The Dark Side of Undertale's SOULs

"Remember Frisk you are the ball game" -Sans Undertale

Kindness: death is a preferrable alternative to this imprisonment, is it not? Integrity: I am racist

If red soul can mean whatever the player's like, then I am "Ball Game"

8:11 quote from undyne: “killing you now is an act of mercy!”

Another way kindness could be seen as evil would be killing everybody so they don’t have to suffer underground anymore. That would be considered a “kindness” to the monsters

Shayy:" Perserverence can show the most evil in people despite being imprisoned, impaled, they do not stop for anything because of their own disgusting trait to perservere despite knowing how horrid their acts are. Plankton-"

8:20 Flowey arguably shows us an even darker side of kindness. (Fitting given he uses a lot of green...) You can use Kindness to lull someone into a false sense of security, or to trick them into feeling they are in your debt. A lot of players who end up falling for Flowey's 'tutorial npc' shtick, early in the game, do so because he's acting kind. This can also cause them to distrust Toriel, since she also treats Frisk with sudden, unexpected, unexplained kindness. "Love Bombing" is one of the most unsettling tactics a manipulator can use, because it's easy to brace yourself against an attack, but it's very hard to brace to defend yourself against kindness.

It is weirdly reassuring to me that even a skilled speedrunner, struggles to get the red flag.

I personally see the Red Soul being the trait "Love", and that still fits this. The bright use is Frisk being loving to Monsterkind, and giving them mercy. However, the dark side of Love is loving Undertale's characters as toys . It's playing the game over and over again, killing, spareing, trapping the underground in an endless loop, just because you "love" the monsters.

“There was once a very famous painter in Germany” -Enby frog talking about a 2015 indie role playing game made by Toby Fox

I don't know why people think the red SOUL is Determination when it's clearly shown to be Ball Game.

The fact that the blue soul uses a toy knife proves it represents patience because it would require a lot of patience to kill someone with a toy knife

For kindness, I also saw online that the genocide route would be them thinking the monsters being dead is the best for monsters, thus showing “kindness” Also, after a while, the FIGHT button instead is replaced with the MERCY button. But that’s just what I saw, and I thought it was cool! Edit: 700 likes?!? Not to be annoying or anything, but this is my most liked comment! Thanks!

0:00 is the beginning of the video for those who were wondering

7:03 makes me think that a patience soul genocide route would involve stirring up conflict between monsters so they fight and then killing them when they're weak

Each of these virtues could be corrupted into a vice: Patience - Lazyness Bravery - Recklessness Inegrity - Dogmatism and rigidity Perseverance - Complacency Kindness - Naivety Justice - Revenge Determination - Stubbornness

AHHHHH also i like seeing kindness as kind of the same thing here, doing the monsters a favour by actually putting them out of their misery and pain from being trapped underground and from a bad situation with no real escape and actually watching the video makes me think that bravery would kill all the monsters quite funnily for the opposite reason the monsters were trapped in the first place, humans were so scared of monsters taking a human soul, and its funny to think how instead a brave person would go and show that they arent scared by what everyone else thought and so bravely fought these monsters to end humans fear permanently

For kindness, another example would be acting kind in order to manipulate someone

9:36 Actually, if you want to compare the routes to the SOULs, you could argue the Undertale Genocide route is the best example for a darker side of Perserverance. It's continuing on the same path, slaughtering all the monsters, even though there is no visible benefit, just continuing for the SAKE of continuing. Perserverance. I know something along these lines is mentioned at the Determination segment, but the point stands.

8:07 I think Undyne says that "Killing you now is my act of MERCY!" when you try to spare her. So yeah, that checks out.