History Characters / DeltaruneTheThreeHeroes

** Kris is [[AmbiguousGender the androgyne]].

* AmbiguousGender: As with Frisk from the previous game, Kris has an androgynous appearance with a GenderBlenderName, and is only ever referred to with GenderNeutralWriting.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: The player is not strictly Kris, but rather the SOUL inside of him controlling his actions. As shown in TheStinger of each chapter, Kris on his own without the SOUL's influence is an entirely independent character, and whatever agenda he has may or may not match the player's.

** Monster Kid describes them as looking annoyed when they bad mouth Susie, and drinking hot chocolate from the diner, something Kris and Asriel once did regularly, causes their throat to tighten as they're TryingNotToCry thinking about Asriel.

* SneakingSnacks: Apparently does this often. Sans states that Toriel has to keep her chocolate locked up to prevent them from doing it.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The description for her Mane Ax says that it's a ''Beginner's ax forged from the mane of a dragon whelp'', meaning that it's made out of her own hair.

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* LackOfEmpathy: The monster residents of the town noted that Kris [[BystanderSyndrome never demonstrated once]] they ever cared about anyone else. The SOUL taking control of Kris's actions to interact with them alone is enough to shock and surprise the townsfolk.

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The HeroicMime to Ralsei's NiceGuy and Susie's JerkWithAHeartOfGold.

** During a normal playthrough, Ralsei asks Kris if he imagines what Susie is doing, which leads to a Susie and Noelle cutscene. When the cutscene ends, Ralsei is shown saying "So that's why..." to Kris before Susie interrupts. Meanwhile, in Chapter 2's Weird route, when Ralsei asks Kris if he wonders what Susie and Noelle are doing, no cutscene plays. Ralsei asks Kris again if he wonders what the other two are doing. It's almost as if he's intent on having a cutscene play there - eithier because he's aware of the script, or he is trying to hide things from ''the player''.

* SplitPersonality: Kris seems to have another personality who rips their SOUL out of their chest and stocks them before committing crimes. In this state, they have [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]], move [[ZombieGait like a zombie]], eat pie, slash tyres and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick open dark fountains in the living room]]. It's ambiguous if they're possessed, going crazy or trying to free themself from the player's control.

** TheStinger of Chapter 1 had Kris throw The SOUL in a cage and pull out a knife, implying some malevolent intentions. However, Chapter 2 picked up right after that scene and revealed Kris only used the knife to eat a butterscotch pie in what was implied (according to Toriel's reaction) to be an overdramatic manner. Which would trick the player into thinking the SOUL-free Kris' actions are bizarre but harmless. Only for another switch to occur at the end of Chapter 2 that had the SOUL-free Kris slash the tires of Toriel's car and later stab the living room floor to summon what appears to be a Fountain of Darkness.

** While his intentions seem good, it's never fully clear just how much Ralsei knows about the world or where his allegiances lie, and he seems especially interested in making sure Kris never dwells too much on the more disturbing parts of the Dark World. Chapter 2's Weird route also confirms that he's aware that the player is influencing Kris through their SOUL, and deliberately sends us away so that he and Kris can collude on something that's still unknown.
** Also in Chapter 2's Weird route, we don't get to see Susie and Noelle's conversation save that Susie comes out very flustered. A concerned Ralsei suggests the ''normal'' outcome was what went down and he's not thrilled when Susie refuses to elaborate... which implies Ralsei knows how the "Script" is supposed to go and is very concerned that Noelle's corruption has thrown it off.

** It's implied that she holds respect for Toriel, as Susie mentions that Kris "[has] a good mother", and that "it would be a shame to make her bury her child". Chapter 2 follows up on this by having Susie show genuine respect when directly talking to Toriel while baking a pie with her.

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Her real motivation, and what ends up triggering her final HeelFaceTurn, is that she just wants people to like her. But she's such a JerkWithAHeartOfGold that she has no idea how to go about that. It's shown how she reacts ''very'' badly to Lancer's apparent betrayal.

* ExtremeDoormat: Zigzagged a bit. His reaction to Susie's bullying is to assume that he's the one who's done something wrong by not showing her enough friendship and tells Kris to buy the pastry from her and Lancer's stand just to keep them quiet. He reacts similarly if the player tosses the manual he wrote or derails his tutorial. However, he doesn't hesitate to show his impatience for Lancer's antics and insists that Susie stop insulting on him when she offers to try his baking.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Even though they're somewhat implied to be an [[EmptyShell Empty Shell]], and according to dialogue they're also implied to be quite meanspirited, such as purposefully scaring Noelle on two separate occasions; in the Genocide Route of Chapter 2, Ralsei and Susie will note that they look visibly distressed right after you goad Noelle into killing Berdly. This heavily implies that it was the ''player'' that did so, not Kris themselves.

** While his intentions seem good, it's never fully clear just how much Ralsei knows about the world or where his allegiances lie, and he seems especially interested in making sure Kris never dwells too much on the more disturbing parts of the Dark World. Chapter 2's Genocide route also confirms that he's aware that the player is influencing Kris through their SOUL, and deliberately sends us away so that he and Kris can collude on something that's still unknown.
** Also in Chapter 2's Genocide route, we don't get to see Susie and Noelle's conversation save that Susie comes out very flustered. A concerned Ralsei suggests the ''normal'' outcome was what went down and he's not thrilled when Susie refuses to elaborate... which implies Ralsei knows how the "Script" is supposed to go and is very concerned that Noelle's corruption has thrown it off.

* GoodIsNotDumb: When Kris after a Pacifist run with Noelle meets back up with him and Susie, he's [[CuteLittleFangs overjoyed to see]] the human teen again. Pursue a Genocide path however and while happy he's wary of them.

** Their encounters with Spamton stand out for being the first time Kris seems outright terrified by a boss; they repeatedly back away from him during their first meeting, the "Exit" prompts in his shop menu are replaced with "ESCAPE" and '''"RUN AWAY"''', and on the way back from the fight with Spamton NEO, Susie notices they're covered in goosebumps.

* NotSoStoic:

* CharacterDevelopment: While on the overworld, Kris's body language and dialogue from [=NPCs=] hint at their lack of emotional investment towards others, and being really quiet. While in the dark world, Kris changes into a heroic KnightInShiningArmor. This is best shown by them diving in front of Susie during the fight against the King of their own volition, despite previously being mocked by Susie that they don't do or say anything. Possibly subverted, or... [[PlayingWithATrope something]], in the final scene, where Kris rips out their SOUL ([[AmbiguousSituation or the SOUL that the player has been using to control them, at least]]), ''summons a knife from thin air'', and gives the player [[RedEyesTakeWarning a very nasty glare with their eyes glowing red]].

* MasculineFeminineAndrogyneTrio: The androgyne to Susie's [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy masculine girl]] and Ralsei's [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy feminine boy]].

* MasculineFeminineAndrogyneTrio: Masculine girl to Ralsei's feminine boy and Kris' androgyne.

* MasculineFeminineAndrogyneTrio: Feminine boy to Susie's masculine girl and Kris' androgyne.

** Frisk seemed to happily go along with whatever the SOUL made them do even if it damned them - or at least, we never get to see evidence to suggest otherwise. Kris however actively knows the SOUL is controlling them and appears to utterly resent the lack of agency, and takes chances to rebel against the player during chapter endings. And at times the party vocalizing Kris' expressions (especially after witnessing Spamton NEO's fate and during the Weird route when the player forces Kris to abuse Noelle) implies they view their situation as an AndIMustScream.

* CastingAShadow: Uses the dark energy abilities Rude and Red Buster and has the character class "Dark Knight" in the Dark World.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Kris is adorned with a suit of armor when inside the Dark World, and wields a [[HeroesPreferSwords sword.]] The ending of Chapter 2 heavily implies that the unpossessed and antagonistic Kris without the SOUL inside is actually [[GreaterScopeVillain the Knight]].

* AmbiguousSituation: The similarities between Kris, Frisk, and Chara are [[CompositeCharacter blatantly obvious]], but how exactly Kris relates to the two of them, if at all, is not clear.