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Thanks for the reply!

Yes,  I'm afraid this is poorly explained. It would be better if I could show you a graphic. I modified it a bit and I think it could make more sense now. Also, I think you are correct about me being wrong in Flowey’s case and the other examples I gave, since I tend to do things on the march.

Anyways, I’ll try to explain it once again, more clearly. :)

Basically a BEING is something that is ALIVE and EXISTS. In the game we have two races, MONSTERS and HUMANS, so a MONSTER BEINGS and HUMAN BEINGS.

Now to get them to be ALIVE and EXIST we need two things: a BODY something that gives them EXISTANCE and a SOUL something that gives them LIFE.

Let’s start first with the BODIES.

HUMANS have PHYSICAL FORMS, They have PHYSICAL BODY FORMS.

This means we can DETERMINE its composition: you know they are made mostly of water and other determined physical elements like arms, organs, etc. And we can also DETERMINE how it works: for example: you can’t lengthen your legs out of the blue; your body has a determined physical form. By determined in this case I mean that it is something known, definable, a fact. So we can say they have a DETERMINED BODY.

This might see unrelated but it’s necessary to understand what a MAGICAL BODY FORM is.

MONSTERS have MAGICAL FORMS. They have MAGICAL BODY FORMS.

This means we can’t DETERMINE its composition: you only know they are made of magic, they are undetermined. Some are made of fire, some aren’t even tangible. We can’t also DETERMINE how they work: they can accommodate their bodies in various sizes and shapes and even use their tears to make a hat. We can say then, that they have UNDETERMINED BODIES.

Now we can make this assumption: something MAGICAL = lacks DETERMINATION / something PHYSICAL = has DETERMINATION

Let’s explain the SOULs then. This is a little harder to explain without a graphic depiction. But imagine a SOUL has an external layer and inside you find the content. This means the amount of the matter that composes the layer would be less than the amount matter that what is on the inside.

A MONSTER SOUL’s external layer would be PHYSICAL and the content would be MAGICAL. Why? Well, because when a MONSTER’s SOUL breaks, the PHYSICAL shell gets shattered, and then the MAGICAL content can get out. The MONSTER SOUL loses its DETERMINED part, the part that holds it together. This means it loses what little DETERMINATION it had. The remaining part: its MAGIC part cannot put it back together since magic lacks DETERMINATION. This is why MOSTERS SOULs cannot remain for long and inevitably turn to DUST.

A HUMAN SOUL is the opposite: the external layer is MAGICAL and the inside is DETERMINED When a HUMAN SOUL breaks the MAGICAL shell is shattered and the “PHISICAL” content can get out. The HUMAN SOUL loses its MAGICAL part, the one that holds it together. This means what little MAGIC it had is lost. But the “PHYSICAL” part, the one that remains, can put it back together with DETERMINATION. This is why HUMAN SOULS remain after death.

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The last bit about SOULs is a stil a little confusing, but I’ll try to explain better if you don’t understand. I’m trying to mix meanings with concepts and I don’t know much English, so I might be I’m getting something wrong.

<span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I’ll see if I can explain Flowey’s and the other cases later, if what I explained here is correct. :)