Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27907368-20160528162922/@comment-28574714-20160724001051

GetYourFix wrote: Yes! I am still here, I have been busy being a Summer counselor! c': A few things that I found out are more ambiguities, so I'll post actual contradictions before the weekend is out. xD Sorry to disappear without a trace. ^^'

Physical HUD
I think I've mentioned my skepticism of the battle narrator before - I think that they may be reading into Lesser Dog's emotes and saying that it's due to the HUD. Alternatively, some characters seem aware of the bullet board; could they also know about the action HUD? Why do they stand on top of it? (And what the heck is Sans doing in his fight, moonwalking?)

Unable to Heal Physical Effects
I really like this idea; we know that the protagonist is a physical vessel and a SOUL, so it makes sense that only the SOUL can be healed. We're lucky nobody in the game uses physical attacks... Other than Geno "Name." Is this why the game actually ends for us at that point? We've been physically killed?

Monsters Absorbing Human SOULs
This also makes sense, and I'll add a bit - the will of the human (and the personality) is not lost during combination of SOULs. As Asriel said, both him and the fallen human controlled their vessel. Perhaps "Name" lost control over their vessel when the humans on the surface physically killed the being.

You're Hurt! (SOUL)
A few characters differentiate the SOUL from the body. Flowey in his tutorial, Papyrus speaking to Undyne ("BUT UNDYNE, DON'T YOU TURN PEOPLE'S HEARTS GREEN?"), Sans for his judgment (he sees inside of us, guh), some books on lore ("when a human dies, its soul stays stable outside of its body)...

What I'm saying is this: there's a good chance that monsters can differentiate the SOUL from the body. Added to this, we know that magical attacks do not hurt a physical body ("Foolish. Foolish! FOOLISH! Even if you attack my vessel, you'll NEVER hurt me! I'm still incorporeal, you DUMMY!!!")... there's enough evidence to lean towards the SOUL alone taking damage.

Healing Items
The healing items encountered Underground turn to magic in your mouth, as described by chompy flower at Grillby's. Human food goes through the body and gets digested, monster food does not; this contradicts the idea of creating more blood from physical nutrition.

As for healing the SOUL with the bandage, I believe that widening the scope will add some clarity. All attack and defense items are equipped to the physical form of the protagonist, and yet they add STATs to the SOUL. This may be because a human's SOUL is tied to their physical form so closely and, without a body, a human's SOUL is inert.

c': <3 luv us all!

Alright, I'll admit the fact that Monster food probably doesn't do the whole blood thing. I just think that someone or something in the game would say something about it being the SOUL taking damage instead of the body without us having to dig around and interpret things.

I mean, I guess that could just be more of UnderTale being under explained. I know some people like it like that, but I don't feel like any sort of media should just drop a bunch of information at us and then say "Hey, all of this is whatever you want it to be. You figure it out!".