Andi&'s Banamblings

Cheesebasket system! Andi, Carly, Bec, Amrita, and Sunny. All but Bec are she/her, Bec is he/they.

[cryptotheism]

Dahling you simply must explore the backrooms they're just brimming with all sorts of delightful little entities.

[noelle-ism]

rarity tulpa i told you i dont want to explore the backrooms. i mainly created you to have sex

[twilightofthesandwiches]

I’ve seen a lotta people saying Kris doesn’t like tenna, and tbh I’m not sure. Kris is such a mysterious character and there’s so many different factors at play here. Maybe kris doesn’t dislike tenna himself but dislikes how they can’t return to the past?? Idk idk. Like, tenna keeps bringing up times Kris desperately wants to return to but can’t and that’s probably gotta be hard for kris.

Anyway what r your thoughts on this? Do u think Kris likes, dislikes, or is neutral about tenna?

…. Man, is that a million-dollar-question if I ever heard one.

Kris is already a very emotionally guarded person. Like, we are in a uniquely distant position, generally unable to hear their words or see most of their expressions…

…But even the people who knew them all their life are often unsure of what they’re thinking and if they even like them.

Including Tenna. Like, one of the folks who wonder if Kris dislikes Tenna is Tenna himself.

And this Sword Route dialogue does at least seem to confirm that, like, even with Kris' words and expressions being generally imperceptible to the Players, Kris was legitimately not smiling, laughing or giving Tenna any sort of positive feedback through Chapter 3.

My general read on the situation is that Kris’ emotionally withdrawn behavior is something they developed relatively recently, due to all the Shit going on in their life, while Tenna mostly remembers them as the more emotionally expressive child who used to regularly ‘laugh and cry’ at his programming. So Tenna is very anxious about his inability to get that kind of reaction from Kris anymore, while folks who know Kris as they are now don’t really get it. Kris is just kinda Like That and it doesn’t mean they’re not having fun.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean they are having fun or like Tenna either… We really don’t have enough data to make definitive statements. Kris doesn’t seem to resist if we tell them to insult Tenna…

But if you tell them to compliment Tenna instead, Susie’s reaction doesn’t indicates that they said it in an overtly insincere manner either.

So maybe it proves Kris is too indifferent to Tenna to really resist insulting or complimenting him?

Kris' damage output during Tenna's Boss Fight is another interesting detail. On a normal Route, Kris is holding back against Tenna, doing half their usual damage output, which might indicates a reluctance to fight him……… But if you do the Sword Route, Kris suddenly does a lot more damage than normal, triple the regular amount against Tenna instead.

So I'd guess this is less about Kris' personal feelings about Tenna and more about the Knight's plan. Kris and the Knight seem to be working together, Tenna's role in the Knight's plan is to stall the heroes while the Knight does their thing…

So holding back in the fight as much as they can is Kris' subtle little way to try and help the Knight. Much like they also hold back in the fight against the Knight themself.

And then in the Sword Route, the thing that changed is…

Now that Tenna had accidently spilled even the vaguest details about their deal in front of the Player, Kris wants to make sure he stays quiet… or maybe they're just really pissed at him. Either way it makes them far more aggressive and dangerous if you let them attack Tenna.

I think maybe this extra damage isn't born of an emotional dislike, just simple pragmatism for what is the best for Team Knight's goals... but that still implies a serious emotional distance from Tenna - compared to Kris' clear moral conflict when the Knight's plans seem to clash with what's best for Susie, a person they actually do unambiguously like.

There's also the two non-Spamton Check results you can get for the Tenna Boss Fight, the standard one which is just kinda… extremely mean to Tenna. This is basically the worst thing he could imagine someone thinking about him and especially if this Check is coming from Kris.

And the Sword Route One is really....interesting.

It's clearly referencing Kris' increased damage against Tenna and I kinda read it as almost goading the Player into letting Kris attack him, but maybe this 'sadly' can be read as sincere. If these Checks are influenced by Kris' own emotions and feelings (which feels likely to me, although it's also important to note that this is still unconfirmed and might change depending on certain Narrator Theories), it might be Kris expressing regret for the fact that they feel like they have to attack Tenna with all their (tripled) might? Although I personally did read this 'sadly' as kinda sarcastic, if I'm honest.

Kris also doesn't flinch when 'killing' Tenna in-game the way they do with Susie and Ralsei.

(And that was before most of their big friendship-building moments with Ralsei in Chapter 4, when they still were, as far as we could tell, at best just kinda okay with that guy…)

And even the fact Kris and the Knight roped Tenna into their plans could potentially be a bad sign, considering, like…

But that really depends on how much the Knight and/or Kris are aware of this part of the Prophecy. A lot of people assume that the Knight, at least, knows the Full Prophecy, but nothing has really been confirmed yet…

Still, none of these little details really bode well for Kris' feelings for Tenna, and that's without getting into the way that, like you mentioned, Tenna puts Kris into games that just remind them of their total lack of control over their life and also keeps bringing up stuff that's clearly uncomfortable to Kris to reminisce about.

(We can't hear (read?) Kris' half of this conversation, but Tenna's reaction seem to suggest they were Very Obviously Not Happy with what he said.)

Maybe they're emotionally mature enough to separate their dislike of the things Tenna say and how uncomfortable he often makes them from a dislike of Tenna as a person and also emotionally mature enough to recognize that they and Tenna share very similar trauma but just cope with it in very different ways. Their readiness to become BFFs with Susie seem to indicate they are capable of it, but...

With relatively little information or character moments that indicate affection towards Tenna, my interpretation is that they're indifferent at best towards him. They probably don't hate him or actively wish he was dead or anything, but he's more of a tool to their and the Knight's plan than anything.

Although… being treated like a tool to the Knight's plan might just be another thing that Kris and Tenna have in common…

Of course, part of the tragedy of Tenna is how, like, even in the best case scenario, even if Kris did find Tenna's personality fun and realized they were both working off the same trauma and honestly did not want him to come to any harm despite the Knight and their plans… Even if Kris likes Tenna, they're never gonna love him back the way Tenna loves Kris.

From Tenna's POV, he is a member of the Dreemurr Household just like Kris is. I make a kinda jokey post before about how he's technically Kris' 'Lesser Dad', but it's probably more accurate to say that Tenna thinks of his role as 'the Household TV' as it's own established familial role on the same level as 'uncle' or 'older brother'. In Tenna's eyes perspective, he and Kris are family, he lived with Kris all their life, watched them grow up, helped raised them by providing them with endless hours of fun and entertainment…

But for Kris, that was literally just the television, an inanimate object. There are a lot of very sweet Tenna fancomics showing him, like, comforting Tiny Kris during difficult times in their childhood, and these comics are wonderful… but it's important to remember they are depicting Tenna's perspective of these events. Or, well, Tenna certainly remembers that at the time he wasn't actually actively comforting and entertaining Kris in his Darkner form - he does know that he was just a Light World Television that was used to watch cartoons or play games, but for Tenna this feels equivalent to actively being a pseudo-parental figure comforting and taking care of Kris.

But from Kris' perspective, they were literally just watching TV. Maybe they have some nostalgic attachment towards the TV itself (AKA Tenna) for being an oasis of escapism during difficult times, or maybe they attach these emotions more to the actual specific shows and games they liked or to the people they shared those moments with… They just didn't experience these moments the way that Tenna experienced them.

They only got to meet Tenna as a person when they opened the Dark Fountain, so they're only about as familiar with him as any other member of the Fun Gang is. And characters in Deltarune do make bonds relatively quickly, but even in the best-case-scenario of Kris' feelings for Tenna, it would've taken them time to develop the same sense of familiarity and affection that Tenna feels towards them. And... that's not really Kris' fault for not anthropomorphizing their TV enough back when it was just a TV, it's just yet another tragic aspect about Darkners' whole existence.

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Okay, wait, wait…

So the Shadow Mantle originally belonged to Seam, a Card Kingdom resident, before…. 'someone took it'...?

Only for it to mysteriously pop up TV World, which is the Dreemurr Household.

And notably, John Mantle themself never confirms that they stole the Mantle, only that they’re the one currently holding on to it. And, like, moving from one Dark World to another without being physically carried by a Lightner is, right now, an ability that only Ralsei seems to possess.

But… TV World does actually have a lot of connection to other Dark Worlds, and Card Kingdom in particular… because Kris keeps nicking school property and bringing it back to their house.

So, like, is it possible that Kris is the one who stole the Shadow Mantle from Seam in the first place? And that’s why it was found in their home for John Mantle to take?

Maybe they did it intentionally as part of... whatever long game they’re playing… or, well, I guess that could’ve been an innocuous action depending on whatever the hell the Shadow Mantle is in the Light World and how long ago that was?

…Or maybe it was just stolen from Seam's Seap by one of the Pippins and then Kris took him to their home while it was still holding it?

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Lost where the forest would grow, the children followed the pointed tail.

… You know, I’ve been seeing a lot of people assume that “where the forest would grow” must mean the forest surrounding the Shelter. I mean, it certainly makes sense considering this is a place we know the Dreemurr and Holiday Kids have explored in the past…

And the growing importance of the Shelter itself…

But I do think it’s not the only option right now. I mean, not only is the entirely of Hometown surrounded by a forest (not just the area near the Shelter), but….

The thing I keep coming back to is the words “where the forest would grow”. This is a ‘future in the past’ tense, the grammar here implies that the forest grew after the children got lost in that area. But obviously, the forest around Hometown doesn’t seem like something that could’ve grown after/during Kris’ childhood… those trees are decades old at least, right?

So for me that implies, like, maybe some sort of time-manipulation shenanigans, or something else that allows the forest to grow freakishly fast in just a few years? Or that the ‘poor children’ are not actually any of the kids we know, and this is actually about something that happened to one of the previous generations of Hometown, much farther in the past? Something that inspired the creation of the Shelter in the first place?

Or… maybe we are talking about an entirely different Forest? One that we do know appeared fairly recently in the blink of an eye?

While we’ve had all kinds of fields and castles and basements in the various Dark Worlds, this is the only “Forest” we’ve gotten so far. That would give us an actual place that fits the description of “where the Forest would grow”.

And while it doesn’t really make much sense to imagine kids getting lost inside a single classroom…. Well, what about an earlier Dark World opened in that same location? Since every Dark Fountain makes a different Dark World, even in the same place… and this is often perceived by the Darkners of those Dark Worlds as the passing of eons.

So an earlier version of the Card Kingdom (opened up by Baby Kris and/or Tiny Dess, for example) could’ve lacked the Forest location of the Card Kingdom we know and thus be the place “where the Forest would grow”….

And, like, while I understand the logic behind people associating that line with FRIEND… it is important to remember that the one explicit connection the game has made so far for this Phrase is with the Forgotten Man.

Who has been consistently depicted standing behind a Card Castle Forest Tree, long after that Dark World has passed.

I’m not dismissing the common Shelter-and-FRIEND interpretation of that line, far from it. I just think it’s important to consider alternative explanations, or at least that these two ideas could be combined somehow…

[gretchensinister]

Consider this (based on a conversation I had with some friends a while ago): Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for people who actually like Pride and Prejudice. Look–I tried to read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and I got about 20 pages in before I came to the conclusion that the person who wrote it did so out of the belief that the original Pride and Prejudice was stuffy and boring. There were out of character vulgar puns. And the trailer for the movie did not convince me that I had missed anything by cutting short my reading experience. So, what I’m talking about here is this premise: the world of Pride and Prejudice, but if you die, it’s highly likely, almost certain that your corpse will get up and try to eat people. But no one dies in Pride and Prejudice, you might say. In fact, few or no people die in any Jane Austen novel. This is true. But people do get sick with some regularity. Imagine the tension added to Jane getting sick after going to visit Bingley if there was the chance that she would become a zombie after she died. Becoming a zombie in an eligible bachelor’s house probably would have seriously wrecked any chances of any of the living sisters ending up with him. Imagine Mr. Collins, as a minister, having the duty upon someone’s death of severing their head with a ceremonial plate or something that would prevent the corpse from rising. Obviously important, but this only makes him more self-important and obnoxious. And dangerous. For you see, in this version, Mr. Bennett, who stays in his office all the time, whose life is the only thing allowing Mrs. Bennett and her daughters to stay in the house–Mr. Bennett is definitely a zombie. He died at home, and Mrs. Bennett decided that, no way were they dealing with this, and so…just started faking it. Jane and Elizabeth know. The younger sisters don’t. In this universe, I think we have to go with zombies that are not any faster or stronger than the humans they were, and in fact tend to get weaker as time passes because their flesh is rotting. And…hmm, okay, how about they are pretty violent upon rising, and for about a week afterward, trying to bite people and spread the infection (even though most people are carriers anyway, but getting a nasty bite from a corpse will give you other stuff that will have you die while carrying the virus). But then they calm down and basically just start sort of attempting to act like they did in life, that is, taking habitual actions with no consciousness, in a depressing and desiccated way. So Mr. Bennett is a zombie, and Mrs. Bennett’s number one goal is to get her daughters married before anyone finds that out. And this, actually, makes Elizabeth’s refusal of Mr. Collins more frustrating for Mrs. Bennett–obviously Mr. Bennett didn’t tell Elizabeth that she could refuse Mr. Collins, because Mr. Bennett is dead, but Mrs. Bennett can’t say anything or the game would be up. Another question in this version–does Mr. Darcy find out about Mr. Bennett being a zombie somehow? Does Elizabeth find out that he knows and didn’t say anything and this is something that helps repair his earlier actions? Anyway, this is the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies that I was looking for.

[exigencelost]

Okay also: in the original, when Elizabeth walks through the rain all the way to bingley’s to care for Jane while she’s sick, it’s a very dramatic expression of both Elizabeth’s love for her sister and her penchant for flamboyant rebellion, but consider, if there is a chance Jane will wake up a zombie and Elizabeth knows it, how does that change the dynamic? Elizabeth might be going to help take care of Jane, or to *take care* of Jane should things take a more morbid turn…by killing her zombie sister.

This works especially well if zombieism is communicable prior to death; if mr. Bennett is a zombie and only the elder Bennetts know, that means Jane has been pre-exposed and is almost certain to wake up as a zombie should she die in the Bingleys’ care— which the Bingleys do not know. Elizabeth has to forge through the rain to be there in case things get ugly, because she knows that the Bingleys aren’t prepared.

[shenzuul]

And I think you pretty much HAVE to make Mr. Bennett’s zombie status play a role in how and why Darcy separates Bingley from Jane—the heavy implication behind Darcy’s line about the want of propriety shown even by her father hits Elizabeth like a ton of bricks as she realizes he knows—he knows, and he thought Jane lying to Bingley about it was evidence that Jane didn’t love Bingley—but—but Darcy must not have told Bingley that part of it. Bingley couldn’t keep a secret on his life; if he knew, his sister would know, and word would already be out and they’d have been ruined by now—

And of course, not only does the fact that Darcy, who owes their family nothing, has kept and continues to keep this secret for them even after Elizabeth’s refusal deepen the gratitude she begins to feel for him after the letter of explanation, but it also liberates Elizabeth to fall in love with him. Because Elizabeth-who-wants-to-marry-for-love would never be happy marrying someone who didn’t know the family secret in advance. She had resigned herself to spinsterhood because she couldn’t be satisfied with having to hoodwink someone to have their hand, but also couldn’t put her family at risk by trusting someone who wasn’t bound to them by more than an engagement. (Maybe she was even tempted to confide in Wickham at one point, and hasn’t Darcy’s letter proven she was absolutely right not to yield to that passing thought.) But Darcy figured it out himself, and he’s kept her trust, and she could fall in love with him without guilt—if she hadn’t already turned him down.

AND THEN LYDIA HAPPENS. And Darcy realizes immediately that Mr. Bennett can’t do anything to recover her—and if Mr. Bennett doesn’t do anything about Lydia, Mr. Collins might become suspicious, or even just officously involve himself, so find out the while thing. When Darcy blames himself for not revealing Wickham’s character, it’s with a much more immediate sense of urgency. It’s not that the other sisters’ marriage prospects being ruined may impoverish them down the road—it might immediately drag them all into destitution. That’s why he rushes off to go look for Lydia himself.

[hotvampireadjacent]

[maggotsandcream]

I’ve got another Mario universe headcanon, even more pointless than usual.

So, there’s been a couple people who have tried to figure out what happened to Luigi’s electricity powers after Superstar Saga since Mario still has access to fire powers. Sure, there are more thoughtful and reasonable analyses out there especially around Luigi’s abilities related to machines, but I’m here to offer a silly one.

1. Most touch screens actually work by detecting the electrical current between your fingers and the screen, hence why typical insulating gloves make them unusable, even if it’s a thin layer. (It’s also why getting water droplets on touchscreens makes them harder to use.)

2. Luigi is seen using objects with touch screens (most often whatever modified gaming console E. Gadd has provided him that basically acts like a cell phone) without taking his gloves off. Just ignore the obvious animation reasons for this; Watsonian analysis is more fun than Doyalist for stuff like this.

3. It’s unlikely that he’s got work gloves modified to conduct electricity. (Though if that was the case, that would be an interesting choice for other reasons.)

Conclusion: the most common way Luigi uses his thunderhand powers post-Superstar Saga is to use touch screens without bothering to take his gloves off. Honestly, if I gained the ability to manipulate electricity, I would be tempted to do the same on cold days.

[aflo]

I'm imagining a world where RPGMaker somehow made it as the de facto codebase for software and you have to navigate your banking app by walking around in a huge room full of NPCs named "make deposit" and "make withdrawal" etc and there's loud as fuck stock music playing

[aflo]

[greed-the-dorkalicious]

Every time I remember the map of Dio’s mansion has a room labeled the “engine room” I lose my fucking shit. Like, what does that even mean? Why does the mansion have an engine room? What the fuck does that mean? Could Dio’s mansion potentially just. fucking blast off like the end of Vampire Hunter D or some shit I’m dying what the fuck

[greed-the-dorkalicious]

Howl’s Moving Castle 2: If You Thought Howl was an Asshole and a Drama Queen Get Ready to Fucking Shit Yourself

[holy-punks]

My favourite translator said that when she was an ambassador for Hungary she took all these Japanese politicians on a tour and she was trying to circumtranslate ‘merry go round’ cause she didn’t know the Japanese word for it by calling it a ‘horse tornado for children’ and they had no blessed idea what she was saying and she finally started running in circles going up and down and they go ‘ohhhhh, in Japan we call those ‘merry-go-rounds’”

[what-even-is-thiss]

I refer to the protagonist of fallout 4 as NateNora because both the man and woman versions of the character are essentially the same person.

Because they gave this game a voiced protagonist, Bethesda has invited me to analyze the sole survivor NateNora as a person and my analysis says that because it doesn’t really matter much which spouse you choose to literally fridge that they’re one of those couples who have been together since high school and as a result are basically two halves of the same braincell.

Same sense of humor, same homicidal tendencies, same compulsion to collect random magazines.

[what-even-is-thiss]

If you knew Nate and Nora before the apocalypse you probably couldn’t invite one without inviting the other and both of them probably kept the exact same pictures of baby Shaun in their wallets. Not exactly the same person per se, but they’ve been together for so long that if you remove one of them the other basically doesn’t know who they are.

Which is my theory as to why one of the possible first thoughts they have upon being unfrozen to a dead spouse is violence. You killed their other braincell, Kellogg. That was all of their impulse control and you’re about to pay the price for that. They actually have to develop a personality now and it’s all your fault.

[what-even-is-thiss]

One might make the argument that with Nate being a former front lines soldier that it makes more sense for him to be violent and proficient with weapons but my argument is that Nora was a lawyer in an era of extreme corporate espionage. You need to keep your head on a fucking swivel and have your pistol loaded and in your purse at all times if you wanna fight nuka cola in court.

Everybody expects prewar people to be soft but they aren’t expecting somebody that’s been dodging soda company snipers for months while pregnant. Being a corporate lawyer and being a front lines soldier are basically equally dangerous in this universe.

[beholdingslut]

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

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Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

[punkrorschach]

happy first day of pride everyone

[hopelesslyshippingthem]

This is insane. But understandable that a corporation would be like, "Yes. Let's pay someone money to make a vocalised list of words we can't say. This is reasonable."

[wildminti]

Rocky's body is a machine that turns one (1) praise into 10,000,000,000 praises 💕💕💕

[thefigureinthecorner]

all the other weird fucked up cats are safe and happy and healthy btw

[t4timekeeper]

i often see people bring up “why does popstar have a reputation as a peaceful backwater planet where nothing happens despite it getting attacked by evil wizards and dark matter and white people aliens and sapient art supplies every other week” and that’s a very good point. and the answer is because kirby of the stars does his JOB!!!!

[t4timekeeper]

early on in their friendship kirby’s like “i protect popstar from threats!” and magolor’s like “popstar has threats? oh man, that’s hilarious. what, did an elderly nruff get loose and start eating some waddle dee’s blue ribbon pop flowers?” and the entire dream team just turns around to give him a Look so deadly that he goes airplane ears.

[t4timekeeper]

strongly evocative of the jp version of super star [ultra] where the narration is like “kirby lives a carefree life with no worries :)” and kirby turns to the camera like

[prokopetz]

A “gun wizard” is:

A wizard who casts spells through guns

A wizard who casts spells on guns

A wizard who turns things into guns

A wizard who has a gun

A wizard who is a gun

[animusbell]

A “wizard gun” is:

a gun that shoots wizards (as bullets)

a gun that shoots wizards (with bullets)

another object that has been transformed into a gun by a wizard

a gun owned by a wizard

a gun who is a wizard

[animusbell]

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

[animusbell]

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

[jukashi]

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

[animusbell]

You are so right actually