I genuinely cannot explain what I felt here. If anything, this feels like we’ve drained Kris of everything they had. They don’t even have the will to talk anymore. It’s just us. This is awful.

Well actually a popular theory regarding this is that the game(world) interpreted susie's question as being directed to noelle, hence the change in pov + susie talk sprite as it is How noelle see the world,,,, but since she wasn't there, no answers, same for how kris said -

"What were you to talking about?" >shows us The SOUL, moving unsettlingly, accompanied by an inexplicable shift in the weather/atmosphere Surprisingly apt, though. As for "Kris lacked the will to answer," I think it's the opposite. Locking in to REFUSE giving a dialogue option.

thats also my reading of that scene & i'm a bit saddened that most others seem to only think of that scene as meta game stuff as in the game is breaking down & not so much that it's also related to Kris's wellbeing

Saw a theory someone said that the reason why everything changed all of a sudden was because the soul wanted Noelle to answer and tried to kinda forced her to answer but due to the distance wasn’t able to hence the sudden change in atmosphere and no “visible” options

Enby who thought they'd lost all hope loses last additional bit of hope they didn't even know they had

I always read this scene as kris almost trying to shut their brain off for a second, just not think about anything at all and refuse to let you tell susie about what happened

I interpret this scene as us (Kris, the soul, or both) thinking Susie was getting suspicious (even projecting that onto our perception of her face) and freezing up from an innocent nonchalant question. I forget what this trope is called but my mind goes to The Telltale Heart

I GOT SHIT SCARED SEEING THIS SCENE LIKE we got disconnected from the game, i love it, god the weird route hits you with some weird shit, toby fox really is cooking something really, really interesting

For some reason i always interpreted it as Kris being so enraged internally that they were forcefully not allowing us to choose anything at all in that part

Game’s haunted

someone mentioned that the answer IS the SOUL itself, but since the SOUL is the selector, and you can't select the selector, there's nothing to pick

fr fr, ddlc level of horror

Congratulations, my friend! You're finally starting to be *you*! No, Kris! Not that silly edgy boy! *You*—you're starting to be yourself... So... Tell me... what does it feel like... to start being free?~

Personally, I think it’s the opposite: Kris is starting to put max effort into resisting The Player. Some people have told stories of being mad enough to genuinely see ‘red’, and some people have described having to hold their breath to the point where they see different colors.

Does nobody else think this is the soul keeping Kris from speaking?

heh.. JUSTUS.....

That traitor had it coming

That spooky scene reaction is the chill I felt when I saw it vocalized.