I don't know why people are acting like Susie and Ralsei ruined Kris's "big chance" with Pink, because if you choose "Gotta win" after they tell Pink they were just flirting to win the battle they literally turn to the camera and peace sign
Something that jumped out to me the first time I saw the cutscene of Ralsei attempting to explain menus to Susie is how Ralsei says "the enemy" instead of "an enemy".
I looked through the Deltarune text dump, and the phrase "the enemy" is used a lot, but mostly in places where it makes sense (When performing actions in battle on a specific enemy or during Ralsei's tutorial in chapter 1). However, there are two more instances in Deltarune where "the enemy" is used when "an enemy" would make a lot more sense:
Quite the peculiar collection. But for completions sake, lets also look into Undertale, as there are also multiple odd uses of "the enemy":
So, six instances in total from both games. Two From Ralsei, two from Chara at the end of the No Mercy Route, one from Noelle's title after using IceShock and one dialogue from a Froggit which honestly seems more like a grammar error where it's probably meant to say "the enemies' ".
Chara in the No Mercy route and Noelle in the Weird Route are already well established parallels. Giving Ralsei a shared quirk with both of them seems... concerning. But fear not, dear reader! For this is not a "Ralsei is secretly evil" post! Instead, I believe the use of "the enemy" is indicative of something else: Chara's and Ralsei's level of meta awareness.
(I'm leaving Noelle out of this for now as she doesn't seem to have reached the level of meta awareness of Chara and Ralsei yet, and her instance of "the enemy" comes from her title, not herself.)
Chara and Ralsei both understand that the world is a game, and through that lens I believe they view enemy encounters not as "someone ("an enemy") is fighting us", but "a battle has started, let's deals with "the enemy" so the battle ends". By that I don't necessarily mean that they don't view their enemies as people (though, end of No Mercy Chara certainly doesn't), but that they understand that every "battle" follows the same "system", and that to some extend it doesn't matter who's on the right side of the screen, the "battle" always works roughly the same and ends when "the enemy" is at 0 HP or doesn't want to fight anymore.
Of course, their meta awareness isn't the only commonality between Ralsei and Chara:
From this exchange, isn't it implied that Ralsei has "999 in everything", just like Flowery? At least that is how I interpret Flowery's response.
Except of course, Ralsei would have "999 in everything" as their real stats, and use "fake stats" to make them appear much lower, whereas Flowery does the opposite.
Speaking of... a golden Flower giving themself "999 in everything" to appear strong instead of showing his real stats:
Circling back to Ralsei and Chara, I don't really have all that much more to say about them, except that I'm really looking forward to seeing the full extent of Ralsei's power, and how Ralsei and Noelle will interact in chapter 6.
I'd think it's like a religious thing. Like how Christians always refer to a general "the enemy"
This perspective is quite backed up with ralsei praying in chapter 5. I mean, the undertale ones, maybe not so much. But ralsei saying it specifically strikes that thought in me.
You could go back in time. You could become king! Rule 100 kingdoms! Have your name praised, like a GOD! but the moment you come back to the present, you return to a world where you are a regular man (or, maybe moreso a scientist, for the scenario, but nonetheless) you rule NOTHING. the only time you're ever called by name is when your neighbor greets you, or when you visit your mom. Some will say that you can go back in time, but it will be empty, since everyone has already gone and left with the present. But let's be realistic, everyone will be there. It's time travel, not going to another dimension. You go to the time, and from that point on. You make your own branch in the ever splitting branches of the tree that I think time is. And when you return? You just leap from one branch back to your original one. And nothing ever changes. Time isn't a line, or a circle. It's a branch. A branch on an ever growing fractal like tree.
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