Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27524978-20160114233341/@comment-29104146-20161124224349

Nanaluki wrote: He's still Asriel, and he retains all of Asriel's memories.

In Geno, he mentions to Chara how he thought his parents could help him regain the ability to feel positive emotions, but both of them failed - so that seems to prove he knows who his parents are. He's just unable to care about them in that state... killing them comes off as nothing to him. He pretty much doesn't view the denizens of the underground as people anymore - they're just playthings for his game of reset.

Despite being unable to feel positive emotions - he's still very much able to feel negative ones.

He mentions he cried for a long time when he first became a flower, so he can feel sadness. He clearly feels fear once he meets the real Chara and realizes they will kill him - so he can feel that too...and he cries again in that ending as well. And then there's anger, too, boy, that is one angry flower.

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We can't truly imagine what it would be like to be an immortal limbless creature incapable of feeling love, compassion, etc. Flowey/Asriel's just been driven insane by being stuck for who knows how long in that pitiful state. I'm pretty sure anyone would.

And since Chara/Asriel died fused as one, I'd assume they're still linked to each other somehow. Since their shared monster body turned to dust essence when they died, that entire garden including Chara's empty body which they were clutching would become sprinkled with bits of both of their essences.

Chara seems particularly hateful towards Asriel when they kill him at the end - which is unlike them- Chara always finished their enemy as quickly and emotionlessly as they could up until then.

When Chara got to Asriel, they hack and hack and hack at him furiously until they're reduced to nothing. Killing him somehow grants them complete power, for some reason. Maybe Asriel was Chara's last emotional tether to the world?

And Asriel/Flowey in return seems to somehow feel a positive emotional connection to Chara ...despite being supposedly unable to feel these things. Chara didn't kill him, you moron. The player/Frisk does.