Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33771040-20180211024426

SO

In the genocide route, as everybody knows, you fight sans. Then ASGORE, the guy everyone in the underground sees as the biggest threat, doesn't even try to fight you.

A lot of people say it's because the message was intercepted, but I don't think that's true.

If he didn't get the message, he would act just like he would in a neutral or true pacifist route, which he doesn't

Instead, he thought that he could reason with the player, and convince them not to fight.

He even says that a flower who was crying, most likely Flowey, warned him about the player. He just didn't want to fight you. Even if the message was intercepted and Flowey was warning him just a few seconds in advance of his death, why didn't he make a break for the souls at a last-ditch attempt to save his life?

Simple. Either he didn't want to fight, which is unlikely considering he attacks you even when you haven't hurt ANYBODY. So that leaves the option of someone having already absorbed the human SOULs, but who? I think it was Sans, which would also explain why he's so much more powerful than Papyrus.

Now, in this route, you killed Sans' brother. Obviously, he's furious at you. After hearing Asgore didn't want to fight you, he knew his only choice was to absorb the SOULs himself. This would explain why he's the only enemy able to dodge attacks, just like a human. And, just like you can, after you spare them he can do a practically infinite-damage unavoidable move. Just like you can after anyone stop attacking and spares you.

We don't even see the SOULs, so it's possible that by the time you got there, they were gone.

Another thing, why didn't Flowey absorb the SOULs instead of just sitting there and begging for mercy? If the SOULs hadn't rebelled during the Omega/Photoshop Flowey fight, he would have been undefeatable. There's no doubt he knew the SOULs wouldn't rebel against the cause of killing someone like Genocide Frisk. He was one of the people with the "plan" to obliterate their universe, as he says just before the Final Corridor in the Genocide route, One final thing, is that the player can do any number of damage, from 1 to 99, which doesn't seem very remarkable... until you realize, Sans is the only enemy in the game who can do the same. Every other enemy in the game does a set amount of damage every hit, except Sans. Instead, as you are in his attack, meaning how accurate his attack was at hitting you, it does any number value of damage, from 1 to 92.
 * I... I've changed my mind about all this. This isn't a good idea anymore. Y-you should go back, . This place is fine the way it is!

That's what I got. 