#for the sake of jokez i'll probably have them know about the internet but this was fun to consider

[bigshotautos]

I’m definitely taking this too seriously but like

Kris’s phone gives garbage noise when you try using it to call someone from the dark world. What could have happened if jevil successfully made a web search?

Option one- the phone screen is a mess of garbled pixels and corrupted data. Jevil puts a great amount of time and effort “decoding” his answer and arrives to some interesting conclusions

Option two- for ineffable reasons, the dark world has real world wifi. Success! He orders dozens of dating magazine subscriptions, suits + ties, and flowers among other things, all of which arrive on Toriel’s doorstep.

Option three- the cyber world brought internet to castle town! Which would be fine, except for the fact that it is maintained and run by a relatively small group of darkners in a very tiny, close knit community. Literally everyone knows his search history… or rather, Kris’s search history.

Option four- the phone spits out weird garbage noise and now Spamton is having a freaking panic attack

Lots of things to consider! don't worry about taking things too seriously, now that I'm giving it thought it's pretty interesting. Putting thoughts under the cut.

I tend to do by rule of funny, that'd be option 2 or 3, most plausible is one, most heart-wrenching is option 4! Partial to option 2 just imagine Kris realizing that not only has their phone been stolen periodically while they're adventuring but the clown has learned how to online shop.

It's kind of wacky to think about how the internet works in Deltarune, because as far as most Cyber City darkners know of, it's not something they have access to. There's that one bit of dialogue we get where the internet is seen as a tool that Queen uses but not much else besides that. I feel like for the sake of having knowledge they shouldn't have, Spamton and Jevil would be aware of the internet (and of EVERYTHING being a game as a whole of course). Kris can't parse the garbage noise, maybe Spamton and Jevil would be able to? And any distorted garbled up nonsense the screen would display. But it would probably be a sore spot for both of them, Spamton especially.

It seems like regular NPCs have a lot less knowledge of the workings of the world which is kind of to be expected, but more important NPCs (Ralsei and Queen in particular) are more hooked into the meta aspects of the game being a game, the internet being a thing (implying Queen is fine with the knowledge of the Lightner world and Spamton's corruption is different than just wanting to go to the light world), the divide between Lightners and Darkners. Things get a little fuzzy when you try to factor in what an average Darkner would know, the chronology of the worlds coming into being, and just how the average darkner NPC would go about their lives of advertising without knowing that it's explicitly internet based. Even Ralsei who's aware of the meta elements of the game thought he 'deleted' the internet when he deleted browser shortcut. Probably just a goof, but it follows the trend of Queen being the only one aware of the Internet being a thing. Kind of mind bending to think how that works with a self-proclaimed e_mail guy.