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Stay away from her

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Are you enjoying this?

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thinking a lot about Kris' sense of culpability on weird route, honestly. like, you can see it - Noelle's starting class description says she may be able to use some cool spells. they kind of want to see her magic. they maybe enjoy the idea of not having to be so perfect a hero with ralsei gone. they think to themself, would one attack be that terrible a thing? just to test it out? the darkner will just run.

wouldn't it be nice to just not care that much about hurting people here, for once, in this barely-real world with my friend who thinks she's dreaming? violence doesn't have to have consequences. they can pretend it didn't happen, later.

and the soul nudges, and they give the command.

and the Darkner doesn't run.

and from there the spiral of justification and shutdown - if I had the power to stop that, to fight against the soul, to take control away, and I didn't, then I would be terrible. so I must not have that power. so I must be unable to fight. so it's safer and better if I am not there at all.

if I am not there, then nothing in me found excitement in that first spell. nothing in me is amazed to see the power Noelle and I can wield together. nothing in me is enjoying the chance to step away and stop caring and hand the reigns over to someone else who only wants to have fun.

and so, slowly, they slip away, until Berdly shows up and makes it all real again. and by then it's too late, and they've ceded too much ground...

they want it all to have been a dream as much as Noelle does. they want it to have been unreal. they apologize and give her back the watch. they take Berdly to the hospital like he'll recover normally any time now. they paint a world where none of that happened and they never have to think of it again.

they've ceded too much ground.

there is nothing in them that manages to resist.

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"Noelle is really looking forward to seeing you!"

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how chapter 4 revealed the true horror of deltarune and why it's more unsettling than undertale's genocide route

so back when chapter 2 came out and people had just discovered the weird route, i did not agree with the sentiment that the weird route was worse than geno route. as horrible as forcing noelle into "killing" others was, i didnt think it was somehow worse than watching the struggle of the entire monster race trying to face what was essentially an unkillable eldritch god (the player)

but how kris conducted themselves in chapter 4, ESPECIALLY the weird route has really changed my opinion. the darkest part of this story is not the "murders" or the manipulation or any of that. it's kris' loss of autonomy.

In undertale, it is well established that frisk and the player are two seperate beings, just like in deltarune. but what sets frisk and kris apart is that frisk doesn't seem to mind being controlled, and later down the line ends up taking actions of their own to further the player's wishes

whether its the pacifist route - refusing to die to asriel's attacks, or the genocide route - walking towards sans in the judgement hall and then slashing him for the second time to get the kill. all this without the player's input

frisk is their own person who shows their personality quirks here and there, but they are ultimately a blank slate who is willing to go along with whatever the player wants

kris is not that at all.

kris defies the player in many different ways, from small actions of defiance that twist the player's command into something literal or comedic, showing distaste towards our choices, to stopping themselves from speaking/acting by resorting to self-harm in various ways.

they want to be their own person, but they can't. and they are already scared, but they become downright terrified when the player decides to got down the weird route and involve their friend noelle.

they are fighting SO hard to not hurt her here anymore. they took their few moments of freedom away from the player to warn and comfort noelle, and now it's all falling apart right in front of them and there is nothing they can do about it.

they are shaking and cannot do anything as they watch noelle dig her own grave. they can only watch. they cannot move, cant shout cant scream. cant do anything but obey.

and the worst part is that this is no longer the darkworld. this is real life to them. kris can no longer give the comfort of the terrible things happening being just a dream, or just a prank.

the darkworld was a magical fantasy setting where you could technically claim nothing too terrible is happening. the darkners they're killing? theyre just inanimate objects in the real world. using snowgrave on berdly? he's not dead, just got a cold and recovered later in hospital just fine.

but here? this is reality.

noelle was already shaken enough by what she perceived to be a fake world. what on earth will the realisation that all of this was reality do to her? especially now that we as the player are gaining the ability to influence not just kris, but noelle too.

how far do you think she will go now that this has expanded beyond the dark world? just how far do you think a girl can be pushed by someone she considered a friend?

and by god, how much guilt and horror must kris feel. knowing they do not want this, but watching their words, their actions, their body being used to hurt those they care about. and there is nothing they can do but watch.

this is a story of a child being forced to hurt their friend, as they watch from behind the prison that is their own body. and the worst part is that noone seems to notice. noone knows.

noone is coming to save them.

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the distance between two

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actual design interpretations + having fun and playing toys

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Deltarune Weird route spoilers

Headcanon

Felt a lil evil ▓▒░(°◡°)░▒▓

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not really a fan of kriselle, just because i like suselle more but i swear people have no media literacy!!!!

the snowgrave route has more kriselle content because KRIS IS NOT THE PLAYER!! there’s no abuse towards Noelle on Kris’s end, Kris is having their hand forced to hurt someone they care about deeply by the player and are fighting against it at every turn but it’s out of their control and we see the pain and anger that causes Kris, the way they run to do damage control the second they’re free of us but that they ultimately understand that to achieve whatever goal Carol and them have planned out they need us to keep closing the fountains they create..

two characters being abused by the same entity and finding comfort in each other’s presence in the fleeting moments they are both free from its control, that’s a pretty fucking compelling romantic narrative and I can definitely understand why people enjoy it.

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Noelle Will Get Stronger.

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their shallow observations will only stall the transformation

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metamorphosis

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Sorry

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⚠️deltarune ch4 weird route spoilers!!!⚠️

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Noelle is literally just the rose bride. Good luck with that Noelle bless you. Thorn scene somehow became even more rgu coded

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Spoilers for the Weird Route of Deltarune chapter 4! Gameplay footage of a very plot-relevant cutscene, and its most recent update.

In the first version of Deltarune Ch4, the Weird Route's couch scene had a visual motif of a flower wilting between Kris and Noelle. This graphic was removed in v1.01A (Ch4 v.0.0.086), because the imagery of a flower wilting came with implications, and the subtext was overriding the actual text for some people. It was changed to a red dot in this version.

In v1.03C (Ch4 v.0.0.088), the graphic was changed again. Described in the changelist as "Strengthened an imagery while maintaining the scene's intended meaning".

Personally, I like all three graphics for different reasons. The flower wilting was extremely poignant, but the single red dot was also powerful in its simplicity; I interpreted it as a bead of blood from putting the thorn back in her finger. A wound small enough to only draw a single drop of blood, but it still hurt her so very much. (Given the red dot reappears when thinking of Noelle in the Dark World, and you can move it like you can the SOUL, it's probably intended to be more than that, though.)

But the new visual is also extremely striking, and it feels larger than the others. Both because of the size of the graphic itself compared to the flower and dot, but also the brazen nature of it. It's not a subtle metaphor anymore, it's confronting you with just how horribly you've treated Noelle. She's not a person anymore, or at least, not as much of a person as she was before you intervened. You've broken her.

But while the breaking glass/ice visual is obvious, it... doesn't look entirely like something breaking. It almost looks more like something growing. Something with thorns.