I really like the tea party in chapter 4 it's cutes and implies ralsei is either really fast at completely restructuring a building or has some sort of space alteration magic
deltarune prompts!! didn't get around to participating in deltatober or deltavember, and i couldn't find any deltacember prompt lists on tumblr, so i made my own!!
Prompts + The bg by itself because I'm really proud of it under the cut
The Soul (your personal interpretation)
Vessel
Kris
Susie
Ralsei
Lancer
Noelle
Berdly
King (Intended to be Spade King, But can be any of them)
Rouxls Kaard
C. Round (or K. Round if u want)
Starwalker/Nubert (both or just one of them)
Queen (Meant to be Ch2 queen but can be one of the card ones)
Swatch
Tasque (Tasque Manager and/or just a Tasque)
Jevil
Spamton
Tenna/Mike (your personal interpretation)
Gaster
Hometown
Castletown
Field of Hopes and Dreams
Welcome to the City
Holiday Family (or Dess if u want)
Christmas/Free Day
Before the Story
Dreemurr Family
The Fun Gang
AU (On of your own or one by someone else that you like)
Sans Undertale?!
Free Day
if participating, it'd be cool if you tagged your art/writing with 'deltacember' so i can see it!! No need to ping me if u don't want to
Please reblog and like and click on image to see full just.....ahhhhh!
Based on Good Omens. No I haven't watched it but my friend nerded out about it to me so I know enough about it to put this together and say it fits plus she says it fits so I guess it does
it's the day before christmas... you know what that means?
it's dess deltarune day!!!
presenting, at long last, the dess holiday that lives in my head:
more drawings plus detailed design notes below the cut!! please click on the images for better quality viewing (they also all have alt text)
dess design notes:
- her fur and hair colors are picked from rudy's sprite, though i toned her fur color down slightly (and then even more so for her ??? form).
- her freckles, like how i draw noelle's, form triangles as a not-so-subtle reference to the delta rune. that being said, i draw noelle's freckles as oriented the other way, one of a few small ways in which i have their designs mirror but differ from each other (the others being: both having bangs but swept in opposite directions; and dess having buck teeth like noelle but rectangular instead of rounded)
- i didn't give dess antlers because of that line from sans in ut where he refers to "the antlered girl and her big sis" rather than "the antlered girls/sisters". instead, i gave her those hair tufts that are meant to look like horns, as both a parallel to kris's horn headband that they wear to try and fit in with their family, and as a bit of devil symbolism to contrast noelle's whole angel thing.
- i messed around with dess's light world outfit color pallet for a while. for example, i had her jacket be green for a bit so that between that and the skirt we'd get the main christmas colors. i eventually went with having her jacket be red too to make the design as a whole more cohesive. i wanted her to be wearing mainly warm, firey colors cause that feels like it matches her personality from what little we know about her so far.
- the jacket was conceptualized as a hand-me-down from rudy, but in the coloring process i had the idea that it would be neat if azzy had a matching green one (recycling that discarded element of dess's design). perhaps his could be a hand-me-down from asgore?
- the jacket turns that dark purple color in her ??? form because...
look, there's a few things i could say, like how it would probably make more sense gonerfication-wise for it to have turned pure black but then that wouldn't stand out as much in dark environments, or how purple is red+blue with the blue coming from water/ocean theory (don't ask (or do)), or how the general use of purple is a callback to the ??? dark world...
but in truth, it's because i like purple and i thought it looked cool. the main intended meaning is that she's in a cold, dark place now, so the warmth has, mostly, left her pallet.
oh, also, because susie's purple, and it def feels like there are gonna be parallels between dess and susie. jevil too, by extension.
- i gave dess's shirt five stripes, even though by the age she is here she's probably outgrown striped shirts (not that that's stopped kris), as a visual reference to a music staff! cause, ya know, she seems to be a musician. the reference is a lot more obvious in her ??? form with the black and white shirt, as that's where it originated.
- i gave her the skirt with the shorts underneath them because i already had in mind that in her ??? form she'd wear that half-skirt half-shorts piece. the idea is that when she falls into the code or whatever, that element of her design gets mistranslated and the two clothing items are scrambled together.
i also already knew from an older version of her design that i wanted it to have a chessboard-like pattern cause of chess's potential as a motif in dr - and also cause black white and grey as a color scheme is associated with gaster and the goners - so having the light world version of it be flannel/plaid just, fit.
- on a similar note, the darker and grey patches in dess's fur in her ??? form are meant to both contribute to a somewhat glitchy aesthetic and hint towards her ongoing gonerfication. i then had the idea as i was messing around with them that there should be grey specifically around her facial features to mimic skull face paint!
- the whites of her eyes going dark in this form ties into the idea that "only eyes blinded by darkness can see the way", as well as referencing jevil specifically, and her pupils are shaped like save points because they're the light that breaks through the dark. it unintentionally works pretty well as a metaphor for where dess is at: being trapped in the dark for so long has caused her to lose a lot of her hope and fire, but there's still a speck of light that she holds on to. eyes really are the window to the soul ;)
- back to dess's outfit(s), cause i skipped over the scarf. in my older version of her design, i had her wearing an unraveled bowtie or ribbon around her neck, a clothing item that had been part of her mom-approved formal attire. i switched it out with the scarf because a) winter vibes, and, b) more importantly, because i could have it do this in her ??? form:
that's right, wings! only under Certain Conditions, but, wings! cause, uh, angel stuff, and, i mean, come on. wings!!!
the split diamond pattern is again, though less obviously, derived from the triangles featured in the delta rune. the added dots in her ??? form are meant to make the diamonds look like eyes, especially if you turn them on their side. just to add another touch of spookiness.
and the scarf is purple in both her designs mostly as an extra justification for where the purple in her ??? form comes from, like it's the one color she got to keep, and to strengthen the continuity between the two versions of her.
- while we're here, it took me a while to figure out what symbol should go on the back of dess's jacket. what i eventually decided on is a slightly modified version of the black symbol to the right in that drawing, which is apparently used in sheet music for piano to denote when the player should release the sustain pedal. i chose it less for its specific meaning and more so just because it's a music thing that kind of looks like a snowflake (or, perhaps, a star).
- then there's the other major addition with dess's ??? form: the halo! it's meant to be another music staff reference, with constantly changing notes traveling along it, but contorted into a guitar-like shape. i'm not 100% set on the colors i used for it tbh, i might change those in future drawings of her.
here's the fun part: when dess wants to make music, she's learned how to take her halo and temporarily turn it into, essentially, a hologram version of her guitar that she can actually play songs on! good thing she has a couple of picks in her coat pockets. i wonder what else is in there...?
lastly, for comparison's sake, i drew dess with kris and noelle, back when they were all together... and where they're at now.
(reminder that kris uses they/them pronouns!)
that should be everything covered! if you enjoyed my dess thoughts, may i also take this opportunity to recommend: my playlist for her! it's a little shy of four hours long, featuring 69 songs in a long-deliberated order meant to go through the story of her life - including how i hope her story resolves.
happy dess day everyone! no matter what holiday you celebrate :)
I've always liked Chapter 1 Castle Town the most. like the redesign in chapter 2 is very nice, very cozy. Chapter 4 i actually don't like as much i prefered the calmer vibe (castle funk is a good song but it's a bit too energetic for what i want)
Also I think Castle Town should have some funky sky stuff above it. Is it an aurora? clouds? idk
Jevil has always been my favorite of the secret bosses. I like Spamton, don't get me wrong. and Mantle (whom i prefer referring to as ERAM) and Gerson are cool too. But i'll always have a soft spot for the classic chaos gremlin.
Also I like when people draw him wielding the Devilsknife. He is just straight up holding himself. Which I suppose isn't that weird since it seems like he might be able to clone himself.
