Akumu

Akumu was an extension of the spell construct Bête Noire, made to accompany and aid her to achieve extinction of monsters and subjugation of humans. It had provided enough support for Bête throughout her bloody conquest, protecting her and eventually consuming HATE, which both enhanced and corrupted the two of them. Tired of having a separate half of herself, Bête assassinated Akumu and absorbed its essence, gaining her full form.

Appearance

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Biography

My Sunshine

After Frisk took Jessica Grey and Bete to Toriel's school, when Bete was meeting Toriel, her soul reacted to Toriel's approach. As a result, Akumu popped out of Bete, likely about to act in defense. The creature soon shape-shifted into a tiny flower on her head after it had been calmed. Akumu stays on Bete's head as a tiny pink flower for the rest of the episode.^[1]

Dust

When Frisk comes over to Gaster's house, Akumu can be seen flying around, playfully carrying a book.

Near the end of the episode, Asriel and Sans find out about Bête Noire's true intentions. Before leaving, Bete soon appears. She gave up on attempting to hide the monster inside her and removes Sans's soul from his body and feeds Akumu with it.

Asriel soon escapes and Bete asks Jessica for the HATE vial that she has. After refusing to give it to her, Akumu grabs Jessica and slams her against the wall. The screen soon cuts to black.

Do or Die

Minutes into the animation, Akumu is seen with Bete at the Core. The creature soon shows Bete Sans'

soul and how it was draining its magic, which causes Bête Noire to realize that she has enough magic to "start her plan" (which is the soul harvest).

Before fighting Gaster, Bete is seen ordering Akumu to attack Alphys before one of her pink blobs attacked her. Later, Akumu fights alongside Bête Noire against Gaster.

During the fight, Bete stabs Gaster in the back, causing him to pass out. But thankfully, Jessica and Alphys come in just in time to rescue him. Alphys gives Jessica a dark blue artifact, which allows her to teleport back home. Alphys puts up a green shield around herself and activates the nullifier. The nullifier then attacked Bete and Akumu.

Alphys' shield soon gets deactivated. Bete then attacks her. It turns out that it didn't affect either of them because it only works on monsters and humans, but she and Akumu are neither of the two. Undyne soon enters the room. Bete then tricks her into killing Alphys and attempts to kill her too. But before she can, Undyne turns into her into Undyne The Undying form. The episode ends at this point.

Love Part 1

Near the beginning of the episode, Akumu and Bete fight Undyne the Undying, who easily overwhelms the two with her Determination. Undyne then uses her special attack, "The Spear of Justice". The attack was enough to disintegrate half of Bête Noire's body and destroy the roof of the entire nullifier room. Akumu then eats the Hate vial they took from Jessica in Dust, allowing for Bete to recover half of their body using Hate, but even then, this was still not enough to defeat Undyne.

This was especially since Bete was seen to be losing control due to the hate, and even coughed some of it, which caused both of them to flee from the battle.

Later, Bete and Akumu are seen hiding out in an abandoned shed. Bete confronted Akumu as she told the creature that she hardly felt like herself now due to the HATE, and goes through some long dialogue before summoning the Kumulings.

Akumu proceeds to consume the creatures along with the souls they managed to gather.

Neither Bete nor Akumu was seen throughout the rest of the episode, not counting when Frisk mentioned them when they were talking to Asriel.

Love Part 2

When the episode began, Akumu was seen with Bete in an image inside Frisk's mind.

Later, the duo encountered Frisk and they began to fight, but before the duo could finish them, Asriel decided to interfere. However, Akumu managed to take his soul while he was fighting her, and upon seeing Asriel's "death", Frisk's LV became 19 and turned the tides of the battle as a result, creating a fair battle.

Getting an idea, Bete used Kumu to grab Sans' soul and fill it with HATE. Sans, under HATE's control, began to fight Frisk. After Papyrus jumped in the fight and managed to remove the HATE from Sans, Bete and Akumu were forced to retreat.

My Promise

Akumu was seen at the beginning of the episode, with Bete, who was furious that they were running away, even though they were supposed to be feared. Bete orders Akumu to show them the souls that were infected by HATE. Akumu then shows Bete the souls they had consumed by making itself bigger and making a force field around Bete. Bete then starts cracking the souls due to the fact that HATE has infected most of them and she needed to ensure she had the hate at bay. Bete then decides to keep Asriel's soul and absorb the magic of Cam's soul then tells Akumu to destroy the remaining souls.

Bete tells Akumu that she is tired of being split in two so she throws her spear at Akumu in order to fuse with them. The spear hits Akumu, then Bete and then slowly both Bete and Akumu start fusing transforming into their true form.

Personality

Much like Bete, throughout My Sunshine and a portion of Dust, Akumu didn't seem to be evil. It acted somewhat friendly and playful, which was shown when it ran off with one of Gaster's books. However, according to Bete, it was a tad overprotective. But this all changed after the creature revealed the evil inside itself.

Akumu appears to be sadistic and doesn't care if it severely hurts others. According to a post, the creature wields a hunger for souls and treasures Bete as their best and only friend.

Not much else is know about Akumu’s personality, apart from the fact that Bete Noire is controlling this creature. This was revealed in the description of a speedpaint video.^[2]

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

• Bête Noire Physiology: From being an extension of Bête, Akumu is nigh-immortal and made of pure magic, while needing said magic to survive and become stronger.
  • Life Link: Akumu and Bête have the same soul, so if one dies, the other will.

• HATE Empowerment: Also, like Bête, Akumu can have HATE induced into it and is stronger than before; though, unknowingly, HATE cannot control Akumu, despite them and Bête sharing the same soul.

Powers

• Shapeshifting: Akumu can change shape into a wide variety of weapons/objects, manipulate its size/length, and is able to change its form entirely.

• Flight: Akumu has shown the power of flight very frequently throughout the series.
• Telepathy: Akumu is able to know what Bête is thinking and vice versa, due to the two being halves of each other.
• Cloning/Summoning: In Do or Die, Akumu summoned several Kumulings for the soul harvest.
• Soul Storage: Both the Kumulings and Akumu have a "pocket" that contains the souls they have collected, and only they can show them. It was also able to destroy multiple souls at once and corrupt others with HATE that were contained inside of it in the beginning of My Promise.
• Bête Noire Harpoon: In Love: Part 2, it was revealed that Akumu can shoot a tentacle from its mouth to collect souls, as shown with Asriel.

Relationships

Allies

• Agate Lightvale † - Creator, "Original" Body by proxy/through Bête Noire (implied)
• Bête Noire † - Other Half, Friend and Killer
• Kumulings † - Co–Creations and Subordinates

Enemies

• Toriel
• Frisk † - Attempted Victim and Attempted Killer
• Human Safety Organization
  • Anti-Monsters Department
    • Jessica Grey † - Temporary Ally
• Cam †
• Sans † - Victim
• Asriel Dreemurr - Victim
• W. D. Gaster - Attempted Victim and Attempted Killer
• HATE - Power Source
• Alphys † - Attempted Killer
• Undyne - Attempted Killer and Attempted Victim
• Chara - Attempted Killer and Attempted Victim

Appearances

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Trivia

• Akumu is written 悪夢 in terms of Kanji which means nightmare in Japanese.
  • In addition, "Akuma" (悪魔) translated to English means Evil/Devil/Demon.
• Before his revival, Camila revealed that Sans' soul was still alive inside Kumu.^[3]
• If Akumu dies, Bete will slowly die in a short time and vice versa. They don't die immediately, it should take a while because they share the same soul.^{[citation needed]}
• Akumu doesn't have a gender, just like Bete.^[4]However, unlike Bete, the creature is typically referred to as an asexual being but is referred to as a "he" by Camila.
• It is possible to remove a soul from Akumu.^[5]
• In one Tumblr post, Camila released a canon conversation between Bete and Akumu that was never alluded to in the series. ^[6]
• HATE is unable to control Kumu because of an unknown reason.^[7]
• Kumu and Bete were completely overwhelmed by Undyne's enormous strength and couldn't take her down.^[8]
• Kumu and Bete were looking for a "very special" soul in the core.^[9][10]
• Killing half of humans and monsters is enough to stop Kumu and Bete.^[11]
• In Undyne's battle with Bete, Akumu shielded Bete from Undyne. Before the episode came out, Akumu as a shield was seen as impenetrable, however, Undyne easily cut through Akumu with her spear; proving Undyne's great strength.
• At the end of My Sunshine, the sleeping "Bete" at Gaster's house is actually Akumu disguised as her ^[12]

Behind the Scenes

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