did your chara regenerate their sould alongside their body, or do they manage without it smh?
also btw btw: any hot takes on what being soulless even means in UT? Bc when i hear people talk about it, it's usually "they dont care for anybody & don't feel anything" and then we look at post-pacifist flowey and he's the fakest idgafer ever
It only took me 20ish days to answer this, but who's counting? Whoops.
Eh, I kinda handwave it. Grew in the ground. Like a turnip. They're just really good at gardening, yknow?
Now this second part is the fun one, because I absolutely have hot takes. I think about Flowey quite a lot.
Flowey is always going on about how he feels nothing and doesn't care, and I think that's only partially true. The thing is, I don't think it's a symptom of lacking a soul. Or maybe it partially is, but not entirely. He doesn't feel in the same way he did when he was Asriel, and he cannot connect to others like he used to because his trauma has changed him. Loss of empathy can be a trauma response, after all.
There is also the fact that he is in this unique situation that puts absolutely nobody in existence as his equal. Why would he care about anyone when ultimately, he can just reset them? Why would their emotions matter when they are nothing but predictable lines of code? Why would he care when his actions have no consequences? Nobody else is a real person to Flowey. They are toys that can be played with and then discarded.
That is, except for two people.
Chara, first of all, because Chara is dead and therefore immortal and unchanging in his mind. He cares desperately about Chara, to the point that he models his entire identity around them. They cannot, by design, become another one of those worthless NPCs.
Second of all is Frisk, and that's because Frisk takes his power away from him, putting themself on the same level as him as a playmate (and because he projects Chara onto them lol). They are the only one who can begin to understand what it is like to be him. They are the only living person who he cannot datamine for entertainment.
(The closest third is Papyrus, and that's because Papyrus is a wacky guy who responds in weird ways to things. Papyrus is as close to unique as it gets.)
Post-pacifist...not only did he go through a whole thing in the underground, with Frisk and the souls and freeing monsterkind, but suddenly actions have consequences. He cannot reset time. He is just a regular ol citizen of the world, like all the other idiots. Everyone is on his level again. He cannot place himself as above them, cannot completely discount them.
And that's when the cracks start to show.
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