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i remember your snowgraves

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Just you and me, i promise

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“ Please don’t ”

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Midnight sketch, just think they're really cool :)

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* The bell of justice is ringing…it’s for you

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we're something else

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zeltarune yuri takeover

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Grocery Store Shenanigans Part 2

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The Roaring Knight

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Thorn in her finger

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I DON"T HAVE TIME TO COLOR THIS RN BUT I HAD TO DRAW THEM IN THEIR CUTE LITTLE OUTFITS OMFG DELTARUNE TODAY!!!111!!!1!!!11!11!!!!!

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im so unbelievably hyped that such a smoking gun of a ralsusie line was planned since the Original concept drawings of the mast cast from Over a decade ago. that was long awaited thanks toby

i want to believe so hard its insane at this point lol. please let this mean something. It definitely feels like theres a setup happening.

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I still love your post-deltarune ralsusie hc where she lives in a truck(?) and basically spends her whole free time on the dark world with ralsei. (Though I can't find it :() How has chapter 3 and 4 affected that headcanon for you? Also, what do you think Ralsei is? kris's horns? green crayon? some other unidentified object? Not even a object and just pure darkness???

if you're struggling to filter for specific things, you can add /archive to the blog url and filter by the tag #ralsusie, it has to be there im certain. Was probably an ask, as you see, asks are how I end up rambling about different ideas... Lets get into it together anon

yeah, the whole thing was flipped over on its head, not gonna lie. Now that the writing has been emphatic on the illusory ethereal nature of Dark Worlds, including confirmation that DW food doesn't actually fill the stomach, I can't say the best end is one in which Susie stays... There is a theme that was planted since Ch.2 but has become especially resonant recently, which is escapism into idealistic fantasy worlds, and I feel like the theme being built upon here is finding fulfilment in the real, too. My gut's telling me that what is being set up here now is Susie taking Ralsei out of the darkness to bring him to the Light World, so he can live as a normal 17 year old guy without worrying about the end of the world.

I remember the unused blushy sprites from chapter 2 that, at the time, I believed toby removed because they were a little too ralsusie-y (Susie lowkey flips her shit internally in them) but now I see that the probable actual reason on top of my Pepe Silvia reason is that toby chose a much more poignant moment to reveal that Susie has blood. Does this mean that monsters in DR bleed, and are cremated to create their "dust"? or does this mean that Susie is a hybrid between a monster and a human? It's very interesting that the discoloration of the DW that she made, influenced by her subconscious, has her coloured like a white human girl with brown hair and otherwise features purple prominently. Is that reflective of this? Being a medical enigma, caught between two worlds?

the truth is, we don't yet know. But I feel like setting up the blood to appear there was purposeful because of... Pinocchio, of all things

Ever since Spamton (puppet element, strings, long nose, a trickster/deceiver/liar), we first got introduced to a general pinocchio, puppet, strings, control, reality theme. Whoever is calling the secret bosses informed spamton about a human SOUL having the power to see past the dark into the light. Is this an indication that through the power of a human soul, a Darkner can gain a body not illusory or dependent of an object or concept? And it's very interesting the way Spamton phrases it: [A Real Boy]. Very much a pinocchio phrase.

Pinoccho is about a wooden puppet of a boy, wishing to be real, a flesh and blood human child for his father Gepetto. Eventually his wish is granted through the power of morality and love for his father (and willingness to sacrifice out of love). Ralsei insists that he's not real, but through the affection and support of Susie he has become more his own person since the very instant they met and she got him to remove his cloak.

Is the Last Prophecy meant to imply Ralsei's sacrifice? I think so, at least; the way she emphasizes that ESPECIALLY Ralsei won't let that happen is probably her placing her will to live on him (most people don't want to die). If Susie is at least partially human, could she give some of her power to help him become a real boy? Could his willingness to sacrifice, and her love, be the conduit to make him Real? Is that the ultimate subversion of the Last Prophecy? I don't know. But that's what all of this has made me think about. And I am now very excited at the idea of Ralsei becoming real, not just in spirit but through the power of hope and friendship.

(Susie can still live in a van though. They can cuddle together there).

As for what object Ralsei is, I like the green crayon as a joke a lot, but I'm honestly starting to doubt if he is an object at all. There's something special about him, his endless seemingly innate knowledge of the rules of the dark worlds, his role as a prince and a hero, the fact that he was the very first Darkner Kris and Susie met and he seems to have been spawned from the grand fountain in Castle Town... I can't confirm it either way, but that seems to suggest he may be something more like pure darkness. I don't have a strong bet at the moment though.

Thank you for this ask! My passion for ralsusie has been fanned to a forest fire with the new chapters oh my godddddd

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I really like this diagram, where you showed Kris's and Noelle's feelings for each other, and now I'm wondering what would happen if Noelle actually realized that her feelings for Kris are more than just friendly ones

AHAHA....SCARY... is she allowed to do this... we must keep noelle with only 4 braincells lest she discovers how she feels about kris deep down

jokes aside, i guess when i say she thinks of them as "more than a friend" its still not exactly romantic? it all goes back to the Secret Third Thing that the two of them have. the kind of Weird relationship where its not platonic and not romantic or otherwise but instead its this indescribable closeness where i think the end goal is for the both of them to melt together into nothingness at the end of the world. whatever happens i dont want one of them to exist without the other... if someone's gonna die it has to be both of them together

also i say "not romantic" and yet i want them to kiss anyway. they should kiss i think. multiple times even. (nervously inserting my sketches i only put on bluesky here) (im not sharing the real kiss drawings im scared)

(again in the 3rd and 4th sketches they're ideally supposed to be older but barely anything here really indicates that) (SCAMPERS AWAY)

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you have no idea how much i enjoy your deltarune character analysis. i really like this game but most people who discuss it on the internet are just going "omg this ship is so real toby fox you crazy fucker" or "guyss this susie moment is so craazy haha" or just post some surface level observations about the story. and most fanarts are like... not it. you're one of the few people actually willing to talk about it in detail. so glad you came back even if it's for a short amount of time

thank you, sincerely. i left this sitting in my inbox for a number of days because i wanted to append a drawing to it. if I had more drive and wasn't as constantly tired and in pain and with other life responsibilities i would be the type of mf that makes 2 hour long video essays on things. hope you have enjoyed the most recent yapping, I for one enjoyed your message :)