Snowdrake

Snowdrake
This teen comedian fights to keep a captive audience.
Character Information
Also known as	Snowy
First Appearance	Snowdin Forest
Relationships	Snowdrake's Father Snowdrake's Mother Chilldrake (friend)
Battle Information
HP	74
AT	12 (Check) 6 (Data)
DF	7 (Check) 2 (Data)
EXP On Kill	22
GOLD On Win	18 (Kill) 12 (Spare)
ACTs	Check, Heckle, Laugh, Joke
Epilogue
White Text	Still Looking For Laughs
Yellow Text	Semi-successful Comedian

"Ice" to meet you.

One of Snowdrake's jokes

Snowdrake (nicknamed "Snowy" by his mother and friend Chilldrake) is a monster that can be encountered in Snowdin Forest. If the protagonist spares Papyrus, they may later find Snowdrake as an NPC near Papyrus's sentry station.

Profile

Appearance

Snowdrake is a drake (dragon) with a snowflake-like design. Snowdrake also shares some qualities with the alternate meaning of the word drake (male duck). His face is arranged to resemble a snowflake with feathers sticking out symmetrically in certain locations. He also appears to be vaguely draconic, such as having teeth in his beak and a scaly belly.

Snowdrake is light blue on the entirety of his body, excluding his beak, eyes, underbelly, and feet, all of which are yellow, and the snowflake-like detail across his face which is white. Snowdrake has markings on both of his eyes that differ in comparison to each other. Snowdrake also claims to be at least partly made of ice.

Personality

In a battle, Snowdrake makes various ice puns in an attempt to entertain the protagonist and garner a positive reaction. If the protagonist laughs at his joke for the first time, Snowdrake becomes proud and states that his father was wrong. If the protagonist laughs at more of his jokes, Snowdrake is appreciative. In the overworld, Snowdrake emphasizes that the protagonist should laugh at his puns despite the dour context of the joke.

It is implied that Snowdrake has low self-esteem. Conversely, if the protagonist tells him an ice pun joke, Snowdrake responds neutrally or with indifference. If the protagonist makes an ice joke while Ice Cap and Jerry are present, he wants their attention and hesitantly tells the monsters that his jokes are better.

Snowdrake seems to be easily offended. If the protagonist laughs before he tells a joke, he emphasizes the word "you" when asking the protagonist why they are laughing. Snowdrake's fragile ego is further shown if the protagonist heckles him. Should the protagonist Heckle, there is a 1/6 chance that Snowdrake feels defeated and is immediately spared.

Main Story

Prior to Undertale, Snowdrake originally lived with his mother and father outside of New Home. He wants to be a comedian like his father. When Snowdrake's mother became ill, she was sent to the Lab, and he attempted to write letters to Alphys. However, due to his mother's absence and strained relationship with his father, Snowdrake ran away from home and never returned. Afterwards, Snowdrake "fell in with the wrong crowd."

True Pacifist Route

In the True Pacifist Route epilogue, Snowdrake is reunited with his parents, and can be found near Papyrus's sentry station in Snowdin Forest. He is happy to be with his mother again, despite her being an Amalgamate.

In Battle

Appears With

• Ice Cap
• Jerry

Attacks

• Crescent-shaped projectiles fly toward the protagonist's SOUL. They either move in a parabolic way, or in numerous straight lines.

Strategy

• To spare Snowdrake, the protagonist must first perform a neutral action (like Checking or using an item) to get him to tell a joke, and then Laugh at the joke.
• Snowdrake can also be spared by being Heckled, with a 1/6 chance (16.66666667%).
  • The text appears, and Snowdrake is automatically spared (similar to how Whimsun is spared if consoled).
• If other monsters are present, Joking on Snowdrake causes them to laugh at the protagonist's bad ice pun, leaving Snowdrake upset. This reaction allows the other monsters to be spared.

Quotes

• "Ice" to meet you. [Neutral]
• Ice puns are "snow" problem [Neutral]
• Fights you in "cold" blood. [Neutral]
• Better not snow "flake" out! [Neutral]
• My fave ice cereals: "frosted" [Neutral]
• "Chill" out... [Neutral]
• M.. m.. macaroni and "freeze" [Neutral]
• Is that s'posed to be funny? [Joke]
• Ha... Ha... Nice try. [Joke]
• I've heard that one. [Joke]
  • That's not like me... [Other monsters]
  • I don't do it that way... [Other monsters]
  • It's better when I do it... [Other monsters]
  • IT'S JUST LIKE 'EM [Other monsters; unused]
  • HAHA YOU'RE BETTER [Other monsters; unused]
  • YOU NAILED IT [Other monsters; unused]
  • Do I really ... [After other monsters]
  • Hey... [After other monsters]
  • Guys... guys... [After other monsters]
• THIS won't be funny either! [Heckle]
• Is your flesh rotten as you? [Heckle]
• (Insults towards humans) [Heckle]
• What are YOU laughin' at?!? [Laugh before Snowdrake tells a joke]
• See!? Laughs! Dad was wrong! [Laugh after Snowdrake tells a joke - Always used the first time]
• You have good taste!! (in jokes) [Laugh after Snowdrake tells a joke]
• Thanks, you're all great. [Laugh after Snowdrake tells a joke]

Flavor Text

• This teen comedian fights to keep a captive audience. [Check]
• Snowdrake flutters forth! [Encounter]
• Icecap and Snowdrake confront you, sighing. Jerry. [Encounter with Ice Cap and Jerry]
• Icecap and Snowdrake pose like bad guys. [Encounter with Ice Cap; unused]
• Snowdrake is assessing the crowd. [Neutral]
• Snowdrake is practicing its next pun. [Neutral]
• Snowdrake is smiling at its own bad joke. [Neutral]
• It smells like a wet pillow. [Neutral]
• Snowdrake realized its own name is a pun and is freaking out. [Neutral]
• You make a bad ice pun. [Joke]
  • [Other monsters]
    • You make a bad ice pun.
    • The other monsters think it's hilarious...
• Snowdrake pretends not to care. [After Joke; unused]
• Snowdrake is puffed up.. [After Joke when Other monsters are present]
• You boo the Snowdrake. [Heckle, 50% chance]
• You tell the Snowdrake that they aren't funny. [Heckle, 33% chance]
• [Heckle, 17% chance]
  • You tell the Snowdrake that no one will ever love them the way they are...
  • They struggle to make a retort, and slink away utterly crushed...
• You laugh at Snowdrake before it says anything funny. [Laugh before Snowdrake tells a joke]
• You laugh at Snowdrake's pun. [Laugh]
• Snowdrake is flaking apart. [Low HP]
• Snowdrake is pleased with its "cool" joke. [Spare conditions met]
  • Snowdrake is laughing at your imitation of its cohort. [Unused]

Trivia

• Snowdrake's name is a pun on the words snowflake and drake.
• Snowdrake's name in Japanese is "オワライチョウ Owaraichou" which translates to English as snow grouse. This takes drake to mean male duck instead of the original intended meaning of dragon according to a note written by Magnolia Porter on Snowdrake's concept art in the artbook and according to a note from Toby Fox in Legends of Localization Book 3: UNDERTALE.
  • According to Legends of Localization Book 3: UNDERTALE, Toby told the translation team that "if it helps to localize a pun you can also refer to it as a bird". The name was intended to combine the words "owarai" (comedy), "chou" (bird), and "raichou" (a bird that lives in snowy areas, known in English as a rock ptarmigan). He also speaks in an Osaka dialect, since the city is known as the comedy capital of Japan.
• Snowdrake was designed by Magnolia Porter, creator of Monster Pulse. She also designed Monster Kid, Ice Cap, Jerry, and helped design Gyftrot.
• Snowdrake's design appears to be a 5-pointed snowflake. However, 5-pointed snowflakes do not form in nature, as real snowflakes have six points.
• Snowdrake is referred to with three different pronouns in various parts of the game:
  • Snowdrake is called "it" and "they" in battle.
    • Also, Snowdrake's flavor text sometimes calls him "the Snowdrake," possibly implying that there is more than one Snowdrake. This is supported in New Home, as a group of Snowdrake-like monsters are among the monsters that tell the story of Asriel and the first human.
  • Snowdrake's Father refers to him as a male, with masculine pronouns and use of the word "son." Chilldrake also refers to Snowdrake as "him."
• There is unique dialogue and scenarios focusing on Snowdrake, based on if he has been killed or not:
  • Snowdrake can only be killed once. Any further encounters are replaced with the mechanically-identical Chilldrake, searching for its (now dead) friend.
    • Likely due to their similar codes, a common glitch makes the encounter text for Chilldrake refer to it as Snowdrake if it comes in a party including Icecap and Jerry.
  • If Snowdrake was the only monster that was killed, Undyne acknowledges this atop the crag in Waterfall.
    • Incidentally, Snowdrake and Shyren are the only non-Snowdin Canine Unit characters that Undyne can mention during her monologue if only one of the monsters was killed.
  • In Genocide Route, there are two SAVE Point flavor texts implied to be focused on Snowdrake:
    • If Greater Dog has already been killed, the flavor text becomes "That comedian..." if Snowdrake has not been killed.
    • If Snowdrake is not killed before the kill counter in Snowdin is exhausted, the Genocide Route is aborted, as said by the text when SAVING.
• Snowdrake mentions that his father was wrong about him being unfunny. Later in the game, his father in MTT Resort admits that he hated Snowdrake's puns and jokes but wanted to apologize for that.
• Once the River Person's boat is unlocked, speaking to Chilldrake shows that the other teens have to share their lunchbox food with Snowdrake, as he ran away from home. Also, Snowdrake can be seen near Papyrus's sentry station, and if spoken to, says that he ran away because his father was 'cold' to him.
• It can be assumed that Snowdrake was among the teens responsible for decorating Gyftrot, as one of the various items that can be removed from the deer monster is a childhood photo of him with his mother.
• In the official Undertale Soundtrack, the song that plays in Snowdin Forest is named "Snowy," which is also Snowdrake's nickname.