#the roaring

[fishbrainns]

darkness constricts you

[gbee333]

missing who you once were.

[superbubba4eva]

Sketches i forgot abt or abandoned :P

[nickolops]

Ralsei is evil? Broke. Ralsei is a Titan? WOKE.

Here's my design for Titan Ralsei, a theory I like exponentially more than Ralsei being secretly evil. He's the same lovely fluffy boy we all know and love, just entirely made of pure darkness and big enough to hold Kris and Susie in his hands.

[patchwork-crow-writes]

Chapter 4 has exposed the Titans for the false threat they truly are.

This isn't to say they aren't threatening, of course - a giant made up of darkness and nightmares that can crush anything it touches and exists only to destroy and cannot itself be destroyed except through VERY specific means? Yeah, they're dangerous, no question.

But they're also mindless. No intelligence guides their actions. They can attack when directly threatened, but mostly their "attacks" seem to comprise ambient nightmares that home in on you as if by instinct alone. There's no real malice there - it's more instinct.

The Knight, on the other hand. The Knight is like what would happen if you took a Titan, shrunk it down, and gave it a mind. Then, you sharpened that mind into a single point of purpose, fury and hatred. And then gave it a sword and pointed it at something that needs to die.

The Knight does not fuck around with ambient nightmares, but nor does it gloat. If it engages you and you're not prepared... you're dead. And if you're not dead, it'll keep lashing out at you until you ARE dead. It won't ever stop until it gets what it wants. And anything that gets in its way will be reduced to a smear on the floor.

If anything, the Titans - and by extension the Roaring itself - were never the main threat, but a distraction. Yeah, it'd be terrible if it did happen, but we've just seen that it CAN be stopped, however nightmarish it might be. But the Knight summoned a Titan as a literal distraction just so it could get away. It's like it knew the Titan wouldn't actually work, they were just stalling for time to escape and move on to the next part of their plan.

With that in mind, you have to wonder ...it could well be that the Knight isn't named after the Roaring... it might well be that the ROARING is named after the KNIGHT.

[aroace-madness]

I need people to lean in more into the horror of Deltarune

I mean the literal protagonist, Kris is almost never in control of their own actions unless they take it by force and are a vessel to the being beyond their comprehension (us) forced to do and say things against their will

Noelle in snowgrave is made to believe by her childhood "friend" that by freezing her enemies she will get stronger and that she needs to become stronger to the point of basically killing her another friend she's known since childhood

Dess' whole situation

Ralsei and the fact that he knows the whole prophecy, he's aware that he's in a game, aware about us, aware about the doom that awaits his friends

Susie who's first friend she made after probably years of being alone not being really them, it was never them from the beggining, and she also knows what the last panel of the prophecy and it was something that made her destroy that panel and deny that it will ever happen

Berdly, who's not a bad kid, just annoying, a girl he's known since childhood changing right in front of his eyes into something he doesn't understand which in the end (of snowgrave) hurt him to the point of not waking up from the Dark World or at very least injuring his arm

Asriel who's unaware of all the horrors his little sibling is going through but being there for their parents divorce, Dess going missing and all that came after up untill he left for collage

The roaring as a whole and how it's the job of 3 teenagers to stop it

The man behind the tree

[woahsayer]

One thing I love love love love love about Deltarune is how it plays with the theme of uncertainty/the unknown/the feeling of not knowing.

Everything even semi-related to FRIEND or Dess is just STEEPED in uncertainty. Find her! Find her!!! Where is she???

Knowledge can hurt you. Jevil, Spamton, and Ralsei all know too much, and it's eating away at their sanity.

The episodic release schedule means that the "deltarune fandom experience" is years of wild speculation occasionally punctuated by chapter releases. What's the Roaring? What does the final prophecy say? We don't know, and that's the point on some level

The framing device for the entire game is Doctor W.D. Gaster, the "mystery man" himself

As Ralsei explains in the opening to Ch. 3, uncertainty is tied in with the nature of the dark worlds. Between the light and dark worlds, at the shadow's edge, where reality and dream meet, you find total mystery.

As you play Deltarune, keep in mind how "being in the dark" can also mean "not knowing."