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Well now I'm sad. I gotta go cry this one out, give me a sec...
He was just a little boy. Toriel is such a nice lady, and her little boy not only died, but is suffering an unimaginable hellish undeath.
And he's a child. Worse than pain. Worse than death. Worse than rape.
It's almost like Toby Fox looked at Claus from Mother 3 and said "You know what? I think I can make a child suffer more than that. Suffer so much that even his mother's love cannot save him."
It's just a game. Just a story. And yet, because I'm playing the game, it actually saddens me that I can't help him. When you're the hero of the game, you're supposed to win, to save everyone. But I think that's the meaning. That in life you can't solve everything by being nice, just like Asriel says.
♥♥♥♥ you Toby.
I mean... you're a genius Toby.
You did help him.
Asriel's two major problems were firstly that he was trapped in a body that couldn't feel love. No matter what he did and how bad things got he couldn't feel anything towards anyone else. It got to the point where he nearly killed himself becasue he couldn't feel love anymore.
Which lead to his second problem. The fact he was trapped much worse then anyone else. Because of his "Save Point" he could rewind time and live the same days over and over again but that lead to him devolving into a true monster. He stopped seeing people as people and only as things for his amusement. It didn't matter if he broke them or save them. He could simply undo it by returning to his save point. Which is why Flowey was such a total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
But you returned his heart to him with the SAVE power and judging from his actions even after he returned to being Flowey he still feels love now. Because he can't stand the though of reliving the game over again, of being the badguy, of becoming a god again.
And as for the second part. He no longer even wants to return to his save point, and with the barrier down he is free to leave the underworld any time he feels strong enough to do so.
Yes he is still a flower. But given that he had died even that is better then simply death. And true he should be with his family again... but given what he has done... the amount of times he murdered everyone... he feels he can't look them in the eye again for what he did.
But personally I wish for a better ending for poor Asriel. And if Toby keeps making games maybe he might get one.
So he's alive for real now, the barrier is broken, humans and monsters at peace, which couldn't have happened without his suffering.
I suppose that's life. You can't get everything that you want. I think that's the meaning of this ending for Asriel. In RPGs you want the feeling of accomplishment from having been a savior. So it's mature for this game to deny you some part that reward. That's not how life is. Asriel even tell you that you should get back to your friends and family or something, and ends with "Don't you have anything better to do?." That message is proabably for us: "leave this game and talk to some real people geez".