Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-32182236-20180728205258

Alright, now, I'll recap what my analysis has shown me about the six traits-Some of you might be confused about some of my definitions-The links might seem quite unorthodox at first, like me saying being passionate links to green. I'm making this a separate post because it's just so long, it deserves its own post, rather than just a subsection.

So, I'll look at the six traits, and explain why these best fit the six traits. This should help as a counterargument against some of the possible objections to this conclusion.

First off, let's take a look at what all six traits at once.

"Purple-Even when you felt trapped, you took notes and achieved the end of "Ball."

"Blue-Hopping and twirling, your original style pulled you through." "Light Blue-'Ball' is 'Small.' You waited, still, for this opportunity, ... then dethroned 'Ball' with a sharp attack." "Green-Your concern and care for 'Ball' led to a delicious victory." "Yellow-Your sure-fire accuracy put an end to the mayhem of 'Ball.'" "Orange-You are the kind of person who rushes fists-first through all obstacles."

Now, they all share one thing in common. They describe how you deal with problems. Achieving the end of ball, style pulling you through, dethroning Ball, getting a delicious victory, putting an end to the mayhem, and rushing through obstacles. It's ALWAYS about problem-solving. Succeeding at your goal. Now, that's already a hint at determination, firmness of purpose, resolution, but let's ignore that for now-We're analyzing the six normal traits, not the red trait.

We can take from this connection that the traits are based on how you solve problems. This will allow us to analyze each of them individually better, by making use of this new information.

"Purple-Even when you felt trapped, you took notes and achieved the end of "Ball."

This is very clearly perservearance, due to the emphasis on "Even when you felt trapped." You start taking mental notes of what you did, what went wrong, until you eventually find a method that works. So it's fighting on even as things get tough.

"Blue-Hopping and twirling, your original style pulled you through."

Pretty easy to dissect, really. It's simply putting your own style to use. Creating your own solution to the problem.

"Light Blue-'Ball' is 'Small.' You waited, still, for this opportunity, ... then dethroned 'Ball' with a sharp attack."

This is clearly patience. It's waiting until the time is right. Not much to explain.

"Orange-You are the kind of person who rushes fists-first through all obstacles."

Bravery. What can I say?

Now onto the two trickier ones. Ones that seem to defy intuition at first, but under the new lens that was discovered by looking at the six traits as a whole, these turn out to be the most sensible definitions.

"Yellow-Your sure-fire accuracy put an end to the mayhem of 'Ball.'"

You may have thought justice (real world definition) was correct, but looking at the actual text, that doesn't really make sense. You see, that's not really a method to solving problems-Any more than a method at defining what a problem is, and when it's acceptable to fight. Nothing to do with the subject that the traits seem to be about. Accuracy, while I linked it with yellow in my paragraph about determination, isn't quite all that yellow is either-That's a statistic, not exactly a method either.. So, if surefire accuracy alone isn't the trait, then what is it? Well, that's where we find an oddity here:Normally, "Ball" is only described as the obstacle. But now, it is described as "the mayhem of Ball". Mayhem is defined as a state of violent disorder:In other words, a state of chaos. So, if the enemy is the chaos, and we're putting an end to it.. Well, at first that does in fact look like justice, but we've already determined that wouldn't fit. You also don't need surefire accuracy to be just anyway. So, what else could it be? Well, it's a state of order. Organization. If you do things in an organized manner, you get accuracy from it. And what is the enemy of order? Chaos. Mayhem. The thing you're putting an end to. Therefore, yellow is order. And accuracy is most prevalent there.

"Your concern and care for 'Ball' led to a delicious victory."

At first, this seems like just plain kindness. But.. why would being kind to the enemy lead you to a delicious victory? Ball was always the obstacle. Not only that, kindness really isn't a "strategy" or "method" of solving problems. It might be how you resolve disputes, but that's not the only kind of problem that exists. Pretty sure being kind to non-sentient obstacles won't bring them to life and have them just let you on through. Kindness just isn't an actual strategy, and it doesn't always work. To say this is a trait that will help you solve problems doesn't make sense, and to put one socialistic stance and say it's in the same group as five traits that are clearly things that you use to solve your problems really doesn't make sense. "But it flat-out SAYS care and concern", you may say. "What else could it POSSIBLY be?!" Well, care and concern doesn't imply compassion. You can be concerned about something because it's a problem. You could CARE about changing it. It can be care, as in.. passionate. In the context of the ball game, it could be passionate about the game. Passionate.. about winning. This passion IS something that will always help. It's what drives you to tackle these things are. THAT is the green trait. It also makes Undyne turning you green much more reasonable-The both of you are passionate about the battle. You're certainly not kind in Genocide, but you're still passionate.. And so is Undyne..

And so, we have our six traits. NOW look at how I combined them to make Determination again. It should make much more sense.