Zorbonaut's blog

Zorb from Germany at your service! (INFJ, he/him) I'm a fan of too many things to list, mainly anime, webcomics and Undertale/Deltarune.

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This is fanart of the weird route fic Amber Alert by SpectrumWriting

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"Krusie is one-sided." Sure, fam.

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I NEED to share this. It's probably the best AMV I've ever seen.

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Zistopia epiloque (NOT canon, not blessed by the author, this is just fanart)

Zistopia is by https://nicolaswildes.tumblr.com/ and it is better than Disney. 

ps Russian version is here

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Insane to me how the Chapter 5 secret boss is basically this:

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hahahahahahaha fuck you

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One last prediction before the new chapter drops.

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I think this guy is widely misunderstood by the fandom. He just knows how to ragebait like no one else.

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Trying to get all my headcanons out there before they get inevitably destroyed by chapter 5. Chat, what do we think of Dess with a bi-cut?

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Saw this meme on Reddit that is apparently FOUR YEARS OLD and. Uh. Is this just an amazingy prescient bit of slander, or was his behavior an open secret for years and I've somehow managed to never hear about it before the news talked about it?

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Sooooo incredibly glad that Noelle Knight is slowly getting some traction in the fandom. Don't get me wrong, I have some serious doubts about it being canon myself, and if she is the Knight, she obviously not quite being herself. (Something something shadow crystals mind control Carol manipluating her to find her missing other daughter uhhhh the weird route is actually about making her strong enough to break free from whatever is controlling her.) But just imagine the dramatic potential. Susie's reaction when she finds out that not only is Kris controlled by the Soul and they've conspired with the Knight against her all along, but also the Knight is the cute girl in her class she kinda likes? Her having to fight Noelle, trying to save her from bringing about the roaring?? FAILING to save her???

This is pure gold. I can't believe there isn't more fanart or fanfiction exploring this.

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Quick addition before chapter 5 comes out: The gaps in Noelle's memory are very suspicious and it's possible she was involved in the incident where Dess idsappeared. If there's a way that could temporarily unlock her repressed memories, how would her personality change? Would she blame herself for what happened? Would she have knowledge about how to save Dess that she otherwise wouldn't have? Would she make herself a willing instrument in whatever her mother is scheming?

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We are so back.

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The Boys spoiler warning

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girl who never got to fight back x girl who never got to be vulnerable

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Since the core theme of Deltarune seems to be fantasy and escapism as represented by the dark worlds, I think it's likely that the final conflict of the game will be about letting go of fantasy vs fully embracing it. Dess takes an interesting position in this conflict, as she's a character that somehow got lost in the darkness, like how some people get so lost in their fantasy that they barely interact with the real world anymore.

So... What if the game ends by giving you the choice to let Dess' friends and family reunite with her, but at the cost of letting the Roaring happen and letting Hometown drown in darkness? Alternatively, you could prevent the roaring, but only by closing the Grand Fountain to stop the spread of darkness represented by the Titans before it reaches the light world. This would mean that Kris and Susie have to say goodbye to their darkner friends forever and Noelle will never see Dess again. I think that's an interesting basis for a moral conflict that's a little more complicated than anything we're given in Undertale because there's no obvious right or wrong choice.

...however. There's also Susie, a character who's basically written to defy the prophecy and break false binaries. I think if anyone is going to solve the dilemma at the core of Deltarune and allow us to have the perfect ending where everyone is saved, it's her. Of course it's possible that Deltarune will go for something more bittersweet than Undertale's pacifist ending and will only let us save Dess at a cost that most people aren't willing to accept. There's certainly something to be said for the beauty of imperfect endings and the value of the lesson that you can't have everything you wanted. But I still hold out hope that there's a way to break the prophecy and, if necessary, the game itself to give these characters the happy ending we want for them.

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"If Dess could be saved it would be anticlimactic because it means her family would have grieved for nothing." Do y'all hear yourselves.

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I might start shipping Kralsei out of nothing but defiance.