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Kris: 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. During the events of Deltarune, Kris is mentioned to be an introvert.[2] Susie and King refer to Kris as a "quiet person," and Noelle is astonished if they converse about "anything."[3] After Kris's brother, Asriel, left for college, they became distant from their few friends. Kris's side of their shared bedroom is also strikingly bare. The shared game console is underneath Asriel's bed, and their old children's books are in Toriel 's classroom instead. Toriel has also mentioned that Kris is not normally energetic.[4] They have a history of not waking up on time, and often slept through the start of class.[5] Kris also preferred their mother driving them to and from school than walking.[6] Contrary to Kris's apparent detachment, they do have a variety of interests. Kris has always been mischievous, pulling dark pranks such as covering themself in ketchup and claiming it was blood. For example, Kris has the option to keep flushing the toilet before or after going to school, with Toriel replying: "You did not put a bath bomb in the toilet again, did you?" Kris enjoys playing the piano. Prior to the game, they frequently played the hospital piano, despite it "missing most of the good keys."[7] They have searched for tutorials to improve,[8] and Red Big Mouth believes they can play the hospital piano "beautifully." In a private post from Noelle's blog, Noelle mentions that Kris would often come to her house and use her piano since Kris did not have one in their home. Noelle explains that whenever she followed them into the dining room to listen to them play, Kris would immediately stop playing. Without an interruption from Noelle, however, Kris would continue playing, sometimes for hours at a time.[9] When younger, Kris studied the occult with Catti.[10] They appear to still have an interest in this topic, as one of their search queries was "how to use magic." At the end of Chapter 1, Red Big Mouth and Toriel both comment on Kris's physical appearance. They cite that Kris seems "a little sick" and does "not look quite yourself" respectively. It is implied that the SOUL is the reason, though the exact cause is unknown. Notably, Kris wants to be perceived as "normal" despite Toriel's concern.[11] Kris is shown to have a significant amount of agency outside of the player's choices when in the Light world. This is most clearly shown in scenes where Kris rips the SOUL out of their body, but also in how characters react to Kris's dialogue choices: occasionally, the player may choose an option that other characters note sounds like Kris is straining to say. Kris is also shown performing actions independently of the player's control, including protecting Susie from King or awkwardly trying to escape the Sweet Cap'n Cakes fight with Ralsei and Susie, showing their friendship with the two exists outside of the player's influence. Additionally, there are some instances in Chapter 2 where Kris stops inspecting something relating to their home life, preventing the player from learning more: when inspecting Asriel's room in Queen's Mansion, Kris closes their eyes before peeking into Asriel's room in the Guest Hall; when inspecting an article about Asgore's firing and Undyne's promotion, Kris intentionally stops reading before the reason is given. The separation between the player and Kris is most clearly shown in the Weird Route, where it is heavily implied Kris's actions are being done against their will. Noelle describes the voice she heard giving her orders as terrifying, noting Kris has been acting very strange lately. When Kris reunites with the party after defeating Berdly, Susie and Ralsei immediately notice Kris appears distraught. Another instance of this happens in the normal route of Chapter 2, where after defeating Spamton NEO, Susie notices Kris appearing to be in shock. If the player responds to Susie that they're okay by saying Yes, Kris appears strained in their response, making Susie think that they're not okay; if the player responds to Susie by saying No, Kris yells out the response, concerning Susie and Ralsei. This heavily implies that Spamton's dialogues about being a puppet and cutting his strings to be free, combined with Spamton's ultimate fate, deeply unsettled Kris. Kris is nonbinary and goes by 'they/them' pronouns.

Susie: In a Dark World, Susie's skin and hair colors transits to lavender pink and plum respectively. Her clothes are replaced with a long black vest with purple trims, a sleeveless purple shirt, baggy plum pants, and black boots with golden soles. She also has two black bracelets with yellow spikes on each arm, and a black belt with a large golden heart buckle. During most of Chapter 1, Susie's eyes are hidden behind her hair, outside of certain sprites and dialogue portraits. After Kris protects her from King's attack, she uncovers them and often keeps them visible. It's debated whether or not Susie has a hidden tail. In Chapter 2's Dark World, it's implied that she has a short tail that wags when she's happy. However, her reaction to having the Jevilstail equipped - "Figured I'd grow one someday." - may imply that she does not have a tail; but if she does have a tail, it may only be a sarcastic remark conveying that she wishes it was as long as Jevil's. It's also possible that only her Dark World form has a tail, as many features are changed there; however, in Chapter 4, it is again implied that some nondescript thing is wagging behind her (this time in the real world), further adding to the ambiguity. In the game, Susie is a very sarcastic, blunt, and vulgar person. She makes brutally honest comments and swears often (often saying damn, ass, and hell). For her humour, she often makes vulgar remarks or snarky puns. She can threaten with physical violence, such as biting off someone's face. In a Dark World, and she is willing to attack Darkners if they are perceived as enemies. In chapter one of Deltarune, she can be seen as intimidating and threatening. She almost bit Kris's face off in the beginning of the game but spares them because she'd feel bad for Kris's mum having to 'bury them.' She's also quite a bully in chapter one in general. But when Lancer becomes friends with her, she starts to soften up. By the start of chapter 2, she is more kind, protective, and teasing. But she still has that sarcastic, vulgar, and blunt edge to her personality. Susie can occasionally be cocky. She is often seen smirking often, and makes confident remarks when fighting. With friends, she is expressive, willing to talk about herself, and ask for their opinions. Susie favors teasing her friends and is more observant of their emotions. She makes an effort to be considerate and tries to not push them to talk about a stressful issue. Susie is also loyal. She can also be quite protective of her friends. An example of this is when she scared Monster Kid away when he made a rude remark about Kris. Susie enjoys antics. Especially ones that involve food. She loves eating weird foods such as pine cones, salsa, the burnt crust of toast, and she especially loves chalk. Susie is easily flattered and sometimes blushes if you compliment her. Whenever you give her a gift or item, she is possessive of items given to her.[1] In Susie's Dark World room, her fridge has multiple non-food items she likes, which shows that Susie really enjoys eating them. Susie is implied to have self-esteem issues. She used to think that nobody liked her before she found real friends. She is also aware that she struggles academically.[2] Susie can also occasionally project onto others.[3] Susie seems to fall asleep easily, as evidenced by the use of the Sing command in the battle against her and Lancer, and at the end of Chapter 2, where she falls asleep almost immediately after she and Kris sit down and start watching television. Even after befriending Kris and Ralsei, Susie is still shown to very much enjoy FIGHTing. This is best shown when “defeating” the Knight, Susie says they were only getting started and even attempts to engage with them again.

Ralsei: Ralsei is depicted as a short Darkner. He initially wears a hooded, dark blue cloak which obscures his face, resembling the River Person. During Chapter 1, Ralsei's pointed green hat covers his horns, concealing his entire face in shadow. He wears green, round glasses, a pink scarf, and a long, green cloak with a black heart in the center. At the end of Chapter 1 and into Chapter 2, he is revealed to be strikingly similar to a younger Boss Monster, though he has pink horns. He also has new black sleeves, & no longer wears his hat. Sometime in Chapter 2, he becomes a butler for a bit, adorning a black tuxedo, a pink bowtie and a white shirt. He has his glasses off at one point in the same chapter, revealing that he has pink irises and eyeshadow with relatively long eyelashes. in Chapter 3, during the first physical challenge after the first board, he has a white apron with a pink bowtie (potentially his scarf) and a chef's hat with his black sleeves. During the rhythm game segment, he is dressed in a pair of black slacks, a black vest, and a silver necklace, along with a silver chain hanging off of his right pocket. Some fanart depicts him with a crop-top underneath his vest due to the chain, but in-game, he doesn't actually wear anything underneath. Ralsei is very humble and kind, showing genuine care for the well-being of his friends to the point of selflessness. At the beginning of Chapter 1, Ralsei tries his best to befriend Kris and Susie in order to fulfill The Prophecy with them. Trying to be on good terms, he shows reluctance at getting angry and appears disappointed when Kris or Susie act mean. Nevertheless, Ralsei remains convinced that they have good in them and that fighting is not necessary in this world. His naivety almost costs him his life when he accepts King's fake-out surrender and heals him, allowing him to betray and defeat them. Ralsei learns from this to not always be so trustful of others. in chapter 2, he gets a bit more serious when Berdly attempts to make another dark fountain: he explains The Roaring. In chapter 3, his personality and character development go deeper; he reveals that he believes he doesn't exist. In chapter 4, he acts weird by trying to go ahead, and while he claims to not know when to say things, he is shown to be anxious near the titan and darkness spawn, and after the titan's defeat, he is very distressed when he finds out Susie went ahead, attempting to stop her from seeing the final prophecy. As time goes on, Ralsei indicates he is aware of the Player's existence, at one point looking directly looking at them and questioning if they can control Susie as well. He will often attempt to direct the player to turn their attention elsewhere to have private conversations with Kris. While Ralsei, seems to want the player to have mercy on darkners, he will at multiple points indirectly advise them to not go down the Weird Route, referring to options associated with it as "bad choices" and directly warning them and Kris by extension of it carrying a worse fate for them all. Despite having this knowledge, Ralsei will at certain points conflate the player choices and opinions with Kris', and occasionally react in confusion at Kris verbalizing displeasure with said choices.