Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4383275-20160827054600/@comment-27089028-20160829154720

Oobooglunk wrote: All good points! Two weak links, however, still remain.

1. Alphys knew she would be bringing the flower to life ("What happens when something without a SOUL gains the will to live?"), as assigned by Asgore. However, the Amalgamates, were contained in the True Laboratory. Mettaton had a giant OFF switch in his normal form, severely low battery power in his EX form, and comically low speed in his NEO form. Flowey, on the other hand, was planted in the garden of the king of the underground.

Any way you slice it, bringing a soulless being to life in the home of a royal figure is a bad idea and, regardless of her intent, Alphys deserves to be held accountable.

2. When the player discovers the Amalgamates, Alphys casually chases them off and casually remarks "sorry about that, they get kind of sassy when they don't get fed on time." When Mettaton first approaches, Alphys warns the player. However, before the fight with Asriel in the True Pacifist ending, when Papyrus says a "tiny flower" helped him, Alphys freezes in horror as a bead of sweat runs down her face and she chokes out "a...tiny...flower?." If Flowey is all that benevolent and reasonable, what could Alphys be so afraid of? Again, she may not have intended to release something this evil into the world, but something sketchy was clearly going on with her thought process and she should have taken responsibility. You know this all well and good but it's the darth Jar Jar theory all over again; the potential was there but never became a thing. If Toby was going to make a well greased machine out of Alphys being a villain he would of done it.

With nothing but the highest respect and absolute gratitude to Toby Fox, he is not one for stories of complexity and opts a more stylistic and simple narrative that has many meta and referential layers wrapped around a mythos enticing enough to generate a massive amount of fan made AUs. Alphys created Flowey to either test Determination and its effects or if she knew about Asriel's dust/essence all over the flower she wanted to prove herself to Asgore after all she has big shoes to fill *cough* Gaster *cough*.

The Amalgamates were a well established accident as Alphys only intention was to cure the Monsters of the falling ill/into a coma/dying that had befallen them which I hypothesise is one of the two horrifying effects of the barrier not counting its effect of keeping Monsters from passing through.