Cariel Week 2026
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“This is not the time, Rudolph!” Toriel huffed, sounding close to hysterical. “She and I… I want her to like me! I do not have many female friends, a-and you and Gorey are lovely too, of course, but she is… But C is– ”
Carol knocked on the door, pretending she’d just heard Toriel speak of some nebulous ‘she’ twice.
They’re not friends. But whatever it takes to (not be the one needing to) console the girl who would insist they are.
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- Part 1 of Cariel Week 2026
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Toriel visits Carol in her office. It’s before everything (formally) falls apart, but there’s still a certain push and pull to it – a yearning, a longing, a desire to light the fire for Christmas even as it will melt the palace around them down.
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- Part 2 of Cariel Week 2026
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the cruellest thing that you could be by MagicWhiskers_29
Fandoms: Deltarune (Video Game)
23 Jan 2026
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Sometimes, she looked at Toriel and wondered ‘why can’t I be like that?’, which – wasn’t that a ridiculous thing to think?
Carol reflects on her struggles with motherhood.
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- Part 3 of Cariel Week 2026
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Carol did not answer the door quickly. Likely, she had not been expecting company. Toriel would not begrudge her for this, either, even as she did begin to regret, just a little, dressing up nicely as if this were still one of Carol’s old New Year’s parties, now shivering slightly in the cold.
And then Carol was scowling already at the sight of Toriel. She was scowling as if they were back in college, and she was pretending to merely tolerate Toriel’s presence, as if there was not some genuine animosity, these days.
“What?” Carol snapped.
“It is New Year’s Eve,” Toriel said.
“And I do not remember inviting you over for that,” Carol continued to scowl. “This is a family affair, Toriel. Leave.”
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- Part 4 of Cariel Week 2026
- Part 3 of by proxy
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Carol is ill. Toriel is never beyond helping an old friend.
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- Part 5 of Cariel Week 2026