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Still reeling from the fact that we had our first audible 'voice' line from Kris in chapter 3.

And it was a fucking sneeze

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How my friend's mother responded when asked to describe this screenshot:

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You just know they wanted to eat that flower

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Why sound like a normal person when you can sound like a pathetic middle-aged personified TV man

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Something something art block something something deltarune

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are we not going to talk about the fact that Kris has a decoy of themselves in Dess's closet??

KRIS?

They presumably hide it behind the heart pillows for the hockey stick section, but

What the fuck???

Did they use it for pranking, or something more malicious?

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Can we talk about how Susie fucking BLEEDS?

So, the whole "Do monsters bleed in deltarune" discussion's been revived with the new chapters, especially 4.

I've seen a lot of people jump to the conclusion of "Susie bleeds, so all monsters must!", but I think there's more to it than that.

In chapter 4 particularly, there was a particular focus on the fact that monsters in deltarune share the aspect of their undertale counterparts in the field that they turn to dust when they die. This is discussed the in this chapter's upstairs book on monster funerals.

(Long theory ramble, more under the cut)

It also mentions that is common knowledge that all monsters know.

Couple that with these lines from earlier chapters,

It strongly implies that monsters do not bleed, and don't really have an understanding of blood. (In all fairness, Noelle's example probably happened when she and Kris were younger, but kids still generally know what blood looks like.)

But then.. there's Susie. The whole debate about whether or not deltarune monsters bleed mainly stems from comments that she makes that imply that they do, particularly this one from chapter 1:

These recent chapters have confirmed that Susie bleeds, and may or may not think that other monsters do too, up to a certain point.

When Kris and Susie discover Gerson's dust in Alvin's desk in chapter 4, it takes Susie a hot second to realize what the heck it is.

Hell, even Kris is freaked the fuck out by it and backs up in shock before Susie makes the connection.

She has to remember the fact that monsters turn to dust. This, along with some lines from her about being an outcast everywhere she moved and not being allowed to play the community piano in one of her old towns because "She looked like she shouldn't be playing" could highly suggest that Susie was raised in all-human cities until she arrived in Hometown.

She knows more about blood then about actual monster anatomy, and this would make sense if she was raised around humans.

Also, she knows how to clean up bloodstains. She helps Kris clean the one by the SOUL cage in their room.

Being the only monster in a town full of humans also would explain why she hated Kris so vehemently when she first met them. They were her opposite. The only human in a town of monsters. And instead of being shunned and excluded like she was, they're just a part of the community. Sure, they're still an outcast, but they're not being bullied for it.

We already know that Kris desperately wanted to be a monster for their whole childhood, and maybe even in present day. Even when they were treated kindly, they still wanted horns like their brother. They wanted magic. They wanted to be a goat monster like their family.

Susie probably went through the same thing, but even worse. After all, humans are far less kind and accepting than monsters are. Susie is ashamed of her tail, and doesn't like people knowing about it. In Hometown, she leans into the scary and terrifying persona we see throughout chapter 1. Maybe because she had to suppress it for so long growing up.

But then, of course, there's the scene of her actually bleeding.

There's no debate with this one. No "Sans' blood is ketchup" or "liquid determination."

She cut her fist on the glass, and is bleeding. It rubs off on Ralsei. The game makes a very prominent spectacle of showing us that yes, Susie bleeds.

There was also an unused sprite of her bleeding in the chapter 2 files, and it seems much more relevant now.

So yeah. Susie bleeds, and so far, I think she's the only one other than Kris who can. Why though?

Could she be partially human? It would explain why she was raised in human towns (if this theory is true) if one of her parents was fully, if not part human.

The prophecy calls her a monster, though. It is debatable whether or not the "girl" in the prophecy is her though, as the descriptions are intentionally vague enough to potentially also apply to Noelle.

Maybe everything I just said is irrelevant and monsters DO bleed, and only turn to dust upon death? Who knows.

Insane chapters, though.