Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28925112-20160730202210/@comment-4560646-20161125212009

I doubt the Light Blue human was killed in the Ruins. The soul is still in New Home, and there's no way for the Royal Guard to retreive the soul from the Ruins because they can't access it in first place. I doubt Muffet was in the Ruins by then either, cause if she managed to go through Snowdin's cold(which is stated to be fatal to spiders) then why couldn't the remaining spiders in the Ruins leave with her as well?

I don't like the idea of Yellow dying in Waterfall. They have the second most overpowered equipment in the entire game, losing only to Chara's(17 ATK 12 DEF vs. 15 ATK 15 DEF; And the Empty Gun is trickier to score high-damaging hits while the Worn Dagger has more consistent damage). I'm of the opinion that Yellow and Purple, and possibly Green, made it to Asgore and either got killed so many times they gave up, sympathized with Asgore and just offered their souls, or decided to live with Asgore(he's reluctant to fight, after all) until they died of disease, old age, or got killed by a random racist monster.

I've read in TV Tropes that some of the human souls' items fit rather well with where they'd die, based on their soul types. Orange, like you said, moves constantly and Snowdin is where blue attacks are introduced, so it makes sense to die there. Blue is stuck to the bottom of the bullet board due to gravity, and some monsters like Moldbygg and Aaron have attacks that come from the bottom of the board, making it hard to predict their attacks. (It'd also make sense for Blue to resort to fighting back in self-defense) Light Blue and Green don't tend to move much - the former due to being patient and the latter due to the soul literally being immobile - and Hotland is where orange attacks are introduced...

So that leaves the Purple and Yellow souls as the ones who are the most qualified to at least have made it to Asgore(Toby said Undyne meant "Nobody ever made it past Asgore!", not "to Asgore"), as well as the issue of Patience's equipment. A simple solution to that problem is that Patience merely changed their equipment within the Ruins just like Frisk does in Undertale. Could've been anything from finding it laying on the Ruins, or Toriel actually giving them better weapons and armor right before they left to Snowdin.