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listened to laufey's new album and remembered how fun it is to draw

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My general sentiment when browsing the internet

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Safij'iiva Plush

The big red dragon in all of his glory! Commission for @annonymousp / @mlpmdog

This took longer than I expected due to its sheer size. Hey, at least it is done!

Anyways, stay crafty, friends, and happy hunting!

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Heart shaped object

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Werewolf transformation, but with Jackalope’s instead. Inspired by the Shope papilloma virus in bunnies, it’s theorized to be the source of myths about the Jackalope.

It causes horn-like tumors to form, which can bear a resemblance to antlers.

It’s darn tootin’ creepy, so don’t google the virus if you’re squeamish👀

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Official Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak concept art: Endemic life Regalfin

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okay okay i have to post this somewhere cause like most of my irl friends haven't played deltarune so no point telling them anyway after about 70 something attempts over the course of the last two or three days I fucking FINALLY beat the roaring knight, but the real kicker? I had ONE (1) goddamn hit point left

(this is just after the finisher move, hitting the knight just one more time starts the cutscene)

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You can’t find her…

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lagiacrus

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HEAR ME OUT so I was just doing my little work for college about the role of characters in narratives (as you normally do) and as a casual thought I said: “Huh, if Gaster is in canon the creator of Deltarune, and wishes to channel us through the story, then how would Dess feel about that?”

Cause listen, if I was dragged into the void by my so called creator, and told me “Yo Dess, I need you out of there and give your family and friends big trauma so that Player can have fun solving your disappearance and doesn’t leave” Personally, I would be a little offended, why me out of all people? And somehow produce enough determination to manifest myself back into the world, even if slightly fucked up and running out of time cause that determination is melting my body

What possess me to think this? The inherent horrors of being created just to be discarded as the “missing girl character”

Why determination? Cause I was drawing a Dess Undertale au and thought a little too strong in the implications of genocide route oops-

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The funniest thing to me is how little money you get in mhwilds

Like in rise you were SWIMMING in cash, you could drop the GDP of a small nation on a new sword and a pair of boots

Now in wilds I’m watching my “80,000” (eighty thousand) zenny get split in half from faints then in 4 between my party members and taking home like 17 cents and a Diet Pepsi for slaying a living natural disaster

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obligatory weird dragon slop

I LOVE YOU ZOH SHIA PLEASE NEVER GO LOW RANK EXCLUSIVE AGAIN

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Yeh, they're gunna be just fine

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Kris slash theory only seems unlikely if you aren't considering the larger context in which it exists.

Its biggest support for me is the assumption that the Knight is a very specific character. If that turns out not to be the case, then the whole theory falls apart, even if it's later vindicated. (To be honest, I would consider that the worst possible scenario. Being right while all your evidence was wrong, and it adding up to a lesser version of the narrative.)

That said. I think it's pretty clear who the Knight is, and their identity is at the root of every duplicitous action Kris takes in the entire game. It's their motivation for (possibly) instigating the entire game's chain of events.

If there's one thing Kris absolutely wants to avoid at all costs (and there are at least two), it's losing any chance they have to save Dess. Her disappearance haunts them at seemingly every turn in Chapter 3 and 4, and their greatest act of treachery in the Light World happens where and when that trauma would resonate most strongly. Whatever the promise is, it involves her.

By fighting the Knight until they stagger, you and Susie have made that possibility very uncomfortably real. Not only that, but your dogged defiance has also made it very possible that the Knight will stop holding back with their strikes, and therefore kill Susie and Ralsei outright. The other thing they want to avoid. Maybe because they consider them friends. Maybe because progressing the prophecy is necessary to the promise. Maybe both.

Kris slash theory, to my reading, is therefore Kris taking direct control of the situation, using the exact level of force necessary to put an end to the fight *without* losing anyone, Ralsei and potentially Susie's trust in them be damned. Whether they leave Susie and Ralsei alive for sentimental or mercenary reasons (or both), it was worth the risk of causing long-term harm for Kris, if it meant that they no longer had to worry about destroying the Knight. Destroying whatever remains of Dess.

You might think Kris's actions are irrational if they are indeed to perpetrator of the attack. I agree! I think that's fantastic character work! In a moment of panic when things don't go exactly as planned, Kris takes a drastic, ill-considered action that threatens to dismantle the entire thing even further. That is exactly what they do the following afternoon in the Holiday Manor; when you find the guitar code, and then when you find your own way back into the room.

In frantically trying to keep the code away from you, they called attention to it in the first place. I sincerely doubt Susie would have examined the guitar all that closely if she hadn't found it in Kris's grasp. For all their grace and power and conviction, Kris is still a traumatized, emotionally compromised teenager. They are not equipped to handle the stress of an evolving situation, and so it's a compounded cruelty that their coerced role in whatever conspiracy is going on requires them to effectively act alone. Against their friends, against the fate of the worlds, against their own conscience.

A lot of hay is also made about Ralsei's immediate reaction, and whether it's directed to Kris. To me, I think it's plainly obvious; he is looking *directly* at Kris when he says it, taking his eyes off what -- up until then -- we assumed was our only enemy in the scene, and Susie's position between them is incidental. But the fact that people still disagree says to me that not enough attention is being given to how he speaks afterward if talked to. Whether you ascribe to possession theory or not (I don't), it's very wise to pay close attention to how characters refer to Kris, and Ralsei very pointedly only addresses Kris by name once, at the end of his post-slash unique dialogue.

I have never read a more loaded pause than the gap between these "isn't it"s. The entire paradigm shift in how Ralsei regards both you and Kris exists within these six little dots. The only reason I think we don't see his talksprites in this dialogue is because the temptation to have his expression give it all away was too juicy to risk.

And just. It feels insane to be fixating on this when everyone has seen it and so much art has been done depicting it already. And yet

This??? This??????

This is not the kind of evocative imagery that these games put on-screen and *not* have it mean anything deeper than being a striking image. I quite simply do not understand how *anyone* can see this entire sequence of events in the finale of Chapter 3, followed by Everything plot-critical in the Light World during Chapter 4, and disregard the idea that Kris may have motive to cut their own friends down. That they may have agency and use it to act against the best interests of the Fun Gang.

So much of common fan theory wants Kris to be a perfect victim, entirely adrift in the events of the game, a tool to only be used and acted upon by everyone else. That's not a compelling protagonist, even if they are simultaneously meant to be an antagonistic force.

Because Kris, up to this point, *is* an antagonistic force! And to be an antagonist worth a damn, a character needs to be an active instigator of events. Kris is a LOT more interesting and engaging a character, a player character especially, when they are a willful double agent with conflicting motivations and actions. I can say with certainty that I wouldn't be quite so Unwell about Deltarune if Chapter 3+4 hadn't made that abundantly clear.

They cut them down. They cut them down because they're a massive fuckup and they were more scared of what would happen if they didn't.

I'm willing to be proven wrong by the rest of the game! If there's an even better sequence of events that makes Kris slash theory irrelevant, I won't complain! I also came up with the crack theory that it was Chairiel who did the slashing! That would be ridiculous, that would be disappointing, but it would be incredibly funny.

But until then, you will not convince me otherwise. If you're going to disagree on this post, don't bother trying to change my mind while doing so.

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The Roaring knight

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you lead the way