#the weather always sticks together

[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!

[king-magppi]

TODAY'S [Specil] $PAMTON $WEEPSTAKES HAVE INSPIRED TWO DRAWINGS! YAY!!!

(Click for better image quality!)

[tabbypiggy]

Coming up on the Weather Channel... ⛈️☔🌤️

I've been wanting to draw these cool epic guys for a while now and I finally did!

[blue-green-ghost]

Big fan of the weather duo. I think they’re neat.

[monofazz]

[hqbits]

already obsessed w them

[glitch-the-artist]

Rainabila sprites

[laniemel]

ALWAYS STICKS TOGETHER

[hereissomething]

i cant wait to be bombarded by weather channel based bullet hells

[utdr-stimming]

Lanino and Elnina stim board!!! (Pre-chapter 3 release)

Wahoo!!! Confirmed names for these fellas!!! (See under cut) Also I thought they were siblings but apparently they're in love so I'm really looking forward to seeing that in one of the upcoming chapters...

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I personally think Lanino is the moon and Elnina is the cloud, just 'cause of the way they call each other moonshine and nourishing cloud and such

Also no one fucking talks about these mother fuckers on Tumblr we need more weather duo pleaseeee

Also happy leap day!!! Did not realize it was a leap day until I finished this but uhhh fuck it here they are

[snorklayton]

Me looking in my fridge to see the rotting actually good art software only to reach out to MS Paint.

[rocco-the2ndstormfilearchiver]

Mr Blue sky playing

Stick together!

[strawberrygreens]

wait hold on youre telling me the weather always sticks together?

[betterdonutgalaxy]

"The weather always sticks together" yeah how about I just draw the guy alone

[getlancered]

local neurodivergent weirdo makes fanart for characters without names in a chapter that has not yet been released

[xx-sydpicz-xx]

weather people appreciation post