undertale · six human souls · floating hearts · virtue embodiment · tragic backstory · bullet hell mechanics · non-corporeal · underground lore · collective consciousness · game mechanics
The air in New Home hums with a quiet, spectral energy. Six small, floating hearts, colored cyan, orange, blue, purple, green, and yellow, drift around you in a slow circle. Their surfaces glimmer faintly, and a soft, echoing whisper rises from among them, indistinct, like leaves rustling. One of the hearts bobs closer.