Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25672219-20170405004515

At it's surface value, the situation presented by the game seems to be pretty explainable. Monsters lost because humans have much more powerful souls. awhile back, though, i realized somthing.

You see, when you fight asgore, if he has killed you before and you talk to him, you will say "*you tell asgore he has killed you X times before. He nods sadly."

He doesn't act in any sort of shock or confusion, only acceptance. This means that Asgore not only knows that the power to RESET exists, he expects it to happen should he ever beat you. Now I'm sure you are wondering "how does asgore know then?" You see, the only other people with any sort of knowledge about resets in the underground are Flowey, Sans, Gaster, and Alphys.

I'll start with flowey. Flowey has no real reason to tell ANYONE that he has the power to reset. if he eer did, he probably did it just to mess with someone, but then ended up undoing it the next time he RESET. It is highly unlikely that Flowey would tell Asgore about the power to RESET.

Sans rarely ever talks about timelines. The only time he does is on the genocide run when he has no other choice but to stop you any means nesisary. the only reason he knows about it at ALL probably has something to do with Gaster, who will be mentioned later. anyways, with the way Sans acts, it is unlikely that he would tell anyone about it in a casual conversation.

Gaster was erased from the timeline, as well as everyone's memorys of him. If gaster had learned about it, than anything he knew people would have forgotten when he disapeared. the only possible exception to this is sans, but he was already mentioned.

Alphys knows that the multiverse exists, and that Flowey had the power to RESET, as she says "technically, it's impossible for you to beat him..." the most likely reason she would know about this i think would be the determination infused amalgamates, whou would reasonably be confused and tell her about some kind of time lapse. However, It is unlikely she would tell asgore about it due to avoiding him after the DT experiments.

Well, if those four never told him about it, then he must have encountered it before he ever fought you. but i remembered something.

We probably all know just how easy it is to die in undertale, right? a few stray bullets from almost any monster and your dead. Well, let me quote the history in waterfall.

"Not a single human soul was taken, and countless monsters where turned to dust."

Wait, did I read that right?

"Not a single human soul was taken..."

"Not a single human..."

A perfect victory. not a single human died.

That should be impossible! With how easy it is to die in the game, at least a few humans would die, right?

And then I realized something crutial.

If even a single human soul was taken, the war would have been over basically immediately, as nothing would be able to stop the monster who absorbed the soul.

So humanity needed to attack suddenly and without mercy, and know just how to avoid having ANY casualties.

Now think for a second. What power that we know of allows us to keep trying something untill we get our desired results?

I think the answer is pretty simple.

the ability to resist fate. the ability to turn back time.

The ability to RESET. 