Undertale Neutral routes are usually so much crueler than Genocide tbh because you just leave everyone to suffer after killing family members and friends
like yeah some of them aren’t too bad, they just would need to wait for another human to fall down but...some of them are majorly fucked.
Like, the one where you make Undyne a hopeless depressed shell of herself?
The one where you only kill Papyrus, leaving Sans, moving in with Toriel and keeping her ‘little angel’ image of you alive? Can you imagine, some kid being nice or indifferent to every monster they come across, and then straight up killing your brother with no reason other than “why not”? Sans would have never seen it coming...
What about the leaderless ones, where Sans is depressed and alone and berates himself for not standing up to lead? What about Mettaton losing his absolute shit and brainwashing the underground? What about killing everyone up until Hotland, leaving just Alphys and Sans to be the rulers alone together, and the majority of the underground empty?
How about all those timelines (some of which we already listed) where Alphys never gets the help she needs and ‘disappears?’ How about all those timelines where Undyne loses herself in anger and vengeance, becoming “worse than Asgore” as they say?
Genocide is fucked up. But Neutral routes? They can leave so much more tragedy, since people are actually still alive to grieve, unlike in Genocide. People are still alive to face the consequences of your actions.
God, the ending gives so much fanfiction, fancomic, and fanstory materiel too...and we didn’t even mention every neutral route. Just a few off the top of our head.
