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reminders:

if you or someone you know might need it in the next few years, purchase plan b. the shelf life of plan b is 4 years, and we might not be able to access it as easily as we can now in the days ahead.

if you are larger/plus size: go online and purchase ella instead of plan b. plan b is less effective if you aren’t under 160 pounds.

if you can, purchase books that project 2025 is looking to ban.

mass deportations are starting. if you see ice vehicles or agents, yell ice raid and la migra as loud as you can.

if someone asks who you voted for, keep your mouth shut. they’re fishing for traitors.

if anyone, anyone at all asks about your neighbors or their legal status in the us, you know nothing. don’t be the reason that their family is separated.

if anyone asks about your religion or lack thereof, keep it vague. this administration will look for any excuse to persecute you.

your friends are trans or queer? for the next four years they’re not. don’t expose anyone’s status as a trans or queer person to anyone else, even if you think you can trust them.

did someone you know get an abortion? no, they didn’t. they were never pregnant.

in short, don’t be a snitch, and keep to yourself these next four years. we’ll make it through this even if it seems hopeless at times.

we can survive this. we’ve survived before, and we’ll survive again.

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i can't express how absolutely important it is that when you make an edgy, brooding, badass character who's tough as nails and good at fighting and whatever, you HAVE to give them at least one reason to become completely helpless and pathetic. you have a panic attack quota to fulfill.

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this is so fucking funny in hindsight

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They slash Them

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oh god I'm sorry for the person I'll become

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happy pride to kris dreemurr

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Enemies to girlfriends <3

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Stay away from her

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i fear ill never be ready for this game to drop

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You don't want to die alone.

Uh oh deltatraveler made me ill

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It kinda irks me when people call Black Mask "Truekechi", because that's not really the case...? Not entirely, at least.

I mean yes, of course, Black Mask IS a part of Akechi's personality, I'm not denying that. The thing is, that it isn't Akechi's WHOLE personality. This kid just went through the biggest crashout of his life, his whole plan he's been meticulously working on for years failed, and the worst part is that it didn't even lead to what he was after, so he didn't even get the revenge he wanted. Of course he's unstable and edgy, I mean, who wouldn't be?

That is not to say that his anger and edginess aren't a part of his "true self"; I'm sure that his glee at taking out shadows is absolutely real, for example, but I believe that it comes from him just being angry in general- at Shido, at Maruki, and at himself. Akechi is rough around the edges, has a short temper and has a tendency to look at others from above, but the situation he's in boosts these parts of his personality as a sort of defense mechanism.

I think that his mementos conversations give a really good insight into this too; Perhaps it's due to my older age compared to the characters in-game, but a lot of Akechi's lines feel so... Forced on his side? He's the one to bring up that other Thieves probably don't want to have him on the team, or that they're unsettled by how he fights, but nobody even said anything about it in the first place...? Even other characters seem kinda done with his act, either that or they accept him being on the team due to their shared goals; Some are even quite nice and friendly, all things considered. This just feels like Akechi's self-loathing twisting itself into this kind of quips because he himself doesn't want to get too comfortable on the team; He's scared of growing closer to the other Thieves, so he tries to keep them at arm's length. He can't just tell them "I think I'm a horrible person" straight up (his pride wouldn't let him), so he has to make himself "unappealing" in other ways.

There's also the other side of these conversations, where you can see him just... Being a kid. He whines about being hungry, or thirsty, or his legs getting stiff in the car, he talks about mundane things with other Thieves like graduation or sports... He's just a teenager as much as his teammates are- it's just that the others weren't hired as assassins at 15 and didn't grow up obsessed with the plan to kill their father. His emotional development and maturation process have clearly been impacted, on top of everything else he had to deal with. So he may act "adult" and more mature than others at first glance (at least before he reveals Loki), but inside he is just as much (if not more, in some aspects) of a kid as the other Thieves are. This means that he is still at the age and mental development level where he is still figuring out himself, who he is, what path to follow etc. It also means that he is prone to being overly dramatic, emotionally extreme, and have poor emotional control- you know, teen stuff.

The key to it all becomes his ultimate persona, Hereward. We all know that Akechi has two personas, but he doesn't get two ultimate personas, he gets only one. I think that it's symbolic of his psyche slowly melding itself into one again. It's not that either one of his "sides" was truly fake or real; Both the Detective Prince and Black Mask ARE parts of the "real" Akechi- it's just that he has been systematically compartmentalizing his whole self into two for YEARS. The awakening of his ultimate persona is him starting the process of healing and allowing these two sides of him to mix and reconnect back into one.

I honestly think that, with enough time and the right environment, Akechi's most extreme traits would even themselves out, and he would stop being AS short-tempered, snarky, and blood-thirsty as he is in the game. He will never be the perfectly plesant Detective Prince, but he also won't be the angry, self-loathing and vengeful Black Mask. He will be something new, something different, a fusion of the two opposite ends of his personality spectrum. Only then he will live as his fully true self.

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yo so like whoever sees this. any new and cool deltarune theories I can get into before 3 and 4?

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"So this is what a change of heart feels like? ... it's nice." 🌅

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can they perform on your dashboard real quick

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Sometimes I wonder how Akechi felt being on the other end of the encounter with a cornered animal.

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I've held this headcanon for a long time and I've seen someone post about it recently.

Classic IS Dust

Classic IS Killer

Classic IS Horror

Classic IS Geno

Classic IS Error

I believe if Classic makes a drastic enough decision that it changes the course of the entire 'run' instead of creating just an alternate timeline, it's an Alternate Universe. However it's still an alternate timeline.

So Underswap is an alternate universe (AU) - there is no way to achieve it by the normal rules of Undertale as it is drastically different.

Last Breath (although tricky to diagnose) can be seen as JUST an Alternate Timeline (AT) as theoretically it could be achieved (I know it can't but you get the idea)

Dusttale is both an AT and AU. It's drastically different from Undertale, but can also be theoretical achieved from a normal Undertale timeline.

AT as a title takes precedent over AU. So if Dusttale is ever mentioned, it is AT first, then AU.

Important note: Classic is classic and has always been classic. The instant 'Dust' becomes an AU, not just an AT, Classic experiences a 'RESET'. He retains all his memories of Dust, Killer, etc, but only until that point. The point of no return is where he kills 2 major boss monster encounter. Toriel and Papyrus. The same applies in all situations. In some situations like Horrortale where that line isn't clear, the irreparable damage of his eye would be that point of no return.

As a result Classic knows what each, Killer, Dust, Horror, Error, Geno have all gone through.

He would consider Errors to be the worst he's lived through. As the point of no return was when he began to glitch excessively. This may have taken years, hundreds of years, less, longer. But Classic still believes it's worse than living through a Dusttale timeline.

Undertale is unique, as only 1 timeline may exists at any point that is not an AU. If a last breath timeline exists, no Undertale timeline exists at that moment. Last Breath has occurred enough that every necessary detail is known of the AT, but will never occur again as Classic knows the criteria for which causes it, and knows what to not do.

Because of him having lived through them, Classic feels unnatural sympathy for the bad sanses (minus nightmare and cross, though he doesn't hate them by any means). He in fact blames himself and is scared/apprehensive of interacting with them as he thinks they might want to retaliate. He's not scared in the same way you'd be scared of a monster under the bed. He's surprisingly accepting. He'd just rather live.

He is the neutral state. Everyone must stem from him, therefore he chooses no side in any battle. He stays neutral and interacts with either side. He will never be a double agent or 'a spy on the inside'. Any information he gets, he will never share.

This rant has gone on for a while and probably makes no sense. If you want a more detailed and scripted headcanon I will do so.

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"came back wrong" what about Came Back Afraid. You used to be brave. Too brave maybe, defying the odds at every turn, a fighter, cocky, playing with fire, first to throw yourself at the enemy. Until one day it all caught up to you. You came back, somehow, but now you know all too intimately how it feels to lose, to die, to be destroyed. Now you flinch and freeze and cower at the slightest provocation. Who even are you now if you can't be brave? The grave may have let you go, but the mortal fear still grips you tighter than ever.