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Punctuation Penguin wrote: This thread is super long so I haven't read all of it and this point may already have been made. Anyway, why couldn't Photoshop Flowey destroy the barrier if he already had a human soul?

Flowey didn't believe he had a soul of his own at that point. He could feel and be aware of other souls that he captured, but what if he'd been so close to Chara and had her soul for so long that it felt like an intristic part of him, and couldn't see it?

Remember that God of Hyberdeath Asriel is utterly surprised when you try to save another soul inside of him after your six friends, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" and as you repeatedly try to save this 7th soul, Asriel is horrified to find he's regaining the ability to feel compassion, making him increasingly conflicted.