Toriel's Home
Toriel's Home is a location southeast in the Ruins, and, as the name states, is the residence of Toriel.
- The Butterscotch Pie can be retrieved when the protagonist sleeps on the bed for the first time.
As the protagonist enters her home, Toriel reveals her surprises to celebrate their arrival: a freshly-baked pie, and her intention to raise the protagonist. She encourages the protagonist to follow her to the east hall, where she guides them to the guest room's front door and states it is their new room. At the scent of something burning, Toriel leaves.
Toriel can then be found in the living room, where she reads a book. When talking to Toriel, the protagonist may ask her when they can go home. This allows the protagonist to ask how to exit the Ruins. The latter causes Toriel to excuse herself and go into the basement.
When the protagonist follows her, she explains that she is going to destroy the exit to the rest of the underground in order to prevent anyone else from ever leaving. She then elaborates that Asgore will kill the protagonist that, as he had with the previous six humans who fell. The protagonist is eventually brought to a large door at the end of the basement before Toriel fights them to make them prove to her that they are strong enough to survive outside of the Ruins.
Toriel lives in a small house adjacent to the Ruins. She confesses to the protagonist that she had no time to clean up before taking them there, but the cottage is very tidy. Her house consists of a foyer, a hallway, her room, two guest rooms (one of which is currently under renovations), a kitchen, a living room, and the front room with a staircase leading downstairs. Many of the rooms feature large bookshelves, as Toriel herself spends time reading by the fireplace. The hallway and Toriel's bedroom are adorned with various potted plants.
This is the entrance of Toriel's home. To the west is the living room, to the east is the hallway, and up north are the stairs to the basement. The room has a drawer with a plant atop it, and a small bookshelf with worn books.
Inspecting the drawer reveals an old 201X calendar inside.[1]
The east path leads to the living room, where Toriel can be found sitting in a reading chair next to a small, lit warmly fireplace.[2] If the protagonist uses the Cell Phone while Toriel is reading, her overworld sprite depicts her as talking as she expresses her amusement.[3]
Nearby is a bookcase, filed down tools, a large dining table with three chairs, and the entrance to the kitchen. If the bookcase is inspected, there is a history book on monsters retreating into the Ruins.
After Toriel leaves, the reading chair can be inspected.[4]
If the protagonist returns to this room after killing Toriel, the fire is put out.
The room contains a fridge with a brand-name chocolate bar inside it, a sink with white fur stuck in the drain, a kitchen island with a cupboard filled with cookie cutters[5] and butterscotch pie on top, hanging pans and kitchen mittens, and an oven with a clean stovetop.[6]
Checking the butterscotch-cinnamon pie on different occasions causes different dialogue to appear:
- If the protagonist did not sleep in the bed, it is stated it has a nice scent, though it is too hot.
- If they slept, the narration comments that the size of the pie intimidates the protagonist.
On the Genocide Route, inspecting the kitchen cupboard prompts the unique response "Where are the knives." Inspecting the oven after killing Toriel prompts the response "No one will use this anymore..."
To the right of the entrance of Toriel's Home, there is a short hallway containing the doorways to the guest room and Toriel's room. It also contains a variety of plants, including two that the protagonist does not know the name of.[7] At the end of the hall is an inaccessible room "under renovations", as well as a drawer with flower seeds and broken crayons. Next to the door is a mirror, which displays the text "It's you!" when examined in the Neutral Route or the True Pacifist Route.
After reading the encyclopedia in Toriel's room, the two vases with plants are permanently described as "water sausages".
On the Genocide Route, inspecting the mirror displays the text, "It's me, <Name>." In the True Pacifist Route's epilogue, inspecting the mirror displays the text "Still just you, Frisk."
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Toriel leads the protagonist to the guest room and offers it to them as their own. It is a children's bedroom, including a picture of a five-petaled flower, toys that the protagonist is not interested in, a shelf with a dusty, empty photo frame, and a box of kids' shoes in various sizes. Turning off the lamp in the top left corner darkens the room and changes the background music to a music box variant of the Home track.
Sleeping in the bed restores the protagonist's health. The protagonist wakes up with the lights in the room switched off, and if it is the first time they sleep there, Toriel leaves a slice of Butterscotch Pie on the floor nearby. In Hard Mode, the pie is replaced with Snail Pie. If the protagonist has not asked Toriel on how to exit the Ruins, they always wake up tucked in bed.
- Sleeping after Toriel starts blocking the Ruins' exit (provided the protagonist has talked to her three times in the basement first) results in a dream, where the protagonist hears Asgore pleading for the fallen human to wake up, stating that they are the future of humans and monsters. This occurs anytime the protagonist sleeps in the bed afterwards unless the True Pacifist Route was completed. At this point, regardless of whether or not this is the first time the protagonist sleeps here, the pie will not appear.
- If the protagonist sleeps in the bed after killing Toriel, Empty House plays when they wake up.
- Attempting to sleep in the bed after completing the True Pacifist Route ending prompts the response: "It felt strange to lie in the bed. It feels entirely too small for you now."
In the True Pacifist Route epilogue, the empty photo frame has been dusted off.[8]
The game files and concept art both reveal that the room originally belonged to Asriel. The background sprite for this room is named bg_asrielroom, the internal name is room_asrielroom, the bed's internal object name is obj_asrielbed, and the lamp's internal object name is obj_asriellamp.
Toriel's room is simple, and primarily contains an assortment of plants, including some cacti and potted golden flowers. It has a table with her diary, an old bucket full of snails, a rather large bed, a bookcase, and a drawer full of her socks beside it.
Inspecting Toriel's diary reveals that she has written various puns in it. If Toriel's small chair is inspected, it is identified as "Chairiel".[9] The flavor text identifies the bed as "bigger than a twin-sized bed". One of the books in the bookcase is an encyclopedia of subterranean plants, which when read, causes the "typha" plants in the hallway to permanently be described as a "water sausage". The bigger, potted cactus with flowers is described as "tsundere".[10]
In the True Pacifist Route's epilogue, inspecting the bed displays the text "(But now, you realize it's actually one size bigger than a double.)"
The basement is accessed via the stairs in the foyer. It is a series of long hallways leading up to a door. If the protagonist attempts to walk downstairs before talking to Toriel in the living room, she repeatedly takes the protagonist back upstairs, rendering the basement inaccessible until the protagonist asks Toriel how to leave the Ruins.
Toriel's house was originally planned to resemble an actual house from the outside, but had to be made out of tiles from the Ruins, as nobody ended up drawing it. There was also intended to be a large water wheel on the side, as the explanation for where she got her electricity from, which is noted to be the reason for water earlier in the Ruins.
The large empty frame over the staircase was originally planned to have a map of the entire underground. The empty picture frames in the right hallway were added by Temmie Chang, and Toby Fox notes that he wanted to put something in them, but never did.
An early sketch of Asriel's room shows an astronomy-themed mobile above his bed, with hanging stars, crescent moons, and a single sun. This was suggested by Toby, as at the time, he envisioned Asriel having an interest in the outside world. This interest was ultimately implemented via Asriel's Star Blazing attack, along with Asriel's side of the room in Deltarune. Another early sketch depicts this room with the bed in the top left corner, facing to the right, with the dresser and wardrobe shifted accordingly, and the rug circular instead of rectangular. The same artwork also features Toriel's room, mostly resembling its final design, though with the door on the right side and a few pieces of furniture moved around.
The living room and dining room were originally planned to be separate rooms, both featuring drastically different layouts to their merged layout in the final. The kitchen was flipped, originally having the fridge on the right and the oven on the left, alongside a corner countertop beside the oven, and a cookie jar on top of the fridge, with the door on the left side of the room, instead of the bottom like in the final. There was also originally planned to be a bathroom, an idea Toby notes as "ridiculous".
- The room marked "Room under renovations." corresponds to Asgore's bedroom in Asgore's Home, similar to how the room in his house marked "Room under renovations" corresponds to Toriel's bedroom in her house.
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Inside is an old calendar from the beginning of 201X.
— Narrator, upon inspecting the calendar - ↑
The fire isn't burning hot... Just pleasantly warm. You could put your hand inside.
— Narrator, upon inspecting the fireplace - ↑
Hey, you silly child.
— Toriel
If you want to talk to me, I am right here. - ↑
(Seems like the right size for Toriel.)
— Narrator, upon inspecting the chair in the living room - ↑
Inside the cupboard are cookie cutters for gingerbread monsters.
— Narrator, upon inspecting the cupboard - ↑
The stovetop is very clean. Toriel must use fire magic instead.
— Narrator, upon inspecting the oven - ↑
You have seen this type of plant before but do not know its name.
— Narrator - ↑
(An empty photo frame.)
— Narrator, inspecting the empty photo frame
(Someone's dusted it off.) - ↑
(Toriel's small chair.) (Its name is Chairiel.)
— Narrator, upon inspecting the chair in Toriel's room - ↑
Ah, the cactus. Truly the most tsundere of plants.
— Narrator