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I imagined that the little heart is but a simbol to visualise the combat. While in reality it is the kid himself dodging dem spear , sweats , and Giant flexing arms. Obviously that doesnt really makes sence in some fights. Although imagination helps
That's also why ice cream restores "health" and why you can dive face-first into lasers and spears in the overworld but still take no damage if you manage to dodge all the things.
Athough this is a great theory too. Explains Undyne's battle text quite nicely!
*stab* "What the hell are humans made out of?"
*stab* "Anyone else would be dead by now!"
*stab* "Alphys told me humans were determined.."
*stab* "I see now what she meant by that!"
*stab* "But I'm determined too!"
*stab* "Determined to end this right now!"
*stab* "... Right now!""
*stab* "... Right ..."
*stab* "..."
*stab* "... Now!"
*stab* "Haa Haa"
*stab* "Ngyaa!!"
*stab**stab**stab*
"Die already you little brat!"
(Edited to make it more compact)
Though using Undyne as the example actually reminds me her battle is the one time you can actually -block- attacks against you and it's the only way to protect yourself instead of floating your SOUL around. Maybe the protagonist is using whatever weapon s/he has to parry thrown magical spears.
...I am now picturing a ballet-dancing protagonist kicking Undyne's spears away and this is both hilarious and awesome to me.
You know... that would explain why, when you "die," your heart literally breaks...
So does that mean Omega Flowey is basically just hurling the equivalent of verbal abuse at you? Though in that case he and others explicitly use the term 'kill'...
It's probably meant to be a catch-all abstraction on purpose to visualize everything on the range of how a conversation goes over singing along with someone to you getting many spears thrown into your face.
They're trying to kill you, but because even their most powerful attacks are magical, they can't actually physically hurt you. After all, no monster was able to kill even one human in the war. Either they don't realize they can't do it, or they settle for destroying your soul since none of them seem to be able to actually take it.
(Doesn't this seem like the kind of game that would give you the option to give up your soul when you die and see how the monsters get along? And then ruin their happiness by restoring your save?)
I know it sounds kind of silly in retrospect, but I just think it's a cute answer. I mean, when boss monsters die their hearts break as well, although you do explicitly see them turn to dust beforehand. We don't see what happens to our character when we run out of HP, aside from the heart breaking thing, but it's probably not incorrect to assume that they are killed.
Now this just makes me think that while they strike you physically (with weapons, their body, magical notes, whatever), there is perhaps no physical trauma. Perhaps it passes straight through you physically, but leaves spiritual trauma/emotional damage of some sort behind (probably "I NEARLY DIED OH GOD", heh).
I know we're used to imagining games as a mirror reality but the whole point of the game is that it's a game. If they experienced reality normally, Flowey would have never needed to reset--he got bored because there was finite play time and the game literally ended.[/spoler]
Anyways. What if all the monsters don't have a "physical", but a magical body so to speak (imagine a Djinn, aka a Genie). Their form is different, hence why they all turn into dust and can melt into Almagates. Theres also some note about the other ghost saying how there wasn't any form that she would like, or any form good enough. Naster Blook can even make himself a Dapper hat. I think theres a good chance that theres two types of monsters. Ghost types that make their own bodies somehow, or possess objects like the dummy.
And humanoid types are the other major type of monster. These still have magic based bodies like the ghost types, but their parents form them before being born. The Dreemur family is evidence to this, as well as Monster Kid because both grow similar to humans. But they can still change their bodies as evidenced by the dog family. Lesser Dog can grow infinitely.
Now ghost types are immune to physical attacks prior to merging with a form, or making their body, but after they fully merge with their form they are vulnerable. The best example is the dummy in a genocide run, his extreme emotion lets him merge thus making him vulnerable. All the weirder monsters are likely ghost types, like Tsunder Plane, the volcano. The skeletons are likely ghost types that merged with the bones of a human. Papyrus either lost his memory, or was too young to remember.
Thus, the monsters couldn't physically attack humans if they wanted to.. or perhaps they don't understand what physical attacks are. Perhaps to them punching naturally turns into a soul attacks. They punch through Frisk into her soul, because thats what is effective on them. Maybe they could physically attack if a human explained to them that they are more vulnerable to them, and taught them how.
Now I said there seem to be two major types, theres likely at least one minor type.. like Temmy who hatch from eggs? ...or possess eggs and then hatch? I don't know.