Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34020894-20180606223205

When it comes to understanding the point of losing one's soul or came back without one, people in the fandom assume that it means the person can’t feel anything. But i don't believe that isn’t the case. I believe that lacking a soul just prevents someone from relating to other but can still feel other emotions and can have cognitive empathy.

Humans and monsters souls are different from one another. Where we humans are made of water and their souls are separated monsters are attitude with their souls and made of love, hope and compassion.

Souls in game are the essence of once being. When someone dies their souls either shattered(monsters) or persist after death(humans).

for humans they're conscious is still present within that soul due to their own determination. As evidence by the times where souls have control though fusions. For monsters their essence(dust) gets spread on the person’s favorite thing and lives on in them.

She was trying to find out. If it's possible for someone to live without a soul. And we see that it is in flowey/asriel...and chara.

he got revived via determination and dust spread on  a flower. When he feel wake up he was confused, scared and  couldn't feel anything, he could feel anything. Both physical and emotionally. He lose his compassion, but there are times where he express other emotions:  anger,boredom,joy, even excitement when he sees you as chara in genocide. Heck we learn that he wasn’t always violent before the game starts. It’s just that boredom, curiosity and lack of empathy taint his morels, he still knows it’s wrong though. It’s not until we show him a new light that he lets frisk live their lives and tell us not to reset.

If you go by the narrator chara theory, they are attach to your soul and can feel what you felt. So the way they feel is different from flowey’s state. But they’re can still express emotions via their flavor text and they sometime express some sense of concern or empathy for use(“it’s you”) and have memories of their past(asriel boss fight). But they’re just a mnd with no heart of their own, so like their brother, their morality changes depended on the run/actions you made. Either nice and hopeful(pacifist) or cruel and sadistic(genocide)

so yeah you can feel other emtions expect love and empathy. but with  expreiences and memories of good time one can at least understand other feels of love and concren  