[To harm others is deplorable. To harm children, even more so. This is a viewpoint that Toriel has always maintained. But she was desperate.
They did not deserve it. Even in her version of events... she cannot say the child that killed her deserved to feel pain in return. But she was so very, very desperate, to do something that they didn't deserve, if it would only prevent something even worse.
But she did not know it was them. No child deserved it, but... She did not know she was raising her hand against Chara, and that... that makes it so much worse than she ever could have dreamed.
Chara, who never talked about their biological parents. Chara, who showed so many... unfortunate tendencies, said so many little things that spoke to a much greater tragedy. Chara, who did not seem to understand what love and gentleness was, who recoiled from her touch when she offered it without warning first. Chara, who never had to say a word for Toriel to know that whatever home they had come from, had not treated them right. That whoever claimed to be their parents should never have been allowed anywhere near a child.
And she had hurt them. Unwittingly helped reinforce whatever terrible views of adults and parents and mothers that they had. They had died, again, in such an already broken state- and she had... Her magic... she had planned to stop if they became too injured, but. She must have made a mistake, not held back enough if she had actually... No, it doesn't matter. Intentionally or not, she had... she had done something as horrible as that. The worst thing she could possibly imagine.
She killed her own child.]
...Nothing I could say or do could possibly make up for what I have done to you.
Mothers do not do what I did. I... have failed, as your mother.
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They did not deserve it. Even in her version of events... she cannot say the child that killed her deserved to feel pain in return. But she was so very, very desperate, to do something that they didn't deserve, if it would only prevent something even worse.
But she did not know it was them. No child deserved it, but... She did not know she was raising her hand against Chara, and that... that makes it so much worse than she ever could have dreamed.
Chara, who never talked about their biological parents. Chara, who showed so many... unfortunate tendencies, said so many little things that spoke to a much greater tragedy. Chara, who did not seem to understand what love and gentleness was, who recoiled from her touch when she offered it without warning first. Chara, who never had to say a word for Toriel to know that whatever home they had come from, had not treated them right. That whoever claimed to be their parents should never have been allowed anywhere near a child.
And she had hurt them. Unwittingly helped reinforce whatever terrible views of adults and parents and mothers that they had. They had died, again, in such an already broken state- and she had... Her magic... she had planned to stop if they became too injured, but. She must have made a mistake, not held back enough if she had actually... No, it doesn't matter. Intentionally or not, she had... she had done something as horrible as that. The worst thing she could possibly imagine.
She killed her own child.]
...Nothing I could say or do could possibly make up for what I have done to you.
Mothers do not do what I did. I... have failed, as your mother.