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so bare with my insanity for a second. ive been thinking about deltarune and like ive noticed something kinda interesting about the secret bosses. so first of all- 3 out of the 5 bosses youre REQUIRED to fight (and yeah im including eram cause i feel like theyre gonna be important later). like eram, the knight, and gerson dont have sparing options- and the most interesting thing about gerson is that the only way to mercy him is BY FIGHTING. you cant exhaust his dialog by defending bc there actually is a mercy meter on gerson and the only way to progress it is by fighting or using rude buster. so the game is encouraging you to fight. interesting. you dont spare gerson like you spare spamton and jevil through acts, you spare him by fighting

now speaking of those two, i believe that the objective correct way to beat jevil is actually by fighting him. why? while technically jevil can be spared its by pacifying him, not by performing a certain amount of acts that make him able to be spared. pretty much everyone has some set of conditions that make them able to be spared (with exceptions like scripted battles like king where all you need to do is exhaust his dialog). my point is that pacifying jevil doesnt really feel like a win. and i think his post battle dialog also reflects that. he’s very negative when you pacify him, “unfortunately you kids cannot have such a pleasant dream. from now, on a nightmare will awaken in your hearts” versus if you beat him “youre fast fast! strong strong!” in both iterations he warns about the knight and asks if we can stop it- and most interestingly says a very important distinction. if you pacify him he says “take THIS and do your strongest” but if you fought him he says “take ME and do your strongest” why the change in his dialog? part of me wonders that by pacifying him we gave him the impression that we wouldn’t fight the enemies that needed to be fought like the knight and the titan. but by fighting him, by playing his game HIS WAY, youve proven you might be able to take down the darkness he warns about. also the devilsknife is sick as fuck and has a very special mechanic- it lowers the tp cost of rude buster. THAT detail screams to me that jevil knew how vital rude buster would be in the knight’s fight. its such an important detail imo and it only solidifies my opinion that fighting jevil is the right way to beat him. in summary: while jevil can technically be spared it doesnt seem like thats how he wants us to win- and instead wants us to prove our strength by fighting him (huh. almost like gerson…)

now finally we get to the outlier. spamton g spamton. oh man. honestly i think everyone knows that spamton is more than just a secret boss bc of the snowgrave route but thats been talked to death. regular spamton can be fought, but most importantly- he can be SPARED. fighting him feels pointless, like yeah lets fight him for the PUPPET SCARF. yknow- only equips to ralsei and it decreases his magic. great /s. fighting him also just feels like a narrative disservice, by cutting his strings his line about just being a puppet is more impactful, hell his dialog right before you cut the last string/deal the last blow just hits a lot more when he truly believes hes about to be free. only for him to just, fall. fighting spamton feels just wrong. sparing spamton feels like the objective correct option, and youre rewarded with an incredible armor. the dealmaker is cracked actually. ALSO ALSO IMPORTANT NOTE: the spamtenna cutscene only happens if you have the dealmaker equipped which means that spamton IS the dealmaker like jevil IS the devilsknife. and like that simple detail tells me that the devilsknife and dealmaker are what youre supposed to get, youre supposed to fight jevil and spare spamton. oddly enough spamton is the only one you get to spare out of the other 4 but spamton is a bit special in MANY ways so this isnt really surprising. in fact id even argue that spamton being an outlier is very intentional, just like how jevil being the only secret boss to not appear/ be mentioned before his fight is intentional

tldr: i find it interesting that youre required to fight the majority of the secret bosses. i think the objective correct way to beat jevil is by fighting him and the correct way to beat spamton is by sparing him bc of their dialog and the items you receive after victory

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evil evil creatures

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To that one tumblr anon asking me to draw ethoslab,,,,

secret societttyyyy

and here’s a little doodle of etho before i decided i wanted to even draw the society😭😭 i watched his and joel’s double life just cuz i hadn’t yet despite watching all of joel’s other life series…

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DELTAKARTtm

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ive been really enjoying drawing etho lately so have a quick little doodle :)

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some of the art i did for artfight!

for the amazing @risingroseakira @dicegobbler @ghostly-gloam and @scaryboocat <3

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Strange sound

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SACRIFICE

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they don't call him Ladders for nothin!

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I felt extremely inspired by the glitchiness of the server, especially with the Lost Gen guys leaning into it and making it their thing, i just had to make designs based on it! So here they are :D

Some more rambling about my thought process if anyone cares: obviously the biggest influence for these designs was the glitch where players went completely invisible, but i tried implementing the one where players looked to be floating above blocks as well, hence Martyn floats. If you look closely there's also some lore elements hidden in Martyn's design :)

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session 3 doodles. so excited for the secret society shenanigans <3

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keep a secret

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it is a start ÖuÖ

(deltarune)

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GEM DOODLES….i miss her wahhhh……..

also i’m doing artfight this year and im under the same username on there too!!! i’ll probably attack you back since i really want to draw more this year… 🥹

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Ugg they can't keep their hands off each other

Wires: exsist

Brain: they're sensitive

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GTWS travelling the world (American Midwest) with hit band the crane wives???

@ink-ghoul thank you for your services 🙏

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till death do us shart