I just think Killer and Color are interesting foil-ish characters of each other and that’s a part of why I like their dynamic so much.
(Maybe I misunderstood/misremembered something but from what I currently know)
Both of their ‘arcs’ begin with a choice in response to repeated Kill Everything routes. In Color’s case he resorts to taking and absorbing the 6 souls in the jars and it works, kinda. || Killer can’t find a way out, and it continues until he’s so desensitized he can’t feel anything in response. His Chara then starts giving him the choice to kill alongside them, and between the type of coercion and how long it goes on for, it almost isn’t one. So it also works, kinda.
Color absorbs the 6 souls, ends up with all the known soul traits except Determination, but also trapt in his void unable to directly interact with the underground he protected. || When Killer’s soul mutates he ends up with enough Determination that he can steal control of his timeline from Chara, and does. The cycle of resets and death keep going, it’s just changed hands.
Color is forgotten by his underground, including his brother. He’s like his Gaster, from what people know he doesn’t exist. || Killer’s creator once posted something about how Killer leaving makes his timeline into a normal UT timeline except the sans is gone. Everyone remembers him, his brother keeps looking, he’s just gone.
While Color was in his void, he had not that much to do but talk to his Gaster and watch everyone else go on without him. At least until things start going wrong again. || Killer ended up developing psychosis during his stay in his timeline so he’s dealing with hallucinations of the people he knew even after he left. (Basically Color was stuck outside of what/who he knew, Killer left them behind and they followed. Weird comparison, but it makes sense to me.)
From what I can tell Color has taken initiative and control of his own life outside of his timeline. I vaguely remember something about him working together with Epic and Delta (may have stopped or I just misremembered), not saying everything is great for him now but his choices seem to mostly be his own. || For someone who has so much Determination, Killer isn’t great at being in control of his own life. In his AT he’s living up to what Chara wanted from him. He’s killing and repeat. Goes to work for Nightmare? He’s a tool to help spread negativity, and if he starts to go soft his boss can manipulate his soul to keep him line. And why would he want to stop? Isn’t this what the player wants?
^^^ Theory/wild guessing about why: Maybe it’s Killer has more drive, but lets other people decide where he’s going. Old habits and such right? Color may not have much DT, but he has stuff like Perseverance and Courage to back him up, and he actually knows where he wants to go. Believes he’s the right person to make that choice. Or that he’s supposed to be pushing back on some level, he’s canceling out some of his DT on himself?? It’s at least partially the version of him that’s been in control just wants more interesting chances at doing a violence tho. IDK
((Minor and not really related to being foils BUT: Killer’s apparently really interested in ‘studying’ souls, whatever that means. Something to do with stage 4??? He seems mostly interested in human ones, and Color has absorbed several of them. Worried theory that when Killer says he wants Color to kill him if he sees him at stage 3, it has something to do with that.))
Long list and mostly for me, but foils are interesting in general and I like this as a set of. Might add more to this later on.
germansingergirl
titsay
gummygunk
janainaart
dailybridgerton
origamiaround
jacobvanloon
theartofmadeline
snowghoul