Akumu

*"It's my friend. It's called Akumu, Kumu for short."*
―Bête Noire to Frisk[src]
**Akumu** was an extension of the spell construct Bête Noire, made to accompany and aid her to achieve extinction of monsters and subjugation of humans. It had provided enough support for Bête throughout her bloody conquest, protecting her and eventually consuming HATE, which both enhanced and corrupted the two of them. Tired of having a separate half of herself, Bête assassinated Akumu and absorbed its essence, gaining her full form.

## Biography

### My Sunshine

After Frisk took Jessica Grey and Bete to Toriel's school, when Bete was meeting Toriel, her soul reacted to Toriel's approach. As a result, Kumu popped out of Bete, likely about to act in defense. The creature soon shape-shifted into a tiny flower on her head after it had been calmed. Kumu stays on Bete's head as a tiny pink flower for the rest of the episode.

### Dust

When Frisk comes over to Gaster's house, Kumu can be seen flying around, playfully carrying a book.

Near the end of the episode, Asriel and Sans find out about Bête Noire's true intentions. Before leaving, Bete soon appears. She gave up on attempting to hide the monster inside her and removes Sans's soul from his body and feeds Kumu with it.

Asriel soon escapes and Bete asks Jessica for the HATE vial that she has. After refusing to give it to her, Kumu grabs Jessica and slams her against the wall. The screen soon cuts to black.

### Do or Die

Minutes into the animation, Kumu is seen with Bete at the Core. The creature soon shows Bete Sans'

     soul and how it was draining its magic, which causes Bête Noire to realize that she has enough magic to "start her plan" (which is the soul harvest).

Before fighting Gaster, Bete is seen ordering Kumu to attack Alphys before one of her pink blobs attacked her. Later, Kumu fights alongside Bête Noire against Gaster.

During the fight, Bete stabs Gaster in the back, causing him to pass out. But thankfully, Jessica and Alphys come in just in time to rescue him. Alphys gives Jessica a dark blue artifact, which allows her to teleport back home. Alphys puts up a green shield around herself and activates the nullifier. The nullifier then attacked Bete and Kumu.

    Alphys' shield soon gets deactivated. Bete then attacks her. It turns out that it didn't affect either of them because it only works on monsters and humans, but she and Kumu are neither of the two. Undyne soon enters the room. Bete then tricks her into killing Alphys and attempts to kill her too. But before she can, Undyne turns into her into Undyne The Undying form. The episode ends at this point.

### Love Part 1

Near the beginning of the episode, Kumu and Bete fight Undyne the Undying, who easily overwhelms the two with her Determination. Undyne then uses her special attack, "The Spear of Justice". The attack was enough to disintegrate half of Bête Noire's body and destroy the roof of the

entire nullifier room. Akumu then eats the Hate vial they took from Jessica in Dust, allowing for Bete to recover half of their body using Hate, but even then, this was still not enough to defeat Undyne.

This was especially since Bete was seen to be losing control due to the hate, and even coughed some of it, which caused both of them to flee from the battle.

Later, Bete and Kumu are seen hiding out in an abandoned shed. Bete confronted Akumu as she told the creature that she hardly felt like herself now due to the HATE, and goes through some long dialogue before summoning the Kumulings.

    Kumu proceeds to consume the creatures along with the souls they managed to gather.

Neither Bete nor Kumu was seen throughout the rest of the episode, not counting when Frisk mentioned them when they were talking to Asriel.

### Love Part 2

    When the episode began, Kumu was seen with Bete in an image inside Frisk's mind.

    Later, the duo encountered Frisk and they began to fight, but before the duo could finish them, Asriel decided to interfere. However, Kumu managed to take his soul while he was fighting her, and upon seeing Asriel's "death", Frisk's LV became 19 and turned the tides of the battle as a result, creating a fair battle.

Getting an idea, Bete used Kumu to grab Sans' soul and fill it with HATE. Sans, under HATE's control, began to fight Frisk. After Papyrus jumped in the fight and managed to remove the HATE from Sans, Bete and Kumu were forced to retreat.

### My Promise

Akumu was seen at the beginning of the episode, with Bete, who was furious that they were running away, even though they were supposed to be feared. Bete orders Akumu to show them the souls that were infected by HATE. Akumu then shows Bete the souls they had consumed by making itself bigger and making a force field around Bete. Bete then starts cracking the souls due to the fact that HATE has infected most of them and she needed to ensure she had the hate at bay. Bete then decides to keep Asriel's soul and absorb the magic of Cam's soul then tells Akumu to destroy the remaining souls.

Bete tells Akumu that she is tired of being split in two so she throws her spear at Akumu in order to fuse with them. The spear hits Bete and then slowly both Bete and Akumu start fusing transforming into their true form.

## Personality

Much like Bete, throughout My Sunshine and a portion of Dust, Kumu didn't seem to be evil. It acted somewhat friendly and playful, which was shown when it ran off with one of Gaster's books. However, according to Bete, it was a tad overprotective. But this all changed after the creature revealed the evil inside itself.

Kumu appears to be sadistic and doesn't care if it severely hurts others. According to a post, the creature wields a hunger for souls and treasures Bete as their best and only friend.

Not much else is know about Kumu's personality, apart from the fact that Bete Noire is controlling this creature. This was revealed in the description of a speedpaint video.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Bête Noire Physiology**: From being an extension of Bête/"Betty", Akumu is semi-immortal and made of pure magic, while needing it to survive.

**HATE Empowerment**: Also, like Bête, Akumu can have HATE induced into it and is stronger than before; though, unknowingly, HATE cannot control Akumu, despite them and Bête sharing the same soul.

### Abilities

* **Shapeshifting:** Kumu can change shape and turn into a wide variety of weapons, different objects and is able to change their form entirely. An example of this is in Dust when Asriel tried to attack Bête and he shielded her, whilst another example is when it was able to change into a mini version of Bête.
	+ **Scythe**: For Akumu’s most common and iconic weapon is a scythe it transforms into for Bête to wield.
	+ **Tentacle**: Akumu wrapped itself around Bête's arm and elongated and stuck to Frisk's shield and thrown him into the air.
	+ **Hoverboard**: Frisk sent Bête flying into a large mountain and Akumu turned into a floating hoverboard that stuck itself to Bête allowing her to ride on Akumu at high speeds.
	+ **Sickle**: Kumu transformed into what appears to be a sickle-like object in Love Part 1 in an attempt to try to fight off Undyne the Undying. Its strength is unknown, but it is capable of cutting through skin.
	+ **Arm-Gauntlet Spike**: Kumu can mount itself onto one of Bête’s arms and turned into a sharp large spike, which was displayed in Do or Die.
	+ **Shield**: As seen in Love Part 1 when Undyne hurled a spear at Bête and Kumu, Kumu became a shield to protect Bête, though the spear pierced through Akumu.

* **Flower**: As said before, Akumu had shifted into a flower in Bête’s hair.

* **Bête Noire**: Akumu once transformed into a smaller version of Bête in attempt to entertain her before the soul harvest. Another example of this is when Akumu disguised as Bête sleeping while the real Bête was gaining information.

* **Flight/Floating**: Kumu has shown the ability of flight very frequently throughout the series.
* **Kumulings**: In Do or Die, Kumu summoned several Kumulings for the soul harvest.
* **Pocket Reality Manipulation**: Both the Kumulings and Akumu have a reality pocket to contains the souls and only they can show them. It was also able to destroy multiple souls at once that were contained inside of it in the beginning of My Promise.
	+ **HATE Corruption**: Akumu was also shown in the beginning of My Promise to corrupt HATE on souls.
* **Bête Noire Harpoon**: In Love Part 2, it was revealed that Akumu can shoot a tentacle from its mouth to collect souls, as shown with Asriel.

## Relationships

* Bête Noire † - Other Half, Friend and Killer
* Kumulings † - Co–Creations and Subordinates
* Frisk † - Attempted Victim and Attempted Killer
* Human Safety Organization
	+ Anti-Monsters Department
		- Jessica Grey † - Temporary Ally
* Cam †
* Sans † - Victim
* Asriel Dreemurr - Victim
* W. D. Gaster - Attempted Victim and Attempted Killer
* HATE - Power Source
* Alphys † - Attempted Killer
* Undyne - Attempted Killer and Attempted Victim
* Chara - Attempted Killer and Attempted Victim

## Trivia

* ￼Akumu is written 悪夢 in terms of Kanji which means nightmare in Japanese.
	+ In addition, "Akuma" (悪魔) translated to English means Evil/Devil/Demon.
* Before his revival, Camila revealed that Sans' soul was still alive inside Kumu.
* If Akumu dies, Bete will slowly die in a short time and vice versa. They don't die immediately, it should take a while because they share the same soul.[*citation needed*]
* Akumu doesn't have a gender, just like Bete.However, unlike Bete, the creature is typically referred to as an asexual being but is referred to as a "he" by Camila.
* It is possible to remove a soul from Akumu.
* In one Tumblr post, Camila released a canon conversation between Bete and Akumu that was never alluded to in the series.
* HATE is unable to control Kumu because of an unknown reason.
* Kumu and Bete were completely overwhelmed by Undyne's enormous strength and couldn't take her down.
* Kumu and Bete were looking for a "very special" soul in the core.
* Killing half of humans and monsters is enough to stop Kumu and Bete.
* In Undyne's battle with Bete, Akumu shielded Bete from Undyne. Before the episode came out, Akumu as a shield was seen as impenetrable, however, Undyne easily cut through Akumu with her spear; proving Undyne's great strength.
* At the end of My Sunshine, the sleeping "Bete" at Gaster's house is actually Akumu disguised as her

## References

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1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Glitchtale: 2.01: My Sunshine*
2. ↑ Not much else is know about Kumu's personality, apart from the fact that Bete is controlling the creature. This was revealed in the description of a speedpaint video. (Link)
3. ↑ Before his revival, Camila revealed that Sans' soul was still alive inside Kumu. (Link)
4. ↑ Akumu doesn't have gender like Bete. However, unlike Bete, the creature is typically referred to as an asexual being but is referred to as a "he" by Camila. (Link).
5. ↑ It is possible to remove a soul from Akumu. (Link)
6. ↑ In one Tumblr post, Camila released a canon conversation about Bete. A conversation that was never in the series. Bete talking with Kumu, about her goals of killing everyone. (Link)
7. ↑ HATE cannot control Kumu because of an unknown reason. (Link)
8. ↑ Kumu and Bete were completely overwhelmed by Undyne and can't take her down. (Link)
9. ↑ Kumu and Bete were looking for a "very special" soul in the core. (Link 1)
10. ↑ Kumu and Bete were looking for a "very special" soul in the core. (Link 2)
11. ↑ Killing half of humans and monsters is enough to stop Kumu and Bete. (Link)
12. ↑ At the end of My Sunshine, the "Bete" at Gaster's house was Akumu disguised as her (Link)