Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4504826-20160516040951/@comment-32182236-20180320144439

"Ghost Fight" is in fact a miniboss theme. CORE is actually a part of Hotland, as evidenced by the view if the CORE, floating above magma, showing that this is the same biome. Mettaton, a boss we encounter several times in Hotland (just like we encounter Undyne several times in Waterfall, and puzzles from Papyrus several times in Snowdin), is the final boss of the CORE. Not only that, after Muffet, you actually encounter Mettaton again in Hotland-Mainly, the tile puzzle again, before we reach MTT's resort-The counterpart to Waterfall's town with Napstablook, and Snowdin Town, which also come right after the miniboss. All the evidence points to Hotland and CORE being the same area, amd if they were different, due to Mettaton appearing with the dungeon puzzle after Muffet, Mettaton would be the boss of Hotland too anyway. The only standard if a boss Mettaton doesn't meet is you can't date him. But, you can't date Asgore, or Toriel either, so.. It's not even a full standard, and by that logic, Alphys is the boss of Hotland. What, they have different themes? Yeah. Snowdin Forest and Snowdin Town also have different themes. And, as you'll soon see, area themes aren't always actually about the area itself. In fact, it might actually never be about the area.

Let's talk about why Undyne uses the Ruins lietmotif. One theory is that it's because it's also Waterfall's lietmotif. My theory is that it isn't even a Ruins lietmotif at all. It's a determination lietmotif. This is because this theme, specifically the one Undyne uses.. is actually "Don't Give Up". Now, Undyne is determined, is she not? So, perhaps it might even be more suprising if she DIDN'T use that lietmotif, especially during her fight, where the whole theme is she's determined to strike you down.

So, yeah. The Ruins lietmotif isn't actually about the Ruins. It's about determination.