Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20170602170443/@comment-32182236-20190319162737

"The waterfall runes say the humans had nothing to fear."

Yeah. You know who wrote the runes? The monsters. The same monsters who say monsters are made of love, hope, and compassion, despite proving they don't need these things to exist. Asgore lost all of his hope for the monsters, after all. So is it really that unreasonable to say they lied and/or are wrong here too? After all, just because one criminal commits a crime doesn't make the whole race responsible for it, right? So why should the monsters call it a pretext, especially if they're trying to protect their own reputation?

Sure, the monsters didn't think of it as a pretext, but we have to analyse it from the humans' perspective. They're the ones declaring war, after all, and THEY'RE the ones we're judging.

With that said, I'll be questioning all three of your alternate explanations. (You're defending Kanashi, so I'd have to rule out your explanations, not make you prove them. My case is that Kanashi must have had dark intentions, one way or another. Meanwhile, I'm defending the war, so burden of proof is the opposite when we're talking about the justification of the war:You'd have to prove that they had no justified reason to do this. Yep. I'm putting Kanashi on trial now. I charge them with.. Actually, I'm not sure WHAT stealing a SOUL is considered, since it's a part of you.. Well, I charge them with the crime of stealing a SOUL!)

If it WAS a gift, that implies the humans knew BEFORE Kanashi. Now, that alone might not seem like a problem, but that means that either:

1:There was an incident BEFORE Kanashi, so we're just pushing the problem back one iteration. Sorry, your defense is useless.

2:There WAS no incident, so the whole thing was out of potential. Okay then, why wasn't the war declared before Kanashi, then? Nothing new happened as a result of them, right?

So it couldn't have been a gift.

Now, onto your next defense!

Luck? ..Um, how? You either absorb a SOUL or you don't! That is your choice!

..Born a hybrid? Even the glyphs themselves make a case of monsters absorbing human SOULs. That's incriminating evidence, is it not? It's "monster with a human SOUL", not "hybrid". A hybrid, by definition, is not a monster with a human SOUL, and it wouldn't have been placed with the fear of absorption ability, if they weren't interconnected!