Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-823410-20160602094956/@comment-823410-20160602224510

GetYourFix wrote: Hm? I mean, no, the original Chara and Asriel are long gone. Flowey isn't Asriel - he's a soulless being with Asriel's memories. The protagonist isn't Chara, either - they declare themselves as a separate entity in TP and "Chara" never even says that they're us. We just woke them up and drove them to power-hunger.

Not having a SOUL messes you up. However, the protagonist has a SOUL up until killing Asgore and Flowey, in the Genocide Route. The "Unconditional Love" interpretation doesn't leave room for the protag. killing monsters at all, and thus doesn't hold much merit to me. Remember what Sans said?

"The more you kill, the easier it becomes to distance yourself. The more you distance yourself, the less you will hurt. The more easily you can bring yourself to hurt others.!

There is always a way to seperate onself from these. Free will allows, that one can cut themself from the source or rather sedate the connection. Those who dull themselves are less prune to the negative energies, as they get used to them.

The first time it is shocking and conflicting, but the more negativity you fester from either being hurt by others or projecting the negativity, the more comforting it becomes and less troubling to rise your hand to harm others.

Too much negativity at once however makes you mentally ill, as seen with soldiers which have PTSD.