From Philosophical Research
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cr. 2025-02-28T10:09Z
weird thoughts about elements
- should we be taking it more literally that many elements like Puppet and Scythe are objects? like, the world of Darkners is quite literally composed of objects as elements, thus those are the elements
- is mousewheel not just a joke, but a hint we should be taking elements literally? like, the wheel physically has three mice as elements, so that's what it says in the elements field.
(mousewheel makes me actually rather surprised there was never a joke in chapter 2 about HTML elements. like.... uh... I don't know, a physical table which has the table element, that somehow has three table row elements sitting on it. or something.)
- if objects in the Dark World can fractally become Darkners, and we know this because of the tree with an eye, should we be worried about the fact the buttons have distinctly elemental objects on them? for one, this could be hinting that for some reason it will become a plot point that all the buttons turn into people, and then we can't use them or something.
- will there be really bizarre thrash machine style shenanigans where the main characters get turned into elements because somebody connected them together and turned them into some kind of machine
- Shenlong is almost a Darkner when you think about it. he's an inanimate stone that turns into a creature (this becomes more obvious as a theme if you read Journey to the West, where the Goku or Vegeta parallel is a stone come to life). and what happens when stones come to life? you get to rewrite reality with a magic wish. this makes it quite reasonable to me that Jewel will be paired with Dragon
- but... wait... does that mean elemental pairs actually have something to do with what each Darkner or object turns into as you go deeper? Jevil turned into a scythe. Scythe is an element. what does this mean.....
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cr. 2025-02-28T10:32:21Z
the room in-between. the man behind the tree, in-between.
this is intentional. little did we know, Gaster is based on vague themes of Plateaus and Rhizome
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cr. 2025-02-28T10:32:21Z
if Deltarune is primarily about different levels of reality
and Deltarune isn't primarily about reality versus magic
how do we know that magic was separated from Deltarune, and not Undertale itself
what if. Undertale and Deltarune were once one continuous reality, and then they were ripped apart
one of them becoming a higher level and one becoming a lower level in the metanarrative ladder
