SOULS

**The Importance of Souls**

By: Me(DecInside)

## Introduction

Many question what a soul is or if it even exists. To some souls are just a concept to try to understand ourselves, and nothing more. And for some the soul is the life force of our being. But to many, including myself, the soul is our embodiment; the containment of our being; our attributes, traits, and much more. For Undertale and it’s many variations, it is all of the above but it is not as simple. For Undertale a soul is the very culmination of your being, they define your abilities, attributes, etc. But what more than that, the determine your type of magic, and what you are literally able to do. As to why 1 singular difference is so important, this is why I made this wiki.

## The Basic Understanding of Traits

#### The 3 Absolute Souls

###### **HATE**

Most say that hatred is something that is developed over time as result of what happens to them. Although this is often the case, there are some instances, at least in the Undertale fandom, that a soul may be corrupted upon creation. But, a soul of HATE, may be able to become purified after creation.

###### Neutrality

Neutrality is how all souls start until they gain their traits through creation. But, rarely, there are some instances where a soul does not gain any traits upon creation and become neutral. And in most cases, a neutral soul may be able to be created once magic is drained from the soul, or something else happens…

###### **HOPE**

HOPE is a trait that is developed, but even rarer than HATRED… And, In even fewer cases some are born with this soul. In which cases, as expected as being HOPE; the opposite of HATE; it would be purified upon creation. Though, it is still possible to corrupt after creation.

#### The 8 Main Soul Traits

The main 8 are; Determination, Integrity, Kindness, Bravery, Justice, Perseverance, and **F E A R**

###### Soul Occurrence Levels (SOL)

Common:
Integrity, Kindness, Bravery

Uncommon:
Justice, Patience

Rare:
Perseverance

Extremely rare:
Determination, **F E A R**

Exceptionally rare:
Neutrality

Unnaturally rare:
**HATE**, **HOPE**

#### Negativity, Neutrality, Positivity

With this shall be the categorization of each soul

###### Determination

Irresolution, Determination, Resoluteness

###### Perseverance

Procrastination, Perseverance, Dedication

## Powers

#### Negativity, Neutrality, Positivity

First before categorizing powers, there are things to understand about the "3"

###### Negativity

Negative traits all have a noticeable increase in hostile, aggressive, abilities in powers.

###### Neutrality

Neutral power is obviously the default amount of power and what not.

###### Positivity

Positive traits, in contrast of negative ones, would have the opposite effect in which it’s passive, supportive abilities in powers are increased.

#### The Traits

###### Determination

Determination as is well known is the ability to bring oneself back to life no matter what death they faced (in most cases \*wink wink\*). But as is shown in Glitch!tale; it also has the ability to manifest spells which use up the user’s soul power, which is not far off from “Mana Points” in video games. But what that does is drains physical stamina, as well. It also does double damage.

###### Integrity

Integrity actually is, as you would think, telekinesis, as sans has demonstrated. But it’s not as simple as just telekinesis; like most powers it depends on the user; the more to their trait they are, the stronger they are. And, vice versa. And what it does is, rather then just telekinesis; it targets the weak point of the target, and then grips it so it cannot resist. (obviously, with mere objects; objects can’t resist anyways .)

###### Kindness

Kindness is a supportive-type magic. Although it is usually used for healing, it can make bubbles of protection and also reinforce other’s magic. As for an offense use, kindness actually doesn’t seem to have any.

###### Bravery

Bravery is a kind of neutral between offense and defensive believe it or not. In the offensive it deal 1.5x the damage as normal attacks; but only while moving. It also can be mastered in uncommon cases to be able to damage you if you don’t move fast In fewer cases one’s magic can be so intense attacks actually turn into fire magic (therefore increasing needed speed). On the defensive side it is actually all of the above; but with a twist. It can become a sort of shield that requires ridiculous speeds to break (and higher speeds with higher magic). In the rarest of cases it can be mastered and controlled to vibrate atoms fast enough to make them melt.

###### Justice

Justice is a funni Majik type. While it is is mostly offensive; it can also be defensive. On the offensive side; it has the ability to flip it’s own trajectory if it is blocked, dodged, or parried. (Like the way Undyne’s yellow spears work.) On the defensive side; it can be used to parry in a unique way: if something hits it the attack homes in on the user until it hits them or something else.

###### Patience

As I’m sure we all know this color is the opposite of orange in the way attacks work. (and blue is the opposite of orange in color lol) Instead of speed that is needed it is patience. In it’s common form, on the offensive side; it deals 1.75x damage if you move. However most commonly you can move somewhat without being damaged. But higher versions as said before, you cannot move at all. And on the offense side, the shield cannot break by force as you can with orange. Instead; you have to be Patient, and be slow to pierce through it. Orange cannot go through blue as with orange it is always vibrating even as it is “still”

###### Perseverance

As show cased by Muffet a purple soul is limited by invisible strings in the air (with Muffet they were visible but that’s complicated). When one’s soul is purple they may only travel along these lines. But they themselves have the ability to create strings. They can travel along these strings as well. Now obviously these strings may be used to turn other’s souls purple. Only; they cannot create strings because they do not have a purple soul in origin. For the offensive AND defensive side they can actually be changed in how thin they are, and how thick they are. (respectively). They can also be changed in transparency no matter their mass (example could be the strings would be used as a shield but could be made transparent and could see through them).

###### Fear

Fear. Fear is an emotion most of the time an evil, unnatural trait. There is a positive side to FEAR which is “alertness”, but it isn’t different in abilities. The most famous example is Bête Noire. Abilities may include the ability to make people see their fears on different scales, the ability to take one’s soul from them and manipulate it however they want (abilities in manipulating souls vary according to power level.), the ability to store souls within their own, and to release them at any time. Although Betty’s “Akumu” seems unique, while it is; everyone with a fear soul has a “familiar”. Each is unique to the person even in abilities (abilities don’t change just power level. and some or all may or may not be accessible).

###### HATE

HATE is a trait that to this day is still a mystery in both that it is unpredictable and it defies all known laws of magic we understand But there are some things that we know: HATE isn’t natural but rather it happens during exposure to something of “corruption”. Nightmare!Sans being an example; it literally covers your entire being in black substance that doesn’t like obeying the laws of physics. In Nightmare’s case it developed tendrils in his back. It can regenerate almost instantly. Despite it’s flexibility and ability to shapeshift; it actually doesn’t change past it’s basic design.

###### HOPE

HOPE is also weird in the way HATE is as it doesn’t like obeying the laws of physics, either. Weirdly enough despite being it’s opposite; HOPE actually exhibits the same properties as HATE.

###### Neutral

Neutral souls have the ability to actually steal other abilities and use them. Example: Say a neutral soul encountered a pink soul. It could actually steal the abilities of that soul and be able to switch it on and off. It can have them for as long as they want.

#### Chaos

Chaos is a soul that is unbound by normal soul traits, as it is all over the place. It is not fixed, and has the ability to make any soul go to the opposite side of itself (negativity, poistivity). With Neutrality, it simply drives them into madness. (To Be Added)

#### Gamma

A Gamma soul is one that is highly resistant to everything, immune to normal means. Example: The Chaos soul.

#### Null

A null soul is... unfixed. it can be anything, limitlessly. It's a template and can negate anything; even Gamma.