Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26173722-20180625135942/@comment-26173722-20190908220630

There's nothing in the game that says "well only most humans souls persist" or there are circumstances that would prevent it. It clearly states that humans have persistent souls in absolute. If there is an exemption, like for Frisk for instance, the game should have explained that.

Like if absorbing a human soul could cause to them shatter along with the host, that should be explain. What they do say is that human souls don't shatter because they have determination.

Did Chara lose determination upon being absorbed? None of the souls Flowey absorbed seemed to, they able to just float away afterwards. Heck, Alphys straight up extract tons of DT from the six souls and they still didn't shatter. So how was Asriel supposed to have absorbed enough DT to cause that?

A Monster soul is attuned with their body, not the body is attuned with the soul. There's a distinct difference between the two.

In one case, the soul is affected by the body. This can't be since there are some monster souls that can persist for a few moments after death; showing that their body's destruction is not correlated to their soul's shattering.

In the other, the body is affected by the soul. We can see this is the case since Flowey can manipulate his flower form, form magic bullets and morph his face, despite him now having a physical body (and I know, Flowey doesn't have a soul, but he still has monster essence and it seems to work the same as a monster soul for the most part).

So Chara wouldn't be effected by the body dusting, the body doesn't affect the soul. Also, notice I prefaced before a Monster soul, because in the game they never say what the relationship between a human soul and their body is. As far as I can tell only a monster soul has this relationship with their body, a human soul doesn't seem to work the same.