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Yeah Rals, why is it so important that you be the one to go talk to Kris? Next page Monday August 11th I still have open commission slots!

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Had this Ralsusie fic idea, i wanna write it so i wont tell everything i thought for it, but Ralsei would've learned to dance over a few nights to help Susie dance with Noelle (a bit of our canon suselle), and there would be a ton of confusing feelings!!

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OMG! Look! It's my lil squid guy! They're doing their very best to beat Spamton boss fight and still look cool.

Another drawing for @ferronickel 🦑

Since those streams are finished, you should read their Deltarune comic Looking Glasses :> (it's very good and has much ralsei)

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Deltarune (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kris/Ralsei (Deltarune), Kris & Ralsei (Deltarune) Characters: Kris (Deltarune), Ralsei (Deltarune) Additional Tags: Angst, Drama, Romance, Trauma, Codependency, First Kiss, Blood, Ignored Epiphanies, Kris Is Not Okay (Deltarune), ralsei is not okay (deltarune), Kissing instead of dealing with your issues, Deltarune Chapter Four Spoilers, No Beta We Die Like Ralsei’s Sense Of Self, triggering each other’s trauma responses, and mistaking it for love, POV Kris (Deltarune), POV Second Person, Deltarune Player is Not Kris Series: Part 16 of Meditations on a Fluffy Prince Summary:

He smiles at you like a reflection in a cracked mirror, and it reminds you of home.

Maybe it’ll all be okay if both of you just keep smiling.

After all, that’s what you want. Isn’t it?

Mmm… delicious codependency and kissing instead of dealing with your traumas…

Been a little while since I explored Kralsei’s darker side, and the most recent chapters provided the perfect opportunity, i.e. that absolutely devastating last scene with Ralsei at the end of Chapter 4. What would compel Kris to tell him to “Keep smiling?” And what would follow on from that?

Spoilers: it doesn’t go so good XD

Likes, comments and reblogs appreciated! Hope y’all enjoy!

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you wouldnt forget my.. green sparkles, would you?

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Yeah Rals, why is it so important that you be the one to go talk to Kris? Next page Monday August 11th I still have open commission slots!

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part 2 to ralseis headcanons about the prophecy.. because i liked it...

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Thinking about these two interacting after the game if Dess does turn out to be the knight

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All this time off has let me get around to some of that painting I've been meaning to do for a year.

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All this time off has let me get around to some of that painting I've been meaning to do for a year.

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Commission from @patchwork-crow-writes of his character Grandfather Rook from A Heart, Frozen in Time and A Bridge Between Hearts (both excellent fics you really should read).

More info about commissioning me here

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Something I've gotten to thinking about recently, about Ralsei and Susie, and the way that their smiles are juxtaposed against one another at the end of chapter 4, and I've not really seen anyone else discuss yet: is it supposed to showcase their differences... or their similarities?

Isn't it interesting that seconds after seeing this:

We then see this?

And on first reading, you think "Okay, so we've seen Ralsei smile insincerely because he's afraid but doesn't want to worry his friends, so now we have Susie's smile contrasting that, wide and full of hope, that blows away the darkness." And that's reasonable enough to conclude, I suppose. But let's look a little deeper at this a moment, shall we?

It's made painfully clear to us that Ralsei is suppressing an awful lot of grief and angst and sorrow for the sake of his friends. He is terrible at hiding the effect his knowledge and his lack of inner world is having on him as Susie and Kris both chip away at him. So when we get to his "I'm smiling!" moment, with his face covered in blood, we already know he's lying and we can react accordingly. The game is inviting us to reject the comforting(?) lie Ralsei is offering and dig to the truth of his feelings.

But Susie... we're conditioned to see her as assured, confident, forthright. She doesn't mince words or spew bullshit - she says what's on her mind and there's very little in the way of filter. Sometimes she offends, but a lot of the time she inspires hope and courage in others. What this does is condition us as players to take everything Susie says and does at face value, so that when the game tells us that she smiles, we see that as a sincere gesture, a defiant act of bravado against fate's unsuccessful attempts to crush her. And that's how Kris sees it too, if we are to believe the narration here.

...but how do we actually know that? How can we say for certain that Susie isn't as scared out of her wits as Ralsei is, and is just doing a much better job of covering it up? We can't even SEE her smile, not on her sprite, and not in her text box, so how are we reasonably expected to make a judgment on it? And even the narration vacillates here, saying that her smile "SEEMED to defeat everything". There's doubt. There's ambiguity. And we've already seen how a smile can conceal darker anxieties with Ralsei mere moments before.

The fandom absolutely lionises Susie, and for good reason - it's she who challenges the established narrative of not just the prophecy, but everyone she comes into contact with. Kris and Ralsei, Noelle and Berdly... she agitates them, forces them to confront the fallacies and fabrications their personas are built upon, tear them down and attempt to grow into better people. But that's an awful lot to put on one person's shoulders, however broad they might be. And things are only going to get bleaker from here on out.

I think this smile, coming right off the heels of Ralsei's smile, is a warning that Susie is concealing a lot of her own hurt and fear, for much the same reasons as Ralsei and Kris - to protect her friends, so that they can lean on her as a pillar of strength... until things become too much even for her, and she gives out from the weight of the expectations placed upon her, on top of the encroaching tragedy and the terror of the Knight and the Titans.

Ironically, Susie might not yet trust her friends enough to let them properly see her fears and insecurities, to give them a chance to comfort and reassure her, the way she's been able to for them. And you wonder, if the world keeps throwing misfortune at her, if she constantly fears she'll lose her friends just as swiftly as she found them, or that she can't rise to the challenges set before her...

...will that smile, which seems to defeat the darkness, be enough to carry the day?

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Lol, okay, I'll bite. Since my only writing is for comics my sentence can be extremely short next to yours.

No problem, I know what shitty parents are like.

Gen already tagged some of my writer mutuals, so @dawnthefluffyduck, @exodus-raine, @bleakoutlo, @rib-rabbitmask, there are probably a ton of you that I'm forgetting I'm sorry it's late and I'm tired.

Tagged by @consciouslogic TY!

Rules: post the last sentence you wrote and tag a person for each word

Wanna peel away the callused layers of you to get to the soft places beneath that I know you’ve still got somewhere, scrub away all that taint from Vern, empty you out and fill you up with nothing but me me me.

Admittedly, that's a longass sentence and I don't think I have that many people to tag, but even so:

@ferronickel @sir-libearian @hrh-spinach @malkaleh @patchwork-crow-writes @scarlet-moon @honey-dont @nropay

And anybody else who would like to do it as well! No pressure to do it either. I have probably forgotten many people, but I am. sleepy.

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(hauhaujhs I keep forgetting to post stuff here- anyways, I'm working on this for fun in my free time! 💚 I'll color It later!)

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Commission from @patchwork-crow-writes of his character Grandfather Rook from A Heart, Frozen in Time and A Bridge Between Hearts (both excellent fics you really should read).

More info about commissioning me here

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🎂

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yeah, they’re a real “master” at it