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susie continuing to defy the predominant narrative. susie learning she isn’t broken and throwing herself wholly into her friendships despite a lifetime of rejection and isolation. susie insisting ralsei and the darkners are real and have inherent worth despite how they think the world is constructed. susie fervently insisting upon hope despite knowing how the prophecy ends.

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making a collection. what’s happening here

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Listen, I completely understand why it was an issue for some people, but I still think that naming the original release of Deltarune “SURVEY_PROGRAM.exe” was really really funny

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here's a heartbreaking idea: i think Tenna might be repeating some of Kris' words/thoughts 💔 at first it seems like Tenna is just apologising for including pipes in the minigame...but what if this is actually him repeating what Kris has said in the past to Toriel and Asgore? we know that Kris has pulled pranks in the past including flushing bath bombs down the toilet, and if Tenna's dialogue is anything to go by, Kris was really shaken by Toriel and Asgore's divorce (as they were witness to much of the fights leading up to it). what if Kris feels responsible for the divorce? is it possible that Kris, in that way characteristic to children of divorce, thinks that if they just hadn't pulled that prank which messed up the pipes, Toriel and Asgore might never have fought and could still be together today? 😭💔

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”Kris will love this!” Ramb says before showing them The Horrors.

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I don't want to imply anything, and I think Carol just isn't this type of person or character to do so, but

But

Buty I can't stop think about that she keeps a fucking sword in kitchen, but also, she calls Noelle to kitchen when she returns to home and very obviously isn't happy.

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can someone talk about this

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So many incredible Kris and Susie moments in chapters 3-4, but the sticker one still one of my faves 🥺 follow me on bsky to keep up to date with my art!!

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my first selfish desire

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friendship

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im so normal right now

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I can feel my 2017 Asriel obsession creeping back

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Gerson encountering a scrappy young shonen protagonist lesbian in any universe:

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Okay while I'm absolutely getting my ass kicked on the Roaring Knight boss trying to actually beat it, I noticed something and I decided to talk about it.

So, in this fight, Kris does the least amount of damage to the Roaring Knight when attacking.

Despite Ralsei, supposedly, having a lower attack stat than Kris, even he's doing more than Kris. But Chapter 4 proves that in some way, they are involved with the Knight in a way. So it's obvious what's going on. They're holding back their punches. And, in a way, so is the Knight. When KO'd, Kris is more often than not set to -80 hp, while Ralsei and Susie are often set to -999. The Knight- whatever it is and how it's related to the Holidays- sees Kris as an ally and someone to not seriously hurt. And vice versa.

Well, except for once condition.

When both Susie and Ralsei are KO'd, and Kris is left standing.

Suddenly, it seems that Kris' attack significantly spikes. Now doing more damage than Susie typically does, who is the strongest one of the trio. Doing more than double the damage they were originally doing to their supposed ally.

The ONLY condition of this damage spike, at least from what I've seen, is when Kris is the only one of the group still able to fight. nothing else.

This tells me a few things. One: that Kris genuinely does care for Ralsei and Susie. Both of these are already proven both before and after this fight, but for Ralsei in particular the evidence was rather limited. It's only Chapter 3 onward (debatable) that they show care for Ralsei, when pre-Chapter 3 there was hesitance. Gesturing to the Ralsei tea. Kris caring for Susie, in comparison, is a lot more obvious thanks to their more frequent moments alone together.

What's more important to me is the second thing this says: That when put in the situation to choose, Kris will prioritize RALSEI and SUSIE'S sake rather than the Knight.

I've been a "Kris is not evil" believer since the start, and I feel like this is evidence for that. While we as the SOUL don't fully know what's going on with Kris, what we do see is Carol and/or the Knight having some type of hold on them. Something about a "promise". They know more than we do, possibly as much as Ralsei knows, and will fight to prevent us from knowing more. And yet, when put in a fight that already shows them holding back, they suddenly stop when they're the last ones protecting their friends.

They may claim otherwise in the future. But actions speak louder than hidden dialogue. If they had to choose between the Knight, someone that you could argue they have a history with, or their new friends?

It's Ralsei and Susie they'd choose.

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I've been puzzling over this Tenna dialogue ever since chapter 3 first released, and today, I think it finally clicked for me what he's likely talking about — and whose perspective he's echoing. And it all comes from a little bit of dialogue that players would have missed if they weren't ready to do the same thing at least nine times in a row way back at the start of chapter 1.

Kris is known for being a prankster. We know they did things like hide under Noelle's bed after she expressed fear of monsters hiding under there, and shaking the Ferris wheel car they were in once they reached the top. But we also know that they did this one very damaging, very expensive thing: they put bath bombs in the toilet.

Now, if you've ever owned a residence (or rented a residence where you somehow ended up in charge of the plumbing), then you'll know that plumbing repairs are not cheap. In fact, depending on what's wrong, it can be cripplingly expensive. And trying to flush bath bombs would absolutely causing plumbing issues. It wouldn't show immediately; bath bombs dissolve in water, after all. But a lot of them also contain soap and other chemicals which can clog the pipes. And depending on how bad the clog is, it could be a very expensive repair. (Something that Toriel alludes to if you flush the toilet three more times, telling Kris that, "If anything bad happens, you are paying for the plumbing bill.")

So, in the past, Kris flushed a bath bomb. But here's the thing: Kris is not a malicious person. Whatever their reasons for aligning with Carol and the Knight may be, we have enough evidence to show that Kris does care for others, and that they never pulled pranks that were outright malicious in nature. (The Ferris wheel was in no danger of falling; they never actually hurt Noelle of their own free will.) So more than likely, Kris — being a child — thought that bath bombs in the toilet would just make the toilet look cool, and surprise the rest of the family, but that nothing seriously bad would happen.

But something bad did happen. They had to call a plumber because the only toilet in the house stopped working, and it was expensive, and Toriel and Asgore got into a fight over it. Maybe Asgore thought the whole thing was funny while Toriel wanted to take it seriously and ground Kris; or maybe this was after Asgore was dismissed from the force and had been just giving away flowers at his flower shop, so they didn't have the money to pay for the plumbing bill, and so they fought over that (because Toriel was frustrated with him just giving flowers away).

Honestly, there are numerous fights that could spawn from something like this. And while Toriel and Asgore having it out was not Kris' fault, to Kris — a kid — it would probably feel that way, because they were the one who put the bath bomb in the toilet, i.e., into the pipes, thinking it would be fine, that it would go somewhere else, not that it would get stuck there.

But it did get stuck there. And then Asgore and Toriel started fighting again. And Kris sat in front of the TV, either watching a show or playing a game, trying to block it out.

But Tenna saw everything, and relates it right back to them.

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if you bother Kris while they're drinking choccy milk they'll finish it first before nabbing you

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is anybody going to talk about how noelle’s mom is hellish combination of all the betas kids guardians