Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32237043-20160626014030/@comment-86484-20161215132700

Gabi wrote: ScepticalSans wrote: @Gabi sorry, sorry for not understanding you, so am I correct in saying you think the soul is like blood being in all of their body or even water for humans? I thought it was a organ because that is how it seemed to be described. Was there anything else I got wrong with that or just what you meant with its position in the body. if his soul is part of the field/force/whatever which holds his bones together then yes it would have probably been destroyed, I'm just trying to make sense of the spare sound being there instead of death sound and him saying he was going to Grillbys and walking off screen. Well,I don't know about the spare sound because I haven't heard it myself, but I doubt he could have survived that blow. So maybe that's what a monster's death sounds like when heard from far away.

And yes, it has been established that monsters' souls disappear when they die (see the signs in Waterfall for a reference). So any attack strong enough to kill them will affect their soul, no matter what part of the body was hit (I don't know what counts as a "vital organ" for a skeleton, but the blow that kills Papyrus appears to go across his chest; his soul just remains in what's left of his body until it's completely turned to dust).

On other notes, I have never killed a monster and don't really like thinking about it, but this discussion requires it.