Editing Category:Deltarune fan theories ontology (section)

== Trauma ==

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</dfn></li><li value="618"><dfn class="field_horror element_empty" data-qid="618" data-dimension="S2">The Titans are hiding something / <b class="caps">Guardian</b> means the Titans are guarding the truth, which means they're hiding something  ->  I do think this is at least technically true.

</dfn></li><li value="618"><dfn class="field_horror" data-qid="618" data-dimension="S2">Kris parses Ribbick as trauma / Kris parses the stain on the couch as traumatic / Ribbick, the stain on the couch, is connected to the statement that "you can't wash it all away"  ->  explanation for why Ribbick opens a gateway to find the Forgotten Man which involves "holding your breath"

</dfn></li><li value="618"><dfn class="field_horror" data-qid="618" data-dimension="S2">The Dark World intruding into the computer lab is a metaphor for Kris' trauma piercing through daily life  ->  you can't see the Roaring Knight yet, which feels like a much clearer manifestation of this, and yet, the Dark Fountain is being awfully intrusive when neither of them quite exactly want to find it just yet.

</dfn></li><li value="618"><dfn class="field_horror" data-qid="618" data-dimension="S2">Noelle's pipis represented a trauma / Noelle's pipis pet left home due to happiness because it represents a repressed "secret", as we are told in the Tenna scene in Chapter 3  ->  this is why it left home due to happiness. as a metaphor, the secret needed therapy, but then it was able to leave

</dfn></li><li value="618"><dfn class="field_horror" data-qid="618" data-dimension="S2">John Mantle is a burnt pizza box / John Mantle is the haunting memory of a burnt pizza box  ->  I think this is very likely. the big question to ask, then, is what is so significant about the buried pizza box that Kris keeps remembering it? why is it so significant that even when it's been buried in the Dark World {{TTS|tts=Shawm|Seam}} still brings it up and says Kris is going to need to find it and turn it into the Shadow Mantle? that burning face must be really important, and there has to be a reason it's useful for either defending against or destroying The Knight.

</dfn></li><li value="618"><dfn class="field_horror" data-qid="618" data-dimension="S2">John Mantle was born when Kris made a terrible joke that December was dead and Noelle was traumatized  ->  follows claim: the Roaring Knight is a repressed memory of Dess, not the real Dess
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</dfn></li><li value="618"><dfn class="field_horror" data-qid="618" data-dimension="S2">Dess is "lost" because somebody beat her up, in some figurative sense  ->  I think this is more likely to be what happens in one of the endings of Deltarune than what already happened: beat up The Knight once you finally have access to the core of it instead of the outside, and Dess can never be recovered. I do think it's reasonable to think "lost" is significant and meant to be foreshadowing something.
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{{HueNumber|Q66,83}}  <!-- en: Ralsei would overcome the final tragedy with kindness -->

<li value="618"><dfn class="field_horror" data-qid="618" data-dimension="S2">There is one choice: killing The Knight / There is one real decision in Deltarune: killing The Knight / There will be exactly one actual choice to kill or spare in Deltarune, and it will be the reflected memory of December  ->  it's the Shadow Mantle and the Titan fight that are making me think this. Deltarune is in some ways very similar to {{book|In Stars and Time}}, with this big traumatized boss you fight (the king) while it's really the protagonist's psychological issues that turn out to be the biggest problem in the end. it's also very credible for there to be a game with an overall gloomy atmosphere that ends in exactly one choice if you look at {{book|OneShot}}
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<li value="618"><dfn class="field_horror" data-qid="618" data-dimension="S2">The thorn incident foreshadows the ending / The thorn incident in Chapter 4 foreshadows the exact ending of the Weird Route, which may get even more disturbing as it goes back from reality to abstract mind-worlds but will only be more of the same thing  ->  {{em|if}} the pizza box is directly connected to Dess, I have little doubt {{em|this}} would then be true.

</dfn></li><li value="618"><dfn class="field_horror element_empty" data-qid="618" data-dimension="S">The Knight's pronouns

{{E:Q618/Fy|class=field_horror element_empty|Q=6649|dimension=S2|The forgotten "man" is Dess |li=y}}

{{HueNumber|Q618/Fy|class=field_horror element_empty|Q=618|dimension=S2|The Dess Gumball machine is just Gaster's door}}
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