After Chapter 5, Weird Route has a few clear delineations,
“Side B”: the most complete version of the route where Kris/Noelle… get sent to the Depths? I’m still not entirely sure wtf happened there
Aborted: Stop during snowgrave or back out of the chapter 4 cutscene
Quasi-aborted: don’t button mash during the chapter 5 cutscene, leading to the “but nothing changed” sequence. Your file is still marked as on weird route apparently
Yet of course there’s still the bakery elephant in the room, Twisted Sword. I doubt Seam will be reachable in chapter 7 given the Roaring would’ve had to start by then (then again I would’ve thought it would’ve started at the end of 5), which means that chapter 6 aborted weird route will have to be where Twisted Sword is made, the same chapter Susie is going to throw Noelle into castle town with them.
You can’t keep thorn ring and implant it into Noelle in chapter 4 on the same file. So, unless she’s wearing it in chapter 6 quasi-aborted, you will have to use a weird route file that aborted before Snowgraving Berdly to get Twisted Sword.
I’m still of the belief that “weird route” is the true prophecy, but what we did in chapter 5 weird route isn’t necessarily the prophecy - it’s Side B, breaking the universe/game.
I have a working theory about what will happen with Twisted Sword (which I’ll cover in a much longer theory post), but the gist of it is that it involves this unused Prophecy Panel
The dynamics of how this would work I’ll go into another time, but this seems to be a part of the prophecy that would be weird route-exclusive, intentionally hidden from the characters, but not hidden to the Soul/Player who can find it in the code.
Blood is a motif that keeps showing up specifically related to the Soul and the Prophecy, and by extension the weird route. Susie bleeds when shattering the final tragedy. The thorn ring has imagery as if causing Noelle to bleed profusely and causes a single red dot to show up throughout the rest of chapter 4 weird route. The soul itself is a visceral red, as is the only only major color the Knight uses besides its backgrounds. (Kris and Aqua also have a lot of red fuckery happening which is maybe relevant.) Sans now seems relevant to weird route and we know he can bleed from Undertale.
And when in the Goner Maker, one of the questions is…
“Side A” of Deltarune is a standard playthrough, where Susie is given emphasis as the unsung hero of a prophecy she was not written into.
“Side B” is what we knew as weird route, the attempted assimilation of Noelle into a vessel-like state by implanting a soul into here. But in actuality, it allows Noelle to break free of the universe of Deltarune because she realizes Hometown in some way or another isn’t real. She is the glitch hunter who has finally found a way to break her own reality - crossing the other side of the lake that doesn’t exist.
C and D… are not actual blood types - Gaster must’ve forgot what O is. However, there are two tracks in the game with these names, both clear references to Carol/Dess respectively. D.ogg plays in the weird route.
But, perhaps, to truly fulfill the prophecy as written in glass, the player has to go to such specifics to allow this to happen, playing some parts as intended, and others as not, allowing a specific sequence to lead into the twisted sword, allowing LOVE to find its way to the Girl.
And so, I propose we call Twisted Sword Route Side AB.
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