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My Dessign!

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Chapter 7 prediction

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Mystic hat that gives you a cool ass blowout and dyes your hair black, and a lil extra

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An old animation from chapter 2

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real dialogue from the game

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group photo!

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o,o

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i literally learned to use blender just for this lmao

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For just a moment, you thought everything might be ok.

she made that poster for them teehee

I CANT DRAW FAST ENOUGH FOR HOW MANY IDEAS I GET AUUURGGAGAAAAA

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New Deltarune theory: my cat is W.D. Gaster

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holding them so gently

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but honestly if i had to sum up my entire feelings towards deltarune chapters 3 and 4 by listing a single favourite moment, it's when you're the abandoned soul listening at the grate while kris plays piano

like when i played through chapter 4 the first time i just sat there listening for ages

bc like 1) i have been saying for a while but especially in these chapters, deltarune is a fascinating game for the way it makes me as a player want to essentially stop being a player - not in a bad this isn't fun way but in a i genuinely care about kris and i would love to see more of them just being able to be themselves

and this is really. the only moment of that? we learn in ch4 that whatever kris is doing while soulless isn't entirely their own will either, they've got someone they're reporting to over the phone. and while that person's agenda is something they're much more on board with than what the player/susie/ralsei are trying to do, it's pretty clear they're not enjoying it either. eating the pie in ch1 was offscreen, and their soulless segments in ch2 and the rest of ch4 were in some way serving that agenda. but here, no, kris gets off the phone and they're clearly so tired and just need a break and to be themselves for a bit. and the way they go about that is by making themselves a glass of chocolate milk and then playing song after song on the piano

2) god this provides so much context for the piano parts of 1 & 2. at the end of both chapters if you interact with the piano in the hospital you can try to play it, which goes terribly. when you do it in ch2 susie makes a comment about oh thank god i thought for a second you could actually play it, and kris just glares at her. without the knowledge granted in ch4 that just comes across as stop making fun of me, but once you've heard kris play for yourself? then it's heartbreaking.

bc like, we know kris has always been a pretty quiet kid, we know they're not a fan of hugs or eye contact, the autism coding is strong with this one. we know they're someone much more likely to get a point across by doing rather than saying. all that in mind, and considering music was the first thing they turned to when they had that moment of freedom, i think piano was a genuinely important form of self expression for them. and not only losing access to that, but to have your friend make fun of you for not being able to play, that's gotta cut deep

(and that's the other thing - i don't think it's just that piano played by the soul wouldn't be theirs, i think they have skills the soul doesn't. like the other big piano moment in ch4 down in the dark world, yes the game gives you sheet music but it's too long to meaningfully follow, and you don't even have to look at it for that scene to happen. to me that comes across as kris can read music, but the person controlling their soul can't. they play terribly on the hospital piano bc while you are controlling them they can't do better. which makes it such a meaningful moment because without anything in the game having to say so or anything dramatic having to happen, you do kinda hand over control to them to play a piece that resonates in the way that only they are capable of)

3) the last tiny detail im so glad toby put in bc i find it so endearing - the audio files for kris' piano playing aren't digitally created (most likely someone on a midi keyboard but my point is they're played by hand). and i know that because kris does not play perfectly. they sound like most piano playing teenagers i know, they have skill but they are still learning, you can hear the parts where they break tempo because they need just slightly more time to get their fingers in the right position for the next chord. and again it's beautiful because it makes it theirs. unlike almost everything else in this game, they're not doing this because for one reason or another they have to. they're doing it because that's who they are, flaws and all. and i could listen to it forever

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depersonalization

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deltarune chapter 3: yay funny tv guy! i love minigames! woohoo!

deltarune chapter 4:

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what the fuck was this subplot

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Me trying to pick all the options that I think Kris would want to do and say so they don't hate me as much for controlling them