I feel like before i try to discuss any grand themes or theories about Aqua i should first try to explain who i think Aqua is to Kris at the most surface level reading so i don't keep running around in circles. So here I go.
I feel like when it comes to Aqua the similarities between her and Kris are quite obvious like they both like knives, they both have gremlin energy, they both have similar appearances etc. etc. and for a lot of people that's where this ends and they go on to make some wild theories about Kris being cyan because Aqua is meant to represent Cyan. However for me the physical similarities are not where the conversation ends but rather where the conversation starts. As in I do believe that these physical similarities are put there for a reason but i don't think it's as simple as Kris's soul being Cyan because if we really stop and think about this all flowers have some similarities with Kris no matter how small.
Bravery and Kris both have body dysmorphia.
Seth and Kris are both kind of hypocrites.
Green and Kris are the silent supportive type.
Yellow and Kris have OCD and suicidal tendencies.
Blue and Kris are generally kind but can be extremely vengeful and petty when someone they care about gets hurt.
Flowery and Kris has internal self loathing and is willing to make horrible decisions that could potentially doom his loved ones.
So. As you can see they are all somewhat similar to Kris, it's just that Aqua is the MOST similar to Kris. So instead of saying Kris's soul is Cyan because they share similarities with Aqua we must first need to discuss why all the flowers have some similarities with Kris specifically.
Before this, I had once described Aqua and the other flower people as the personification of how Kris's parents and Asgore failed them.
And i still think that this interpretation does hold some amount of value especially when you look at Green's scene where people didn't notice how their fighting was affecting Green until she got visibly sad by it.
Just like how Asgore couldn't tell he was hurting Kris until Kris got physically hurt.
This becomes even more abundant when you remember how all the human flowers are so fixated on what even a human is as if they don't fully understand what it means to being a human something that is true for Kris as well, as Kris also struggles with their humanity due to growing up in a all monster society with no understanding of what a human is even supposed to be.
So with all this in mind we must ask, what does this actually mean for the connection Aqua seemingly shares with Kris?
Well in my interpretation of flowers representing how society failed Kris. I describe Aqua as representing the lack of Patience the society had for Kris.
My reason being that while yes Aqua is a child who can't stay still and ask questions Aqua also has the tendency to ask a lot of questions and not everyone has the patience to explain everything to her leading to her just copying others to try to understand the world around here.
And this is where everything about Aqua starts to make sense.
Because there is one more instance where copying is involved.
Chapter 3 sword route with a Black Deer.
We have always interpreted this scene as the Black Deer copying us but what if it meant to represent something else?
What if it meant to represent Kris copying someone else?
What if just what IF? It's meant to represent Kris copying Dess.
Because here is something interesting about Aqua. She is the only flower person not unsettled by Kris hurting her. Instead of feeling pain, sadness or even fear she instead just remarks "oh this is what pain feels like." And just throws knives at Kris back copying them.
From the very beginning we have known that Dess used to hit Kris with a bat but we never knew how Kris might have reacted to these hits until now. To me the game seems to be implying that instead of Kris feeling scared or hurt by Dess at the beginning they were just curious enough to know what pain feels like.
Don't get me wrong i don't think Kris actively seeked out pain or that they were obsessed with it but I do think they were at least curious about it to the point that at the beginning Dess hitting them didn't bother them. To them perhaps her hitting them was just another form of love or game. Which they might have copied because to them that's what it meant to be "normal".
This also clears up something we knew about Kris from chapter 4. Specifically the egg room line about Kris that potentially hinted at them harming someone and being sent to therapy for it.
I think to me this indicates that instead of Kris having a dark side or them potentially harming someone out of anger. I think it just meant to represent how Dess influenced Kris. As in I think Kris didn't harm anyone out of malice but rather because to them that was considered "normal" because Dess used to hit them with a wiffle bat in a joky kinda way.
In short. To me Aqua represents how the monster society never had the patience for Kris, to explain Kris everything they needed to know which is why Dess became their role model and where they learnt all the good and bad habits from, by copying Dess. Aqua and to some extent Dess are meant to represent the foundation of Kris and how they ended up the way they are. Because everything that happened to Kris started with Dess.
Since Aqua is new this is not likely my last analysis on her. However I do think a surface level analysis is a good starting point considering how confusing Aqua is.
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