Flowey

Flowey is a character from Undertale that reappears in Undertale Yellow. He is a major supporting character throughout all three routes and the main tritagonist, appearing regularly to give his commentary on recent events and SAVE the game. Similar to Undertale, Flowey is the final boss of the Neutral Route.

Profile

Appearance

Flowey's appearance is unchanged in Undertale Yellow. He is a sentient golden flower. He has six yellow petals, a white androecium with a face, and a light-green stem. He can change his face's appearance to make a variety of unusual facial expressions, which he usually uses to make disturbing faces.

Personality

Flowey, unlike in Undertale, acts friendly and helpful towards Clover. He follows them throughout the whole game. As Clover does not have enough determination to SAVE like Frisk, Flowey controls the SAVE file and SAVEs the game for Clover.

Flowey's true motives are the same as Undertale's: to acquire the human SOULs from Asgore and become powerful so he can have fun. Flowey attempts to subtly manipulate Clover over the course of the whole game to reach Asgore, as he believes this is the only way to steal the SOULs. He does this in various ways, including berating the other main characters to stop Clover from trusting them and reassuring Clover that he is trustworthy and their best friend. As established in Undertale, Flowey, having no SOUL, cannot feel love or compassion. When not acting, Flowey is violent, impatient, and typically emotionally numb; he is also childish, though that is not highlighted much in Undertale Yellow.

At the end of each route, Flowey expresses different opinions towards Clover. In the Neutral Route, Flowey says he held hope that Clover would entertain him, but they often fail to deliver, and he does not truly care about them. In the Pacifist Route, he calls them predictable, but says he will let them rest and calls them a friend. In the Genocide Route, he claims that he always hated them and gets immense satisfaction from watching them repeatedly die, but is clearly attempting to get under their skin in their moment.

Main Story

History

As explained in Undertale, Flowey is Asriel, brought back to life without a SOUL due to Alphys's experiments. He has had control over the timeline for a long time, growing more detached and bored as he continued resetting. He wants to obtain the human SOULs that Asgore has, but cannot get him to bring them out.

Flowey spent many resets trying to get Clover to confront Asgore in hope that this would let him access to the SOULs. In every timeline, when left alone, Clover always chose to stay with Toriel, so he drove tensions to rise until they confronted her and left. Past Toriel, though, they would always die before reaching Asgore. Flowey decided to tamper with the lever puzzle every time so it would send Clover into the Dark Ruins instead in hopes that this would change the ending.

Neutral Route

Flowey greets Clover when they enter the Dark Ruins, teaching them how to dodge bullets and offering to SAVE for them. He appears to talk at every SAVE point and every time Clover dies. Flowey acts casual and cheerful, though at several points he suggests Clover use violence. Regardless of their actions, he supports them. If Clover chose to kill Dalv, Flowey opens the Dark Ruins exit for them.

In Snowdin, Flowey appears to talk to Clover and ask for their name. While acting irritated towards the many monsters that interrupt them, Flowey appears to enjoy Honeydew Resort. At the SAVE before the Martlet battle, Flowey insults her and wishes Clover luck. If Clover defeats her by attacking, Flowey tells Clover to ride Ava; if they lied about their name earlier, he also reveals he knows their name.

Flowey appears again upon crashing into the Dunes to heal Clover and insult Martlet more. He continues to encourage Clover as they progress and pokes fun at the East Mines workers. When Martlet joins Clover, he does not appear at SAVE points because he is hiding from her. In the Wild East, Flowey puts on a cowboy hat and claims it is a disguise. He acts annoyed at the Wild East being a roadblock and tells Clover they are better than it. Flowey again supports Clover whether they spare or kill Starlo.

Flowey takes on a more active role in the Steamworks. He opens the gate initially and acts relieved to be in a less busy area. He catches Clover at the bottom of the fall when Axis sends them into detainment. Throughout the Steamworks, he makes fun of Axis and the other robots as he does with other characters; however, with Axis, Flowey hints that Clover should kill him. When Axis corners Clover after the chase sequence, Flowey destroys his hands to incapacitate him and encourages Clover to rest and restock before continuing. Flowey guides Clover through the Chemistry Lab and offers commentary on its puzzles. Clover receives a letter from Martlet at the Steamw. - C. Station UGPS sign; Flowey can be glimpsed stealthily replacing this with the Missing Poster shortly after they pick it up. After this, Flowey appears at The Furnace SAVE point and gives Clover the Friendliness Pellets. Regardless of whether Clover kills or spares Axis, Flowey encourages them forward onto Asgore.

In Hotland, at the UG Apartments SAVE, Flowey is distracted by the music box playing inside the memorial statue momentarily, then counts Clover's deaths so far. Clover attempts to head up to the roof of UG Apartments, where Martlet is waiting. Flowey pops up in the alley multiple times to dissuade them and get them back on track to the castle, but Clover resists and meets with her anyway. Clover agrees to live with her, abandoning the mission Flowey wants them to complete. In response, Flowey stabs Martlet through the chest with a vine, killing her almost immediately. On a regular Neutral Route, Flowey taunts Clover about her death and his control over them. If the Genocide Route was aborted in the Steamworks, Flowey kills her believing that Clover was about to, but mocks them once realizing they genuinely wanted to stay with her. In either case, he easily kills them and takes their SOUL.

Flowey is disappointed upon realizing Clover's presence did not disappear upon him absorbing their SOUL. On the first Neutral Route, he reveals that he had been manipulating them for many timelines to kill Asgore, but they never did. Now, to entertain himself, he battles them inside his mind. On subsequent Neutral Routes, he skips straight to the battle. Partway through, Clover runs into his subconscious, where they see remnants of his countless deaths. They hear Flowey from when he first woke up in Asgore's garden to him slowly losing his mind, eventually desperately hoping that his plan with Clover will satisfy him. Flowey regains control of Clover and taunts them with a fake Martlet, which he makes act similar to the real Martlet before melting it in front of them. He pulls them into the fight again for a while, but Clover refuses to give in, and he grows bored. With how they acted so far, and his experience with them in past timelines, Flowey realizes that Clover will never give in and let their SOUL be controlled. He decides to reset and try again.

Pacifist Route

Ceroba joins Clover in the Steamworks, replacing Flowey's role in much of the area. Since he is hiding from Ceroba, he does not appear at SAVE points, separating Clover from much of Flowey's influence. Flowey appears to talk to Clover at several points when they are separated from Ceroba, trying to discourage them from listening to her and at some points outright lying about the Lab to make her look untrustworthy and get Clover back on track to Asgore.

After watching Chujin's tapes, Clover is again left alone. Flowey appears to greet them and express curiosity about Ceroba's plans. He reiterates that he is on their side. After this, backtracking to any previous SAVE points brings dialogue from Flowey encouraging Clover to confront Ceroba.

On the True Pacifist Route, when Clover gives their SOUL to Martlet and the others, Flowey expresses disappointment over their decision and predictability, but accepts it. On the Flawed Pacifist Route, Flowey expected Clover to lose to Asgore, but is still disappointed. In either case, Flowey has to decide whether to keep trying with Clover or to let them rest and wait for the next human, a choice made by the player. The option to wait for the next human leads into Undertale, when Frisk enters the Underground.

Genocide Route

During this route, Flowey is supportive of Clover's actions for most of their journey, even claiming to believe they are justified. He is their only ally for most of the route. This changes in the Steamworks, at which point Flowey starts getting bored and annoyed. He tells Clover that they are wasting their time killing nonthreatening robots and killing non-monsters is not forwarding their mission. This annoyance continues into Hotland when seeing it abandoned due to their rampage.

After defeating Martlet, Flowey shows up and berates Clover over how their actions have caused the Underground to go into a full lockdown, saying that it makes Clover's goal of getting to the castle nigh impossible. Upon letting it slip he is after the human SOULs, Clover moves to attack him. Flowey snaps and tries to kill Clover while insulting them. However, now with superior determination, Clover easily deters Flowey's many attempts to kill them through loading their SAVE. After this, Flowey pauses and attempts to flee, but Clover loads so he is trapped. Recognizing his fate, Flowey completely drops his act and resorts to viciously taunting Clover, who soon kills him.

In Battle

Main article: Flowey/In Battle

Gallery

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  Flowey wearing a cowboy hat when interacted with in the Wild East.
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  Flowey dancing, seen in the game's Underevent 2022 teaser but unused in the full game.
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  Flowey, as seen in Undertale Yellow's cover art.
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  As Decibat
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  As Dalv
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  As El Bailador
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  As Starlo
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  As Ceroba
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  As Guardener
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  As Axis
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  A withered Flowey seen in his battle intermission.
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  Meta Flowey laughing during the start of his battle.
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  Flowey as a roulette wheel for Clover to choose one of his six petal phases.
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  "Patchworked" petal phase
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  "Organic" petal phase
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  "Clay" petal phase
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  "Paper" petal phase
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  "Polygonal" petal phase
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  Distorted face for the "Polygonal" petal phase
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  Stickbug creatures from the "Polygonal" petal phase
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  "Mechanical" petal phase
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  The drone in the "mechanical" petal phase

Trivia

• When saving at the same SAVE point multiple times, Flowey gets increasingly impatient, changing his dialogue.
  • If Clover repeatedly saves at the first SAVE point of the Dark Ruins before reaching the next SAVE, he has secret dialogue where he insists that Clover only needs him, not Toriel.
• Flowey has unique dialogue during no-save runs, becoming increasingly frustrated with Clover over the course of the game.
  • Flowey also has unique dialogue at UG Apartments if Clover has never died. He teases Clover for not letting him save them from death, asking them to "die a little."
• Like in the original Undertale, resetting the game after meeting Flowey leads to a slightly shortened introduction cutscene in the Dark Ruins; the second time onwards leads to a much shorter cutscene. Flowey's dialogue at the end of the Meta Flowey battle also changes after defeating him multiple times. These are the only two events to change on subsequent playthroughs, excluding Fun Events.
• The "Clay" petal phase of the Meta Flowey fight may be visually inspired by the video game Hylics, which uses a similar pixel-shaded claymation style.
• After Flowey taunts Clover near the end of the Genocide Route, he dies to eight consecutive shots. This references Undertale, where Flowey is also killed by eight consecutive slashes at the end of the Genocide Route.

See Also

• Flowey article on Undertale Wiki.