What I think that infamous line in DR2 was actually implying
As is well known in the fanbase, among "Makoto's" descriptions of Ultimate Despair's crimes is a line implying that they did something of a sexual/reproductive nature with Junko's body, accompanied by this image:
The two most common theories regarding this is that it either implies necrophillia or that someone (usually Mikan) had Junko's uterus transplanted into them.
For reference, the Japanese text:
他には、江ノ島の子孫を作ろうとして、 死んだ彼女の体から…
And the English text:
And not just that, some even tried to have children with Junko's dead body...
I have heard from Japanese speakers that the most natural reading of the Japanese text is "To create descendants of Junko, they took [unspecified] from Junko's dead body". For this reason there are adherents to the "someone took Junko's uterus" theory in Japan, though from what I've seen it's not a universal view.
Personally, I find issues with both the "necrophillia" and "uterus transplant" theories. Firstly, the necrophillia theory doesn't quite fit with the Japanese text. Secondly, the uterus transplant theory doesn't really fit the image, which is clearly of a man seemingly engaging in sexual activity.
Most importantly though, both the necrophillia and uterus transplant options have the severe issue that *they wouldn't produce descendants of Junko*. Necrophillia wouldn't produce children for obvious reasons, and if someone with a uterus transplant has children they will not have any DNA from the uterus donor.
However, there is a way to create children with the DNA of a dead body (although in real life it has to be done very quickly, but I think we can suspend our disbelief considering everything else regarding Junko's corpse). That is retrieving the eggs for IVF.
This fits with everything said and seen - it involves taking something from Junko's corpse, it would produce genetic descendants of Junko, and it fits the image - the man is likely ejaculating into a container.
Hopefully I have produced a convincing theory and provided fuel for fanfics about Class 77 suddenly meeting with/finding out they're pregnant with Junko's posthumous sprogs.
Many people, including me, have taken the combination of the Necronomicon motive and the mentions of Kaede's twin sister to mean that Team Danganronpa intended to use a Flashback Light on her to "resurrect" Kaede if the ritual was completed. Now, if we take the audition videos as true (which I know some people don't like to do but at least for this idea it's more interesting if they are), then "Kaede's" sister is no doubt just as much of an insane Danganronpa fanatic willing to throw her identity and memories away as pre-game Kaede was.
Now suppose it's after the game. And "Kaede's" sister has gotten her hands on the Flashback Light they were going to use on her if the ritual was completed in the game. And she has Shuichi's location. What would Shuichi's reaction be to her turning up on his doorstep and saying that if he agrees, she can bring Kaede back from the dead…
Gio's article is not at all about what people seem to think it is about.
I'm honestly so shocked to see how many people are writing off Gio's claims and acting like Hussie can do no wrong. especially on the forums, of course. I think it is in part because of the title of Gio's article - in my opinion, this story is not particularly about the UHC being taken down (and when framed that way, the assertion is made, rightly, that it's still accessible and also Gio sucks, end of story).
This is a story of Andrew Hussie's entitlement toward the creative work of others, stretching all the way back to the early days. This is a story of how Andrew Hussie behaves when not able to control the behavior of others. This is a story among several, if not many of Andrew Hussie's continual weaponization of legal maneuvers to manipulate people. And in fact, it sure sounds to me like part of Gio's assertions of Hussie's shady behavior has already been confirmed in Miles' statement, where he said:
"gio was Not trying everything he could to make this work, because by his own admission in the article he refused to sign a license to continue to publish the Entirety Of A Body Of Work That Didn’t Belong To Him, and i also strongly suspect did everything in his power to dissuade bambosh from licensing when it was bambosh andrew was doing the initial negotiating with, Precisely Because We Were Worried About Situations Like This. at the time i actually thought that was TOO paranoid, believe it or not, but holy shit was i wrong about that, lol."
From Gio's article - In the messages from Miles during the early communication, Miles says that after giving Bambosh the NDA and a private conversation between them and Andrew, Gio would also receive an NDA and have a similar conversation, sort of an interview before the negotiations began. If it is true that no NDA was presented to Gio and Gio was not stalling, this was just an excuse to get Bambosh alone and not have to deal with Gio. Sure sounds like it tracks, at least to me. They cornered Bambosh, tried to only work with him and cut Gio out of the deal while weaponizing legal documents to do so. The NDA/non-NDA dynamic between Bambosh and Gio meant that they could not discuss the negotiations between them, and Bambosh then left the project.
Please don't think that just because Gio's article is dramatic, that it's not credible. To be honest, if I had been jerked around that much for that long I'd be pretty uncharitable too. The most credible part to me is how familiar it sounds. I know people are discrediting Gio and calling them biased...well, everyone has bias - I think it'd be worse had Gio pretended to not feel the way they feel about things at this point. The idea that language used with regards to abusive relationships is overblown - divide and conquer and DARVO are very real tactics people use to have power over others in many situations, like in cases of medical or financial abuse. Domestic violence is not the only arena in which these things happen.
Finally, I personally am not only interested in how Andrew Hussie treats their friends. I'm far more interested in how they treat people they don't respect. And the answer is...extraordinarily poorly and unprofessionally.
(Are they non-binary? — Analyzing Undertale/Deltarune's trans representation.)
The quint essential video on Undertale and Deltarune's trans and non-binary representation. If any video is going to end nearly a decade of discourse/arguing over if these games have non-binary characters or not, it's probably this one!
(Oh what am I kidding people are still going to scream about the gender and pronouns discourse but one can hope!)
Every argument is tackled!
Someone on Reddit claiming that Legends of Localization supposedly confirms that the character's genders are up for interpretation? We analyses what the book actually says!
Someone says that they/them pronouns aren't exclusive to enbys? We'll take every other logical explanation for they/them pronouns (besides an enby gender idendity), and analyses almost every single they/them character in UT/DR, to see if their pronouns can be explained without a non-binary gender identity!! (Spoiler alert, most can't be explained without an enby gender!!!)
If someone tries to argue why Kris is non-binary, this video likely debunks their argument! It's probably one of, if not the most extensive video analyzing, and arguing for Undertale and Deltarune's Transgender/Non-Binary Representation!
This is a video I've spent many long and hard months making so I hope it makes a difference!
Below is a list of all of the sources, videos, and music used in the essay.
Sources:
First, while I don’t use any of their content in the pronouns essay, I have to thank trans-utdr on Tumblr for cataloging most of the instances when characters are they/themed. Their blog was a great help in the creation of this video essay. https ://www.tumblr.com/trans-utdr
Also forgot to mention this, but Catticus helped out with the creation of the subtitles, so giving them credit for that.
[26] 11:37 "What's NEXT For Theorist and GTLive... | Goodbye Internet Meme Review 👏🖐" — GTLive (00:39:23)
https://youtu.be/ytiOWeRWTWc?t=2363
[27] 12:37 Undertale Goblin Finally Plays the Earthbound Halloween Hack: — Andrew Cunningham (03:48:53)
https://www.youtube.com/live/RkbhUqpAriw?t=13733
[28] 13:17 "Undertale, Deltarune, and Shattering The 4th Wall - Deep Dive & Analysis" — Pet Brick Productions (long video but the section used is early in the essay)
https://youtu.be/R_MPC6SF_-Q
[29] 13:43 Community post on the future of Underverse — Jael Peñaloza
[44] 20:06 "Responding to 1200 Comments on my Deltarune Video [Part 1]" — Andrew Cunningham (01:25:03)
https://www.youtube.com/live/vuP97sQGwy4?t=5103
[45] 20:25 "An Undertale Goblin's first Earthbound Playthrough [Part 5]" — Andrew Cunningham (02:59:26)
https://www.youtube.com/live/aE_ZS0HOUCE?t=10766
[46] 22:15 "Some comments on Deltarune’s official Japanese translation" — kazarinn on tumblr (Basically, these are some Japanese tweets translated into English.)
If your theory's load-bearing assumption is "Toby Fox is a massive fucking coward, and he forces everyone who works with him to also be a massive fucking coward", I suggest rethinking your theory.
The new Mario Kart looks awesome but I'm really tired of the "Evergreen" approach when it comes to the roster, where even new characters from mainline Mario games are pushed out and the only thing they feel confident in adding are generic enemies.
Mario Odysssey introduced a ton of new stuff notably characters like Cappy or the Broodals but the only thing allowed to be taken from that game into the spinoffs was Pauline, who wasn't even a new character but had existed from the literal inception of the franchise and they still wouldn't give her the time of day until now.
Like sure, I'd love RPG characters like Geno but that's a pipe dream. But can we not at least get characters from the Mario platformers? We can't even spring for E. Gadd? Really?
It even looks like they cut the Koopalings, come on man.
Well, it's been about a year since the last Of The Killer game came out. I had some notes on my harddrive on the development of each episode, that I was originally going to include in the loader but which ended up feeling a little much - I didn't want to crowd out anyone's impressions of the games themselves. But for the pseudo-anniversary I figured I would try cleaning them up and reposting to my website, for the curious.
You can read the autopsy notes here: http://harmonyzone.org/text/killernotes/autopsypile.html
Alternately you can browse my webpage of interesting mahjong game screenshots here: http://harmonyzone.org/mahjongloveaffair.html
Best wishes to all on the road of killing and mahjong.
Cyberpedia - a non-Fandom wiki for Undertale and Deltarune - a call for editors
https://cyberpedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
It is becoming increasingly clear that Fandom is no longer a suitable place to host wikis - the Undertale Yellow wiki has already abandoned it, along with plenty of high-profile non-Toby Fox-related wikis. In addition the existing Fandom wiki is not of the best quality. Because of this, I have decided to create a new wiki for both Undertale and Deltarune, hosted on Miraheze. I originally posted about this wiki about a year ago - this is a reminder of its existence.
The wiki has now had the pages from the Undertale and Deltarune wiki imported into it. It now needs your help to clean up and improve these articles. I do not have the time needed to do this, so I am asking for help. This wiki cannot function without your support in editing it. In addition, any help spreading the news about this wiki would be greatly appreciated.
In making this new wiki, I have elected to institute a few policies. The policies are not complete and nothing is set in stone - as with any wiki, these policies can be changed if there is consensus. In particular I would like to draw attention to the policy banning speculation and requiring sources for information found outside the games - I feel these are necessary policies.
I should also mention the policy on gender in the rules. I know this is likely to be controversial, but I am open to changing it if there is a clear consensus among editors to do so. I just feel that the no-speculation policy should apply to gender as well.
I should note that the backend of the site is basically just me throwing together something that seems to work if you squint at it - if there is anyone here who knows more about how MediaWiki/css works, your help would be greatly appreciated.
If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. I hope to be able to find support in building a new and better wiki.
A sentence I've grown wary of is "This seems like something Toby Fox would do" because you'll see it and the "This" in question is always something completely absurd like "Leaking the entire soundtrack on soundcloud years before development is done" or "Spend significant time foreshadowing and teasing characters and plot points that don't actually exist" or "Stop using leitmotific storytelling altogether" and the reason given is always that it would subvert people's expectations.
Like guys I know Undertale was subversive but are we forgetting that it was also good.
Why do so many Sims 2 modders insist on using Tumblr rather than a dedicated site like the excellent ModTheSims to post their content?
Understand this might be a bit of a live hand grenade, but I genuinely do not understand it. Tumblr is a terrible site for hosting mods - it's extremely difficult to find anything, while ModTheSims in particular is an excellent site.
What baffles me even further are those creators who used to post to MTS etc. and now only post to Tumblr.
