Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27677820-20160131035943/@comment-26905610-20160225125901

Lasting Legacy wrote:

Regarding to the stuff in the post by SilentWalker...

(Please do be advised that I intend to destroy, or at least attempt to destroy, a few quite established theories.)

Very good. That's what scientists do, they relentlessly try to rip apart new theories among them when trying to figure out what's canon in real life. :p

My theory is that monsters souls are tied so closely to their body that when they turn to dust, their soul (kind of) shatters and stuck with the dust.

It's an interesting idea. (The answer is for the whole post btw, it's just that there's no need to quote everything)

However, Flowey tried to go home because he wanted to become his former self again, how he was inside at least. He was uncaring with his parents from the moment they met again and even annoyed by their presence, he abandoned them as soon as he found out his plan was not working. It was a selfish attitude, he was freaked out by his lack of feelings and just wanted to turn back, I don't remember he saying to Chara that he made an effort to be good even if he couldn't feel anything because it would be the right thing to do.

About souls, since I happen to be in the true lab I will just write here what we learn there:

"ENTRY NUMBER 3

But extracting a SOUL from a living monster would require incredible power...

Besides being impractical, doing so would instantly destroy the SOUL's host.

And, unlike the persistent SOULs of humans...

The SOULs of most monsters disappear immediately upon death.

If only I could make a monster's SOUL last..."

It seems the souls really disappear, and leave nothing to Alphys work with.

However, there's something else. I'm not going to quote the game again because I'm lazy, but we also read there that the original plan was to inject the flower with Determination and also the monsters' souls, because neither monster or human could be a vessel for a monster soul mixed with Determination. If you check the refrigerators while the mist is still there, Frisk will find all kinds of weird stuff where they were supposed to be. He finds something "Warm and moist", something "in the shape of a man" and even what appears to be a tree with ripe fruits. With the mist gone, you find the refrigerators with "samples" inside. Alphys did it, she collected the monsters' souls using Determination as a vessel by itself, she even had some poor souls captive and ready to use when you get to the lab.

Well then, could it be that Flowey got filled not only with Determination but also with some of those deformed souls? And what could be the implications of this? Although I don't believe your theory to be correct, it's an interesting thought that never ocurred to me before. :)

(Sorry for possible bad grammar, it's late and I'm not even a native English speaker.)