Alphys chose the golden flowers for her determination experiments because they were both "neither human nor monster". Which is making me wonder how the hell, in the nearly inevitable at this point Flower King Dark World, is the Dark Fountain going to react to Asgore's dozens of flowers. Because they don't have the sentience of your average lightner, but they are very much living beings, not objects to be changed and reinterpreted by the dark. Neither lightner nor object, what the hell are they then?




















