User:RD/9k/Q76,17

Main entry

7617. Deltarune

Related games

618. Breath of Fire
7616. Undertale

Miscellaneous

618. if I don't get out of this small town I'll be stuck working at ICE-E's Pizza
618. Deltarune and Twin Peaks
618. old scholars greyed by research forgotten / "Old scholars, greyed by research forgotten" [1] -> this line has to be more important than it seems, specifically because of the word "greyed". it normally has to do with age, but within the dark sanctuary it almost certainly refers to Goners of some kind. it comes up in the same chapter as Gerson going from being normal-dead to being a Goner in the context of a Dark World. it comes up in the vague vicinity of the room of organ monks that are all stone, which I feel like it's referring to. this line weirdly implies they were trying to learn something they weren't supposed to know. but there's only one stated way to become a Goner, which is leaving a Dark World. so there are only a few things you could be attempting to learn. A) what's beyond your world B) how to survive the Roaring personally C) how to stop the Roaring
618. Monsters and humans in Deltarune are not actually filled with blood, but with Determination, because Determination (red) is the default Soul color [2] -> interesting idea. I am tempted to make a joke about Adventure Time and Marceline eating red but it isn't coming together.
618. Susie having a healing ability is a reference to Breath of Fire [3]
618. Your love for characters cannot save them, but taking those lessons to the real world is valuable [4] -> [...]
618. "Determination" is a magic power in Undertale
618. "Determination" is a magic power in Deltarune
618. "Power" is a magic power in Deltarune
618. "Pain" is a magic power in Deltarune
618. "Freedom" is a magic power in Deltarune
618. chat plays Undertale
618. The collective unconscious in fiction is an illusion created by the fact that all the characters actually emerge from a single real mind / (9k)

Struggle against the narrative

6077. 6077Susie being herself can change the Prophecy / (9k)

Psychoanalysis

618. 618Jung described the subconscious as an ocean [5]

Theories (26/2)

618. 618Dess is not whole in the sense that Kris and Susie are [6] -> probably.
618. 618The red heart device is not Kris' mind or spirit (is not Kris' Soul; Deltarune) [7] -> I definitely think this is true but not in the ways Undertale works where you have to have one anyway. I think Souls are just not real in Deltarune even though they are in Undertale.
618. 618Kris' Soul was put inside Dess for Kris to be able to puppet the Knight and act out the Prophecy [8]
618. 618Rudy Holiday donated his body to create the Roaring Knight
618. 618Dess was afraid of being trapped in a closet / Dess turned her bed away from the closet because, perhaps from a younger age, she had had nightmares about being trapped in darkness [9]
618. 618Waterfall is retelling Dess' story / Waterfall in Undertale is secretly retelling one or more incidents in Dess' backstory / There is secret foreshadowing for Deltarune hidden in Undyne's theme songs in Undertale -> this sounds unlikely until you notice it. so, in the Ruins there is a particular theme associated with Toriel. this motif then appears again a little skewed in Undyne's theme. that's a slightly weird motif to be in there. you'd think it's maybe because of some stretched link from Toriel to Sans to Papyrus to Undyne. but it's not. because versions of the Ruins motif carry through into Battle Against a True Hero and into Gerson's theme. so what is that theme doing in the Ruins? you have to remember what Undyne does in the main story of Undertale — she tells you about how she learned to fight from Gerson. so believe it or not that motif in her theme is actually about learning from somebody older and more experienced, and that's why it's used in the Ruins as Toriel's theme. but then you look at the Waterfall theme, which is also a slower version of Undyne's theme, and in turn, a different version of the Ruins theme. funny enough, when you get into Hotland the Core has the same theme so it's a very central theme to Undertale. Snowdin is the only one that's weird — which is because it's a distantly-related version of Noelle's flashback theme that nobody would have known about until Deltarune but that totally existed before Undertale as evidenced by Gaster's theme also coming from it. I think Waterfall is more critical to understanding Deltarune than it would appear because the concept of Undyne learning from Gerson is written all over it, from the Waterfall theme to Undyne's main theme to Battle Against a True Hero. when you meet Gerson in Chapter 4 you visually see waterfalls there multiple times. and the whole time they're associated with tears and by extension Shadow Crystals ("something grew"). I think Waterfall as a whole is somehow telling a story of how Dess sort of terrorized Kris but also became a mentor figure that left a huge impact. if I remember right the waterfall like, goes off the edge, and Alphys was looking down it in depression? I think that was another hint of what the waterfall means. Undertale is secretly about losing Dess. it keeps it very quiet so as not to trample over the unique story and combination of characters happening in Undertale. but I'm pretty sure all the background choices about the story that are not as important to the central themes are actually foreshadowing Deltarune. even Undyne running after you until she collapses and is going to die feels like some weird nightmare regurgitated out of Kris' mind after trying to forget Dess. having to use water to save her is interesting too... waterfall water is a healing item in Deltarune, remember. is the Underground another form of "the dark". don't forget, I'm with you in the dark, which also means the entirety of Undertale? it's gotta be. I don't know who Frisk is supposed to be but I don't know if that matters, because Asriel, Chara, Undyne, and Gerson are much more focal characters to Undertale than its main character if you're connecting it to Deltarune. I feel like Frisk might be some sort of statement that Kris believes protagonists are replaceable and you could just throw in seven or eight different people and it doesn't matter to a story built on themes and recycled memories who the protagonist is. alphys and undyne seem to have very different and opposite responses to the waterfall. the waterfall helps Undyne get back up but it just about helps alphys die. does it matter that alphys is yellow? is this telling us what yellow means? but Undyne isn't pink, she only has red accents. there actually isn't much overlap between Spamton/Jevil and Gerson that I can remember except for the freedom motif; Spamton is contrasted with Tenna, not Gerson. which is like, I see a theme of hope with Tenna and despair or suffering with Spamton. I see hope with Gerson and hope and recovery with Undyne and I see death and suffering with Alphys. which.... oh god. so Undyne is the tough one and Alphys is the quiet yellow one. they really are Susie and Noelle even though Undyne isn't pink. it's really weird that Noelle would be hinted to be associated with death and despair in Undertale while in Deltarune she seems very hopeful, she seems more hopeful than Kris as long as you don't try to mess with her mind. there is a sad but theatrically staged scene where the fans get sad that Mettaton is going away, and that's like Tenna having to go away when he doesn't want to but the Knight comes in and breaks him. I can't remember Mettaton having much to do with the yellow/pink hope/despair theme other than maybe like he has pink boots and he's not as depressed as Alphys but that's about it. Tenna wants everything back, the Knight says no. the Knight is on Spamton and Alphys Undertale's team of "the waterfall never ends". then Undyne Deltarune shows up unaware what she's getting herself into with the Knight. there is this thorough separation between the Knight as this horror entity and Undyne, both Undynes. Alphys Undertale hiding the monster in the basement and never showing it to Undyne is quite a bit like Undyne Deltarune facing the Knight, only it's out in the open. the Knight is conceptually the thing you find at the end of the waterfall — Deltarune actually says that. off the edge lies the end of the waterfall. the waterfall could help you, it could help you get back up, or you could go off the edge by getting close to it and like, become an Abstraction; this isn't Digital Circus but man are the metaphors just exactly the same within a couple of its episodes. I think Dess is another version of that same idea, that a broken mind creates a wildly distorted version of a monster, and there's simply maybe a bit of a literal angle to the metaphors with a literal edge or maybe a literal waterfall, definitely a literal Shadow Crystal and a literal Black Shard whatever those are. maybe it's like.... a Deltarune character is just a thin boundary around a section of Dark World that can actually be pierced, and then the character falls into shards of glass leaving a blob of darkness? that is a disturbing image. it reminds me a bit of the corruption creatures in Tunic that were the holes in the game cartridge that could destroy everything. but here it's not that literal, Deltarune is more drawn on this abstract medium of creative potential or something but it's still possible to pierce all the way through it. I think there's something to the concept of post-structuralist themes in Deltarune, like Gerson casually tells you to erase the narrative so you can write a new one, but maybe Dess looked at the world and said, well if our world is just one big fabricated construct maybe I can destroy it by piercing through me to reach the other side where anything is possible. again kind of what Scratch did. but it didn't work quite the way she intended. the world was more material than she thought and she only successfully destroyed her body. although along with unleashing darkness she did break through the world. and maybe the Knight is gonna turn into some huge crazy world-reshaping rift in Chapter 7? god if this isn't the real game plot this is my new AU. omega Knight. that would be so cool.
     this is one of the most coherent theories I've ever come up with for why suffering would make Noelle stronger, or why Kris seems to be afraid of growing and completing their 'adventure' and seems to do everything to subvert it. the Shadow Crystal bosses are trying to tempt Noelle to become a fantasy black hole apparently, or maybe Kris, the Knight is casually waiting for one of their participation before ending the world and Kris is terrified

Ideologies or fields

1. S–11,71 (pronounced 11,71. (S))[Fy] [S] (pronounced (Fantasy) (S):) Fy (pronounced Fantasy)  / urban fantasy1:-1:-1
2. S–11,42 (pronounced 11,42. (S))[Fy] [S] (pronounced (Fantasy) (S):) Fy (pronounced Fantasy)  / trauma adventures (TS)1:-1:-1
3. Z–76,17 (pronounced 76,17. (Z))[UTDR] [Z] (pronounced (Deltarune) (Z):) UTDR (pronounced Deltarune)  / Deltarune (2018-)1:-1:-1