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The single scene I believe nailed down Kris's entire trajectory, that explained the most about them as a character, has to be their chapter four piano concert:

We, as the player, have no input in this scene at all. If you try to play the long sequence right, they'll just mess it up, prompting the dialogue anyway. There's no command from us that they twist in order to be "allowed" to play, no nudge from us in the right direction- they just snatch control, because Susie wants to hear them.

This is such a complete stab through the gut, not just because of their passion and the fluid animation and sheer expressiveness, but because Kris can just do that! It isn't that they physically can't play piano with the soul in the driver's seat, they just won't, until Susie empowers them to. No matter how badly they want the freedom to express themselves on their own terms, they restrain themselves. They let us take the reins and try to just submit, and they can't keep it up.

The interpretation this strikes me with, coupled with their "knighting" and their "promise" to the mysterious caller and their unspecified egg trauma... We know they know how we work, and that their plans with us are premeditated and calculated, at the behest of (maybe multiple) adults who have significant power over them. At least the Mayor is directing them to let themselves be turned into a vessel. We know this would have to have started before they went to the first Dark World, when Susie was still a bully, Noelle estranged and Ralsei not even in the picture.

We know that by the opening of the third fountain, by the time they're spinning prompts to get into banter with Susie and blocking us from being mean to Ralsei and drawing messages on windows and sneaking in as much of themselves into their relationships as possible, they've been turning themselves into our tool to be ultimately pitted against the group since day one. That no matter how much they can be coaxed out, at the end of the day, they have to be shoved back in their place, if not by us, by the Knight/mayor/etc who've facilitated this entire thing. That their choices don't matter.

Evil-Kris officially out, Deeply-Conflicted-Kris officially in. Of course earlier Kris tries to keep themselves closed off from the Extended Fun Gang- no matter how much they adventure together, how much they grow to like their company, Kris will inevitably, in their eyes, have to betray them. Because they made their choice before the story could even begin. Because they promised.

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high school was fine because you could just say a phrase like "a sufficient variety" in a sentence and people would either think you were smart or annoying and they'd leave you alone either way. now all the phrases you say have to be things like "i am very employable" and "please hire me" and "man i'll do it for pennies"

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i made a mini-comic with my characters Chipset and Database :] Chipset and Database's Tech Tips is now on itch.io for free!! 🖥️

learn about computer basics with them as they teach each other about their fields of interest (and make a lot of mistakes along the way...)

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Want to draw my favorite deltarune post

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dialogue I haven't seen anyone talk about

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Deeply fascinated by the people who heard rightful criticism of generative AI (i.e. chatgpt etc) and decided all machine learning is evil or something. You sound like a scifi villain. You sound like the character who's wrong on an episode of star trek. That's not how this works

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y'all it's about to get really fucking humid and hot

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horse in a fancy booth it appears to be in some kind of liminal space lobby full of identical booths each housing a different horse this is reminiscent of a youth trend ive heard of called the backrooms though these horses do not seem very threatening perhaps these booths are to give advice on life or travel or something similar we will give them the benefit of the doubt

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SOMEONE IS FIGHTING SPAMTON AT WORK

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This drawing isn't very literal...cuz that wouldn't really make any sense at all...

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in middle school i knew a guy named alexander hamilton because his parents just thought it would be nice to name their son after a historical figure but then this poor guy went through hell because he was 13 years old in 2015 and his name was alexander hamilton

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life in your hands

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sorry kid i own you. this is your life now

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Happy birthday to @thefaiao, heard you like goblets...

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ⓘ Tip You can skip part of the day by taking a nap.

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kanto babies...