Okay okay so Iāve been thinking about Kris. And I have many Thoughts.
Deltarune spoilers ahead! Iām on mobile and donāt know how to do āRead Moreā :/
One of those thoughts started off with the simple fact that Kris does not like hugs. We know this from Asgore in chapter 1. A lot of people think Kris is going to turn out to be evil. I donāt think Kris is evil, I think theyāre a little shit but I donāt think theyāre evil. Ppl list various reasons such as: They slashed their momās tires (allegedly. I wouldnāt put anything past toby at this point.), They opened at least one dark world, and theyāre trapping us in places, to name a few. But I mean, theyāre already possessed and that spirit is making them do things they donāt want to. At best Itās making them hug people, and they donāt like hugs. At worst itās making them kill their classmates. So I have to ask, are they evil? How much possession could YOU take before you started doing irrational things like slashing your motherās tires?
But then you think, ābut if Kris was doing it for attention then why did they sneak out to allegedly slash the tires? Why didnāt they do it in full view of their mother?ā And youād be absolutely right. This leads into the question, how do they function without a SOUL anyway? And I propose a solution.
Kris is shown to have obvious difficulty operating without a SOUL but is capable of doing so. But why not operate like that all the time? Probably because they canāt for long. But maybe, just maybe, weāre not the only SOUL here. Itās possible that, for whatever reason, Krisās SOUL that they naturally would have as a human is simply... broken. So they somehow were given a new one. So now theyāve got a SOUL and a half. This would explain how Kris has enough will/determination to act as The Knight.
Or another, darker hypothesis, Kris is not being possessed by one SOUL, but two. Us, and the other one. Maybe itās malicious, but I personally hope not. I think it might just be... young. It would explain the difficulty of movement and erratic behavior. It doesnāt understand whatās happening, doesnāt know what itās doing. Itās just doing what it knows how to do and whenever possible just wants to be left alone. But then it doesnāt know how to be alone or Kris has a louder voice when itās just the two of them, so it has to pick its poison. Itās also possible that this is flipped, and weāre the young and naive SOUL, and the other one is reeling from the new āadditionā and weāre interfering in what it was already doing. This is a shakier hypothesis but itās a hypothesis.
Going back to āKrisās SOUL is brokenā itās also maybe possible that their SOUL has been split. Maybe their SOUL is equally divided between the light world and the dark world, making them capable of breaking open fountains for whatever reason. I donāt have any evidence for this, but it would at least make a cool AU/fanfic if not correct.
And I donāt think weāre āmakingā dark fountains. This has to have happened at least once before. Especially since the characters talk as if thereāve been generations in these worlds. And itās not some weird time fuckery because Ralsei confirms time is the same. Jevil and Spamton were both established adults in the world with a job, met someone, and then slowly descended into madness. So I think theyāre being RE-opened.
An unrelated thought that would be interesting to pursue, what if we are how Gaster is testing Kris for a vessel? We seem to simply be cast out into Kris just after what is presumably Gaster does his thing and shows you that he has the power here. Or perhaps, we are Gaster. He was looking in the wrong place for a Vessel. Heās been scouring the dark world for a perfect, familiar vessel, when all he needed, was a human. After all, if a monster can absorb a human SOUL like we saw in Undertale and keep both consciousnesses at least mostly sentient (which Gaster would definitely have tried to research as the royal scientist, and may have seen when the player starts uncovering lore in UT.), why canāt a human do it too? Maybe he canāt will himself a full form yet,
But surely a human has enough will and enough determination for the both of them... right? And surely they wonāt mind if he inspects the dark worlds with a fresh pair of eyes. He is a scientist, after all. And maybe as a scientist he believes his duty is to do things that benefit monster and humankind alike, and so naturally his moral compass comes in and says āHey! You should keep the world in balance because no-one else will!ā But, like many of us, perhaps his curiosity gets the best of him as he realizes he too, can SAVE. If nothing else, good AU/fanfic idea.
Deltarune focuses a lot on puppets. And it makes me wonder, since it is presumably Gaster who basically said āI hold the power over who you can and cannot beā in the beginning of chapter one, maybe Kris and Spamton arenāt the only ones. How do we know that weāre even making the choices that donāt matter? Itās entirely possible that Gaster could snap his fingers and boom.