Talk:Chara/@comment-71.88.162.184-20151117034109/@comment-92.30.192.227-20151118213535

Here's my interpretation of it and strap yourself in because this is going to be confusing:

Flowey is definitely Asriel but where Asriel had the benefit of emotions, Flowey has lost all semblence of emotion in himself, this massive change is why they are often referred to as different beings, though for the most part, Flowey is simply Asriel without feelings.

That theory came from Asriel's dialogue about how the conflict between him and Chara's soul created Flowey. What it means is, Asriel's soul, having absorbed a human's soul, was capable of coming back due to "Determination" and partially reincarnated itself within a flower, though the conflict also resulted in Asriel's soul reincarnating without emotion, creating Flowey.

Flowey isn't really malevolent, the reason he acts that way is simply because he wants to feel something and is attempting to force himself into feeling something but less on that for the moment. The reason why Flowey refers to Frisk as "Chara" is because he planned to corrupt Frisk so that Chara could revive while using Frisk's body as a proxy. In the genocide run, after killing everything in the ruins, Flowey notes that Chara has begun to posess Frisk and begins referring to the player as Chara.