#weird route

[goomyloid]

pixel stuf

[taitoska]

i call the weird route the Normal route. Heh. just a glimpse into how twisted my mind has become ...

[mercyseb]

Don't deserve her.

[humunanunga]

There's this nagging feeling that Noelle was implying something else when she told Susie about wanting to... "run away."

She practically confirms it in the Weird Route when she says "let's fly out of this stupid town," to proposition a suicide pact.

Noelle's derealization speech starts with "When Dess left..."

"left..."

...Back in Chapter 4, the moment Ralsei explained that Dark Worlds can sometimes manifest the dead from their remains, I knew. I've just had a gut feeling since then.

Dess is dead. She's been dead for a long time.

The Roaring Knight is still most likely to be Dess, but this may not depend on Dess being alive.

That Noelle is still searching Dess's name online, it's unclear whether she's trying to find her or any news about her case... but I'm starting to lean away from the idea that her case is still open...

Is the other reason Noelle's such a people-pleaser because of abandonment issues?

...And... if we read into "running away" as a narrative euphemism for... another kind of being gone...

...Asgore would sound crazy for trying to clear his name if Dess' disappearance was ruled a runaway case when he knew it wasn't.

[ecto-hazard]

Not your girl anymore

[0harpies]

Nooo dont proceed girl aha

[olli093]

weird looking deer girl

[the-irreverend]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA just when I thought Snowgrave couldn't get any more tragic, I discover this scene where Kris actually tries to DROWN THEMSELVES when Susie tries to talk with Kris about what happened to them and Noelle at the lake!

If you abort the Weird Route at Chapter 5, Susie will talk about what Kris was doing with Noelle, and she'll ask if she's "getting in the way of something." After that, you'll have the option to have Kris tell her, "Susie never gets in the way," or "Don't get in between me and Noelle." If you choose the latter, they'll actually leap into the water, forcing Susie to rescue them.

It really demonstrates that part of them truly did want to drown with Noelle in the lake, thinking it would be the only way to escape the trauma and cruelty that you were inflicting upon them and Noelle. And the fact that they tried to drown themselves again in the hot spring demonstrates that aborting the Weird Route did absolutely nothing to heal the pain that you caused them or take away their desire to end their life as a way to be free of it.

God, that kid needs all the free hugs and therapy in the world.