Talk:Eight Humans/@comment-37493416-20190401010224/@comment-27623830-20190917114526

I never said Chara's SOUL was still kicking, just that Chara was. They had enough DT to still be around long, long after death. For Chara to be Frisk's support system to keep Resetting indefinitely(as the previous comments in this thread posed), Frisk would have to be relying on Chara's DT to Reset. Chara directly contradicts this at the end of a No-Mercy run, telling you it was not their Determination that brought you that far. You made a direct comparison to Flowey. Flowey is only around because of DT. To make it a direct correlation, the flower was injected with DT and awakened to become Flowey. Chara sensed Frisk's DT and spontaneously awoke. Asriel was dead the entire time period between his dusting and the experiment. Chara had to have been aware on some level the entire time, even if they just perceived it as sleeping.

As for monsters capturing Frisk's SOUL, the shattering is likely the result of Chara's presence. Logically, the monsters should all be trying to just weaken Frisk so they can be brought to Asgore. However, Frisk's SOUL is supporting two consciousnesses, putting a strain on it the monsters don't know to account for. A similar effect would have happened to Chasriel's, as a monster's SOUL is only a tiny fraction of the power a human SOUL, so the overall power of the fusion would be only marginally more powerful than a normal human SOUL. That, however, is all hearsay and theory. That aspect of the world is simply never addressed in canon.

DT may or may not affect whether or not Chara's still around, but it is absolutely the only thing confirmed in canon to affect whether you can SAVE, LOAD, and RESET.