Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4504826-20160426040035/@comment-27907368-20160511050625

Dust isn't SOUL fragments. It's what little physicality that monsters' have - it's the determined bits of them that persist after death.

Equating Flowey to Asriel is akin to relating the player to Chara. Yeah, we may THINK that we play them, especially when Flowey insists that we do - but at the end of the day, we aren't Chara.

Even in his boss fight, Flowey/Asriel never claims to feel love, compassion and mercy. He says that he feels everyone else's love, compassion and mercy. He's just a vessel.