if you're trying to say that the soul is merely a metaphor for something and not a physical thing then i'm sorry to say you're wrong. it may be partially a metaphor but it is a real object in the world of deltarune.
also your argument that it's "whatever toby fox wants it to be" is weak because you don't know what toby fox wants. both of us could be completely wrong and the soul could be some secret third option and we wouldn't know because we aren't toby fox. you said "the big thing he wants it to be is" as if this theory is objectively true and everyone else is wrong.
you also. really didn't answer my questions. you answered genuine questions with "erm this is fictional it's whatever" and, yeah, this is fictional, but there's still logic within this fictional world, albeit toby's logic, which, again, we don't know what that is.
the soul being ripped out is a physical thing that takes away our control over kris, not just a metaphor for repression or whatever you meant. it could be part of a metaphor but there's more to it than that because even if you do believe it's a metaphor for repression it does take away our control and it is more than just that with how it's treated. kris throwing us into the closet to hide the code from us isn't just a metaphor, it's a literal thing, they're genuinely trying to keep us away from it. kris locking us in the cage isn't just a metaphor, they're trying to keep us away from the truth. them beating us up in the weird route isn't just a metaphor, it's because they hate what we're doing to them and noelle.
i like the idea of it being a metaphor but it's more than just that.
(also im pretty sure i saw a post from you saying chapter 5 made it obvious this theory is correct, and i'm curious as to how, i haven't seen any evidence towards it)
I'm gonna address that last bit, mainly:
You really could not get more clear about it than having a character who is one part of a system shout that "my body should DO WHAT I SAY because it's MINE", then have the character that Knows Everything say "well the body is its own person too, with her own likes and dislikes" and by the way half of that system has a red, heart-shaped text box in case we were wondering who this is a parallel to... and not only is the text box red and heart-shaped, the body's dialogue is described as coming out of a speaker - and hey, doesn't that sound...
And Kris, even though they kept looking at me…
Like they wanted to say something…
Everything that came out of their mouth, sounded… odd.
Like it was like on speaker or something.
...familiar? Toby could not be laying it on thicker here.
you said "the big thing he wants it to be is" as if this theory is objectively true and everyone else is wrong.
I was paraphrasing the literal tutorial to the game, which describes the qualities of the SOUL. And sure, not everything told to us has to be true, but it's kind of silly to go "The SOUL is EVIL!!" with not only being told this at the beginning of the first chapter, but also with, again, the Pink fight being extremely clear about the fact that neither the Kris we control nor the Kris(es) we don't control are 'in the wrong' so much as they're having an internal conflict that can and should be settled with communication and love. "Their love will become yours" and all that.
And it's a little silly, if it was really some possession bullshit, for the heavily implied solution to the Kris/Soul conflict for them to be to talk and hug it out and learn to get along, right? So clearly it's... not that.
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