Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27907368-20160428221757/@comment-4995895-20160504092756

...So much to read. Gave me a bad time...

Anyway something notable I'm going to point out is about saving and true resetting.

Frisk and Flowey never had total control over the timeline. Even Asriel didn't. They can pretty much alter everything after va certain point, which I call the point of divergence, or POD. Frisk's POD was the moment they woke up on the flower bed, Flowey's was when he woke up in the garden. Neither could load to before this point. Frisk could kill everyone, or save everyone, but they couldn't save Gaster. Or Undyne's eye. Or kill Chara themselves. Or kill Sans as a kid. Or save kid Asriel. Or anything, the point is they can't go back that far.

Importantly, you can't rename Chara. Makes sense, they were born years ago, you can't go and change their parent's minds. Except.....you can. In a true reset you reset everyone's memories. Sans, Papyrus, Undyne, Flowey, even Frisk and you rename Chara. This seems to mean that you go back before your POD. How far before is unclear. But what's important is that the new Chara is a completely different child. It appears a true reset brings their memories back to zero(heh heh) as well.

Except....not always. Soulles genocide is forever. At this point even if you go back and change Chara's past, they're too strong. They're level 20 and that's so much they literally defy time and reality. I guess even if you go back and wipe out the first human, or blow up the universe before the Earth was formed, you'd still have a smiling Chara saying "No? You must have misunderstood"

On that rather sad note I leave you with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_AeHbUkmSg