Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37345491-20190406164451/@comment-31147727-20190614161411

Zenoflee wrote: If you find the words "Soldier", "Royal Guard", "Sentry" and search their meaning in dictionary, you may discover "Soldier" is a generic term, "Royal Guard" and "Sentry" are specific term.

"Royal Guard" is a soldier to guard a person

"Sentry" is a soldier to guard a place

In my opinion, it is okay to say "Royal Guard" is a "Soldier" or "Sentry" is a "Soldier", but I won't say "Soldier" is a "Royal Guard"... I mean, couldn't you claim that the Royal Guard is protecting the monster population from human attack? They're royally appointed to guard the citizens from hostile forces. Asgore is a pretty chill guy, who probably doesn't put his safety above the safety of his people, so it would make sense that he would have the Royal Guard protect the entire population from human attacks rather than just himself.

In fact, there's an argument to be made that the RG protecting the citizens protects Asgore more effectively than just guarding the palace, as they would be facing the humans before they gain a bunch of LV by killing all those citizens on the way to the palace, increasing their chances as actually being able to kill the human.