Ranttu, they/them, adult. I should hire someone to perch beside my desk holding a giant chisel to clock me with whenever I start drafting a post that's too pretentious. đľđ¸
That indie game no one else has played. That show from the 1980s that isn't big in the pop culture osmosis. Your deep dive into Tudor history. A liveblog of your experience learning C++. Your welding skills. Post all of it. This is your house
âAnd if youâll give me 40% of the MOST POPULAR VOTE, Iâll give you my SPECIAL REWARD... A yearâs supply of NON-GLOOBY SLIME!!! Never or BARELY used!!!â Tenna concluded his speech with a huge smile, jetting his hands up in double peace signs.
The crowd roared in confused enthusiasm as Tenna gave a gracious flurry of low-FPS bows, pausing only for the occasional stink-nose at his audience plants who werenât throwing enough 3D roses.
Eventually, the room fell silent. It was Senshiâs turn to speak.
He puffed out his chest, took a long, sweeping look over the audience⌠and shook his head.
âI can see not all of you are eating properly.â
The crowd murmured with embarrassment.
âI donât know who needs to hear this, but itâs time to take the turkey out of your icebox. I have seen the ingenious technology with which your people store food... and I have also seen the waste which results from such convenience.
âThe food you take had a life. Beasts grew fat on the grass of the field, plants grew from the sunâs rays, and mushrooms grew from minerals in the cracks of caves. And yet, it sits in your iceboxes, collecting moisture until it perishes.
âEat what is given to you. Because its life will make you stronger, too.â
Without another word, Senshi left his podium and stepped away from the stage. The crowd murmured in confusion. âIs he really like that?â somebody said. âI only remember reblogging the photosets of him tripping and showing ass.â
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Back in the Green Room, Tenna wrung his antennas nervously.
âY-y-you think they liked me!? They HAD to!! I mean, I donât know what Asgore was thinking, getting that weird haircut and running that food waste campaign, but⌠YOU thought I did good, didnât you, Kris?â
Laios nodded aggressively, a streak of blue face paint peeling from his forehead.
âYou did AMAZING, Tenna! By the way, now that weâve seen all your insider campaign secrets, do you have any more videos of Susie? Especially her tail... If I could get a look at that, I could finally tell if sheâs a dinosaur or --â
THWACK. Fake antlers butted Laiosâs head.
âLAIOS?? Werenât we dressed up to help SENSHI???â Marcille hissed, gesturing awkwardly with her hooves.
Suddenly, Tenna turned to the two adventurers.
âHey, WAIT a second. SOMETHINGâs not right here...â
Laios and Marcille held their breath.
âWhere the heck are my POINTS!?â
Just then, the door opened. Chilchuck took one step into the room, whistling and holding a large bag.
Everyone turned to him.
Chilchuck paused, took a step backwards, and closed the door.
âCHILCHUCK!!!â yelled Tenna.
âHow come Chilchuck got to stay Chilchuck!?â yelled Marcille at the same time.
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Meanwhile, in outer space somewhere, some guy was making out with a rock.
The only way I'll draw anything close to shipping or romance is if I'm actually drawing something else.
My live reaction: "Oh shit, we are killing ourselves today gamers!"
It's hard to write jokes about abusing someone in the Weird Route (for me anyway), but Noelle taking agency(?) and committing double suicide (and murder)? Now there's room for a bit of black comedy. That's killing 3 birds with one lake, baybeee! I am still skipping WR in my comic tho. I just wanted to write this small joke.
I was trying to figure out how I wanted the serious depiction of WR to look, and these came out too cool for what I was going for, but they're still neat.
Just because I've seen some people miss this, Ralsei does know that Kris is making fountains, but I'm pretty certain he doesn't know they're working for the Knight:
He doesn't understand why Kris is making fountains, he just has so much faith in them that he blindly assumes they have a good reason to.
This isn't what you say to someone in league with the enemy, it's what you say to someone making an innocently bad decision. Maybe he assumes the same thing that we did about Kris before Chapter three, that they just enjoy the fun adventures and want to have more of them, and aren't thinking about consequences. Both him and Susie see the hints about Kris, and both choose not to question it because they want so badly to believe that Kris would never betray them.
Just stumbled across your lil Chara analysis from a bit ago and was quite impressed by the effort and objective approach you took to it all. Honestly, a lotta Deltarune fans could take notes from that.
But 'sides that, I wanted to ask if you might be willing to generously share some of the headcanons you ominously alluded to.
Thank you so much!! Iâm glad I came across as objective, that was definitely the goal.Â
As for headcanons, I havenât posted many because honestly, it's hard not to go off the rails with this character. Some of my more intricate Chara-fic ideas have actually evolved into ideas for original work as they've gotten more and more detached from Undertale lol. But this is the Undertale fandom and losing the plot is kind of our thing, so here are some Chara hcs under the cut:
Itâs fun when people do Aqua-Deltarune style voice acting/ animation for Chara's Evil Ghost Side, but I imagine genocide-route Chara as uncannily calm, almost tranced, and oddly adorable. Kyubey-Madoka-esque antagonist.Â
The voice I imagine is kinda like Turing from 2064: Read Only Memories, but with a ghost-y voice effect instead of a robotic one. (I havenât played that game lol I just like that characterâs voice acting.) I think their voice would be very quiet and sing-song-y, to contrast with their blunt phrasing.
I like the idea that Charaâs presence being hitched onto Frisk slowly causes Frisk to adopt their mannerisms, tastes, etc. Since thereâs hundreds of years of linguistic evolution in between both humans, I imagine Chara would have a very different accent then Frisk, and Frisk slipping into Charaâs accent would scare the HELL out of Flowey.
And a headcanon I think would be cool but canât write because thereâs basically zero way to practically implement it into a story is that they didnât go by the name âCharaâ while alive- that name was given to them by the âanomalyâ/playerâ and via magic fuckery retroactively overwrote all instances of their previous name (such as in the true lab tapes). You know, symbolic reassignment of them from a living person to our âcharacterâ upon our influence, and for them to have a piece of their individuality thatâs been completely lost forever⌠Asriel knows that Chara got their name changed but is magically incapable of remembering the old one, Siffrin-style.Â
Itâs fun to imagine a post-soulless-pacifist-everyone-lives scenario played for angst, where Ghost Charaâs presence and the horrors of the past timelines are revealed and the whole cast has to figure out what to do about them. Sans, Alphys and Undyne, in the heat of the moment, would be team âexterminate the genocidal ghost immediatelyâ. Asgore and Toriel would be horrified and unwilling to accept it: there must be some mistake, their Frisk, their Chara, their Asriel would never...
Flowey, ready to be angry at their friend's betrayal, finds himself angry at everyone else instead. He did even worse than Chara in his own loops, many, MANY times over- and he didnât have any extra entities in his body muddying his free will. Chara killed to get stronger, sure, that's evil, but he killed for fun! If Chara is so irredeemable for wiping out the Underground once, what does that say about him? My headcanoned Frisk would feel similarly, and both would be team ârehabilitate Charaâ.
Asgore and Toriels' excuses would only make them feel worse. I mean, imagine being Flowey, Frisk or Chara and doing something so horrific in an alternate timeline that when you finally tell your family, they genuinely donât believe youâŚ
Chara doesnât like being defended by implying theyâre weak/ controlled by Frisk or The Other Entity (player soul), so they dig themselves even deeper and essentially side with Undyne, Sans and Alphys. (It helps that Undyne is their favorite âcharacterâ, the same way Floweyâs was Papyrus, imo.) This would make all three of them really uncomfortable.Â
Obviously everyone works it out and becomes friends again becomes Iâm a filthy hurt-comfort-enjoyer at heart.Â
Chara's "overfilling everything" trait implies past food insecurity to me. (Kids who are used to not having essentials often hoard.) They of course have every red-flag for a bad childhood in the book; it's always struck me how insistent they are to Asriel about not crying. As argued in my vid, they hate being perceived as weak, and we know they believed everyone was out to get them (at least on the surface), kill or be killed, only way to be safe is to be the strongest, etc.
Because of that, I think Charaâs life on the surface was pretty similar to Susie's pre-Deltarune. Difference being that Susie leaned into the delinquent, scary-girl persona as a defense mechanism, while I headcanon that nerdy, resting-cute-face Chara couldn't- they were always perceived as âweakâ or an âeasy targetâ on the surface. Thatâs why they overcompensate so much in their relationship with Asriel- finally, as a human in the Underground, they are the strong one who can âhit backâ.Â
This oneâs dark, but Iâve imagined that Chara was the youngest of many siblings, and that they specifically wanted Asriel to go for all their souls first once they got to the surface. No wonder Asriel couldn't bear to kill them- they looked just like the best friend he just watched die.
Uhhh hereâs a happy one. They loved doing hobbies that require precision and intricacy, like paper cutting. Itâs canon that they draw, and I think theyâd have a geometric, detailed style. Chara only liked drawing backgrounds, and Asriel only liked drawing characters, so theyâd make comics together with Asriel drawing his edgy OCs over Charaâs landscapes.
I've unfortunately never made a drawing of Chara I was happy with, but here are some sketches I think at least capture the "vibe":
Thanks again for the compliments and excuse to yap!
all im saying is you dont draw your spooky fountain opening knife on a busy city street and then just stand there for a solid minute while your friend runs around if you dont hope, at least a little, that she turns around and catches you doing it
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