Boss Monsters: Why There May Be More Types than the Goats
In Undertale, Gerson responds with the question of whether or not Asgore is a goat by telling Frisk that he’s an “interesting type of monster” - a Boss Monster.
Boss monsters are described as…
Strong because of how their parents’ Soul power transfers to the child as they age
Have Souls able to persist a few seconds after death
Functionally immortal, or un-aging, until they have biological children
Frisk themselves seems particularly interested in the last part, as they ask Gerson a rare question of their own accord…
But Boss Monsters are never described as only resembling goats - the only ones we know of.
Even though the existence of Boss Monsters (plural) is common knowledge, with information about them on the plaques in Waterfall and in the Monster history books…
…Alphys, the royal scientist, Underground expert on Souls, and close friend of Asgore, is shocked to see another Boss Monster that closely resembles him.
She later advises Asgore (after Toriel dumps him…) that he should “stop going after furry boss monsters”, which seems to imply there are non-furry ones.
How could this be relevant to Deltarune?
Repeated emphasis is placed on how a human could absorb the soul of a Boss Monster…but this has never happened in Undertale’s timeline.
This could indicate that this information might become important later in Deltarune; a Boss Monster may exist outside of the Dreemurr family, and the possibility of a human absorbing its Soul to become more powerful exists.
…now here’s why the other Boss Monsters are definitely dragons, in my completely unbiased view.
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