#spamton doesnt have that problem. everyone knows spamton

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[thepictoblr]

I dont post fandom headcanons anymore cause i dont want to be insufferable but fuck it were like a month into deltarune chapter 2 my brain is full lets go. General thing of no this isnt canon no i dont expect ppl to aggree i just think these dynamics could be fun actually.

-swatch's best friend is tasque manager, and in respect for her need for things to be orderly he keeps the Color Cafe spotless for the odd time she does pop in for a drink.

-the position of head butler is not determined by size or anything, swatch being the shorter of the butler staff and almost adorably so compared to the swatchlings is just funny.

-but with that said he Does have the meanest karate chop, a VERY imortant qualifier for the role of head butler.

-swatch's current opinions of spamton arent as bad as his opinions onf rouxls but he just. Does not like dealing with either of them. He is not flattered by spamton's attempts at impersonation to break in, but hes even less flattered by the cafe being trashed by a certian blue puzzle master.

-tasque manager's tasques all have names, not that queen would remember them, but TM does make sure her coworkers at the very least to make an effort to know them.

-needless to say, swatch can identify each tasque by name and food preference from a look at this point.

-the swatchlings are known for being able to rise early and settle down late for their daily duties, which wouldn't be a problem if they didn't insist on crowing at those early and late hours like very large rooks.

-butjuice is just like, a fruit punch, with a base of watermelon juice because they need to stock watermelons whenever queen is in the want to have them be karate chopped.

-side note i am convinced im the only one who actually paid attention to that bit of lore. Its so fucking funny and everyone else is out here convincing themselves that swatch and swatchlings are super serious like. Mate they play fruit ninja to please queen.

-queen doesnt come down to the color cafe because she just isnt interested in going to the lounge of her subordinates, which is why they don't serve battery acid to the customers, but there is a tap ready just in case. It has to be cleaned and replaced frequently because the acid damages the pipe but its all for their dearest queen so its fine.

-speaking of queen, she does not know what the difference between types of acid are. You could tell her regular acid is battery acid and she would believe you. She just needs to sippy on smth acidic.

-on that note swatch and the swatchlings would never substitute for anything other than the finest battery acid.

[lazorsandparadox]

New theory that the secret bosses in deltarune represent the stages of grief. Theyre all dealing with a situation similar to kris (trapped with little to no hope of escape) and deal with it in different ways. So far, jevil has dealt with his entrapment by denying that he is even trapped in the first place, insisting that everyone else is trapped instead and hes the only free one left. And spamton deals with it by striking deals, and trying to bargain his way to freedom. Even during his bossfight, the flavor text constantly describes his begging and pleading to an audience that doesnt exist.

If the pattern follows, that means the next secret boss would be someone who deals with being trapped or controlled through anger.

The only problem with this theory is that theres only 5 stages of grief, but 7 chapters in deltarune. Though i guess there are models that have 7 stages of grief, but those dont usually have bargaining right after denial. Its also possible that theres only going to be 5 secret bosses and the crystals you get from them let you unlock something new to fight after youve beat all of them?

I dont know. But i think it would be very cool if the secret bosses were a manifestation if kris dealing with their grief over being controlled by the player, or lead kris to finding a way to break free of that control. And if its the first option, that would have some very cool implications about the story as a whole!

[spirit-shroud]

what are some roles that have been largely changed for cityrune? since you said queen was an influencer now :]

hi ty for asking me im vibrating. havent gotten to talk about this au now for three years and now that chapter 2 is like real and this time i can like........draw occasionally and i have more understanding of nuance...... [grips table] [screams]

this isnt quite what you asked but heres what's everyone from chapter 1 has been Up To with a little bit of context (and under a read more bc it got LENGTHY):

kris - professional stay at home teen (they live w/ asgore n help run the flower shop sometimes. this decision was entirely bc i dont like toriel). was wrongly diagnosed w Sudden Soul Rejection when they were incredibly young and given an experimental transplanted soul as a replacement. it works for them fine, give or take having to see gaster once a month for checkups. but sometimes the soul makes them skittish n decides they're going to sit in front of the pc and play 30 consecutive hours of a certain simulation game and not even let them drown people in the pool. if it were entirely up to them, they'd be like. passing out on the sofa to documentaries about bigfoot. or practicing cool knife tricks to impress their friends at their next tabletop meetup

- EDITED IN: the soul is kind of their friend. they are wearing a hypothetical get along shirt. most of the time, they agree on actions and things to do. tends to refer to themself + their soul as we/us which originally was just something they did in their head but they kept slipping in speech/text n just became a Thing of how they talk. switches to 'I/Me' whenever smth is wrong.

- also edited in: they believe the soul they have is their original soul bc nobody has told them otherwise. whenever theyre like 'oh yeah we think about our soul n view it as a separate entity to us like. all the time. it likes to hurt if we make too many choices it doesn't seem to like and kind of forces us to be a toned down version of what we want to be but thats just how souls are haha' and everyone is like.... 'Hey Kris That's Really Not How It Is.' theyre like. 'huh. gonna ignore that for now' - this was going to be a plot point

toriel - head of H0MEWOR1D (H01)'s department of education; kind of lost her roots as a simple math teacher as she was pushed into a lot of power she didn't even really seek out. divorced asgore over some miscommunications in their relationship; also loosely as a result of grief from asriel's death

asgore - the same. runs a lil flower/gift shop. people come in more to talk with him than to buy flowers most of the time, though

asriel Flowey - he's back in flower form, thanks to the government an accident. causes a lot of technology glitches wherever he goes, and wants revenge. isn't sure how to go about it. asriel "died" around 8 years before the story takes place and kris still misses him and refuses to even THINK about even the IDEA of calling someone their sibling after what happened, just in case it somehow happens a second time

susie - more of the same really. she spends most of her time either at grillby's (she's sort of become his assistant n helps with opening/closing. it just happened) or getting into low-stakes trouble w/ kris

noelle - she's in the city's equivalent of college and shes so tired. shes So Abysmally Tired n got kinda pushed 2 follow in her mom's footsteps. she's rarely around anymore except through text or on monsters & mages (dnd) night. (however.........she will come back w/ a long break n hang out w everyone again)

berdly - tbh i didnt even consider berdly when i made the au initially. idk what he's doing. probably in a similar situation to noelle??? canonically got kicked out of the M&M group due to clashes w/ other players but lurks in their group chat to posts memes sometimes

didnt rly think of any other of kris' classmates (+ their families) after ch1 and probably will continue to not, until chs 3-5 come out and i gotta whip up roles and histories for like. a lotta guys all of a sudden. i also forgot about noelle's parents

sans - runs a convenience store that everyone kind of thinks is a front, but also it has really cheap snacks and the local teens make a point of stopping there after school. so essentially, more of the same papyrus - similar to ut. is a very polite and sweet boy but you'll know when he's coming

grillby - he's back. he runs a bar like back in ut but the cozy vibes and weird-for-a-bar hours keep attracting kids who need parents, so half of his menu is comprised of overly sweet mocktails. usually only frequented by monsters

QC - same as usual. has a "rivalry" with grillbz but, theyre besties and have a book club

mettaton - he's real and he's back. he's similar to how he is back in ut w/ his EX body. likes to hang out at grillby's and talk to unsuspecting fans. has a show for everything

napstablook - similar to how they are in ut. helps mtt with making music sometimes. doesn't leave the house too often, but spends a lot of time posting on undernet

undyne - unfortunately. more of the same. she is a cop in the monster district. i am also upset by this but couldn't think of anything better for her

alphys - a doctor studying under dr. gaster in the hopes she'll one day take over his research. she spends most of her time as a nurse with a bigger title, though, and blocks out the weirdness of her job with anime.

gaster - weird guy. H01's top soul researcher and resident House wannabe. trying to manufacture the ultimate soul that can be controlled with simple internal switches, but so far he's only had 1 (very limited) success with a certain human. monsters just melt, and darkners just sorta......get weird... he's onto Something, though.

ralsei - lonely boy with some very strange hobbies. popular on UnderNet for poetry, baking videos, and general cryptid vibe. is the DM for the monsters & mages group (also seems to think everything is actually very fine in H01 when it is very much not)

lancer - about the same. professional Round Boy. lives w/ rouxls full time. follows susie around like a lost puppy and calls himself her "underling."

rouxls - runs a hotel/casino kind of deal where the objective Bad Guys hang out, and usually ends up doing any of the spade king's paperwork.

spade king - mafia godfather. kind of a dick. don't play cards with him

seam - works with the spade king as his right hand cat more or less because they have for a lot of years and are in that 'sunk cost fallacy' zone. thinks of retiring to a quiet life in the monster section of town like, daily

jevil - used to work with the spade king, but got imprisoned for Crimes. got weird after The Accident (separate from asriel's accident)

temmies (all) - dont really get mentioned except offhandedly but they run the monster space station. so far, are the only monsters who have ever been to space.

as far as chapter 2 goes:

yeah i dont have much so far for characters. in the original version of the au i accidentally made darkners as a whole just kinda..... not great? like all sorts of weird organized crime ties n sort of going out of their way to be A Problem to the city (not even in like. a revolution way. in a working against them but with the same goals kinda way). with the whole context it worked At The Time, bc i just had the spade king to look to as a villain, and also in this au the darkners are just trying to survive a world that ultimately was not built for them (that humans think they own, and monsters sort of... seeing this and wondering what it'll mean for them whichever one wins), but w/ new info abt how the dark world works n more guys to work with i want to kind of. edit the vibe a bit. like yea darkners will ultimately do whatever it takes to take over H01, but maybe in a better way than like. idk. all this. it doesnt have to be peaceful or anything it just has to be more adaptable as we meet more kinds of darkners

however yeah i thought up 'queen as some sort of childless mommy blogger/influencer' and that completely revived all memory i had of this au. she should be on mtt's talkshow. also she sells collectible wine glasses w/ her likeness

spamton is another one of gaster's failed soul experiments, but he hasn't melted yet, and seems............fine? sort of. so he hasn't gotten decommissioned yet. he does want to give you malware tho. hot monster singles in your area n all that

im blanking on the rest of the guys but i hope any of this was comprehensible