letâs say a version of Killer has D.I.D. in your personal opinion would they go for Final Fusion or Functional Multiplicity
I donât personally think Killer does have a version of DID. Or if he does, I think it presents more along the lines of UDD (Unspecified Dissociative Disorder) or OSDD-1A.
Thereâs amnesia, particularly with Stage 4, but none of them are significantly different from the otherâespecially the Stages. They all identify as Killer, really, just Killer in different modesâor Stages, what have you.
Considering Sansâ canonical reprogramming of his code and his undeniable conditioning by the Player, which is definitely wasnât aware of for quite some time canonically and genuinely believed it was a choice he was making freelyâeven when it deeply confused and distressed him, hearing these thoughts in his head as if they arenât his ownâtheyâd likely be similar to a âprogrammedâ or created system in this case.
If we go off the lens of Killer being a system and approach what we have in his canon material, I think Stage 1 is pushing for Final Fusion. Or something like itâall he wants is the life he had before he became..this, before he did all this. Before the Deal. Before Nightmare.
He wants his home, his life. He wants his brother back. He wants to be Sans again.
In his eyes, he canât do that unless his SOULâthe Stagesâare and is âfixed.â He very clearly is terrified of himself in his higher Stagesâhe deems himself in Stage 2 as completely untrustworthy, himself in Stage 3 a âcrazyâ lunatic worthy of being slain and murdered and killed.
What he becomes in Stage 4 is something he canât even bring himself to talk about or tell anyoneânot even Color. Stage 4 isnât worthy of being acknowledged, shouldnât even exist, in his eyes.
It comes from a place of feeling completely helpless, out of control, deep self hatred, overwhelming guilt and fear of himself and his own mind and body, and just wanting to die. Existence is almost painful for him.
Iâd say for the longest, until Color joined his reasons, his cats and the slim hope of going back to ânormalâ is what carried him and kept him going on under Nightmareâeven if he has to convince himself itâs his own choice to continue on, instead of just someone elseâs Determination and will not allowing him to die.
The other Stages may very likely have very different opinions or just straight up visceral reactions to the idea of Final Fusion (Stage 3 in particular.)
I believe that Color and the souls may actually be able to help them come to a decision or an agreement on this, actually. I do truly believe that Color would never want to be rid of the soulsâand their particular case, they all truly believe theyâd be worse off for it.
Ignoring how Color may not physically literally survive if the souls were to ever leave or separate from him, i think he wouldnât mentally or emotional survive it either. Heâs relied on them for years, even if he wasnât always aware of that fact.
They keep him calm, they keep kind, they help keep him stable and remind him of who he said he wanted to be, they help him maintain relationships when his own fears and emotional instability wouldâve otherwise torn those all apart.
They remind him who he is, theyâre there for himâwithout them, heâd be alone. Again. He doesnât know who he is without them. They ensure heâs never alone, or forgottenâthey never abandon him.
But more than, he loves them. And they love him. Even if some of them didnât always.
Killer hasnât reached what Color and the souls have, how could they? All they know is how to fear and blame and death and kill. Thatâs what most of them were made to do.
So do think Stage 1 at least would push for Final Fusion, or whatever equivalent the UTMV would haveâat least for a while. The topic of it is likely to cause a lot of disagreement between the Stages themselvesâeither because of pure survival instincts and preceiving the idea as some sort of threat, or simply because theyâre programmed to resist what they might perceive as âerasureââor failure to carry out what they were made to do.
