Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29197815-20160915083709/@comment-27701762-20160918182151

SmileyChara wrote: Yeah thats true, but where do you find more "Determination" in a place where is only despair and sadness? According to the best theory we have on the timeline, Asriel/Chara died about one hundred years before the game starts, while Flowey is created not too long before Frisk falls into the Underground. In that intervening century, six other children fell into the Underground, who then died/were killed and had their souls captured. Those captured souls were used to harvest determination (determination being a physical substance in the game's world) by Alphys, who then injected it into various subjects, including Flowey. The souls that she used to get the determination were given to her by Asgore, and once her experiments were done she returned the souls to Asgore. Since Asgore has six souls (none of which are red, as Chara's soul should be), Chara's soul played no part in Flowey's revival.