Don’t know if I’ve posted this already but I do know I’ve mentioned it to a bunch of people—I find it so funny whenever people are like, “I thought we all shipped Soriel in 2015/when Undertale first came out? Why the switch up now [with Deltarune]?” And ignoring the actual stupid reasons some people are hating on Toriel (and ignoring Asgore’s chosen actions in Deltarune), I have to say… WRONG!
I was a Soriel hater from the start. I was a Sans Girlie and so if he was going to be with anyone it was going to be ME, not Toriel. Soriel fanart comes up? Skipped. Soriel fanart from an artist I follow and like comes up? Potential skip, maybe a very hesitant like if only because I like their art. Will I argue with Toriel haters if their hatred is based on faulty and dumb reasoning? Absolutely (and by argue, I mean I most of the time complain to a friend about it). Will I necessarily ship it? Nah, that’s my datemate.
Even more? I was a skeleton slut with it, too. Give me any of his AUs and/or Papyrus and his AUs. I loved those “6+ skeletons, 1 [blank]” stories and I still do. At least with Papyrus, though, he was a little more free as I did find the Papyton ship cute, but if a random OC popped up in one of these fics for Papyrus to be with? Nah, gone.
But yeah, Soriel hater from day one. Can understand the ship and I know why people find it cute; I understand the dynamic between the two and some of the comedic back and forth. But I’m a Soriel hater through and through because I’m a Sans Girlie