Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26849575-20160315015552/@comment-13682699-20180121125546

Eddiemate wrote: I know this is a rather old post, but I was just playing through Souless Pacifist (I wanted a nice file, ok? I just happened to also do Genocide) and I agree with the OP.

Why do we need Asgore's SOUL? Throughout the game it's been made clear that a monster soul is many times weaker than a human soul, and in Pacifist, we see that the entire monster population was needed to equate 1 human SOUL (Well, I don't think EVERYONE was needed, but you get the point)

So... Why do we need Asgore's SOUL? Based on Alphys' truth bomb before New Home, there's no difference in how strong a human SOUL is, and I doubt the magicians who set up the Barrier wouldn't want humans coming back out. So why? Monster hate? It's just all confusing That's because Boss monster SOULS are the only SOULS capable of surviving the death of the monster for a brief period of time, which would allow the human to absorb it. Regular monsters SOULS disappear upon death making it impossible to absorb, and it is mentioned that trying to separate the SOUL from a living monster would require extreme amounts of power.