Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26242189-20160422234238/@comment-27701762-20160516001156

Arthurtilly wrote:

Aicilespear wrote: Tbh, I really can't explain this part, either because my brains decided enough theories, or that I wasn't really given enough canonical facts to make out of something.

GetYourFix had an approach, but I don't really want to fully believe on that part, mainly because it's kind of a whole different kind of concept that I'm not sure really ties to the game.

Other than that all six humans confronted Asgore and failed, and their souls persisted after death, I guess I can add another piece of fact that Frisk's heart didn't shatter during the battle against Asriel, but Frisk certainly wasn't dead.

EDIT: Actually, we didn't know that the six humans were fallen under Asgore. The reason I said that was that I heard Toby Fox had confirmed it. It might not be true, but it's possible. After all, Asgore has 80 attack, enough to kill a human in one blow. The reason Asgore's fight is easier is that we are the seventh (well technically eighth) human, and he doesn't really want to kill us. He tries to stop us from fighting him at least three times. I did a search on Twitter and couldn't find anything, but I could be searching for the wrong thing.

It's certainly possible. But nothing in the game actually states that Asgore killed the previous humans. Given that he is a generally non-violent monster anyway, everything we know about his character suggests that the fight would play out the same way whether or not the protagonist is the seventh human. If anything it should work the other way around: if Asgore has indeed killed the six previous human children, then he should be more inclined to fight, not less, since he would have overcome his reservations six times over already.