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walking the crt to school on a rainy sunday afternoon

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I've been working on this for a few hours - I think this is as far as I'm willing to go for now though.

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Scrapped/early concepts for friendship test:

-The first idea I had for FriendProgram and BestFriendProgram was that BFP WAS FriendProgram, this was so early on development the story wasn’t present at all. I just had the idea of the protagonist also being the antagonist, and how it would be FP vs a version of themself that tried to erase all they truly are. For a lot of reasons, I wasn’t happy with this concept and removed it completely

-Early on I thought that BFP would use some violence for her mission to create perfect friends. Like completely discarding programs that failed being good friends too many times, literally throwing them in a big pit of spare metal trash. I thought this was way too cruel and would make BFP completely irredeemable, and the more I wrote her character it just didn’t make sense for her to be anything but a pacifist (psychologically abusive sure but in a way that she thinks she’s helping)

-Spike was originally going to be alongside a program who was the antagonist of the heartbreak area and gave orders to cute innocent Spike. This program never ended up being fully developed and instead I created TNT.

-Sparks was originally two different characters. There was the ex coworker of GAMES and a hugprogram in charge of the security cameras. I thought it would be better to fuse both concepts and make Sparks his own unique program

-There was going to be a giant reprogram in the middle of the act 5 party. They’re so big they aren’t able to do much and you keep them company. I didn’t like this very much though and removed it

-I did think the old organisms were going to be humans for a while, but it just didn’t make sense for a lot of reasons. The alien plot twist was the first concept I had but I was worried it was too dumb, thankfully I ended up making it work

-Exe was going to join you in act 6 instead of Clover

-Exe almost doesn’t have her awesome jester final boss. Instead she was going to be very serious. This wasn’t fun to me so I changed it after I remembered how much I like Marx from Kirby

-Clover was very close to not being part of the main cast. They were intended to be completely unlikable at first, just someone we are supposed to hate and use as a contrast to FriendProgram. I thought making them so one dimensional went against everything the game tries to say and I also REALLY started to like them the more I wrote them. I understood them very well and I wanted to give them a chance to be their own complex main character

-WB was going to become friends with Void on the story, but I thought the whole point was that WB should be happy even without friends, so I removed that, Void has plenty of friends already too.

-Void was originally going to get killed by Nick, only to be resurrected later. I thought this felt more like shock value than anything else, and I did not want to treat the topic of abuse just to shock the audience. The more I wrote Nick I also thought he would never do this.

-Super early on development the loveless themes were not going to be talked about throughout the story, there would be hints about it until it’s revealed in the last act. This was a terrible idea cause the whole point of the game is to fully discuss these themes right in front of you

-Super early on development I thought FP and WB would end up being friends, the reason for this is that the message at first was ‘you can have friends even if you dont feel love’, but the more I read about aplatonicism, lovelessness, etc the more this started not sitting right with me. Not that you can’t have friends if you’re loveless, but FP as a character is meant to showcase how you don’t have to make up for ANYTHING if you’re loveless, if that makes sense. I didn’t want a ‘they dont feel love but they still want friends!’, I wanted a character that just said ‘no’ and how that’s not a bad thing. I wanted a character that did not want friends at all because to me that seems way more difficult to see represented in any media. I wanted to make someone that I might not see again in any story for a while. Because of my research and writing the character I ended up figuring out I was loveless myself and it was overall so much fun to write someone like FP

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I love when he makes this face

Me when he literally goes ^v^. Like okay

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green creature full of wrath and hatred

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based on this post by @neurotypical-sonic

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The Allspark Almanac I & II

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man

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bullie

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What Kris and Susie are doing for their school project

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Drawing Deltarune characters every weekday until I forget or get bored: Day 5, Rouxls!

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beach time chao 🌴🌊🌴

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I was thinking, what if prowl knew all the coolass places in Detroit ‘nature’ even people didn’t care to find? As a cyberninja thingy of course since that works for everything.

and what if jazz’s better than him in chess? 

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stan huntrix!!! 🩷💜💙✨