Am I a man? Am I a butterfly?

UTDR theorist and artist. I think I've got the hang of W.D. Gaster. Chara & Kris are my favorite characters. W.D. Gaster is definitely there too.

[asterdex]

Brain has been sold along with my Soul for many years

artschool.nofreetime = true

he/it/they, french & english

Hi! I am Marco Codex, I go by Aster on this blog. My main blog is @marcocodex, but here is the place I post about UTDR.

Art tag : #asterdraws

Rambling/theory tag : #go to bed aster

=> MINISERIES MASTERPOST <=

in the UTDR fandom since 2017. Theorist at heart <3 UT got me into art school. I love everything about this community.

Drawing whatever I feel like!!! Kris & Susie, corestrings and plenty of other DR stuff.

Writing theories/interpretation of varying quality. Beware! I do not edit posts to update them. Some may include outdated data (I must have reblogged them with corrections if needed).

Reblogging anything I found pretty, funny or interesting :D asks opened at all times

I DON'T DO QUEUE!!! Be updated about my sleep schedule and what i am thinking about IN REAL TIME based on when and what i'm reblogging.

if i go away for a long time i will be back eventually. wait for a bit, never for very long

I'm chill with any ships! May the joy of multishipping and "having good fun" be with you.

Favorite DR characters : Kris, Chara & Gaster. everyone else is making me go crazy, those three are making my brain blue screen. Honorable mention goes to Spamton G. Spamton. My gender expression journey consists in finding ways to be more like Spamton.

ABOUT ME

I have the autism software installed.

I have difficulties understanding sarcasm or jokes, and I appreciate tone indicators (/j, /s, /srs, /rh etc). Please keep that in mind when interacting with me as I can easily come off as rude even though this isn't my attention.

I'm also fictionkin, i'm opened to answer questions about it or to talk to any other UTDR fictionkins looking for sourcemates. my kintype is Chara. I have others from other sources.

[trina-makes-an-entrance]

Happy Gay everyone look at my yuri

They are very yuriful I think.

Anyways this is me throwing at you my arospec unlabeled Susie propaganda.

And of course, this is me maintaining the Kralsusie agenda.

[spookyscarysnails]

Piano that may not be played that well

I love this

But the question is do I learn to play it "correctly" or with Kris's mistakes?

[isda-bata]

I would do something bigger but I’m too focused on other projects,,, anyways happy pride ^^

[comicdez]

Commercial Break Au Part 11

Well, it was a good try Mike.

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[ch-ricegirl]

[torturednorns]

therefore i .

[deltaruneposts]

Susie's dialogue when selecting the "I'll play again someday" option after she tells her story in front of the piano changes depending if you're on the Weird Route or not.

[asterdex]

i'm seeing theorists that i look up to and respect make some crazy assumptions about Wicabel (of all people), claiming that she must be some kind of parallel to Gaster, and while they're talking and presenting their thesis i can't help but think "there's no way they're right, this is too stupid. I need to reread Wicabel's dialogue to prove to myself i'm not crazy." so i go to a website with all of the Deltarune dialogues in it, i go in the index to find Wicabel, and there i see that her enemy ID is 66. i cannot do this anymore theorizing is hard /lh

[asterdex]

im thinking about this fucking witch again and her detestable familiar

everything Winglade does that i hate

--linked to swords :

literally made out of a blade, in the fucking name

"Winglade cuts in!" (intro flavor text)

"A living sword" (RECRUIT)

"A radical blade […]" (CHECK flavor text)

--SPECIFICALLY swords linked to writing tools?? isn't that supposed to be a Kris-only thing linked to their possession of the SOUL?

"Winglade draws flowers with its blade" (flavor text)

"Its greatest delight is being asked to carve graffiti" (RECRUIT)

--linked to ANGELS IMAGERY out of anything else

(Feathers allegations :)

literally its fucking name

"Winglade molts […]" (flavor text)

"Smells like old down pillow" (flavor text)

"Winglade sheds feathers heavily" (flavor text)

"The flapping of wings and pages fills the room" (flavor text, with Bibliox)

"A radical blade with feathers at the hilt" (CHECK flavor text)

"Winglade's eye flutters shut" (flavor text, TIRED)

"A majestic sword with a white feathered hilt" (item with the same name) (Halo allegations :)

"Halo, are you listening?" (quote from it)

"Halo, goodeye!" (quote from it)

--linked to spinning, revolving, circles. we don't know what "spinning" is about yet, but "circles" in general should be commonly linked to "rings" now, and for a Darkner with such heavy Angel imagery, maybe it's using "rings" because of the "ring of heaven's call"

"Winglade rotates aggressively" (flavor text)

"Winglade molts and revolts" (flavor text)

"You oppose the revolution?" (quote from it)

"Viva la revolution!" (quote from it, SPARE)

"To spin, is to trust" (quote from it, SPARE)

bullet patterns

--linked to eyes (still doesn't know what the fuck that one means)

"Winglade's eye flutters shut" (flavor text, TIRED)

"Halo, goodeye!" (quote from it)

"Open your eyes" (quote from it)

"Winglade watches distrustfully" (flavor text)

bullet patterns

--oddities that make my head hurt to think about

despite being "the witch's familiar" (RECRUIT), is never seen fighting with her

doesn't turn to stone in the alternate Sanctuary, but seems to turn into an item instead (????? something about swords being pencils but also being sometimes alive something about the SOUL)

double meaning of "revolution", Winglade doesn't like "Authoritarianism" (RECRUIT), yet it is a familiar??

"The flapping of wings and pages fills the room" what if wings in general are meant to be symbols of pages in DR

the entire "cleave your own path. cut your own way. me? my way is in your way. it's your way or the high way." fucking dialogue. is that an "In My Way" reference?? what does it give "will follow you to the utmost"??

local blade with wings can't decide if it doesn't ponctuate its sentences correctly (not ending them with a period) or if it doesn't capitalize its sentences (literally only in the "my way is in your way" dialogue)

idk man Winglade feels like a representation of the player. if you believe Player=Angel and SOUL=pen/sword. even the ring connection works. the "rebellious" aspect of Winglade could be taken like a representation of a player's disruptive behavior in a game with set boundaries and rules. my biggest issue with this (aside from not knowing what to do with the whole "spinning" thing) is why. i would have no problem with this if Winglade wasn't just a random enemy. why is a random enemy taking the shape of the Angel of the Delta Rune and is having sword/pen imagery.

and it's the familiar of Wicabell, the "fun" witch with bell imagery

i guess together they form "wing" "ding" /j

[casver-w]

Roaring knight wallpaper thingy I made

[creaturedotjpeg]

Ok so.

[asterdex]

"draw your favorite character with the same problems as you" okay so Battat Deltarune, the aromantic green die, is now grammar-checking a very badly written and sappy romantic visual novel Tenna came up with to entertain the Lightners. And he is slowly losing any hope he had for his boss as it becomes increasingly clear that this dating sim is just a thinly veiled therapeutic vent from Tenna to cope with his hopeless love life. And all of the characters you can date in the game are just some variation of his ex. And he cannot say anything about it or give any note to maybe fix this so that the game doesn't become too redundant because he knows Tenna will NOT take it well.

[punkitt-is-here]

ralsei galsei baby lets go

[jamnettheweird]

JONGLER COSPLAY I DID!!! :3

I barely see anyone do a Jongler cosplay so here we go! Jongler my goat.

[reignbeaux13]

[asterdex]

The Shadow Crystals are only special in the Dark Worlds

Of course, this isn't entirely true, as the equivalent of the Shadow Crystals in the Light World seems to give us glimpses of the future/an alternate reality (in both cases, seemingly showing us Weird Route-adjacent context).

But, I think it is very easy to overlook how world-breaking the power of a Shadow Crystal IN THE DARK WORLD SPECIFICALLY actually is.

Sure they give us some visions of a time that has not yet happened in Hometown in the Light World, but in the Dark World, they literally allow whoever is watching through them to see the higher plane of reality to the one they're currently in

This is not "just" being able to see another version of reality, this is literally seeing the higher reality in which the GODS of this world resides

And, it is quite interesting to notice that, unlike other items like the BlackShard (or the Egg but we don't talk about the Egg) that stays exactly the same in the Dark and Light World, or other swords like the Spooky Sword that DOES turn into something else, a pencil, BUT keeps its main attribute of "being spooky" by turning into a Halloween Pencil, the Shadow Crystal seems to be changing drastically from its Dark World form to its Light World form. More specifically, it is still GLASS, but, the Light World version seems to be entirely devoid of shadow.

The "Shadow Crystal' simply becomes a piece of "Glass", with no mention of any darkness, or anything related to darkness like water. It seems that whatever the process the items go through when we switch realities from the Dark World to the Light World led the Shadow Crystal to "lose" its shadowy attribute, for some reason.

But, let's think about an hypothetical right now.

In DR, the main duality is between darkness and light, right. We have the Shadow Crystals, which are basically pieces of glass that can fit in one's hand and which seem to be made of literal shadow, as they are described as such with an emphasis on their water-like appearance, which further connect the way they look to darkness. And, for some reason, looking through it allows us to see a higher plane of existence.

Cool! But, I think it is worth pointing out that this same quality of transdimensional perception is LOST once the Crystal is being brought to the Light World, alongside any mention of darkness of shadow surrounding it, simply becoming "glass". The ability to see another reality is lost at the same time the Shadow Crystal becomes the simple Glass (and "Shadow Crystal" could be just described "Shadow Glass", as crystals are all glass. the Light World counterpart of that item REALLY just dropped the "shadow" part of it)

Could it mean that the Shadow in the form of a Crystal is the thing allowing us to see the Light World while being in the Dark World? A glass emanating shadow being a window to another reality...

that sounds far-fetched. especially given that the "dark" is the thing that is linked to fiction : the Dark Worlds are born from the dark, why would looking at a Crystal made out of darkness give us a glimpse of the world "above" basking in light? That doesn't change, however, that the facts are there : the Shadow Crystals, in their shadowy forms and NOT in their simple glass forms, allow us to see the Light World, a higher plane of existence. how and why, idk, but that's what they do.

Im wondering tho, if a Shadow Crystal exists within DR, in a world in which everything is defined by the duality between light and dark, could a Light Crystal exist?

It would be, like, glass in which instead of seeing shadow you would see light, and through which you wouldn't see the plane of existence that is more real than the one you're currently in, but the one that is considered like fiction compared to the one you're currently in-

Hold on.

That's a computer screen.

Glass of light with the opposite effect of the Shadow Crystals.

This is the main idea of the post, I'm going to freestyle a bit more about all of this but I mainly just wanted to share the thought that our computer screens, made out of glass, and emitting light, AND showing us a reality that is more fictive than ours, ARE the "Light Crystals" opposite of the Shadow Crystals, made out of glass, looking like shadows, and showing us a reality that is more real than the Dark World.

PS : (there are so many things to say about this, especially what it could imply in regards to the Prophecy that is said to be both dark and light in nature, the words being "light" but its content being "dark", and it being written on glass, but talking about that would recquire to talk about why "light=what can be perceived=what is defined=reality" and "dark=what cannot be seen=what is not defined=potential=imagination=fiction", and because Andrew Cunningham still hasn't talked about it i can't assume this is common knowledge for the fandom and i DON'T have the time to explain all of that (YET), but YES i am thinking about all of it while writing this I KNOW!!! JUST- BEAR WITH ME HERE OKAY WE'LL GET THROUGH THIS /lh)

however. with that in mind, im actually very scared of what the Shadow Crystals could be able to do. "seeing the higher plane of existence" is all fun and game, until the higher plane of existence is OURS. We're lucky that the Shadow Crystals aren't shadowy anymore in the Light World, or else maybe Kris could have seen our ugly faces while looking through it!

i'm unsure if the "PureCrystal", supposedly the fusion between all the Shadow Crystals, could form a glass that would STILL be made out of shadows in the Light World... i mean, it's possible, but the wording of the description make me feel like "the cat" "purifying" the crystals isn't going to make them "darker", but lighter instead.

After all, the word "purified" has only been used one other time in the game and it was in direct relation to light (directly heavenly light even, but that's another debate)

so, what, is "the cat" (Seam. it's Seam. just say Seam) going to make the Shadow Crystals... lighter? why? i mean i guess having a "Light Crystal" gives you some kind of power over a fictional world because you're the "realer" entity looking inside a fictional world, but why would we/Kris want that, as Seam seems to imply we/they do? or maybe im missing something or not understanding something.

or maybe the wording is just coincidental and Seam is actually going to make the Shadow Crystals darker, and in that case yeah i guess Kris probably would want to be able to see past their own reality and into the plane of existence in which the person controlling them lives. that would make sense. I would find that cool too, so Seam's ambiguous speech about we/Kris enjoying whatever they have in store for us/them could work either way.

anyway that's all i have to say for now on that topic i think. i thought about it a few hours ago after being inspired by a friend who himself got inspired by the latest Cunningham's video (of course!) so i know i probably didn't go deep enough and didn't point out all the ways this concept could be used in interesting ways to analyze stuff in DR, but i figured that might as well share the initial idea and see if people have things to say about it

no well-spoken conclusion, have the exchange that started it all

[ingulo-agualo]

Undertale jumpscare

I wouldn't call this a comic as much as it's a monologue with a slideshow. Anyways

No but like undertale was like my childhood in all the best, worst and cringy ways. It feels good revisiting it after playing deltarune

As usual with these a progress post will not be far away