Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20190721003717/@comment-26006155-20200112160144

I am a firm believer in the value of the Scientific Method. In a Mystery, the puzzle pieces are cut in such a way that we should be able to come to rock-solid conclusions about certain events in a story, and then stand on those conclusions to solve deeper parts of the Mystery.

The biggest difference I seem to have with others is that I cast a wide net when it comes to evidence. If an artist ever did anything Deliberately, whose reason isn't immediately apparent, I'll ask questions about that thing until I see what it might be trying to tell us, then try different models until I find one that works.

We don't always have to know the exact numerical value of something in order to use something as evidence. Just knowing the Relative Difference can work.

For example, in Undertale we know that the monster population is rising, the pressure is getting people to move further out into areas like Snowdin.

A massive difference between two things also sticks out: Human souls are far more powerful that monster souls. And while we know Undyne was a normal monster who got power infusions both from human Determination, and channeling the power of all the remaining residents of the Underground when she became Undying, Sans offers no explaination for his incredible powers that surpass even her. Sans must be getting his power from somewhere.. but it's a secret. This is why I think he must have a human soul, we have no other means in-universe to explain this.

Rustic Snowdin is only a few miles away from the Futuristic Core, but when comparing tech it might as well be from another world. That technology several centuries ahead of Snowdin could exist only miles away.. but not yet spread to Snowdin itself except in small things like the Dimensional Boxes?, makes the compelling case that the infusion of future tech was recent and hasn't had time to spread.

Something seemingly humorous like Undyne's confusion over Anime Being Real is also important. Toriel knows that in the human world above, Anime isn't real, they're just comics. Yet the Core has technology like jetpack phones that fire lasers, and sentient transforming robots, stuff you might find right out of anime. The monsters got most of their tech that we see in Snowdin like electricity by studying human garbage.. but the surface humans never had Anime Super Tech like you see in the Core. That tech didn't just come from outside the Underground, it came from another world entirley.

So in my book, if the artist has deliberately made two different things sharply different from each other when compared, that's evidence every bit as strong as an alegra equation.