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Jillianbrodsky wrote: If you're asking why Flowey didn't stay as Asriel, it is because he didn't have the souls inside of him anymore, so there's nothing keeping him in his "true form"

That's not what I mean. After you reboot the game after the ending screen, he evidently has regained some form of a conciousness, which isn't present when you reset before the end of a True Pacifist run.