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Also, as an update to what I've said 3 days ago:

1. Fear and everything associated with it, is, according to Flowey, something much more primal than love, so there's no reason he shouldn't have fear in him. Same with anger. Even species such as octopuses have been shown to display both fear and anger, so there's no reason that anger should be coupled with love as a "high emotion", when it's in fact a very low, very primal one.

2. There's no proof that he felt a genuine loss, that he was genuinely sad. I think he killed himself out of frustration, not sadness.

3. Interest too is not love. Interest is what we use to combat boredom and has nothing to do with love.

4. There is a difference between interest, entertainment, and joy. Flowey can be interested, can be entertained, but I don't think he can feel genuine joy.

5. At the end of the genocide route, he cries out of fear, not out of sadness. That is painfully obvious.

6. At the end of the pacifist route, he feels a mix of emotions, but none of them seem particularly deep to me. There's no true joy nor true sadness in him. Just a general dissatisfaction with his own self and a logical hope for the future (see 8).

7. He cannot feel empathy, satisfaction, happiness, affection, nor comfort, simply from the principle.

8. Sympathy, as well as compassion, are based on experience, and hope is either a decision, or a joy-like feeling. So technically, he can have all these three, but what he cannot have, is any personal psychological experience from them. And given his experience from the times he did have a soul, either from his past self or from absorbing all of underground's souls, his feeling of hope at the very end is logical of origin, not emotional.

8. Bravery, loyalty, courage and imagination are not emotions, they are virtues. And imagination is neither an emotion, nor a virtue. Although, if we're talking about the LEVEL of imagination, then we could be talking about a virtue or a skill. But then again, that's got nothing to do with Flowey.