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Jillianbrodsky wrote: Everyone wants to make Chara into this absolutely evil being because of the end of the genocide run. In reality, it's Frisk's actions that led Chara to the conclusion of power etc.

But okay, you won't agree with that. It says in the game that monsters can't absorb other monster souls. Humans can't absorb human souls. But flowey absorbed the souls of humans AND monsters. Therefore he is neither.

"ENTRY NUMBER 7

We'll need a vessel to wield the monster SOULs when the time comes.

After all, a monster cannot absorb the SOULs of other monsters.

Just as a human cannot absorb a human SOUL...

So then..." Flowey doesn't count as a boss monster until he gets godlike powers, and is able to restore his original form. Before then, he's a flower, neither human or monster, able to absorb the souls of each.

Interestingly, Asgore knows who Frisk is when he turns around when you first meet him. Unless it's a Genocide Run, in which case he looks at Chara curiously, unable to tell what she is. Undyne the Undying also makes a reference to Frisk/Chara being neither human or monster.

So apparanetly, Ghosts are like flowers in having the Not-human, not-monster status.

Which is why I think Gaster is a huge Chara-level threat.