10 YEAR OLD UNDERTALE AND 10 YEAR OLD PROTOHAY

UNDERTALE is an RPG created by Toby Fox. You play as a child who’s fallen into the Underground, now tasked to find a way out. This page will contain spoilers for the game.

UNDERTALE is turning 10 years old as of 2025 (the time I’m writing this) and that’s also half of my life. I got into UNDERTALE when I was 10 years old. I was there the day it was released- my sister had sat me down at my Dad’s computer one day, opened Steam up, and bought the game. I watched her play to about Snowdin I believe…? After that I would begin playing it myself. It was also the first game I ever played myself and got through properly.

And on that day my life changed forever.

Immediately upon playing it for myself I fell in love with the world and characters. I was very lonely at the time, wanting friends but couldn’t make any in school because of my autism. And UNDERTALE was an outlet for me. I would imagine myself being friends with Asriel mainly, and I saw the characters as real people. Asriel is a very important character to me. He is my favorite and as a kid I related to him the most. I felt so upset seeing him at the end of the game.

I still have my old Scratch account from when I was 10, where I would share artwork of Undertale and attempt to make a fangame of it. I also had a Temmie roleplay account… That’s also still up. Oops. Anyway, my first project on my account was an Asriel game. All you did was click on little squares that would appear so he could walk past them. If not, he would just die…

…Speaking of dying, I hated the No Mercy route.

I got so upset at the thought of doing it. I didn’t want to hurt these people- my friends- but I also really wanted to complete the game 100%, just to say I did.

And so I did the No Mercy Route. And then I forced my older brother to fight Undyne and Sans for me because it was too difficult, and also I didn’t want to hurt them myself. And at the end of it, seeing Flowey die… It made me really upset. I never did the route again. Even throughout my countless playthroughs throughout the years I refuse to touch No Mercy. I feel like if I did, I’d be making 10 year old me cry all over again. She doesn’t deserve that, you know?