Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20160613103837/@comment-27701762-20160617193420

BlackfootFerret wrote: I'm just saying there's a reason Toby puts SOUL in all caps, I imagine he's going to pull the rug out from under us at some point and say it means Super Obvious Ultimate Lemonadestand at some point. There's clearly more to an Undertale character than just their SOUL.

Sure, there's a reason that Toby puts SOUL in all caps in some places. But given that there exists both the capitalized and non-capitalized form, and both are used interchangeably, the explanation should not be assumed that it is because the capitalized version is an acronym. The only way we could justify claiming it is an acronym is if there is a significant difference in usage. Take, for example, love versus LOVE. "Love" is used as one would normally expect from the word, while "LOVE" is used in very specific circumstances, namely, in the initial encounter with Flowey and during the judgment with Sans (an exception to this is Bratty and Catty, who have a few lines about how they "LOVE" a variety of things, although this can be explained as capitalization for emphasis).

In the absence of such a differentiation, the most likely explanation for the capitalization is emphasis: the concept of "soul" plays an important role in the narrative of Undertale, so you should make sure to pay attention to it

The Seveth Soul I'm referring to is in the Asriel, Absolute God of Hyperdeath fight. After you save your six friends, Frisk senses another presense within Asriel, and calls a name out to it. Asriel is immediatly surprised, and affected by it "What did you DO?" it's clearly not something he expects. Yeah, that "seventh soul" is Asriel. The "someone else" that you save immediately turns into "Asriel Dreemurr." Asriel is the "one last person" that you are saving. Having that person be Chara makes no sense, because you never actually call out "Chara's" name, and the only name that you get is Asriel's. And if Asriel is being saved as well as Chara, then there isn't "one last person" being saved. There's two.

If a red heart suddenly pops out of Flowey when you killed him, it would clear the mystery right up, so Toby doesn't make it obvious that Flowey has a human soul in him. So Toby hid that and left more subtle clues, like Flowey saying he and Chara were always inseperable even after all these years. This is begging the question. Not to mention that that subtle clue doesn't make sense with the conclusion you try to draw, as Flowey says it after "recognizing" the protagonist as Chara.

Omega Flowey only absorbed the six human souls Asgore captured right before our battle with him, and they prove later on they have the capacity to rebel even from inside him when he's damaged enough, and they're angry enough to rebel. Flowey would have had Chara's soul inside him for a very long time though, and his connection to it would be a lot stronger than the others. Asriel gets some feeling from the other souls inside him, but only really starts to feel compassion again himself when Frisk starts to save the 7th soul, which clearly belongs to him in some fashion.

Again, that "seventh soul" is Asriel himself.

The problem, once again, is that your theory rests entirely upon the idea that Flowey has a human soul already, and cannot feel compassion purely because the soul he happens to possess is incapable of compassion. It must follow from that that if he were to absorb a soul that can feel compassion, his demeanor should change. Given that he absorbs six such souls, and yet remains the same, the explanation for his behavior cannot be "he just happened to have a soul that lacked the ability to feel compassion."