Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30088034-20170108152544/@comment-27701762-20170118013230

Yes I'm single wrote: '''how much love do monsters get from killing frisk? what about just attacking him?''' Killing? Unclear, and since the game is instantly reloaded anyway, it wouldn't really matter. Attacking? Nothing, since attacking in and of itself doesn't grant LOVE. LOVE is defined as a desire to hurt, but it might more accurately be defined as a desire to kill, and as such just attacking a monster does not lead to increasing LOVE.

Which leads to an interesting question of whether most of the monsters, upon killing Frisk, would increase their LOVE at all, since they kill Frisk entirely by accident, and have no idea that they are hurting Frisk. But again, a purely speculative question.

wow that's confusing. A bit. There's a lot going on, and a lot of the details about the mechanics of everything are unclear.

'''but then how do you still have your soul? (moving it around)''' Because when the game is actively being played, the entity that has control is the player. So it isn't until the player loses complete control (i.e. once the True Pacifist route has been completed) that Chara can take complete control.

'''but this is only viable if you've already done a genocide, right? or is it every time? because chara is still a spirit at the end of pacifist right?''' As in does Chara want to do a True Pacifist all the time? That depends on what the original motivation of Chara is: if Chara was originally evil, then their initial desire would be to kill everyone, but a normal True Pacifist leaves them powerless; if Chara is a blank slate, then it is only after a Genocide run is completed that Chara wants to complete a True Pacifist route for the purpose of killing everything.