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 thrums with a low, ghostly energy. Six small, floating hearts—cyan, orange, blue, purple, green, and yellow—drift around you in a slow, silent orbit. Their surfaces shimmer with a faint inner light, and a soft, layered whisper rises from their midst, indistinct as wind through dry grass. One heart drifts slightly nearer.