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are the mlp horses the same size as actual horses because real horses are enormous and terrifying

so logically

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i'm watching a Deltarune LP in Japanese and found out that Tenna has a cute quirk where he ends a lot of his sentences with でしょう ("deshou") but he combines it with SHOW in English ("でSHOW" or "deSHOW")

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I hope they’re both stupid and also friends, that is all

(Inspired by the fact you can get to the top of the stairs at the start of Chapter 4.)

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oh my fucking god yes they are. im gonna lose it

Lowkey these two are the same ship

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brainrot

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i was thinking about the deltarune prophecy in chapter 4 and listing out the evidence for the second hero and the last girl being noelle and dess as opposed to susie and had to stop for a second to appreciate that this game has enough central plot crucial female characters that it's something we need to discuss to begin with

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I think any Deltarune analysis is incomplete if it doesn't acknowledge the fact that the player has no agency in this relationship either. A lot of early theorizing was that playing the game itself was bad, and comparisons were made to spec ops: the line.

Spec Ops has become something of a cliché in game criticism/theorizing because it represents one of the first times where the relationship between the game and the player was more complicated than just being a player insert power fantasy. Where it was explicitly part of the text that by playing this game beyond the first minute, you were already defying orders and risking lives. If Captain Martin Walker turned around, everything would have turned out much better.

That's not the case here and I hope that is clear by now.

We were *tricked.* The intro is us being promised a blank vessel, then forced into an already occupied body. We had no choice in this. Our only other option is non-existence, and that's not a choice anyone can really make.

Of course, we can make this relationship positive or negative. There's every sign that before we entered Kris's life, they were almost an empty shell of a person. They hadn't been to school in a while. They're extremely unkempt. They have nothing on display in their room. What friends they had have been alienated. Whatever happened to them before the game started, it seemed like they had stopped *living.* like they lost their soul, or, perhaps, their Determination.

We give that back to them.

Each chapter shows them growing progressively more autonomous. They take a more active role and show more of their personality. They defy us when they don't like what we tell them to do in increasingly forceful ways. They have fun without us telling them to. On a normal route, we are mostly a positive influence in their life. Of course, they resent us still. They're a teenager and we're a force of control in their life. Of course, they want freedom.

Maybe we can help each other with that.

(Weird route is, quite literally, another story)

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I'm sure everybody's already talked about this but how weird is it for Kris, that the player has their own knowledge, opinions and feelings about the people in their town?

That that must feel so weird.

To name a few very basic things....

Us greeting a man they've never met before with the same excitement of someone greeting an old friend

Us already knowing what Asriel looks like even though we have never actually seen him

Us obsessively trying to talk to neighbors Kris has never met

Not to mention if they can feel what we're feeling or at least gleam it from some of our actions???

That would be so terrifying.

We know so MUCH about their family that we shouldn't, have a relationship with each member that Kris doesn't.

Like could you imagine waking up with a soul that's not your own beating in your chest.... and when it sees your mother, you can actually feel it's surprise and excitement, know that it recognizes her.....

...or the cold shock it feels when it lays eyes on the totally normal flowers your father keeps.

That would be so spooky and unsettling, even the good, excited feelings would be so freaky because, there's so many moments were the player simply has WAY more context than Kris.

The soul from Kris's point of view must be just as hard, if not harder to understand as we find Kris to be sometimes.

Did this make any sense? I'm just rambling lmao. I'm sure this has been commented on a million times, but I wanted to talk about it too.

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i can't get over this stupid fucking animation. i love how comically high the framerate is compared to all of his other animations. blud looks like he's boutta roundhouse kick silver the hedgehog

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Want to draw my favorite deltarune post

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I CANT CONTROL MYSELFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.

kris and susie's trip to spirit halloween

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toby fox decided to hit every shipping kingdom with a curve ball didn't he

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if chapter 4 did anything its that it reminded me how zooted she is for the lizard

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yeah

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geeked vs locked in know your differences

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Damn bro....