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@sludgeyaoi

obsessed with kris using things the player can't see to communicate with other characters. drawing on the window in the diner. 80% as much honey on toast as usual. silly faces and nodding/shaking their head. changing the tone of what we make them say to make it clear that they mean it differently. i love that it's shown time and time again that kris ISN'T apathetic about anything. kris wants friends. kris has boundaries and wants mom to know that what she did made them feel bad. kris wants the people in their life to be happy and kris wants affection. i love kris deltarune

vampiresinthedaylight

whatever you can have this too, done as a gift

rnismatch

(backseating you at the mortar and pestle) man you aint even squarshing it

rylandgraces

there’s a friday ass vibe about this wednesday boys keep your wits about you

sunlitmcgee

*trying to find the words through the heat induced brain fog to convey why I think aro tenna being canon and a happy ending for keeping him in town would be nice because it'd be a message about not needing to Belong to Someone while also not being Alone and the value of having a net of relationships and finding comfort in freedom from any one in particular without sounding mean to shippers and without ignoring the appeal and importance of metta//tenna outright* I think it'd be nice if a sexyman was aromantic and happy to just hang out and not be someone's Thing anymore and it'd be nice because he's so popular and it'd force people to consider aromanticism and things and it'd just be nice and I'd smile.

sunlitmcgee

i think it'd be nice for him to be happy in an ending where he can talk to people and be friends and walk around. i think it'd be nice. it'd feel good to see that.

sunlitmcgee

*somewhat bitter* and maybe you know I just think a story with the message "the only way to find any meaning in life after a period of severe trauma is if you're handed off to The One Person who will Fix You And Love You Right Forever and you will be Happy Forever with Just This Person and ONLY this person and there is no other hope for you outside of This Specific Person because some notes lined up in two songs, and in any other case, you're doomed to suffer and die all alone forever" would. not be so fun to hear. as an aro romance repulsed person. maybe maybe maybe

sunlitmcgee

but also I dunno. sometimes it feels like the kind of projection that underpins this want of mine is allowed and respected by people who can love the right way. so i don't know. maybe I am just broken and all I see is a box once again chained to a wall. is it better because he's being kissed this time? does that make it better? is it supposed to, and I just can't see it?

sunlitmcgee

and you know I'll go on. Aromantic people are thought of as cold, blunt, numb, and independent. It's a stereotype that we are lone wolves and emotionless killjoys. Tenna is a deeply emotional, bright, and loving character who puts an immense amount of importance upon his familial and platonic relationships, between the Dreemurrs and (who he assumes and trusts to be at the moment) Mike.

It'd be nice to see an aro character who is loud and open and funny. It'd be nice to see a character for whom romance isn't the core, but maybe just a facet of their emotional landscape, as it were. With the possible implication that Tenna once wore the thorn ring, it could also be a case of a character for whom the traditional trappings of romance are a source of confinement and trauma, and coming to terms with that and learning to find company through other dynamics.

because it isn't inherently lonely to be aro. there's nothing inherently lonely about not loving that way. what makes it lonely is when you are set aside and treated as lesser and other, even among the others, because your lack of love renders you as child, as husk, as empty, cold thing.

i don't think tenna is lonely because no one in castle town cares.

i think he's lonely because he's so caught in the idea he needs a SPECIFIC, restrictive idea of love to be happy. he's 5 feet away from the one person who might be able to Understand the core of his hurt, and we've yet to see them talk on screen.

i think the loneliness of being loveless is a self-sustaining cycle fueled by people who view it as an inevitable truth. i think the supposed damnation of castle town is much the same. i think he needs friends, not a lover. i think he just needs some fucking friends.