Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190403163405/@comment-32182236-20190416204642

Person worded the response just right. That was exactly my argument as well:That trace DT is not the same as massive injections of DT. This is also my explanation as to why Undyne didn't DT melt, and fuse with Monster Kid.

Let's take a look at Entry 17. ..No, not Gaster's Entry 17, the other one.

monsters' physical forms can't handle "determination" like humans' can. with too much determination, our bodies begin to break down. everyone's melted together... -Entry 17

Too much determination. Not, "any" determination, but "too much". Having "too much" makes you melt. Undyne went from having some to "too much" when she refused to give up even after losing as Undying.

But perhaps the somewhat vague entry wasn't enough. After all, this entry is unused, and it also says that monsters' bodies can't handle determination-So it's really not clear which interpretation the entry is talking about. And besides, we still want to know WHY they can't handle determination. Alphys, can you explain it for us?

https://youtu.be/vp8wMHeXmdc?t=1621

You see, unlike humans', monsters' bodies don't have enough... Physical matter to take those concentrations of "determination." Their bodies started to melt, and lost what physicality they had. Pretty soon, all of the test subjects had melted together into... Those. -Alphys

So this is indeed talking about monsters having too much determination.

So, monsters can have trace amounts of determination without melting. It's just that with so little physical matter, they can't take too much.

Now, can you explain Entry 5 under your system?