canon just for fun. She was mentioned, offscreen, as having picked up the entire rest of the main cast all at once in order to prove that she could, and apparently only started having trouble when she tried to figure out how to put them back down. Onscreen, she picks up the main character with one hand and then leaps clear across the room while holding them. She is buff as fuck.
Energy spears- Capable of summoning spears made out of magical energy and can choose to either hold them and wield them like a physical weapon or to send them flying at a target, including having them come rising out of the floor.
Combat training- Captain of the Royal Guard, the organization dedicated to defending their kingdom, and personally trained by their king. Undyne is a skilled and capable fighter, both in terms of physical ability and strategic thinking, although the latter has an unfortunate tendency to go out the window if she gets frustrated and loses her temper.
Amphibious- As a fish monster, Undyne has gills and is capable of breathing both air and water. She canonically lives in what appears to be a freshwater marsh, but is shown at the beach in the True Pacifist ending, suggesting that she is also capable of breathing saltwater without difficulty.
Determination- Something that appears to be more the emotion that it is named for, a quality that is also a substance produced by human souls. Vast amounts of it allow Undertale's main character, as well as one of the major villains, to manipulate time itself, but monsters cannot normally take high concentrations of determination without losing their grip on their physical forms and melting into beings called Amalgamates, and do not normally produce any metaphysically significant amount of DT. Undyne briefly manages to break this restriction somehow during her boss fight in the No Mercy route, using Determination to reform herself as the more powerful Undyne the Undying after taking a fatal blow. Ultimately, however, it is still not enough and she melts in a similar manner to an Amalgamate upon dying. This ability is not one that Undyne understands or knows how to use in any real way at this point, only being vaguely aware that she tapped into a power she hadn't been previously aware of.
Piano- Can play piano. Actually pretty good at it.
Inventory: -Grey jeans, plain white one-piece swimsuit worn like it's a tank top, red boots, green hair elastic, dark grey eye patch, brown leather jacket. (...it's literally just the clothes she was wearing under her armor.) -Two gold coins in pocket change. -A cell phone with dimensional box feature, allowing her to store up to twenty items in some kind of video game hammerspace inventory. It also has a camera feature, containing many pictures of strange monsters from Undyne's home, especially one who appears to be a kind of yellow lizard in a labcoat. Sadly, none of the numbers in the contacts list are within range of the phone, so no calling or texting. UnderNet access is also right out for similar reasons, can't connect to a network that's not even in this world, no matter how good your data plan is. -The damaged remains of some elaborately spiky armor. It's not usable anymore, most of it has been battered to pieces and there's a giant rent across the front of the breastplate, like it's been cleaved through with a bladed weapon. -One teacup shaped like a fish (in her phone's dimensional box). -One box of golden flower tea (in dimensional box).
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Character name: Undyne
Character canon: Undertale
Canon point: Immediately after the end of her boss fight in the No Mercy route.
Physical Description: Six feet of pretty blue scales and muscle mass, well-built
with a surprisingly nice figure for someone who isn't even a mammal. Dark red hair, green eyes with yellow sclera and cat-like pupils, sharp teeth and nails. Fingers and toes are webbed, has fins instead of ears. Left eye covered with a patch at all times, likely missing or nonfunctional due to old injuries. She appears to be able to make the eye glow when she chooses to. No canon age given, but I headcanon her as roughly twenty-seven years old.About the Character: As per the backstory of Undertale, humans and monsters once lived peacefully together on the Surface, only for humans to declare war upon discovering that a monster could potentially claim a human's soul for power. In their fear of this possibility, they defeated monsterkind thoroughly and sealed the few survivors underneath a mountain via a magic barrier that could only be broken by the power of seven human souls.
One day long after the War ended, a human child fell through the Barrier and was adopted by the royal family. At first, there was hope that this might represent a chance to reunite peacefully with humanity, but these hopes were shattered when both the child and their adoptive brother died in a misguided plan to try and free monsterkind, leading the king to declare that he would kill any human who fell into the kingdom.
Undyne is a character who has grown up long after that fateful event, in a kingdom deeply shaped by tragedy but still trying to survive. Six humans have already died, their souls claimed by the king... and now a seventh has fallen.
She cares greatly for the people and is an extremely passionate, hot-tempered woman, first coming to King Asgore's attention as a young girl by challenging him to a fight. Under his tutelage, she became a skilled fighter and rose to claim the position of Captain of the Royal Guard.
Though Undyne fights for her king and her country, she may have to question whether they're truly doing the right thing after her fight is over. If she survives it.
It would not be inaccurate to say that Undyne is, at heart, a hot-blooded shounen protagonist in fish monster form.
Unfortunately for her, she turned out to be from a somewhat less forgiving genre.
While there are happier timelines, this version of Undyne is from a timeline where the player of Undertale, the seventh fallen human, choose to kill every single monster they could hunt down in their journey across the Underground, culminating in using their power to erase their entire world.
Full of righteous fury and faith in her cause, Undyne attempts to defeat them... only to be killed herself, after a great battle. On coming to PhanRift, she will have to cope with the memory of her death, meeting human beings in a hopefully less hostile context, and her newfound painful knowledge of the limits of heroism.
Character abilities: Monstrous nature- All monsters are born with the ability to use magic, which is linked to the soul. Like any monster, Undyne can sense the soul of a sapient being, and is capable of using this power to CHECK them (seeing various details about them and their nature) or to FIGHT them (by pulling out the soul and attacking it directly). In addition, they are themselves beings of magic, which means that they're based more on energy than biology. They are thus unaffected by diseases or poisons that would harm a human, although by the same token they are far weaker to attacks that contain negative emotions.
Green magic- A more advanced ability than the normal magic every monster is born with, green magic is the magic of shielding and healing, and gains its' power from the virtue of kindness. Undyne is extremely skilled with it, and can make shields not only to protect herself from oncoming blows, but can also form them around opponents to hem them in and keep them from escaping, although this does have the side effect of making them harder to hit. Though she does not do so in canon, we can assume that this level of skill with green magic means that she can also heal others.
Water magic- The ability to summon and control water. Many monsters in Undertale are shown to have various types of elemental abilities, especially ones linked to their own appearance, such as snowy monsters having ice magic. This kind of affinity is apparently commonplace enough that fire magic is regularly used in home cooking, according to Undyne herself. Undyne is a fish monster living in the extremely watery area of Waterfall, a location in which multiple enemies have some variety of water magic, so I believe that she likely has at least some degree of ability in it herself.
Strength- This is a woman who literally suplexes giant boulders in canon just for fun. She was mentioned, offscreen, as having picked up the entire rest of the main cast all at once in order to prove that she could, and apparently only started having trouble when she tried to figure out how to put them back down. Onscreen, she picks up the main character with one hand and then leaps clear across the room while holding them. She is buff as fuck.
Energy spears- Capable of summoning spears made out of magical energy and can choose to either hold them and wield them like a physical weapon or to send them flying at a target, including having them come rising out of the floor.
Combat training- Captain of the Royal Guard, the organization dedicated to defending their kingdom, and personally trained by their king. Undyne is a skilled and capable fighter, both in terms of physical ability and strategic thinking, although the latter has an unfortunate tendency to go out the window if she gets frustrated and loses her temper.
Amphibious- As a fish monster, Undyne has gills and is capable of breathing both air and water. She canonically lives in what appears to be a freshwater marsh, but is shown at the beach in the True Pacifist ending, suggesting that she is also capable of breathing saltwater without difficulty.
Determination- Something that appears to be more the emotion that it is named for, a quality that is also a substance produced by human souls. Vast amounts of it allow Undertale's main character, as well as one of the major villains, to manipulate time itself, but monsters cannot normally take high concentrations of determination without losing their grip on their physical forms and melting into beings called Amalgamates, and do not normally produce any metaphysically significant amount of DT. Undyne briefly manages to break this restriction somehow during her boss fight in the No Mercy route, using Determination to reform herself as the more powerful Undyne the Undying after taking a fatal blow. Ultimately, however, it is still not enough and she melts in a similar manner to an Amalgamate upon dying. This ability is not one that Undyne understands or knows how to use in any real way at this point, only being vaguely aware that she tapped into a power she hadn't been previously aware of.
Piano- Can play piano. Actually pretty good at it.
Inventory:
-Grey jeans, plain white one-piece swimsuit worn like it's a tank top, red boots, green hair elastic, dark grey eye patch, brown leather jacket. (...it's literally just the clothes she was wearing under her armor.)
-Two gold coins in pocket change.
-A cell phone with dimensional box feature, allowing her to store up to twenty items in some kind of video game hammerspace inventory. It also has a camera feature, containing many pictures of strange monsters from Undyne's home, especially one who appears to be a kind of yellow lizard in a labcoat. Sadly, none of the numbers in the contacts list are within range of the phone, so no calling or texting. UnderNet access is also right out for similar reasons, can't connect to a network that's not even in this world, no matter how good your data plan is.
-The damaged remains of some elaborately spiky armor. It's not usable anymore, most of it has been battered to pieces and there's a giant rent across the front of the breastplate, like it's been cleaved through with a bladed weapon.
-One teacup shaped like a fish (in her phone's dimensional box).
-One box of golden flower tea (in dimensional box).
Samples: On the Test Drive Meme, my toplevel and a tagout.