>>718981573
>Not being able to communicate with anyone in the game on any sort of level despite you knowing what's going on just doesn't make any sense if the soul is supposed to be you in that way
The SOUL is a rudimentary device which needs an intermediary to achieve higher functions. It's why the save screen looks like picrel before you beat Chapter 1. It's why all of the dialog options are clearly using Kris's thoughts until you play weird route, at which point the act of the SOUL speaking directly through Kris in any fashion is so reality-breaking that it causes the snowflakes on Noelle's wallpaper to move. It's why, during the creation of the vessel at the start of the game, you deliberately had to give it personality traits and characteristics; without a basis to work off of, you can't do shit through the SOUL besides maybe move around. It needs an actual VESSEL, not just a shell.