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occasional deltarambles. my main is scribblekitteh43!

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dess had hinamizawa syndrome

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? Why is she hiding

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the shadowguys are so fucking endearing i can't handle it LOOK AT IT AWW AWWWWw. so cute

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bonding time

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in reference to toby being inspired by the song redline day when composing undertale (the song)

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is anyone else really really scared.

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shadowguys are so cute. fork found in kitchen scenario for tumblr blog 25shadowguys but it's true

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kris dreemurr song

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thinkin bout ramb . i really love how he's sort of an anti-secret boss, in a way. he has the sad backstory of being ignored and overlooked by everyone, a big ego, a specific fixation on kris, but he never has the break. he stays as a quiet, somewhat malicious force that's ignored until the end. nobody will shed a tear for him because nobody ever thought to care about him (both in-and out-of universe -- of course there are ramb fans out there, but he will never reach the same amount of popularity as jevil or spamton).

the mike room is the most obvious response to the deltarune fandom, but i think ramb's character must have also been at least somewhat influenced by the fan reception to jevil and especially spamton. it's such a pointed subversion of the tropes that were associated with Secret Bosses that its almost comical the way he talks about freedom and chaos and being a big shot

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dessknight is so fucking cool to me in what it could represent narratively. dess was obviously rebellious, but i think in some way she also wanted to just Escape hometown. it's a nice place where nothing bad ever really happens, but it's in that sort of sickly nostalgic way where you could go back decades in time and it'd still be the exact same place. the status quo is suffocating. dess wanted desperately to leave, and if not, at the very least tear open the darker underbelly of the place. and in searching for that, for the shelter, she became Lost... but not really, right? as the knight she's as tethered to the place as she had always been, perhaps even moreso considering a lot of the town's apparent involvement in The Knight Group Chat Situation. in trying to escape her situation she only got pulled deeper into it, into something darker than dark. the quaint suburbia of this town will not let you go without a fight.

and on a more meta level -- hometown is ALL of the light world. the places outside of it literally do not exist because they are not explorable and therefore have no assets or designs. hometown is literally All There Is. and in trying to escape it, dess just got pulled a layer deeper, into a more "game-y" game. the narrative Needs her even when she tries to leave because the story has to progress and there has to be more dark worlds and it will more willingly contort her into a screaming monster before it will let her go

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ahhhh the weird route hurts me so deeply. noelles shift from being shy and meek to being more confrontational is so stark between routes, especially in ch4. it's such a gross and horrible extension of desires i think kris really had, at some point -- that they wanted to make her become stronger in the face of her overbearing and most likely abusive mom, and that they maybe just wanted her to try and forget about dess.. those desires are somewhat fantastical and a bit misguided of course, but the way they are especially twisted within the weird route is horrible.

(and it's worth noting that i don't think kris wanted to act out even the most innocent versions of those impulses, either. they resent some of noelle and want to "fix her" while at the same time they destroy themselves out of guilt because they genuinely do still love her and miss her friendship But also feel like they're an evil person for being conflicted about it. whereas noelle has largely forced herself to accept "that's how it is now" despite her repeated Yearning Incidents where she lightly attempts to reconnect)

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further thoughts on this -- after dess disappeared, i think kris was the one to intentionally pull away from everyone, ESPECIALLY noelle. they didn't want to hurt her like they hurt their sister, and possibly other people, judging by the art therapy room (whether they developed those violent tendencies before or after dess disappeared, either way i don't think it would help in making them feel like they're Not an evil failure who can only cause harm and destruction).

and so... kris disappeared. they'd still speak to noelle sometimes, but only to make painfully distant small talk before playing the piano, or to ask for a pencil, or any other random distant bit of chatter. and noelle, for the most part, accepted this. i think dess would probably have been similarly scattered and distant with noelle near her final months pre-disappearance, judging by her prepper stuff, so noelle would have been used to it at that point. she didn't like it, but she's a naturally passive person and so i don't think she would've reached out very frequently or confidently (probably out of a fear of upsetting them more, or making things awkward).

and kris hates it! they hate that noelle just accepted it so quickly, that she didn't just Get Stronger and try to stand up to her mom (who most likely started manipulating them re: finding dess around this point) and stay out of dess's disappearance, because that was their burden to carry, that was their sin to bear. and i think a large part of them hates themselves for thinking any of that in the first place because they know it's cruel and selfish but... it's still there!!! and it gets exploited and and twisted in the most evil and forceful and horrible way possible!!!

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ahhhh the weird route hurts me so deeply. noelles shift from being shy and meek to being more confrontational is so stark between routes, especially in ch4. it's such a gross and horrible extension of desires i think kris really had, at some point -- that they wanted to make her become stronger in the face of her overbearing and most likely abusive mom, and that they maybe just wanted her to try and forget about dess.. those desires are somewhat fantastical and a bit misguided of course, but the way they are especially twisted within the weird route is horrible.

(and it's worth noting that i don't think kris wanted to act out even the most innocent versions of those impulses, either. they resent some of noelle and want to "fix her" while at the same time they destroy themselves out of guilt because they genuinely do still love her and miss her friendship But also feel like they're an evil person for being conflicted about it. whereas noelle has largely forced herself to accept "that's how it is now" despite her repeated Yearning Incidents where she lightly attempts to reconnect)

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New Blog because i want to yap about utdr publicly without clogging up my main. we'll see how much i actually use it