Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20181123023529/@comment-35806478-20181130214251

Chapter 4: Undyne vs. Amalgamates

Hey, you did give me something more substantial! Well done. Alright, so you claim that Undyne is empowered by determination, while the amalgamates aren't, and this is proof that the amalgamates have their SOULs stolen. Let's examine this hypothesis.

Who exactly has more determination? Undyne, or the amalgamates? Well, Undyne can be damaged, but the amalgamates can't. However, Undyne only melts when her HP gets low enough, but the amalgamates supposedly melted without anything helping them meet their doom. Although, the amalgamates only melt after days of walking around the lab. So, it would seem to me that determination very slowly melts the bonds between magic, but that the process can be sped up by harming the monster in question. If you manage to kill the monster before they goop up, they will die. The reason you can't harm a gooped up monster is because their bodies are basically liquid.

So, determination empowered Undyne because she hadn't gotten to the goop stage yet. She was fed trace amounts of determination, after all. And determination empowered the amalgamates by bringing them back to life. It was, of course, temporary, seeing as how determination slowly kills a monster from the inside, but it did empower them back to life.

Therefore, your claim that the amalgamates were different somehow from Undyne cannot be proven true. Over all, though, this was a pretty good chapter. Good job!

End of Chapter 4