Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32237043-20160626014030/@comment-86484-20161214144710

ScepticalSans wrote: If you listen to the sound and compare it you will hear that it is the spare sound effect due to the slight difference in pitch and length, I can't find it though there is a thread that covers this. He probably focussed the attack on several of his ribs so that it wouldn't be his soul, that is clearly in his skull because eye lights, evolutionary sense for protecting it and the way Papyrus's head still behaved like he had a soul for his final moments on the run I didn't do. it probably did weaken him a bit though not to the extent of wanting to be dead, otherwise he wouldn't be burning every scrap of energy on slowing time to dodge your attacks and summoning all his attacks. I think it would be similar to his brother because of the monster equivilent of genetics, he would share a lot of the data for producing the same patterns and fibres of magic for his body resulting in similar health just like other monsters of the same species or which are related, except the Dreemurrs but the difference is Toriel loving you whilst Asgore probably had LOVE. You're making a lot of assumptions there.

1. Lights behind his eyesockets don't mean his soul is there. It just means he has lights behind his eyesockets. I believe the soul, being immaterial, is not located in a physical part of the body, but everywhere in it, and only takes that heart shape when it comes out.

2. No, I don't think Sans wanted to be dead either. He wanted the protagonist to reset so that everyone could live.

3. I didn't know youwere an expert in monster genetics. I'm not, since I haven't found any available sources on it, but I do know that not everything is defined by genetics (stats, in particular, are not, since they can change) and even the things that are may vary among siblings. For instance, Papyrus is much taller than Sans. Even if there is a genetic component for base stats (not for actual stats at any given moment), they may still differ between them. And, again, we're not talking about the stats Sans had when he was born, but the ones he had during the battle with Chara.

I agree that Toriel's and Asgore's emotions affected their stats in battle. And Asgore did kill 6 humans, but somehow that didn't desensitize him... He still dreaded what he was doing, but thought he had to. And he cared about the safety of monsters a lot (see phone calls).