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Puppycornashlynn wrote: Mabian wrote:

As a second point, if Asriel did indeed absorb Chara's soul, then there would be an expected result from that theory: Chara's soul should be in some way observable. In particular, when Asriel releases the power of the souls he has collected, we see six hearts with colors (representing the six human souls that were captured), and a bunch of white hearts (representing all of the monsters that were captured), but no red heart for Chara (or any other color that could represent a seventh human soul). He lost it after death, so...maybe, a red SOUL, for Determination (Most likely), is enough to turn you into what you'd become by absorbing 7. But that doesn't respond to the problems, and in fact raises a new one, since if the red soul is equivalent to seven other human souls, then there was no need for Asriel to leave the Underground, since he would already have enough power to break the Barrier (which is why he left in the first place: to get more human souls).