Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-27136653-20180813002314

Also, let's talk about Frisk's soul again.

Why does Asgore, Undyne or any RG member really, with the exception of Papyrus of course, seemingly want to destroy it? A human soul will persist after death. The death of what? The human, their body. Logically, a death of the soul is the death of the soul and nothing else, it should not persist after a fatal magical attack. And yet it does and it is the body that dies (presumably). If the monsters are fighting over the soul, why are they trying to destroy it? (Maybe killing a human physically - the only way to keep their soul intact, was too difficult for most monsters, hence why there's no mention of a monster absorbing a human soul before Asriel's time.)

(Ps. I believe Frisk's soul shatters merely to let free the essence inside it, so that it can go back in time through the nearest save point and give the past Frisk the memories of the most recent run. There is no better way to explain this, certainly not by saying the soul did it on purpose to not let the monsters take the soul - being this mean to the monsters should warrant a choice: [SHATTER] or [GIVE AWAY], yet we got no such choice, so the soul didn't decide... or maybe it was because we were dead and this was the soul's natural instinct... which would contradict the saying about them persisting after death, so maybe it was not an instinct after all and my explanation with the essence is the only one that really works.)

Anyways, if you were a monster trying to take the soul, would you attack the soul, or would you attack the body? Either the soul sometimes represents the body itself, especially when facing RG monsters and Asgore, though such explanation would warrant too many asterisks, or maybe, there is a way to make the soul persist after death, even by attacking it.

Maybe the monsters are attacking it in a way that would make it persist, but not die. Though, I cannot imagine every monster wants to kill you, especially the Froggits, who are talking about mercy themselves, and there's no difference between such an attack and a regular attack that should destroy the soul instead of making it persist after death.

So maybe, my initial assumption that the soul shatters when killed by magic is wrong. But of course, HP = hit points. No HP = nothing to support the soul's existence. It should be dead! So either,

(A) the soul "sucks up" the energy of the body when it's about to shatter, which kills the body and heals the soul, making it persist (which is interesting, but too much work for so little time imo), or perhaps

(B) HP represents the connections between the soul and the body, all identical and parallel to each other. You will have a harder time communicating with your soul if you have less connections (more current forced to move through the same wire), but you will die only if the connection count reaches 0. In essence, the HP is not the hit points of the soul, but of the thing keeping the body alive.

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Now, do any of you have any other explanations? This is all I can think of at the moment.