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Asriel absorbed human and monster souls right? That happens because Asriel is not a monster or a human. More like a god. But when defeated he can return the monster souls and break the barrier. That is intresting because Alphys tries a similar thing but there is a small diffrence.

Alphys combines monster souls and a little determination but Asriel absorbes them not combines them with him. That also explains why the human souls are seperate from Asriel. The souls were able to act on their own will because they weren't one with him. That's why Chara wants Asriel to kill humans but he doesn't. And the thing about monsters being able to be inside of him but reappear in the ending is because Asriel absorbed them not combined them.

During Alphys experiment they melt because they are techically made out of magic. With humans you would have to sew them together but that doesn't connect their souls only their bodies. They melt because their souls can't stand determination. Their souls are just too weak for that. Humans physical and soul power is strong. That is what makes monsters and humans diffrent.

A humans physical form is too strong and can't use magic (most of the time) but a monsters physical form is weak. When killed their souls break and left is a body. Instead of a dead shell (like humans) they turn into dust since the only thing that kept them together was magic.

When a monster would absorb another monsters soul then their physical form would not be able to stand two souls and bad things happen. On the other hand when a monster absorbes a human soul it will make the absorber stronger not over-weight them.

That explaines why Asriel is able to absorb so many monster souls. Because he got 6 human souls. My personal thought is that a human soul can absorb 166,66666667 (1000 ÷ 6) monster souls, since 1000 monster souls is as strong as one human soul (at least that is what i remember).

Sorry if this was too long... I hope that this can answer some questions.... Thanks for reading!