Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25958552-20160731160314/@comment-26814804-20170723055022

TORIEL strongly implies that the six humans before you were humans, first off.

Second off, ASRIEL only died because he passively sat around and let himself get hit. A monster with a human SOUL would have no trouble taking what he wanted when he wanted it, as long as he wasn't sombrely trodding along carring his dead best friend. Besides, ASGORE is obviously far more powerful than ASRIEL, and that 80 DF would last him a while even WITHOUT a human SOUL.

And of course Tori is a hypocrite, but it's not her JOB to protect monsterkind, it's ASGORE's.

And the monsters and humans wouldn't be able to war if ASGORE didn't want them to. He'd be God, capable of protecting monsters and humans from each other. It's not like he'd need to use that power all the time, ASRIEL is able to stay in his original form, even with seven SOULs absorbed.

Hell, if he wanted to, he could easily prevent the war from ever happening in the first place. Just six SOULs were enough for Flowey to erase man and monsterkind entirely, ASGORE with all seven should have no problems rewriting history and ensuring that humans and monsters stayed at peace.

One way or another, none of it changes the fact that ASGORE is either an idiot for not realizing what he had the capacity to do, or simply a sniveling coward for refusing to take the initiative and do it.