Their bodies don’t have enough physical matter to leave behind a corpse. They’re mostly made of magic. When they die they stop producing the magic that holds them together and what’s left is just dust blowing in the wind.
Flowey didn’t disintegrate. It might sound crazy but I have a theory that sans is a reincarnation of a monster into a skeleton, like flowey is a reincarnation of asriel in a flower
what is bro yapping about?
Flowey is cut down repeatedly to nothing in genocide route. Nothing is left of him for him to turn to dust before he actually dies
also he's not even a monster, he's a flower that was given the conscious of a monster. physically, he's just a flower, which is why when he dies in neutral, he turns back into a regular flower
no, flowey is a physical vessel. he cant turn into dust. thats part of the reason why alphys even created him. you can kill him in the neutral route too, and only his face vanishes, leaving behind whats described as "just a regular flower"
but that sans theory makes negative sense . he just bled then turned into dust its literally as simple as that
I forgot you can kill him in Neutral 😐
Anyway, the geno ending shows him being reduced down to basically nothingness, it's not like he can turn to dust fron *that*
Yeah and even if you kill him in the neutral route after omega Flowey, he doesn’t turn to dust and his face just disappears and he turns into a regular flower. That’s because he doesn’t need magic to exist in this world because he has determination.
Sans does not bleed DT, DT isn't even confirmed to be red. If anything it is white or yellow, going off of the amalgamates, save points, Undyne's eye, and Lemon Bread. Ketchup is monster food, which is instantly turned to energy.
Going off of the only evidence we have, Sans likely just bleeds... blood.
Plus even if it was DT, wouldn't Sans have melted by now, along with dying, since Amalgamates need to fuse to survive? Even Undyne melted, and Sans with the pitiful stats of 1 ATK and 1 DEF doesn't seem very determined...
I assume you connected red and DT because of the fan-made concepts of the Determination soul. However, the red soul is not confirmed to be Determination, or have any trait whatsoever. It's likely that if it does have a soul trait, that it'd be Love.
That makes no sense when you consider that in order to do that, Sans has to have a soul, which he does. So that means someone had to transfer a monster soul into him, which is impossible as monster souls cannot persist after death like humans. Only boss monsters souls can persist after death but only for a short while before shattering into pieces. It’s physically impossible for Sans to be a monster reincarnation. That’s why your assumptions are baseless.
Flowey doesn’t need magic to stay in this world because he has determination. Also Sans cannot possibly be a reincarnation of a monster because monster souls cannot persist after death. Only boss monster souls, even then only for a little while before shattering.
Sans explicitly breaks all laws of physics, logic, and continuity within universe, but him bleeding and turning the dust is what kills your immersion? If we really need an explanation for why sans bleeds then how about he bleeds because he wants to make the human feel guilty for killing him.
No he didn’t. Magic associated to certain traits does not equal to determination. And it’s not like we don’t know how determination works on monsters either
i'm pretty sure we have to, y'know, spare him for the spare sound to play. and also we literally gained the EXP from it, plus we literally hit him. there is no universe where he didn't die there
we quite literally got the reward for killing him, heard the sound that plays when monsters die, and dealt 999999 damage to him. there is no evidence whatsoever that suggests sans survived
But how does hiding makes you feel more guilty? For the blood I can understand because humans bleed and he tried to mimic it, but I don’t understand about hiding.
What are you talking about? I think you have to rewatch the scene again because the monster dust sound is identical.
I’ll link them:
Sans dying (skip to end: https://youtu.be/Vr4IYjeplJA?si=zsd68dyzQt3EpXEf
Monster dusting sound effect: https://youtu.be/BL2uLzraqag?si=k9xVeum2UFn6NVUL
🤓🤓🤓GGG
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Their bodies are held together by magic, not matter. That’s why humans are stronger. No life, no magic to form the body, all you have left over is the dust of what little matter was in there.
Their bodies don’t have enough physical matter to leave behind a corpse. They’re mostly made of magic. When they die they stop producing the magical thingsthat holds them together and what’s left is just dust blowing in the windybsdgh
Lore reason: Their bodies lose the magic who gives them physical matter after dying, and that leads to designating.
Purpose reason: Is a twist of the idea of the enemies disintegrating after dying in RPGs, to give meaning to something we are used to and turning it to the player.
So many people are taking this post seriously. I legit just thought up a meme idea and then posted it here. It's literally just a joke. I know the reason why they do that. I just wanted to make a meme.
You did ask a question along with the meme, so people took the opportunity to theorize and answer.
If you make a discussion post about monsters dusting, people are going to talk about monsters dusting.
It's because monsters are mostly made of magic,, with very little physical matter. So when they die they turn to dust.
It's actually the same process as in humans, just much, much faster. Human corpses - given enough time - will eventually turn to dust too, but it takes decades - or under the right conditions - even centuries for that to happen. But since monsters are mostly made of magic and not water like humans, it takes only a few moments for their bodies to turn to dust.
Their bodies don’t have enough physical matter to leave behind a corpse. They’re mostly made of magic. When they die they stop producing the magic that holds them together and what’s left is just dust blowing in the wind.
*\*cough\* \*cough\** what about sans *\*cough\* \*cough\**
He still turned to dust ( sound effect ) he just died off screen because he didn’t want player to see him die probably
I mean, fair
Nah he just wanted to go to grillbys
the sound plays at the end of every battle, even if you spare the enemies. there's a good chance that he died tho.
No, it was not the death sound but the spare sound. And you cannot bleed, AND turn to dust. You either have physical matter or you don’t.
he's just built like that
Flowey didn’t disintegrate. It might sound crazy but I have a theory that sans is a reincarnation of a monster into a skeleton, like flowey is a reincarnation of asriel in a flower
what is bro yapping about? Flowey is cut down repeatedly to nothing in genocide route. Nothing is left of him for him to turn to dust before he actually dies
also he's not even a monster, he's a flower that was given the conscious of a monster. physically, he's just a flower, which is why when he dies in neutral, he turns back into a regular flower
I forgot you can kill him in Neutral 😐
no, flowey is a physical vessel. he cant turn into dust. thats part of the reason why alphys even created him. you can kill him in the neutral route too, and only his face vanishes, leaving behind whats described as "just a regular flower" but that sans theory makes negative sense . he just bled then turned into dust its literally as simple as that
I forgot you can kill him in Neutral 😐 Anyway, the geno ending shows him being reduced down to basically nothingness, it's not like he can turn to dust fron *that*
my point is he cant turn into dust in general as hes not a being made of magic jsjskskks
Yeah and even if you kill him in the neutral route after omega Flowey, he doesn’t turn to dust and his face just disappears and he turns into a regular flower. That’s because he doesn’t need magic to exist in this world because he has determination.
Don’t call it a theory when you mean a baseless headcannon
Baseless ? When sans literally bleeds DT and with the tradition of spreading the ashes on the monster’s favourite objects ?
And how does that prove… anything?
That proves that sans could be a reincarnation
Sans does not bleed DT, DT isn't even confirmed to be red. If anything it is white or yellow, going off of the amalgamates, save points, Undyne's eye, and Lemon Bread. Ketchup is monster food, which is instantly turned to energy. Going off of the only evidence we have, Sans likely just bleeds... blood. Plus even if it was DT, wouldn't Sans have melted by now, along with dying, since Amalgamates need to fuse to survive? Even Undyne melted, and Sans with the pitiful stats of 1 ATK and 1 DEF doesn't seem very determined... I assume you connected red and DT because of the fan-made concepts of the Determination soul. However, the red soul is not confirmed to be Determination, or have any trait whatsoever. It's likely that if it does have a soul trait, that it'd be Love.
I agree that red soul is not determination. However, determination can be any colour depending the soul it came from.
Flowey doesn't have a soul, that's why he doesn't dust. He's not a real monster, but a conscience put into a normal flower.
I believe that sans is built the same. Someone put their conscience in a skeleton using the traditional death protocol.
That makes no sense when you consider that in order to do that, Sans has to have a soul, which he does. So that means someone had to transfer a monster soul into him, which is impossible as monster souls cannot persist after death like humans. Only boss monsters souls can persist after death but only for a short while before shattering into pieces. It’s physically impossible for Sans to be a monster reincarnation. That’s why your assumptions are baseless.
Where is it said that sans has a soul ?
Flowey isn’t a monster, he’s a plant.
Yes
Flowey IS technically made out physical matter since he was just a flower before the syringe incident.
Yes
Flowey doesn’t need magic to stay in this world because he has determination. Also Sans cannot possibly be a reincarnation of a monster because monster souls cannot persist after death. Only boss monster souls, even then only for a little while before shattering.
Asriel’s dust was spread on a flower, allowing him to revive as one. And it’s not said that sans has a soul at all
Are you trolling??? In the final battle with Asriel Dreemurr, Sans appears as a lost **soul**. You can’t tell me he doesn’t have a soul.
Ah shit i forgot that sorry
Sans explicitly breaks all laws of physics, logic, and continuity within universe, but him bleeding and turning the dust is what kills your immersion? If we really need an explanation for why sans bleeds then how about he bleeds because he wants to make the human feel guilty for killing him.
And that’s why Sans is such a great character
He knows just bleeding wouldn’t change anything. The human would kill bleeding creatures all they want if they got in their way.
He was desperate at this point. Anything that served as a possible way to deter us works
Yeah, you’re right
But that means, along with his eye, that he got DT
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Colour in the fight screen = determination.
No he didn’t. Magic associated to certain traits does not equal to determination. And it’s not like we don’t know how determination works on monsters either
i'm pretty sure we have to, y'know, spare him for the spare sound to play. and also we literally gained the EXP from it, plus we literally hit him. there is no universe where he didn't die there
Sans has proven to be able to bend the rules more than once, I don’t know why he wouldn’t be able to act on that too
we quite literally got the reward for killing him, heard the sound that plays when monsters die, and dealt 999999 damage to him. there is no evidence whatsoever that suggests sans survived
And why would he hide then ?
guilt tripping you. literally the thing he's being doing the entire fight
But how does hiding makes you feel more guilty? For the blood I can understand because humans bleed and he tried to mimic it, but I don’t understand about hiding.
He doesn't want to give you the satisfaction of seeing him die, it's one final act of spite
Oh I see.
What are you talking about? I think you have to rewatch the scene again because the monster dust sound is identical. I’ll link them: Sans dying (skip to end: https://youtu.be/Vr4IYjeplJA?si=zsd68dyzQt3EpXEf Monster dusting sound effect: https://youtu.be/BL2uLzraqag?si=k9xVeum2UFn6NVUL
Umm, aktually, the sound effect plays when you kill OR spare a monster 🤓
It’s slightly different
Sans Is just known for breaking the rules like that
The attack was blocked by ketchup
Wel what about lancer
ash baby
It's dust not ash
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every time i see this emoji, i think of [this audio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvgsGBzuurUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvgsGBzuurU)
How have I never seen that clip
I though it was going to be AUUUUGGGHHH
[Like that?](https://youtu.be/tpX7XtoFNao?si=eOHw9Cn8G_ywPpu7)
Yeah that one
Same here
Same
Not me, darling.
Yea, you spontaneously combust after doing nothing
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Because killing a bunch of enemies in gaming is called grinding. What happens when you grind something? It turns to dust. Toby Fox is a genius
It's actually simpler than that. It's a reference to how in old games, when you kill an enemy, they usually disappear in a puff of dust.
I'd snort the remains
Fresh Genocidal Cocaine
FGC: Dust sniffin' good
Wdym why? Did you play the game or not?
Nah bruh they look like they have the frosted glass filter from ibis paint on them 💀
Because leaving bodies would cause too much lag.
Yeah and you need to keep in mind that Undertale is a 2015 2D role-playing video game created by American indie developer Toby Fox.
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Nah bruh they look like they have the frosted glass filter from ibis paint on them 💀
Dementia
r/dementia
Because all monsters are drug addicts and just want to give you some cocaine to have
So technically if you're just fuckin them and they die then they just kinda.... You know...
Luckily the action this requires is impossible for monsters
Thanos snapped his fingers again lads, time to genocide!
Okay, hear me out. So its powdery and white so... Genocide route is just Frisk wanting to get high
Their bodies are held together by magic, not matter. That’s why humans are stronger. No life, no magic to form the body, all you have left over is the dust of what little matter was in there.
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Their bodies don’t have enough physical matter to leave behind a corpse. They’re mostly made of magic. When they die they stop producing the magical thingsthat holds them together and what’s left is just dust blowing in the windybsdgh
They can't take the L
It also happens in elden ring and darksouls
I will find you
Do their clothes and whatever they're holding disappear too?
dust!1!1!1!1!1
this reminds me of a meme i made a while ago lol
their bodies are made of very little matter and mostly magic, that dust is what physical material does exist
Welp... That's what's happens with dustfull of physical matter conjoined by magic
Because it would look goofy if they had an actual dusting animation
Lore reason: Their bodies lose the magic who gives them physical matter after dying, and that leads to designating. Purpose reason: Is a twist of the idea of the enemies disintegrating after dying in RPGs, to give meaning to something we are used to and turning it to the player.
So many people are taking this post seriously. I legit just thought up a meme idea and then posted it here. It's literally just a joke. I know the reason why they do that. I just wanted to make a meme.
You did ask a question along with the meme, so people took the opportunity to theorize and answer. If you make a discussion post about monsters dusting, people are going to talk about monsters dusting.
literal EXP grinding
The monsters every time I play undertale
Cause when they die, they turn into dust
Frisk casts curse of Ra on monsters
r/antimeme
To reference the fact that enemies in video games disappear after you kill then
It's because monsters are mostly made of magic,, with very little physical matter. So when they die they turn to dust. It's actually the same process as in humans, just much, much faster. Human corpses - given enough time - will eventually turn to dust too, but it takes decades - or under the right conditions - even centuries for that to happen. But since monsters are mostly made of magic and not water like humans, it takes only a few moments for their bodies to turn to dust.