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⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Cam
Contact:

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Age: 22
Current Characters: Silver |

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⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Undyne
Age: Never specified, looks mid 20s, I'm gonna say 25
Canon: Undertale
Canon Point: Neutral-Pacifist run, after she befriends Frisk

Background: Here's the wiki!

Personality:

When Undyne first appears, she's a bit mysterious, but no doubt menacing; she's strong, throwing spears from every direction, and stops at nothing to get the protagonist. Truly, the head of the Royal Guard must be rational, levelheaded, serious...

Yeah, right. The second Undyne flings off her helmet, a very different picture is portrayed; while Undyne may be disciplined and keep the Royal Guard running effectively, she's also loud, brash, reckless, and a whole lot more ridiculous than the armored person chasing you around Waterfall would leave you to believe. She's incredibly passionate and loyal to her cause, her people, her ruler Asgore; she values freedom highly and firmly believes that killing the human and taking their soul to Asgore to make him a "god" that's capable of destroying the barrier is going to save all monsters and lead them to salvation. In fact, you are the bad guy for wanting to stop everyone from going free. Maybe she's a little idealistic, maybe she's deluded, but there's no argument that her highest priority is absolutely the well-being of her people.

And conversely, she... Well, she's definitely heavily distrustful of humans. They're the reason monsters are trapped underground, they're the obstacle between monsters and freedom, and she consistently doubts their character and intentions. Despite all this, she still believes in fairness; whether it's for the sake of fairness or for the sake of her pride and showing off how much better she is than humans is up for debate (it's probably a bit of both,) but she gives the human a spear to defend themselves with for the sake of a fair fight. She does end up changing her mind on humans somewhat as she befriends Frisk; she realizes they're a good person and don't wish any harm on her, and she doesn't want to see them hurt either and will simply kill the next bad human that falls in instead. Not all humans are bad and she'll give them a chance, but most of them are probably not like Frisk. Baby steps.

Undyne is pretty intense and overwhelmingly herself, and being overwhelmingly herself means loving to fight, get stronger, and to beat up bad guys, although her definition of bad guys might be a little different than everyone else's (or maybe not, because generally she will probably think you are bad if you kill her people or her friends. Generally speaking, murderers aren't good people.) She invites her neighbors out to wrestle, gives her friends noogies, and generally roughhouses around and calls half of her friend some variation of nerd- it's part of the Undyne experience. To further showcase her hotblooded intensity, put her in a kitchen; she's reckless and gets so wildly out of control with her fighting spirit and more heat that she ends up burning her house down.

This happens a lot.

In addition, she's rather prideful; if her pride wasn't obvious from giving Frisk a spear to defend themselves with, her pride is definitely hit when Frisk first shows up at her house after defeating her, and she assumes he's there to rub it in her face and humiliate her, and not for any genuine intentions. Also highlighted in her house is her competitive nature, as Papyrus says I guess you're not up for the challenge of defeating the human, and from there, it's on. She really can't say no to a challenge.

But Undyne isn't just the fiercely devoted leader of the Royal Guard, and she isn't just a rough buddy that slaps you way too hard on the back, either. Undyne has a tendency to teach people; for Shyren, it was piano lessons, for Papyrus, it's cooking lessons, for Frisk, how to properly block her attacks (if they don't immediately catch on) and for the entire Royal Guard, how to fight. She cares deeply for her friends- and her fellow monsters- and never does anything to deliberately hurt them; in fact, the one time she does hurt someone she likes, it's Asgore, back when he was training her, and she was guilty after the fact, so it's clear that she just doesn't like hurting the people she cares about, no matter how much she loves fighting and tussling around. She cares deeply for her friends and is definitely observant and attentive of them; although there's nothing to tell her that Papyrus is dead if you kill him, she goes into how he never misses training, he always picks up at the second ring no matter what time of day it is, and so on. She's considerate of her friends needs and what would and wouldn't hurt them- if you kill her, she says there's a reason why she could never tell Alphys; she withheld her feelings because her line of work is dangerous.

Speaking of Alphys, it's no secret that Undyne has a huge crush on Alphys, but she can never really figure out the right words to tell her. So they're just, you know! Really good friends! Which is why she's the nerd that would be allowed in her room. You know. She likes the passion she puts into her work and listens diligently to everything she has to say... Which incidentally is why she thinks anime is real.

Abilities:

→ Undyne is pointed out to be strong pretty much throughout the entire game; her strength is above and beyond normal, she can pick up the entire cast at once, at some point she gets excited and starts pounding her fist straight through what looks like concrete, and, well, she suplexes boulders just because she can.

→ In addition to her strength, she's well versed in using spears! ...You know, Blue glowing spears which she creates with magic. She can summon a rather large number of them for various bullet hell maneuvers- I mean, to throw at her enemies from all angles. They don't have to be complete spears, either; she can make the floor glow and have spears come out the ground instead.

→ She is a monster, and like all monsters that means her body is made up of magic more than anything else; upon dying, her body turns to dust and her soul shatters immediately. Attacks that have a more malicious intent will hit her much harder than ones with no intent to hurt her at all. However, Undyne is also the only known monster to naturally possess Determination; while it's not nearly as much as say, Frisk or Flowey, her determination allows her to pull herself together after a fatal wound, although how well she does it and how long it lasts entirely depends on how, well, determined she is to live. Normally it gives her a little longer to try to hit you before she starts to melt and eventually turns to dust, but in the genocide run she completely pulls herself back together and becomes much stronger and more deadly because there's a huge threat to the world, not just a way out for her people (although she's still ultimately defeated by Frisk/Chara. Too bad you can't save, huh?)

It's not likely to be relevant but since it's unclear if she would have actually started melting and dying if she did somehow defeat Frisk I'm just gonna assume that she eventually would; basically if she's hit with a fatal wound, depending on how determined she is to hero it out at the moment, she'll come back for a while, kick some ass, then melt and turn to dust. Fun!

Alignment: Peromei. Undyne's hope and the determination that follows it hits rather ridiculous levels; she'll protect people and fearlessly fight against what she perceives as wrong despite the dangers to her very last breath- or in her case, until she's melting- for the sake of everyone's hope and dreams.

Other: Not that I can think of!

⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
Sample: Here's my testdrive thread!

Questions: Nope!