Better Call Soul

**Debut** | TBA

**Better Call Soul** is the Simplicitrix/Stabilized Simplicitrix's DNA sample of a Namaskāra Namaskāra-Namaskāra from the planet Utkrsta-Ztlumithovor.

## Appearance

Better Call Soul is a telephone-like alien with a black rectangular body highlighted with the large red phone resting on the top and being held up by two tan clawed appendages, connected to his backside with a black cord glowing with red energy that resemble nerve impulses. Better Call Soul has a pair of protruding eyes and a large smiling mouth on his front side, with a small symbol resembling the Simplicitrix hourglass and "A10" imprinted on his right side.

Better Call Soul wears four Simplicitrix symbols on the sides of his body in the form of wheels.

## Powers

* Better Call Soul can function like an ordinary manmade telephone without any issue, capable of dialing, sending, and even receiving calls, although his ability comes in fruition once someone actually answers, in which no matter the circumstances nor their relationship with the caller, they will automatically offer the best advice that they can offer for whatever situation they are currently in, acting as a subconscious form of mind control that they aren't properly aware of. Sustaining off the soundwaves between the two individuals on the line, Better Call Soul can hold a call indefinitely without any natural interference.
	+ Better Call Soul can allow the caller to communicate with souls of the deceased through literally dialing up different afterlives, placing the receiver on a semi-suspended state of limbo where they are perfectly relaxed and willingly to engage in conversation for as long as the caller wants.
* Unlike Radio Chatter, Better Call Soul does not need to be within two places at once to send his calls, instead accessing any sort of medium capable of transmitting soundwaves, whether it may be electronic devices or even the mouths of any living organism capable of vocalizing words. While in that state, Better Call Soul's subconscious mind control prevents the medium, should they be living, from noticing the transmission from blocking it out of their thoughts, preventing them from intercepting or interrupting the call.
* Better Call Soul can manipulate his own biology in limited ways without external input, such as rolling with his wheels and moving his cord like a tentacle.

## Weaknesses

* Better Call Soul's greatest crux is that their advice granting is the exact opposite of Ingenieous' knowledge granting, as instead of answering questions with the upmost truth through esoteric means, Better Call Soul's callers can be strongly opinionated dependent on the individual in question, causing them to give ineffective advice that can even make the situation of the caller worse for them. Because of this, Better Call Soul has no semblance of omniscience and in rare instances, can cause the receiver to be unable to offer any sort of advice whatsoever.
* Better Call Soul cannot send calls into environments completely devoid of any sound, such as vacuums, or through mediums that cannot transmit sound, such as mute living organisms.
* Although Better Call Soul's subconscious mind control suppresses living lifeforms vocally transmitting his call from interfering with it with their own speech, species with certain biological traits or abilities relating to their mouths, such as a Sonorosian's sonic screams or a Loboan's sonic howl, can unintentionally trigger them should the caller speak too loudly.
	+ Species like Clam'Os, who have multiple mouths, would be the most counteractive to transmit calls, as the caller would be rendered inaudible from the many mouths talking over one another, like their call was coming from several phones at once, which can be made even worse should the Clam'Os experience pain during the call and accidentally release their reverberating shouts.
* Better Call Soul is a magnet for the supernatural.

## Etymology

* Better Call Soul's name is a play on "Better Call Saul," the American crime and legal drama television series of the same name, and "soul."
* Better Call Soul's species name is the Marathi translation of "hello? hello hello," Phone Guy's first spoken dialogue.
* Better Call Soul's planet name is the Marathi translation of "mute the call," referencing the "MUTE CALL" button in the top left corner of his screen during his phone calls at the beginning of each night, which serves as his mechanic in *Ultimate Custom Night*.

## Trivia

* Better Call Soul was suggested by WTB amongst several other transformations inspired by characters from FNaF as a fun, semi-canon collaborative project between him and Shark.
* As with his species and planet names, Better Call Soul is primarily inspired by Phone Guy from *Five Nights at Freddy's*, with his advice-based abilities referring to how Phone Guy informs the player about the background lore and mechanics throughout the game, and his soul communication referring to his awareness and disregard towards the past accidents at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, most notably the infamous Bite of '87, and how he inevitably suffers the same fate by the end of the first game, although he returns in the second game, being a prequel, and the third game through rediscovered audio recordings.
* Better Call Soul comes from the same system as Bear Hug, Circalien Rhythm, and other transformations inspired by FNaF characters, explaining the shared prefix of their planet names.
* Better Call Soul was tentatively named "Soul Call" and "Soul-Free Call" during his creation.