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Story from another world

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I definitely must’ve missed a lot of Steven Universe bc how the heck did Lars went from “convenience store clerk to Captain Harlock”???

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deltarune ch1: fun introduction to a cast of colorful characters :-) excited for new adventures

deltarune ch2: funniest fucking thing you've ever played

deltarune ch3: im getting kinda scared you guys

deltarune ch4: the gang tries not to kill themselves out of despair

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kris does have the ability to stop themselves from saying stupid shit when the player orders it which means they are totally cool with saying “Bangin’ sermon, my man” to a priest

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Don’t you all just hate it when your parents divorce so epically that the divorce itself starts haunting EVERYONES narrative and not just yours?

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I hope they meet each other one day

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also on the voice thing, we all know kris is one of the most autism coded characters to ever exist, but i really do love everything that both routes of chapter four when taken in conjunction told us about kris, being nonverbal, and how that's not painted as a bad thing?

it's pretty common i've seen for silent protagonists to be headcanoned as nonverbal autistic, but i think this is the first time i've seen it be explicitly canon, and also have it be pretty intrinsic to the narrative?

and like no, kris isn't entirely nonverbal, they do speak occasionally. but deltarune in general, and particularly ch4, paints a very strong picture of someone who (at least when they have control over their own voice) does not use words as their primary method of communication

like you can start with quiet people piss me off, or the fact that music is such an important avenue of self expression for them (made all the worse when they're not in control). noelle in ch1 asks if kris is okay when the player asks her the same background/lore questions we can ask everyone, because kris talking this much pings immediately as wrong to her. then there's everything we know about kris as a kid, and how yeah they had a bit of a mean sense of humor, but also pranks and fucking with people was a very good way for them to get attention without having to talk at all

noelle's story of the ferris wheel if you listen to all her and susie's dialogue in dess' room sticks out to me for this, and i really do love that anecdote. noelle mentions she and kris were pushed into riding the ferris wheel together as kids, she didn't really want to be there. and kris didn't say anything the whole time, for the first half they were just looking out the window. but then they decided to jump up and down and shake the entire capsule, and that's when they turned to noelle and smiled. susie goes "is that good or bad?" in response to that story and noelle says she doesn't know, but it's one of the things that gets kris' attention! and whether you believe that they were doing it to freak noelle out or because they also thought this was dumb and wanted to make it more fun for both of them (noelle isn't sure which it was either), that is how they communicate!

and when they do use words. this is the bit that makes me most emotional - noelle in weird route describes kris' voice as deadpan and mumbly. they don't like being loud, they don't talk very often, and they really struggle with inflection. all things that are normally criticisms when directed at autistic people, they're stuff autism moms use to justify their "i know my real child is in there somewhere" bullshit. but when noelle hears it again from soulless kris for the first time since the soul stuff started, she starts crying over how much she's missed hearing them talk. the soul (as we know from a variety of susie and noelle conversations) is louder, more charismatic, more confident and articulate, and it's not kris. so all those traits that are normally things autistic people get told to be more, are explicitly condemned by the narrative

and that's what makes kris being largely nonverbal such an excellent additional dimension to their story. because everything the soul does, at least in the normal routes, pretty much aligns with how people are expected to behave? kris under our control has a great social life, has friends, is likeable, isn't weird and hard to understand. and a crueler person, the kind autistic people have to deal with far too often, would say "well it's good we gave them a voice, they're not using theirs anyway"

but that's what makes it evil! it doesn't matter if kris is the kind of autistic that everyone hates, if there are things about them that don't fit in with society but that they either can't or don't want to change. their life and their voice, as infrequently heard as it is, is still theirs. and they deserve the freedom to use it however they want to

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*toby fox voice* let's go they/thems let's go

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really funny interaction, but-

well. That was easy

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Susie is a really strong character through these last two chapters, made all the more effective by the fact that she seems to be the only character left in the story who doesn’t know what the fuck’s going on. Stick with me Susie we’re gonna get to the bottom of this.

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"a motion-blurred photo of you as a kid"

looks just as stupid unblurred

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My theory that Ralsei is actually a HUGE mold infestation that gained sentience

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i was gonna finish this more but i ended up having to remake most of it from scratch because my file got corrupted and i lost all of my progress. lol

u can see which scenes i locked in for and which ones were just to fill space....

song is p.u.n.k girl by heavenly

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Ch7 is gonna start with everyone failing their group projects and alphys gets so mad she stabs her pen into her desk and it accidentally opens a fountain

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KISS THE COOK‼️

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of course you have white hair and trauma