Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28128661-20160404143233/@comment-27907368-20160418061353

I mean, Alphys did do this. It says in one of the entries that the vessel was returned to ASGORE's garden. Flowey then tells you that the garden is where he "woke up".

And yeah,Alphys is shocked when PAPYRUS talks about a tiny flower (not a talking flower), but why wouldn't she be? She knows that she injected a flower with a bunch of DETERMINATION and is guilty about everything that she's done. There's no recollection of a talking flower before or after the boss fight which heavily implies that Alphys didn't know it was sentient. I'll post lab entries here related to "the vessel" so that no one has to search for them. Note that she sends the vessel back BEFORE everything goes to hell... and then after the monsters turn into smoothies, there is an entry... So, Alphys replanted what she thought to be an empty vessel. Then, when things went astray, she rushed to it and found that the flower was gone. She probably knew that something was up but didn't know the magnitude of the problem.
 * ENTRY NUMBER 7: We'll need a vessel to wield the monster SOULs when the time comes. After all, a monster cannot absorb the SOULs of other monsters. Just as a human cannot absorb a human SOUL... So then... What about something that's neither human nor monster?
 * ENTRY NUMBER 10: experiments on the vessel are a failure. it doesn't seem to be any different from the control cases. whatever. they're a hassle to work with anyway. the seeds just stick to you, and won't let go...
 * ENTRY NUMBER 15: Seems like this research was a dead end... But at least we got a happy ending out of it...? I sent the SOULS and the vessel back to ASGORE. And I called all of the families and told them everyone's alive. I'll send everyone back tomorrow. : )
 * ENTRY NUMBER 18: the flower's gone.