Talk:True Lab/@comment-25959855-20161006013504/@comment-27701762-20161015060909

That particular line only says that whoever wrote it knew the flower had grown before the queen left. It does not say that whoever wrote it personally knew the queen. Given that whoever wrote it can identify this particular flower out of a bunch of other yellow flowers, and insists on returning it to Asgore once the experiments are done, the suggestion is that this is not some normal yellow flower. It has a special significance, one that can be explained to others without anyone needing to know the queen personally. Alphys would therefore not need to know Toriel to know that the flower grew before she left.

In contrast, if this theory is right then there should be some reference to multiple people at some point. Instead, not only do we get a single set of entries that are written entirely in first-person singular, but once we turn the power back on Alphys specifically says that Asgore had asked her to study the nature of the SOUL, and that she had isolated a power that she called "determination" (the entry coining that term is written with proper grammar, which by the theory would mean it was written by Gaster). At no point does she mention any other researchers, nor is there any evidence that suggests there were other researchers. Likewise, Alphys is the one who gets all of the letters regarding the missing family members, despite not being the person who had called back the families according to the theory (that would be either a Sans or Gaster entry), and no mention is made about Gaster's death or disappearence, despite the fact that whoever is writing the entries has no qualms with putting personal information into the entries.

The theory just doesn't hold water.