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Flowey believes that he no longer has a soul. Yet the title point in my script is that he must.

Only humans have the ability to save and load, and fill themselves up again with Determination. As Flowey recalls himself being filled with when he realized he was going to die, and didn't want to. And Asriel absorbed Chara's soul before he died.

Once we save all six of our friends in the Hyperdeath Asriel fight, we discover a 7th soul resonating inside Asriel. And unlike all the others, the moment we start trying to save this particular soul... Asriel immediately feels the effect.

The reason Flowey is so nasty, while Asriel was famous for being compassionate, is that Flowey can feel every emotion there is.. except compassion. He mentoins "compassion" by name twice, knowing that he should be able to feel it, but not even his own mother can bring it out in him anymore.

Flowey contains a human soul.. that has had its abilty to feel compassion, damaged.

And who do we see the moment we touch Asriels' 7th soul? A flashback of Chara. Which is the name that Frisk calls out.

Chara... who fled her own human village in an attempt to commit suicide on the forbidden mountain. And then was willing to sacrifice everything, including herself, in order to get revenge on the people of her own village.

Something terrible happened to Chara back in her home village that damaged her soul. And she feels the village people are responsible.

Asriel's conspicuous, utterly uncharacteristic lack of compassion is like a nametag on the soul that he must have, but doesn't think he has, saying "This belongs to Chara."

And when Asriel releases all of the souls? We see a ton of monster souls... the 6 non-red human souls... and nothing else. Chara's red soul NEVER LEAVES  ASRIEL.

I can't remember exactly where the quote is, but somewhere in Deltarune it's re-iterated that Compassion Comes From The Soul.

And even after releasing all the souls that he'd captured, Asriel retains his ability to feel compassion. He tells Frisk not to tell his parents that he's still alive, because he believes he's going to fade again, and doesn't want them to experience the pain of losing him a second time.

We just saved Chara's soul (a metaphor for our player's own), and healed the ancient wound that prevented her from feeling compassion. So now... Asriel can finally feel compassion again.

The pattern fits too well. It means too much. And in one form or another (perhaps two?) Asriel is still around in Deltarune. He did not fade, as he believed would happen.

And the longer he can maintain his boss monster form, the more soul energy he'll absorb from Asgore and Toriel, restoring his monster soul and causing them both to age. At least according to Gerson's endgame dialog.

So eventually, once he grows up, Asriel will find that he has Two Souls.