Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27907368-20160506131212/@comment-26347196-20160513193712

GetYourFix wrote: Neutral runs certainly involve the protagonist not leaving the Underground. No boss monster SOUL was absorbed, and the message from Sans connects; Undernet does not work outside of the Underground. In the best case scenario, the protagonist is trapped in a void on the inside of the Underground.

The six other humans could load, save and reset. Toriel recalls that all humans hitherto Frisk seemed familiar. The difference between the protagonist and the other humans is that their SOUL shatters before ASGORE, while the other humans' SOULs stayed together after death. In lieu of this, it makes sense why ASGORE kills the protagonist when he is attempting to bottle their SOUL; he is unfamiliar with a human SOUL shattering similar to a boss monster's.

Once the SOUL is in a glass jar (completely detached from its physical counterpart), the ability to save/load/reset is gone. As the amalgamates cannot reset, neither can a disembodied human SOUL. Flowey manipulates time without a SOUL. Therefore, time manipulation is related to a physical body and not to a SOUL. There's no evidence to why the 6 humans lost their ability to save/load/reset is gone when Asgore put them in a glass jar. Why would the souls of the 6 humans would persist, while that of Frisk's is not?

When Toriel recalls Frisk being similar to another human, she can totally recall Chara, given both Chara and Frisk looks fashionably similar. Again, if the 6 humans can't save/load/reset, there would be no reason why Toriel's memory about the humans would go poof, and she would remember that as well.

Another thing to note is that Flowey is an empty vessel that was injected determination into Alphys. Bearing with only the power of determination, Flowey has the ability to save/load/reset. For the Amalgamates, only part of them contains determination, thus, the reason they can't manipulate the SAVE file (Given the food chain of who controls the save file, it would be Frisk > Flowey > Amalgamates). And since Frisk has the most determination, they got the power to control the save file.