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Loose theory: Pomni liked urban exploring in abandoned buildings. What if she found her VR headset in a building she broke into? That would imply the office is empty and the company has been shut down. Which would maybe explain why none of the characters have been taken out of the circus- if they're all in an abandoned building.

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Okay at this point there has to be some greater reason for Jax bullying the fuck outa Gangel. It's not even a bit, because the more he does it the more uncomfortable it feels. It's crazy forced.

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I feel like episode 5 is gonna be one of those situations where it'll be a million times more enjoyable after the show is over. Not a diss that was one of my favourites, I'm just saying it felt like there was lots of dialogue and interactions that'll feel more significant once we have context but either way 10/10

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Someone call Toby we're shutting it down actually

Kris is the Delta Δ

they is goddam Homura Akemi-ing the save files, starting over and over again:

them and someone (probs Gaster) are playing over and over again, slightly differently each time, to find the result they want to change the "Prophecy" aka THE SONG aka THE VERY PLOT of the game

Toby pulled a fast one on us with all that ocean talk and imagery, that was a distraction. This is your depths, this is your ocean and these are the waves🌊:

"Rhythm as a Continuous Sine Wave"

Kris is trying to change a song, maybe they were created by Gaster with the Goner Maker to do so or not...

ANYWAYS ALSO

"The tail of hell" might be all the save files where "Weird Route" shit has gone down

How we the player factor into this is still yet to come, but its looking more and more like Kris is our goner we made at the start, its just that maybe somthin went fucky wucky and our vessel went and got all independent on us

haha i did it, i finally got it all out an in a semi coherent explanation that-

🧠brain: *clears throat*

you shut the fuck up, you SHUT THE FUCK UP I AM SO TI-

*puts face in hands* please make it STOP

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More deltarune brainrot: I think the moments when Ralsei HEAVILY encourages you to "think about what Susie is doing" are time periods when he's communicating with Kris about something we aren't allowed to know. Ralsei basically has some Sans level omniscience, he knows the full extent of the prophecy, and it's implied he knows the player is there. He probably knows we can read his brackets dialogue/ his thoughts too. So the only time he'd be able to communicate with Kris about something in secret would be when the player isn't looking. In ch4 if you refuse to think about Susie when she goes to get the sheet music, Ralsei basically begs you all nervously to just close your eyes and think of literally anything. His insistence on having us look at something else makes me think he knows the player is there, and uses these cutscene moments to communicate with the actual Kris. That also might be why Ralsei is so timid and reluctant to share information, because he knows we're watching and doesn't trust it

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Okay heres my dumbass deltarune theory: What if Susie isn't actually "the girl" in the prophecy?

What if it's Noelle and Ralsei knows?

Okay so point 1) Ralsei knows about the weird route and Noelle's connection to it. The secret mini game in ch3 directly references the weird route, and Ralsei acts super suspicious about it. He says "it could have been trouble". It's heavily implied that Ralsei knows the things required to happen to trigger the snow grave route, and that Noelle is a key part,hence why in ch2 when you say you're going to the festival with Noelle, he flat out says you shouldn't. If you're already on the weird route, in ch4 Ralsei says that the path theyre on "may be worse than the prophecy". In general, whenever you deny actions, go to weird places, (like the secret mini game) or go against Ralsei's suggestions, he starts to tweak out. I think it's because he's aware of the weird route, and fears the player trying to trigger it by going off the games one track story. Noelle herself is 100% a red flag for potential weird routes, hence why Ralsei is so reluctant to have the player interact with anything to do with her.

Bringing me to point 2) Ralsei is really cautious about Noelle. Maybe scared of her. He never interacts with her, probably because in the dark world ice magic is 'evil', so her being a natural ice magic user is 100% a red flag. Again, if you suggest going to the festival with her he flat out says you shouldn't. He very rarely tells you not to do something. If you give Ralsei the thorn ring in chap 2 he says "..." Which he doesn't do with any other item, even the other secret ones. Also, there's a throwaway line in ch3 where Ralsei says he knows exactly what items/weapons of theirs Noelle can equip. Oddly specific information to have about her.

3) Ralsei is so fucking scared of Susie seeing the prophecy in ch4, probably because he was worried it would reveal the truth right in front of her

4) Not a definitive point but, I think it would be narratively fitting that Susie's whole arc of finding purpose in being a part of the prophecy and feeling like she's a part of something would be disrupted by the plot twist that she's actually not part of the prophecy. Her coming to believe in her role in the Quest would all be for nothing, and I can see that fitting in nicely with her character arc

5) If Berdly wasn't Noelle's partner in ch1, she would have been with Kris. Meaning that it would have been them and Noelle tasked to get the chalk, and then and Noelle entering the dark world. Susie wasn't even meant to be there.

Now idk how this explains Ralsei knowing who Susie was at the start of ch1, but my theory is that the weird route IS the main route. It's what they were meant to do from the start. Ralsei knows this, but is attached to Kris and Susie and doesn't want to kill the darkners. He went off script from the moment he introduced ACTing. On the correct storyline Noelle would be there. All members of the party would be puppets of the soul (Ralsei more mentally than literally because he was so agreeable in ch1), which is why in ch4 Kris tries so hard to keep Susie from finding the numbers. Susie isn't even meant to be there and would likely ruin the whole thing for the knight. Because Susie isn't controlled by the soul. When Susie learns to act, unlike Noelle, it's her choosing to. So her role on the party deviates from the prophecy which should be entirely in Kris' control.

I think this is fitting narratively since deltarune seems to be about the perceived lack of choice the player has. I think everytime Kris does something left field or of the beaten path, Ralsei gets scared because Kris' autonomy would trigger the weird route- the correct route- where they are in control.

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Yknow it's funny chapter 3/4 has been out for 2 whole weeks and I haven't seen any "CHAPTER THREE- WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT W.D GASTER BIG RED CIRCLES ON THE THUMBNAIL" videos yet. We've really come far as a society

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Guys, can you believe it, deltarune chapter 5 just a year away 🥀

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I hated this guy for all of two minutes then I realised he could absolutely get it

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Y'all need to stop watching video essays on how to do things and start just figuring it out. Fym "How to start a journal in 2025" bitch it's words and paper, watching someone explain the thing you want to do with video game music in the background isn't a commitment to starting a new hobby, unfortunately that has to be actually doing the hobby yourself

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Didn't realise Tom Nook was in office now

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I'm so deeply worried about him

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outie mark is going to tell innie mark “i know your whole life has been one sleepless hungover torture session but i need you to go through hell to find my wife and then i’ll reward you by killing you” and then act shocked when innie mark says no

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Local severed man realises he's just as alive as his outie and makes one (1) decision for himself, nation calls him selfish because clearly some of us were sleeping through s2

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Hey dude yknow the guy you created to not remember your dead wife? The guy you sliced a segment of your brain for so that he'd live his existence not knowing about or loving your wife? So he wouldn't remember her and you could compartmentalise your own grief? The guy that has absolutely no reason to care about the woman at all? Yeah bro you are NOT gonna believe this

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