What do you think asriels role in the story even is? Like it's been fucking me up lately, cause he doesn't seem that important to the narrative of deltarune, but he sure seems to mean a lot to the people in it, he's kris's older brother (Who is one of the main protagonist), he was dating dess (who might be the main villain), and, ralsei's whole ass entire existence is just spewing with asriel references and parellels, and THAT ONE fucks me up the most, cause like, they're a darkner! if they were a lightner it could just be a coincidence, hell even in undertale i believe papyrus literally calls toriel a "beardless" asgore, implying that they look similar, but ralsei was MADE by someone to look like that, and was given that name intentionally, and we have no idea why.
At this point, i'm sorta headcanoning that maybe gaster is just a big asriel fan, i mean his name was one of the special dialogue options during the naming sequence, though he wasn't given the special dialogue like Kris, susie, and noelle, so i doubt he's like a main character or anything, but that begs the question, what is he here for?
I have been wondering when and how we're eventually going to see Asriel in the game...if Hometown has been cut off from the outside world by Gaster in order to facilitate the player interfacing with it as a video game, then unfortunately it seems like we won't actually be able to see him until the very end of the game, when we have to stop playing and separate so that Hometown (or its residents) can rejoin the wider world. Paper Trail ending comes true oh noooo
But I suppose in that sense, Asriel is kind of different things to the people of Hometown. He's this shadow of the past, this golden child that everyone keeps bringing up, this weight that's weighing on Kris and part of what's driving them to do what they do. Kris's feelings about Asriel definitely seem to be forming some aspect of who Ralsei is, even as Ralsei is still growing into his own person.
But in another sense...he's also that inevitable future. He's grown up and gone to college; something that seems to be looming over Kris as well. He's one of the few people that's really escaped from Hometown and gone out into the wider world. He's crossed the lake, so to speak...just in a way that's obviously not so dire as in the weird route.
In a way, I suppose Asriel represents the threshold between childhood and adulthood, and the threshold by which we'll eventually finish playing the game. Which is kind of what he was in Undertale too, actually.
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