You & Noelle [SIDE B]

THE HUMAN SOUL:

A SOUL is the very essence of one's being. It plays a crucial role in the plot and progression of Deltarune. A SOUL takes on the form of a heart. Without their SOUL, Kris appears to have difficulty moving and cannot be controlled by the player. According to the mysterious caller, the SOUL is necessary for Kris to enter the Dark World.

The SOUL is what is making Kris do these horrible actions, on which is slowly expanding itself in Noelle’s chest through the ThornRing.

NOELLE HOLIDAY:

In her past years, Noelle was noted to be easily scared and prone to crying, but had developed a complex relationship with equating fear with something or someone of comfort, primarily her sister. While friendly and outgoing she possessed a dissatisfaction with her life feeling like a monotonous role and contemplated running away often, with grim connotations behind doing so. A friendly, cheerful, and kind girl. She often laughs with a soft 'fahaha' sound. Noelle always tries to help others, an example is when Kris comes up to her in chapter 1, she tries to ask Alphys if Kris could be in a group of three with her and Berdly.

However, Noelle is very timid. She often stutters and stammers her words throughout dialogue, especially when Susie is around. Also, she sometimes stays quiet about her feelings. For example, despite not liking Berdly's arrogant behavior, she stays quiet out of fear of ruining their friendship. She also doesn't know how to tell Susie her true feelings for her.

Noelle is also incredibly intelligent. Although Berdly is often considered the smartest in the class, this perception is due to Noelle's help. Though, in chapter two when she goes to the dark world, she becomes less timid and gets bolder. She's still shy at times, but she does get more courage. Throughout the chapter, she goes adventuring around with Kris, talking to them, fighting battles with them, and doing puzzles with them. She becomes more assertive regarding her frustration with Berdly and even choked him once. At the end of chapter two, she boldly confronts Queen for her wrong doings in front of Kris, Susie, and Ralsei.

Her father, Rudy mentions that "everything scares her," and describes her as "defenseless." According to him, she has a fear of humans hiding under her bed. This was made worse (or started) by Kris's repeated attempts to scare her when they were younger, including at least one time they hid under her bed. Despite this, Noelle has stated she is fond of scary things looking back on (some) of Kris' pranks with endearment and describing Susie as the "good kind of scary" expressing passion for violent video games like Blood Crushers and associate video game glitches. She is showm to be more casual within the Dark World's primarily with Kris when it comes to her feelings around their childhood and often yells at them when they pull pranks on her.

When she is with Susie, she is very easily flustered. She blushes often, stutters very commonly, and is sometimes awkward. Her feelings for Susie are very strong and clear with the two eventually going on a date for the Festival. It is during this time Noelle timidness grows into a direct openness regarding her feelings. As seen when she is fine with openly turning down Berdly, and defending a hypothetical situation where Susie would steal something. Throughout she tries her best to make Susie feel comfortable. She truly cares about her and doesn't want to hurt her as seen when she reluctantly left the remainder of her to come to Rudy's aide. This care extends for others as well including Kris, as she is prone

Noelle is indicated to have masochistic tendencies, as she tends to fantasize about Susie bullying her for various things (e.g. Susie pushing her over and laughing at Noelle for asking Susie to ride with her on the Ferris Wheel), and states that the Ragger "feels nice" when attempting to equip it on her.

In Chapter 2, Initially, Noelle retained her usual personality traits however, due to the player forcing her to freeze the others by continuing to make her "proceed," Noelle obediently listens. Because of this, she gets manipulated to think what she's doing is making her stronger, and she keeps doing it obediently. Upon getting the Thornring this continues, with Noelle dissociating further until she gets to Berdly, initially not even recognizing him and believing he is an enemy. Distressed and telling him to runaway a battle ensues regardless where she refuses to cast Snowgrave until the player keeps pushing her on to do it until she eventually freezes, him. This event leaves Noelle in a state of distress and causes her to become quiet and leaving Kris. Afterward in the lightworld Noelle shows signs of boldness by not being afraid to ask Susie about her tale and becoming possessive over her game consoles but retains a fear of Kris's recent behavior.

In Chapter 4, Noelle does not shown any visible signs of nervousness around Susie and Kris and takes initiative in inviting the two over to her house. Additionally her fear of mice had completely disappeared as shown when she Boldy claimed that species cannot scare her anymore upon talking to Scarf Mouse. Upon speaking to Kris in private, Noelle reveals that she retained trauma from the events in Cyber World to the point of not being able to sleep at night before Kris arrived and removed the Thornring from her finger. After recounting Kris's consoling of her and how she broke into tears hearing their real voice Noelle inches closer to Kris only to hear the "voice for her dreams" (player) out of Kris's mouth, growing terrified at the realization that yesterday's events were not a dream like how she was made to believe. When the player forces Kris to re-equip the Thorn Ring onto her, she is traumatized and left in a uncertain state.

In Chapter 5, Noelle on the surface enjoys time at the festival with Susie making her love for her obvious by offering her the remainder of her money, holding her hand in the bowl jar of fake eyeballs, and resting her head on her shoulder on the Ferris wheel. Afterward, she waits by the lake, for Kris to come where she speaks to them on her current perspective. Noelle reveals that her entire life resulted in playing a role in a monotonous town where nothing and no one changes and wishes to do "something crazy" and break free only to lament it was impossible. Only to bare a wide and unhinged smile that Kris is the exception now that they found a way to stop being themselves. In this state, Noelle is revealed to be highly manic and to have fully conflated the player and Kris as the same entity. As Noelle fluctuates between maniacal praise on how much more interesting they are now and vindictive anger toward the residents of Hometown, she claims to realize casting Snowgrave made her feel stronger than she ever did in her entire life.

Continuing along this route, Noelle asks Kris to go to the beach. At the beach, Noelle talks about how much Kris has changed and how she, as Noelle, only does "Noelle things" because she is Noelle. Her demeanor shifts drastically, causing her face to contort in a disturbing way. She then decides she wants to get wings in her own way. She pulls Kris by the hand into the water. If one keep selecting "Proceed," the two of them venture deeper into the water until they go under. The game then crashes and demands Chapter 7 – Side B.

Appearance: KRIS, THE CAGE WITH HUMAN SOUL AND PARTS:

Kris is a short human with an amber skin tone and shoulder-length dark maroon hair with long bangs. They wear a long-sleeve lime shirt with one horizontal yellow stripe, and nondescript pants and shoes. One of Kris's distinct traits is that their long bangs cast a shadow that hides their eyes. In the brief moments they tear the SOUL out of their body, their red eyes can glow in the dark. One of their crimson eyes is also visible for a few frames when they descend into a Dark World.

When deprived of the SOUL for long periods of time, Kris's skin shifts into dark green hue with their movements becoming limp and weak, as seen in Chapter 5

In a Dark World, Kris's entire appearance transforms, making them resemble a knight. Kris dons silver armor: shoulder pauldrons, a cuirass, gauntlets, and boots. They wear a navy blue bodysuit underneath the set, and a pink cape drapes across their right shoulder. Finally, Kris's skin changes to cyan, and their hair transits to navy. The shading for their skin is also used for their cape, giving the illusion of blue stripes in a few of their sprites.

To the player, Kris consistently has a blank, neutral expression. They seemingly stand straight during the majority of non-scripted actions.Kris's expressions and movement are different when they are about to remove or have removed the SOUL.

NOELLE, THE GIRL WITH LOVE CROSSED ON HER HEART:

In the game, Noelle appears as an anthropomorphic reindeer with short brown fur, a red nose, two brown antlers, and two fluffy deer ears. She's quite thin and small, yet bigger than Kris. Her eyes are big and have black pupils, on her eyes, she has thick, black, long eyebrows. Noelle has long, thick, golden-blond hair. She also has a deer's tail and black hooves. A smile is usually present on her face.

In the Dark World, she looks identical to her light-world appearance. However, there are a few differences. Those differences having platinum-blond hair, light-brown fur, and on her character model, she is seen with a much more stoic/apathetic expression instead of her usual cheerful face.

Her clothing consists of a bright green and red vest, a white collared shirt underneath her vest, black sleeves, a black skirt, and no shoes due to her hooves being her footwear. In the Dark World, she only wears a long white robe with wide ample sleeves.

THE HUMAN SOUL:

As previously mentioned, SOULs take on the appearance of a heart.

In most cases, SOULs point downwards. However, when in the Yellow or Orange SOUL Mode, it points to the right, where the enemy is.

It is unclear whether Darkners have SOULs or not, As in certain segments of the game, Ralsei is shown with a black SOUL, either representing his lack of a soul or just that Darkners' SOULs are black. Additionally, during the Spamton NEO fight in Chapter 2, Spamton implies that he has no SOUL. Although, this could also just be Spamton trying to get the power of Kris's soul, as Human souls are shown to be more powerful than others.

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