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Starscream1998 wrote: From Blackfoot maybe. I'm simply stating that Flowey/Asriel still has his soul but due to having Chara's soul as well can't feel compassion. After Frisk falls, Chara moves to the more compatible host stripping Flowey of his reset power and blind malice which begins to dissolve throughout the game until he breaks down in the Pacifist ending.

The reason Asriel keeps making Flowey out to be nothing more than a soulless thing that'll take his place is sheer shame in knowing there is only one culprit for Flowey's atrocities; HIM. Well, we know Toriel removed Chara's body from the coffin and buried right under the place Frisk falls down at the beginning of the game. If some of Asriel's essense, containing Chara's soul now, spread to the other flowers in the garden, it might give Chara's ghost enough of a spark to animate, and bond with Frisk.

I don't think Asriel's monster soul would have lasted long after his death, which is why Gerson's tale is there to give a method where Asriel can get his monster soul back. Asriels' essense would have persisted throughout though.

We're still not exactly sure what a SOUL is. Knowing Toby, it's another misleading acronymn like LOVE (Level of Violence) which is completely different than what you'd expect, so there's likely more to a person than just this.

Don't forget Asriel believes himself to be souless at the end, even when he's compassionately asking Frisk not to tell his family about him, because he believes he's going to fade. He still can't tell that he has one, but Frisk saved something in that final fight, and the results are still there.