The SOUL's Manipulation of Noelle

The SOUL’s Manipulation of Noelle Deltarune’s Weird Route from an SCD perspective Doc made by ForAllPosterity !! SPOILER WARNING FOR DELTARUNE CHAPTERS 1-4 !! Context: Deltarune, at least in the current understanding, appears to be a field of connection between W D Gaster and The Player. Gaster created Deltarune from nothing as a means to fulfill a yet undisclosed purpose and has started a partnership with us, the player, in order to fulfill that purpose. The player’s avatar is expressed through a red, heart shaped object which is referred to as the “SOUL” (all caps) and sometimes even just as “You”. It was created as a proxy between The Player (as in us, in the real world) and Gaster during the opening sequence of Chapter 1. The SOUL goes on to possess Kris Dreemurr, a human teenager living in Hometown and the rest of Deltarune Chapter 1 plays out as usual, featuring us controlling Kris as they discover the first Dark Fountain and subsequent Dark World. At the end of Chapter 1, we get our first scene of Kris ripping the SOUL out of their body, which shows us as players that the SOUL and Kris are fundamentally two different entities (you do NOT play as Kris, but as the SOUL) After this, the game just continues on as any normal game does, with Gaster and even the SOUL itself not really doing much of anything as we just experience the story of Deltarune and it’s characters organically. Deltarune’s central and recurring theme seems to be around fate, specifically, “your …