LEMONADE

* without soul
* with soul
* original form/Player

*(It's what they call "you.")*

- *LEMONADE when Kris inspects a mirror in Volume 2.*

PROJECT SOUL, or better known as LEMONADE is the individual who narrates *Deltarune*. They were an experiment made by Gaster in an attempt to recreate a human.

it is heavily implied in *Deltarune* that LEMONADE is a separate entity from Kris, the main controllable protagonist. With the SOUL, LEMONADE can move Kris, navigate through the game's menus, make prompt choices, and select actions for the party during encounters.

When Kris removes the SOUL from their body, they move entirely without LEMONADE’s input.

## Physical Appearance

At first glance, LEMONADE looks strikingly similar to Chara, this could be because she was supposed to be somewhat of a recreation of them, but it could also be by coincidence.

LEMONADE has the appearance of a teenage human, they have short brown hair, that at the sides, bring out the shape of their face. Her hair curls up a little at the ends, and he has bangs that obscure their eyes, similar to Kris, and Cosmic. They wear a grey sweater with three horizontal stripes, the one in the middle is the thickest. The neck of their sweater is in the shape of a V, and their sleeves are long, obscuring their hands, similar to how Ralsei’s sleeves are. Underneath the sweater is a white button up shirt. Their bottom half is sheltered by brown pants that have purple patches at the knees. They don’t have shoes or socks and are barefoot. It is worth noting that LEMONADE’s feet look odd, they have lines above their toes.

It’s revealed that without their clothes, they have doll like features, almost mannequin like. They have ball joints and have red strings within their body, like veins, they have no organic features. Such as genitalia or breasts. Without their SOUL, they have a heart shaped hole in their chest, that seemingly drips blood, the strings within their body follow the SOUL as it connects to Kris. Beneath their bangs, they have white tired eyes. Their overall appearance is somewhat similar to Gaster, their creator.

## History

### Volume 1; Chapter 1

During the introduction of the story, a disembodied voice asks the experiment if they are connected. A moment later, a red SOUL appears. After verifying, the entity guides them through designing a "*VESSEL*." The voice then requests the SOUL to name it. The process is intercepted by seemingly another entity that discards the SOUL's creation. This other entity states that "*no one can choose who they are in this world*,". Due to this malfunction, Gaster discarded the SOUL in an attempt to start the process over, but throughout the questioning process it gained somewhat of a conscious before forming a body for itself. It copied the form of its vessel due to it being the only thing to go off of before escaping the Lab and searching for a HOST. Overnight SOUL found Kris and connected itself to them. The story continues with SOUL inhabiting Kris's body.

### Chapter 2

SOUL is awaken as Toriel calls for Kris, once Kris awakes, SOUL decides to makes herself known. Kris, of course feeling panicked at the fact they're seeing a GHOST, and its connected to them via strings, starts to throw things at her. SOUL dodges if not all the items Kris tosses her way, he manages to catch one. Once Kris calms down, SOUL states, ("*Quite the rowdy one, they should watch where they’re throwing stuff next time. They could’ve hit me back there!*"). This shows how oblivious SOUL is, completely missing the fact that it was Kris' intention to try and hit them.

One explicit moment of separation from Kris occurs in Card Castle, when LEMONADE follows Susie through the prison. When LEMONADE makes a selection for where Susie should go, she comments that she cannot hear Kris anymore, then goes left regardless of LEMONADE’s input. Shortly after, Susie returns to Ralsei and Kris, and Kris retakes leadership of the party. It is implied that Ralsei had dialogue with Kris in LEMONADE’s absence. However, the content of this dialogue is unknown.

After returning to Hometown, LEMONADE’s final action is to put Kris to bed. At nighttime, Kris wakes up and forces their body to fall out of bed, then slowly moves on their own, tears the SOUL out of their body, and forcefully throws it into the rusty birdcage near their bed. When the cage's door locks, LEMONADE can move the SOUL slightly, due to her nerves being connected to it. Though Kris does not react. Kris pulls out a black-handled knife and smiles a wide grin at the camera, their eye glowing red in the darkness. The screen cuts to black, and Volume 1 concludes.

## Relationships

### Kris

("*Wow! My own **name**! You're the first and best HOST I've ever had!*")

SOUL is bound to Kris as their soul. While in Chapter 1, they seem to have a rather rocky relationship. When Kris first meets him they begin to toss and throw things at SOUL in a state of sheer panic (fair). After SOUL briefly explains what they are, Kris seems to calm down, their conversation cut short when Clover enters wondering what’s taking Kris so long to get ready as they will be late for school. They don’t interact too much during volume 1, it’s even implied that Kris might be thinking of a way to get rid of SOUL, as their unseen conversation with Ralsei in the prison suggests so. However it is still unknown. It's very clear that SOUL cares deeply for Kris, even if she just met them that day. She knows her caring mannerisms towards Kris through out the volume, such as comforting them when they stress about having a partner for the group project, or when Susie is about to bite their face off. He always runs to their aid, showing how much they care for the human.

During the opening of Volume 2, their bond seems to stem. As Kris packs their bag in preparation for school, they ask SOUL what their name is, to which SOUL replies in an oblivious manner. He asks Kris what a name is, to which Kris replies with "*It’s like…something you want people to call you.*” This makes SOUL sad, as they recall that they were thrown away before they could even be named. Kris comforts them and tells him they could name him, SOUL accepts and after some debating SOUL chose the name “LEMONADE”. After this Kris tells LEMONADE that she doesn’t have to call them ‘HOST’ and that she can just call them by their actual name. LEMONADE seems giddy as she thinks their names sound nice together.

It is worth noting that they seem to have a sibling like bond. LEMONADE also cares for Kris’ well-being and safety as they try to shield them from trauma caused by PLAYER. This can be shown in the SNOWGRAVE route as when Kris checks the closet, Berdly’s melted body can be seen inside, but once you look again the entire closet is gone and LEMONADE states (*"There is no closet, there’s nothing there."*). They have grown so fond of Kris that they even gave them a nickname, which is “Apple”. Their tea heals Kris 120 HP.

### Ralsei

(*"He knows, I know he knows."*)

While not having contact with him directly; LEMONADE seemingly has a strong suspicion towards the prince. She can be seen making Kris dismiss his claims and brush him off entirely, like when she makes Kris act rude towards Ralsei when he grabs their hand. Despite Kris’ growing fondness towards him, LEMONADE is almost resentful, and perhaps her dislike for him is because she suspects he and Kris might be plotting on a plan to get rid of her. The thought scares her enough to make Kris act rudely towards him even if they don’t want to.

### Chara

While not knowing Chara directly, she seems to have some resentment and even hatred towards them. It’s known that LEMONADE is aware Kris used to be Chara’s HOST before imprisoned inside a vase and stored in the attic of Toriel’s house. It is unknown if LEMONADE knows about Chara’s other connections to the Dreemurr family other than being Kris’ previous SOUL.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* LEMONADE is bi-gender and uses She/He/They
* She is Lesbian
* the first two DARK WORLDS were created as a testing ring for SOUL’s vessel. Which is how GASTER is able to monitor them throughout the Dark worlds.
* Whatever she sees, Gaster sees.
* since her body was discarded before she could have a name, she is nameless in the first volume.
* Despite this, Kris decided to give him a name since they didn’t just wanna call her “SOUL” the name they chose was “Lemonade”.
* Controls most of Kris’ actions, it’s often that they’d pick the prompt Kris suggests.
* Extradimensonal -ish; Can Phase thru objects and shift out of reality, which is how she was able to follow Susie in both volume 1 and 2.
* NEEDS DETERMINATION TO LIVE.
* Isn’t fatal to Hosts.
* Intelligent, but morality varies (doesn’t have common knowledge on basic household items such as pencils, shoes, etc.)
* Heart is white and transparent when HOSTLESS.
* Since Lemon technically isn’t human, and is designed to transport back within the code with Gaster after the player completes DELTARUNE, she doesn’t age, which means she’ll stay like that forever. (Or she could make her form look older, but I’m general, she won’t age no matter what form she decides to take.)
* Lemon doesn’t have to do simple organic stuff, like sleep, eat, or even blink, (she CANT eat, cuz she can’t pick shit up.) but she mimics some stuff Kris does, (like blinking for example) to appear more human.
* Lemon cannot touch; as shown in this post, she’s not physical so she can’t touch things. She’ll simply just phase thru it, (I might make an option where she can, but she wouldn’t know how to activate a solid form.)
* ‘It’s stated by Star in a tumblr post that LEMON was originally going to have split personality, but the idea was eventually scrapped.