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For ramb requests: him hanging out w seam :)

Thank you for the prompt!! They’re both so scary and spooky

Bread crumb of the original idea under read more ft. Scrunkly Ramb

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ramb looks like a small plush that a child would pour milk on and suck the milk back out of it and it was sopping wet all the time ❤️ the child would slam it against walls and it would make a loud thud

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hi! im sorry if this has already been asked, but how does NIGHTMARE/ERAM/the shadow mantle boss speak with kris in the japanese localization? like, what is their manner of speaking like? because in english there seems to be this air of familiarity, so i am really curious what the nuances are like in japanese!

There are a lot of interesting details about the Shadow Mantle boss's dialogue in Japanese! (JP transcriptions + translations in Alt Text)

To start with, they are as far as I know the only character in the Legend of Tenna or Original Game segments to use kanji in their speech. In the English version, they are one of the only characters to include lowercase letters in their speech instead of using all caps, so this choice in the Japanese likely serves a similar purpose of making them stand out as a bit more "real," as they talk not like a game NPC but like any other character in the Dark World.

Most of their dialogue is fairly gender neutral, and they avoid using any first-person pronouns. There are however a few instances of them using slightly more masculine grammar, such as da, darou, and ka.

Something that is much more blatant in the Japanese is the fact that this character actually speaks very similarly to Gaster! They use quite fanciful and archaic language throughout their dialogue, with many similarities in word choices. In particular, the phrase jitsu ni they use here is how words like "truly" and "very" get translated throughout Gaster's dialogue, such as in notable lines like "excellent, truly excellent" and "very, very interesting." It's a very Gaster-coded phrase for the Japanese audience!

The most pronounced difference between this character's speech and Gaster's (aside from the fact that Gaster replaces all of his hiragana with katakana, making his speech very unique and easy to distinguish) is that Gaster speaks in keigo, honorific speech, which comes across as more formal and polite, while this character uses casual speech, which could provide a sense of familiarity, as you mentioned, or could come across as more threatening. So while this character is presumably not literally Gaster himself, they might have some associations with him, which makes sense considering they are found in the Original Game's version of the Shelter.

The one other character whose speech patterns are quite similar to the Shadow Mantle boss's is Chara!

Chara also speaks in a mildly masculine tone, and they are one of the only characters in Undertale to use kanji in their speech, making them also come across as unnervingly "real" to the audience. Chara also talks about "gaining power," and this is a word-for-word match with how "becoming stronger" is translated in the Original Game.

Again, I don't think this means this character literally is Chara, but considering Chara's associations with the No Mercy route and their role as a sort of representation of the addictive feeling of "getting stronger," it's possible that the Shadow Mantle boss is serving a similar role for Kris, representing their capacity for violence (or at least their imagined capacity for it, regardless of how true this is!).

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you’ve inspired me

They’re talking to Kris

I love imagining Ramb as being generally polite and amiable to Tenna's face and then the second he's not around he's like I wonder if I hit him hard enough it might dislodge his vacuum and kill him instantly

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Any day now

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Fest Tech is the new Assembly Logo Bag

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Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

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THE FABRICS ARE HERE THE FABRICS I ORDERED MADE IT HERE FINALLY FINALLY YES OMG YES THEY'RE HERE THEY'RE HERE

[][[((!!!!!! RAMB PLUSH ))]})

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Hey look, it’s Pipisns, Shawn, Roar Night, and Flower.

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bet30

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The face in the mirror burns the back of your throat.

based on a friend and i discussing ideas with the own-flavored tea heehee

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So a few interpretations:

Coding stuff. You’re not expected to leave till after the fight so the sequence of things changing doesn’t line up with what is actually supposed to happen.

The Rabbick’s reaction was actually talking about Ramb petrifying and it was delayed to after so you don’t get spoiled (if this was the case it could’ve raised tension tho…)

Toby Fox wanted to slingshot that power strip into the void as fast as possible and thought about the lore after. (Joke)

Something I learned thanks to running through board 3 of the SWORD route a couple times for footage: Ramb disappears as soon as you enter the manhole dungeon, and no sooner. Killing HERO_AXE and HERO_SCARF alone doesn't trigger it. However, the interactions in the S-rank hallway (SMILE, Rabbick, cactus darkner) don't change until after you've defeated Nightmare. Ergo, the Rabbick doesn't talk about Ramb until after that point. Might mean nothing?