Talk:Barrier/@comment-71.104.56.28-20151118023415/@comment-27268089-20151213165835

It really reminds me of Mother 3's ending- you're in the dark, people talk to you, but you don't really know if you, or they, are even alive. In Mother, the determining factor is if your heart was pure enough at the very end of the game- if you loved life and everyone else, or if you were full of pain/darkness/emptiness.

Given that this game is heavily inspired by Mother 3, I wouldn't be suprised if Toby did the same thing. In the neutral endings, we left everyone miserable- the phone call at best says that the future is grim. We might not be evil, or even bad, but our hearts were empty... empty of malice, anger, evil- but also of love. Going by the symbolism, this would be the protagonist-is-dead ending of Mother 3 (and the monsters have little hope of a long, happy life, so they're 'dead' as well).

If you do make everyone happy, though, you get to reset the world- literally. By using the power of the seven (souls) the monster (Flowery) is granted god-like powers to save, destroy or reshape the world. This is Mother 3's ending in a nutshell. And this time, everyone lives.

So ya, TL;DR, going by rule of symbolism, Frisk is dead in the end of everything except True Pacifist, or is existing in a non-world.