Fangirl Nadir

Call me Nadir (nay-deer)! Not picky about pronouns, just not he/him. Mid 20s, Autistic, sapphic aro-ace

[fangirl-nadir]

Gonna try and keep spoilers to a minimum until the weekend, but anything I do reblog will be tagged with #deltarune spoilers!

Chapter 5 content will be tagged for two weeks, until July 8th! After that I'll be back to my usual lazy tagging methods

[krakatuksapartment]

My likes on tumblr look like this rn

[krakatuksapartment]

My likes on tumblr look like this rn

[latepivi]

yea

[iamwizzzzz]

[iamwizzzzz]

[theluckystarfish]

Hijacktenna plush

I wanted to make a plushie of @here1snyan Hijacktenna:) so with the material I had on hand i made him as a Tennaling ^^ and i,am very pleased with the end result. As with all plushies i made i use fleece, it's the best material to work with.

[here1snyan]

ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE HE'S SO CUTIES !!! ohhh i bet hes really nice and fuzzy Thank you so much for making and sharing I LOVE HIM!

[atomech]

Cowboy and his saloon gal guy 💙💛

[cheesycatz]

DELTARUNE SPOILERS!!!

Okay, I am not a good analysis person, but I have seen several takes that destroy Spamton's backstory in wake of the new Pink dialogue, so I wanted to hopefully course-correct that. The new lore we got does not drastically change Spamton's backstory, but adds onto it.

Mainly: Spamton is not currently hiding from FRIEND. He did not drastically change his appearance himself to hide from them. However, I think it's reasonable to say he was possibly chased at some point, as he provides advice on dealing with cats in his QnA and all cat element defending armors are related to him, with the dealmaker tied for the most reduction. In that way, he is doing what he can to protect Kris and co. from FRIEND, who is now targeting them.

Also, FRIEND is very much separate from Mike, and Mike may even have been or still is hiding from FRIEND, but that's more speculative.

(Here is a tumblr post with all of Pink's new dialogue, as a refresher)

Firstly, the appearance change line is most likely referring to someone (or multiple someones?) other than Spamton. The way he refers to being made into a living puppet heavily implies someone else turned him into one, along with his general hatred of being a puppet and desire for a new body (NEO). Spamton did not alter his appearance himself, though perhaps it could have made FRIEND lose attention regardless? We don't know for sure, as Pink doesn't say if changing your appearance actually works; we just assume it can because the cats aren't “too smart.”

Now, you could say Spamton's glasses are him changing his appearance to hide. However, if he did do this, it wouldn't have helped him escape. Placing the dealmaker on any of your party members does not prevent FRIEND from continuing to follow the party, who are being chased, so it probably wouldn't have helped Spamton on its own in that regard. However, his glasses do provide the best defense in the game against cat element attacks, which is noteworthy. *

Now, I want to get into more speculative territory, as the benefactor, mantle holder, whoever owns FRIEND, and why Pink knew them are a whole other mystery. I think Spamton may have been chased by FRIEND after signing the contract with Tenna. It gives him a clear motive to run and not come back if he was afraid of FRIEND chasing after him. For one reason or another, he is cut off from Tenna's contact and turned into a puppet. So far, we have not seen FRIEND outside of the dark worlds, and perhaps part of Spamton's motivation in becoming NEO (and, a lightner by extension) was to escape it by getting into the light world. All his previous motivations we knew about for NEO do still exist, there is just one more motivation possibly on top of it.

Pink says the cats get bored of chasing eventually, and I think Spamton is in that category. For a guy that reacts with extreme disgust at any CRT, he has a comparatively tame reaction at the question about his thoughts on cats in his Sweepstakes QnA. However, he gives “free tool tips” about how to deal with cats by describing how items can help you defend against elemental pairs, and the first one he mentions is… puppet/cat. No one asked him to do that. Spamton is not worried about dealing with FRIEND; he already has, and he gives advice on how others can deal with them. Every armor that gives defense against puppet/cat (frayed bowtie, true tie, dealmaker, and the mannequin) is heavily related to Spamton in some way. This could be because he himself uses puppet/cat attacks, but I think both can be true at once. Interestingly, dealmaker, the item most directly connected to Spamton, gives 40% resistance, the most out of any of the puppet/cat armors. (*Both it and mannequin were nerfed to 20% in chapter 5, but I think that's just a balancing thing like twin ribbon's nerf and not lore significant? The bomb attacks are the only Pink attack not reduced by them anyways so I don't know why Toby hates us waaah)

Lastly, I wanted to talk about Mike. We didn't get any new info on Mike, but the new info about FRIEND changes things. Namely, FRIEND=Mike is pretty much deconfirmed, and I think that's a pretty popular theory? We know that both Tenna and Spamton are fond of Mike, Spamton doesn't want revenge against Mike, Mike's room existed before the fake Mike's took over, and Mike is capable of communication, as he was able to warn Tenna about creating the Contract. None of this really fits for an evil pack of cats that hunts and bites you.

I propose that Mike is his own character, and he's not evil or anything. Why he's there, how much he knows, what he looks like… all of that, I can't answer. But, I wonder if he is the one in hiding. If FRIEND is why he disappeared one day from TV World. Did he take the fall for Spamton? Is he the reason Spamton gets to walk free, albeit still horrifically transformed into a puppet? Is Spamton a puppet because he evaded FRIEND? Is this why Spamton keeps what he knows about Mike close to his chest? For Mike's safety? Did Spamton get the Dealmaker from Mike to protect Spamton against cats, or did he make them himself??? I'm writing more fanfiction than theory at this point, but I think it's quite an interesting development in the Mike mystery, and I'm fascinated to see where chapter 6 may bring us.

I do think there's a big point to be made about how Kris is currently a target of FRIEND (It's been in every chapter since 2, where we enter the ROOTS adjacent basement… hmm…), as well as them and Dess following the tail in the past, but I wanted to focus more on Spamton (and Mike, since he's connected) so I could actually finish writing this little essay. I'm unfortunately not too much of a brainrotted Delta-spiracist so I apologize if I missed any notable details. Feel free to add on.

[viperiian]

Those TEETH, they BITE!

[homkamiro]

Some things just never change

[tennas-t-v-time]

SPAMTON ISNT MISSING EVERYONE IN CYBER CITY KNOWS WHERE HE IS THEY JUST DONT WANT TO TALK TO HIM

[tennas-t-v-time]

SPAMTON ISNT IN HIDING BRO HE JUMPS OUT OF A GARBAGE CAN AND LOUDLY ANNOUNCES HIS NAME!! HE CHANGED HOW HE LOOKED TO BREAK INTO THE MANSION.

[tennas-t-v-time]

like ok I think Spamton prolly has been nipped or bitten by friend before like there's connections there but I'll be so fucking honest I think Mew Mew was talking about the literal man in hiding that we never see and carries eggs around with him that she only talks about if you got an egg from him in the last chapter where you can get an egg from him

[pestolesto12]

Spamtenna Undertale designs!

[pestolesto12]

Reunion.

[glitchgirl0812]

I would project my period cramps onto flowery but he would probably say some shit like “I would gladly take this burden for a princess in need” or something and that takes the fun out of it

[sillysquid11]

got it, acting as antenna to project the cramps of my transmasc friends to him for extra pain

[whereintheworldisauniqueusername]

Even that wouldn't even work because if he learned that he was having a transmasc's period cramps projected onto him, he'd say some shit like "I'd never leave a fellow prince in such horrible pain" while the voice clip "My King!" plays, & at that point I'd rather just deal with the cramps myself

[snowfall-114]

[spamtenna-wartorn-au]

Aww mama Tenna cleaning her baby with her mandibles <3. Can we see more bug/animalistic Tenna? Like she’s a big buggy and deserves to scuttle around and get sugar

I hope this is bug enough! She's only ever met one other ant (as she lost her colony as a baby) so some things may not come to her as naturally, and of course she's also a graaaceful proper lady so she tries to carry herself a certain way! Still. She's a strange beast.

bonus of her not quite being bug but. Definitely animal. Brushing her fluff! (She enjoys it very much. Makes little happy chirps.)