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[infizero]

I don't really understand the "who else could it be" question cause to me the next secret boss seems pretty obvious? The mention of DELTA RUNE is pretty standout but considering these cards feature the characters talking directly to us in general they're pretty firmly outside of canon. I do feel like knowing about DELTA RUNE could just be an advancement of the plot, since Jevil and Spamton seem to have weird knowledge they shouldn't already.

Also I feel like it'd be weird for Toby to make the text read like it could be Gaster in english but read nothing like Gaster in japanese. You gotta remember the japanese translation doesn't just exist to give us character hints through the way characters speak in japanese, it's for a different audience and Toby has to get across the same ideas to them. It'd be weird if we were supposed to assume this was Gaster but the japanese fans weren't given any reason to think that.

i agree! i definitely think now that its much more likely to not be gaster but someone associated with him, like a secret boss and/or someone like whoever the "FRIEND" in the basement was.

i will say however that the other valentines arent necessarily talking directly to us, in fact some of them are directed at certain people such as ralsei's letter to susie. nothing in them denotes them as being to us specifically. yes theyre obviously for us the fandom functionally but all of them in-universe could very easily be addressed to other in-universe ppl (tho one of ralsei's seems very likely directed to us..) the mystery one is the only one that HAS to be TO US in-universe because of the deltarune name drop.

i have a lot of thoughts about this letter, its many connections and possible explanations, but i'm saving them for the video i plan on making going over all this lol