Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27907368-20160506131212/@comment-26347196-20160513192508

PancryPancreas5 wrote: Aicilespear wrote: PancryPancreas5 wrote: It's hinted that previous six humans were able to reset. When you reset and get Toriel's phone call about pie, she remembers which flavour you choose and states that she feels like she already knew every human who fell... If you think about it, if the six souls can't reset, Toriel would retain the memories of their deaths, which is logical since she has that memory very clear even before Frisk came. When Frisk reloads, however, Toriel has the slight recollection of the pie thing.

Furthermore, if the six humans were able to reset, they would be able to undo their deaths and would eventually get out of the Underground and not get trapped in the underground. But the thing about previous six humans, Frisk's soul is the seventh and it takes seven souls to break the barrier. The only way a previous human could escape Underground is to absorb Boss Monster's soul wich obviously didn't happen... During Photoshop Flowey battle, six souls Flowey absorbed plus Frisk's seventh are present right in front of the barrier. What I don't get is, how wasn't barrier destroyed (since Monsters are still trapped after Neutral Ending) and how could Frisk make it to the other side (if they even made it to the other side)...

Does every Frisk's death make a new timeline where a Monster actually killed them? Are previous humans still having their journey trough Underground in some alternate timeline? I don't know... Simple: Photoshop Flowey have never absorbed Frisk's soul (because the battle happens and the six souls rebelled before they can even break the barrier), and it would take an entity inhabiting seven human souls to break the barrier. Even if it only takes just 7 human souls to be present, the battle didn't happen in front of the barrier, because after the battle ends, you appear in a place where Flowey stands most of the time, before actually walk a few more steps into what seems to be the way out, presumably the barrier.

Frisk's death didn't create a different timeline. Loading would simply be rewinding a timeline, resetting would be rewinding all the way to the starting point, and true resetting would be completely destroying a timeline and start on a new slate.