ello, i'm ollie!
aka just some person with internet access
i tend to do stuff with art, and also talk about random stuff i like sometimes
username is a bit of a joke, i usually take 'swiftlydying' but i can't so say hello to hastilyperishing i guess
yknow ive heard people mention the "pink and blue could mean kris and susie" thing but... susie is purple. it's not even about the on screen colors, everyone calls her purple, she is specifically purple and never pink. kris is referred to as blue sure, but susie is never pink!
i do definitely believe it's a trans thing, but even if it weren't, i don't think it would be about susie. kris has pink on their dark world design, it could easily just be referring to them alone, particularly since they're the one whose opinion is being fretted over... but even then, that's making the drink voucher bit about the other trans party member, lol
i mean, susie's color does shift a bit more towards pink in the dark world compared to her design in the light world, but that's still a really good point to bring up!
it could definitely refer to kris alone, i mean chapter 2 has the character-specific tea variants, but i do agree that it's very likely a trans thing
it's like 6 in the morning and my brain has kept me up all night thinking about random deltarune theories so i need to write something down somewhere to nobody in particular or else i will explode
mild warning that whatever i write below will probably most likely not be proofread at all and is likely to just be mindless/baseless ramblings, and also spoilers ahead
(it's about the trans ralsei theory, i love it and REALLY want to support it but i also have one or two conflicting thoughts about it for whatever reason, my brain is prolly wired wrong because it should be so fucking obvious that he/they're/she's trans but my brain throws 'what if's' in)
so like, deltarune chapter 5. my playthrough was just the normal (pacifist?? idk) one so i'll just pick and choose what moments i remember
we start with ralsei tumbling out of a wardrobe/fancy closet in the new dark world. how subtle, toby
i think he uses he throughout most of the chapter, with a few questionable moments you can find like ralsei wearing a dress in the climbing thingamathing in castle town, but normal ralsei stuff
and then we hit the scene with ralsei and flowery alone. ralsei is praying for everyone else (probably not for himself, knowing him) and flowery 'barges' in, i vaguely remember that flowery probably tries to guide him away from the prophecy/religious stuff and i think also tries to guide him towards being his own person before giving him free drink vouchers
speaking of the drink vouchers, they're blue and pink. hm. sure, they could mean anything, they could also symbolize kris and susie, but i also find it interesting that it's the one ralsei had been keeping an eye on as many other people have probably pointed out
you know what else had pink and blue. the garden of hopes and dreams had quite a bit of it. also had some white mixed in there. prolly nothing i'm just pulling shit out of my ass
flowery also calls ralsei a 'princess' afterwards, which could just be him teasing/messing with ralsei but might also be something genuine
skipping towards the end, there's also the various times flowery calls ralsei and the rest of the fun gang out, along with flowery retaliating when ralsei says that he's pretending to be something that he's not
and then, after flowery's boss fight, not only does asgore refer to ralsei with they/them (which could also be him just being polite, i don't like to assume either so i get it), but the POWER section of the menu also refers to ralsei with they/them instead of he/him or calling them a prince
so yeah. there's definitely something up with ralsei. they aren't even referred to with they/them at ANY OTHER POINT IN THE PAST (as far as i'm aware), so it's likely to be quite important. also if you read this far i'm very thankful and also very sorry for the nonsense i'm about to say
ralsei could very much be transgender. they've always expressed feminine interests from time to time, even flat out saying "i've never been a princess before" at some point, but then i start to think
what if they're nonbinary? i have, like, ZERO evidence for this, i just always have this thought in my head that, if they were nonbinary, that'd technically just... work? maybe? it goes against the fact that the prophecy expects a prince, but also goes against it in another way by going completely against the binary that it expects. i also feel like ralsei has always been a little inbetween the lines when it comes to gender, so that's been a leading factor in my head
but hey. highly likely they're trans. less likely they're nonbinary. heck, ralsei could even be genderqueer or something else and i wouldn't mind. i'm just happy if this goat figures out who they are, whatever they may be. i want a happy ending for these characters no matter what and i love ralsei for the character that they are. ralsei could even come out as a horse and i'd support the little guy... they... girl... whatever.
i'd be surprised if anyone actually read this to the end but like i also wanna hear everyone's thoughts on stuff like this. i wanna know if there's anything i missed or better ways i could've looked at things, i dunno. i'm still new to this whole writing thing and i hope my thoughts came through well enough. i also hope this doesn't come off as like, propaganda for my own ideas or anything.
anyhow, thanks for listening, and i hope you have a good one
beat chapter 5 and feel like i'm having a love/hate relationship with the final boss so like. spoilers and a bit of a rant ahead
i think i agree with ralsei's opinion on flowery, the dude pisses me off just by existing (i even had to disable his voice clips because i got tired of them so fast, didn't think it'd matter until flowery not only pointed it out but straight up ignored it for one line of dialogue) but i think he was kinda cool in some aspects
makes me think of flowey but if he wasn't trying to kill you. dude's a good guy, doesn't kill you in his final fight unlike everyone else in the chapter, restores every item you used during his fight if you lost and even tries helping ralsei figure out some things about himself/themselves at some points
i find it kinda funny that i died to him ~12 times before just giving in and dumping every healing item and revivemint i have just to make it through his fight, and then not even 5 minutes later the knight comes in and just fucking kills(?) him with way less effort. really cool though that flowery even went after the knight after they took asgore, and even clashed with them despite not even having a weapon. dude tanked that shit with just his arm and a dream, given the knight caught him off-guard afterwards but STILL.
in summary, i think flowery is a good person but a bit of an annoyance occasionally and i hate him (affectionately)
also like i got a bit of a heart attack when he was first introduced. i thought my TV switched inputs when the anime intro cutscene thingy thing started playing, held down the HOME button to check, and nope. that was actually playing in the game. i thought tenna's intro was cool, but the flowery intro surprised me just by being in full 16:9 alone
