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One more thing to note for point 11.

This would imply that 7 human souls is not what brought Asriel back, since he had magic. It would also imply that it's not the power of 7 souls at all what brought Asriel back. That power is necessary for the barrier, but it for sure isn't necessary for a simple boss monster soul.

The way I see it is that the 6 human souls helped Flowey seize the souls of the bystanding monsters, which gave him enough power to absorb more, which gave him even more power, and so on, until he absorbed everyone. He couldn't absorb Frisk's soul because of the same reason why he couldn't kill them.

Anyways, it was obviously the monster souls that brought his soul, and all his emotions back. And the human souls simply helped achieve that. But how many monster souls were REALLY needed in order to do that? For sure he didn't need all of them.

Well, I think that Toriel and Asgore's souls together are more powerful than Asriel's soul, no doubt about that, so just a few monster souls (plus the human souls to extract the monster souls) would turn him into Asriel.

And maybe he knew that. Maybe that's what he meant by a "better ending". Or maybe not. Who knows. Though, when he turned to Asriel, he wasn't really all that surprised, and as Flowey, he did look quite surprised when the rest of the monsters showed up, so maybe gathering only Frisk's closest friends was the plan he was talking about. He did it to break Frisk, yes, but maybe, just maybe, he also did it to become himself again, if it's that easy to turn himself into Asriel.