Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-27136653-20171225145012

Rafip wrote: There's only 7 traits. If you blindly assume that there are no more traits than those who fell into Underground and have been described by Ball Game. ''But, they don't need a SOUL. Flowey does just fine without one. =) What they really need is "essence". We have already discussed actual Flowey's state and that unproved essence ''thing. The answer is NO. You. Stop. Go away and play the actual game. Then return.

It is PROVEN that there are no more than 7 traits. After all, the ball game did very STRICTLY imply so. If there were any others, it would have listed them when describing the red flag.

As for an essence, that's a proven canon. When Asriel died, his essence was contained in his dust, which spreaded across the garden. Later on, golden flowers from the surface started blooming there, and many years later, Alphys took one of them and injected it with determination. Asriel was reborn only with his essence and some determination. And Chara? Well, how else do you explain them being awoken by Frisk other than through the concept of an essence? Chara's corpse was literally there since Toriel placed her there and when Asriel and Chara died, Chara's essence contained within Asriel's soul HAD to go somewhere - into their body which Asriel was holding. I mean, this explanation is already available, so why make a completely new one, amirite?

So again, stop, and reevaluate your headcanons. Then come back.