Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28067574-20190904162421/@comment-32182236-20190911175513

@Yfcnvwifeuv:It couldn't have gone that way.

@Jacky720:It's not just unlikely, it doesn't fit what Toriel said at all.

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Toriel said that if Asgore truly wanted to free everyone, he'd take one SOUL, cross the Barrier, and take six more from the humans. That would end the war "peacefully" (Yes, Toriel calls this a peaceful way to end the war. Really says a lot about what she considers "peaceful", doesn't it?)

Yfcnvwifeuv.. Toriel's plan WAS a way to break the Barrier. And free the monsters. It ultimately would have had the same effect as Asgore's plan, except it would have happened faster.

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Actually.. Now that I think of it.. Maybe your hypothesis isn't so impossible. Asgore was the one making the false dilemma, not Toriel. It could be that Asgore skipped to the conclusions before Toriel could explain that her way was a way to destroy the Barrier.

Asgore's bad at names.. Do we know if he's also bad at strategy?

...I'm still going with hypothesis 3, though.