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As I understand it, the plan was indeed for Chara (no real proof that's his name; I assume it's a joke, but it's easier to refer to him/her as Chara) to effectively off himself via the poison so that Asriel could absorb his soul and go out into the surface, and through that collect the souls they need to break the barrier.
Asriel's talking about Chara, when he references not wanting to lose "you" again. Their initial friendship was partially based around Asriel projecting his desire to have a friend onto Chara. For lack of a better term, he basically ignored all the signs that Chara might have been a bad person because he wanted to believe that Chara was good. That didn't change even when he became Flowey - he treats Frisk as Chara because he wants to believe that Chara came back to him.
I am not refering to the barrier. I am referring to the whole "Chara committing sucide by eating the poisonous flowers so that Asriel could then absorb Charas soul plan." Though I guess everything can be roughly summed up by theorycrafting a timeline that there is a unknown number of humans who died in the ruins before Chara came into the ruins so that Alphys is able to have the background of how human souls work.
Mistaken identity. An eternity without emotions and infinite resets, while lonely, with the mind of a child betrayed by someone they felt was a dear friend... it was something akin to 'afterlife trauma'. They couldn't grasp the reality of the situation in their twisted form, and so believed you were the First Child, their brother. You aren't. You are the Last Child, the seventh human to become lost in the underground, named Frisk. They latched onto an obsession with you, desperate to find some form of bond or emotion, but were also uncertain of your real identity. They didnt' know whether to kill you or ally to you, and when you refused to kill, it frustrated them (on top of an eternity of neurosis). When you SAVE Asriel, just like your friends before him, it restores his memories... the memories of a sad, lonely child that died, that became suppressed. Flowey is a twisted husk, aged through timejumps and influenced by the imprint of an evil being... a zombie that sprang out of ill-fated research and spirit/soul imprints of two dead children. One an example of innocence, the other an example of toxic manipulation and ill-will. The souls that Flowey absorbs jumpstarts an emotional reawakening, triggering more confusion. As the Omega Asriel entity goes through with the world reset, it is the pure Asriel part of him that you 'SAVE', bringing his real self to the surface, clearing his mind. At the end of the game, Asriel is reawakened and 'cleansed' of his corrupted neurosis, and Frisk is still the one with DETERMINATION, meaning that even should Asriel start to slip again, he can't become corrupted and twisted because he wouldn't be able to save/load. His actions would stick unless you say so.
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The Longer Version :
Flowey is the reanimated version of Asriel trapped in a flower and corrupted through an eternity of lifetimes in lonliness and without emotion. They cannot feel emotion because they have no soul, and are effectively a flower-zombie. After an absurd number of restarts, the being known as Asriel has warped into something else, presumably due to an imprint that the evil being within the First Child left on him. The memories of his original life become muddled and buried under all his frustrations and lonliness. Without the ability to feel, as a form of science-created abomination zombie, his personality twists along with his earliest memories from before becoming Flowey.
When Flowey absorbs all those souls in the true ending, they basically get zapped by a defibrilator, the soul energy begins the slow process of restarting their ability to feel. As the fight against Frisk (the Last Child, the one you control) rages on, the soul energy circulates through him. He starts to feel all those long-dead emotions, as an unintentional side-effect of trying to perform a world-restart. The world restart was not their original plan, but something they decided to do after they became Asriel and their feelings started to get conflicted.
When you "SAVE" your friends, restoring their memories while they are absorbed inside of Asriel, Asriel is forced to remember his links to them too, as well as forced to understand their feelings about the world and you.
Consider what you're doing when you SAVE your friends. You are restoring their memories so that they don't fade out of existence and become part of the reset. When saved, they resist along with you, also showing determination. When you "SAVE" Asriel, you are in fact restoring his memories. His REAL memories, from before being Flowey. Every step of the fight that he is trying to hurt you or reset the world, he is one step closer to becoming a feeling, remembering version of himself.
The moment you actually SAVE him, he realises not only who he himself is, but who you are too. He was so alone for all that time, that he latched onto an image of kindness from his past. Sadly, that image of kindness was the First Child. You look just like him.
In the Genocide route, you learn that when Toriel abandons Asgore and monsterkind to go live in the Ruins to warn lost humans, she actually took the corpse of the First Child with her, to give him a proper burial away from the anti-human sentiment (and she buries it in the flower-pile you land on, in the first room of the game). The evil impulse/entity that possessed the First Child then apparently goes on to possess Frisk, but whether Frisk is dominated by the First Child's will, or whether he suppresses it and becomes a living prison for it, is all down to your DETERMINATION. If you go full Genocide, Flowey themselves **completely** recognises you as the First Child, and even says that you are in possession of a stolen soul (Frisk).
It's hard to follow, but I found that it makes sense in retrospect.
also i get the feeling that the whole prophecy about the angel is reffering to Asriel rather than the player character.
I remember the plaque saying something along the lines of "The angel will come, and the underground will go empty."
I think it's more fitting for the player because it can be interpreted two ways and applies to both playthroughs.
1. The underground goes empty because you lead everyone out of it.
2. The underground goes empty because you kill everything.
-In the true ending, the angel is Asriel who empties the underground by breaking the barrier and freeing everyone.
-In the genocide ending, the "angel" is Chara who empties the place by killing everyone.
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@dat_potatoe: Except the prophecy expicitely refers to the angel as someone who "left the underground and returned" or something like that, so it can't be Frisk, as they've never been there before.
1. People are afraid of monsters killing them and taking their souls
2. They trap all the monsters underground with the barrier
3. Many years pass. First child falls and is claimed by royal family. They move to New Home.
4. First child sees they can become stronger and get revenge(?) on their village by fusing their soul with Asriel
5. Asriel absorbs the soul and goes to the village, but can not bring himself to kill anyone. He returns and disintigrates on the garden in the throne room
6. Monsters lose all sense of hope, Asgore decides humans will be captured for their souls. Toriel leaves with the First Child, buries them and locks herself in the ruins.
7. hundreds or thousands of years pass. In that time six other humans have fallen and been captured for their souls.
8. Alphys makes Mettaton, and is commissioned to isolate DETERMINATION
9. she creates the amalgamations, and then creates Flowey
10. Frisk
I think the First child was a little more complicated when they were alive. They were either running from their village or committing suicide. I think the latter makes more sense as its tied in with feelings of helplessness and weakness. Then they suddenly had the chance to become stronger than anyone else and get back at the people that hurt them. In their eyes Asriel betrayed them in the worst possible way--they killed themselves to get revenge, just for Asriel to throw that huge sacrifice away like it was nothing. I think their last moments of consiousness would have been overwhelmed with bitterness, and as their human soul vanished, that bitterness was the only thing left to transfer on the flowers and their dead body, and the only part of them to wake up when Frisk falls.
Remember how level of violence works---it's easier to hurt others when you withdraw, but it's also harder to get hurt yourself. The First Child was hurting, and I think Toriel and Agore recognized that. In the genocide route she sees exactly how terrible and dangerous you are. It is pointed out that you aren't human because the First Child's humanity left them a very very long time ago. That child essentially killed themselves twice and still everything was taken from them. I think they don't just have a disdain for humans, the have a disdain for LIFE. In the genocide route you get to decide when people die, you get to reap all the benefits. You satiate all of the demon's needs, and because that hatred and emptiness is the only thing left the demon takes over so it can reap that satisfaction until there's nothing.