#toby explain

[deepcoraldragon]

What/Who/How the fuck is Pluey 😭

[ghostnorm]

came on here to freak out about this

and found out everyone has already done that for me but still

WHAT THE HELL TOBY???????????????????????

ARE THE DELTARUNE ALLEGATIONS TRUE????????

[traygaming]

Green grass, why, TOBY WHY

[misstwisted]

Creepypasta characters as Dan Hentschel videos (part 1)

Jeff and Natalie get an extra one because I’m biased I love them

Slenderman

Jeff the killer

Ben drowned

Eyeless Jack

Ticci Toby

Jane the killer

Clockwork

Laughing Jack

[7grandmel]

Happy anniversary, Undertale!

Before Undertale released, Toby Fox was most known for his music contributions for projects like Homestuck, alongside independent doujin work such as tribute albums. In 2011, in response to jokey feedback saying that much of his music sounded like Touhou music, Toby shared an audio recording of him playing "improvised" Touhou music (audio above) on piano, with commentary paired alongside it. As part of this commentary, he dubbed the boss fight theme "AN APPLE DISASTER!", and declared the theme to belong to the original character "Apple Girlington".

4 years later, just after Undertale's release, soon-to-be SiIvaGunner ripper and Touhou specialist Princess Sylvysprit released an arrangement of this made-up boss theme arranged in the authentic style of ZUN's Touhou music. As you can see, this rearrangement was directly seen and endorsed by Toby Fox!

You can also hear a remastered version of this arrangement on her 2019 album, Touhou: Fraternity of Melancholy, the audio for which is linked above.

Princess Sylvysprit has made an incredible amount of tributes to Touhou and its music in her time online, both for her own projects and others', including the SiIvaGunner channel which she joined in early 2016. If you're interested in reading more about her work, I've previously written about her on NIGHTMARESCAPE 〜Unrestrained HyperCam 2〜 (Final Boss Phase 2)!

Princess Sylvysprit

Original Toby Fox post

Sylvysprit's Arrangement

[98chao]

i guess ill say this on main.. its kind of funny seeing spamvil fans on twitter mourn the ship as if it died bc of spamtenna. bruh i just immediately started shipping all 3 of them together there is no ship war

also i dont understand the logic bc spamton and jevil still canonically have history, and the ketchup kids joke was exclusively abt jevil, not tenna

[thekingdomkey72]

if you put 1225 points in the gumball machine

[farraday-yes]

Just imagining Clancy from Toby’s Secret Pocket at a bar, drunker than life, thinking about Doohickey. ‘either I want to be him or be with him.’

Cut later into the night as he meets a woman who looks suspiciously like the woman in Doohickey’s wallet photo.

Cut even later to the morning after, Clancy looking up at the ceiling of his apartment, naked as the day he was born, thinking ‘fuck. I want to be with him. Shitttttt.’

[flynnlovesart]

[strawglicks]

my favorite one sided rivalry!!!!!!

+ extra thoughts below:

[kirbylover34]

KRIS IS THE KNIGHT!! “SPOILERS” *Edited*

ok so for the longest time after Deltarunes chapter 2 ending. Kris uses a knife and opens a dark fountain. It would be obvious that Kris is the roaring knight. But many people refused to believe that was the case. And who could blame them. Why would Toby reveal a major relevant plot point so soon? Surely it’s a red herring. But then I did some digging recently and I just came to a shocking revelation!

(LIVE A LIVE SPOILERS)

ok so many people online have probably played or heard about Live A Live, a once Japanese exclusive rpg released for the famicom. With its unique gimmick that you play as multiple characters in chapters. The second to last chapter of the game is the Middle Ages, where basically you play as a knight by the name of oersted. Who wins the love of a princess who gets captured and like typical knights creates a party with his trusted wizard ally Streibough. As you play you eventually reach the dark lord that captured the princess.

You fight it and it turns out the dark lord was fake. Streibough and another party member die, you get manipulated and kill the king, and you become an outcast, well turns out your wizard friend was the real dark lord. You fight to the death, and it turns out the princes you went to rescue actually loved Streibough more. She kills herself. And then the game pulls a major plot twist…

Your main player character loses his mind and becomes the main antagonist of the game, where in the final chapter all your player characters fight him. But you may be asking why did I bring up an old square Enix Jrpg that has no correlation to deltarune.

during the release of the Live A Live remake. Toby fox hosted an interview with the composer of Live A Live, Yoka Shimomura. And this is what Toby had to say about the game.

Fox: “I first played LIVE A LIVE when I was around 8th or 9th grade. It was recommended to me by a friend who was a fan of it. Since I loved Square’s games and heard the music was by Shimomura-san, I thought, “Well, I definitely have to play this!” and gave it a shot.”

Fox: “Story-wise, my favorite part was the finale where all of the protagonists unite. I’m sure I’m not the only player that felt that way!”

“As far as individual chapters go, I really loved the “Middle Ages” chapter. After all the scenarios with atypical game protagonists, finally revealing a standard fantasy setting with a knight hero as one of the “final chapters” was such an excellent twist for a JRPG, and a perfect lead up to the actual last chapter itself. To think that our heroic knight of justice would end up like that… It’s the kind of wonderful betrayal of expectations that influenced me when I created UNDERTALE as well. You know, the thought process of, “to think the protagonist could actually...” Anyway, I don’t think I’m supposed to say any more about that.”

“To be honest, if anything this LIVE A LIVE influence is even stronger in my current work. DELTARUNE. Not only is the story separated into different chapters, but the player’s character is also a sword-wielding fantasy knight, who may play another role than just a simple “hero.”

so based on this information gave us, let’s compare the two characters real quick. Both Oersted and Kris are knights, both are the main protagonists of their story, on their journeys the both recruit, a character who grew bitter and resentful after a tragedy. A kind and caring priest who helps the party. And both of them had a tragedy befall them leading to a darker path. Now that’s stretching it a bit too far but there is other information that can help back this up. Need more proof?

when you play chapter 2 and interact with the tv and sink you get this specific text.

it’s almost as if the ending of chapter 2 was planned from the start. Why else would Toby leave this easy to miss dialouge for players to read?

Still need more proof?

at the end of chapters 1 ending. The knife kris pulls out is not the same as the knife kris used on the pie.

They’re completely different. Yet the knife kris uses in chapter is the EXACT SAME KNIFE used in chapter 1’s ending, since they pulled it out of his pocket like in chapter 1’s ending.

also in the cutscene where queen talks about determination the knife shown in the cutscene had a quill on while the knife on the pie is a kitchen knife.

Who else has a knife that has a quill?

I think Kris is the knight. But I don’t think Kris is truly evil nor wants to cause the roaring. Well why would Kris be opening these fountains? Well one theory is that it could be related to fate. Kris was originally supposed to be the main antagonist of the game! Considering that a major theme in deltarune is fate and our choices don’t really matter. Kris must’ve found about his fate and stole the Red soul that we use. Possibly because the Red Soul correlates with free will and to change fate. Why else would the chapter’s secret bosses want it? Everything in this world must be sealed by fate, but our choices can alter the outcome. Though that also brings up why Kris is even distraught with our control to begin with if they wanted us to control him? The other theory must be related to her.

During the Spamton sweepstakes you could acces a link that would take you to a guitar presumably belonging to Dess. With the song playing in the background called findher.ogg presumably something happened to dess, that lead to the events of deltarune. And I think I know what happened. it all comes back to entry number 17.

let’s look at the dialouge. “Dark Darker yet Darker” “the shadows cutting deeper” “what do you two think?”

if we examine the dialouge with the information we have now about deltarune. It’s very clear that gaster created a Dark Fountain. But one thing is still unclear, who are the two individuals gaster is referring to? Well isn’t it obvious. It’s Dess and Kris. We know something happened between the holidays and dremmurs. And if the theories are to be believed, Kris and Dess went to explore the underground bunker on the edge of town. And something happened. What if entry number 17 is that event that lead directly to the story of Deltarune?

Possibly a horrific accident that wounded Dess, Gaster made a deal with Kris to save her, told him about the future. And thus leading directly to Deltarune.

however there is still a lot that is unclear, and what I’m saying could be completely false and incorrect. We only have two chapters out of seven to speculate and theorize about. There is still some plot holes that it brings up, such as gaster etc. but I’m putting my foot down and standing by my belief that Kris is indeed the roaring knight

And if you think I’m a liar here’s the article where Toby discussed it.

Oh and if you want more proof, watch these videos made by Black Chesnut on YouTube. They were the exact main reason I made this post that inspired it in the first place. They make really good deltarune theories and I think they have it more on the money than other theorists currently. You should also be nice and watch their other videos and subscribe to them.

anyway later~

[480pfootage]

And now onto how Kate interacts with the other proxies... phew! got this out in time for crp day.. Included: Tim, Brian, Toby, Rouge

Before getting into all the others.. Since the proxy Kate spends the most time with is herself I thought it'll be nice to.. have how she treats herself first. After the circumstances of STA she rarely gets time to take care of herself anymore. It's always victim after victim.. She finds herself thinking her body expendable; her empty stomach will heal after eating itself inside out, her broken limbs will always regenerate. Kate just doesn't treat herself very well...

TIM

Tim often takes the leadership role in any relationship and it's no different with the proxies and or specifically Kate.

Especially since she's one of the younger proxies alongside Toby, he feels the need to take care of her.

Kate doesn't think much of it when Tim finds her collapsed somewhere and brings her back to the cabin Brian, Toby, and him live.. She's happy that Tim takes care of her, i.e. gives her some food, tries to get her to shower, as she interprets it as Tim slowly starting to accept being a proxy and therefore starting to see the Slenderman as the savior he is!

She likes it when the proxies are nice to each other too so she savors the pampering she gets from Tim when injured..

BRIAN

Kate and Brian don't really interact much.

Kate only "visits" the cabin when the Slenderman teleports her broken body nearby and Brian mostly stays cooped up in his room until "hunts"

it's hard for them to actually cross paths with each other.

Brian is also a very apathetic being, stuck between his limbo of given life and death, he can't really experience empathy unless it's for someone he truly cares about (see Tim or Toby on the occasion).

He had to quickly pull Toby from falling to the belief that perhaps the Slenderman is good when he spent too much time with Kate and also some other stuff..

They both mainly stay out of each other's way when necessary.

I'm sure there's been a time that Kate accidentally stole his kill, not knowing the other proxies were already on the victim

Brian definitely got pissy because of that..

He had to be dissuaded from being petty by Tim

TOBY

That is his best friend right there. Probably. Hopefully.

Toby immediately latched on when he first met Kate while on a hunt.

She's actually around his age! Do you know how hard it is to find proxies that you could actually relate with that doesn't treat you like a child...!

Tim and Brian do think that she's a bad influence to Toby. He's quick to do anything to please if it means that someone would tolerate him and that doesn't bide well with Kate's admiration of the Slenderman and Rouge.

He also started cannibalizing some victims because of her.. He just thought it was sick and wanted to try.

Kate appreciates his company whenever it's available, but she doesn't actively seek him out.

Kate makes him not feel bad about just wanting to kill sometimes. It's just more power for the Slenderman either way, if he needs to let off some steam on a random person then go for it!

The thing about Kate is that she rarely speaks above a few grunts. She may spit out a few words, but that's usually it.. Toby likes translating what she's thinking (mostly getting it wrong, but the sentiment's there)

ROUGE

Above all, Rouge is the only proxy still integrated into everyday society. (Tim and Brian may go into town, but that isn't often.. Rouge actually has a nice suburban house..)

That makes it hard for Kate to visit.. It's very upsetting for her..

Rouge and Kate are a little co-dependent on each other.

Out of the proxies they're the ones that actually believe the Slenderman does good which is what initially brought them close to each other..

It's very much a peculiar relationship.. Kate has mommy issues while Rouge is still affected by her miscarriage all those years ago.

Their relationship is built on spontaneity I would say plus Rouge herself is already a very brash person..

Rouge is another person that takes care of Kate's wounds and also buys her things to take care of her burns and cleans her and takes care of her haiirr... a lot of things

Kate looks up to Rouge as she's taught her a lot on how to just past the time. Whether that be wood carving (which she in turn taught Toby), hunting, cooking, kissing ah they just like each other a lot..

The only difficult part of their relationship is the fact that the Slenderman has Rouge patrolling the South while Kate's mostly situated in the Midwest..

[endyr-serifi]

Sometimes the best inspiration to draw again is going back to old fandoms and having friends who are willing to participate in chaos with ya

(ft Whiteboard collab drawings from @doodle-who, @animesparkleluv96, and @skipperbunnyrabbit )

[mossy-the-thing]

alr here we go more epic osdysseus

hey @sunny1927 have some more

[strawberryflavoredvenum]

Just a quick toby drawing

[its-chips-main]

still dont self-id as objectum* but i believe in their beliefs**

**translator's note: op wants to [DATA EXPUNGED] that TV