Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4504826-20160516034744/@comment-4504826-20160516050245

GetYourFix wrote: The Asriel and Chara being is mostly SOUL-bound - recall that Asriel absorbs Chara's SOUL. Without a physical vessel, the save/load/reset (SLR) ability does not occur.

There is no indication that the most determined monster was ever able to SLR, even in the time before humans had fallen. Sans's Genocide dialog indicates that only one anomaly occurs.

When Flowey talks about determination, he is specifically talking about determination within a physical vessel, such as a human body.

More so, Asriel does not utilize save files during his boss fight. This is unlike the Photoshop Flowey fight, where he abuses the save/load feature. In the epilogue, Asriel tells Frisk that, as soon as he absorbed the other monster's SOULs, his own compassion returned. When Asriel becomes a monster with A SOUL once again, he can no longer use SLR.

1. When a soul is absorbed, does that not mean that the taken SOUL is added to the host soul?

2. The explanation is that monsters cannot physically handle determination, but Chara can, and the point is that Asriel absorbed Chara's soul, a human soul, which turned him into a being of incredible power, meaning that he probably would be able to handle it.

3. Asriel doesn't utilize SLR during his boss because Frisk's determination is greater than his. He even states that he needs to defeat you to reset the timeline.