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I just saw your artwork of Deltarune from February and I love these ones you did with the paint style. I really want to try something like this with my own art! What brush did you use?
I saw the blue flower motifs and decided to make them a bouquet Kris gives asriel if they meet, mark my words they will end up representing something fucked up and evil and I make Kris give Asriel their trauma
Gave Kris a little make up and lipstick just to project a bit of my insecurity by making Kris absolutely slay in stuff that makes me insecure of being too feminine.
ALSO! also! also! also!
the brush is βShe Oakβ which comes free with one of the newer Procrate versions from a few months back, found it while doing the sleeve and used it everywhere, painting, rendering, detail, etc
This bingo consists of 48 different slots of things that can happen in the next chapter. Because it doesn't have description for all pictures, Im gonna write an explanation for each one (R is for row, C is for collumn).
I allow to download this for your own use but don't know if it would be useful without captions
R1C1: Completely new gamemode (Revamped old GMs doesn't count, however something like SWORD Kris mode does)
R1C2: Sans appears in the next Dark World
R1C3: Ralsei learns FireShock
R1C4: Tracks foreshadowed by Bibliox proofread act (ROOTS, FESTIVAL, SYNTHESIS, AMPHITHEATER) will appear in the next chapter
R1C5: Characters are confirmed to be scheming against the Player during "Close your eyes and think of.." sequences
R1C6: ANOTHER CONTACT (Like the one at the beginning of the game)
R1C7: There are gonna be humans other than Kris (Either at the festival or it will be confirmed that Dess is a human)
R2C1: Ralsei tells another truth about the Dark Worlds he was previously silent about
R2C2: Asgore-Titan theory confirms to be true
R2C3: There's going to be a character similar to Flowey or Chara in their behaviour and antics
R2C4: Snowgrave will have a completely different Dark World for us to explore
R2C5: Forgotten Man ark will be over in this chapter
R2C6: THE ROARING will happen at the end of the chapter
R2C7: Noelle will be playable once again, regardless of the route taken.
R3C1: There's gonna be a new, third battle theme
R3C2: Snowgrave will end on chapter 5
R3C3: Asgore Truck meme gets referenced
R3C4: There's gonna be multiple completely different Dark Worlds (e.g. ones in Asgore's shop and at The Festival)
R3C5: We will fight the second Titan in the next chapter (Also I think its ost will be called 'WARRIOR')
R3C6: Papyrus debuts
R3C7: Knight Rematch
R4C1: Mad Dummy ghost appears as MewMew in the Dark World
R4C2: Massive lore dump about Dess and maybe even her face reveal
R4C3: Seven flowers resemble seven human souls from UNDERTALE
R4C4: FREE SPACE
R4C5: Woody theory confirms to be true
R4C6: All floral themed designs we've seen so far are just a big red herring and the chapter itself will be much darker or even take place in a completely different location
R4C7: Susie's white pen of hope arc continues
R5C1: End of the "How long until she smiled?" ARG
R5C2: Carol and Asgore are the two final bosses of the chapter
R5C3: Jevil makes a cameo similar to Spamton (That's why he's also in foam on the pic lmao)
R5C4: TwistedSwrd will be obtainable in this chapter (i.e. Pure Crystal is obtained in this chapter)
R5C5: THE ROOTS theory confirms to be true
R5C6: Onion-san returns and their arc continues
R5C7: Kris loses his hand
R6C1: We find out, what Kris promised and what is their collusion with the Knight or Carol
R6C2: Ralsei will get his solo-battle with the next Secret boss
R6C3: FRIEND will have references to Japanese culture (Another Wachifield reference or Maneki Neko as people suggested)
R6C4: Asriel returns to Hometown
R6C5: Shadow Crystals are confirmed to contain DETERMINATION in them
R6C6: There is going to be a character alternative to Tenna
R6C7: The SOUL is transfered to Noelle's body at the end of this Chapter's Snowgrave route segment
R7C1: The sacrifice is made
R7C2: Rudy dies
R7C3: Asgore will defend the fountain, making him the final boss of this chapter
R7C4: More DEPTHS lore (Place where the Titans, their spawns and maybe other characters like FRIEND and the Roaring Knight come from)
R7C5: Kries and Susie will try retrieve the code from inside of Dess guitar in the next chapter
R7C6: The Vessel debuts
R7C7: The conflict over Noelle between Catti and Susie develops
i've been thinking about the implications of movie genres on deltarune for a bit now following the phenomenal carol holiday essay which briefly touches on asgore's affinity for cowboys and superheroes as related to them being genres where justice is really forgivable and simple, where one good guy stops bad guys for a just cause, and always gets the girl (even if he had to lie and kill to do it), and since then i've been also really intrigued with the other genre that gets a lot of attention in deltarune, actually Way More thus far, which is horror, and it's everywhere. because susie identifies with monster movie monsters (susiezilla) and noelle loves horror movies, and then you kind of see it everywhere.
i was recently raving about the use of horror in deltarune because it is often the subversive space, it's the space where villains and final girls dominate the footprint of the genre, and it's famously historically (very problematically) queer. because it was always telling stories that stood in for cultural anxiety, it depicted characters who were different and it's become an affirmative and often reclaimed and celebrated genre in spite of and because of its history. carol clover's Men, Women, and Chainsaws explores the nuanced relationship of horror and gender politics β one of the things i remember is the androgyny of horror in killers and survivors alike;
The Final Girl is boyish, in a word. Just as the killer is not fully masculine, she is not fully feminine... (...) Lest we miss the point, it is spelled out in her name: Stevie, Marti, Terry, Laurie, Stretch, Will, Joey, Max. Not only the conception of the hero in Alien and Aliens but also the surname by which she is called, Ripley, owes a clear debt to slasher tradition. (40)
clover was criticizing the genre for this (for valid reasons), but i think it's also this semi-androgynous soup of heroes and villains in horror, plus the fact that villains become the face of the film and girls become the heroes, and the whole thing is always a bit camp and hyperbolic, that they attract the disenfranchised as an audience. for a brief moment, the gaze might be flipped on its head.
a movie like Evil Dead 2 which is the blatant real-world "Blood Crushers 2" (susie hasn't seen the first, and the protagonist's severed hand attacks... Basement), is the reverse case. you have a male protagonist named Ashley (whom clover considers a "Final Boy"). the movie is a cult classic with a comedic edge, and Ash is doing all sorts of looney tunes-esque gags against his own hand. it's not a movie that takes itself and its protagonist as seriously as a western or an average superhero flick. that noelle and susie are attracted to horror instead is reflective of their worldview, where things that are scary or strange might not be.
and, also, i recently watched Aliens so thinking of the blatant xenomorph inspiration with queen's design has been really hitting. like oh... of course. the xenomorph, a species with a queen mother... a character who represents a maternal horror. the queen xenomorph is not really an intentionally malicious force as Aliens presents it, rather, just a mother making the logical conclusion towards protecting and proliferating its species/its offspring, a simple survival calculation. the queen only actively attacks ripley in vengeance. for dess and noelle, who watched horror together, and who both certainly have complicated relationships with their mom, the xenomorph imagery on queen comes through in what it means to have a monster mother. and it comes through in queen's behaviour, as she makes a calculation seemingly to do what's best for the lightners, even if it doesn't hold up under the human morality microscope.
just so much to think about with how horror and movie monsters get employed in deltarune, how they weave themselves into the story. how they stand as the angle through which noelle and susie can put a subversive worldview to words. susie aligns herself with the movie monster only to find out... she is maybe the final girl. i am also led to think about the framing of the girl as a second hero alongside the contradictory prophecy panel "And last, the girl / at last, the girl". I don't think i have a central thesis for this analysis, but it's very fun seeing the bits and pieces of a genre leaking its way into this game's story and having it mean something... quite subtle.
it's fun to think about going into chapter 5 that susie identifies so heavily with susiezilla, which goes without saying is a godzilla reference β the guy with a FAMOUS destructive beef with japan. chapter 5 will hopefully have a lot of interesting generic interplay in this regard....
