Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26173722-20180625135942/@comment-26173722-20190924115806

We have no clue the population size of this world. It takes place in the distant future in a different universe. The population could be dropping for all we know. Even if the population was increasing that doesn't necessarily mean that visits to the mountain would increase. It might, especially if it got famous like Mt. Everest, but there are still places in the real world that rarely ever get visited despite our booming population. Again, the fact a long time has past since the last human's arrival and Frisk's arrival says humans making trips to the mountain are still rare.

I don't know the life expentancy of Flowey. He might only live as long as a flower, but he's also magic so he might live for much longer. I agree, I think it's unlikely more than a year had past, as I can't see families and Asgore being okay with Alphys's silence for more than a year. From the way Sans talks it seems like Flowey only made friends with Papyrus recently and I doubt he waited long before befriending him. So I figure, Flowey's only been around a few months in this timeline.

I'm very confused, do you think the events of Undertale take place in 201X? 201X is the year Chara fell, clearly the events of the game takes place a long time after Chara came there, possibly hundreds of years later. The fact most monsters can't recognize a human and don't know anything about them is clear it's been at least a generation after the last one came there.

If Flowey had called for Chara on numerous occasions but this was first time anything happen, why would he connect his calling to "Chara's" arrival? It could be he just ignored all the other times calling for them did nothing, but again, it seems weird to bring it up at all if the two had no correlation.