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This article contains spoilers for Undertale and Deltarune, if you didn't play them and don't want your experience to be ruined, please leave now. Both games are known by their moral-based mechanics, and how we can win battles without violence. But that might not be what Frisk and Kris Dreemurr, their respective protagonists, wanted to do. These two have many similarities, such as their brown hair and yellow skin, quiet attitude and being seemingly non-binary, probaly because Deltarune is a parallel version of Undertale (and an anagram of its name too). Sure, there are many games that make us play with a set character, and there are still people who like them, though Undertale and Deltarune make the player think the character they're about to control is what they want it to be, and then making them play with another one because "it's their story and not yours." But where's the fun if that's the case? Undertale and Deltarune have a fake character creation tool when starting the game, but they don't ruin your expectations in the same way. The created character in Undertale still appears as Frisk, but the name chosen by the player is still in the game's HUD, being revealed to be Chara's name in the Genocide route. At the end of the Pacifist route, Frisk tells their true name to Asriel, and their friends wake up already knowing it. While in Deltarune, right after you finish creating "yourself", the game specifically tells you you're not choosing who you are in that world. Over the course of the game, some of the decisions Kris makes are evidently against their will. At the end of Chapter 1 and 2, Kris is seen ripping out their SOUL (why do they have to spell it in uppercase?) and showing a much different personality, revealing that the player probably only controls their SOUL, and their control is part of the story. But if this means Kris know they're controlled by the player, why do they have to be controlled? Why can't they, at least in-universe, live their adventures as they want? And why can't Frisk do the same? Since Deltarune is still a work in progress, Kris' motives will probably be explained in the last few chapters. I'm not really a fan of these games (because, for example, Susie swears a lot), but I'm curious, even about what I don't like that much. Comment down below if you have any cool theories related to this or something.