Talk:Hard Mode/@comment-29709845-20171228214134/@comment-33771040-20180325141535

To avoid both the plothole and the multiple paths, here is what could happen.

If you pick the name "Frisk" before you finish the True Pacifist route, it just says that you can't. After the true pacifist route is completed and you pick frisk, a few things happen immediately.

-Your sprite becomes Chara

-Both Flowey and Toriel flee in terror for seeing their dead child/brother walking into the room, alive.

You must solve all the puzzles yourself, and Toriel changed them as she ran to buy her more time to run. The bowl of candy is almost cleaned out, and there are no NPCs or encounters anywhere while you go through the RUINS, with the exception of Napstablook, who doesn't know that you're supposed to be dead.

After you get to Home, she concludes that you just look very similar to their first child, and aren't actually them. (4th wall break: It's possible, given the low detail.) After that, encounters will start happening, and because Chara was evil in the game's canon, you HAVE to exhaust the kill counter and kill Toriel. If you don't do that, the Annoying Dog shows up and ends the game. If you continues on a genocide path, however, as the Dog starts talking, you slash at it and it goes away. You then continue, with the typical modifications, Unitale fights, etc.

The dog will appear after these fights

-Papyrus

-Undyne the Undying

-Alphys NEO

-Muffet

-Mettaton NEO 2.0

-Enraged Napstablook

-Sans

-Genocide ASGORE

Every time it appears, it's more and more angry that you won't accept that it's over, until after Genocide ASGORE's fight, it says it "Patched the fabric"...

And starts the fight with IT.

Details on that fight later.