SOUL Traits tell us a LOT about the Future of Deltarune

But remember... That's just a theory...
I'm still working on perfecting the way I explain my theories to others, so apologies if it isn't perfect to understand.
I can not say this enough, but the relations drawn between Characters and SOUL traits are NOT meant to suggest a direct link between the two games, nor are they meant to suggest that any of the 6 humans from Undertale will be appearing in Deltarune.
They are simply used to try and predict which characters may fill a more important role in the story, perhaps with all six being part of an extended version of the fun gang (possibly split 3 and 3, allowing us to pick between two different teams, Final Fantasy style).
I will gladly respond to any critiques or issues with this theory in the comments, just remember to keep it civil and don't be unnecessarily rude.

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[mint_flavored_wine]

"just-ice" is not too far fetched coming from the same person who wrote "de-termination" and "re-fused"

[qwertykins]

I think Susie's soul is yellow, Justice. She doesn't exactly embody that trait quiet yet, but I believe she is slowly changing as a person, to eventually become someone who cares a lot about doing the right thing. She starts as a bully, but by the end of the game she'll be an arbiter of Justice who protects the innocent.

Also the heart on her belt is really more of a yellow than an orange. It's probably a play on "jerk with a heart of gold".

[_LovelyBunny]

I think Berdly has the Perseverance soul traits. He achieves his goal of being the best through hard work (Even if he needs help from Noelle he couldn't just get good grades because someone helps him, he had to work hard to get them). With his hard work he became the number 1 student in Alphys's class. What everyone seems to miss about Berdly's character is that he has impostor syndrome. He thinks the only reason he achieved that much is just because Noelle helps him. As I said earlier you can't get good grades from just receiving help from someone and pretending to be smart. After all he was smart enough to get the party's comrades together and helped assemble a giant robot to fight Queen. Berdly wears glasses and works as a librarian. With all that said I do think Berdly is one of the best candidates for the purple soul.

[edwinmaster]

honestly it makes sense for the souls to be arbitrary in undertale but have a importance in deltarune, cause deltarune has been planned for a lot longer and toby could have added some meaning be it subconsciously or intentionally to have it make sense retroactively

[butternerd-sznw]

The "Brave ones, foolish ones. Both walk not the middle road" point is great actually, you can certainly argue that Susie causes ALL the "diversions" from the middle road in deltarune. The most obvious one being Susie dragging Ralsei away from Kris when he tries to give us a choice, which can lead to Snowgrave being possible(I doubt it could happen if either of the others were present) but my personal theory is that Susie indirectly convinces Kris to create the ch3 dark fountain, with the Noelle/Ralsei question at the end of ch2 as well as generally her personality rubbing off on them. And, lastly, Susie is an anagram of Issue. Susie is the one causing all the issues in the story.

[ICY_the_paste_drinker]

Can't wait for chapter 7 weird rotate when you kiss Berdly's corpse and bring him back to life

[tahutoa]

Susie being anything but Yellow is criminal. Yellow is Justice, and Justice makes judgement calls. From the first, she has a _fixation_ on people getting what they deserve. Quiet people piss her off because she thinks they're judging her. She goes off on her own because she judges Ralsei's plot as worthless and a waste of her time. (She may not realize it, but what she really rejects is her role in the prophecy, because to reject it exercises her personal agency.) She _judges_ the Dark World to be a huge farce, an obstacle in her way, and so acts to undo it whenever it gets in her way—like a machete cuts through vines.

She joined Lancer because he interacted with her directly. He simultaneously bypasses her facade in favor of her while acknowledging her skill in cultivating it. 1) Susie recognizes a wonderful opportunity to be genuine with someone. 2) She already failed to be the world's idea of a hero, and the unafraid "villain" wants to _learn_ from her, meaning he respects her for legitimate reasons. She instantly attaches to him, and her good tendencies already appear in her choice to help Lancer with his own goals. By acknowledging her value and putting her in esteem, she's being treated justly. Therefore, justice is happy to serve him.

Why does she follow Kris's orders, later? Because she (indirectly) learned that a good leader knows when/how to follow. Over time she judges them to be more worthy, to where she can feel comfortable following their orders.
Trust is a core value of hers rooted in justice. She takes it _very_ seriously. It's what allows her to attack Lancer so brutally after his betrayal breaks her heart—because it's _only just._ Ironically, her personal sense of justice blinds(!) her to what Lancer says about being forced into it.

Everything about Susie's character comes down to her personal justice. How it manifests is through her judgement. The world hasn't had her best interest, so to serve/follow it would be humiliation instead of a reward, so she lashed out at it. Only once she starts having people she wants to fight for does she jump to the aid of an innocent and find satisfaction in following orders.
Justice, ideally, is a force that cannot be coerced and does not bow to anyone save for those it deems worthy of serving.

Oh, and the final nail in the coffin is there's a Toby joke: Justice is a woman, and Justice is blind. In Undertale, Undyne wore an eyepatch. Susie's bangs covered her eyes in Chapter 1. There are other parallels to be drawn between those two, even (decisive, stubbornness when they believe they're right, they hate being tricked, etc.), but I'm not qualified for that.



If you want my other SOUL predictions: I think
Noelle is Perseverance - (willing to put up with a lot in and outside of the story, often hesitates but holds out hope, could explain why she enjoys horror media/her craving for danger. Could also explain how she's self-confident yet a doormat)
Berdly is Integrity - (focuses a lot on personal ability, impostor syndrome, flips his lid when Queen lied about being a gamer, is willing to wreck his arm to avoid being a tool for hurting his friends; all suggest "code of honor" behavior that could happen if Integrity is filtered through Pride)
Monster Kid will be Bravery - (motives and key actions in Undertale point to this; sneaks away from home despite how much the risk outweighs the reward, leads a total stranger through _Waterfall_ despite being _tiny_ and _armless, _ shrugs off constant faceplants, admires Undyne for her fearlessness yet is _still_ willing to stand in her way)
Asriel will be Kindness - (assuming Ralsei is a romanticized caricature of him)

[darkcode]

At 1:45 i say "is this a slide show"
"So im doing this in a slideshow because its easier"

You litterally read my mind and responded

[JudeEaley]

I mean, the introduction of justice meaning your choices can make evil things happen makes sense. I had this thought much earlier, but never mentioned it.
I hope braverys a horror section

[DecInside]

15:07
""It's dusty" could imply something about asriel's dust or something idk ask jaru about it"
Ah yes, never a deltarune theory without memeing on the Asriel's dust theory 😂

[edwinmaster]

9:21 this is just straight up correct. I believe in some situations, like if you are fast enough in the light world, you can actually see part of their red eyes

[Skilltutorials]

Toby’s going to steal this idea with this one lol. edit thanks for 100 likes!

[Flowermations]

WAIT... okay, I looked at some of the options in the screenshot of the Goner maker section where it asks you to give your vessel a gift, and I just had a thought, first off, okay Kindness is obviously associated with Ralsei, Bravery describes Susie pretty well as she just immediately rams through everything without thinking, and then we got "Ambition", what if the trait of the red soul is "Ambition", I mean that word pretty much describes Chara as they were pretty ambitious in their plan to free the monsters from the underground, Asgore whilst looking at Frisk, says they have that same hopeful look in their eyes as Chara, and to top this little theory off, and I just looked it up, guess what one of the synonyms for ambition is... freaking *HOPE* (and also dreams lol), this gets even better when the color red is known to represent ambition, strength, passion, something along the lines of power (something Deltarune constantly brings up, the soundtrack when you seal each dark fountain being called "Your Power"), I mean isn't it a little suspicious how there is 2 traits in this maker section that perfectly match with two out of the three of our main party members, and then we have *Ambition*... which basically describes us (the red soul) and also Chara (plus Flowey too, which is someone we are more best compared to except we aren't severely traumatized, depressed, and don't discover our godlike determination time powers from attempting to "game over" for real, seriously though I just want to hug this poor boi... even worse is we find out more of his backstory from slaughtering everyone including his mom and dad that he used to once love until a bit of trauma, zero sign of a therapist, and time travel effed him up) almost perfectly, just with different goals, as Chara tells us after doing genocide the second time "we are not the same", cause were not, their goal was never to kill all monsters, it's clear that they loved monsters, monsters were the creatures to actually show kindness to them, something this poor child never got from their own kind in their village, as for the player, well it's quite flipping obvious we are the ones that chose to do genocide, no dead ghost kid possessing us or all that crap, anyway going back on track, it was our decision, our desire, our "ambition", to do the genocide route, to want to kill literally every monster trapped underground in that mountain, in Undertale, it is our choice to pick which route we want to do, what we want to say to the characters, whether we want to spare them or fight them, I feel like we're the Angel in the prophecy, like just how Gerson describes the Angel feels like it definitely is what a "player" by definition is, tbh being called "The Angel Of Ambition" sounds so freaking cool, when I recently opened up Deltarune for the first time, I just couldn't help but think there was something interesting with "Ambition" being there with soul traits we know like Kindness and Bravery, options like "Mind" & "Voice" are not really personality traits, I am surprised no one noticed this, or thought of the possibility that maybe Ambition could be what the red soul trait is.

[Spirals_of_change]

I am suspicious of the dess being the perseverance soul part. I think it’s catti because I would find it a bit odd for such an older character then the rest of the “cast“ of people who are represented by the souls to be grouped with and what might become a larger group of the representing souls. My more in story reasons why I think catti will be the perseverance soul:
-Kris had the connection to catti before the red soul got to them (occult friendship?)
- the purple aspects of her sprite.
-Cattie carries a notebook for taking orders while in her uniform
-she could feel trapped by her job but I don’t remember her explicitly saying that she hates the job though that might be because I haven’t played the game in a bit.
-Most of the characters on the soul theory list or ones are already Introduced in chapter 1 to kris/player this is not a part of that group if I believe while catti is.

I mentioned the notebook and the feeling trapped because we are using the flags to help us figure out who the person being represented by the soul is and the flag says “even when you felt trapped, you took notes and achieve the end of “ball”. “ which would makes sense if she feels trapped by her job and takes notes and then she achieves the end of her shift. it could have a larger meaning, but we haven’t gotten much out of catti so if I had to wager a guess the meaning of that will expand later on. For example, if we take the meaning of “ball“ to be the player then I think it would be very interesting due to the past connection Kris had with cattie that caddy is the first one to figure out Kris is possessed, from her mentally taking notes of Kris’s weirder than usual behavior. I have a theory that Caddy will be introduced in chapter 5 and will be placed in the dark world. If that’s true and the soul theory is true. Then I think there is some way where catti will feel trapped.


I feel like it’s being foreshadowed that catti will have an interesting dynamic within the group because she has many connections to both Kris, Noelle, and Suzy. Being occult friend with Kris, and from the limited dialogue in the classroom, it seems that Chris has a actually pretty good rapport with catti the reason why he didn’t join Chris as a group partner was because they already had jockington. The relationship with Noel with teaching her protective spells. And the views she has about Suzy being a bad influence in person on Chris and Noel. I think this probably going to be a character in a dark world most likely the diner.

If this is true catti would probably be in chapter 5 as part of a diner based dark world. Because that seems to be a very prevalent spot in the Deltarune story so it makes sense to be dark world would be there.

[Opalkitsune.]

For the ribbon part for kris
1. Kris's armor before we gained control of them was a horn headband which kris had way before the story
2. The ribbon in the cyber world is a pink ribbon

[sparkysatellite]

I just have one problem, the yellow soul is obviously THE ORIGINAL STARWALKER.

1. He’s yellow
2. Those birds have clearly something wrong and he’s the only one to stand up to them
3. He joins the party
4. He’s yellow

[CrimsomGloryXD]

8:20 The red circle and arrow makes this feel so conspiratory XD

[player-]

Noelle associated with Justice was something I considered too lol, fits with her HP bar color as well

[korin_]

55:53 "Maybe the dog being metaphorical could be a metaphor for the soul being metaphorical"
That's certainly a sentence I just heard

[spironspirit]

I agree. Kris is defo patience. sneaking up, (allegedly waiting for their chance to jumpscare a friend). However, Suzie seems more like Perseverence, both in color and in personality. Despite tough living circumstances, she toughs it out and is portrayed as stubborn, not brave or self-confident (as seen when she doubts her ability to do a basic puzzle, then does it when pressured). I think Toriel might embody bravery, as we see her second in the game, and she's going to be in the next darkworld. Also, in the light puzzle, wasn't the house orange (I genuinely don't remember), but that might represent that, and her fire magic might be orange. Also, she eats gross food like what Muffet would bake for her big family (lots of mandibles to feed!) I see why you might think that she represents the orange soul, with her brash persona she puts on. However, I think that is JUST a persona. Kris seems to be a good judge of character, they seemed to know Suzie was a good person, despite her acting out to make Kris (and everyone) think otherwise.