>>719801345
The SOUL doesn't do anything of its own volition, as far as we can tell. It's part of our interface to interact with the world of Deltarune and does things like glow or turn yellow when the story requires it to do so.
That's just a roundabout way of more or less agreeing that Deltarune is a video game and video games are inherently a constructed experience that always force the player to do things and can never allow for total freedom, but it's important to recognize that this is itself part of the game and its framing device established in the intro.

>>719053665
>chapter 5 will release 2026
Exactly, so why are you imagining something to get mad at?

Being a friend doesn't make you them YOURS!

>>714326360
There are no good or bad tools, all that matters is how you use them.

>>714286895
me and the boys about to give kris the Everyman Experience

>>529319729
Kris doesn't have an ON/OFF switch, the level of control we're exerting on them varies. Kris ordinarily has a significant degree of agency to act on their own will, they're compelled to obey our commands but they can express themself in doing so and even undermine what we're trying to have them do. They're not a robot that needs to be told to sit down, they can act and speak on their own without our commands. But our control still inhibits them - Noelle states that Kris's voice sounds like they're "on speaker" even in the normal route, and Kris isn't able to play the piano as well as they could on their own, even if we hit all the right notes.
In Chapter 4, we are required to relax our control over Kris enough to let them play the piano freely in order to progress. And conversely in the Weird Route, it's shown that we are capable of asserting total control over Kris, forcing them to be our mouthpiece and do things that they absolutely DO NOT want to do.
It's a simple question of Determination, and WE will always win that battle.

>>713049515
>>713049610
>people think Endogeny Friend is a hand
I know it's been 10 years but holy shit are there actually Deltarune fans who haven't played Undertale?