Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190820122909/@comment-32182236-20190825155101

It's not like Asriel wandered into a military base. It was a civilian village, and his appearance took everyone by surprise.

Both police and people who practice self-defense are more likely to carry a gun than a blunt weapon. This is also the case with many murders.

Guns are the weapons of choice when it comes to killing. So that's what Asriel would be hit by in the modern era. They likely grabbed whatever weapons were immediately on hand. Kicking him with ballet shoes. Punching him with gloves. Bashing his head with a frying pan. And one guy managed to grab an antique wild west six-shooter.

But why an antique one? Also, unless humans knew that monsters' damage was based on our intentions, rather than the strength of the weapon, I don't think they'd believe that these weapons would even work. I don't think I can kill you by kicking you with a ballet shoe. But I certainly could if I had a gun.

It would be a bit heart-breaking, if Chara ever found out that the very humans who she believed hated her from her village.. were also the ones willing to risk life and limb trying to find her. Sometimes, when people are too wrapped up in their own pain, it's hard for them to see the truth of things, or how their actions effect other people.

If they cared for Chara, then why would Chara think they hated them? Also, we don't have evidence that Chara thinks humanity hates them-Just that THEY hate humanity. For all we know, they just didn't like the War of Humans and Monsters, and hate humanity on that premise.

Anyways, isn't it dealing someone a blow, when you shoot them? Does that wordage make the use of guns impossible?

blow:"A sudden hard stroke or hit, as with the fist or an object."

Do bullets fit this defintion? I'm convinced the answer to this question is a resounding "no".

While blow has also been defined as an assault, you can't "deal" an assault.

The monsters are telling the tale, and they have a medieval mindset and vocabulary, and aren't likely experienced with guns. Save for the one the Cowboy Soul brought in. And they would favor antiquated wordage like "village" when describing settlements.

Yet they still refer to HOME as a city.

"Fearing the humans no longer, we moved out of our old city, HOME. We braved harsh cold, damp swampland, and searing heat... Until we reached what we now call our capital. 'NEW HOME.'"-Monster History, Part 4

But regardless of wording, how could Toriel have possibly had a video recorder in her furry paws years before Gaster arrived in the Underground, unless the monsters had salvaged it from discarded surface human technology?

Because it wasn't years before Gaster arrived in the Underground, of course! It was after he arrived!

And how can it be the future, hundreds of years later, if Frisk still sees modern tech in that same garbage today?

Because "hundreds of years later" is not the future, but the present. Because Chara's fall was hundreds of years in the past.

Chara's fall-201X AF, 1700AD

Frisk's fall-23XXAF, 201X AD, hundreds of years later.