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alright but we can at least bring the Floradinns back with us right

asgore doesn't need his weed stash that badly right now does he

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Asgore's weed is Shit

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I'm betting (but not very much) that the flowers Susie put on Kris in the weird route are Marigolds

(mostly because the symbolism potentially goes very hard, but Asgore does have some)

On the positive end you've got things like Bravery and Determination which are both concepts directly linked to Orange (the Bravery soul trait) and Susie

but the flower crown Susie places on Kris breaks apart, so on the negative end the Marigold wreaths symbolize death, grief and despair

but specifically for their use in the Day of the Dead, marigolds help guide the spirits of loved ones back to their loved ones, and wherever Kris winds up in the weird route, they're gone

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miscellaneous queens bits

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new and interesting way to carry your partners

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one eye, two eyes, three eyes, four

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I am begging everyone to listen to Penny Snapcube voicing this milk freak from deltarune. my brother and I have not stopped quoting it for two weeks

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Kawkaw wants to play!

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Talk to them Kris!

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have been EXTREMELY attached to the ridiculous krusielle situation at the festival

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“i have to listen to my body’s needs” secret boss fight written by person who has chronic and disabling wrist pain which has fundamentally changed his relationship to his hobbies and his job <- i care it as someone who has also had chronic pain in my wrist/hand for 5 years

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another thing i tend to think about with this. i also just think in chapter 5 there's a theme of care and dependency. the flowers have extreme guilt over being taken care of by asgore. flowery conceptualizes himself as weak and useless. in the dark world, his fantasy, he tries to return the care given to him to asgore to "make up for" asgore taking care of him when he should've died decades ago. it's an extreme example, but i also resonate with his feeling.

when your body or mind puts you in a situation where your reliance on other people becomes really explicit, you're trained by the world to see that as shameful or to see yourself as deficient. your efforts to ignore your needs just to avoid "being a burden," will leave you worse off. you punish yourself because of deeply internalized ableism.

regardless, even by virtue of being a living thing on this planet, you are already designed to need others. you have to listen to your body's needs even against a society that teaches you you shouldn't. you have to be okay with the fact that you have needs. sometimes your needs are different or are greater than the person next to you, and all you can do is listen to your body and turn to others when you need them. you're still a person when you need people.

when toby says this:

it's interesting to me how much he uses the language of deltarune to express this feeling. your hopes and dreams slipping away, and bitterness growing is literally the explanation we get for shadow crystals (and so wept the fallen star, making rivers with its tears. then, slowly, from the bitter water, something grew. it looked like glass). this is also the crushing feeling when you lose a sense of control when you're in pain, when you can't do things the way you want, the way you used to. but when you find yourself still able to fly, you do so because you've adapted. you've listened to your body. you've learned that listening to your body means changing the pace, letting yourself be cared for, letting yourself be helped.

as far as toby's said it, having to expand his team has made deltarune a better game. chapter 5 is so expansive because so many people helped to make it. Pink's fight has sprite work from guest artists, music with Camellia, bullets programmed by Toby's team. She is, to me, a love letter to Deltarune's development process as a whole and how it has shaped Toby, and a reflection of the kinds of thoughts Toby has shared with us about developing Deltarune alongside pain. I also think it's a beautiful follow-up to Gerson's themes of storytelling and authorship (letting go of "perfection" + accepting the contributions of others = both about rescinding control and embracing perseverance). Pink is also so much more than this, but I've been thinking about this a lot.