Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5413572-20160521063300

Something occurred to me. I just finished a post-Genocide Pacificst Run, and got the usual "Chara laughs maniacally and ends up killing everyone" screen. But then I booted the game back up, and got Flowey's usual spiel about leaving Frisk and the others alone.

But this raises the question- why would he be stating these things if Chara had gone on a killing spree? Why would he be begging them/us to leave Frisk alone if they'd already possessed Frisk by this point? Why, if Chara had possessed Frisk and was now free to kill indiscriminately on the surface, would they reset without doing so (as this dialogue would require them to contemplate doing)? Do they not kill anyone after all, and if not, why?

Now, obviously, the canonicity of of Post-Genocide Pacifist run (or indeed any run) is debatable, but this still intrigued me. What are everyone's thoughts on this? (And yes, we have the obvious out-of-universe explanation of Toby and Co. just glossing over this point and not putting in any kind of unique scene for this for any number of reasons, but I'm talking about evaluating this in-universe.) 