Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38742181-20190308020842/@comment-35796587-20190312015736

I always decided to presume that the red soul represented "Love," and I'll explain. In the Undertale universe, there are two different versions of "Love." There is love, which represents the True Pacifist Route and is the good side of "Love", and then there is LOVE, which represents the Genocide Route and is the bad side of "Love." I think that the red soul represents "Love" because in the game Frisk has the choice of going through the world with love, LOVE, or both. In the Undertale world, Love can either be good or bad, love or LOVE, and that's exactly what Frisk can be, good or bad. Also, the color red backs this. The color of red can represent positivity, like a married couple, but it can also represent negativity, like blood. Also, something that's semi-not related, the word Love itself has both good and evil in it. There's love, and then, if you flip it, there's evol (evil).

Kind of a random theory I created but when I kept thinking about it I realized it actually could make some sense.

Also, there's a few points wrong with what you said. Firstly, the yellow soul of Justice also has the ability to freely move around the bullet board. Secondly, you forgot to think about the fact that in the Genocide Route, while the player can certainly think about acting how they wish and commiting genocide, they aren't really free to just go around to kill everything, as multipile characters, especially Sans, will attempt to stop them... If the soul power truly is freedom, and the protagonist can think and act as they wish, it doesn't make sense to me they could be so easily manipulated and controlled by not only the enemies and the semi-forced path they have to follow through the game (not being able to go around objectives, skip through the story, etc), but the player behind the screen themselves. Lastly, the red soul cannot change its own heart mode at will, it has to be manipulated by the enemy and forced to change.

It's a posible theory, but in my own opinion the red human soul, and what seems to be the most powerful soul, if it was freedom, then the control over it by everything that's happening --the enemies changing Frisk's heart mode,h aving to take turns attacking, having to go through specific things to get to the end when they could simply just not-- including the player would likely be non-existant.

Hope I made sense.