

Toriel has a kind and maternal personality; she is the mother of Asriel and Kris, and a teacher for the younger students at the local school. She is orderly and traditional—her home features a landline telephone and a television with an external antenna. Her interests include baking, teaching, reading, snails, and puns. Toriel is also religious; she keeps a hymnal at home and frequently attends church. Toriel is also prone to passing judgment. She seems to anticipate trouble from Kris, recalling their past mischief—such as the time they placed a bath bomb in the toilet—and she insists that Kris should not eat the entire pie. Her critical nature also extends to her strained relationships with Mayor Carol and Asgore; she expresses disapproval regarding the Mayor’s continued assistance with Asgore’s research into alternate realms—a subject of which both Rudy and Kris are aware. Nevertheless, Toriel continues to pray for Asgore during church services. [ 1 ] While she refrains from criticiz
Friendly, educated, sweet
Toriel (whose surname was Dreemurr before her divorce) is the mother of Kris and Asriel, the latter of whom is currently attending university. Toriel is the ex-wife of Asgore Dreemurr. She lives with them in a well-maintained house at the northern end of Hometown. In her youth, Toriel used to attend college parties with Rudy Holiday, who describes her as "sweet and tender on the outside, but a total wild child on the inside!" Although she was initially reluctant to let loose, she would often get very excited—at one point, she even threw a lime pie at Rudy, sending him flying across the room. At her wedding to Asgore Dreemurr, she carried a bouquet of seven flowers that he had given her. Later, they had a son, Asriel, and would go on to adopt Kris, raising the two children as siblings. Toriel and Asgore remained close friends with Rudy and his wife, Carol, often inviting them and their two daughters over for the holidays. For many years, Toriel and her family also attended the annual Ho