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“The Knight CAN’T be a Holiday! The antlers are just a red herring and part of their helmet!!!”

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LET’S GO SAKURAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

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THE HALFWAY MARK HAS BEEN ATTAINED.

Okay, so great news, anyone who follows me for Deluxe Extravaganza progress updates! I’ve reached the halfway point of Chapter Five’s plot at over 7.5K words! As I’ve already said on Ao3, this chapter is gonna be seriously beefy! And with how big this one is, I shudder to think about how big the next few’ll be!

But I’m getting ahead of myself. In any case, I’m honestly surprised at how well production of this chapter has been coming along, especially so fresh off the last one! I’ve really been getting back into the swing of things, writing-wise. That said, with how hard I’ve been going on this chapter so far, now that I’ve reached the halfway point, I’m gonna take it a bit easier. Progress might slow, but—and fingers crossed—I’m still pretty confident you won’t all have to wait as long for this one as you did for Chapter Four!

I hope to see you all again soon; I’m considering continuing to post progress updates on this fic for the remainder of its run—I was kinda doing that with chapters one and two but sort of abandoned it. I figure, though, that it’s a good idea to keep you guys informed as to how things are going. This way, you’ll know how close a chapter is to completion and have a better idea of when to expect it. I figure it’ll be nice to know when, exactly, one is content-complete and is just undergoing proofreading, editing, final touches and whatnot.

Have a good one!

⭐️🧇🪄🟠

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I’m sorry Kris I just wanna explore

Bonus:

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it was worth a try

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These two idiots would do this.

I had a vision

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I like the idea that even when they’re working toward a common goal, like when they possessed Will and tried to infiltrate the Party, the Mind Flayer and Henry can’t help constantly trying to one-up or overpower each other. Earlier on in the possession when Will was insistent on staying cold and saying “he” liked it that way, that was Henry, imo. Same thing when he tricked the soldiers at the lab and they were none the wiser to the fact that it wasn’t even Will at that point. Once more, Will then used “he” to refer to the force controlling him. That’s a result of Henry obviously being better at pretending to be Human.

I think that from that point on, though, once Mike realized what was going on and the jig was up, the Mind Flayer panicked and pushed Henry to the back, taking the wheel for itself. That’s why Flayed!Will spoke in a much more alien manner from then on and didn’t monologue or otherwise act more Human like Billy did while Henry was at the wheel. I personally don’t think the Mind Flayer is a temperamental entity, but I think that Flayed!Will’s outbursts after being found out was a result of Henry’s Human rage and frustration melding with the Mind Flayer’s alien-ness as they fight for the driver’s seat, which is how we go from playing a convincing Human being to screaming the same phrase over and over in a demon voice.

Just something I’ve been thinking about.

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Deltarune TODAY

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My boy looks so badass

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IT’S (SNIFFLES) SO BEAUTIFUL…!!!

CHECK THE ARTIST OUT DAMN YOU

Happy Birthday Kirby! to celebrate I wanted to create a series of illustrations based on the 'it's Kirby Time' series <3

'It's Kirby Time - A world without Kirby'

I created a read-along video to go alongside it as well <3 I'm not the best voice actor with mediocre equipment but it was fun to make!

Watch it here:

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You gotta appreciate villains like Fecto Elfilis/Forgo. Throughout the Kumazaki Era (but specifically the well-known RTDL-TD-PR-SA tetralogy) Kirby has been leaning heavily into tragic villains who only became so cruel because of circumstances beyond their control. Magolor is a bit of an exception—he deceived Kirby and co. and used them as pawns to get what he wanted after failing to defeat the innocent dragon guarding said thing he wanted on his own—but his heightened cruelty and villainous actions afterward are implied to be a result of the Master Crown messing with his head. Obviously there’s a lot of gray area here—did he originally plan to conquer the universe with the Crown or were his intentions originally different and it just got its claws into him? But I digress; in the end, his fate was ultimately treated as tragic—his soul nearly consumed by the Crown and his body reshaped into a hollow, remorseful vessel that could only watch as it was forced to attack the people he still saw as friends, deep down.

Elfilis, though, is just unambiguously, unapologetically, a jackass.

They were an unfathomably powerful person whose own power went to their head (metaphorically, unlike with Magolor) and caused them to develop a god complex. They began to view their own capacity for mercy and compassion as weakness and deliberately suppressed it. With every planet they invaded they willfully ignored the voice of their conscience and pushed aside whatever guilt they may have felt. They compartmentalized and ignored their own ability to not be a jackass to such an extent that when it was torn from them and personified, it was physically dwarved by the rest of them—their petulant, childish entitlement, their god complex, and their bloodlust.

Even as Forgo did everything in their power to reclaim Elfilin, their goal was never to become whole. They didn’t want to be able to feel love or have friends. They weren’t lonely like Dark Matter. They didn’t want their heart back. They just wanted back the piece of their essence that would restore them to power, allow them to live independent of the Eternal Capsule’s life support systems, and pick right back up where they left off. Presuming Elfilis retained all the memories Forgo and Elfilin made in their time apart, all the fun Elfilin had with Kirby meant nothing to them. Every time Kirby saved Elfilin meant nothing to them. The eons Forgo spent rotting in that jar—bled dry, used as a tourist attraction and then abandoned to continue rotting for God knows how many hundreds of thousands of years—meant nothing to them. They learned nothing from it. They could’ve flown back off into space and enjoyed their newfound freedom in peace, and instead they chose to resume the very same activities that had caused them so much trauma and mental agony for so long as if nothing had ever happened—despite literally just regaining their ability to not be an asshole.

While tragic villains who never really meant any harm like Sectonia, Haltmann, and Hyness will always be classics who are fun to discuss and analyze in their own right, there’s something incredibly compelling and real about someone who has every ability and opportunity to change for the better—and simply refuses to. In the real world, you don’t come across formerly pleasant—if a bit vain, greedy, or overzealous—people who only became murderous assholes after being driven insane by ancient magical or technological artifacts and dark gods. But you do see people like Elfilis.

Elfilis is a narcissist. And that hits way closer to home.

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Okay but like just imagine Star Dream, the Master Crown and the Dimension Mirror (Golden Terror Trio (TM)) in a room together (we gonna pretend that by the time Star Dream looks golden it’s not planet-sized)

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WHO?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

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This is so cool! What a great artist.

this was so fun to draw actually!!!!!!!!! im pretty happy with how it came out too teehee ^-^

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Ahhhh that’s where the fangs come from!

Is this something

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Chapter One: Frolicking in Fine Fields, is now live!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63851155/chapters/163742077

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Lose Control by Teddy Swims. That man’s got an unbelievable voice.

ATTENTION

If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)