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They’re gettin ready before the big concert

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i can do anything i want to

Bonus: the original sketch version

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I had a vision

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DELTARUNE: Susie and Defying Fate.

Spoilers, obviously

I played Chapters 3+4 the day they came out, went back after finishing to do the secret bosses, and it's been turning around in my brain since. I firmly believe that Susie is the real main character of DELTARUNE. Every instance of being told our choices don't matter are completely correct. It's Susie's choices that matter.

I'm not gonna give a complete summary of each chapter because it's not necessary. The short version of Susie's character development so far is from violent maniac to a caring friend, rough but with a heart of diamond. In chapter 1 her time spent with Lancer, someone who actually looked up to her as a role model is what finally broke through to her and let her start showing her compassionate side. When she learns a healing spell in chapter 2, while funny that it heals less than 5 HP despite costing 90% of your TP, is more symbolic of her nature as a defender.

The main thing I want to talk about is chapter 4. Throughout the duration of the chapter it's clear that Susie is feeling overshadowed, because Ralsei is the healer, she can't do anything meaningful with her ability, like it's a waste of time. After the fight with Jackenstein, while Ralsei is trying to heal him, Susie runs off and after the old man goads her into using her healing, she takes a shot at him, missing him and instead healing Jackentstein. Up until this point the focus on her is being a damage dealing tank. But if you're playing as a pacifist? You're hardly ever even going to use the fight button. If you go through with finding the secret boss to get that axe in Gerson's study, I believe the Susie healing spell sub-plot comes to a climax, and a satisfying conclusion.

Gerson is the only secret boss so far who hasn't used the shadow crystal and therefore gone crazy. He's also the only "enemy" in the game that doesn't give you a game over when you lose. With Susie being the only one fighting, he wants to see HER abilities. Gerson wants to see Susie prove herself, and if you don't beat him on the first try, she shows herself to being someone with a good sense, refusing to take the reward unless she really earns it. Chapter 1 Susie would have taken it without a second thought, but after all the growth she's had she wants to show him that she can earn it. But I think the thing he really wants to see, is her nurture her healing spell.

On the first attempt to use an item, Gerson quickly grabs it from you and says that since he can't use items, it's only fair that she can't either. This means the only way to heal is to use her OKHeal. Over the attempts at the fight you quickly notice that the TP cost goes down, gradually going from 90% to 80%. I had personally equipped Susie with items that increase her healing stat to make her heal more. When she first learned the spell she was inefficient and ineffective, high TP cost with a low payoff. After closing the fountain, the next time I saw her abilities screen, the skill had upgraded to BetterHeal, with a cost of 75% and with a magic stat of 9 healed over 120HP per use. While it's still less efficient than Ralsei's Heal Prayer, her healing is only getting stronger the more it's tried, just like Gerson suggested.

This all comes back to my claim that it's Susie's choices that matter. She's not the healer, shes not supposed to be the healer. She's the meat headed tank that throws the punches. Learning that spell let's her become something more than what is expected of her. During the Gerson fight, he tells her a story, one that's supposed to end after 6 chapters. When he asks her how it should end, she says "it shouldn't". When she see's the final prophecy, she destroys it herself, refusing to accept that it needs to happen.

Above all else, while Kris has the ability to ACT in a fight, Susie acts out the most. During the fight with the roaring knight in chapter 3, she moves to protect Toriel, she is the one who takes the first swing at the knight, she taunts them, and even when the 3 of them have fallen, she still tries to stop the knight.

Susie told Kris their choices don't matter, because hers are the ones that matter.

Honestly I probably didn't organize my thoughts that well but I just needed to get it out there unless I wanted this to be rattling around in my brain until the end of time. Basically, Deltarune is Susie's story, only she has the power to defy the prophecy and change fate, we're only along for the ride.

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forgot to post this ;-; happy belated valentine's day!!

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better a day late than never 💌

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legends 🌟

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Bea Santello 💙

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commission for @vyl3tpwny

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Secret Fluttershy and Discord art

HC that Fluttershy has slight bat features since the Bats episode like Lil fangs and kinda of bat ears

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heeler horsies

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Sparklemuffins back at it again to make you want a gf

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rarityyy!!!

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the things u do for yuri… rip Marcille 😔

[original comic by @punkitt-is-here! Thank you ms. Punkitt for your horsecomics)

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happy pride everyone