Most Souls enemies are just chilling until you fuck with them or get to close. There are bosses where you have to attack first because they are peaceful, senile, or busy weeping. You can even find a way around them if you explore.
Just add a new, peaceful way to interact ala Bioshock.
stumbles over themselves in increasing frustration and is incapacitated slapstick style
dudes just fallin off ledges and whackin themselves in the groin
It’s a Pokemon RPG Undertale type game rather than Soulslike, but Athenian Rhapsody has a win condition that is a pacifist run where you can befriend the “bosses” by basically refusing to fight them. It’s an acid trip of a game and the writing is great.
You get a little “dude, are you going to take this seriously!?!?” Cut scene at the midway point and a “whatever dude, I don’t have time for this bullshit!” If you get to the end.
Alternatively, you should eventually seriously twist something rolling around that much and start limping around, making the boss laugh at you so hard you can just finish him through your own tears of embarrassment
