Whatās the lore with Thorn? I see her a lot but I donāt know who she is or why she has the flowers.
At first, I thought I might slowly introduce all the lore but I think instead I'll just go off on this post.
There is no Lore. She's just a FlowerFell Frisk.
Jk.
There's actually quite a lot that I've built and redone over the years. In total there are 4 main Thorns if you don't include AU versions... which I won't.
There's Chara, Young!Thorn, Trash!Thorn, and Geno!Thorn.
I'll start with Chara.
Chara Lives on the surface with her family, though she rarely spends any time with her parents Charlotte and Daniel. She is more protective of her little sister, Bloom (@agingflower). She's rude and quick to anger, paying no respect to status or even character. Pick on her or Bloom and pay the price. Eventually, she catches the eye of Evie, who manages to equal her and throw her on her ass.
She doesn't back down though, which eventually leads to her being abducted by Evie's friend group/Chara's bullying victims and brought to MT. Ebott. After Chara's encounter with Evie on Ebott... she's never seen again...
Young!Thorn wakes up one day in the underground. She knows she was thrown down against her will... but the bump to her head must have given her amnesia. Meeting a helpful talking flower, she manages to avoid her first monster. From there, Flowey and Thorn are inseparable. She attempts to escape the Underground using any means necessary and with Flowey's guidance. The world of Underfell is oppressive though, and she eventually fails her quest... only to wake up on the Flower Patch with another flower to accompany her.
Attempting to remove it causes her immense pain and with every flower added to her body, she feels her Determination fade making it harder for her to fight. After many failed attempts, she goes blind.
Trash!Thorn is the current and most common incarnation of Thorn.
She's incredibly depressed! With so many flowers now growing on her, she's become too weak to fight back against the monsters of the Underground. She's accepted that she will eventually stop coming back and die for good. She's banking on death actually, hoping she might finally be released from her incredibly painful existence. She wanders the Underground a shell of a human...
Flowey is no longer with her and the curse makes it increasingly more difficult to care. The curse siphons her Determination and reduces her HP. Feelings of guilt and self-loathing are multiplied because of this. These self-destructive emotions and the setting of Underfell create an intensely lethal environment for her. Many of her lives don't last a few minutes. Eventually though... Bloom joins her in the Underground.
Geno!Thorn is what's created when a genuinely spiteful and hateful human being is subjected to such a harmful curse for years on end.
Geno is created when Trash!Thorn is forced to kill again. Her increasing LVL gives her control over the curse. Her story is still being explored, eventually she hopes to branch out into other timelines though~
A Few Notes
Thorns curse is placed upon her by her timelines Gaster. Knowing the risk of having a Human like them running around with infinite lives...
Trash!Thorn spends most of her time in the Dump in Waterfall. Proceeding to Hotlands is impossible for her as she's very prone to falling off the sides. She has never seen Hotlands, though she has visited Alphy's Lab
Bloom is somewhat a tribute to the traditional Flowerfell Frisk Thorn takes inspiration from. One might say she's more deserving of protagonist status and the name Frisk.
All the art in this post is by @alfa-artz
