Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190131130037/@comment-32182236-20190210203436

"If the glyphs are ancient, the Disturbing Picture at the end isn't of Asriel. It must be of another monster with a human soul."

Exactly. Just as I said.

"Keep in mind that "a monster with a human soul" could also have a monster soul inside it too. Just because they have one doesn't mean they don't also have the other."

The problem isn't that it wouldn't have a monster SOUL. The problem is that a hybrid isn't a monster with a human SOUL, it's just a hybrid. A monster and a human fusing. Not a monster absorbing a human SOUL as the previous glyphs allude to.

"But Asriel at the end looked just how he used to look.. even though he had a human soul instead of a monster soul. Despite this difference, Asriels' appearance didn't change."

Yet his Hyperdeath form truly did look terrifying, and Photoshop Flowey/Flowey X/Omega Flowey looks almost nothing like regular Flowey. And do keep in note that at the end, when he does turn back into Asriel, he loses the ability to hold in all of those SOULs, and then releases them.

"... so why does Kanashi's image look.. disturbing?"

For the same reason why Photoshop Flowey looks disturbing.

"If it was just a monster who managed to absorb a human soul, it should still just look like any ordinary monster."

Hyperdeath Asriel isn't quite an ordinary monster in appearance.

"Yet here is a monster where you can tell something is different about it, even by Monster Standards (!!!), just by looking at it."

That is true..

"This isn't a standard situation. Something different is going on. And having Kanashi be a Hybrid, something between a human and a monster? Would definitely put Kanashi in the "Uncanny Valley" in terms of appearance."

But why would he be called a monster and not a hybrid?

"This would also explain why the humans suddenly attacked, even though it seemed they had nothing to fear."

Look further, and also into the unused volumes of Monster History. It's made clear that with enough SOULs, a monster could easily wipe out all of mankind. So seeing this being on unfathomable power most definitely is a threat.

"If hybrids like Kanashi were allowed to breed, and become commonplace?"

If even one monster decided to go rampant, absorbing SOUL after SOUL?

"Kanashi's Children would each be stronger than the average human, and be willing to use that power selfishly as a human might."

Any monster with a human SOUL is FAR stronger than the average human. Take Chasriel, for example.

"The days of monsters being weaker than humans would be over, with an overcorrection."

Exactly.

"Does the advent of Kanashi's Children spell doom for humankind, and must be stopped at all costs?"

It does, hence the war.

"Or does the potential for the human and monster worlds to fuse together and become something greater than ever before, the final step to securing eternal world peace?"

..That's not what Kanashi does. Kanashi simply gives the monsters an uncanny edge. How could Kanashi secure world peace? Sure, it's sometimes possible for humans to have partial control, creating something similar to Crystal Fusion from Steven Universe, but most of the time, like in Photoshop Flowey's fight, the human has no control, and is under full control of the monster. Determination SOULs are the only exception, and with enough, they can free the others.

"When Kanashi appeared, it was both a Beginning, and an End."

A beginning to war, and an end to peace.