Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20160613103837/@comment-26006155-20160614124806

Isthereaplace wrote: Right now all I get is that in order to make sure Asriel returns, there must be multiple levels of soullessness, and Chara must be bad. Or something like that. Well, we know from the Tapes in the True Lab, and Asriels' final dialog when you find him again at the beginning of the game, that Chara was not a nice person.

She thought it was funny when Asgore got poisoned by buttercups, Asriel wants her to demonstrate her 'creepy smile', Chara herself is the architect of the plan where she herself dies, and Asriel absorbs her soul, telling him that they can go together to her villiage, collect six souls, then return and free his people. And it was a lie, because Chara instead tried to take Asriel over, and force him to kill her entire villiage, her goal from the beginning. Chara is NOT a nice person, she lacks Compassion for others, and always did.

Asriel is never soulless, he started with his monster soul, absorbed Chara's soul, then died with Chara's absorded soul still part of his essense. Then Asriel comes back as Flowey, possessing only Chara's compassion-less soul now, and finds that he can't feel love no matter how hard he tries. Then Frisk restores his sense of Compassion in the final fight, saving both Asriel, and Chara, in the same act.

Over time, as Gerson says, Asriel will be getting soul energy from his parents, and his monster soul will reform. Then he'll have 2 again. And there's event the possibility that once he has his own monster soul back, someone could find a way to remove and ressurect Chara.