Having seen some births now i can say that dog birth is amazing cos they just slip n slide out one after the other like a little conveyor belt. And theyre so little and unformed. And then UNGULATE BIRTHS ... are amazing for the opposite reason which is that 10mins after being born they are filing their taxes. Unless they are goats, in which case they are committing tax fraud instead
Goats are what is called a precocial species, which means that shortly after birth they are able to do many thimgs on their own, such as standing, walking, eating, and embezzlement
unfortunately for everyone asking me for more i CANNOT do any more fallen humans comic at the moment or my hand will fall off. as compensation here's how chara and asriel feel about each of them
obsessed with the au. fuck the skeletons 20000 charas. is it possible to get some more detail on how they feel abt the fallen humans/their kids theyre in denial are their kids
GO MY 10 THOUSAND CHARAS.
anyways yes lmfao here:
AQUA: definitely the hardest, mostly because she was also the first. She's WAYYYY too clingy for their liking, but because she's the first they're still WAY too scared to let her cling to any of their monster family, and thus they kind of become her de facto parental figure. This is not a good combination in any sense of the word. She does not respond well to yelling or discipline in general and chara has too short a fuse to be a gentle parent. it's a constant cycle of arguments and quiet non-apologies from both sides until they both finally figure out how to chill out a little, but neither of them really have a choice in the matter, so they make it work as best they can.
SETH: everyone really expects these two to get along because they're both fucking annoying little know-it-alls. unfortunately chara likes to be the only fucking annoying little know-it-all in the room and also is really really really bad at dealing with someone who is confidently wrong. as mentioned, asriel finds this HILARIOUS. he gets in trouble multiple times for deliberately instigating arguments between them because he figures out really quickly that neither of them will EVER back down once they've taken a side. toriel resorts to secluding them on opposite sides of the house and removing all the dictionaries from her bookshelves.
BLUE: chara really does not fuck with his vibe tbh. WAY too sincere and earnest and vulnerable for their liking. the idea of freely expressing themself in any form makes them physically nauseous. Blue clocks this immediately and attempts to very very gently pry that facade open whenever possible. occasionally it works but mostly it doesn't. Asriel becomes a somewhat valuable tool here because he's simultaneously The Only Person Chara Completely Trusts and also totally down to engineer a Situation. So blue can get him to go "oh come onnnnn chara you're such a good actor PLEASEEEEE be in this musical with us cmonnnnn" and chara will, almost without fail, give it at least one reluctant try. chara is fully aware that they are being manipulated into expressing themself but have yet to find a foolproof way to stop it from happening
YELLOW: the suicide joke was inevitable. But i do truly think that chara would be excited to have a Worse Kid to take the negative attention off them for a while. their parents have spent like 10 years getting really really uncomfortably tense and shooting them concerned looks any time anyone brings up the concept of flowers. finally they can worry about the kid with the revolver instead of chara for once. outside of that i think chara would just kind of. find him boring. it's not fun to mess with a kid that either doesnt understand what you're saying or will actually blow his brains out if you take it too far. they mostly leave each other alone with the exception of chara's occasional interactions with blue, in which yellow is essentially a booby trap for them to dodge because if they say anything too mean someone is going to get hurt lmfao
GREEN: literally nothing bad to say about them. they're kind of chara's ideal sibling in that they're quiet and chill. plus they introduce chara to a world of new uses for chocolate. chara very quickly discovers that they kind of suck at cooking (what do you MEAN you can't use the highest possible temperature for everything???) but they don't really mind just standing by and watching if it means they get something sweet at the end.
ORANGE: in my mind orange is the youngest of the fallen humans by a mile. like 3 or 4 years old tops. chara is NOT a maternal person by any means but sometimes a little baby clinging to you does things to your brain chemistry man. Despite being very young ory is pretty smart and talks a lot, and chara is one of the few people who doesn't talk down to her or otherwise treat her like a baby, which is REALLY important to her. she hates baby talk and she hates being condescended to, and chara, who was pretty much exactly the same way as a kid, has absolutely no problem just talking to her the same way they'd talk to anyone else. They're also weirdly incredibly patient when it comes to explaining things to her, partially because they like being the smartest person in the room and partially because they remember what it was like to be a little kid who nobody ever bothered to think about. The baby will be included in every single conversation and she WILL understand because she deserves to. they will die on that hill
after 2 years working outdoors all day i finally got stung by an onion for the first time yesterday and i wasnt even doing anything there wasnt even a nest nearby
I really, really love Susie and Noelle's scenes during the Holiday Manor segments of chapter 4. Not just in a yuri sense, but specifically because there's this little meta game being done with Susie, Dess, and her memory + how it's preserved and like... the Idea Of Undertale in our perception as an audience.
Deltarune is "A game you can play after you complete Undertale", right? Toby calls it that himself. It is steeped in the expectations we have from that game. Its characters. Its plot points. Its motifs. The impact it had on us as a story, both from the audience's perspective AND from the creator's. Back when chapter 1 first came out, Toby talked about his anxieties regarding this new project, and being unable to "make us feel what we felt with Undertale".
Watsonianly, in Deltarune's story, there is this insanely intricate web of small town drama and trauma and history between Hometown's residents.
...and in barges Susie.
Susie who is the new girl. Susie who doesn't know anyone. Susie who has no respect or attachment to the "mythology" of Hometown, both in a religious sense and in the sense of the history of the people who live there.
Susie who, in the manor, says she "never played the original dragon blazers". Only Dragon Blazers 2.
To me she feels like a sort of implicit allegory for the new Deltarune fan? The one with ZERO attachment to Undertale. Because they never played it or because they played it afterwards. The one experiencing THIS story for its OWN sake.
She's unshackled by the core theme of nostalgia that binds every other character, because the objects that inspire it in Kris or Noelle or Hometown as a whole, they mean nothing to her. They hold no sacredness, no significance. So she tramples over them. A sort of desecration through cluelessness.
Which is EXACTLY what she does with Dess' memory! With her room, kept perfectly still and unchanged in the years since she disappeared, her guitar shoved in the closet to gather dust.
These are objects that MEAN something, that hold an incredible significance, to Noelle and to Carol and what and who they lost. They're something that (presumably) Carol preserved in an obsessive need to hold onto everything left of her daughter.
And it stagnates. It's frozen. It's no less dead, just because it is preserved.
...and it's precisely by desecrating that reverence that Susie is able to breathe new life into it. To create new connections with Noelle. To quite literally Make Art.
Waltzing into Dess' time-frozen room, not giving a fuck, plopping down against her bed waiting for us to make noise. You can see Noelle warn her to leave the room untouched, but she follows her shortly after. The ice melts.
Later, grabbing the guitar. playing it (badly!) but playing it for the first time in actual years. Making Noelle laugh. Reminding her of her sister.
It... kinda reminds me of the reverence we as an audience have for Undertale as the original source material.
Think about it. Didn't Toby have to calm everyone down when he released chapter 1 and reassure us that playing Deltarune would leave the ending we got for undertale untouched? Because people would be preventing themselves from interfacing and experiencing and CONNECTING with a new story, with a new piece of art, out of fear of it affecting... the one they'd already experienced. the one in the past, the one they'd already finished and closed and left to sit untouched on their desktops ever since.
This aspect of Susie is the thematic beating heart of chapter 4. It's the potential, the fire Gerson sees burning in her eyes.
And it ties back to Susie's own trauma and abuse and her being forcefully cast as the villain. Someone bad, broken, not good enough. Someone who should keep her nose out of things outside of her range.
Her confrontation with Carol when she snatches the guitar from her hands... sure she might not know the history/the context/the """sacred texts""", and that CAN isolate her and negatively affect her ability to navigate the social situations in Hometown (and allegorically her artistic output. she can't play the guitar, the piano, or write all that well), but she HAS value. Her perspective has value just by virtue of being new, original, revolutionary, her own, something SHE and only she can bring to the table. And those can improve through practice, dedication, and support. Ralsei himself, while well intentioned, makes the same mistake by shutting her healing skills down.
Total knowledge and reverence for Dess' memory and the past has frozen the Holiday family (and Hometown as a whole) in the past. It's locked them in stasis. they know how things were. they know how things "should be". they cannot deviate. every week they worship a prophecy that dictates their past, present and future.
"Only then will the worlds will be SAVED". But should that really be the goal...? When you save a game, you preserve the things you've already done in it. The only thing you can do is overwrite it or start again. It's an inherently cryogenic process.
...In the game MOTHER 3, The Dragon is a mythological creature slumbering under the crust of the earth, kept in its sleep through 7 magic needles. The needles can only be removed by someone who knows the move PK Love, when its power is needed. Once the last needle is removed, the Dragon will follow the heart of this person, good or bad, by bringing on the apocalypse and destroying the world.
It's important to note that Chekhov's Gun was not originally about foreshadowing, but a piece of advice to playwrights about how every element in a play should have narrative relevance. The corollary to Chekhov's Gun is that if a gun mounted on the wall in act 1 is never used at all in the entirety of the play, then it should be omitted from the play entirely.
Very funny example of writing advice that is very specific to its medium getting overapplied outside its scope. Can you imagine how awful set design would be if people tried to apply this to movies. 60 minute post credits scene in the Matrix where Neo has to fire every gun that appears in the "lots of guns" scene
