Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190131130037/@comment-32182236-20190319114954

"A haunting song echoes down the corridor... Won't you play along?"

The glyphs DO mention the statue:It's a part of an ancient puzzle, in fact!

And there exist THREE chairs in the Ruins:One for Toriel, one for Asgore, and one for Asriel. Our guest room is room_asriel, and it was clearly around before Chara came.

Asriel lived in the Ruins. The tape must have been moved over to New Home when the monsters moved.

Based on the conditions of the war, the monsters were pushed underground directly before the Barrier. And that opening to the underground was more than likely the Ruins hole, based on the contruction of the city. (Don't want the humans skipping all the puzzles, just sneaking in through the door, heading STRAIGHT to the royal house!) But evidence would also suggest New Home, since that's the direction monsters took after "fearing the humans no longer".

Since nobody seems to remember the origin of the statue, perhaps that means Gaster had something to do with it? He was lost to time, after all, and nobody but the Followers seems to remember who made the CORE, or even where Sans and Papyrus came from.

Besides, if the statue predated the monsters.. Then who built the thing in the first place?

And of course the humans would be nice in their banishment. They see the monsters as a potential threat, yes, but they're not all evil! They don't deserve to be punished for something they didn't do, so why not give them their own little place, where they can't do anything to us, and give them free reign over it? Just as long as they can't affect the humans, fair game.

....Though perhaps the place was a little too big. (Big enough for the monster population to multiply sevenfold.) If they just got a smaller place, there'd be no need to check back and make sure the monsters haven't gotten numerous enough to shatter the Barrier under their own power.