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== Footnotes ==

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<ref name="d">Theme: Dark Worlds and darkness being the space outside reality, or a hidden place beyond reality.</ref>
<ref name="p">Theme: Dark Worlds as subconscious or collective unconscious.</ref>
<ref name="ut17">Theme: W.D. Gaster "falling into his own creation", or other characters generally "falling into a creation".</ref>
<ref name="fm">Theme: Kris trying to draw a person and ending up drawing a tree over the top.</ref>
<ref name="n">Theme: Deltarune characters wanting to break free from constricting narratives.</ref>

<ref name="dr2">I'm not marking up these themes play-by-play because I think readers are stupid, or think they need a grade-school-textbook "comprehension questions" section. I'm marking up themes because it's genuinely easy to forget all the tiny moving parts of the actual games, and because when I wrote this post [[User:Reversedragon/UTDR/pointed-tail|as a stream-of-consciousness]] laying out everything explicitly it got too unwieldy and redundant even for me. So now you get this post as a better-paced narrative with the connecting themes all laid out down here. Deltarune is absolutely dense for a console-styled role-playing game, I'm telling you.</ref>

<ref name="cn">This is supposed to be the Deltarune world's version of {{book|The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe}}. Because monsters wrote it, it's about the idea of nonhuman characters getting dragged into a violent world of humans that doesn't make any sense where the humans are always trying to fit things into narratives and justify wars, but the monsters just don't understand it.</ref>

<ref name="r">The reason is that it's fake. It's a fan game, or a purported concept for one anyway. But that doesn't mean it isn't funny to imply "the reason" is that some terrifying Gaster aura is protecting the secrets of {{game|Undertale}} and {{game|Deltarune}}. Within {{game|Deltarune}} Gaster is trying hard to make sure nobody finds out who he really was, and Gaster or the Memoryhead hiding the {{thingamajig|caps=y|Redacted}}Tale route of {{game|Undertale}} is just an extension of that.</ref>
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