Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27625106-20160418020506/@comment-27907368-20160418110516

The SOUL shatters and then is rekindled by the want to change fate. Though the word used is "determination", I believe it is more meant in the Biblical sense of "self-determination".

This means that there is no power forcing us to do a certain thing but instead each of us has the power to decide what to do or, as it is said in the True Lab, humans have a want to change fate. This sense of purpose is what allows humans to live even after their SOULs have been shattered.

In our case, it grants us the ability to change fate as well as the punny "DE-TERMINATION". ^^'

As for the battle mechanics:

Recall that humans reside more in their physical bodies than in their SOULs. Though monsters attack our SOULs, our bodies are left unscarred. This may be what gives monsters in the game some confusion as to how to approach humans. Monsters "fall down" before they die. Therefore, an ignorant monster may see a dead human and believe that they are simply "fallen down" and not, well, dead.

Our battle mechanic is slashing at monsters' bodies. Theirs is magicing our SOULs. Monsters (other than sans...) don't even bother dodging our physical attacks - this may be testament to how little they understand how humans work.