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• Please Be Kind, Rewind by ConfusedUnit

  Fandoms: Undertale (Video Game)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  06 Nov 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • red soul - Character
  • Sans (Undertale)
  • Chara (Undertale)
  • Frisk (Undertale)
  • Toriel (Undertale)
  • Papyrus (Undertale)
  • The Red Soul is Not The Player
  • The Red Soul is Not An OC
  • Alternate Timelines
  • Timeline Shenanigans
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • (The Red Soul was not doing well in their original timeline)
  • (will heal tho)
  • They/Them Pronouns for Chara and Frisk (Undertale)
  • It/Its Pronouns for The Soul (Undertale)
  • They/Them Pronouns for The Soul (Undertale)
  • It’s Complicated
  • It/its in a ‘thinking you’re nothing more than a tool you’re not a person’ way
  • it’s gonna be a rough time before it gets better
  • Chara and Frisk are aware of the Player
  • (why is that not a used tag Nani tf)
  • Chara and Frisk both have access to Save Points and Resets
  • Implied/Referenced Character Death
  • it’s alternate timeline versions of our main cast
  • i don’t do major character death unless it is reversed

  Summary

  Between every Player and every instance of Undertale, standard or AU, is a SOUL. What if that SOUL wasn’t the Player’s? Wasn’t Chara’s, wasn’t Frisk’s? What if it had been plucked from a dying timeline, thought to be inert, and used as our connection?

  Featuring a living Chara that’s suspicious of the SOUL they recognize, a living Frisk that’s always willing to give a second chance, a disturbed Sans who remembers memories of a him that in this timeline never was, and a Papyrus who knows more than he lets on.

  And a SOUL that vaguely remembers the timeline before it was snatched away. But not what came Before That.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,635

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

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