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Puppycornashlynn wrote:

What if, Asriel, turned into his god of hyperdeath form when he absorbed, Chara's, SOUL!

Its never comfirmed...but its likely! Okay, so this one actually has some serious problems.

The first is that, by all accounts, Chara's soul disappears after the death of Asriel. While it is not entirely clear what happens to a human soul when absorbed by a monster and that monster dies (there being only one instance of it), the fact that Chara's soul is never mentioned in any way during the end sequence of events pushes the presumption away from this explanation.

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).

The third point is that such a theory isn't needed. Since we are already told that the souls of nearly every monster adds up to the power of a single human soul, and Flowey/Asriel absorbs nearly every monster, Asriel should have sufficient power to destroy the Barrier (and presumably this is the same power that allows Flowey to regain his form as Asriel: there is no reason why the power of seven human souls would not be enough to do this).

Building off of these problems, there would also be a major hole: if the problem that Flowey had was simply not having an extra human soul, but he could solve it by absorbing Chara's soul without really impacting Frisk, then why wasn't this done during the Neutral Route when Flowey turns into Photoshop Flowey? Why does Photoshop Flowey have only six souls if he can so easily absorb Chara's as well?