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oh, Suselle dialogue option in the church that I don't know how to trigger...you'll always be famous to me.........

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Alex Hirsch you will always be a legend to me

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the fact that oj went from genuinely struggling to trust people to being one of the very few characters in a canon relationship where he loves and trusts paper immensely. love that for him

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ive fallen to the battat with freckles propaganda

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csn we run a who's hotter spamton or tenna poll. we have to collect data...

Vote like your life fucking depends on it. Because it does.

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something about how most of ralseis character defining scenes are completely optional and easy to miss depending on how yr playing!! all the moments in ch3 where u can choose bt him or susie even though hes always encouraging u to worry abt susie instead. the tea party where hes ashamed for enjoying the cake that he made because he doesnt think he deserves it. his bedroom thats completely empty because he doesnt think he deserves anything. at the end of chapter 4 in the broken glass you have to choose to talk to him. it drives me crazy how much he succeeded at keeping his distance even from the player. hes a character & person you have to make a conscious effort to talk to!! to understand!! you have to want to look deeper!! you have to want to care about him!! because he doesnt want you to!! the only reason he ever slipped so visibly and so unskippably in chapter 4 was because of susie. because she was the first person to ever try.

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I dont know

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if something is ambiguously worded, try not to assume the worst, most uninformed, most malicious interpretation.

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People who hate amy are MISOGYNISTIC and DELUSIONAL

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toby fox posts a video. it fades from black to his silhouette backlit by IMAGE_DEPTH. after a long sigh he says “It’s pronounced Jaster.” the video ends. all of his social medias are deleted immediately afterward

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i keep thinking about how flowey had to construct the very concept of cruelty from the ground up.

not from watching anyone else, not by osmosis, but by cobbling it together himself in the garden where he woke up. alone.

this was a child who fell asleep to his mother's stories, who knew every inflection of his father's laugh. who spent endless golden afternoons with his sibling, both of them doubled over with giggles as they filmed their silly videos, messing up on purpose just to hear each other laugh. again. and again. and again.

so warm. so safe. where the gravest offense imaginable was maybe tracking mud on the carpet.

the worst fear, disappointing people who would love you anyway.

where could he even begin?

save. say these words that once meant comfort, but twist them just so. watch their eyes dim as something inside them breaks. load.

save. make a promise—you remember those, how snug they once made you feel—then shatter it. document exactly how hope crumbles. load.

save. try another combination. another betrayal. watch what splinters differently this time. load.

the world's loneliest science experiment.

look at the cruelty he creates, it's all so personal, specific. so devastatingly asriel.

watch how often he comes back to the idea of being replaced. of being forgotten. how he taunts you with the possibility that none of your relationships matter, that everyone will move on without you. that none of your choices mean anything in the end.

your fault. your responsibility.

if only he you hadn't made anyone love him you. If only he you hadn't loved them back.

of course he'd fixate on all that. how could he not? his mother, who used to speak his name like it was sacred, those tender words she reserved for him—for THEM—are now handed out indiscriminately, like candy to anyone who asks.

all he can do is take note: see how easily love transfers? see how simple it is to fade away?

so, he sneers. taunts you with the thought that it's all dust. you're just another passing face in the crowd. nothing lasts. nothing is worth the weight of caring. but even as he pushes that narrative, as his voice drips with contempt, he is still out there. in the ruins. checking on her.

observing from a distance, like maybe if he watches long enough, his past will solidify into something he can hold again.

flowey develops his cruelty like he's trying to solve an equation. if this word plus this action equals pain, then surely there must be some formula that yields not caring anymore.

if he'd just gotten it right. if he'd just kept everyone at a distance. if he could just be flowey. save. load. the answer has to be here somewhere.

but how do you quantify the sting of hearing her say "my child" to someone else? how do you account for the absence left in the places where joy once thrived? how do you document, in clinical terms, why you keep watching over people you swear don't matter anymore?

you don't devote yourself to perfecting devastation unless you remember, with searing clarity, what it felt like to be whole.

you don't give so much of yourself mastering the art of ridiculing attachment unless you're terrified of how much you still have left to give.

unless every attempt to prove love meaningless just confirms how much meaning it still has for you.

...point IS! flowey did an interesting job creating his own idea of a bully. it's all pathological. so crudely stemmed from his own sorrows and fears. he's created his own textbook definition of meanness...but then every chapter's just him screaming in a mirror.

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only then will the worlds be saved

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I am begging everyone to listen to Penny Snapcube voicing this milk freak from deltarune. my brother and I have not stopped quoting it for two weeks

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You're telling me there's fluff ceiling and floor Yuri and doomed door and key yaoi in the same game????

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ok i think i'm done with this one, made my very own SOUL ^.^