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@snapscube is this anything?

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toby fox i will get you

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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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AU where berdly's gaming knowledge allows him to instantly recognize what's going on with kris but no one listens cause he's annoying

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I've heard of many people developping a fear of cat pngs because of this (and the sounds they make).

a great change and a great way to execute the idea

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This Plays Tation is Pissing Me Off

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The best part of this puzzle is when you get to the point of getting flashbanged with new mechanics. That square made me so happy...

many people foolishly think the nerdiest minigame in Blue Prince is the parlor: Knights and Knaves is a classic logic puzzle, what could be nerdier than that?

the break room, duh! "figure out how this culture does math" is the nerdiest possible puzzle!

which is of course why it keeps showing up in these sorts of myst-like puzzle-adventures, we nerds love that shit.

after all, why shoot aliens and dodge barrels thrown by apes when you can instead DISCOVER ALIEN MATH NOTATION?

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The connection between Raise Up Your Bat and Lost Girl is a very good catch (as well as the baseball-moon being Dess related), but I don't get why it fuels this theory.

I'm sceptical about a bat turning into the Black Knife, why would a weapon change into a different weapon in the dark world? Gerson's (somewhat metaphorical) hammer turned into a hammer directly. It makes sense for pencils and hair-brushes, but for a bat? I don't buy it. Also the Dark Shard we can get from it would turn into a chunk of a bat when going back to the Light World, wouldn't it?

Don't have much to say about Carol's intent, we don't know much about her, how she's connected to the person Kris called (probably her, I agree), and how this person is connected to the Knight.

That bit how Dess would grow up to look like Carol is a bit weird… You're using the fact that Carol looks like the Knight to say that Dess would also look like the Knight. It makes much more sense to do the shorter connection, Occam's razor, you know the deal. Also interested about how one would grow up in the Dark World if anything you eat/drink while in it doesn't actually feed you.

My conclusion is that all the information given in game points to the Knight being Carol. Introducing a new character in future chapters to be the Knight would be weird at this point in the story imo. The Dess theory is way too similar to the Undertale "mysterious vanished child was actually the super powerful villainous entity the whole time" plot twist imo, so I don't think it's true (especially given the lack of evidence).

Edit: Forgot to mention that the Roaring Knight could very well have no Light World equivalent, and could simply have been birthed by a Fountain.

DELTARUNE CHAPTER 3 & 4 THEORY

December Holiday, Noelle’s sister, is the roaring knight, NOT Carol! Don’t believe me? I have some evidence!!

While I’m not opposed to the idea of Carol being the roaring knight instead, I personally think theres evidence to believe Dess may be too. FEEL FREE TO DISAGREE WITH MY CLAIMS, most of the evidence I use goes into speculation, and I know it can kind of fall flat and not make sense, so feel free to correct me into thinking it’s Carol, or heck, try to build up on my claims that the knight is Dess

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Let’s start with Chapter 3. Dess is mentioned or shown at least twice, during the second boards physical challenge and towards the end of the chapter. Tenna gives us a memory of Dess, explaining her musical talents and love for rock channels she and Kris would watch. The song that plays during the physical challenge “Raise up your bat” has a strikingly similar motif to Lost girl, I’ll include the clips that specifically have the same parts below

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We know that lost girl is meant to be about Dess, the lyrics for Raise up your bat can fit for any character yes, but I find it odd how Tenna specifically brings up Dess for this song. It has to be talking about Dess’s journey in the dark world. “Come follow me into the dark, with your heart as the ark” is lyric that I believe is the motif in Lost girl, but the lyrics “when the demon heart is crying, and the future lost its right, raise up your bat for a burning fight” or “let’s knock ‘em dead into the night” is more catered to Dess’s personality, as described to us via official resources so far. She’s defensive of things she cares about, as described by Noelle in chapter 2 when kris would pick on her as kids. Further more in chapter 2, when Noelle is locked up in queens mansion, the weird moon oddly resembles a baseball bat. Coincidence? I THINK NOT- I believe that Dess’s weapon from the light world is a bat originally, which becomes the black knife that the knight uses

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This is the part where I know it can get rocky in chapter 4

Evidence points to Carol being the knight because of her appearance, mainly her spiky antlers that the knight shares, along with the sword in the kitchen. Not to mention, Kris calls Carol to take the guitar from Susie ( supposedly ). This is where I just have to disagree in thinking Carol is the knight. WHY would she be wasting her time playing around with Susie and Kris in the dark world if she doesn’t want them to know her plans. Sure she left a code in Dess’s guitar but she stopped Susie from possibly finding it. ( I’m aware Susie does say she saw the code, but it’s never brought up again in chapter 4, though it could be in chapter 5). Furthermore, if she really didn’t want Susie around, why doesn’t she just flat out get rid her in the dark world? I believe it makes more sense that the Knight remains an unknown entity, or as I think, is Dess.

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Dess would’ve had to grow up in the dark world, and since Dess DOES have antlers, we can probably think that eventually Dess grew up to resemble her mom in some way, and Noelle more so resembles Rudy instead. Carol is probably calling Kris TO FIND DESS. The end of of chapter 4 in the normal route, the phone caller tells Kris that they promised something for them, perhaps it’s finding Carol’s long lost daughter?

IM VERY AWARE THAT THIS THEORY CAN BE DEBUNKED EASILY. It does make more sense for the knight to be Carol, but I just can’t think that Toby would introduce this unknown yet often mentioned anonymous character to Noelle’s family, and just not do anything with it. This theory has just rattled my brain for the past few days and I just needed to share my ideas out there lol

If I’m proven wrong in chapter 5, then hey, I think this would make a cool Dess AU :3

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Why is Sans drinking Ketchup?

uhhh still getting used to drawing on an intuos

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There are two ideas I think would be cool to see realized in future chapters:

communicate directly with Kris to try to understand why they work with the Knight even though they are friend with Noelle, Susie and Ralsei and obviously care for them. Maybe try to cooperate to go against whatever the final prophecy is.

have Susie steal the Soul from Kris (or get it while Kris is trying to get rid of it) for a cool moment (I just want an excuse for Susie's theme to be back on the soundtrack) (actually, maybe that would give us Kris' theme if we're fighting as Susie against them).

I kinda like the idea that Kris hates the Soul because that's part of what makes them human, and they hate being human. Maybe that's why they work with the Knight, just to go against the Soul. Anyway, that's a question of what is the cause and what is the consequence between hating the Soul and working against the Soul.

Still incoherent about the new chapters, but something just occurred to me about the mechanics of the player's influence on Kris. In chapter four, Kris defies us by maliciously complying with our command's exact words:

Compare this to a similar scene with Asriel's room in Queen's mansion, where they simply close their eyes as we do the motion of opening the door- here they change what the actual motion is based on the command's wording.

Earlier, they cover their mouth before they can be cruel to Ralsei:

Kris stops themselves from completing their own sentence- they don't have any evidence to just predict what the player will say next, so this confirms they are aware of the whole sentence they have to say before they say it. Kris isn't just being forced through physical actions by the Red Soul, they can actually hear the entire command.

I don't know what to do with this piece of information at all.

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Very cool analysis, didn't think about it this way until now.

You know, after all the fandom speculation about what the secret bosses in forthcoming chapters were going to be like, Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4 both manage to say "no, we're not doing any of that" in complementary yet diametrically opposite ways.

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After so many years of getting hate anons the thing that actually pisses me off about them these days is how low effort they are.

Like you’re not a real hater. None of you. You’ve got no receipts, you’ve got no personalized insults, you’ve got nothing more clever than slurs to throw at me. Like not only are you assholes but you’re uncreative. Boring. Uninspired. Sloppy.

Not only are you small minded enough to be a bully on the internet but you can’t even come up with something more clever than kys. I’m not a suicidal 12 year old ten miles deep in the closet, alright. I’m a grownass man who’s been called a tranny in person and online since before your pea brain ass was in high school. Step up your game. Show me something I haven’t seen before. If you’re gonna be evil at least have some brains about it.

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I'm back from my Deltarune related self-imposed exile, and [HOLY SHIT], don't wait until all of it is out, because each chapter is a full course, eating all of that at once will kill you.

Everything is good: character design, character development, fights, music, art and OMG THE ANIMATION.

Play it.

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im a firm believer that little hornet was an absolute menace

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Have now started playing Blue Prince, and you should too, whoever you are.

A non-comprejensive list of media that makes me go "your house really shouldn't be doing that, man":

House of leaves

Piranesi

Blue Prince