Chromas

* Magic
* Chara's Knife

## Gallery

**Chromas** is a rare type of magic amongst monsters that allows them to use different types of magic related to the seven Soul Traits. This magic is so powerful it puts them on par with human wizards. The way it manifests varies; for example, Gaster summons up to seven hands each with a hole in the center, and the color of the chroma he uses will fill the hole, while Roman's hands have the color of the chroma at the fingertip.

Another example this is, technically, with Chara in Season 1; they use their iconic blade that can use magical Determination energy with then later being updated with having extracted Determination which has a resemblance to the other six traits.

HATE, mainly in Hope, also shows some presumable examples with this by inheriting the previous soul trait abilities from its previous hosts.

## Colors

### Red

The red chroma usually takes them form of lasers or energy blasts.

* Gaster's red hands shoot out laser beams
* Chara's knife releases commanded and uncommanded magic slashes, a magic wall, and can cover the ground with red energy and send the said energy upwards.
* HATE's arm-mounted blade turns red at the tip, and, similar to Chara, can manifest red energy onto the ground, but instead make it explode. Once HATE reaches it’s full form, they can summon a greatsword.

### Orange

The orange chroma tends to be destructive.

* Gaster's orange hand creates small white orbs that when triggered turn orange and release powerful explosions.
* Chara's knife can release a magic slash that can change direction mid-attack.
* HATE can turn it's claws dark orange and can generate explosions through it.

### Yellow

The yellow chroma tends to focus on a ranged attack.

* Gaster's yellow hand rapid fires small bullets.
* Chara's knife fires a laser, the size and power depends on how long he charges it.
* HATE can turn it's claws dark yellow and fire powerful bullets.

### Green

The green chroma is used for defensive purposes.

* Gaster's green hand summons a shield or dome to block attacks.
* Chara's knife generates a small shield.

### Cyan

The cyan chroma focuses on creating strings/ropes.

* Gaster's cyan hand will fire up to multiple ropes at the target, one from each finger.
* Chara's knife shoots a large rope out.
* HATE's arm forms into a nub while a dark cyan tentacle/string comes out.

### Blue

This chroma is very versatile, much like it's associated trait. Though all of the uses demonstrated show a blade of some sort.

* Gaster's blue hand fires up to two circular razor blades per hand.
* Chara's knife drastically increases in length and glows blue.
* HATE can manipulate souls telekinetically and create dark blue platforms that connect to the other from a distance away.

### Purple

This chroma, like it's associated trait, focuses on slow healing and defense breaching.

* Gaster's purple hand shoots out a purple spike that induces slow healing.
	+ In Yet Darker, due to the void messing with his magic, the purple hand will instead copy his opponents attacks.
		- This is because if both of Gaster's sons are alive, his purple hand is unavailable.
* Chara's knife releases three purple slashes that will destroy the first thing it collides with and will then function like a a normal slash.
* HATE's claws turn dark purple and can do a powerful slash with it's said claws.

## Trivia

* Though, Chara in Season 1 uses their rainbow knife that is something very similar to chromas magic, it is unknown if he is actually using it.
* If Gaster's children are alive, he can only summon six hands.
* Due to Gaster being born having holes in his actual hands, he can use his chromas from them without having to summon more.
* In "Yet Darker", Gaster was able to bring his seven hands together while each one is in a different color and use them to fire a rainbow-colored beam which turned into a homing projectile after Sans dodged it and then split into several smaller projectiles that all homed on him at once after he blocked the first projectile with his bones. The relationship between this attack and the standard use of Chromas magic, and whether or not it was also a product of the void "messing with his powers" is unknown.

* It's unknown if all monster-related chroma works the same, but the gaster families chroma works similarly