i don’t normally be doing this. And I don’t got anywhere else to talk about this - I don’t see anyone else bringing it up as far as I can tell so i guess i have to make a deltarune post on tumblr. Major weird route spoilers below. There’s something driving me crazy about its SOUND
The song under the lake. It’s not a “new” song. But, I can’t remember…
I didn’t notice it at all the first time I did it because I was so awestruck by the scene. I did it again to look for extra details, and I fixated on the noises. Hard to hear it under the constant distorted DODLDODOO ominous stings as we go deeper into the lake, but the noise that plays there. Go look at the game’s audio files. “ch5_inversion_lake_chant”, something like that. the song that plays when we drown. It’s the song under the lake. And like the onion tells us, “it’s not a ‘new’ song”. It’s a song we all know, at least, in part. And it’s driving me crazy to think what it could possibly mean!!!
It’s fucking Your Best Friend. There’s no clear melody, it’s all drum beats, but it is the EXACT beat of that track. I’ve listened over and over and I can only hear that. I’m not sure if there are any other DR/UT tracks that use that rhythm precisely - the thing that makes me feel really insane is that Flowey’s motifs show up normally in CH5 for Flowery. This being what it is can’t have any relation to Flowery and the normal chapter 5, right? like no way is any of that related lol. so what is the meaning??? Asriel??? Living roots??? that like a flower, I guess… WHAT DO IT MEEEAAAN
my realistic idea of what it is so far is just that it’s meant to reflect the soullessness of how you’re treating the world and these characters to push the game to its limits, ala flowey and the no mercy route of UT, the two things that motif is tied to. But onion-san’s specificity… I dunno man …
lastly, one of my earliest thoughts on a possible literal interpretation of this that I wanna write here just for fun. it was so stupid I couldn’t seriously humor it after the thought formed but…
“inversion chant”… a undertale song we hear as we go into this deep deep place … that’s it… Undertale is happening literally Underneath deltarune, INVERTED, separated by the depths… the stories are literally, physically parallel… can u believe it. No you can’t and neither can I. But that’s a thought I had
