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Kris deltarune u r so cool

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i love talking to my

I'm kind of

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I really like how the Klonoa phantomile game over screen says "Good Night" when you quit, it feels so right. This game rocks.

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favorite word?

Scorn

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I have a long term almost photographic memory about the architecture in my dreams, i want to recreate it all

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Is there a setting to make it stop talking like this?

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Recreated a Deltarune dream I had yesterday

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* it's surprisingly soft.

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man I really dont like how makeship plushies look... how are you supposed to cuddle with that?

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the "add an X button to your ad but mostly cover it with a conveniently placed external UI element" gambit

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"chapter 4 is about susie learning things can't last forever" so we're just saying words recreationally at this point.

gerson is not gone. i will eat my own shoe otherwise. I'm not sure how he'd come back, since he was introduced with a very specific narrative purpose and he achieved it within chapter 4's storyline, but he's not Gone. his mere existence acts as counter evidence to Ralsei's claim that darkners are unpersons, and the idea that they're "less real" and thus less important than the lightners.

well... if that's true, here's a lightner revived as a darkner. a darkner with all the memories, regrets, appearance, personality and goals as what qualifies as a "real person". here's tangible proof that darkners are as capable of personhood as lightners. if you think darkners don't matter, why can gerson exist in the first place? he's a character who blurs the lines between light and darkness. lightner and darkner. author and character, creator and created.

there's a reason deltarune has him dead and "buried" in the cemetery before the game even starts, next to snowdrake's mother and shyren's sister and the leader of the dogs. it's thematically tying him to the concept of the amalgamates. the medical horror plotline in undertale that's a subversion of the trope that dead things should stay dead and that abominations like them should be "put out of their misery". THEIR personhood and freedom and right to return home and be loved by their families in their unconventional state is at the heart of the True Lab.

when gerson asks susie what ending she has in mind and she replies "i wouldn't end it", he cackles with delight and tells her to hold onto that belief dearly when she writes the continuation of their story. his one wish, in life just as in death, was for the new generation to keep creating. he draws a doodle of the fun gang, hands it to susie, and she gives it back by drawing him into the story. in what world is the takeaway from all this that gerson should stay dead and will never return again.

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I dont particularly care for roblox games but studio is rly fun, im learning it rn and the scripting engine is very good...

i made a realtime clock

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another Deltarune thought: although it seems screamingly obvious on a thematic and conservation of detail level, the primary obstacle for Dessknight is a logistical Morton's fork: if Dess is agentic and able enough enough to carry out Plan Roaring, then why doesn't she just return to the Holiday family? why doesn't she even let Noelle know that she's still alive?

conversely, if Dess is absent from her family because she was mentally crippled by her transformation into the knight, then how is she alert enough to aura farm and put on a show with Kris for the Fun Gang? if Dess is physically or metaphysically crippled, then how can she transport Undyne out of Toriel's House, across the Light World, and into the Shelter in Chapter 3? why the seemingly divided motives?

I want to be careful with how I phrase this because I don't want to sound like a Game Theory host, but I want to return to my reading - in the vein of my previous post about the fourth wall in UTDR - that the Underground of UT is subtextually what DR's Dark Worlds are textually, and that UT Monsters are subtextually what DR Darkners are textually.

more explicitly stated, DR Darkners have assumed the role of "fantasy creatures existing at the mercy and discretion of real people" previously occupied by UT Monsters. (whereas as @darkveracity has pointed out, DR Monsters are a stand in for a different kind of flesh and blood human - Kris being an adopted child and the only human in a town full of Monsters is about race).

of all the meta-aware characters we've seen in Deltarune, only one has anything like an agentic plan to transcend his finite status:

* I * JUST NEED * THAT LITTLE, * [[SOUL]] * Y O U HAVE

in the context of Deltarune alone, Spamton's impromptu plan to steal Kris's soul seems as random and impossible as the man is pathetic and dangerous. Spamton is the archetypal copycat whose desperation to imbibe the genuine qualities of others only ever betrays the lack of the genuine within himself - he rips off Mettaton and Swatch as easily as he scams Tenna for show-biz know-how and passes off the insights of his insider contact as if they were his own.

upon meeting Kris and the player, upon his final realization that he'll need more than Mettaton's artificial body to become a real boy, he puts himself on a collision course with a power he can neither overcome nor understand, and he finishes burning his life down in the process.

however in a wider context, Deltarune is meant to be played after finishing Undertale, where stealing souls for power is obviously taken seriously as a key part of the games metaplot:

* If a monster defeats a human, they can take its SOUL. * A monster with a human SOUL… * A horrible beast with unfathomable power. * (It's an illustration of a strange creature…) * (There's something very unsettling about this drawing.)

taking this possibility more seriously than Spamton has any right to pose it, what would happen if a Darkner were to claim a Lightner's soul and usurp their level of existence?

by analogy to UT and with consideration for Spamton's expectations, they would both be capable of escaping from the Dark World and possess incredible power. depending on the Darkner's nature, they could potentially unite a Lightner's monster magic with a Darkner's nightmarish creepypasta powers.

even more importantly than that, we can guess that such a being's will would be inconsistent and divided between its warring bottom lines:

* Frisk, when Chara and I combined our SOULs together... * The control over our body was actually split between us. * They were the one that picked up their own empty body. * And then, when we got to the village... * They were the one that wanted to... * ... to use our full power. * I was the one that resisted.

* If the Knight's only goal was to hurt people… * They would have acted sooner, right?

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Krises

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Asgores

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gamemaker is a nice engine but sometimes it has absolutely baffling design choices like how persistent objects work or the fact that deleting or renaming an object sometimes just corrupts the entire project file and i need a third party tool to regenerate it or how it has support for generating bitmap fonts but only in GML and theres no front facing user interface for it despite having an entire ui for importing ttf fonts