Talk:Eight Humans/@comment-37493416-20190401010224/@comment-27623830-20190917155307

The difference between Chara and Asriel is that Asriel did not transfer his essence to another vessel, rather, the DT was injected directly into a flower that used his dust to grow. The flower already had his essence, and the DT came to him, via Alphys's experiment.

To determine how Determination would factor into Chara staying aware while dead, we have to look at how it is defined by the game. Determination is the ability to deny and change Fate(or a substance that grants the same). Certainly, you could say remaining aware after death qualifies as defying Fate.

There's no real way to test it, but Asriel probably would not have jumped from his flower to Frisk had they found it pre-DT, and I don't think you'd get six more ghost kids in Frisk's head just from hanging around the basement, or Frisk would have ghosts(and I'm not talkin' Napstablook) popping up around them all the time. Monster funeral rites mean one monster or another has been splashed pretty much all over the underground. They would have definitely picked up some passengers from the tutu and ballet shoes. Integrity definitely killed some monsters, and their dust(and therefore, essence) has encrusted that equipment.

Something let Chara stay aware, and since human mages seem to be extinct, DT is the only real supernatural power humans are known to have.