Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20170602170443/@comment-32182236-20170602180955

Correct. That is in fact the creature I am speaking of. Remember, the creature was actually depicted on the very next sign:There's something disturbing about it, and we're not allowed to see it, but it is in fact a picture of the result of a monster with a human soul. So, we know a monster did in fact absorb a human soul in the past, otherwise, the picture wouldn't come to be. Sure, there'd be speculation, but we wouldn't have an actual photograph of the monster if that monster did not exist. (It's also accurate to the theory.)

Also, it was likely not just one monster doing it, it was probably a team on many, and their leader took it. Otherwise, how could the monster do it? They're weak without a human soul! But, the monster's attack and defense drop when they don't want to fight, so maybe the humans were planning on surprise attacking them, to prevent them from having high enough stats to kill off the human population. But it still stands that a monster absorbed a human soul FIRST.

Yes, they do have incredible power. That's the reason why I said humans would have gone extinct if war was NOT declared, and enough monsters took human souls, or if ONE monster took around seven. We're actually lucky humans aren't extinct now, because of Asriel resisting to fight. If Asriel WANTED to fight the humans.. Asriel would probably be able to do it! He had the power to destroy all!

We probably waited until that monster died, or had a huge army focused on killing that ONE monster, way more than that tribe that attacked Asriel. If we DIDN'T do that, humans may have in fact been wiped out, as you said. Remember, the possibility of humans being wiped out by monsters is why humans started the war in the first place, and why I said it was justified! Remember, UNITED, the humans were too powerful, and the monsters were too weak. So yes. The monster COULD have killed a human, and we'd get a chain reaction. We had to UNITE against that monster.

Also, human souls live on after death, as a sort of afterlife. The monster just ABSORBED the human's afterlife this way! That IS cruel intention!

A mad science experiment, however, is a pluasible possibility. Gaster was probably a mad scientist, with his DT-extraction machine, and if falling into your own creation means you shatter across time and space, that creation must, well.. have something to do with spacetime! Perhaps W.D Gaster did this experiment! Whether or not this is linked specifically with Entry 17, I have no idea. But, the fact that monsters were making these kinds of mad science experiments is quite disturbing, really! What if Gaster stared experimenting on determination next, and something went horribly wrong? (This actually happened later on, called the Amalgamates. Or how about some monster-only material on humans? What if Gaster made the human version of Amalgamates? He could have caused ruin to the world with his experiment!)

If a vague prophecy, divine intervention, or speculation lead to this conclusion, we wouldn't get the image, just the text part. We don't need to witness it firsthand to figure that out, but we DO need to witness it first hand for a picture of the results to show up in Waterfall. And via science? The previous paragraph explains that.