Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Deltarune (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kris & Susie (Deltarune), W. D. Gaster & Kris (Deltarune), FRIEND (Deltarune) & W. D. Gaster, FRIEND & Susie Characters: Susie (Deltarune), Kris (Deltarune), W. D. Gaster, The Man (Deltarune), unnamed background characters, Dess Holiday (implied), FRIEND (Deltarune) Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Pre-Canon, Character Study, Susie-centric (Deltarune), Susie Backstory (Deltarune), Susie (Deltarune) is in foster care, Foster Care, Susie Swears (Deltarune), Kris Plays the Piano (Deltarune), Susie wants to play the piano (Deltarune), Work In Progress, Slow Build, Introspection, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Neurodiversity, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, Religious Guilt, Bullying, Speciesism, Declawing (sorta), Nonbinary Kris (Deltarune), Therapist Gaster, They/Them Pronouns for Kris (Deltarune), The Man is Gaster, It/Its Pronouns for FRIEND (Deltarune) Summary:
Right before she learned to punch, Susie almost got to play.
Halfway through a miserable summer at some podunk church camp, a ten-year-old Susie takes refuge in their plaza’s piano. Peeled and sun bleached, it seems no one but her has any interest in the old thing.
Well. No one but her and that scrawny kid in the red-horned headband, who she knows has been sneaking out past curfew to play it.
And who’s that strange man always hovering over them, anyways?