Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30390828-20161120192150/@comment-13682699-20161202131624

Integer115 wrote: 1) It doesn't say directly. But there is circumstantial evidence.

2) Or the usual children's curiosity. Or even a thousand other reasons.

3) Only the gun is a real weapon.

4) "They feared the monsters ability to absorb human souls".  How could humans know about the ability of the monsters? It is obvious that the monsters have shown it. Monsters that have absorbed human souls could be a cause for fear and war.

5) Monster with a dead child in her arms. This is a very hard scene.

Monsters killed Frisk constantly. Not only the Royal Guards. Even cute Tsunderplane will kill Frisk. This is a consequence of the policy of Asgore. He not only killed the children. He teaching other monsters that kill human children is normal.

1) Its not to say that they were all adults or all children, but likely varying ages as with the descriptions of the items.

2) Maybe it was curiosity. I'm actually quite sure that at least a few were simply curious, so they went and fell in. In any case, for whatever reason they had, they still ignored the warnings of the legends and let themselves into a possibly dangerous world.

3)Against a monster, it doesn't matter what you use as a weapon. What matters is the intent to hurt/kill them that affects how much damage they take. They are literally physical manifestations of their souls which are affected by emotions of themselves and others. So any human, even a child could be potentially dangerous if they are ever upset enough to want to cause harm.

4)While it may have happened, there is no information as to what occurred during that time. So its all speculation. However, its no doubt that the war was started over such a reason. However, there is no justifiable reason to destroy the entire Monster populace over what may have been a single(maybe few) incidents. After all, when they talked about absorbing souls, it was said that monsters could do it POTENTIALLY, not that they were absorbing souls left and right.

5) Did that monster attack anyone though? The monster walked to the center of town and laid the body to rest in a bed of flowers. There was no justified reason to attack something just because it laid down a dead body, even if they didn't know the circumstances. Not only that, but the monster didn't even fight back when they did attack. That should have raised some flags that this creature is not violent and rather docile despite their actual intentions. It would be like watching a group of people beat a helpless animal to death and the animal just lets themselves be killed. That would be a pretty cruel scene.

But remember, they don't know that Frisk is a human. They are simply greeting them in a monster way. With magic bullets. There is info about this in the librarby about how they use magic bullets as a form of greeting. The only ones trying to kill you are the Royal guards, and even they will stop if you interact with them enough. The monsters were already on board with the plan to kill humans in the first place when Asgore made the declaration. When Humans have done nothing but kill them with no mercy, and seal them away in a hole underground, their anger is pretty justified at that point. Should ALL humans die? No, but according to lore there were a lot of humans killing monsters. Until there is evidence that monsters were also brutally killing humans in the past, the monsters do have a right to be angry and seek justice for the possibly millions of innocent monsters slaughtered for no other reason than fear.