Anyway, let’s ask questions & make note of things!
(It's a strange letter. It's more or less completely illegible…)
“Strange letter” there’s various ways to interpret this— is it strange for a vday card? Or strange for other reasons? It’s very long, for certain. and it disappears! Why else could this be ‘strange?’
“Completely illegible” is this bad handwriting, or is this wingdings? Or a secret 3rd thing?
(But, if you squint your eyes, and, you squint your heart… For some reason, you feel you could understand it)
“Squinting your eyes and heart” is a very strange sentiment, and I feel it’s too easily brushed over. Heart, obviously could refer to the SOUL, but what gets me the most about this is the grammatical structure of the sentence.
1. “But,” starting a sentence with a coordinating conjunction is, for the most part, frowned upon. Why separarte this from the first sentence, starting another?
2. “But, if you squint your eyes, and, you squint your heart… For some reason, you feel you could understand it” let’s start by sorting this into clauses.
“But, [if you squint your eyes], and, [you squint your heart…] For some reason, [you feel] [you could understand it]”
Time for some questions! Why put a comma after “and?” I could be misremembering, but a comma AFTER “and” is very awkward-sounding.
Also. It’s inconsistent? Why write it as “But, if you squint your eyes, and, you squint your heart…“ when it would be more consistent to have “But, if you squint your eyes, and if you squint your heart…” or “But, if you squint your eyes and (your) heart…” why repeat the verb? how many “you”s is the sender talking about?
3. Squinting your eyes is common to try to read illegible text, as you focus more on the finer details. What could squinting a HEART do? what would squinting a heart be LIKE.?
All in all for this section, the narration feels different to me than the usual narration in UTDR, but I can’t quite place why.
WELL,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
OR, WAS IT THE OLD YEAR.
1. First impression I’m getting here is “does this person experience time linearly?”
2. Second thing I’m noticing: a question ending with a period rather than a question mark.
3. Thirdly, the sender seems, at best, unaware, or, at worse, confused.
WELL,
IN ANY CASE, HOW IS DELTA RUNE?
1. Why are you asking US, sender?
2. What is MEANT by “delta rune?” the game? The symbol? What are we talking about?
AS YOU ARE WAITING
PATIENTLY, THE TIME IS GOING AROUND.
THERE WAS EVEN A RUMOR OF "VALENTINE'S DAY".
HOW ABSURD.
EVERY DAY IS A DAY OF LOVE,
IF ONLY YOU BELIEVE IT SO.
DO YOU BELIEVE IT SO?
…
1. What are we waiting for? The next release, or something else?
2. “The time is going around” feels like it’s worded this way deliberately. What does this mean?
3. “There was even a rumor of “valentine’s day” is this world building? There are lightners AND darkners with valentines. Why does this idea sound foreign to the sender to the point that the day is a “rumor?” Where are you from, sender?
4. “How absurd. Every day is a day of love, if only you believe it so. Do you believe it so?” What do we mean by “love?”
SO, THE PURPOSE OF THE MESSAGE.
I WANT TO HELP!
YES, THERE WAS SOMEONE I WANTED TO HELP
…
1. Given the last section, this creates an interesting vibe imo? This is a letter of “I want to contribute” and not “be mine 💘” which makes this feel even MORE out of place. Are you supposed to be here???
I SEEM TO HAVE FORGOTTEN WHO..
YES, IT'S QUITE IRONIC, BUT I SEEM TO HAVE FORGOTTEN.
WAS IT MYSELF? NO.
WELL, PERHAPS.
1. What, exactly, makes this ironic? In general for deltarune, or is there something about you that makes this something very odd?
2. “Was it myself? No. Well, perhaps.” What is a self, sender? How could it be that “no” and “perhaps” are both answers that are viable?
REGARDLESS, WHEN I SEE THEM, I'M CERTAIN I WILL KNOW IT STRAIGHT AWAY.
I NEVER FORGET SOMEONE I DON'T REMEMBER.
WILL YOU HELP ME?
…
…
1. “I’m certain I will know” will this be true for us as well? Are you a new character, or are you a character we’ve seen before?
2. “I never forget someone I don’t remember” also feels VERY deliberately worded. Something about this line is important, I think.
3. What do you need help with? I thought you were helping someone else?
4. The two lines of “…” next to each other strike me as odd. What does this mean?
YOU ARE VERY ODD, RESPONDING OUT LOUD TO A LETTER.
BUT, YOU SEEM RELIABLE.
I WILL BE COUNTING ON YOU.
1. This gives more of an in-game vibe than the rest of the letter, acting as though we have turned this into a dialogue.
2. What makes us reliable?
3. Counting on us for WHAT?
4. I feel like there’s some kind of joke lying in wait here over “letter” juxtaposed with “counting”
NOW, PUT ON YOUR COAT AND WASH YOUR FACE!
OR, PUT ON YOUR FACE AND WASH YOUR COAT.
NOT NECESSARILY IN THAT ORDER.
OR, IN ANY ORDER AT ALL.
1. This general section really has me curious as to who the sender is. After all, this is a very strange manner of speaking here. Love the silliness. Very unsure of what this means on a larger scale.
2. Why are we being told to do this?
GOOD BY!
1. I’ve seen SOOOOOO many people mention the spelling here. Curious if it means anything, or if it genuinely is just a mistake.
(There was a sound like something walking away
And, the letter was gone.)
1. Again, the narration seems odd with the grammar here?
2. This is SO funny when we consider this letter was replaced with a blank. Toby why did you do this it’s hilarious.
3. I wonder if inanimate object (letter) with legs and the cup Toby asked us to look at are connected.
Verdict: probably Not gaster, but Deffo suspicious. Cant count anything out yet imo.
Looking at r/Deltarune to see what theories ppl have come up with based on That One Valentine and it’s soooooooo funny to me that every single post about it is the same. Actual quotes from the subreddit:
“How do we know this is gaster”
“Why else would it mention the letter being impossible to understand at the start”
“It doesn’t have the signature stilted tone gaster’s always had”
“It doesn’t read like gaster in English at all”
“I feel like the beginning narration, the all caps, and the style of writing clearly point to gaster”
“We have no real reason to think he’d talk this way… ever”
It’s back and forth with these general opinions, especially of ‘oh that’s not how he talks’ and I’m just sitting here like
1. When you are a scientist, you do not necessarily talk the same in academic contexts as you do in casual contexts. For the most part, I speak COMPLETELY differently from my papers I’ve written for school compared to when I’m flirting with my partner.
WE ARE CURRENTLY ON A SEARCH FOR ROUXLS FIRST VALENTINE!! IF YOU HAVE A ROUXLS VALENTINE THAT DOESNT LOOK LIKE THESE 3, PLEASE DM ME !!!! (PLEASE SHARE!!)
I went through the site code to find all the valentines, but some of them were not easily visible? idk if toby hid them so we CANT "try anything tricky" or what, but heres what i HAVE found. Please reblog with any I've missed if you have them!
People have very kindly shared with @obscuretobyfox their valentines! while this does not give me the file names for them & the link for the image, here are ones that were NOT easily accessible through 'inspect element' If you have the URLs for any of these, please share!
assumed #s are in blue, green is for probable guesses
i think jockington may be 17 just bc berdly + noelle are next to each other; 26 and 27 for burgerpants? i think 24 COULD be grillby, but i am not sure enough to mark it. Same with jevil and 40.
I went through the site code to find all the valentines, but some of them were not easily visible? idk if toby hid them so we CANT "try anything tricky" or what, but heres what i HAVE found. Please reblog with any I've missed if you have them!
People have very kindly shared with @obscuretobyfox their valentines! while this does not give me the file names for them & the link for the image, here are ones that were NOT easily accessible through 'inspect element' If you have the URLs for any of these, please share!
assumed #s are in blue, green is for probable guesses
i think jockington may be 17 just bc berdly + noelle are next to each other; 26 and 27 for burgerpants? i think 24 COULD be grillby, but i am not sure enough to mark it. Same with jevil and 40.
I went through the site code to find all the valentines, but some of them were not easily visible? idk if toby hid them so we CANT "try anything tricky" or what, but heres what i HAVE found. Please reblog with any I've missed if you have them!
areudirty
prguitarman
snowghoul
2087
dededos
dailybridgerton
janainaart
kaledo-art
