Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-27136653-20180729233458

"Come on, they don't reproduce asexually."

That's rather an argument I would expect you to use when arguing for whatever nonsense.

"Which means it counts as an attack."

In this sole case, yes.

"Why heal the enemy?"

Because we aren't an enemy to them. Yes, they are attacking us, but that's just our point of view.

"Come on, this is basic stuff."

You are expecting every monster to be a medic. That's not basic at all imo. And those few monster species that could conjure them effortlessly might have just been exceptions.

"It's not some universal rule this time."

Why not? And if yes, then why can't everything be like this, that is, 'not a universal rule?' Where are you drawing the line?

"They know that turns exist"

Only if they were all encountering humans on a regular basis, which is impossible.

"There's no explanation to why mass distorts space-time. No explanation for why charges exist. No explanation for why the quantum world is this weird."

Because gravity, because symmetry, and because the reduced Planck's constant being dependant on the product of quantum position and momentum. We are dealing with measurable phenomena here. Now explain how is the HUD measurable... it really isn't. The best and only explanation so far is computer code.

"Chara would more than likely give Asgore a creepy face."

I'll take this meta explanation.

"Why no shatter?"

We couldn't see them shatter. We only saw the overpowering light from the barrier shattering. Does that make sense?

"Also, why sre the tombs empty?"

They buried them elsewhere. Probably upon Toriel's request anyways. Or maybe the skeletons are still there, we really can't see inside and can only inspect Chara's coffin. Though the former explains why the coffins are opened better.

"Why didn't Asriel share some of that power with the six SOULs?"

Because of how much DT is needed to make a soul persist after death. There's a reason why human souls are so strong. It's because that much power is required to make them persist. And if you do the math, if you assume that all of monsterkind is equal to 1.499 human souls at most (this is as much as rounding allows us to assume, without the original statement sounding weird - why compare to 1 human soul, when the power is closer to 2?), then that leaves just 0.083 or 8% DT capacity for each human soul (0.499/6 = 0.083). Which is way too little to make any of them persist imo. And that's not even factoring in the DT needed for the monsters, assuming they too need at least a little bit of it to stay alive normally.

"This is why the monsters do fine and well in the TP ending, rather than, say, barely be able to walk. It restores itself."

My explanation for that is that their DT was drained, but they don't need DT to exist, they rely on magic. For them, DT is just a niche concept, just like magic and humans - they don't need it to survive.

"The same reason why we can't."

Why, are we a boss encounter to them?

"That's what I've been saying about the monsters THIS WHOLE TIME. Why can't this be the case elsewhere?"

And why should it? We still aren't seeing the full picture. What about that last Froggit? Isn't it the proof that these monsters didn't know you were a human? Maybe we asked about what happened there (as Frisk can sometimes speak without our consent or input), so they assumed we are a monster that hasn't heard the story yet (we wear stripes, so maybe they figured we are very young and this is all new to us).