Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27677820-20160131035943/@comment-25991376-20160222100408

Is Asriel The Best? wrote: What if he sees injustice in the world and reverts back to his “kill or be killed” philosophy. In the pacifist ending, Asriel refuses to be saved by Frisk, even though he knows it could be done with the power of resets. He’d rather become a joyless yet harmless flower than risk hurting the people he loves... The problem is though, the only reason he makes this sacrifice is to preserve his “goodness.” I'm gonna through out a really stupid theory. I'm also going to treat Flowey and Asriel as, essentially, the same person. Ignore me on those grounds if you are so inclined.

Flowey is shown to have a fair bit of meta knowledge. It reaches the point where, if you start the game after the Pacifist run, Flowey will actually beg you not to reset the game, and to leave Frisk alone. What if... That's the real reason why Asriel decided to become a flower again? Sure, he's trying to keep from harming people again, but what if he remembers some of his meta knowledge while he's Asriel? It's not like there's any reason for him to say "Oh, by the way, Frisk, all your accomplishments were achieved by someone playing you like a pupeteer." "Hey everyone, there's a human playing the human and I'm gonna beg 'em for peace!" He might not want to put his parents in the position of wondering whether to tell him how extremely stupid that sounds. He might not even be sure himself; he's gone through a lot and probably didn't retain all his thousands of years of knowledge. Just because he didn't say it, though, doesn't mean it isn't true.