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It is back in the box.
They don’t know why It keeps coming out of the box. Why It can’t just stay put when they want It to, and the thought is strong enough that they stumble their next song, a messy discordant note ringing out. From here they can’t hear Noelle and Susie. Can’t hear It, either. But they are sure It is somewhere near. They locked up the kitchen vent. So It can’t get out from there. But much as they wanted to when they were little they never were small enough to crawl around in the vents to find all the secret paths, and beside Aunt Carol always pulled them out whenever they tried to wriggle through. It got harder when they lost their lookout.
(Or: alone in the Holiday house waiting for the soul's next move, Kris reminiscences on their past, everything they have lost, and the few things they have left.)
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“Mom?” Kris asked. “When are my horns going to grow in?”
It took a moment for the question to register with Toriel. It was an innocently asked question, with no sort of consternation behind it, which was good, but even so, it gave her pause.
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Post-Chapter 4, Susie goes back to the Dark World. She sees Ralsei. He might need her more than she needs him.
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Susie is starved. She’s been starved of everything, her whole life, as long as she can remember. She isn’t sure what to do with herself when faced with more than just starving. The weight of their kindness is enough to make her sick.
Ralsei has some things to say about it.
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“S'not your fault that—”
“—I hurt you,” Susie finished. She chewed on the concept, the edges of her voice frantic, her throat thick. “Because you deserved it.”
“Yes.” Kris pressed her hands against their chest. They smiled in a way that failed to be reassuring. Each desperate breath shuddering through their lungs confirmed everything Susie didn't want to know. “S’fine. It’s okay.”
Kris burned like a charred pan straight out of the oven, or an oil fire stoked by liquor. Susie reeled away. “You—you were trying to set me up,” Susie accused, trying to edge words around the chasm opening in her gut. “You were trying to get me to hit you.”
Kris wants Susie to hurt them. They need her to hurt them. Susie isn't as on board with the idea as they are.
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Kris was willing to be selfish for the night.
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a what-if on the ending of chapter 4, where kris meets up with susie anyways.
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“You…you like her too, don’t you?”
Kris didn’t bother with clarifying who she was talking about.
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or: Noelle sneaks out in the middle of the night to Kris' place to get some things off her chest. A lot of feelings ensue.
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About two hours after Kris is made to make Noelle kill Berdly they lock their SOUL in a box and throw it in the river.
It’s a fool-proof plan. Their SOUL has become the vehicle by which some great otherworldly force steals their body. No SOUL, no puppeting— they’ve already proven that. So fuck all the plans that Carol has about opening Dark Worlds, and fuck all the plans that the thing living in their SOUL has about making them hurt people. Berdly’s in a goddamn coma, and Noelle was made to put him there, and it’s only going to get worse. Kris is done. They’ve got their own plan. It’s a great plan. They send Susie home early, and then they drag out their SOUL, and they stuff it in a tin, and then they throw it in the goddamn river.
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The force of the knife sends Kris skidding onto their knees.
They’ve been hit before. Hell, they’ve been downed before, countless times within Dark Worlds, but they’ve never felt a pain as strange as the kind the Roaring Knight inflicts. Like a wound forming inside-out.
Wordlessly, Ralsei and Susie each take one of their hands and pull them to their feet. It’s the small, but instinctual gesture of care from the both of them that makes something warm and saccharine swell in Kris’ chest. The three of them look out for one another without even having to think about it first.
Or, in pursuit of the Roaring Knight, Kris considers the Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known.
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It could be worse. It could always be worse, they should be glad it isn’t worse- Toriel could be locked in a bunker starving to death like Undyne might be or flung into a Dark World with no idea on how to survive. They should be glad that the worst possible outcome is a bad hangover and not getting ripped apart by the Roaring Knight.
The music seems impossibly loud, cheer firmly in the realm of agitation. They could probably go down there to ask them to turn it down. They don’t. They can’t stand the sight of them, of their mother and the stranger dancing together, Toriel collapsed on the ground and giggling.
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Kris finds it hard to sleep after they come home to a stranger dancing with their mother.
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Kris hates being controlled by the Soul. But, at the very least, they get to keep some of their autonomy. The Soul's influence on them is limited, and in that they take comfort.
Only to find such limits to be suddenly overridden.
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It was weird. She could feel the figure wiggling against either side, but not the bottom. Like whatever was stuck inside it was floating. And it was warm against her scales, almost hot. Through the cracks she’d made in the paper mâché, she kept spotting flickers of red, like blood.
...Maybe it really WAS a severed hand.
Susie raised an eyebrow, then grinned. What if she took a quick peek before Noelle got back? Just so she’d know how to keep a hold on it. (And not at all because the curiosity was driving her nuts.)
She tipped the figure back, yawning it open against her palm like a clam shell. Warm red light washed over the lines on her skin, brighter than ever, and the steady thumping got louder. And louder. And brighter. And louder. And brighter. And...
And then, all at once, a bright red SOUL toppled out and started floating in Susie’s hand.
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Susie is hoping she’s doing the right thing. Susie knows she doesn’t know very much. Susie is almost always right.
Ralsei is truly convinced he’s doing the wrong thing. Ralsei knows so very much. Ralsei is almost always wrong.
Kris is trying their best.
Unfortunately, all three of them are messy, hormonal teenagers.
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The nights grow longer. The families try to cope.
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The illusion of solitude has been shattered now, and Kris will probably close the piano. Like all the other times when Noelle tried to connect with them on a level in which they didn’t wish to be understood.
They open and close their mouth a few times. Their eyes are wide, as if surprised to hear their own voice.
Kris turns to face them a little bit better. “Any song requests?”
Noelle blinks. What?
Susie and Noelle overhear Kris playing the piano. A conversation without the SOUL ensues.
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Their eyes see it all, really. Even if they cannot do a thing. But they see it all, experience it all, even if another sits in their body. Though, perhaps, things are changing, in the regards of what they can do. As well as in knowing what the SOUL can do.
A series focusing on Kris and the SOUL stuck to them. A journey of understanding, in several steps.
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Dess Holiday swings the bat.
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The soul is revealed by the lake, after facing the Titan. Certain truths are exposed, causing a cascade of events that breaks the intended course of fate. Primarily focuses on the relationships between the main deltarune cast for now, with elements of horror.
Fic 1: Say What's On Your Mind ♥. Kris says what they really want to say, down by the lake. Focuses on Kris, Susie, and Ralsei.
Fic 2: Whatever Remains of December Holiday. Her corpse walks. Her corpse has something living inside it. Not quite her, not *not* her. It is all that Remains.
Fic 3: Declawed. Ralsei wakes up from a nightmare to discover that his claws have regrown, and with them a dangerous potential. He attempts to render himself harmless once more, only to be interrupted and stopped by Susie.
Fic 4: Communion. A hypothetical alternate chapter 5+. Allegiances have changed, but the world has begun to rot. To what lengths will they go, to break from the chains of fate?
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The week after Asriel leaves, Kris and Carol catch up.
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The night after church, Kris forgets to check the latch. They go on a walk to collect their thoughts.