THEORY: The reason determination has its name

[Mr. Headcrab]

This might be a coincidence, but I thought of a theory.
Determination. De termination: De means not or undo, and termination means ending, usually life. So determination means undoing death.

[Weeblebeeb]

Originally posted by Mr. Headcrab:

This might be a coincidence, but I thought of a theory.
Determination. De termination: De means not or undo, and termination means ending, usually life. So determination means undoing death.

No, Determination means the will to go on.

[Mr. Headcrab]

Originally posted by Ultimate Weeaboo Trash:

Originally posted by Mr. Headcrab:

This might be a coincidence, but I thought of a theory.
Determination. De termination: De means not or undo, and termination means ending, usually life. So determination means undoing death.

No, Determination means the will to go on.

I know that. I am saying that might be the reason he used that word.

[Weeblebeeb]

Originally posted by Mr. Headcrab:

Originally posted by Ultimate Weeaboo Trash:

No, Determination means the will to go on.

I know that. I am saying that might be the reason he used that word.

you just broke down the roots of the word determination

[Mr. Headcrab]

Originally posted by Ultimate Weeaboo Trash:

Originally posted by Mr. Headcrab:

I know that. I am saying that might be the reason he used that word.

you just broke down the roots of the word determination

Yes, but that fits perfectly with determination in the game. It undoes your death

[Beardo Brando]

It's both tbh

I mean it is a pun

Look at this game

Puns everywhere

Bam

Case closed

[Madi]

well, yeah, that's kind of what determination is, it's obvious he chose a word that means to not end or stop, to mean not ending or giving up or things like that. not like he took the roots and made the word himself.

[Mr. Headcrab]

Jesus Christ do people just want arguments

[Corbent]

Determination is called that for it's very definition. As long as you (The player) are determined to win, you are unbeatable, you can try again, and again, and again.

There was a guy around here that said that he lost so many times to Undyne in genocide that he decided to give up and uninstalled. That's it, he lost all determination and was defeated. He didn't come back to life.

It's part of the large amount of meta elements this game uses.

[Mr. Headcrab]

I give up on tring to convince people

[Corbent]

Originally posted by Mr. Headcrab:

I give up on tring to convince people

We are clearly more determined than you.

[Mr. Headcrab]

Originally posted by Corbent:

Originally posted by Mr. Headcrab:

I give up on tring to convince people

We are clearly more determined than you.

You can only have so much.

[Sbeve]

Originally posted by Corbent:

Originally posted by Mr. Headcrab:

I give up on tring to convince people

We are clearly more determined than you.

it's time to stop

[Jamchow]

Originally posted by veryshortnamewithspacesinit:

it's time to stop

[Strider VM]

It was figured out by a lot of people that quotes in Undertale tend to have double meanings...

The prophecy that says once the angel from above enters the underground, the underground will go empty, they both apply to the pacifist (Everyone is freed and leaves the underground) and genocide routes (You killed them all.)

Even the True Pacifist battle against Asriel has double meaning as well. "But it refused". Refused meaning denying or not accepting defeat due to "determination" as well as the literal re-fuse. Since the heart that signals the human's well being literally stops breaking and re-fuses again.

So yes this applies to the term "determination" , there's the definition of keeping going on and not stopping. And de-termination , basically stopping dying. Both are true in the game's meaning.

...... But please let's do down to "But no one came" XD