#tl;dr: i played a piano to a song and the piano sang words. the piano's name is v4 flower.

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normally this is the part where i make some kind of caption that's funny or related to the video, but honestly i'm just so glad i got this done in time

anyway happy valvert week part 2. the song is 命の食べ方 by eve

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i played deltarune chapter 2 right when it was released, and I was finishing omori at the same time, and now that i think about it there’s a lot of parallels between sunny/basil/mari and kris/noelle/dess, respectively. spoilers for both deltarune and omori ahead

stay with me here, ok?

let me just establish some things; I believe the theory that dess disappeared in the bunker, and also that she is the one saying the unused dialogue. whether that means she's dead or trapped in a dark world there's no way to be sure, but nonetheless she was never heard from again. I don't think they ever recovered a body. I think the events that led to her disappearance happened on the night that the four of them explored the woods. since we can see noelle's child sprite during the spelling of the word december puzzle, she was probably that small and that much younger when it happened. If they're high school age now, like around 14-16, I'd put the events of dess's disappearance at around 4-5 years ago. that would explain why the adults of the hometown don't really mention it but it's still a touchy subject for kris, noelle, and susie (her dialogue when you check the angel doll). I also believe that "Don't Forget" is dess's singing, and her motif.

how does omori relate to this?

- the 'don't forget' motif is present in a majority of the tracks in Deltarune. It seems pretty important, yet we don't know the true meaning of it just yet. in Omori, the Final Duet motif was present in a majority of the tracks before you actually hear the full duet at the end of the game, where it is revealed to be the song Sunny practiced with Mari and was the piece they were going to perform on the day she died. I think the big reveal is going to be that Don't Forget is Dess's song, and that kris would play the piano accompaniment for her. The ending could allude to Omori in that for kris to be able to heal from this traumatic event, they need to play through Their duet with Dess.

- This is also why I put Sunny with Kris instead of Noelle, despite dess and noelle being the ones who are actually related. I think Basil and/or kel matches best with noelle because basil and sunny were the closest to each other before mari died, and noelle was most likely kris's closest friend in hometown before dess died. Different from basil however, is that noelle actively invites you to hang out with her, and she herself says they've grown apart and is glad to be adventuring with them again, which is more similar to kel's role in omori. Noelle and kris definitely have a different dynamic than either character and sunny as I don't think they suffered the exact same way sunny and his friends have, but they definitely still have a shared trauma around Dess. I think they both know the truth of what happened to her and why she could never be found; similarly to how basil and sunny were the only people who knew what really happened to mari.

I'm uh. not really sure how asriel fits into this. I don't know if he also knows the truth of what happened to dess, or how it affected him, and we probably won't find that out (if at all) until he comes back in the last chapter.

tl;dr my strongest point from all of this is that Kris parallels sunny, they played the piano arrangement for Don't Forget and dess, who parallels mari, sang the song, and they were going to perform it before dess mysteriously disappeared and it haunts kris now, hearing the motif from the song everywhere they go.