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All done on Procreate cuz I like suffering

#silksong #silksong spoilers #HELP I'm losign it #have been watching this repeatedly on loop #I love how fitting these are too #Grindle pinching the little goodies. forgetful Green Prince. Nuu.#Sherma missing out on all the drama and just having a fun time #impeccable #silksong fanart

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from my non-gamer pov (I'm an #ally), what this has looked like is a critical mass of maddened and delirious silksong posting for the past ~week that built to a sustained frenzied climax for about ninety minutes either side of the game's actual release, at which point everyone went absolutely dead fucking radio silent. I have not heard a single peep from any of you about what is happening in this game. no liveblogging, no screenshots, no reactions, nothing. my girlfriend emerges from her room every five-to-eight hours to intone "I've been skonging it too hard," grab a morsel of food, and withdraw to her chambers once more. Is everyone okay Are you having fun Is the silksong loud and beautiful and are you so very afraid.

#silksong #yeah

Ralsei & Friendship

#deltarune spoilers #deltarune chapter 4 #deltarune chapter 3 #deltarune chapter 2 #ralsei #had this parallel on my mind for a bit

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yeah yeah ok, Spamton went through The Horrors, sure

anyway

what do y'all think being unplugged was like from Tenna's point of view. we know he was aware that he'd been unplugged, but was that only after the fact? was it like waking up from a coma to him?

or was it a Johnny Got His Gun sort of situation. or the ending of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. where he had some amount of awareness while he was unplugged, but he couldn't fully interact or communicate, even with other Darkners. just, trapped in his own body with no way to express himself

i just can't help but wonder what it'd mean for a Darkner like him, being based on a piece of furniture that needs to be plugged into an electrical outlet in order to function. is being unplugged death to Tenna... or something worse?

#deltarune #deltarune spoilers #deltarune chapter 3 #tenna #yeah I've been thinking about this A Lot actually #Tenna says twice that he's been alone until recently (first to Susie after round 1 and then just before his boss battle)#which could be interpreted as just him not having Lightner company (not being watched) and that being what matters to him #but given how distressed he gets when the other TV World Darkners start leaving him #he clearly values their presence. he doesn't want them to go. (he doesn't want them to leave him alone again)#so I think it's entirely reasonable to infer that while unplugged he was conscious but completely isolated in some way

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something very captivating to me about how disposable berdly is. nobody remembers his name. only lightner to be lastingly harmed by the dark world. let him fry his arm trying to escape mind control and it stays paralyzed. it's fine if he breaks. if you're tired of him why not just get rid of him? he won't wake up.

#deltarune #deltarune chapter 2 #weird route #berdly #'darkner-coded lightner' yeah. yeah.#the fact that so far there are no observable consequences for him frying his arm (the rest of the chapter plays out the same)#and that you can still quit the weird route after freezing him #you can hurt him and it doesn't really seem to matter

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no one acknowledges enough that tenna has like. reality warping powers. i think most "royalty" in deltarune does(like king and queen also have crazy abilities) but its so fun like next to a random darkner this guy can change scenes. he can split the screen in half. whats wrong with him

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weird as fuck demigod does the splits while warping reality.

he even dresses you and himself up too. hes silly . with it

#deltarune #deltarune spoilers #deltarune chapter 3 #tenna #yea he can just do all that #He's Normal though. incredibly normal guy don't even worry about it #(if I had a nickel etc. etc.)#is this what happens when a Darkner is formed from an object that also makes up the fabric of their world #('thank Tenna for brightening everything up' and all)#or is he just Like That for no particular reason #the questions I ponder sometimes...

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this concept art that toby posted is KILLING me oh my god. theres something so funny about "when people are mad at him he shrinks down to the size of a bug" i love the wording

#deltarune #deltarune chapter 3 #tenna #official art #Tobyfox concept art commentary on Tenna lives in my head rent free #when happy he can turn the end of the nose into a flower. when people are mad at him he shrinks down to the size of a bug.

Ah yes, my favourite Deltarune scene.

The one where Susie finds out her friend deceived her

and she feels betrayed and hurt, because she can't understand why he would do that

so of course - she directs her pain into anger. She lashes out.

But she realises very quickly that her friend didn't mean to hurt her.

He was (in a way) trying to keep her from getting hurt in the first place.

And now that she knows that, she can't bring herself to stay mad at him.

So she sets aside her anger

and offers a solution to put his mind at ease

even though it's not something she's entirely comfortable doing

because her friends are more important to her.

Because they're a team.

#deltarune spoilers #deltarune chapter 4 #deltarune chapter 1 #susie #lancer #ralsei #when I first got to the statue fight my immediate thought was 'ohhh this is just like the Lancer fight!!'#and then the parallels just kept paralleling #I love when scenes parallel one another and there's so much of that in Chapter 4 it's great #you can see that the core of who Susie is hasn't changed #but she's become gentler #the second time she doesn't hurt her friend. and she reaches out to comfort/reassure him physically.#and even at first - when she expresses that she's feeling hurt through her anger - she does it much more loudly in Chapter 4 #instead of hiding her pain away and expressing it solely through violence #because she's become more comfortable with vulnerability. with showing that things matter to her. even if it means she might get hurt.#anyway I've spent weeks fiddling with this I think maybe it is time to post #long post #in case anyone needs that

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Pluey Therapy

#deltarune #deltarune spoilers #deltarune chapter 4 #tenna #mike trio #(...I'm Not figuring out how to tag them individually. they're getting a group tag even though only one of them is actually here)#this is very relaxing to watch #and cute...#deltarune fanart

Here's my memory!

#undertale #that was NOT enough characters to express everything I wanted to say so I tried to hit the most important points #1) game good 2) friendship good 3) Papyrus good #I contemplated attempting to recreate a Papyrus-related sprite (specifically of him jumping out Undyne's window)#but realised rather quickly that was perhaps a bit ambitious #so I opted to replicate a Cuptain instead because they are cute

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It was as if all the darkness had been blown away.

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Narration at the last fountain in Chapter 4!

#deltarune spoilers #deltarune chapter 4 #susie

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One thing that I really enjoyed about the latest Deltarune chapters is how much the reveal at the end recontextualised Ralsei's character and the information he presents to us in his introduction. Below are some disjointed thoughts about that.

When Chapter 1 first released, I remember feeling that his explanation of the prophecy and how battle works (and his encouragement of a peaceful approach to resolving conflicts) seemed almost like an introduction to the rules of the world that might have to be subverted later - sort of in the same way that Flowey in Undertale initially establishes the rules of the world as "kill or be killed", which you then override by choosing nonviolence in order to reach the happiest ending.

This observation created a bit of dissonance between my Undertale player brain ("of course I want to approach all battles peacefully and spare everyone!") and my narrative-focused brain ("is the peaceful approach really the right one in the context of this story? is there some future twist that will completely recontextualise what we've been told about how the world works?")

When Chapter 2 released, I felt the dissonance less - it's painfully clear that the consequences of going out of your way to hurt people are Bad, so I felt much better about choosing the peaceful approach.

But I still wasn't sure what to make of Ralsei - why was he so insistent on us being nice to enemies, if he also believes that Darkners' only purpose is to support Lightners (as per the pre-castle conversation in Chapter 1)? Is it just because the prophecy says it's the way to go? Why does it matter so much to him?

To be clear: I never thought he was like. evil or anything. I figured he was doing the best he could with the information he had. But how accurate was that information? Could he be misguided in some way? He was clearly hiding stuff, and not knowing what he was hiding and why left some uncertainty.

But then we get to Chapter 4, and suddenly Ralsei's motivations become a lot clearer. The prophecy didn't say anything about kindness or mercy - that was his own personal advice, given in the hopes that the prophecy could be changed. He wasn't just acting according to the prophecy; he was genuinely trying to make a difference.

And now knowing that Ralsei has been encouraging Kris and Susie to be kind in hopes of altering the prophecy's narrative... it's particularly interesting in light of the fact that every chapter has a Moment where everyone you've befriended in the dark world shows up to help out - but only if you take the pacifist approach (with the exception of Chapter 2).

There's Chapter 1 with the king being overthrown. Chapter 2 with the Ultimate Group Project (Thrash Machine). Chapter 3's version of this is particularly interesting because it interacts with a part of the prophecy: Susie repairs Tenna offscreen if you recruit enough people to help (or just avoid violence?? reports seem varied on this one). The prophecy about Tenna still comes to pass (he's broken), but it's not the end for him.

And - I just found this out a day or two ago, actually - something similar happens in Chapter 4??? It seems that Jackenstein straight up falls to his death(?) in the scene just before the finale if you choose to be violent, but all the Sanctuary Darkners come to his rescue if you stay pacifist the whole way through.

Susie's comment about being nice paying off seems a lot more pointed in this context. Whether you choose a pacifist or violent approach is starting to have more obvious, more significant consequences.

At the end of Chapter 4, Ralsei makes it clear that he believes his own efforts (in guiding Kris and Susie towards nonviolence) have failed, because he was hoping that what's written in the prophecy would change, and it hasn't. But there's a big difference between "Tenna gets broken and stays broken forever" and "Tenna gets broken but is patched up and can still have a happy ending", even though both follow the letter of the prophecy. Maybe there's more than one way for that final prophecy to play out, too.

Susie's the one who has the conviction to fight against fate, but I want to believe that Ralsei's efforts had some meaning as well, even if we can't see it yet.

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And here's a non-exhaustive compilation of Ralsei dialogue from Chapter 1 that takes on added meaning after this scene