Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25958552-20160731160314/@comment-13682699-20170723053844

Stevethebarbarian wrote: Ugh. All of you are missing the point of what TORIEL said. Toby didn't spell it out for you because he thought we were smart enough to understand what she was saying, but evidently not.

If ASGORE had gone to the surface he could have taken the SOULs of already dying humans. He would have to murder only one person, and monsters would get free years before they would otherwise.

ASGORE isn't necessarily a bad person, but he is a coward and an idiot. If he'd taken initiative he could have spared six human children. I'm pretty sure anyone would be absolutely terrified if a large goat-like creature came out of the ground wielding a 3-pronged trident to a hospital/home to a dying person asking for their SOULs. Asgore by himself is intimidating on his own without even trying to be. Imagine if he had a human SOUL. After all when Asriel came to the surface with Charas body, people attacked him on sight when he didn't even do anything to provoke anyone except lay a body in a mound of flowers.

The point is, Toriel was just making up a random plan on the spot to jab at Asgore for being such a coward and not actively trying to free his people himself (hypocritical much Toriel?). If he actually tried to follow through with that plan, he would have died just like Asriel did long ago because Asgore, being Asriel's father, is also a kind SOUL at heart and does not actually want to hurt anyone.


 * Also, the 6 humans were not necessarily children. People simply assume that to make Asgore seem more evil.

Not to mention, even if they did free monsters that quickly, the monsters would still be angry at the humans for trapping them down there as well as killing their Prince and would be far more likely to try to initiate a new war. They did need time to let the shock and anger blow over before any rational action could be made.