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oh my god my queue finally ran out. im free.......

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you lead the way

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i get why people use “heteronormative” when talking about the weird route but i also think “amatonormative” could also be applicable here.

I agree! I think this is a much better word to describe what’s happening in the actual text (for anyone who doesn’t know, it refers to the societal idea that every person must seek a romantic relationship). what noelle and kris are experiencing is being forced together through abuse that involves superficially romantic gestures. there is nothing in the game that suggests noelle feels pressured to be with kris because of anyone’s outside perception of them as a boy, or that noelle feels pressured to be with a boy rather than any other gender at all. we can surmise that sexism and gender roles still exist in the world of deltarune, and thus probably some degree of homophobia + transphobia as well, but there’s no indication that this is directly encouraged by anyone in hometown itself as opposed to just being a societal norm. (not yet, anyway. things could be made clearer in the future).

for the heteronormativity reading to work you need to include a lot more context than just the contents of the game- you need to consider the outside perspective of some players (the overwhelming assumption/insistence by those who don’t understand or respect nonbinary identities that kris is male), the history of the RPG genre (a leader and knight is much more likely to be male, and a physically weak mage more likely female), and of course the biases of the world that WE live in, whether or not this also affects the characters in the game (the institution of marriage itself being between a man and a woman). if you don’t look at those things as part of or an addition to the text, then it just sounds at best like a reach or at worst enforcing the idea that kris is “male-coded”. on its face it’s not self-evident and also not the strongest or most important interpretation, so it kind of gets under my skin when people take for granted that this reading is just “true” or “the point” when it’s only one way to see things.

even with the amatonormativity reading though, I don’t think that’s a perfect description of what’s going on either. it’s not that noelle feels pressured to be in a romantic relationship in general, when given the option she’s actively pursuing one with susie and seems very excited about it. if anybody’s struggling with amatonormativity it’s berdly lmao. rather, noelle is being manipulated into a closer relationship with kris/the player INSTEAD of one with susie. she winds up as half of a couple either way.

I’m not sure what I would call that. the pressure to be with somebody she’s known all her life rather than somebody new? the pressure to become a “love interest” to the main/player character in a video game setting just because we want her? is there a world for that?

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i want you to be happy kris

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🤓☝hug of joy and happiness

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"Don't forget, we are with you in the dark"

Apple trend i saw on twt! I was sobbing and listening in loop the song while drawing this, MY BABIES. and yes as always, this can be interpreted as platonic or romantic kralsusie. heh, heh, heh..

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yeah have some spamton / eye headcanons too (click for better quality!)

Text description:

Above the small doodles of the blue and pink Addisons, text reads, "all Addisons have dot eyes".

Spamton's phone benefactor tells him, "You can't be a Big Shot with those ridiculous glasses. Get rid of them."

Big Shot Spamton holding a paper too close to his face has text beside him reading, "eyesight gradually gets worse from squinting all the time."

Text pointing at Spamton's puppet form reads, "has baby doll eyes now."

Text pointing at Tenna reads, "TV static functions as a compound eye (he still prefers using antennae to get around)"

There is a blue egg simply labelled "pipis."

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my take on the undertale swap :]

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they’re in my head and i’m the one paying rent

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I hope they meet each other one day

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kris deltarune my belov🔵ed woah what was that. did anyone else see that

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well. i've been keeping myself busy i can tell you that much.

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She was used up. You were used up.

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Delted runas

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when you find out your day 1 has been controlled and that they've secretly been working for the knight the whole time

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Tenna's check description changes if you have the Deal Maker equipped to any party member or if you finished the Sword Route.

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Swatting them off my shoulders like they're bugs