Demon Core Irl

Dante/Demon | 21 | it/devil/he | trans disabled poc | pagan + theistic satanist | plural | comms open! 0/3 | 16+

[rhiotta]

When your live studio audience of one doesn't take you seriously and gets you in trouble with your mom.

Did you know if you heckle the toddlers at Gamestop, someone enters mortal danger?

This was originally going to be much shorter for an ask, but the devils of improv kept saying "hey the joke keeps going, the joke keeps going!" and here we are.

[deceased-bunny]

Subterranean Loner

[yaemm]

KERDLY SNUGGLESS!

MADE THIS CAUSE DELTARUNE TOMORRROWWW

I need Kerdly OR Berdly content for the festival PLEAASEE

[chubbidust]

s + n

[chubbidust]

r + k

[ponsukefan]

candy colored misery

the color of your mind

[frothfloaters]

first post on tumblr hi :3

[benjimint]

berdly’s honest reaction to your niche and obscure gaming reference

[chubbidust]

colored in with care

[nikoco11]

messing around w these old drawing

[chubbidust]

i want to start doing more actiony stuff

[theproblemsofdonhi]

So called pacifists when they see a newborn Titan Spawn.

[kingofooo]

Adventure Time: Come Along With Me Soundtrack from the Animated Series Vinyl artwork by BG design supervisor Jesse Balmer

Artwork for the upcoming iam8bit release of Adventure Time: Come Along With Me soundtrack - music from the 3 part finale of AT. Very pleased they let me do these peaceful night scenes. If you look closely you can see that LSP got off a scholar’s mate on Lemongrab. Head over to iam8bit to pre-order.

[pinkbutterflygaming]

The Relationship between Susie and the Player... (Deltarune Analysis)

I had a sudden realisation when Susie talks about her experience with piano. This scene is an obvious nod to Susie's experience with learning healing, but... I think there's another, far deeper meaning to this scene.

What Susie experienced with the piano... is actually EXACTLY what happens in that earlier Piano scene when you attempt to solve the puzzle yourself.

If you were to ever to do ANY attempt on the song to unlock the door... Kris makes sure to mess up your notes before you even have a chance to finish. They forbid you from playing. The same exact way Susie was forbidden to play.

And so they had someone else play. Someone better. Kris.

Susie describes her past experience with piano as an attempt to further connect with Kris. But ironically, Kris was the one who was better. The one who basically took over the inexperienced one after they were told they weren't allowed to play.

Kris never let's us get near the piano, and makes sure to always fumble up the notes, "A Concert For You."

Susie's experience isn't a parallel to Kris at all. It's a parallel to the Player.

And we further connect this to the Healing arc with Ralsei. Where Ralsei teaches Susie to heal, but never actually let's her do healing when it's actually needed.

In Ch 4, Kris allows us to play piano, but further prevents us from trying when it's truly needed or when it's something complex.

But this also shows us that not all things are so simple. Kris is someone that truly loves piano, so it makes sense that they don't want someone else in their body to command them to play, for Kris, playing piano is their freedom, and its not something that they want someone else to take.

...Yet at the same time, there's nothing wrong with you wanting to play, even if it sucks. Because maybe, just maybe, it might become someone else's freedom too.

Neither are in the wrong in this matter. Between Susie and the better piano player that took her place, and between the Player and Kris... no one is necessarily wrong here. Things here are a lot more complicated than that.

This isn't the first time where Susie's character is aligning closer to the Player than Kris and Ralsei, with her becoming the one to speak for us for certain things when we're unable to, such as her vocalising the frustration of having people keep secrets not long after Ralsei and Kris kept hiding secrets from the Player.

Also the fact that the Ch 4 extended scene where you struggle against Kris in Dess' closet has Susie accept BOTH Kris and the Player equally rather than preferring one side over the other. She just doesn't realise it's two seperate ppl at once.

Not to mention how the Player and Susie are actively synergizing with each other in the best way possible.

Susie is the only one whose abilities you can directly enhance midbattle. Rude Buster's dmg gets raised by z spam (ch 1 + 2) or z timing (ch 3 + 4). And her healing gets enhanced the more you allow her to heal.

And it just so happens that Gerson' fight is also essentially TRAINING THE PLAYER to use these mechanics. It teaches you the z mechanic to parry. It forces you to let Susie heal to enhance it. It wasn't just training for Susie. It was also training for YOU to learn how to work with Susie as a duo.

Its really funny cause Susie's heal isn't a "Prayer" like other healing spells. And yet, Susie's heal requires a higher being's interference to raise its effectiveness.

If you think abt it, both the Player and Susie are similar in the sense that we're both outsiders to the grand scheme of the narrative, and are both trying to figure out what the heck is even going on in this town. You fought Kris in Ch 4 to help Susie while Kris is working with the Knight.

Even though everything abt Susie should make her clash with us (her ability to override choices, ignore our commands), she's the one who is the most aligned to us in terms of how we feel and experience the events of the story, and she is the one whose dynamic with the Player, has been nothing but purely beneficial to each other.

Not many people fully analyse the relationships between the Player and other characters outside of Kris (and sometimes Noelle for Weird), and I think Susie's dynamic with the Player is one that should really be looked into.

[kakoytobashmak]

🧵🎀🧶🪡🪢

[pityhate]

Susie doin the funny little Gerson kicks

Additional Susie spin dodge

Additional Additional weeeeee (spin loop)

[cheezydraws]

Outsider

big dr ramble below

One of the most interesting aspect of the game for me is how the player's presence is acknowledged and/or referenced by characters.

Inquisitive, curious nature of the player is pointed out as something strange from Kris. That's a fun way to separate us from them at the very start, without being off-putting. Yet.

The game gives us dialogue options, but many times they don't come off as intended. Some options come more naturally than others for Kris. Sometimes even come off as dishonest if they directly contradict how Kris feels, what they actually think. That gives us a window into Kris' personality in a smart way, without other character describing Kris "to Kris".

I think about often how Noelle acts towards Kris and us. It's reasonable to think that Noelle became distant with Kris after Dess's disappearance. But it can also be read as Noelle noticing Kris' different demeanor since we reside within them. It must be strange from her perspective. A childhood friend who has changed out of nowhere one day, and no one else seems to care. I also theorize that pranks that Noelle describes Kris doing are their attempts to hide us from Noelle. But that's just a theory.

It's the most interesting when you are not attentive and get things wrong about Kris. NPCs will point out that "you" should know that, or wonder if something is up with Kris. During the quizzes in Chapter 3, Kris goes out of their way to help us get the right answers. (Coughing to signify the right answer.) This shows that they are interested to keep the act up, no matter how incompetent we may be. It makes me think that if there will be a point in any route where our act will fall on its face so bad, it may put us or Kris in trouble.

Although, the way some characters answer questions that Kris most likely knows or should know makes me think that some NPCs in Hometown are aware of our presence and talk to us more rather than Kris. I mostly think of Rudy here. We can ask him a lot of questions that Kris should be familiar with, I think so at least. And of course there's Carol with the blatant acknowledgement of us, which signifies a great shift in our role in the narrative. My other suspect is Asgore, but that's just a guess on my part.

The nature of our control over Kris is interesting too. We can move around and interact with game with ease. But as we can see in Ch3-4, Kris can twist our demands to fit their own goals, hide stuff from us. I think that's why them referred to as "The Cage" is very telling. We are kept away within them for a purpose, we are not in control really.

(This goes for the Pacifist Route mostly. Weird Route shows sign of more overt control from us. I think that works because the player is really twisting the bounds of the game itself, becoming actively malicious. But outside of that it shows that nature of our dynamic with Kris is really up to us. I love that the game doesn't take away our agency and responsibility from that.)

Susie's role in this very intriguing as well. She is introduced first as a NPC, who is taking choice away from us. We may dislike her for it. But looking back, that may be one reason Kris took a liking to Susie in the first place. She is taking the control away from us, the player. Not Kris. Without even realizing, she is alleviating Kris from our oppressive presence. But also the fact the Kris only got closer to Susie after we got into the picture, gives them anxiety. Is their relationship truly honest? We know that Susie took liking to Kris, not us. I really can't wait to see how the game will handle their relationship straining once the truth is out. At the moment, I can see Susie as the character who still trusts Kris after all that. But I can also see how it can break her, and make her revert back to her old self.

Also side note, its amazing how Susie is the least aware of us, and her place in the narrative. But she has the most control and freedom over the narrative, and thus us too. That's awesome.

Speaking of Ralsei's relationship to us and Kris is worth mentioning as well. Ralsei is well aware of us. To the point that he was mostly talking to us and only us through Kris for most of Chapter 1-2. Exceptions are the few times we cut away to Susie. But I think even in those cases, Ralsei mostly talks about Kris' purpose in the prophecy, in the game. Not really acknowledged as their own person. I don't think this malicious on Ralsei's part of course. An alien, godlike entity that could forsake all, residing in a teenager may take precedent. He wanted to make sure we take the pacifist route, hence the overly moral speech about sparing everyone. I think for this reason, Kris didn't really like Ralsei that much at first. But as Ralsei got forced to see others and himself as their own person. He opened up to Susie and Kris about his fears. Thus gaining Kris' compassion maybe even trust.

All in all, I love how an element that would alienate the player form the game is executed so well, that it further immerses the player in the world of the game, by making us part of the narrative. (Well those who are willing to listen. The irony of how some players refer to and think about Kris is not lost on me.)

You find yourself rooting for Kris, wanting to find out more what's going on. What did they promise? What's your role in this? Will they be okay if it's all done? How much control do you have over story?

Can you save everyone? Is that even up to you?

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If you read all this mindless ramble, thank you! If I got some stuff wrong or have something to add feel free to add it in a reblog or comment!

Have a nice day!