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Lineup against the final boss btw.

Turns out, eggshells are a lot easier to dodge on the *right* side of the screen, because only one mini-shell flies towards this direction! It allows you to shoot Wally a lot more and to somewhat consistently parry pink birds. It also feels a lot more fun to do compared to groveling in a corner in a mini form as I did before changing my strategy.

It takes some practice; and main concern is avoiding being hit by a second and third eggs. Safe space is somewhere right above or behind the previously shot egg.

On the no-mercy route, Snowman dies without turning to dust (!) through physical deterioration (!!) in the overworld as the fight does not even starts (!!!).

There are only two examples of residents of the underground that are not made of dust, and those are merged ghosts and soulless beings, and I am pretty sure Snowman is not a merged ghost, because even those are treated by the game roughly the same as monsters do. On the contrary, Flowey's death, that features no damage numbers and very much feels as if the rules of the world treat him as an object (as he has no soul), is very similar to Snowman's death.

Unless Snowman is something completely new, it appears as if things point towards him being soulless. And then, why would that be the case? My only guesses venture very deep into speculation, like, "Flowey, wanting a resident anomaly investigator off his back, tried to use DT to create a harmless, clueless anomaly for them to find and call it a day, but failed to make this anomaly remember past resets", which tingles something in my brain enough to have fun with this as with my new fanon but it also feels completely unintended.

Should he be thought about, or his weirdness is just a product of Toby Fox wanting for his sub-plot to exist without ties to the overall plot? Do you have your own guesses about this fella?