Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20200107155350/@comment-26006155-20200210114920

The goal is to a find a pattern that conforms to all the lore.

One detail, like Scabbers the Rat being 12 when most rats live to 3, might be more suggestive than conclusive of him not being a normal rat.

But when you add the evidence that Voldemort had a spy close to Harry, Scabber kept running off on his own initiative, Ron's attempts to polymorph scabbers failed (not because Ron was inept as we first though, but because Scabber's nature was far more complex than he assumed), and one of James Potter's old friends being an animagus named "wormtail", a very rat-like name, then the web gets strong enough to be conclusive.

After all these put together, the chance of Scabbers the Rat being a normal rat is vanishly small.

And that's what I set out to do when I take a mass of small details into account like this. Finding a solution that conforms to ALL OF THEM leaves very little room for error. And the fact that a solution even *does* exist under these circumstances is a strong argument the that pattern actually reveals part of the artist's design, rather than just being randomness spun out of the ether.

Chara is (or at least WAS) a human. So if Chara can't remember resets, then Sans' inability to also remember resets during the game doesn't disqualify him as being a human.

It might be Meta, but the game makes too big a deal about Frisk's phone having a keychain for it just to be random. Even in the No Mercy route, when Alphys doesn't upgrade our phone, the keychain is still there, and we still can't look at it to see what keys are actually on it.

It would have been so easy just to make it another mini-bag and save the keys like a Key Item collection. But no... the Mystery Key to Mettaton's house doesn't it on our keychain, and breaks after use.

Alphys brings up the keychain during the upgrade, saying "it even has a keychain..." although it already did. That's a bit like how she made it sound like she'd just upgraded Toriels' phone for texting.. when texting is the only way Sans could have communicated with Toriel and told her all about his brother, without giving away what his voice sounded like. Tricky little hidden details.

It would have also be so simple for Sans to just give Frisk the key as a gift. Instead.. we find it's already on our keychain. And we knew this by looking, not by feeling. While when it happens the 4th time, we actually feel something on the chain, although Chara doesn't know what it is at first.

Something important is happening here. Discovering who knew what, and when, is very important.