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I hope they meet each other one day

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okay i was drawing up a dess design and it made me realize. dess has a lot of association with stars. a friend said thats been discussed already but i haven't seen it yet + i wanted to make a post about some of the things i think are related to that.!

naturally, spoilers for every deltarune chapter (up to 4) + this is going to be long under the cut.

this might be a little disjointed i usually don't make big posts like this so forgive me if i leave anything out (feel free to add on please i'd love to hear more opinions on this all)

she's the "rebel older sibling" type, loves music, and seems pretty sporty too. she literally has stars in her room (the same ones asriel has in his side of the room?)

it looks like dess has done a little bit of everything? iceskating, baseball, drums, trumpet, guitar, violin...

and this ^ dialog from tenna, "musical prodigy". you could call her a "star" in that sense...

most obviously aside from that is her association with christmas, being a member of the holiday family and all.. christmas has a lot to do with stars (star on top of the christmas tree, north star, etc.)

(from chapter 4 egg room ^) if we're going with dess being the knight, i think this has significance too. "and so wept the fallen star, making rivers with its tears." the fallen star referring to dess, and her tears creating the shadow crystals because "it looked like glass"... at least, that's how i interpreted it - but i haven't seen anyone talk about this dialog at all yet.

okay this is where i start stretching stuff but... this dialog reminds me of some of the echo flowers in undertale:

i don't remember if this specific dialog is unused? but i really like to think this is noelle and dess.

undertale dess wishes that her and noelle could see the real stars someday, and deltarune dess tells noelle that one day she'll take her somewhere with "shining lights"... i dunno! i thought it was an interesting connection. i'm curious to see what other people think. hopefully i didn't leave out anything important

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The Japanese translation of Chapter 3 gave us some new information on the Man behind the tree, so let's talk about it! (JP transcriptions and translations in Alt Text!)

Lots of people have noted that Kris is in their Light World form in this scene, but the Japanese version also has the Aces and the Man himself speak in the hiragana-heavy style of the Light World rather than the kanji-heavy style of the Dark World.

There is another mysterious character who speaks in the Light World style, however.

--The sender of this Valentine from the 2024 Winter Newsletter. Even if you can't read Japanese, you can probably notice how the bottom two paragraphs (where the letter begins) don't contain characters of the same complexity as those above (the narration).

The Man and the letter writer also both speak in a masculine tone, ending sentences like these in -ka na and referring to themselves as watashi and the listener as kimi.

Both the Man and the letter writer also address the listener with commands ending in -nasai, which is a firm yet gentle kind of command that has a quite parental or caregiving tone to it.

Overall, the Man and the letter writer (who, based on these lines, could very likely be the same person) come across as warm and friendly toward the listener, whom they address as a child.

There is actually one more speaker whose speech patterns also resemble those of the Man behind the tree.

These unused lines can be found in the code for Chapter 1:

Is that a cut on your face, or part of your eye? The gash weaves down as if you cry. The pain itself is reason why.

These lines do not actually appear together in the code, but they have long been theorized to go together based on the fact that they rhyme. The Japanese version of the code seems to back this up, as these lines have actually been translated so that they rhyme there as well!

キミの顔…　それは傷かい？　 それとも　目なのかい？ パックリ割れた　切り傷が　 まるで　涙のあとみたい。 理由は　その　痛み自体。 kimi no kao... sore wa kizu kai? sore to mo me na no kai? pakkuri wareta kirikizu ga maru de namida no ato mitai. riyuu wa sono itami jitai. Translated to English: "Your face... is that a wound? Or is it your eye?" "The cut, split wide open, looks almost like a tear streak." "The reason is that pain itself."

These lines use the Dark World style of speech, but the speaker addresses the listener as kimi and ends their questions with the friendly and highly masculine particle -kai, which is something the Man also does throughout his speech in Ch 3:

There is of course always the possibility that a future chapter will disprove this, but for now, there is good evidence that these three speakers may be one and the same!

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deltarune management simulator fangame featuring the three mikes as the main characters and you have little tasks. every so often tenna will call for a favor and you have to choose which mike to send Perhaps even send 2 mikes for high risk high reward

game over if tenna (theres probably chances to fail 2-3 mikes sent to tenna but its also slower if its only one mike) or the employees (theres like a meter for this) find out there is more than one mike (if you always have all mikes working simultaneously)

what if tenna makes you do some minigame bullshit while you’re managing Thats so funny SPLIT SCREEN PHYSICAL CHALLENGE WHILE YOU’RE BUSY MANAGING 2 OTHER MIKES ON THE OTHER SIDE

this might be contender for worst video game of all time no i dont know anything about UI/UX

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after toby fox said that spamtenna are literally spy vs spy I HAD TO redraw one of the spy vs spy covers with spamtenna

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Carol Holiday they could never make me hate you

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careful what you recycle !!

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They were forced to dance 24/7

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has anyone done this yet... more mike³!! who would've guessed!!

click for better quality. whyis this so blurry...

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found her :)

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LANINO, GUARDIAN OF THE SAND!

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BATTAT YOURE SCARING THE PIPPINS

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Ant Tenna Mike Anatomy: More Than Fan Theory References

~Deltarune Chapters 3+4 Spoilers~

We're taking a sideline from Tenna anatomy to talk about the Mikes, although the things I say in here may be helpful to Tenna artists anyways, so I'll put it under the tag. The Mike boss fight made me freak out over how these lil guys work. I've been going crazy about how these Mikes look and how they're little references to other stuff going on in audio equipment, so I'm going to go over that.

Before that, I'm going to just say one thing. Obviously, I know that the three Mike designs are based off of fan theories. I'm going to go over their possible inspirations in the world of microphones, though. This is really just me having fun with it.

The Names of the Mikes

This is what I found so cool. So, we have Battat, Pluey, and Jongler. Now, say those out loud, paying attention to how each one makes your mouth move. Did you notice something? Each name has incredibly different phonetics, meaning that their sounds and mouth movements vary wildly. They include sounds that you really want to make sure are good when you're doing a mic check. Or maybe, a Mike Check.

When testing sound, one of many things you have to do is to make sure all ranges of words you can say will come through clearly. You may have heard "check check 1 2 3", which is a good way to start but most people don't find it satisfactory and continue to full on sentences. If you have to go quickly, nonsense words with a variety of sounds will work great. AKA, their names. I don't think you need me to go through each name with their noises, but each name covers every type of vowel sound, and has the potential of spanning any pulmonic consonant, depending on your personal accent. I don't think Toby went through the international phonetic alphabet doing this on purpose or anything, but these are excellent names for sound checks and it's crazy.

Battat (Small Mike)

There are two different types of microphones he can be, and both are used primarily by people who need to be recorded saying lines in television. One is the dynamic microphone, and one is a lavalier microphone.

The dynamic microphone is easy to understand. You hold it, you talk into it. That's what he's holding, and it's probably what his head is supposed to be, too. However, I'm sure not everyone want to draw that tedious grid on his head. In that case, I wanted to offer the lavalier as an alternative for his dome.

The lavalier is hidden in someone's clothes, like through a button or under a shirt, and plugs into a pack that the person straps to their belt or in a back pocket to record and get power. These things are like a soft foam because of the windscreen, that black ball there, and don't tell anybody but they're very satisfying to pop in your mouth. So it makes sense, as the supposed "lead" Mike, to be two of the most recognizable microphones for people who work in television. Shows on sets and interviews will use these microphones the most.

Pluey (Cat Mike)

THIS is the one who is the reason why I wanted to make this post. Now. I know that he's a cat because of the theory he would be a cat. But everyone. GUYS. LISTEN. I need everyone to know that there is a piece of audio equipment that is literally called a deadcat.

You put the deadcat over a shotgun/boom mic to help it with wind and excess noise filtration. It makes sound better, basically, and if Pluey here is a deadcat, that makes him ANOTHER very important microphone to the broadcasting world. This thing is key to picking up sound effects and foley. If you're doing anything outside, you want a boom with a deadcat on you.

About his hands: again, very well could be a dynamic microphone, and again, that's a bit hard to draw, no? I wanted to offer another idea I had just in case you didn't want to deal with that grid. A deadcat is a type of windshield, much like what I talked about with lavaliers. When you're working in a studio as an alternative to deadcats, you may use a pop filter over a dynamic or condenser microphone. They're flat, easy to render as far as I can tell, and they match the shape of Pluey's hands, so it isn't a stretch of the imagination to say it could be a pop filter. Or maybe if sphere hands is too weird, pop filter paw pads. Just so you have some options.

Jongler (Motormouth Mike)

This one's a bit tougher since he could be a lot of types of microphones, but technically he's missing something he'd need to be them. He could be a lavalier but they don't have the texture shown when the windscreen is taken off. He could be a ribbon microphone but they have a strip of metal up the sides that he's missing. He could be a shotgun, but they don't have that silvery base. This guy is the sole reason why this post took so long, because he's such a headscratcher. Ultimately, I had to take the boxing gloves as a visual cue and decide to look for what sports commentators would use. I don't think a lot of people know about lip ribbon mics and he's obviously not that anyway, so we'll go with something more common. If he's supposed to be an allusion to boxing matches, they used ribbon microphones, which later got phased out for condenser microphones. It's not a perfect fit with his head so long, so we'll chalk that up to stylisation.

The condenser microphone is best for in a recording booth, and if we choose to believe that's what Jongler's supposed to be, that means we've covered the three biggest areas where someone would need a variety of microphones based on how controlled the environment is. A studio with a condenser is the best you can get, hopefully with lots of foam and someone on the other side of some glass controlling the sound. Then we have lavaliers and dynamic microphones on the set, where some interference could happen but it's minimal. Finally, boom and shotgun microphones are for outdoors and large sources of sound, where you have the least amount of say in what gets picked up so you're kind of hoping for the best. Pretty great variety in microphones if this was intentional, and if not...I just want more people to know that their accidental theory of Mike being a cat led to a really funny audio engineering pun to me and only me.

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i really need to practice drawing zappers because trying to draw jongler makes me cry every time

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If only there was a word to describe Battat. A word I liked...

Also cooking up more Ramb art. Cuteface:]

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i got infected with the battat mind virus sorry guys

bonus gay people

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Big shocker — the guy named mike really likes the mike polycule. They're all very important to me,,