#Elnina

[theriverdraws]

Can't wait for the next chapters!!

[blue-green-ghost]

Hey, no offense Kris, but uh... the dark world inside your house kinda... stinks.

[marseafish]

hear my plea o simple fools

[tvlandofficiall]

let's give this card to someone else to show how much we exclusively love each other!!!!

[loathemetc]

Happy Valentine's day! Let's celebrate with a guy who clearly knows jack shit all about love. And Wayne is there.

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[trikoripl]

[the-n3w3st-g1rl-g1rl]

Some thingsss

[analog-television]

weather together weather together weather ..

[skettchkatt]

They're so goober

[theriverdraws]

WE GOT NAMES!!!

(Haha I get it)

[ballgame]

Since both of these valentines are SSSR (Super Super Super Rare), does that mean that the people Rouxls thinks are "Hotte With It" are Lanino and Elnina? It would explain why that specific Rouxls valentine is as rare as it is; it's hinting at something Chapter 3 related.

[justlyubov]

First time drawing the sillies🌩🌧

Their color scheme is superb🌈

[tvlandofficiall]

anyone ever heard of this game called deltarune?

[raining-anonymously]

okay deltarune fandom! i haven’t posted to or gone through these tags in a while, but in light of recent events (me deciding to replay the games just in time for the newsletter), i have some things to share concerning our friends The Weather.

ID in alt text, and aforementioned “things to share” under the cut.

this message tells us some interesting information about the Weather. for those who don’t know, i believe the Weather were first introduced during the spamton sweepstakes under the link https://deltarune.com/weather/. the page functions similarly to lancer’s. despite having no information on these new characters—other than that they’ll probably appear in the next couple chapters, are called “The Weather,” and always stick together—the deltarune fandom immediately latched onto them, because that’s what we do.

and now, after the newsletter? we have names. do we know which name goes to which sprite….? not really. but there’s something interesting about what those names are.

when i first looked at the names Lanino and Elnina, one of my first thoughts was that they sounded gendered. in english and in romance languages, names ending in -o are often thought to be masculine, whereas names ending in -a are interpreted as feminine. not a common name convention in undertale and deltarune, where most names end in constants or “-ee” sounds, and obviously not an absolute rule — for example, chara is not feminine-presenting, but its name still ends in -a. still, many english-speakers, as well as speakers of romance languages and any other similar languages i’m not thinking of, will see “lanino” and “elnina” and assume masculinity and femininity respectively.

at this point, i was still thinking of romance languages because i’m autistic about words, and noticed that the endings of the names are very similar to the spanish words for boy and girl: niño and niña. then i noticed the beginnings of the names, “la” and “el,” are the spanish words for “the.” funny thing, though? “la” is feminine and “él” is masculine.

so… they’re mixing and matching gendered terms!!!? bigender weather real!!!!!! post over!!!!

…except it’s NOT over. put linguistics aside—it’s time for some environmental science.

this graphic (which has an ID in alt text) is a lot of information, so i’m going to break it down: the earth experiences something called El Niño–Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. it’s a climate phenomenon that consists of two main phases: El Niño and La Niña. each one of these phases is a global event that can last years, and leads to changes in wind patterns, sea surface temperatures, and extreme weather events. it affects everything—how dry the land is in certain places, how many fish can be found in the ocean, etc.

to differentiate between the two, most simply: el niño is the warm phase, and la niña is the cooling phase.

why does this matter, you ask? because el niño and la niña climate events are largely inverse and opposites. that’s a simplification, but it does lend us some potential insight into the weather’s devoted and apparently monogamous relationship dynamic. or it would, if they hadn’t mixed up their names… but hey, that’s food for thought too!! could it be that the weather is so devoted to each other that they blended together? maybe that’s why their color palettes are the same—they balance each other out!

either way, i’m quite excited to do battle with them in the next year or so. they’re going to have such fun bullet patterns, i just know it… i hope they heal each other with photorealistic milk. or something weather-related, idk.

anyway. BIGENDER WEATHER REAL!!! post over!

[hereissomething]

WAIT THE DLETARUNE CH3 WEATHER DUO HAS NAMES NOW WHERE IS THE SAWCE HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS UPDATE

[trikoripl]

GUIZO