Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25672219-20170405004515/@comment-32182236-20180326193533

Yeah, it's not quite as propagandic as it seems. It's true. Humans don't need these things to exist. That's why criminals exist. That's half of the reason why the war happened in the first place. (The other half comes from the monsters themselves, for absorbing a human SOUL like the plaques show!)

The REAL propaganda is saying monsters are made of these things, and they need these things to exist, but it's not TOO propagandic. The writer actually admits it's just what people say. It's more like the monster version of supersition. So while it may have been derived from propaganda, it's now more like supersititon. One even Asgore believes in, which is why he didn't want his monsters losing hope-he thought they'd DIE from that. Of course, he lost hope himself, and he's just fine. The true nature of SOUL is still unknown. After all, even monsters have proven that they don't need these things to exist.

Also, no humans dying is actually pretty likely, when we take the battle mechanics into account. Remember, humans have initiative of battle, we know they really wanted to fight, so they had high LV, they used actual weapons, and since a knife is 99ATK, the weapons of the humans were also quite large-Enough to one-shot the monsters who weren't expecting the attack, and thus had weakened defense. Before they even got a chance to attack. No wonder the plaques say it could hardly be called a war. The monsters never even got a chance to attack! Well, except for Gerson, of course, the Hammer of Justice. But.. Even he couldn't kill a human. All he managed to do was stall the long battle. (Wow, even the intro eventually says it wasn't a war, but just a "battle".)