Intermediate

An **Intermediate** is a powerful being, and is also the name of any person or creature who possess an Intermediate SOUL. These beings often have the power to alter entire universes, and are tasked with “mediating” between the paths of sapient beings and the nature of universes, with a higher being (Or beings) of an undeterminable sort.

## Profile

### Origins

#### As A Whole

It is unknown who or what the first Intermediate is. While sapient religion on Earth claims several individuals as being in synergetic and major communion with a higher being (Some even claiming that such major synergies and communions are possible in *all* individuals), it is still hard to determine who. However, it was generally perceived among SOUL scientists at Project ASRIEL that major figures, often held in sainthood or as religious prophesiers, later became the first Intermediates.

Eventually, these powerful beings would form the Intermediate Council, a now-massive organisation of Intermediates who democratically decide on major, inter-universal issues and wield some sort of tangible political and physical power.

#### In Undertale

The first-ever known Intermediate SOUL possessor was and who it’s first user was within the Undertale universes was a confusing argument. At first, it was claimed by the then-Royal Scientist of the Kingdom of Monsters’, Dr. W.D Gaster, that the first possessor of an Intermediate SOUL was, for a short while, the Kingdom of Monsters’ Prince, Asriel Dreemurr. This claim was further backed by an “unusually high amount of energy” which was “radiating” from the SOUL, traced by Gaster’s two pupils, as Asriel and the First Human, another well-known individual within the kingdom, combined their SOULS in attempt to cross the Barrier.

Another claim was that Sans, a skeleton serving as one of Gaster’s closest pupils, was the first possessor of an Intermediate SOUL. The same evidence made in Asriel’s case was applied onto Sans, although Gaster personally jested that Sans “was too lazy to even prove such a quandary.”

The final claim was made with Flowey (Aster Abbot), another notable individual within the Underground, who was previously said to “not exist before.” Unlike the evidence from the first two disputed owners, Flowey’s Intermediate SOUL was tested with the Barrier, which does not usually allow a normal human or monster’s SOUL to leave.

It was eventually concluded that Asriel was the first possessor of an Intermediate SOUL in the UNDERTALE universe, and that Flowey and Sans were the second and third respectively to obtain Intermediate SOULs.

Subsequently, during the multi-national effort of Project ASRIEL, three other human Intermediates, and one other creature, also an Intermediate, were introduced, and were added to the growing list of Intermediates within the Undertale universes. As of now, they are unknown, but rumor has it that one “human-like rip off of a Sans’ sprite”, the other was a motherly figure, another was a truffle-baking kind girl, and that the other creature was a bipedal, large, penguin-like-ish baby Harp seal.

These Intermediates would eventually gather to form the Undertale branch of the Intermediate Council in 2015.