#dltrlb

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fun trend

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[this is Stella stealing my sister’s account and identity because my phone is in baby jail] sister’s trying to beat the stupid hard bonus boss for me and it is going very poorly. TOBY WHY DID YOU MAKE THIS SO HARD!!! WHAT THE FUCK

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YURI MUG REAL!!!! just in time for deltarune. dan also drew this for me as a bonus lol

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susie really is The Shounen Protagonist of the series and also The Shounen Rival and I love it. learns the power of friendship. saves other people with the power of friendship. everyone gets obsessed with her

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saving these for refs... I didn't take asriel's money and I didn't get the diner scene bc kris seemed sooooo unhappy about that in ch 2 but I kind of wish I did... but I can't go back bc I saved after going into noelle's house, and sister got the highest ranks already...

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the more I think about it, the more attached I am to the idea that asriel is either in hometown or is somehow otherwise involved in what's happening

would be narratively tastier; if he's uninvolved he'd just be another guy who doesn't know what's going on with kris, which is like, 99% of the cast, so him coming back to be Just Another Guy That Knows Fuck-All doesn't leave a lot of room for impact (aside from like dramatic self-sacrifice or something)

his role in undertale. lol.

but even stepping away from technically-not-canon-to-deltarune iterations of asriel, this dialogue always stuck out to me:

first of all, characterization-wise, he's being set up as a guy who can be Pretty Neurotic about guilt; I do not think he'd have an easy time dealing with a tragedy that resulted in the disappearance of a friend (and/or romantic interest?) PLUS the dissolution of the dreemurr-holiday coalition PLUS the divorce of his parents, it just sounds like a recipe for doing something drastic

second of all, parallels-wise, in the sparse asriel anecdotes we get, here's one that involves him knowing about kris' "sin" (does not exist in their religion) and trying to take responsibility in some way

I think I'm with everyone about the roaring knight being dess (the antlers, the bat) so it's not possible that asriel is *the* roaring knight.

but also:

the roaring knight is introduced right before we meet a character that is kind of technically dead but not the actual guy who was dead sort of

since gerson('s darkner iteration created from his funerary object) cannot exist in the light world, it'd make sense if the same applied to dess('s ??? iteration created from ???), especially since we never actually see the knight when we leave tv time (susie just chases someone she thinks is the knight)

it's pretty clear that kris knows something about the knight based on how determined they are not to let the player direct them to imagine it

phones can't be used in dark worlds; whoever's calling kris is in the light world

so, the roaring knight is probably not making those calls (or at least, not alone). I see people speculating on carol being involved, and she probably is, but she's not the voice on the phone talking to kris -- we see her call kris and talk to them in very normal text boxes at the end of chapter 4 weird route. asgore is definitely up to some shady misguided shenanigans, but I really don't think he'd (knowingly) involve kris. suspiciously absent asriel, on the other hand, would be a pretty fun choice. as for the weird phone text boxes/sfxs... it'd be pretty funny if he was possessed by the roaring knight (dess? a corrupted version of dess? an entity related to dess?) like how kris is possessed by the soul (More Parallels) but I don't have anything to support that other than vibes alone.

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I really love the fun intersections and subversions of ‘your choices do/don’t matter’ with ralsei and susie…

ralsei clinging onto the idea that their choices can make a difference because if he doesn’t then he has to accept Their Inevitable Tragedy… susie clinging onto whatever power/control she can claim but being *heavily* impacted by what other characters do to/for her…

plus there’s a different nuance with whether the game is addressing kris or the player. ralsei could be seen as encouraging kris’ autonomy (despite the player’s control), or metanarratively, encouraging the player to choose the pacifist route. susie could be seen as threatening to kris, or threatening to the player (she sure is absent whenever weird route stuff happens huh).

in the end I do think there’s going to be a huge emphasis on kris’ choices separate from our own, and how both of them matter in different ways. I love metanarratives I love the incorporation of the player as an active participant in the story

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also also I am thinking about how at one point noelle says that kris and her dad are the only ones she can say no to and considering weird route. still true lol.