Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35615238-20190121141916/@comment-26006155-20190205124307

Flowey was originally intended to be the vessel the extracted souls were kept in. Something "neither human nor monster".

This flower would literally have the Godlike power of the equivalent of 7 humans souls, if Alphy's research succeeded. And yet.. she seemed confident that should could somehow control this super-powered flower.

Gaster, in the original timeline before his early death in Frisk's timeline, stood right where Alphy did when she recorded Lab Entry 17, and recorded his own version of it. He would have also needed a vessel capable of containing both human and monster souls in order to break the barrier. He might have very well have also choosen a vesse that pleased the King... the first Golden Flower.

So both Gaster and Alphys seem to have created Flowey in two different timelines. Both believing they could control the vessel even after it was fully powered.

With timelines so similiar.. could Gaster have exerted control over Alphy's version of Flowey, from beyond the grave?

As amazing as this seems, it would line up with the evidence perfectly.