Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20200107155350/@comment-32182236-20200121183746

As I said, either file0 or file9 could be Frisk's.

Though if file0 is Frisk's, and file9 is that of the world, that would be quite random-Though that shouldn't deter us from accepting the possibility. After all, system_information_962 is the name of the file that tells us the world is destroyed, and there's no real mystery about "What happened to system_information_1-961"!

And the variable that taints the Pacifist Ending? self.death.

I mean, I guess since Frisk lost their soul..?

Photoshop Flowey's fight explicitly uses files. File 3 LOADED. File 2 SAVED. Yet they act as states.

Frisk gets to SAVE when they are "filled with determination", which happens at a SAVE point. Flowey, at this point, has the power of six human SOULs, and overtook Frisk's DT, which is how he was able to use the power to SAVE in the first place.

If Flowey is thus always "filled with determination", then he could theoretically save at any point in time, making the files act like save states, while remaining as files.

So, either:

1:These are random file names, like system_information_962

2:There's a reason why files 1-7 are missing-File 8 appearing at Flowey's fight definitely wasn't an accident, after all...

Which is more likely? (I'd say that the most likely VERSION of Statement 2 is that the missing seven are the files of the seven humans that fell before Frisk.)