Talk:SOUL/@comment-27064178-20151011003603


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I'm not sure I understand the distinction being made between monster souls and human souls - in both cases, the soul is their essence housed inside a body, albeit bodies with different compositions, correct? A monster is definitively not entirely comprised of their soul, because Asriel has been said to have been reborn without a soul.

The thing I can't figure out is what part of Asriel was transformed into a flower, if not his soul? Allegedly he doesn't have a soul, but what else was left among his ashes? Clearly, there is something else to a monster besides a soul, if Flowey had Asriel's memories etc. Or maybe it's simply the case that Asriel did have at least some degree of a soul when he turned into Flowey, but his ability to feel joy was repressed and twisted (in part because he was so traumatized by his naïveté literally killing him). This seems more likely to me, as we know the souls of boss monsters like Asriel don't instantly disappear upon death, and he does appear to feel compassion at the end of the game.

Maybe the monster soul doesn't vanish with the body's passing, it just loses the power to maintain a form? So the soul becomes dust that resides in the ashes of the monster, so when Asriel became Flowey, part of his soul was put into the flower as well?

...in which case [side note], it might be possible, through some kind of magic, for Asriel's parents to simply continue aging and resume pouring their souls into Asriel again, as is normally the case for boss monsters? Maybe there's some kind of connection that was severed when he died, but I doubt Alphys couldn't figure it out. :)