only read this if you're 8ig enough to pass.
deltarune chapter 3 is my favor8 chapter. 8ut there's something in it i feel people are ignoring. i think it's cuz they're not 8ig enough.
8ut you, oh you my favor8est reader. you're 8ig. i can tell. follow me. let me guide you, through a reading that i feel many are glazing over. too 8usy talking a8out "meta" this "player" that. let's 8e a 8it 8igger.
it's past midnight. the lancer fanclu8 is having a wild time in tv land. they get past the first 8oard with an S rank! or even T! kris encounters a darkner. a darkner, made 8y them, in their house. it's their favor8 plug. his name is ram8. he's 8ritish.
he figures kris doesn't like the game. so he's prepped up the original game. the actual game. which, we will soon come to find, is most likely dragon 8lazers. makes sense kris liked this game a lot. and ram8 figures the thing kris really wants, is freedom.
this is something i can 8elieve. and i'm sure you can too. what with jevil and spamton 8oth speaking so heavily on freedom, the prophecy looming in chapter 4. i get a sense kris wants freedom just as much as any other character in this story.
the original game, has it. which makes sense. l8er on susie comments on how dragon 8lazers has a nice route and an evil route. tenna's game, o8viously don't got those. it's just got its puzzles and collectathons. like a game show.
huh. just like spamton. i 8et we're 8oth wondering what the freedom looks like. kris 8oots the game up and-
no controller. thankfully though, kris can find a controller just where they once were. it has pink and yellow 8uttons, strange. seems like something a friend would give to someone visting. a player 2 controller. very odd
the game finally 8oots up. and, it's a zelda like. kinda like the links awakening games. may8e it's alluding to the fact the dark world's are akin to a dream, like in links awakening.
even stranger all you can seem to do in them, is kill things and get stronger. wonder why this is considered the "freedom" game. did ram8 lie? the dark worlds are reflections of what the cre8tor perceives the world around them to 8e, as shown in chapter 4.
did kris perceive a power socket to 8e a liar? or just wrong? if the dark world makes things 8ased on the cre8tors perception, then why is dragon 8lazers free, and yet only a8le to kill things and find secrets? strange. regardless of all that.
kris eventually gets to the max level of strength, and is a8le to smash their way out of 8ounds and find the ice key. from this point on things get a 8it weirder.
in the second game, we repeat the loop. kris kills a 8uncha things to get a high enough level until they find the ice palace. inside is strange.
there's monsters you're not allowed to kill. there's mention of a "for8idden path" which 8egins with ice magic.
that sounds a 8it familiar. things get even more familiar when you find the white cloak mentioned 8y another room
damaging her makes her colors inverted. when you leave with her, she can freeze the unkilla8le monsters. every time you slash it makes her flash inverted colors. almost like you have to hurt her to freeze things.
the only way to progress is to freeze a 8lue 8ird. he 8locks your way if you don't. from there you need to watch the white cloak, see how she reacts so you can find
a door with red horns on it. red horns. like the kind kris used to wear, huh? kris uses up the ice key to open it. and in the process of that. more happens.
she is used up.
you find........ someone, hiding in the dark. their hiding place. 8ehind the horns door. 8ehind the weird ice palace.
deeper in, you find the shelter key. and the voice praises you for finding it.
and upon finding the key.
you were used up.
kris seems to think that someone else might've 8een 8ackstage with them. 8ut ram8 says no one was 8ack there. he was keeping watch the whole time. even tenna TRIED to get in, 8ut couldn't. was that really just a game?
ram8s 8ack. it seems like ram8 is turning to stone. like lancer and roulx did in the li8rary's dark world. weirdly enough, he seems to only 8e half frozen. the light from the game room shines 8righter than ever. almost as if that light is the only thing keeping him from turning to complete stone.
may8e this game is the only place where he "8elongs" the rest of tv-world has no place for him. may8e his socket was only used for dragon 8lazers, so he never had a context for the rest of tv world. might explain why no one liked him. regardless, we're not here for ram8. we're here for the game. it's what he would've wanted. we're at the final level now. it would 8e a shame to not see what's at the end. the last level and
it's different. it's a city level. with the ralsei and susie sprites following kris around. there's no enemies to kill. 8ut kris still needs to level up.
kris looks away when it happens. seems they don't wanna look at the act. i wonder why this exist in kris's dark world. l8er in, the last dungeon is hard. real hard. you find a lot of weirdly familiar things. a 8ig yellow monster that throws spears and is surrounded 8y seven flowers. a singing head thing that floats around. a fish surrounded 8y a 8uncha dinosaur looking things. even a 8lack monster that mirrors your inputs.
these seem familiar to a lot of things in kris's life. may8e it's pulling from kris's life for level ideas. may8e it means something more.
next we find tenna. musing to himself how he could 8e a 8ig shot like his old friend
tenna asks if he's gonna get turned off again. implying this has happened 8efore. even more reinforced 8y the fact that
kris kills tenna immedi8tly after. why does this game that's supposed to 8e a8out 8eing "free" have you have no choice 8ut to kill everything around you? may8e we can find some answers in the shelter
kris slows down. 8riefly turning up a few times. seems they're apprehensive a8out what's in the shelter. they've acted so weirdly a8out it 8efore around susie in chapter 2. what could 8e in there?
inside that voice shows up again. it seems to know kris. just like ram8. this was a game they prolly played a 8unch. would make sense it would have such a personal rel8tionship with kris. even if a 8it parasocial.
they comment that part of the reason why kris is doing all this, is for the fun of it. there's another reason. to get what they "want" whatever that could 8e. 8ut another part is, for fun. the same part that "enjoyed yesterday" in the snowgrave path.
and say, it wasn't really "kris" a certain level of dissonance from everything. almost like a game. kris makes a sour face, one of irrit8tion. 8ut this monster says it can see in the dark. perhaps, even in the dark parts of kris.
after the fact, the creature, i like to call it eram, says something was in kris's eyes. flickering red. "without play the knife grows dull" afterwards, you're given the shadow mantle. if you can reach it.
8ut it's too high up. you can't reach it. you're too small. if only. if only you could 8e 8igger. perhaps even.
8ig enough, to step inside. 8ig enough, to 8r8k the illusion there was a disconnect 8etween the game and real8ty. 8ig enough to not look away and ignore real8y. 8ig enough to admit the truth.
8ig enough to stop saying it wasn't really you.
that's at least, what i think. thanks for readin' all of this, 8ig shot. i hope you enjoyed it. remem8er to always 8e honest with yourself. have a wonderful evening. 8e careful with what you might find in the dark.
