#smile arg

[pyxehastoomanyinterests]

well ! we certainly know when and where she smiled now !! yay !!!!

[koimethehorizon]

DELTARUNE THEORY: The Smile is a Massive Sequence Break

The Smile ARG has finally ended and we’ve been left with a screenshot that has me even more confident in my last theory before the dawn comes:

Noelle is going to split the sea/ Hometown's Lake and find Dess on the other side.

(Potential Massive spoilers for Deltarune Chapter 5 and the end of the Smile ARG. Reader beware.)

In my previous post about the meaning of the Smile ARG, I concluded that the “smile” was not a literal smile but the moment Noelle attains absolute power and becomes fully indebted to us for granting it.

The power in display would be the moment Noelle uses her innate glitch hunting/narrative altering ability to create a sequence break in Deltarune’s story.

But I couldn’t tell you what or where this sequence break would be since a lot of this was mostly 3rd party evidence... and honestly vibes so far.

Until now.

Look carefully. This isn’t the lake we all know from previous chapters.

There’s different trees. There’s no bench or the spot to sit. And Kris is coming from the right side, not the left.

This scene is on the other side of the lake. The lake.

The lake that has been alluded to having a song playing in both the Light and Dark Worlds, one of the most cryptic lore details of the whole game.

The sequence break is crossing over to the other side. Splitting the red sea Moses style, which would fit into Noelle’s angelic themes.

The Flower King shop is right next to the lake as well, meaning Noelle won’t need to travel far in its Dark World to find a massive ocean version of the Lake to perform a miracle.

And the text associated with this image?

“You only need to see her once, and you can move on."

Who is “her”?

It can't be Noelle, the point is to keep her in our control and what would it even mean for Kris to see Noelle and move on?

The answer is blatantly referring to the “her” in “Find Her”.

What if the other side of this lake lies the secret of Dess’s disappearance? The ultimate, endgame level secret of the whole game? The secret that is keeping everyone trapped in the past that will undoubtedly be solved in the emotional climax of Chapter 7?

Source: @tac_bats

What if instead, we and Noelle spoil this ending 2 chapters and minimum 3 years earlier in the making?

What if Noelle finds Dess, regardless if she is dead or alive and figures out the how or the why she vanished?

What would make Noelle "happy for the first time in her life" more than having her trauma not only resolved but for someone to teach her to resolve herself through her own hands?

And once she moves on, will it be onto greater heights?

[mouselikething]

theres no way the voice at least now is Gaster. Gaster is not this goofy

[caimanwithapencil]

I think it's really interesting that a lot if not all of the Smile ARG is clearly talking about the Weird/Snowgrave route and what it represents in the overall narrative and metanarrative. I especially think the ferris wheel response is a fantastic example of this. "You want to see them together so badly" refers to the player forcing Noelle to ride the ferris wheel with Kris when she would normally choose to ride it with Susie. This is the player turning fate to be how THEY want it, and whoever is answering the ARG is clear about that fact. This is what YOU want, so badly, that you're willing to start the route. "You want to see those red eyes dance" refers to Kris's red eyes, and how much more you're using them as your puppet in this route. The response mentions multiple times that "it's wrong," every part of it, because everything about this relationship is. The Weird Route, with all of its toxic marriage metaphors, should not have happened.

"You'll make it. You always do... don't you?" This is the overall message. "The heart does what it does." The player will do whatever they want, and if they want to continue this route, "what good is it for [them] to say?" If this is Gaster, it may be him hinting at the idea that he doesn't want you to continue this, that this is not what he planned for (though, I do also think that the theories about him wanting this and deliberately hinting towards it in the Sword Route are Very Interesting). Perhaps it's reverse psychology, or a form of egging (haha) the player on: "don't you?" almost sounds like a challenge, as if to say, "if you want this to happen, you can!" Or, it could simply be another hint towards the player's curiosity or wants leading them to do bad things, similarly to the Genocide Route in UNDERTALE, where you reset the timeline just because you wanted to see what would happen.

As Sans puts it, "No matter what, you'll just keep going. Not out of any desire for good or evil... but just because you think you can. And because if you can, you 'have to.'"

[shark-galaxy]

Made this in one sitting in a fuge state anyways This is my deltarune oc her name is John Myantle

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[pyxehastoomanyinterests]

deltarune tomorrow