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carnybytes

🩷❝...Of course we have tails!❞🌸🧡

sweetblueberrymuffin

A king and his flowers 💐

starleska

say what you want about Flowery, but Ralsei needed that flower to be the most arrogant, belittling fuck ever seen in a Dark World. he needed someone to bully him out of polite servitude and really express what he was thinking!!! and he needed someone to challenge the idea that the Prophecy is fixed and unchanging. that's why we should be putting respect on this flower's name!!!!! 🫡🌻💖

#the flower boy was right on all accounts idk why yall hating on him #deltarune chapter 5 spoilers

kyokyeo

Hello my name is Kris deltarune and this is my first lesbian heartbreak

thiscatdraws

Seth from Deltarune Ch.5 in my MLP AU! I think their relationship with Aqua is very cute…

again, I tried to make them look Not Quite Like a pony with their lack of nose and twisty horn heh

kalamik1tty

this is my chapter 5 vent art

remynisce

If it's what you ask for... If it's what you want..!

mmmmmmrmn

loving-jack-kelly

grace and rocky get to erid and both of them are hitting every eridian squarely in the uncanny valley because they've both absorbed so much of each other that they feel both too eridian and not eridian enogh. rocky faces in the direction he's paying attention to and it feels like he's trying to hide something, the way he and only he of the eridians seems to always be showing the same face of his carapace when he speaks to somebody. he speaks in metaphors that only make sense to somebody who understands light-based vision. his intonations are funny, rising on questions when they otherwise wouldn't, falling flat, his sarcasm goes to space dry and restrained and comes back with such force it almost feels like he's lying instead of joking sometimes.

and grace who is so alien, but reflects eridian mannerisms that they've never considered strange before but coming from a creature so soft and strange, it just doesn't feel right. grace who stomps his foot twice when he asks a question, and it rings out flat and dull instead of the strong, sharp sound of an eridian hand on the ground. grace whose voice is so alien, so one-note, so full of articulations that are sharp and round and everywhere in between, but who echoes the melodies of eridian poetry and music, sometimes on accident but sometimes perfectly in time with what rocky translates him as saying, and later, perfectly in time with his keyboard.

rocky and grace who mirror each other more similarly than they mirror their own cultures. who speak to each other in a strange pidgin eridian that nobody else quite understands fluently. who share jokes from movie and tv shows from earth filtered through eridian folktales, plays, and musicals until they only make sense to the two people who know both cultures. they're not strange to each other, but it puts other eridians on edge. even adrian, at first. they've changed each other, you see.

gooselycharm

theyre building up speed to travel to parallel universes

bumbl3-cl0wn

the amazing digital toy story 2: electric boogaloo

twilightofthesandwiches

So my read on the recurrence of the phrase “here we are” through Undertale is that it’s sort of… the ‘Good Twin’ for ‘But Nobody Came’, in a way.

“But nobody came” is a sentence used in instances of isolation and loneliness. Sometimes because one has been left abandoned and helpless in a traumatizing way

Or it could be because one is deliberately cutting themself off from human Monster connections and also killing Literally Everyone.

“Here we are”, is the opposite of this. It’s all about the ‘we’, it’s about that experience of companionship, about the act of making friends. That’s why it appears in every Dating Sequence in the game and other important bonding moments.

As well as our encounter with Asgore, as it’s basically the climax of the New Home/Undertale Story Time sequence that exists to make Asgore sympathetic to the Player and he has this sense of companionship and community with all of the Monsters.

It’s the title of the True Lab music track both because, well, on the one hand, despite how creepy it is, it is a Pacifist-Route Exclusive Location. Actually, it’s the location that ‘locks’ you into the Pacifist Ending. By reaching the True Lab, a Player has already proven their commitment to making connections and bonds with all of their monster friends.

But on the other hand, the True Lab can also kinda be said to represent the darker side of “Here We Are”. The Amalgamates are ‘bonded’ together, ‘connected’ on such an extreme level that they are stuck as one being. Incapable of ever alone again, incapable of being their own individuals again.

Of course, the True Lab and the Amalgamates is also the main appearance of the “But Nobody Came” motif for a Pacifist Playthrough. The horror of the Amalgamates’ situation is that they suffered through the worst parts of both “Here We Are” and “But Nobody Came”. Both bonded on such a level they cannot ever be themselves, but also hidden, lonely and isolated from their loved ones.

The Amalgamates’ happy ending is the game reinforcing the importance of bonds and the horror of isolation. Even the worst, most horrifyingly literal manifestation of “Here We Are” is better than being hidden and isolated and lost. And the right bonds can always improve the situation, make it not just tolerable, but good.

There’s kind of a Yin-and-Yang thing going on here too, the Pacifist Run embodies the idea of friendship and connections that “Here We Are” represents, and so that phrase appears over and over in that run. But the Amalgamates and the True Lab gives one a taste of the horror and isolation and loneliness of “But Nobody Came”.

The Murder Run is the embodiment of this disconnection of “But Nobody Came”, but there is just one little mention of “Here We Are”, the one and only connection the Player does make.

The only connection a Player has in the Murder Route is with this corrupted echo of Chara.

So with all of this said…

I dunno how I feel about the fact that “Here We Are” has such a small presence in ‘Deltarune’ so far. As of Chapter 4, past the halfway point, these words have only been spoken twice. Once during Asgore’s introduction, seemingly just because this scene is directly quoting from his introduction back in Undertale.

Which leaves the only ‘real’ Deltarune-specific use of “Here We Are” to be just this scene from the start of Chapter 2.

Of course, there’s at least some level of ‘balance’ being maintained, since “But Nobody Came” has also been used extremely sparingly so far (and also only on Chapter 2, interestingly enough).

But this relative lack of “Here We Are” still makes me worry on some level… Are we still waiting on a deeper level of interpersonal connection we haven’t reached yet? Is the amount of secrets the Fun Gang is keeping from each other stopping them from being truly genuinely connected?

Do “Here We Are” and “But Nobody Came” truly cannot exist without the other? The bonds being made meaningful due to having and rejecting the Choice of cutting yourself off from them? Is this why “Here We Are” is only mentioned on the Chapter that introduced the Weird Route?