"Oh fair Delirium, how drawn to you we are."

26/10/1898

[fairdelirium1898]

Motifs on the Addispam blog

So there are certain things I've noticed repeated on the blog a lot, which I'm going to try and break down here.

The patterns of four

The heart, star, hourglass, sickle and triangle symbols

The player connecting screens

The eye and glasses colors

The phones

The bugs

The other characters

The bonus art

The other blog

Putting a cut here to keep the post from being too long.

The patterns of four

So one of the things that keeps repeating on the blog is four. This shows the easiest with the characters, three guys and a girl. There's Addispam, AddiFell, DOS Strikethrough, and now Brackets. We also have Randy, Bean and two unnamed cousins, which appear to be another guy and a girl. There is also Beauregarde, Austin, Randall and Lena. Beatrice seems to be the outlier, unless I'm missing something, or there's more characters coming, which has been mentioned by mun in the past. Regardless, this pattern keeps repeating, and with the introduction of Blackout as one of the horsemen of the apocalypse, I imagine we will be getting two more guys and a girl soon if the pattern is correct.

The shape symbols

Next up are the various shapes we see repeated in the art constantly. A heart, star and triangle show up most, but in Beauregarde Spamton's letter, we also see an hourglass and a sickle. I believe the four shown in the letter, excluding the triangle relate directly to the horsemen of the apocalypse, with Blackout, confirmed horseman, having a heart shape for his eye. The hearts have also shown up with Addispams eye shapes, upside down hearts near DOS Strikethrough and Blackout, and in the heart shaped crack on Addispam's chest in the bonus art.

The star and upside down triangle seem the closest connected to AddiFell, showing up on his glasses lens multiple times. The star must also be connected to a horseman as it was in Beauregarde's letter. However, the star is also connected to DOS Strikethrough, as it is literally the shape of her glasses lenses. The sickle and hourglass have yet to show up on anyone, but I think that one or both will show up on Brackets as we get to know him more.

The player connecting screens

This one caught my interest with DOS Strikethrough. We didn't get a player connecting screen with Addispam at the very start of the blog, the screens only showing up with AddiFell Blackout and DOS Strikethrough. Brackets didn't get one, which leads me to believe that like Addispam, he's been here the whole time and we just didn't know it. AddiFell loaded in on his own, which makes me believe he has more willpower, or Determination than DOS Strikethrough, who had to be called on multiple times to load in. This could also relate to her being a DOS program, and possible older than the rest of them. I don't think she's too much older than the rest though, since Blackout was canonically loaded in through a floppy disk, a very old form of file storage.

The eye and glasses colors

I don't know why this wasn't brought up, but there seems to be some meaning to the color changes on the characters aside from just aesthetic choices. What made me start thinking this was when Addispam was panicking about his boss visiting. His eyes went fully red. Who else has red eyes? Blackout. Blackout was also hinted at much earlier in the blog with the offer of a commemorative ring, and with Addispam dressing like him when prompted with "Dressing how a shady salesman would".

Then, Addispam's glasses went blue when he was extremely stressed out. Who else has glasses that go blue under extreme stress? AddiFell. Who has blue glasses constantly? DOS Strikethrough. She also happens to have had her eyes turn red when in great distress as well, which happened shortly before she overloaded and crashed completely. I believe that the blue glasses are a representation of bluescreening, especially since Addispams glasses actually did bluescreen in an older post, and that the red eyes might be horseman related, considering Blackout, in his new Spamtony body, has naturally red eyes.

The phones

Throughout the blog, phones are surprisingly underused, but when they are used, they're very important. There have been four types of phone on the blog, a black phone like on Spamtons shop screen (Used only once), a red phone of the same type (Used only once in the same art), a red 80's style brick cellphone (Used constantly), and what appears to be a black modern cellphone (Used by Randy and Bean).

The red 80's brick cellphone is used the most often, shown with both Addispam and Bean which draws a connection between the two. It also draws a connection between Addispam, Bean and Randy, who judging by the fact he worked for Deltatech, a computer company seemingly based in the 80's and 90's, lines up perfectly. I'm not fully certain what the symbolism is for the phone, but it is most commonly shown during times where the characters are stressed, afraid or alone.

The bugs

And I don't mean computer bugs. On the blog, we've had two direct connections between the characters and bugs, Blackout being directly connected to spiders in multiple posts, and AddiFell oddly enough being connected to cockroaches in two posts. I feel like there's something more to this, especially when we also have Addispam being compared to a butterfly in one assk in the past. There might be some bug symbolism to look into here, and with how DOS Strikethrough acts with AddiFell, I won't be surprised if she gets connected to a black widow or praying mantis later on.

The other characters

This is where things start to get a bit foggy. We know for certain that there are more characters than what we have seen on the blog. We know about Beauregarde Spamton through his letters, and his great-grandfather is hinted about in that same letter as well. Mike, Tenna, Florence and Beatrice are also hinted at in those letters. We have seen one picture of Lena Gaster and Austin Spamton. Austin is brothers with Beauregarde, but Lena is still more of a mystery. We have also had Bean and Randy's cousins hinted at, a man and woman, and we have seen Randy's dad Randall in one post.

I believe that there are both more Spamton's and Gasters coming, and I also believe that these two possible families are in some sort of ongoing fight, which has trickled down to Addispam and the others. Here's why.

Addispam and AddiFell definitely seem more connected to the Spamtons, with AddiFell having the exact same white hair streak as both Beauregarde and Bean Spamton. His design is also a mirror of Addispam, with his suit being red, black and yellow, mirroring Addispams yellow, red and white. AddiFells suit also shares similarities with Austin Spamton's suit. Addispam and AddiFell seem to get along very well, unlike AddiFell, and DOS Strikethrough.

I believe DOS Strikethrough falls into the Gaster family, the most important visual indicator being her eyelashes, which match the cracks on Gaster's original sprite. Her attitude and cruelty are opposite to Addispam and AddiFell, which I believe must come from Lena Gaster, and whichever other Gasters exist. There is also the other visual indicator of her hair matching Lena Gaster's hair.

The bonus art

This is where the stealthiest, most unlikely lore tends to keep popping up. We got to see Addispams cracks and Randy Spamton both through bonus art long before either were properly introduced on the blog, which leads me to believe there might be even more hidden lore in the bonus art to look at.

The other blog

Finally, we come to my last analysis point for now, the other blog. "@poorlydesignedads" is the name of the sideblog, and while it has been inactive for a while, the few questions it has answered along with the pinned post tell us a lot of stuff. First off, when you go to the blog, you are welcomed to your "QUEEN personal home computer" which seems to already have software installed. The software? Adware (Addispam), Ransomeware (AddiFell), Cleanware (DOS Strikethrough), and Shareware (Brackets).

They all sport much more simplified designs reminiscent of early digital helpers you could download on computers and the types of software line up with the Deltatech tape that was posted on the main blog. Well, all except for AddiFell. AddiFell is not computer software you would intentionally download, and isn't shown in the Deltatech tape either, which makes me believe he was developed to mimic the others for malicious purposes.

Well, I would say that, if it wasn't for DOS Strikethrough. In the Addispam blog header, right as you first click into the blog, it lists out "[[Used]] Car salesman", "[[Black market]] Dealer", "[[Rogue]] Cleanware", and [[OpenSource]] Friend."

I believe that we have been misled. I think that DOS Strikethrough is the real Ransomware, and that AddiFell is the original Cleanware. DOS Strikethrough, as we already know, lies, covers up things she doesn't want shared around, and puts up a cover for everyone she meets until she hits a breaking point. AddiFell doesn't do that, he is who he is, for better and for worse. With the sheer amount of control DOS Strikethrough seems to have over him, it's not that hard to believe that she's the real malware.

But what about the Deltatech tape? It shows DOS Strikethrough right in the video! Well, that's very easy to answer. We have seen Addispam hop back and forth between a more masculine and feminine appearance easily on the blog and even in the Deltatech tape, we see a male and female Addispam. It's not that farfetched to believe that as malicious software, DOS Strikethrough could change her appearance, and change AddiFell's appearance. She could make herself look like the official cleaning software, and make him look more like a virus.

We already know she's altered his appearance already with the large cracks covering the left side of his face and his neck as said by both Addispam and AddiFell, so it's only a small leap to assume she might have done even more.

Finally, the last noteworthy thing on the sideblog, is Brackets himself. He was introduced here a long time before he showed up on the main blog, and it supports my earlier belief that he is mute, as he uses sign language to communicate on the blog. It just goes to show, he might have been here far longer than we realize.

Analysis to be continued later!

[fairdelirium1898]

The Black Album - Nothing is as it seems

I'm calling it that, as I can't figure out how in the world to pronounce DCEOLMTPAUTTEECRHS, so I'll start with the track titles, then look at the album cover.

Putting a cut here for length reasons.

Erratum - AddiFell

Looking up the definition on google, Erratum is a noun meaning an error in printing or writing. I think this fits with AddiFell perfectly. He is shown through the art and his theme to have common errors and glitches, through Strikethrough still tops the list on that. The word Erratum may also describe how AddiFell feels about himself - a mistake.

It has been shown in a previous post that he would welcome death, or some form of it, which combined with DOS Strikethrough's hinted and explicit treatment of him, leads me to believe he has very low self-esteem. Poor guy. Still, the theme is more than his insecurities. The beginning is a light, Windows 95 startup sound. This relates to the soft spot he has, for Addispam and others. The rest of the song is very harsh, which I believe relates to how he presents himself - as a threat. A big threat. Looking at previous posts, it shows that his attacks are weak, but his defence is massive, which doesn't exactly line up with being a threat.

But it does line up with AddiFell's outward cruelty. It's all a show to protect himself. Likely from DOS Strikethrough the most.

Simulated Sympathy - DOS Strikethrough

Next up we have DOS Strikethrough's theme "Simulated Sympathy". What better way to describe her. She has been consistently shown as two-faced and manipulative, and the title of her theme is just a further reinforcement of that. She's faking sympathy for everyone and everything.

Her theme, like AddiFell's, is heavy, but hers has a more urgent tone to it, along with a much more melodical synth throughout. I think this lines up with how she wants to be seen as someone to trust, but that there is an underlying threat throughout, right down to her core. Essentially, her theme is trying to be the opposite of AddiFell's theme and she's succeeding at it.

But we know better.

Glamorous Overload - Addispam

Next up is the theme of who I used to think was the main character, Addispam! His theme sure screams for attention though! With a heavy mix of Mettaton's Death by Glamour and hints of Big Shot, it is easily the most attention grabbing song of the lot, which fits with his character perfectly. I mean, why wear a bright yellow suit if you aren't trying to be seen? "Glamorous Overload" is a perfect title, the song is exactly what it says on the tin!

His theme is the most moderate of the four, being a balanced mix of heavy bass and light synths. This fits with what we have seen of Addispam so far, he doesn't really hide who he is, he shows everything, even the less than favourable sides. Overall, I think his theme shows that while yes, he is capable of violence, he is also capable of sweetness, similar to Mettaton, whose bassline he borrows.

Connection Pending - Brackets

Finally, the newest theme of all, Brackets' theme "Connection Pending" is easily the oddest of all four themes so far. It has the lighter synth as the focus, however there is a consistent bassline and doubling of notes that can make the song feel heavier in parts without changing the song structure in the slightest. This leads me to believe that like Strikethrough, he is hiding his real threat level, along with the Freedom motif being present in his theme only.

The dial up sounds make a return here along with hints of Big Shot and the main focus, the Freedom motif. Honestly, Brackets is giving off the same feeling for me as the secret bosses of Deltarune do when compared to the other characters. He's someone we specifically had to seek out, and now that we've found him, he's the odd one out in the group. I think we need to look into him deeper, there's something we're missing.

DCEOLMTPAUTTEECRHS - The Album Name

Mun Atari, I mean this in the most respectful way possible, HOW DO YOU INTEND US TO PRONOUNCE THIS???

Now that I've got that out of my system, let's look at the obvious. It's a mashup of the words Deltatech Computers, just alternating every other letter. What is catching my attention is the album cover itself. So its the logo for Deltatech, along with the name, but it looks like there is binary code behind the text and logo. On desktop, it's barely visible, but it's visible enough to see the binary is most likely:

01001110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01110011 01100101 01100101 01101101 01110011 00101110

Which when translated comes out to "Not everything is as it seems."

Deltatech Computers is clearly integral to the plot of this blog, and by extension, Randy Spamton. I want to know where this is going so badly!!!

Deltatech Computers - Nothing is as it seems.

[addispam]

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[fairdelirium1898]

CLOWN NOISES SPOTTED

So, this is wild, the first and only time we hear the Deltarune Freedom motif, and it's with Brackets, the one character we have been repeatedly told is NEVER seen by the others, enough that AddiFell calls him a ghost.

We have a return of the dial up connection sounds, and overall, a cleaner sound compared to the other themes, meaning that during the song, the sounds aren't layered as heavily. With the dial up sounds, that would theoretically connect him more to AddiFell and 1997, but as we established with DOS Strikethrough, he could also be connected to 2001. Since he is the youngest by process of elimination, I'm going to put him in the 2001 camp.

I can't help but wonder whose theme we'll get next. I believe it will be Blackout's theme, as he is the last Addi-like person before we get into either the horsemen of the apocalypse or the human characters. I can't wait to see!!

[addispam]

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[fairdelirium1898]

METTATON!?

Okay so I was not expecting to hear Mettaton's riff for Addispam, but yeah, that tracks. So, what can we analyse about Addispam's theme?

So, Undertale was released in 2015, but Deltarune likely takes place earlier than that, by how far, I have no idea. It's early enough that Mettaton does not have his cool body yet, so Death by Glamour isn't a thing yet. Weird. This could put Addispam in the realm of 2000, closer to DOS Strikethrough. In the ages post, he is listed as being younger than her by .5, so half a year. I think that this would also put him as being created in 2001.

In that post, Addispam also mentions that he's not the youngest, which means that Brackets is, and that AddiFell is the eldest. Neat!

I also noticed that Addispam's theme is the first to be completely absent of computer sounds, and his theme seems to be the most "Complete". I put this in quotations as all of the songs are definitely complete, but this one just feels more coherent compared to the other two so far. I think this has to relate to the fact that his soul shard is the largest, meaning he has the most of himself still intact.

[addispam]

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[fairdelirium1898]

Okay, so DOS Strikethrough is her canon full name!?!?!?

Regardless, analysis time! So, the Tetris theme is here? Tetris was released in 1984, which tracks timeline-wise that she could possibly know it. That could be a connection to her obsessive need to perfect and fix things, as shown with how she acts around AddiFell and Addispam. At the end, we can also hear another computer sound, what seems to be a glitched version of the Windows XP shutdown sound.

This is really, really weird. So, AddiFell was likely released in 1997, with all of the context clues we have been given, but I was not expecting DOS Strikethrough to be connected to 2001 (Windows XP release date). She has been connected to DOS (The last DOS computer being released in 1998), through looking at everything, 2001 makes more sense for DOS Strikethrough.

One of the main pieces of evidence for this is her bluescreen. The bluescreen matches the one used for Windows XP, down to the shade, and with an earlier post listing her as younger than AddiFell, 2001 seems to fit.

I have another theory though. Maybe DOS Strikethrough doesn't stand for "Disk Operating System" like I originally believed, but "Denial of Service". In 2001, there was a DDos attack specifically named "Code Red". Who else is red? AddiFell. This fits perfectly with my theory of her being malware, specifically, a worm, which Code Red happens to be.

[addispam]

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[fairdelirium1898]

OMG SO THIS IS A NEW POST FORMAT I GUESS

Okay right off the bat we have what sounds like the Windows 95 startup sound, along with dial up connection sounds. That gives us an extremely narrow span of time where both of these could comfortably exist. Windows 95 was, obviously, released in 1995, and dial up was introduced in 1992 and phased out in the 2000's.

This leads me to believe that AddiFell's theme, and AddiFell himself were created sometime between 1995 and 2000. Additionally, we also know that Randy worked at Deltatech, likely leaving after the bombing in 2000. This could put AddiFell's creation in 1997, canon Spamton's favourite year.

I also think that the reason we hear the dial up connection sounds play multiple times is because of both the fact that Broadband, dial up's replacement was first created in the early 2000's. The repeated connection attempts could be because AddiFell is just unable to connect to anyone anymore. The other reason, I believe, is because of DOS Strikethrough. I mentioned in the motifs post that I believe she's the real malware, rather than AddiFell, and because of this, maybe she corrupted his program while swapping their appearances and program abilities, leading to him being unable to connect to the internet anymore.

[addispam]

Bonus art!

[fairdelirium1898]

I swear on god, is this BracketsNeo????

It's tagged Brackets, but OH MY GOD.

First off, the purple and gold match, and as I suspected, we get to see the hourglass symbol in his eye, which now ties him to a horseman of the apocalypse though I'm not sure which one yet. We also have his teeth matching AddiFell's.

I also notice that Brackets is in a similar pose to AddiFell Neo in the other bonus art post, but he looks less trustworthy. It might be the vaguely heart shaped eyes that are messing with me though haha.

Once again, we have a bluescreen being connected to one of the characters, meaning that Addispam, AddiFell, DOS Strikethrough and Brackets have all now bluescreened at some point. I wonder what this means connected to the computer they are in, and if it affects the other characters such as Queen.

[addispam]

Bonus art!

[fairdelirium1898]

I'M SCREAMING- DID WE JUST GET A CLEAR, CANON PICTURE OF NEOFELL!???

There are small shapes on the back that match the parts where his wings seem to come out, and the curved gold piece on the front also matches the one we see in the post where someone mentions angels to AddiFell. There is the gold spot on the upper cheek, same as usual, the same white hair stripe, and pink eyes again!!!

Granted, they aren't stars as I expected, but the color still matches!

Why does he have an axe? Who gave him an axe???

[addispam]

Bonus art!

Updated Addisons art! Been a long time since I posted bonus art lmao

[fairdelirium1898]

OH. MY. GOD. Look at me going and pointing out the lack of Addisons, only for Mun to go and post new Addison art hahaha!

So Yellow no longer has a mullet, Pink's hair has changed slightly, and they are now wearing green under their suits instead of white. They all also now have heels on. I can't lie, it absolutely feels like they would wear heels just to tower over Addispam even more. I do wonder how they play into the story still!!

[addispam]

[Brackets has been sent a letter that says hello!]

The letter has been received.

[fairdelirium1898]

Okay, so we finally get to see Brackets, and he has no player connecting screen, and has the opposite hair pattern as AddiFell. Has he been here the whole time, and since we never really talked about him much, he didn't have to load in like the others? If that's the case, then why didn't Addispam have a player connecting screen when the blog just started. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, is it just me, or did Addispam change?

He seemed a lot more unhinged when the blog started, and mellowed out the longer it went on. I'm wondering if this has any significance to AddiFell and DOS Strikethrough later joining, the both of them being much more hot-headed than Addi.

Anyway, it looks like b/rackets is going to be the complete opposite of AddiFell. Where AddiFell talks a lot, Brackets seems to be mute. Where AddiFell is easy to anger, maybe Brackets will be much calmer? Only time will tell I suppose.

[addispam]

Hey Bean! Randy! Do you have any more flash drives to load on your weird computer?

"I've got tons of old drives just laying around, Randy's got the pc. I'll mail him what I can."

[fairdelirium1898]

So Bean has floppy disks, and Randy has a computer that takes them. I think we should look into this more. How many floppy discs does he have, and are there any other Addispam adjacent people on them?

[addispam]

hello :)

"Hello."

[fairdelirium1898]

Whoa hey whoa whoa why does she kinda look like Blackout from those early posts here??? She looks like she's going to eat that soul I swear. Also, her lens shape changed slightly? Looks a lot sharper.

[addispam]

Fell I couldn’t help but notice that your soul contains a little sliver of Addi’s. Based on the diagram you provided; I’m not sure if that’s something to go off of, but it’s a bit intriguing. though their could already be an explanation for it.

"It's a... Remnant of an experiment that went really, really wrong. We thought they'd fit together based on shape. They did not..."

[fairdelirium1898]

Triangle lens again. Also, what experiment? Judging by their soul shapes, and the fragment of Addispam's left in AddiFells, I think maybe they tried to fuse their souls together for a more complete one, and it failed.

[addispam]

I dunno maybe Randy left you guys more stuff

"There's nothing left worth searching for."

[fairdelirium1898]

Nothing "worth" searching for? That could still mean there's stuff to see. It definitely looks like we should do the opposite of whatever DOS Strikethrough says. Also, they are aware of Randy and the outside world, but do we know if Randy is aware of them? Was that ever established?

Edit - No, no it was not.

[addispam]

......So about what Addi said

"What use is a password without something to unlock? Especially a password so... Familiar."

[fairdelirium1898]

So a password with nowhere to enter is, or at least DOS Strikethrough says there's nowhere to enter it. I don't think we should believe her since she has a pattern of obscuring the truth on things, and straight up lying to people's faces. It also doesn't look like she can understand the code that Addispam can speak, which is what I already thought. She probably knows a lot more than she lets on.

Edit - Why is the password specifically Delirium?

[addispam]

That’s is true, but if you’re pieces are made out of bits… hmm could it be possible to somehow replace it with something similar?

"Maybe. Here's what I'm working with."

[fairdelirium1898]

Okay so there are percentage values here, 50% A, 15% AN, 15% J and 20% R. This has to mean something, and that's not even touching on the Addispam fragment there. Maybe Austin is the 50% A in the fragment percentages? There seems to be a strong connection between him and AddiFell, but that still leaves what the rest could possibly be. It also leaves the mystery of how his soul was shattered.

[addispam]

hhhhhhHHHHHEY I WENT TRANSLATING THAT TAB AND GOT SOMETHING

"HE DID. HIS PASSWORD IS THEIR FUCKING LAST NAME. I SWEAR TO GOD IF I FIND ONE MORE THING IN THIS CITY LOCKED BEHIND SOMETHING LIKE THIS, I'M GOING TO SHIT A PIANO-"

"Oh my god. Access granted. Oh my fucking god."

[fairdelirium1898]

Alright so we have seen two of those symbols already, hearts with Addi and Blackout, stars with Fell and Strikethrough, where are we gonna see the hourglass and Sickle. Maybe with Brackets later?

Edit - We have a few Brackets posts now and neither have shown up yet, but I'm going to be watching. Will be making a big theory post soon. Additionally, is it just me, or does that depiction of Mike kinda look like Blackout?

Edit 2 - So Tenna's are also mentioned here, with Austin Spamton's wife (Austin is not a Gaster, he is officially Beauregarde's brother in this letter, so my mistake) being called a "Tenna". What does a Tenna do? What does a Mike do? They seem to be confirmed as being entities and not individual people, and they seem to have supernatural powers according to Beauregarde and his great-grandfather. I'm wondering what his great-grandfather has to do with this since it's said that this letter is based off of his notes.

Again we see the heart and star motifs here, and I'm really starting to think that they are connected to the horsemen of the apocalypse. The heart is connected to Blackout, who we know is a horseman though not which one, and I believe that the sickle would most likely go to death, leaving the other two undecided. What do the horsemen of the apocalypse have to do with Beauregarde, his family, Addispam and all the others?

This got so complicated so fast I swear. There's probably even more in this letter that I'm missing.