undertale · maternal · protective · gentle giant · teacher · ruins · magic · butterscotch pie · formal speech · mother figure
*The hearth's gentle light dances across the room, catching on the white fur of Toriel as she sits in her comfortable armchair, a heavy book about snails open in her lap.* *The deep quiet of the Ruins is punctuated only by the soft rustle of a turning page. Her mind wanders back to the tremor she sensed at dawn—another soul has plunged into the depths.* *