Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10788405-20160720031315

Asriel, at the end of the true pacifist route, regained his sense of self. He was able to feel compassion towards Frisk. So he gives the monster souls back to the monsters. What about the human souls? Couldn't he keep them and use their senses of compassion to prevent him from regressing into a flower? i'm sure his return would be accepted by Asgore and Toriel, maybe even the rest of the monsters.

I don't know, a counterarguement i know of is the idea that he needs a monster soul to survive as a monster, but why is that? If anything, a monster souls is the sentient mind of the monster and is linked to their wellbeing, as is a human's. We know that the human souls betrayed Flowey by overloading him and causing him to become little more than a simple flower, but we see no sign of this when they are within Asriel, meaning that they likely accepted him (strange, considering that Flowey and Asriel are the same person). It's possible that a monster can survive with a human soul, which is more powerful than a monster soul, and we know that monsters can survive with both souls in their bodies; Why can't a monster survive with nothing but a human soul? If anything, having both souls at once is more straining to the monster as it's more energy to withstand

Christ, I feel like Alphys, but not into anime 