Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-31994516-20170716124846

Excellent. It's the same theory I've developed a while ago. In fact, it's one of the higher aspects of determination, and for Undertale, the highest, along with protagonism. Determination itself is something very transcendent and it exists in real life. In fact, I claim it's the solution to the problem why can separate minds exist when fundamentally there is only one consciousness. In the static aspect, determination asserts your existence as self-sufficient and independent. In the dynamic aspect, it is a power of choice and syncronicity, ability to have your local reality expand beyond you, the power of making subjective to become objective. It can render shortly render your experiential aspect as absolute, creating a SAVE point.

Jurgio wrote:  Plus, Alphys was able to extract DT from ALL the human souls, so the red soul being special in that regard is nullified.

Having some amount of determination, and having Determination as the SOUL trait are different things. Frisk also has some amounts of other traits, according to the Ball Game (Bravery.  Justice.  Integrity.  Kindness.  Perseverance.  Patience.  Using these, you were able to win at "Ball Game ."). But obviously they have less intensity of these traits compared to other SOULs.

Chara could not load their SAVE (if they had it), because they would need to reverse events outside the barrier, and there was not enough power for that. Resetting the surface is something only post Neutral/Pacifist Chara can do, because Frisk's encounters with Flowey/Asriel gave lots of determination to them. The whole SAVE/LOAD/RESET thing is because the Underground is one way causally isolated, means there is literally no way anything that is inside the barrier can causally influence what is outside  (opposite isn't true though), unless it's a being with human and monster SOULs. Because of the causal isolation, there is no need to influence the numerous determined human SOULs on the Surface when timeline manipulation happens.