#under player

[coolingrosa]

For anyone wondering what Player thinks of Dream…he respects her b/c she’s a older woman but gets very flustered and shy around her…he’s just a little guy

[dovewingkinnie]

dr sawyer is very cat shaped

[morastfrck]

Happy end, assholes got tossed out after mingle and instead of dying in a ditch they got their shit together

[lycheeteaaa194]

i actually want him so bad omg it’s not even a joke anymore.

[palettepainter]

Still tryna figure out how I draw him, I think I draw his legs too big and his neck too long but either way, he's fun to doodle!

[agentravensong]

thinking about how the extra area added on to a pacifist run of undertale, the true lab, is about alphys's past mistakes. how it ends with the story reaffirming that, despite the pain she's caused, the thing that matters is that she has now made the choice to do the right thing. she's still worthy of her friends' love.

thinking about how undertale doesn't expect the player to get a pacifist ending for the first time. how it's more likely than not that the player will kill toriel the first time they battle her, how lots of players don't initially figure out how to end undyne's fight without killing her, etc. what it expects — not even expects, really, but hopes — is that the player, if they care enough, will use their canonically acknowledged power over time to make up for those mistakes.

no matter how many neutral runs a player has done before committing to the pacifist run, the thing that matters to the characters, to the story, is that you've chosen, now, to do the right thing.

compared to alphys, the player honestly gets off lightly, in that you're the only one (other than flowey) who really remembers any harm you might have caused. and any direct guilting the game could have done about it is long past at this point. instead, as undertale often does, it makes its point via parallels: alphys caused harm, and she knows it. she has committed to being better. in doing so, she has unlocked for herself a better ending to her story. and she deserves it. she's forgiven.

those structural narrative parallels are all over undertale, if you know where to look. and that's one of the things that makes it so fuckin' good.

[st-guliks-fnord]

People who don’t straight up read the sourcebooks are missing out on some banger lines. “A goddammit of Tremere” is fucking hilarious

[solacebean]

The Goat

[sootsz]

i think there’s something funny in how the expectations for qsmp’s big events with most of the entire server are Always heavy angst, hard lore, high stakes, general horrifying events happening

and then without fail the second that they’re all in the same room it’s just

[minecraft crashes] [loud screaming] [somebody has a soundboard] [entire server crashes] [entire server crashes] [LOUDER SCREAMING] [talking so quickly the translator becomes an eminem song] [10 conversations at once] [the admins having to teleport the players] [new members getting the worst summary you’ve ever heard] [STRIP TEASES] [gay sex] [server crashes]

[mersei47]

player and their alters interaction with the arena mode gang because I really like this idea thanks for peoples bringing it up

[kazuaru]

Scott & Maria's Home pt:2

[coolingrosa]

Why does player hate core?

He’s very very protective of Core Chara, and when he found out that Frisk made Chara cry one day, he got livid. But even before then, he didn’t like them too much and saw them as pretentious.

Chara being upset just gave him the fuel to finally do smth about it. So, he did. And now Core Frisk hates him and is fearful of him, too.

[sashabarkovonly]

😇😇😇

[smile-files]

something interesting i realized while on the vessel-making screen in the deltarune introduction is that it's physically impossible to make kris: there is no hair that perfectly matches theirs (none have the cowlick or the right jagged shape on the bottom), and there is no sweater that perfectly matches theirs (none have a single stripe). this is fascinating, as it perhaps suggest that, if we (the player) had a choice, we *wouldn't* make kris. they aren't something we want, or are even capable of wanting, rather something we're stuck with.

and i suppose the fact that they can't be *created* as a vessel is telling, because we didn't create kris -- they weren't made for us, they're not a player avatar. they're a pre-existing person we just happen to gain possession of.

we weren't made for each other; they don't want us, and we don't seem to want them either (if the inability to choose to create someone like them says anything); funny, then, that in a way we're "soulmates"...

(both pictures are from the deltarune wiki!)

[pseudokap]

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