#Deltarune Rudy

[thatsafuckeduptale]

welcome 2 my quest to draw every deltarune character using a randomizer

miss mizzle was the first character i drew if u couldn't tell </3

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[carlyraejepsans]

okay so they 100% fucked in college. nothing can change my mind

[hmsthunderchild]

Been thinking more about my Redroot!Ch3, so here's my dark world Rudy design! I chose a toy soldier style for his look for multiple reasons:

Toy soldiers are obviously heavily associated with Christmas! They're quite kitsch and nostalgic too, which makes sense for him.

He's a "trooper" in the sense that he's battling a tough illness but still keeping a smile and positive outlook for his family

He's heavily associated with Asgore (a king), and so it's kinda similar to their Santa and Rudolph dynamic

He's very protective of his family, especially his daughters and would throw himself in harm's way for them

He look nice

ORIGINAL AU:

[kaasiand]

rudy is in the hospital because asgore fucked him too hard last time

[twilightofthesandwiches]

I guess the funniest potential answer to the question of “how comes Christmas exist in both name and iconography in the Deltarune universe despite no evidence that Christianity exists and the Delta Rune Religion that serves as the dominant religion in their culture as well as a clear Christianity-equivalent still lacking some of the specific context that led to the creation of Christmas, including any sort of Christ-figure to have a Mass for?” is probably ‘the Holidays and their Christmas Obsession are mentioned in the Prophecy, Christmas and the Christmas Aesthetic developed in the Delta Rune Religion based on these mentions, thus allowing the Holidays in the present day to embrace the Aesthetic and unknowingly fulfill the Prophecy. Basically the Holidays base their aesthetic off Christmas but also the Christmas aesthetic is based on the Holidays in some weird festive combination of a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy and the Bootstrap Paradox”.

[the-irreverend]

You wanna know what's perhaps the most UNDERRATED reason to love Noelle as a person: because she's basically a spoiled rich girl WITHOUT THE SPOILED PART!!!

I mean, how many times have we seen the spolied rich kid archetype throughout fiction, and their wealth and status are used to emphasize their flaws: whether it be being out of touch with people's needs and demanding special treatment like Glinda from Wicked, or considering themselves to be above everyone like Amity from the Owl House (not to rag on either of their arcs).

Like seriously, has nobody else noticed that there has been NOT ONE SCENE where Noelle tries to use/leverage her own wealth and background!? In fact, SHE HASN'T EVEN BROUGHT IT UP UNTIL WE MEET HER AT HER HOUSE IN CHAPTER 4! It demonstrates that not only does she not consider anyone beneath her, but also that she doesn't want anyone to consider her above them!!!!!

Yeah, she had a good dad, a great sister, and wonderful friends, but even so, she very well could have went down the same road Amity did and take more after her abusive and controlling mother, especially in the wake of Dess's disappearance, Rudy's illness, and her estrangment from Kris. But she didn't!!! And deserves all the praise and love in the world for being SO STRONG, not only to not abuse her wealth and standing, but also to not emulate the person abusing her!

GOD I LOVE NOELLE SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!

[crawl-on-me-and-die]

messiest situationship in the town

[evilmenshoe80]

"shhhh, yes the answer is yes but don't yell"

Just a dumb comic 😆 (someone pls help kris, everyone in the damn city want their parents 😭)

I think asgore x rudy is a cool ship ❤️‍🔥

(pls, no hate comments for carol or toriel in this or any asgorudy fanart I make, thanks!)

[blackheart-6]

digital art dump

[r0ttkins]

little guy yaoi

[eeriedragone]

The Holidays

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[janesbeloved]

Inactivity paused I'm a deltarune fan now!!!!! HOLIDAY FAMILY DELTARUNE BEAM!!!!!!!!

(My Dess is a loser and no one thinks shes cool and badass except Kris and Noelle when they were little)

[holidaycubed]

happy last day of pride to whatever those two old men have going on

weird family dynamic

[deltarunebt]

Gerson's replacement in DR:BT :)

[twilightofthesandwiches]

can it be possible that the holidays could be boss monsters of their own kind [i'm convinced it's not exclusively goats]

and if the dess theory is true kris' real soul got entangled in her along with whatever else from a dark fountain that rendered the both of them that way

Um.... I mean...

The first thing to remember is that despite the jokes in both the Fandom and the games, the Dreemurrs are NOT actually 'Goats'. The Dreemurrs have a mix of caprine (horns, ears, general head-shape) and leonine (feline paws, fangs, Asgore's mane) traits... I actually have a lot of thoughts about this design, about how it's inspired by the Chimera of Classical Myth, subverting typical 'satanic' imagery, and a sort of concept that all the Dreemurrs having a sort of Internal Contradiction about them, as symbolized by the fact they are modeled on two animals with very opposite cultural connotations... It's very much not a simple matter of 'goats'!

The Holidays, in comparison, are very blatantly Just Reindeer. They don't really have any traits that aren't andromorphic or Reindeer-like. It even seem to extend to their Diet, since Noelle dislikes eating meat and enjoys a salad because it's 'something to graze one'.

As for the question of 'could they be Boss Monsters', well.... here are the three traits we know for certain define 'Boss Monsters' (not just stuff we infer from the Dreemurrs, but stuff that was stated to be specifically traits of Boss Monsters)

They are the strongest type of monsters.

Boss Monsters only age as their child mature.

Their SOULs are the only ones strong enough to persist after death.

For the first point... Hmmm... I mean, Noelle isn't particularly stronger than Susie as a Party Member on the surface... but Queen sure is obsessed with her 'strength', and then there is the Snowgrave Route...

For me, the reasons behind these two points have always been "Queen was partially created as a manifestation of Noelle's Mommy Issues so she is metaphysically predisposed to see Great Potential in Noelle and be obsessed with her" and "Snowgrave/Noelle's Ice Magic in general is a Dark World manifestation of her trauma, and its intensity is what makes it so dangerous. Also it's not necessarily indicative of how powerful her Magic would be in the Light World". But if you wanna assume it's because she's a Boss Monster, I guess that works too?

For the second thing... Now the thing is that the explanation (and demonstration) of the way Boss Monsters age has always used one offspring as an example.

When they have an offspring, the SOUL power of the parents flows into the child… Causing the child to grow as the parents age. But ASGORE doesn't have a child. So he's been stuck at the same age… And probably will be forever.

So... we just don't know how this process would be affected if the Boss Monsters had two children like the Holidays have (had?). Part of me is like "If Boss Monsters could only make one child without dying that would mean every generation would have at maximum half the Boss Monsters of the previous one which mean they'd go extinct pretty quickly, so they should probably be able to reproduce at least twice?" but also... Boss Monsters are already very rare, maybe even already close to extinction?

Still, I just gotta ask myself, does that mean Rudy and Carol are physically older than Toriel and Asgore? Cause even if Dess is dead, they had double-the-children the Dreemurrs had for 10+ years? What would happen when Rudy dies? Would that mean Carol will start aging faster as Noelle's only growing up using her energy? Can characters know if Dess is dead or not based on the Holidays aging?

...Okay honestly the last one sounds intriguing, but outside of it, the mechanics of Boss Monsters aging brings up a lot of Complications to the Holiday Family Drama that you'd think would be at least implied/hinted at by now if they were really Boss Monsters... At least that's what I think.

(Again in contrast to the Dreemurrs in Undertale, for whom all this Lore was crafted in the first place. Between the simple plot-need for Asgore and Toriel to be considerably longer-lived than basically any other major character, and the whole thematic thing of Asgore and Toriel's life literally and metaphorically 'stopping in place' when Asriel died, the idea that they were both somewhat 'cursed' with the burden of immortality due to the destruction of their family and the sort of inherent tragedy that Toriel is still destined to lose any new child she has... I really cannot emphasize enough how this is wonderfully crafted Lore specifically for Asgore and Toriel's plotline in Undertale)

But the third one is obviously the Big One... And is the main reason I am pretty 'ehhh' about this idea. Specifically because we know the Holiday family exists in the Undertale timeline as well, with Noelle and Dess being alive when Frisk frees the Monsters.

Because a LOT of Undertale's emotional drama was based around the idea that there are only two Boss Monsters (and only one the Player can contact once they leave the Ruins). Asgore is specifically the one Monster a human would HAVE to kill in order to escape to the Surface because that's the only Monster SOUL that doesn't disappear immediately upon death.

...Obviously if a Player's only three options are Asgore and then two innocent deer girls that hardly makes the moral dilemma easier, but it would certainly be relevant for less morally scrupulous players! Flowey destroys Asgore's soul at the end of every Neutral Playthrough to stop the Player from acquiring it... which wouldn't necessarily matter if there were 2-3 (I don't think we have info on whatever or not Carol is still alive in the Undertale timeline) other possible Boss Monsters out there!

That's without even getting into questions of when Rudy "Fell Down" and hey, wouldn't a dying Boss Monster be relevant to Alphys' research into making Monster SOULs lasts...

It just... kinda like how the Lore about Boss Monsters Aging was perfectly crafted for Asgore and Toriel's trauma in Undertale but will be needlessly complicated if transplanted into the Holiday Family Drama, the existence of Only Two Boss Monsters is perfectly crafted for Undertale's narrative and would get needlessly complicated if you added Noelle and Dess into the mix!

...Of course, none of this actually matters for your theory, Anon, since this is all about the idea that Dess took Kris' original SOUL... which is NOT actually a Boss Monster exclusive thing! This has never been an implication in the text!

Mettaton's plan also hinged on taking Frisk's SOUL to become more powerful than Asgore so he could defeat him and save humanity.

And the Mad Dummy had somewhat similar plans as well.

Any Monster could take a Human SOUL. If you wanna theorize that Dess has Kris' original SOUL, allowing her to become a "a horrible beast with unfathomable power" (The Knight), it absolutely does not require her to be a Boss Monster for it to work.

(Now, the Undertale Lore also implies there is no way to extract a Human SOUL without killing a Human, which was ALSO very important for it's plot and themes... but clearly there is SOME sort of a way around that in Deltarune)