Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27089028-20181103002825/@comment-27089028-20181115150357

Regardless of it being essentially a different AU I don't see the nature of the Soul changing. Whatever entity possesses Kris at the end of Chapter 1 is effectively Souless akin to Flowey and Chara (who states at the end of a Genocide Run the Soul and Determination did not belong to them). I'm still puzzled over the SAVE file name change and the exact nature of the player's agency but I am certain of at least this: That thing smiling at us devilishly at the end is not Kris.

There's an interesting theory concerning when the Soul was exposed to the Fountain of Darkness near the end of the game but it's still unclear without further chapters to go into more detail.