Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34762984-20180927183143/@comment-28517148-20180930184844

''Their reasons are also eerily similar to the possible reasons you'd want to play through the Genocide Route-The few reasons Flowey left out, Chara embodies-The gaining of power, to further their own goals... Okay, there definitely seems to be something I'm missing here..''

The power is an illusion only children can fall for. The power is not the primal reason to sart Genocide but a tool to open the way to complete the cycle in different manner. The tool that in the end becomes obsolete and dissapears like everything else except the ending itself. You really stop treating Players like fictional characters limited by boundaries of the game.