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guys

I just realized something about Deltarune

ok ok ok so

we know that Chara’s soul was powering the Core in Undertale, right?

yeah there they are

well. at the end of a Genocide route, Chara wants Frisk’s soul because they can’t access their own – it’s still stuck there in the Core.  but at the end of a PACIFIST ROUTE, Chara stays inside the Core instead of possessing Frisk, where we see their soul in person.

and when the monsters leave the Underground… the Core is shut down.

What happened to the last person who was in the Core when things went screwy?

I think Chara was slorped into the closing of the Core and shotputted into an alternate reality, similarly to Gaster… and that alternate reality is where we are NOW, in DELTARUNE.

When we reach the end of the Dark World, remember that column of light?  Susie says she thinks we’ve stumbled onto something really important… and Kris’s soul feels like it’s glowing.  I think Chara’s soul injected itself into Kris then and there.

this explains why “Kris” tears out their soul and shoves it in a birdcage.  CHARA DOESN’T NEED IT.  CHARA BROUGHT THEIR OWN.

Chara is now piloting Kris around like a friggin Gundam.

but now?  now we have Kris’s soul without a body, trapped in a cage.  And we know Kris is still in control of it, because Kris can move it around even after being stuck in that cage.

Kris’s soul needs a new body if it’s gonna stop Kris’s body from being used by Chara for who knows what nefarious deeds.

Didn’t we… MAKE a body earlier?  One that was apparently discarded, since our choices don’t matter?

Who else has told us that we don’t have a choice in the matter… but Chara, at the end of a Genocide run?

EDIT: ALSO this characterizes the voice at the beginning, during the “survey.”  The track that plays throughout that is a remix of Gaster’s theme, and it’s titled “ANOTHER HIM.”

I’m like 80% sure this is Gaster, and that Gaster will be helping Kris from behind the scenes throughout this story…

ALSO ALSO.  As pointed out by @ectoimp, RALSEI IS SUSPICIOUS AS HECK.  Weren’t you supposed to CLOSE that fountain?  He just led you there with a convenient-sounding story… and what happened once you reached it….?